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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Turkey: Heavy sentences for Sledgehammer case


20 years in prison convicted former commanders of the First Army, Retired generals Cetin Dogan and Ergin Saigon, the Navy retired admiral Oznten Ornek and Air Force Gen. e.aIbrahim Firtina known case for "Sledgehammer" in which judges in total 365 persons (250 detained), of which 14 are active senior officers of the armed forces and 66 retired senior officers, on charges of attempt to impose a military coup. According to the indictment, the plan drafted by junta led by the former commander of the First Army Gen. Cetin Dogan e.a. It was a regular seminar held on 5-7 March 2003 in the First Army. At the seminar there were four sub-projects on the movements of the Navy, the Air Force and the Army. These plans are provided, including installation and bomb in two major mosques in Istanbul in order to challenge the conditions of chaos and forcing the government to declare martial law, and the challenge of falling Turkish fighter aircraft from the Greek Aegean, so that cause confusion. All with the ultimate aim of making military coup. The first stage of the project involved the collection and use of this information, the second to create the conditions for imposing coup, the third out of the coup, the fourth the formation of a government of national unity and making the fifth parliamentary elections. The trial began on 16 December 2010 and 29 March 2012 the prosecutor asked for the defendants sentences of 15-20 years for alleged attempted coup against the government. During the hearing, defense counsel argued that the indictment contains contradictions and incorrect data. To emerging, according to the indictment, drawings refer to a warship, which was constructed in 2005, however, while the seminar was held in March 2003. There is a list of companies, whose assets were confiscated, but one of them took the title referred to the project in 2009. Some fonts appear to have been used in various electronic files of the project is delayed. Several other points in the indictment are similar problems.

Eighteen killed in a suicide bombing in Somalia


Eighteen people were killed in a double suicide bombing on Thursday night by two suicide bombers who triggered the bomb in a restaurant in the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu, according to a new report Friday gave police told AFP. Four people have died from their injuries, adding to the initial balance of 14 dead Thursday evening given by an official of the Somali security forces, Mohamed Dahir Abdulle. "The number of people killed (in explosions) is now eighteen. Two people died in the night from Thursday to Friday and two more today (Friday)," he told AFP a senior police officer Somali, speaking on condition of anonymity. "A number (of victims) are still in a critical condition," the officer added, without giving further details. The authorities had reported the eve of twenty injured in a serious condition. This new balance of attack in a downtown restaurant recently opened and frequented by a clientele rather easy is the deadliest since the one that targeted a complex ministériek October 4, 2011 by 82 deaths and claimed by Islamist insurgents Shebab. Three Somali journalists were among the victims of the attack Thursday night, perpetrated by two suicide bombers who blew themselves up, one inside the restaurant and the other at the entrance. A total of 13 journalists were murdered or killed in an attack in Somalia since the beginning of the year, according to Reporters Without Borders.