Eye Spy - May 2018

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arsons Green Tube train bomber

Ahmed Hassan, 18, an Iraqi asylum

seeker whose actions in September

2017, could have resulted in many

Pdeaths, has been found guilty of

TUBE BOMBER GUILTY OF TERROR ATTACK

attempted murder and given a life sentence.

In court, images were shown of Hassan

calmly shopping to secure components of the

bomb, which was packed with numerous

bolts, metal fragments and knives. “Bored and

Recovered fragments from the IED

to stop the fighting

once and for all. In

both these sensitive

areas, Mattis wants

a diplomatic

solution. Pentagon

officials fear the

‘hawkish’ Bolton,

will convince

President Trump

that “solutions to many world problems can

be solved with military action,” one former

Pentagon official said. Another White House

source asked who will Trump listen to?

“Mattis is doing his job, but Bolton is always

going to have his ear. And sometimes the last

person in your ear is the one you remember.”

However, Mattis dismissed suggestions of

conflict. “He’s an American last time I

checked... I can work with an American.

John

Bolton

complaint by a Cuban-American

employee of the CIA, who goes by the

pseudonym James S. Pars, has been

AN UNHAPPY

CIA SPOOK

WHISTLEBLOWER LOSES COURT

CASE ABOUT HIS POSTING

A

dismissed by a federal judge. Pars alleged that

his career at the CIA had “gone off track” after

complaining of conditions at a remote Langley

foreign posting that he said were akin to a

“college dorm,” and that the Agency failed to

conclude an inquiry into his charges after

nearly three years.

The dispute

par tially rests on

action taken by

former President

Barack Obama in

2012 when he

signed a directive

ensuring that

intelligence

agency employ-

ees could report

waste, fraud or abuse and be protected from

workplace retaliation as long as they acted

through government channels.

Federal Judge Trevor N. McFadden ruled that

Pars’ lawsuit failed to establish that the CIA

had a legal obligation to conduct an inquiry

and that Pars could ask courts to compel

action. CIA spokesman, Dean Boyd, told

journalists the judge’s memorandum opinion

“clearly spells out the reasons for the court’s

decision in this matter. We have no fur ther

comment for you.”

President Obama

Ukrainian pilot blamed by Moscow for

shooting down Malaysian Airlines Flight

MH17 has been found dead at his home.

MH17 LEGACY

PILOT FOUND DEAD

A

Captain Vladislav Voloshin always maintained he

was the victim of a grotesque smear by Russia.

The 29-year-old was a Su-25 pilot in the

Ukrainian Air Force when the Boeing 777 was

shot-down on 17 July 2014, killing 298 people.

Reports in Ukraine say he was found dead at his

home in Mykolayiv from a gunshot wound. A

murder probe has been launched by the

Ukrainian authorities although initial reports

suggest he took his own life.

Voloshin said last

year: “I did not

shoot down the

MH17 Boeing. A

former military

friend of mine

called (Evgeny)

Agapov, a

mechanical

engineer, falsely

gave evidence

against me.”

Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and

Defence Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, said

Moscow was using propaganda to “hide the

crimes organised by Russia, including against

civilians” in relation to flight MH17.

Vladislav Voloshin

Ahmed Hassan

frustrated,” he assembled the device while the

Jones’ were on holiday. Thankfully the IED

only partially detonated, sending a fireball

through the carriage injuring 30 people.

Hassan was arrested at the Port of Dover as

he attempted to flee Britain.

Russian journalist who reported on

political scandals linked to President

Vladimir Putin died after a fall from his

RUSSIAN JOURNALIST ‘FALLS FROM BALCONY’

DEATH NOT BEING TREATED AS

SUSPICIOUS - BUT ASSOCIATES

FEAR HE WAS MURDERED

A

apartment balcony. Maxim Borodin, 32, who

worked for news agency Novy Den (New

Day), failed to regain consciousness and

succumbed to his injuries on 15 April, three

days after the incident.

Police are treating his death as suicide, but

officers did not recover a suicide note.

Sverdlovsk Oblast police spokesman said his

Yekaterinburg apartment was locked from the

inside and there was no sign of forced entry.

Vyacheslav Bashkov, a friend of the deceased

journalist, said that Borodin had called him

Maxim Borodin

early on the morning of 11 April, saying there

was “someone with a weapon on his balcony

and people in camouflage and masks on the

staircase landing.”

His latest articles concerned electoral fraud,

and the deaths of Russian mercenaries in

Syria amid escalating bombing campaigns in

the region.