Monday, September 12, 2011

DTN News - WIKILEAKS NEWS: Various Articles From International Media Originated From Wikileaks For September 12, 2011

DTN News - WIKILEAKS NEWS: Various Articles From International Media Originated From Wikileaks For September 12, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 12, 2011: The international non-profit organization Wikileaks became world renown as a whistleblower publishing submissions of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks and whistleblowers.
WikiLeaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations".
Here are the news on various subjects on Wikileaks by global media/web/blogs and reactions respectively for DTN News readers and viewers;
Moyo on WikiLeaks: Politics is not a religion The Zimbabwe Guardian PROFESSOR Jonathan Moyo, one of the politicians named in the latest WikiLeaksrevelations, says it is high time individuals exposed by the cables come out in the open and explain the actual purpose of their meetings with the United States embassy ... See all stories on this topic » The Zimbabwe Guardian
Wikileaks details U.S. help for Big 3 The Detroit News A Detroit News review of more than 100 auto-related communications, part of a WikiLeaks cache of more than 250000 cables between US embassies and Washington, peeks behind the curtain of the close relationship between Detroit automakers and the ... See all stories on this topic »
WikiLeaks and Kristie Kenney Inquirer.net The warning comes in the wake of the WikiLeaks release of sensitive US State Department cables from several embassies, including the one in Manila. In some of the cables, US Embassy officials name their sources whom they freely quote and even provide ... See all stories on this topic »
Wikileaks Leaked US Cables Reveals Truth About Kashmir Foreign Policy Journal by David Wolfe The most recent cache of US State Department cables released by Wikileaks, specifically the cables from the New Delhi Embassy, paints a clear picture of how India and Pakistan have kept the Kashmir conflict alive and well for a myriad of ... See all stories on this topic »
WikiLeaks cables: US denied hand in Arroyo wiretapping scandal ABS CBN News ... in the wiretapping and electoral fraud scandal involving then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano in 2004, a diplomatic cable released by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said. ... See all stories on this topic »
Maliki believes Saudis are main sponsors of terrorism in Iraq: WikiLeaks Tehran Times Newly released classified US diplomatic cables by the reputed whistleblower website WikiLeaksreveal details of US State Department cables on meetings between Prime Minister Maliki, General David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker in 2008 in which ... See all stories on this topic »
WikiLeaks bombshell! Uganda's first lady is behind "Kill The Gays" bill San Diego Gay & Lesbian News The cable is among those newly released unredacted by WikiLeaks. It is signed by the US Ambassador to Uganda, Jerry Lanier. It quotes a 2009 private conversation with Senior Presidential Adviser John Nagenda, who had just published a column in The New ... See all stories on this topic » San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
BNP bins WikiLeaks cables Daily Star Online The BNP finds “re-emergence of a pattern of discrediting politicians and the prevailing politics” with the aim of depoliticising Bangladesh in the cables of US embassy in Dhaka which were leaked recently by WikiLeaks. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, ... See all stories on this topic »
Report: WikiLeaks reveals relationship between Detroit's Big Three, feds goes ... MLive.com The US government's involvement with Detroit's Big Three goes deeper than the auto bailout, according to a Detroit News analysis of more than 100 auto-related communications that were part of a WikiLeaks cache of more than 250000 cables between US ... See all stories on this topic » MLive.com
Army generals face possible treason charge after WikiLeaks SW Radio Africa This is according to a recently released diplomatic cable from the Harare Embassy to the US State Department in Washington, leaked by the whistle blowing group WikiLeaks. According to the cable, the two generals took time to explain the situation and ... See all stories on this topic »
WikiLeaks Cable: Iraqi Interrogators Rape Juveniles to Get ... By Kevin Gosztola Iraqi army soldier guards detainees (photo: James Gordon) [Updated - 1:36 PM ET] A US State Embassy cable marked “confidential” and published by. Firedoglake
Barbados: Pirating Scandal via Wikileaks · Global Voices By Janine Mendes-Franco Barbados Free Press draws attention to another Wikileaks cable which suggests that two years prior to a police sergeant being “arrested and charged with taking bribes to allow a counterfeit DVD 'pirate' to operate, a US Embassy cable ... Global Voices
Come out with evidence, El-Rufai challenges WikiLeaks, By alexsamade Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday described as false and fairy tales, reports by Wikileaks that he influenced the award of contracts worth $50m to the brother of Minister of ... Vanguard News
Box Turtle Bulletin » Wikileaks on Uganda's Homosexuality Bill ... By Jim Burroway A batch posted on Wikileaks last February revealed that diplomats thought M.P. David Bahati, author of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill, operated with a “blinding and incurable” homophobia, and they discussed security concerns with ... Box Turtle Bulletin
East of Center » Blog Archive » More WikiLeaks fun in the Czech ... By Jeremy Druker The Czech daily Mlada fronta DNES today publicized its analysis of the recent diplomatic dispatches released by WikiLeaks that concern the Czech Republic. In total, Wikileaks publicized 1271 dispatches from Prague, the majority of them ... East of Center
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 12, 2011

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated September 12, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - September 12, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued September 12, 2011 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Grace Pacific Corp., Honolulu, Hawaii (N62478-11-D-4036); Jas W. Glover, Ltd., Honolulu, Hawaii (N62478-11-D-4037); Road and Highway Builders, L.L.C., Sparks, Nev. (N62478-11-D-4038); and Road Builders Corp.*, Honolulu, Hawaii (N62478-11-D-4039), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for paving and airfield paving projects located primarily within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Hawaii area of responsibility (AOR). The maximum dollar value, including the base period and two option years, is $60,000,000. No task orders are being issued at this time. The work will be performed at various locations on the island of Oahu. The areas of consideration will include, but not be limited to, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and miscellaneous federal and other facilities. It includes labor, supervision, tools, materials, and equipment necessary to perform asphaltic concrete pavement work, airfield asphalt concrete paving, and other incidental related work to include but not be limited to sidewalks and curbs, marking and striping of pavement. Work will be performed within the NAVFAC Hawaii AOR on the island of Oahu, and with an expected completion date of September 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $20,000 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with four proposals received. These four contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contracts. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

Harper Construction Co., Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $40,228,805 firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Aviation Training Facility at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The work to be performed provides for instruction and administrative spaces. The contract also contains a planned modification, which, if issued, would increase cumulative contract value to $44,828,805. Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by February 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 14 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-11-C-0434).

McLean Contracting Co., Glen Burnie, Md., is being awarded a $28,815,000 firm-fixed-price contract to replace Fuel Pier D at Craney Island Fuel Pier Terminal. The work to be performed provides for the removal of the existing Fuel Pier D in its entirety and replacement with a new pier structure. The new pier will be constructed within the footprint boundary of the existing pier. The project will not require dredging. The scope of work includes intricate construction phasing and coordination in order to maintain continuous facility operating capability throughout construction. The contract also contains one unexercised option, which, if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $28,890,000. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with nine proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N40085-11-C-0001).

Bilbro Construction Co., Inc.*, Escondido, Calif., is being awarded $12,878,061 for firm-fixed-price task order 0003 under a previously awarded multiple-award construction contract (N62473-09-D-1653) for relocation of the van pad complex at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma. The work to be performed provides for the relocation of the existing Marine Air Logistics Squadron 13 van pad complex to accommodate construction of the pending Joint Strike Fighter F-35 simulation facility. The contractor shall provide all labor, equipment, and materials to perform all work described in the request for proposal. The task order also contains seven unexercised options and one planned modification, which, if exercised, would increase cumulative task order value to $14,855,473. Work will be performed in Yuma, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by September 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Seven proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Marotta Controls, Inc.*, Montville, N.J., is being awarded a $9,820,062 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for supply services in support of the development of advanced fluid control systems for shipboard applications. Services will include system design and integration; test and evaluation; software development; life cycle maintenance; logistics; fleet installation; training; and component obsolescence support. Funding will be provided on individual delivery orders issued under the contract. Work will be performed in Montville, N.J., and is expected to be completed by September 2015. Contract funds in the amount of $2,689,200 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship System Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-11-D-0026).

P&S Construction, Inc.*, North Chelmsford, Mass., is being awarded $8,627,000 for firm-fixed-price task order 0004 under a previously awarded multiple-award construction contract (N40192-10-D-2804) for the design and alteration of the Guam Strike Ops Group and Tanker Task Force renovation at Andersen Air Force Base. The work to be performed provides for the design and alteration of Building 22026; partial demolition of Building 21000; an interior and exterior telecommunication system for Building 22026; and alteration of Building 25002. Alterations include, but are not limited to, the repair and renovation of existing architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, and mass notification systems in the buildings. Work will be performed in Yigo, Guam, and is expected to be completed by July 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Five proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Marianas, Guam, is the contracting activity.

PrimeTech International, Inc., North Kansas City, Mo., is being awarded an estimated $6,526,330 time-and-material contract to support U.S. Marine Corps reset/retrograde at Marine Corps Logistics Command, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Ga. This contract contains options, which, if exercised, will bring the value of this contract to $19,118,182. Work will be performed in Albany, Ga., and is expected to be completed September 2012. If all options are exercised, the completion date is September 2014. This contract was competitively procured with over 74 prospective sources inquiring through the Federal Business Opportunities website, with six offers received. The Marine Corps Logistics Command, Albany, Ga., is the contracting activity (M67004-11-C-0029).

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

The Missile Defense Agency is awarding Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., an unpriced change not-to-exceed $12,600,000 under contract HQ0276-10-C-0001. A cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-award-fee with technical schedule performance incentives modification is contemplated. The modification accounts for schedule and within scope adjustments to the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Baseline 4.0.1 development schedule, and accounts for the changes to the installation of the computer program aboard an Aegis cruiser. The performance period for this contract line item number under which this effort will be performed is from June 30, 2010 through March 31, 2012. Contract definitization is expected to be completed by Nov. 4, 2011. Fiscal 2011 research, development, test and evaluation funds will be used to fund this effort. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is not a foreign military sales acquisition. The Missile Defense Agency, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.

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U.S. DoD issued No. 777-11 September 12, 2011
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DTN News - SAD CHAPTER OF OUR MANKIND HISTORY: America Mourns Sept 11 Dead With Somber Ceremonies

DTN News - SAD CHAPTER OF OUR MANKIND HISTORY: America Mourns Sept 11 Dead With Somber Ceremonies
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - September 12, 2011: Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the brass bearing the names of nearly 3,000 dead as America commemorated the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The name of every person killed in al Qaeda's hijacked plane attacks was read on Sunday in the nearly five-hour-long centerpiece of a heart-wrenching ceremony where the World Trade Center twin towers stood.

"I haven't stopped missing my Dad. He was awesome," said Peter Negron, a child when his father, Pete, was killed in one of the towers. "I wish my Dad had been there to teach me how to drive, ask a girl out on a date and see me graduate from high school and a hundred other things I can't even begin to name."

There were smaller ceremonies in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, the other sites were 19 men from the Islamic militant group al Qaeda crashed hijacked airliners on the sunny Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001.

The attacks led U.S. forces to invade Afghanistan to topple the Taliban rulers who had harbored al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Washington began a "war on terror" that ousted Iraq's Saddam Hussein and persists on several fronts to this day.

"Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at New York's Ground Zero.

"Since then, we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost."

Thousands gathered at the site on a clear morning to grieve. With security tight and no traffic, there was an eerie silence where the 110-story skyscrapers collapsed a decade ago, sending a noxious cloud over lower Manhattan.

President Barack Obama, who visited all three attack sites, read from Psalm 46 in New York: "God is our refuge and strength."

Speaking at an evening concert in Washington that closed out a day of memorial observances, Obama said much had changed for Americans in the 10 years since September 11, 2001.

"We can never get back the lives we lost on that day, or the Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed," Obama said. "Yet today, it is worth remembering what has not changed. Our character as a nation has not changed."

RUBBING NAMES

The ceremony in New York -- with the wail of bagpipes, youthful voices singing the national anthem and firefighters holding aloft a tattered American flag retrieved from Ground Zero -- drew tears. Family members wore T-shirts with the faces of the dead, carried photos, flowers and flags in an outpouring of emotion.

For the first time, relatives saw the just-finished memorial and touched the stone where the names of their dead loved ones were etched. Some left flowers, others small teddy bears. Some used pencils to rub the names on paper, some took pictures, others leaned against the stone and cried.

The names of the dead were read by wives and husbands, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and children, some choked with emotion.

"May your soul finally rest in peace. Your son Nathan and I, as the years go by, grow strong. Goodbye, my dear friend, my teacher and my hero," said Candy Glazer.

Glazer's husband, Edmund Glazer, cheerfully called his wife from Flight 11 not long before he died when the plane hit the north tower -- the first of that day's horrific events.

Nicholas Gorki, 9, had these words for the father he never met, Sebastian Gorki, who died at the World Trade Center while his wife was still pregnant: "You gave me the gift of life and I wish you could be here to enjoy it with me."

The September 11 attacks claimed the lives of people from more than 90 countries. They were followed by al Qaeda bombing assaults in London, Madrid and elsewhere and brought an international campaign to ferret out their members.

"God bless every soul that we lost," said former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who was called "America's mayor" for his leadership after the attacks.

"SO MANY NAMES ..."

The New York memorial includes two plazas in the shape of the footprints of the twin towers with cascading 30 foot waterfalls. Around the perimeters of pools in the center of each plaza are the names of the victims of the 2001 attacks and an earlier attack at the trade center in 1993.

Obama visited the North Memorial Pool in the footprint of the north tower. He walked around it hand-in-hand with first lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. Obama touched the etched names of the dead before he greeted some family members.

"So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart," said former New York Governor George Pataki, reading from the Billy Collins poem "The Names."

Police in New York and Washington were on high alert against what authorities called a "credible but unconfirmed" threat of an al Qaeda plot to attack the United States again on the 10th anniversary.

The U.S. military said it scrambled two F-16s to accompany an aircraft flying from Los Angeles to JFK airport in New York after reports of suspicious activity, and the U.S. Secret Service said it was looking into threatening messages posted on the White House's Facebook page.

At Shanksville, Obama laid a wreath where a plane crashed after passengers overwhelmed hijackers intent on piloting it into the White House or U.S. Capitol. Chants of "USA, USA" broke out from the crowd, gathered at the foot of a grassy hill. The Obamas talked with family members. "Thank you for keeping us safe," one man called out to the president.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said the passengers on Flight 93 -- remembered forever in Todd Beamer's "Let's roll" rallying cry -- "set a new standard for American bravery."

Later at the Pentagon, Obama placed a wreath of white flowers at the memorial, which says "September 11, 2001 9:37 AM" to mark the time the plane struck the U.S. military's headquarters.

POPE URGES "REJECT VIOLENCE"

In the Adriatic city of Ancona, Italy, Pope Benedict prayed for September 11 victims and appealed to those with grievances to "always reject violence."

In May, nearly a decade after September 11, U.S. forces killed al Qaeda founder bin Laden at his hide-out in Pakistan. The 2001 attacks prompted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the Pentagon still has a large number of troops and where violence persists.

"The 9/11 attacks were the beginning of a long winter in world history," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels. "But events in the Middle East have renewed our faith that although the desire for freedom can be repressed, it can never be extinguished. The Arab spring is a new season of hope for us all."

There were moments of silence in the Ground Zero ceremony marking when the planes hit the twin towers as well as when they collapsed. Other moments of silence were marked when the plane hit the Pentagon and the fourth crashed in Shanksville.

After a faltering start at rebuilding, the new One World Trade Center is now more than 80 stories above the ground as it rises to its planned 1,776-foot height -- symbolic of the year of America's independence from Britain.

For many -- particularly the more than 1,100 families who received no remains of their dead -- Sunday was the closest they came to a funeral for their loved ones. With the memorial complete, it offered for the first time something resembling a final resting place and a formal place to mourn.

"When we came out here 10 years ago there was a hole in the earth and that's how we felt," said Dakota Hale, 25, of Denver, who lost his stepfather, flight attendant Alfred Marchand.

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