Alleged Leaks source faces death penalty

WASHIGNTON: Bradley Manning, the alleged source of the WikiLeaks US cables is facing 22 additional criminal charges. While the US government seem unwilling or unable to get their hands on Julian Assange at this stage, the man who allegedly released the initial leaks is now facing the death penalty.

Manning was first charged in July 2010, after he was allegedly discovered obtaining over 150,000 diplomatic cables and sending a military video to an unauthorised person. He is now in a military jail outside of Washinton, D.C, and with these new charges he doesn’t look like leaving any time soon.

The most serious of the new charges is an allegation of aiding the enemy, a crime that is punishable by death. In the description of this charge, the term “enemy” is not only defined as an opposing force, but any “hostile body”, a vague term that includes “civilians as well as members of military organizations.”

There is no mention at all of WikiLeaks or Julian Assange in the charge sheet, which is “not surprising since the Justice Department has opened an espionage case against Assange and would not want to give away any details of its investigation until it’s completed.” said CBS national security correspondent David Martin.

Manning was discovered partly due to a tip-off from Adrian Lamo, a hacker who pleaded guilty to breaking into the New York Times’ computer network in 2004. Lamo has said he considers Manning to be a spy, but doesn’t expect him to be put to death.

Manning is now being kept in solitary confinement, with heavily restricted activities and minimal human contact. He has made a complaint about his conditions, part of which reads “I sit in my cell for 24 hours a day. I am stripped of all clothing with the exception of my underwear. My prescription eyeglasses are taken away from me. I am forced to sit in essential blindness…Additionally, there is a guard sitting outside of my cell watching me at all times.”(AFP)

Flood victims” resentment hurting aid effort: ICRC

GENEVA: Growing resentment among Pakistan flood victims on the pace of aid delivery is hampering the relief effort, the international Red Cross warned Thursday, saying it had to halt two distributions recently due to unrest.

“What we are detecting is a very worrying trend of areas where … people are so in need, so resentful of not getting enough aid, that they turn understandably aggressive and this is bad because it doesn”t help in our efforts to reach more of them,” said Jacques de Maio, the head of operations for South Asia for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He pointed out that in two instances in the past eight days, officials had to stop distribution of relief items “because of unrest.”

“We are worried because if this trend extends, propagates,” it could hinder the aid effort, he noted.

De Maio noted that the trend is particularly worrying because, unlike other disasters such as an earthquake, the floods are generating more and more victims as the high waters sweep into new regions.

“The thing is that due to the sheer magnitude of this and the fact that we are not in for a sprint, we”re here for a marathon, we need to make sure that (such unrest) does not become the rule rather than the exception,” he said.

De Maio also pointed out that certain elements were also not helping by agitating the crowd.

“If you organise a distribution for 30,000 and in the last 48 hours you have an additional 150,000, then you have a problem, particularly if you have people in the crowd, behind the crowd saying that ”anyway they”re useless, anyway they are politicised”,” he said.

“By doing so, the choice is the usual dilemma, are we ready to have our friends, our staff being killed and looted there? Because instead of helping 150,000 people we can only help 30,000?”

“Our angle is that we want first to help this 30,000 and see how we can extend what we do,” said de Maio.

The unprecedented floods have engulfed an area the size of England, affecting more than 18 million people, including eight million who are dependent on aid handouts to survive.

The scale of the disaster is so large that a month after the deluge, many are complaining of going without food or water for days.

The ICRC, which has already reached hundreds of thousands of flood victims, expects to reach around 1.4 million people within the next six weeks.

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Volcanic ash cloud shuts airports across Europe
The Volcanic ash cloud is spreading across Europe, causing airports to close. Here is the latest travel information from around the continent.

Germany has closed 11 of the country’s 16 international airports, including in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Düsseldorf.

Poland closed the majority of its airspace on Friday with the exception of Kraków and Rzeszow airports.
Finland has shut down all of its airports while Lithuania has also closed its entire airspace.

Danish airspace is due to remain shut until at least 3am (BST) on Saturday.

Austria closed its airspace, the country’s aviation authority confirmed.

Airlines across Asia have been forced to cancel or delay most of its flights to destinations across Europe. Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines and Hong kong’s Cathay Pacific all cancelled flights to Europe.

Meanwhile, Sweden has begun to gradually reopen its airspace after closing it for much of Thursday

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Changi Airport Flight Information

Changi Airport Flight Information, Remember the article on Taikiew earlier where we commented on the dropping ranking of Changi Airport?

The online presence of any corporate entity is important, and the online presence of an airport is no exception. For foreigners who want to visit any country or use any airport, they would often check out the website of the airport to find out more information about it. Thus, the design of the site is very important. Let us look at the website of the top 5 Airports (with the exception of Changi Airport, we will leave it to the last).

The top 15 airports in Condé Nast Traveller 2009 Readers’ Travel Awards read as:

1. Beijing (87.30)
2. Incheon (86.44)
3. Singapore (86.38)
4. Schiphol (86.17)
5. Hong Kong (85.65)
6. Dubai (85.56)
7. Madrid(84.53)
8. Kuala Lumpur (84.47)
9. Sydney (84.40)
10. Barcelona (83.35)
11. Zurich (77.63)
12. Frankfurt (76.84)
13. Munich (76.53)
14. Copenhagen (72.74)
15. Vancouver (71.06)

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Changi Airport Flight Information was first posted on October 10, 2009 at 10:45 pm.