The deputy head of the Belarus KGB claims that NATO prepare terrorists-militants
to attack Belarus
The deputy head of the Belarus KGB, Viktor Vegera
The deputy head of the Belarus KGB claims that NATO, Lithuania and Georgia prepare
terrorists-militants to attack Belarus. Viktor Vegera has declared, that on the
bases of NATO in Lithuania young Belarus oppositionists are being trained to shoot,
RIAN informed. According to Vegera, from November, 9 till November, 11th this
year the group of the Belarus young men from the oppositional organizations was
brought to Vilnius where they passed a seminar called "Lat", during
which the trained to shoot at the NATO base. The youngsters were explained that
such a seminars will be held by foreign sponsors. The deputy head of the Belarus
KGB also said that preparation of big numbers of the agents for violent actions
in the country is conducted abroad. "In summer of this year there were attempts
to transfer a camp for training of the insurgents to the territory of Belarus,"
Vegera told. As an example he brought an educational camp in Ukraine. "The
Ukrainian youth alliance organized camping for the Belarus and Ukrainians, where
they were trained in martial arts," he added. According to the Belarus KGB,
the citizens of Georgia and the Serbs were also in these camps. As Vegera specified,
in particular, it there were the representatives of the Georgian organization
"Kmara". He noted that the Belarus citizens, who came from this camp
tried to organize similar camps in the country. As Vegera said, law enforcement
bodies stopped these attempts.
UN official: US military base in the Kosovo region is the site of a secret
prison
A United Nations official has said a US military base in the Kosovo region is
the site of a secret prison. Talking about Camp Bondsteel in eastern Kosovo,
U.N. Ombudsman Marek Nowicki told the German daily Berliner Zeitung: "There
cant be any doubt that since several years a secret prison exists inside Camp
Bondsteel, a prison that doesnt succumb to any civil or legal control,"
he said. "We have to ask the question what actually goes on in there."
Nowicki is a seasoned human rights expert -- he heads the U.N.'s ombudsman office
in Kosovo, and for years was the president of Helsinki Foundation for Human
Rights and senior judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The ombudsman visited Bondsteel in 2000 and 2001, he said. "The prison
looked like the pictures we know from Guantanamo Bay." After the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001, Nowicki was denied access to the camp.
Roughly 6,000 US soldiers are stationed at Bondsteel. Located near the town
of Ferizaj, it is the main base of US troops under command of the Kosovo Force,
widely known as KFOR, in the U.N. protectorate of Kosovo. KFOR has stated no
such secret prison exists there. Those assurances remain questionable until
U.N. officials can finally inspect the base, Nowicki said.
Amnesty International also claims that Bondsteel is a site of illegal imprisonments.
It has reported that several Arabic individuals have been detained there for
months "under the massive violation of international laws." Amnesty
International was never able to investigate, it said.
No CIA prisons in Bulgaria
Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said during Friday Question time in Parliament
that the competent departments of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of
the Interior did not dispose of any information of secret CIA prisons in Bulgaria,
Bulgarian Radio reported.
Georgian Justice Minister denies secret CIA prisons being located on Georgia's
territory
Georgian Justice Minister Konstantin Kemularia strongly criticized the statement
of South Ossetia's representative in Moscow Yury Medoyev about secret US prisons
being located on Georgia's territory, Interfax reported. "Such nonsense,
spread in Moscow, does not merit comment, as its authors have a strong desire
to accuse Georgia of all mortal sins, from aiding terrorists to helping the
US," Kemularia told journalists. Similar statements "will be issued
by Moscow in large numbers," after the approval of the OSCE Foreign Ministers
Council's statement on Georgia, he said.
Three Azerbaijani soldiers were found guilty of deserting, espionage and passing
secret information
Three Azerbaijani soldiers were found guilty of deserting, espionage and passing
secret information to the Armenian secret services, local media reported. Three
privates escaped their base in February this year and entered the area controlled
by the Armenians. There they have met with the local secret services representatives
and delivered a confidential information about the Azerbaijani military units
in the area. The soldiers claim they were lost in the woods and caught by the
Armenian military. Two of the accused are centenced for twelve years in jail
and one – for eleven.
The CIS observers fear provocations from the Moldavian secret services in Transdniestria
The observers of the Commonwealth of Independent States Election Monitoring
Organization (CIS-EMO) in breakaway Moldavian Transdniestria claim, they are
afraid of the provocations from the Moldavian secret services, Regnum reported.
Head of the mission Alexei Kochetkov said that in the framework of liberal and
democratic electoral legislation, he hopes that the elections will be fair,
however, he repeated the rumors from the local media that there were attempts
of Moldavian secret agents to infiltrate Transdniestrian territory. To remind,
Kochetkov was recently deported from Moldova with another Russian observer for
having "allegedly been involved in a fight." The fourth elections
to the Supreme Council of Transdniestr will take place on December, 11. Observers
from Poland, Russia, Jordan, Ukraine and Belarus will watch the process.
The Russian President discussed various aspects of Russia’s policy with
the representatives of the Russian intelligence, security and secret services
Various aspects of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy were discussed
by the Russian President Vladimir Putin with the representatives of the Russian
intelligence, security and secret services at a conference of the Security Council,
Russian media reported. Besides the heads of the SVR and FSB the meeting was
attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov, Secretary of the Security Council
Igor Ivanov, Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, Speaker of the
Parliament Boris Gryzlov, Head of the Kremlin Administration Staff Sergey Sobyanin,
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev. In particular, the officials discussed
installation of equipment on Russia's state borders.
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