EXPLOSIONES EN SUECIA AL PARECER TENDRÍAN UN ORIGEN ISLAMISTA

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Las compras en el centro de Estocolmo de cara a los festejos navideños podrían haber terminado en una masacre si un hombre cargado de explosivos hubiera logrado alcanzar una popular calle comercial antes de estallar.

Dos explosiones sucedieron en las inmediaciones de la calle Drottninggatan el sábado, y dejaron a una persona muerta y dos otras heridas en acto calificado de "atentado terrorista" por el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la nación.

Todo empezó cuando un coche se incendió y le siguieron explosiones causadas, según la Policía, por botes de gasolina dentro del vehículo aparcado en la confluencia de las calle Drottninggatan y Olof Palme.

Otra explosión ocurrió a unos 300 metros del lugar, donde fue hallado un hombre muerto que, según diarios locales, se hizo volar. El vocero policial, Kjell Lindgren, consultado sobre si el hombre se explotó a sí mismo contesto: “Es posible”, informó la agencia Reuters.

El diario sueco Aftonbladt citó en su edición electrónica a testigos de la segunda explosión que afirman haber visto a dos personas heridas en una zona atestada de gente que hacía sus compras navideñas.

El rotativo dijo que seis dispositivos explosivos fueron descubiertos atados al cuerpo del muerto, que estaban formados por varios tubos conectados entre sí, y que sólo uno de ellos había sido activado.

La agencia informativa sueca TT, la más grande del país, señaló que antes de la explosión un testigo escuchó como el hombre gritaba algo en un idioma que parecía árabe. Una fuente dijo al diario que el suicida llevaba una mochila llena de clavos y presuntamente material explosivo.

Unos 10 minutos antes de los sucesos la agencia informativa sueca TT recibió una advertencia vía correo electrónico que relacionó el posible doble atentado con la presencia del contingente militar sueco en Afganistán y con las caricaturas del profeta Mahoma del artista Lars Vilks.

Al correo fueron adjuntados archivos de audio en sueco y árabe, en los cuales una voz se dirigía a Suecia y su pueblo, hablando de que el país hace caso omiso ante las caricaturas de Vilks y de la presencia militar sueca en Afganistán.

"Nuestras acciones hablarán por sí mismas. Lo harán mientras no pongan fin a su guerra contra el islam, a la humillación del profeta y a su estúpido apoyo al cerdo Vilks", afirma el hombre de la grabación, según TT.

"Un intento de atentado terrorista muy alarmante en la parte central de Estocolmo repleta de personas. Falló, pero podría haber sido verdaderamente catastrófico", dijo el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Carl Bildt, en un mensaje en Twitter.

El lugar de las explosiones está situado en una zona próxima a la Sala de Conciertos donde este viernes, se celebró la entrega de los premios Nobel 2010.

TT dijo que la amenaza estaba vinculada a la aportación de Suecia a la fuerza de la OTAN liderada por Estados Unidos en Afganistán, donde cuenta con 500 soldados, principalmente en el norte.

También mencionó a Lars Vilks, quien dibujó al profeta Mahoma con cuerpo de perro en una caricatura publicada en 2007. Los musulmanes consideran como insulto cualquier representación del fundador del islam.

En marzo, una estadounidense que se llamó "Jihad Jane" fue acusada de conspirar para matar a Vilks. En mayo, se registró una tentativa de prender fuego a la casa del caricaturista.

El 1 de octubre, las autoridades de Suecia elevaron el nivel de alerta terrorista hasta 3 (de los 5 posibles), el más alto en la historia del país “debido a la actividad de algunos grupos de la población”. Varios otros países en el norte de Europa emprendieron medidas similares ante informes de posibles atentados terroristas.

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#news : WikiLeaks cables: Russia 'was tracking killers of Alexander Litvinenko but UK warned it off'

Claim that British intelligence was incompetent will deepen diplomatic row sparked by move to deport MP's Russian researcher

• Jamie Doward and Emily Dyer
• guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 December 2010 21.30 GMT



Alexander Litvinenko, in intensive care shortly before his death from poisoning at University College Hospital, London, in 2006. Photograph: Natasja Weitsz/Getty Images

Russia was tracking the assassins of dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but was warned off by Britain, which said the situation was "under control", according to claims made in a leaked US diplomatic cable.

The secret memo, recording a 2006 meeting between an ex-CIA bureau chief and a former KGB officer, is set to reignite the diplomatic row surrounding Litvinenko's unsolved murder that year, which many espionage experts have linked directly to the Kremlin.

The latest WikiLeaks release comes after relations between Moscow and London soured as a result of Britain's decision to expel a Russian parliamentary researcher suspected of being a spy.

The memo, written by staff at the US embassy in Paris, records "an amicable 7 December dinner meeting with ambassador-at-large Henry Crumpton [and] Russian special presidential representative Anatoliy Safonov", two weeks after Litvinenko's death from polonium poisoning had triggered an international hunt for his killers.

During the dinner, Crumpton, who ran the CIA's Afghanistan operations before becoming the US ambassador for counter-terrorism, and Safonov, an ex-KGB colonel-general, discussed ways the two countries could work together to tackle terrorism. The memo records that "Safonov opened the meeting by expressing his appreciation for US/Russian co-operative efforts thus far. He cited the recent events in London – specifically the murder of a former Russian spy by exposure to radioactive agents – as evidence of how great the threat remained and how much more there was to do on the co-operative front."

The memo contains an observation from US embassy officials that Safonov's comments suggested Russia "was not involved in the killing, although Safonov did not offer any further explanation".

Later the memo records that Safonov claimed that "Russian authorities in London had known about and followed individuals moving radioactive substances into the city but were told by the British that they were under control before the poisoning took place".

The claim will be rejected in many quarters as a clumsy attempt by Moscow to deflect accusations that its agents were involved in the assassination.

Russia says it had nothing to do with the murder, but espionage experts claim the killing would not have been possible without Kremlin backing. Shortly before he died, Litvinenko said he had met two former KGB agents, Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi, on the day he fell ill. Both men deny wrongdoing, but Britain has made a formal request for Lugovoi's extradition following a recommendation by the director of public prosecutions.

New evidence linking Russia with the death of Litvinenko was recently produced by his widow, Marina, who procured documents allegedly showing the FSB security service seized a container of polonium in the weeks before the poisoning. Moscow disputes the claims.

The allegation that British authorities were monitoring the assassins' progress through London is likely to raise questions about whether Litvinenko was warned his life may have been at risk in the days before he was murdered.

Several people familiar with the affair said they thought Safonov's claims implausible, with one saying he had never heard it aired within London intelligence circles before. Nevertheless Safonov's remarks – in effect questioning the competence of Britain's security services – will do little to heal the relationship between London and Moscow.

The claims come after Britain announced that Katia Zatuliveter, a 25-year-old Russian working for the Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock, is to be deported amid suspicions she was spying for the Kremlin, a charge she plans to contest.

Alexander Sternik, chargé d'affaires at Russia's embassy in London, hinted that the deportation could trigger tit-for-tat expulsions and denounced the move as a "PR stunt" designed to mask Britain's own problems. "These problems are many over the last couple of months," Sternik said. "You can cite the unflattering leaks from WikiLeaks and [England's] unsuccessful [World Cup] bid."

The Paris embassy memo also shines new light on relations between Washington and Moscow. Henry Crumpton reportedly gained almost mythical status after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has been identified in the US media as a CIA agent quoted in the 11 September commission report as unsuccessfully pressing the agency to do more in Afghanistan to combat Osama bin Laden.

Safonov was once tipped to take the top job at the federal security service after the then Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, dismissed its incumbent.

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#news: #WikiLeaks may make the powerful howl, but we are learning the truth

WikiLeaks has offered us glimpses of how the world works. And in most cases nothing but good can come of it

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  • guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 December 2010 21.30 GMT
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I have lost count of the politicians and opinion formers of an authoritarian bent warning of the dreadful damage done by the WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables, and in the very next breath dismissing the content as frivolous tittle-tattle. To seek simultaneous advantage from opposing arguments is not a new gambit, but to be wrong in both is quite an achievement.

Publication of the cables has caused no loss of life; troops are not being mobilised; and the only real diplomatic crisis is merely one of discomfort. The idea that the past two weeks have been a disaster is self-evidently preposterous. Yet the leaks are of unprecedented importance because, at a stroke, they have enlightened the masses about what is being done in their name and have shown the corruption, incompetence – and sometimes wisdom – of our politicians, corporations and diplomats. More significantly, we have been given a snapshot of the world as it is, rather than the edited account agreed upon by diverse elites, whose only common interest is the maintenance of their power and our ignorance.

The world has changed, not simply because governments find they are just as vulnerable to the acquisition, copying and distribution of huge amounts of data as the music, publishing and film businesses were, but because we are unlikely to return to the happy ignorance of the past. Knowing Saudi Arabia has urged the bombing of Iran, that Shell maintains an iron grip on the government of Nigeria, that Pfizer hired investigators to disrupt investigations into drugs trials on children, also in Nigeria, that the Pakistan intelligence service, the ISI, is swinging both ways on the Taliban, that China launched a cyber attack on Google, that North Korean has provided nuclear scientists to Burma, that Russia is a virtual mafia state in which security services and gangsters are joined at the hip – and knowing all this in some detail – means we are far more likely to treat the accounts of events we are given in the future with much greater scepticism.

Never mind the self-serving politicians who waffle on about the need for diplomatic confidentiality when they themselves order the bugging of diplomats and hacking of diplomatic communications. What is astonishing is the number of journalists out there who argue that it is better not to know these things, that the world is safer if the public is kept in ignorance. In their swooning infatuation with practically any power elite that comes to hand, some writers for the Murdoch press and Telegraph titles argue in essence for the Chinese or Russian models of deceit and obscurantism. They advocate the continued infantilising of the public.

Nothing is new. In 1771, that great lover of liberty, John Wilkes, and a number of printers challenged the law that prohibited the reporting of Parliamentary debates and speeches, kept secret because those in power argued that the information was too sensitive and would disrupt the life of the country if made public. Using the arcane laws of the City of London, Alderman Wilkes arranged for the interception of the Parliamentary messengers sent to arrest the printers who had published debates, and in doing so successfully blocked Parliament. By 1774, a contemporary was able to write: "The debates in both houses have been constantly printed in the London papers." From that moment, the freedom of the press was born.

It took a libertine to prove that information enriched the functioning of British society, a brave maverick who was constantly moving house – and sometimes country – to avoid arrest; whose epic sexual adventures had been used by the authorities as a means of entrapping and imprisoning him. The London mob came out in his favour and, supplemented by shopkeepers and members of the gentry on horseback, finally persuaded the establishment of the time to accept that publication was inevitable. And the kingdom did not fall.

Over the past few weeks, there have been similarly dire predictions from sanctimonious men and women of affairs about the likely impacts of publication, and of course Julian Assange finds himself banged up in Wandsworth nick, having neither been formally charged with, nor found guilty of, the sex crimes he is alleged to have committed in Sweden. Making no comment about his guilt or innocence, or the possibility of his entrapment, I limit myself to saying that we have been here before with John Wilkes; and the reason for this is that authorities the world over and through history react the same way when there is a challenge to a monopoly of information.

It is all about power and who has access to information. Nothing more. When those who want society to operate on the basis of the parent-child relationship because it is obviously easier to manage, shut the door and say "not in front of the children", they are usually looking after their interests, not ours.

I don't argue for a free-for-all, regardless of the consequences. In the WikiLeaks cables, knowledge and the editing and reporting skills found in the old media, combined with the new ability to locate and seize enormous amounts of information on the web, has actually resulted in responsible publication, with names, sources, locations and dates redacted to protect people's identities and their lives.

America is sore and naturally feels exposed, but the state department would have had much less cause for regret if it had listened to Ross Anderson, the Cambridge professor often quoted here in relation to Labour's obsession with huge databases of personal information. His rule states that it is a mathematical impossibility to maintain a large and functional database that is also secure. Hillary Clinton must rue the day that the Bush administration built a great silo of cables that could be accessed by three million staff. The Chinese and Russians would never have been so trusting.

There has been more than a hint that China and Russia have empathised with the Americans. The unseen affinities of the powerful may also be responsible for the unforgivable behaviour by Amazon, which pulled the plug on hosting WikiLeaks, and PayPal, Visa and MasterCard, which unilaterally stopped customers making donations to WikiLeaks. There was not the slightest consideration of principles about free information or the freedom of their customers to make up their own minds. What next? Will these corporate giants be blocking payment to the New York Times and the Guardian? It is hard to feel much regret over the cyber attacks on their websites because, in the end, they did not seem much better than Shell and Pfizer, the companies that appear to be running so much of Nigeria like the worst type of imperial powers.

Nothing but good can come from revelations about these companies, and in this brief moment when we have a glimpse of how things really are, we should relish the fact that publication of the cables, as well as the shameful reactions to it, have brought light, not fire.

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#news :Ferramenta de ataques pró-Wikileaks revela identidade de usuário

Software não realiza falsificação de endereço, apontam especialistas.
Porta-voz de grupo 'Anônimo' revelou sua identidade em arquivo PDF.

Altieres Rohr Especial para o G1

Especialistas analisaram o programa LOIC, o “Canhão de íons de órbita baixa”, usado pelos integrantes do grupo “Anonymous” para realizar os ataques em defesa do Wikileaks, e concluíram que o software revela informações sobre seu utilizador, permitindo que autoridades competentes facilmente identifiquem aqueles que estão participando dos ataques.

O LOIC não realiza nenhum tipo de falsificação de origem dos dados. Os próprios manuais de instrução dos Anonymous dizem que não é possível usar ferramentas para esconder seu endereço, método conhecido como "proxy". “Seria como atirar com uma bazuca em direção ao seu vizinho, mas atrás do seu muro. Você só vai destruir seu próprio muro”, explica um texto sobre o software.

Tela do 'canhão de íons de órbita baixa', usado para atacar sites pelo grupo 'Anonymous'. (Foto: Reprodução)

Os pesquisadores da Universidade de Twente, na Holanda, alertam que, sem o uso de uma rede capaz de tornar o tráfego anônimo, usuários do LOIC podem ser facilmente identificados.

saiba mais

• WikiLeaks nega relação com ataques cibernéticos a seus 'inimigos'
• Brasileiros estão no 'front' da guerra virtual
• Conheça Julian Assange, o fundador do WikiLeaks
• Holanda prende novo suspeito de ataques hackers pró-Wikileaks

Um desenvolvedor que se identifica como “Praetox Technologies” foi o idealizador do LOIC. O programa foi criado para realizar testes de carga para verificar a resistência de sites web. Ele recebeu adaptações dos Anonymous para ser usado nos ataques. Por isso, não inclui nenhum tipo de falsificação para proteger seus usuários.

Dois membros do “Anonymous”, um de 16 e outro de 19 anos, foram presos na Holanda acusados de participação nos ataques. O primeiro foi preso por ser um dos responsável pela manutenção dos canais de comunicação do "Anonymous"; o outro, por fazer parte do ataque que derrubou o site da promotoria que fez a primeira prisão.

Descuidos
Além de a ferramenta usada para realizar os ataques não ser adequada para o “anonimato” desejado, alguns anônimos também não tomam cuidados com sua identidade. Um documento PDF criado como “nota à imprensa” pelos Anonymous trouxe em seus metadados o nome do autor, Alex Tapanaris. Essa informação é normalmente adicionada por editores de texto, caso o usuário não tome o cuidado de apagá-la.

Metadados de nota à imprensa revela nome do
redator 'anônimo'. (Foto: Reprodução)

Outros internautas que participam do movimento conectam aos canais de bate-papo usando clientes web que revelam o endereço IP completo e real do usuário para todos os demais membros da sala. Como comparação, um bate-papo no Live Messenger normalmente só revela o IP do participante quando ele realiza certas atividades, como conversa multimídia ou envio de arquivos.

Membros do Anonymous disseram, ainda antes das prisões, ao G1 que estavam cientes dos riscos. “Se alguém for preso não será a primeira vez”, observou um deles. A “defesa” dos participantes seria o seu grande número e a improbabilidade de todos eles serem perseguidos pela polícia.

O documento de perguntas frequentes (FAQ) sobre o LOIC afirma que “as chances de você ser preso são quase zero” e que, no caso de problemas, o anônimo deve “dizer que foi infectado por um vírus ou negar ter conhecimento do software”.

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#gatronomia : French Onion Soup Stuffed Mushrooms

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking

Important note: this recipe has absolutely nothing to do with Thanksgiving.

I’m so glad I got that out. I feel cleansed!

I whipped up these little mushroom appetizers yesterday for two reasons:

1. I love stuffed mushrooms in any form and am always thinking of fun little variations.
2. I wanted to.

You’ll love these! Make them for a Thanksgiving appetizer or (fast forward!) holiday party. Watch them disappear before your eyes.

(And here are a couple of other ‘shroom recipes if you’d like to have a variety):

Original Stuffed Mushrooms
Mushrooms Stuffed with Brie

Begin by cutting an onion in half from root to tip. Next, peel off the skin and slice the onions thinly.

Melt butter in a medium skillet.

Throw in the onions and toss them around.

Cook for about fifteen minutes, then pour in wine and broth.

You can leave out the wine if you’re a good girl or boy.

When it comes to cooking with wine, I’m not a good girl.

I’m also not a boy.

I realize that made no sense.

Let the onions cook down until most of the liquid is gone, about 5 minutes. Then splash in some Worcestershire sauce. Stir it around to combine.

Grab some mushrooms and pull off the stems.

Melt some butter in a large skillet.

Throw in the mushrooms.

Sprinkle on a little salt, then just toss them around to cook ‘em for a couple of minutes.

But just a couple.

Put the mushroom caps in a baking dish.

Fill the caps with a nice amount of onions. You want to taste these suckers!

Next, grate up some Gruyere cheese.

Yum and a half.

(You can also use Swiss.)

Sprinkle a generous amount of Gruyere on the top of the ‘shrooms.

Then bake ‘em in a 325 degree oven for about 10 to 15 minutes, or until the cheese is melted. Then crank up the broiler in the oven and let them broil for a couple of minutes, or until just starting to turn brown on top.

Yum!

Sprinkle on some minced parsley, just to finish them off.

They’ll be nice and moist on the bottom…

So you can set them on a paper towel for a sec, just to blot the excess moisture.

Serve them to hungry humans.

(That includes you!)

You’ll absolutely love them.

Here’s the printable:

Prep Time: 20 Minutes | Cook Time: 30 Minutes | Difficulty: Easy | Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 2 Tablespoons Butter
• 2 whole Large Onions, Halved And Sliced Thin
• ¼ cups Beef Broth
• 7 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
• Splash Of Red Or White Wine
• ½ cups Grated Gruyere Cheese (can Use Swiss)
• Kosher Salt
• 24 whole White Or Crimini Mushrooms, Washed And Stems Removed
• Minced Parsley

Preparation Instructions

In a medium skillet, melt 1 tablespoon butter over medium heat. Add onions and saute for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until very soft. Splash in wine, broth, and Worcestershire. Cook for another 5 minutes, or until liquid is cooked down. Set aside.

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Throw in mushrooms and toss around for 2 minutes, just to start the cooking process. Sprinkle mushrooms with salt.

Place mushroom caps face down in a baking dish. Heap cavity with sauteed mushrooms, then sprinkle Gruyere over the top. Bake at 10 minutes on 325 degrees. Turn on broiler and broil for a couple of minutes, until the top of the Gruyere starts to bubble and slightly turn brown.

Sprinkle minced parsley over the top and serve.

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#news: EN VARIOS PAÍSES PROTESTAN CONTRA LA DETENCIÓN DE JULIAN ASSANGE

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Centenares de personas han protestado en Madrid frente a la embajada británica, contra la detención del fundador del sitio WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. En la movilización se exhibieron carteles con la imagen del australiano con el mensaje “no disparen contra el mensajero, por favor”.

Los manifestantes exigen la puesta en libertad de Assange, el desbloqueo de su cuenta bancaria y la restauración de los servicios de Visa y MasterCard para WikiLeaks. En su acción, han coreado gritos de "Libertad de expresión", "Transparencia" y "Justicia".

Las protestas frente a las embajadas británicas y norteamericanas se organizan también en Ámsterdam, Londres, Buenos Aires, México D.F., San Pablo, Bogotá 
y Lima.

Julian Assange fue detenido el martes en Londres por una orden de la Justicia sueca, donde fue acusado por varios delitos sexuales. A principios de noviembre la página WikiLeaks publicó 250.000 mensajes secretos de los diplomáticos estadounidenses, que contienen detalles poco halagadores de los líderes mundiales.

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#lula #dilma #PT :MST anuncia onda de ocupações em SP para janeiro

Engenheiro Taveira, Araçatuba - O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) anunciou uma nova onda de ocupações no estado de São Paulo. Chamada de "Janeiro Quente", ela terá início a partir da segunda quinzena de janeiro, sem prazo para terminar. O objetivo é ocupar pelo menos 50 propriedades rurais nas regiões do Pontal do Paranapanema, Alta Noroeste, Noroeste e Alta Paulista.

O anúncio foi feito neste sábado pelo líder da ala dissidente do MST, José Rainha Júnior, após encontro com 1,5 mil líderes sem-terra, que se reuniram num circo armado no bairro rural de Engenheiro Taveira, em Araçatuba, a 535 km DCE São Paulo. Nas ocupações, o grupo de Rainha, que controla 12 acampamentos com 2,5 mil acampados, vai contar com ajuda de outros grupos de luta pela terra, como Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MTST), União dos Trabalhadores da Terra (Uniterra), Movimento de Libertação dos Sem Terra (MLST) e sindicatos de trabalhadores rurais ligados à Central Única do Trabalhador (CUT), que também anunciaram participação nas ocupações.

A nova onda foi discutida e debatida nos acampamentos e assentamentos do MST nas últimas semanas. A intenção dos sem-terra é reivindicar para reforma agrária uma área de 92,6 mil hectares, na região do Pontal do Paranapanema, cujas terras foram consideradas devolutas pelo Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) e por isso, no entendimento deles, devem ser destinadas para reforma agrária. Na gleba, chamada de 15º Perímetro, entre os municípios Teodoro Sampaio e Euclides da Cunha, estão instaladas dezenas de propriedades produtivas.

Além das fazendas, uma usina de açúcar e álcool da ETH Bionergia, do grupo Odebrecht, está dentro da gleba. "Esta usina está em terras consideradas devolutas pela Justiça e terras devolutas são para reforma agrária", afirmou declarou Rainha Júnior. Mas ele garantiu que o movimento não vai paralisar a linha de produção da usina. "Não sou louco de paralisar 3 mil empregos diretos", disse.

A ideia, segundo ele, é montar acampamento próximo da usina e chamar para negociação governos estadual e federal, donos da usina e MST. "Vamos propor que, em troca daquela área que eles ocupam ilegalmente, apresentem outra área para reforma agrária", diz. A mesma proposta, segundo ele, será feita aos fazendeiros da região, mas estes não ficarão livres das ocupações.

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#rio : Carro pega fogo na sede do BOPE

Plantão | Publicada em 12/12/2010 às 00h08m

O Globo

RIO - Um carro de um policial militar explodiu, nesta noite, dentro da sede do Batalhão de Operações Especiais (BOPE), em Laranjeiras. As informações são da unidade do Corpo de Bombeiros do Catete. Segundo os bombeiros, o kit gás de um santana quantum de placa KOQ 6372 que estava estacionado no batalhão explodiu por volta das 22h. Houve um princípio de incêndio, mas o fogo foi debelado.Ninguém ficou ferido.

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#WikiLeaks: Em acerto secreto, Brasil se submeteu a inspeções de segurança aérea para receber aval dos EUA à Lei do Abate

Publicada em 11/12/2010 às 21h22m

Cristina Azevedo e Tatiana Farah

RIO - O Brasil se submete a inspeções de segurança aérea para receber certificação e uma assinatura presidencial dos Estados Unidos (chamada de PD) aprovando sua chamada Lei do Abate, a política de derrubada de aviões suspeitos de narcotráfico no espaço aéreo brasileiro. As negociações entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos correram à margem do Congresso Nacional e consistem numa ampla gama de informações prestadas pelo Brasil às autoridades americanas, conforme sugere uma série de telegramas enviados pela Embaixada dos Estados Unidos ao Departamento de Estado americano, entre 2004, ano da aprovação da lei, e o ano passado. Os telegramas foram entregues ao GLOBO pelo WikiLeaks e estarão disponíveis, na íntegra, no site do grupo.

Em discussão desde o governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a Lei do Abate criou polêmica no Brasil, por ser vista como uma espécie de pena de morte para um país onde essa punição inexiste. Mas também criou mal-estar entre Brasília e Washington, que disse estar preocupada com sua aplicação indistinta, colocando em risco a vida de inocentes. A polêmica foi tornada pública, com declarações da embaixadora dos EUA na época, Donna Hrinak, mostrando preocupação com a aprovação da lei, em junho de 2004.

Meses antes, em março, ela já havia se encontrado com o general Jorge Félix, ministro do Gabinete de Segurança Institucional (GSI) da Presidência, para apresentar o então chefe do Estado-Maior dos EUA, general Richard Myers. Myers chegara ao Brasil para conversar com as autoridades brasileiras sobre a lei em aprovação. Os EUA pressionavam economicamente os países que não se submetessem aos critérios de seu programa de controle aéreo para combate ao narcotráfico (ABD, Air Bridge Denial Program).

Leia a íntegra da reportagem na edição do GLOBO deste domingo.

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What IS that? 'Forest ghoul' caught on camera in dead of night by a deer hunter

By Matt Blake
Last updated at 7:07 PM on 10th December 2010

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If you go down to the woods tonight... you probably won't believe your eyes.

Because judging by footage from a hunting firm's website, this crouching phantom looks like Spider-Man has swung on to the set of the Blair Witch Project.

A deer hunter in the U.S. posted a video said to feature the creature on the Wildgame Innovations website - and the piercing white eyes aren't the sort you would want to meet on a dark night.

Enchanted wood: This mysterious creature was snapped by a deer hunter on a reserve in Berwick near Morgan City, Louisiana

Creepy crawler: The hunter, who insists it is not a hoax, posted the image on the Wildgames Innovations website

The hunter said he was lying in wait in the pitch black when a ghoulish spectre filled his sights.

Its eyes glowing in the light of his torch, it leapt from the undergrowth and flashed a look at the camera before vanishing back into the bushes.

Are they related? The 'forest ghoul' bears a resemblance to Spider-Man, whose latest screen outing has just gone into production

The hunter, who has chosen to remain anonymous, was so frightened he said he broke the camera but retrieved the image from its undamaged memory chip.

The picture was taken on a reserve in Berwick near Morgan City, Louisiana.

Internet users agree the whole thing is merely a hoax - and one comment posted claimed the figure had been stolen from a video game he had seen two years ago.

But the hunter insisted it is not a hoax.

Conspiracy theorists will no doubt note the similarity between the figure's crouching pose and that used by Spider-Man, whose latest big-screen adventure has just begun shooting.

The as-yet untitled fourth Spider-Man is due to be released in July 2012 and will go back to the beginning of the Peter Parker story.

And with producers known to go to any lengths to promote forthcoming movies, there is always the chance this 'mystery' could run and run.

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