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Terror case: Family wins $323 million from Iran, Syria

By NBCMiami.com's Amara Sohn and msnbc.com's Jim Gold

A Weston, Fla., family has won a landmark $323 million court decision against Iran and Syria, six years after their son was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv. When they?ll see the money is another matter.

A U.S. federal judge awarded Tuly and Cheryl Wultz the judgment against Iran for financially supporting the Islamic Jihad movement and Syria for allowing the group to train in its territory. The lawsuit was filed by an Israeli advocacy group on behalf of the family. The award includes $300 million in punitive damages.

Tuly Wultz remembers like it was yesterday how the terrorist looked moments before the April 17, 2006, blast that killed his son, Daniel, when they were vacationing in Israel. They were having lunch in Tel Aviv when the suicide bomber approached, standing 2 feet away from Daniel Wultz, 16.


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?I tried to jump on Daniel but he already detonated and the bomb was over 40 pounds of explosives,? Tuly Wultz recalled in an interview with NBC Miami. He was severely injured, and his son and 10 other people were killed in the attack by an Islamic Jihad militant.

?My heart is still bleeding for Daniel. I?ll never be recovered from that,? the father said.

Daniel Wultz died from his injuries on May 14, 2006.

On Monday, the sixth anniversary of his death, his parents received word of the court victory.

Wultz Attorney Robert Tolchin told msnbc.com that with the court judgment in hand his clients can seek Iranian and Syrian assets to collect the award.

Tolchin said he couldn?t be specific, but he would explore ?various avenues.?

?There is a lot of litigation by people seeking the turnover of Iranian assets,? Tolchin said. ?The Iranians have kept U.S. courts busy.?

The case was brought under a special provision of federal law that allows U.S. citizens to take court actions against foreign states providing support for terrorism.

As in the Wultz case, Iran often does not fight against a judgment, but hires major U.S. firms to fight the collection of the award, Tolchin said.

Syria, on the other hand, did fight the claim and was represented in court by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

"This is a sad result following from a tragic incident," Clark told msnbc.com. "Compensation should come from persons clearly responsible who committed the act. The idea that you can become a multimillionaire by getting some friend or relative killed is not terribly healthy."

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Clark said he defended Syria only over the issue of it being a sovereign state that should face the same protection from lawsuits as all states, which are considered equal under United Nations principles.

There were no facts to support the idea that Syria or Iran were present or had advance knowledge of the Tel Aviv bombing, Clark said.

He took issue with the federal law that allows a few Americans injured by terrorist acts to be paid ?a lot of money? when thousands more, especially soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, cannot have the same access to compensation when they are hurt by roadside bombs or in other non-combat attacks. ?

"Iran and Syria are foreign states with substantial wealth and that have expended significant resources sponsoring terrorism," wrote Judge Royce C. Lamberth in his ruling.

"Barbaric acts like the April 17, 2006 suicide bombing have no place in civilized society and represent a moral depravity that knows no bounds."

The Wultzes say they are pleased with the decision, which they say is just one step towards justice and a way to ensure their son?s death was not in vain.

?This judgment was important because it?s the first time that there?s a judgment that concerns terrorism against Syria,? Cheryl Wultz said.

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Edward Zwick: Chut Wutty and the Heroic Fight Against "The Resource Curse"

On April 26th, a Cambodian environmental activist named Chut Wutty was killed by military police. Two journalists present at the incident reported that Wutty was shot after refusing to hand over photographic evidence he had been collecting. A subsequent government inquiry -- open and shut within three days -- not only failed to address the details of his death, but also prohibited further inquiry into the issue Wutty was investigating: namely, the systematic stripping and selling-off of Cambodia's forests.

Wutty was part of the Prey Lang Network -- a grassroots group of activists fighting to save the Prey Lang forest, Southeast Asia's last remaining intact lowland evergreen forest. His death is the latest episode in a long and sorry history of Cambodian dissenters being intimidated or even silenced by a kleptocratic elite ransacking the country's natural resources for personal gain. Home to the Kuy indigenous people for centuries, the Prey Lang forest possesses significant biodiversity value as well as being a critical source of water for the country's rice-growing areas. In fact the battle the Kuy are fighting against the march of logging, plantations and mining companies into the forest holds an uncanny resemblance to the plot of Avatar -- and in what might otherwise be a charming example of life imitating art, they have even tried using the film to bring media attention to their cause...

Except this is real-life. And the bullets are real.

Cambodia has a sad history of state abuse and violence, but Wutty's death and the attention it has begun to receive provides an unprecedented opportunity for the international activist community to pressure the Cambodian government to reform. A growing chorus of NGOs -- including Global Witness -- are calling for a full inquiry into Chut Wutty's death, reform of Cambodia's notoriously corrupt natural resource sector, and an end to the persecution of those who defend forest and land rights. The time has come for the Cambodian government to afford its citizens a meaningful say in what happens to the country's resources; rather than line the pockets of a small, corrupt elite, the riches of Cambodia must serve to lift its people out of poverty.

This problem -- and its possible solution -- is not as distant as it might appear. With savagely ironic timing, on the day Wutty was killed, USAID announced a $20m grant to "support forests and biodiversity" in Cambodia. The potential for this kind of aid money as a powerful force for good has too long been squandered on landmark conservation projects, many of which have been fatally undermined by the Cambodian Prime Minister and his cronies who habitually plunder resources that might otherwise drive development. To make matters worse, little of this money ever reaches the kind of grassroots organizations Wutty worked with. As a mark of respect for his work -- and to signal our desire for change -- we as US citizens must call on our government to ensure our tax dollars be used to support such groups. The forests they are fighting to defend are not only their homes, but ours as well. They are nothing less than the essence of the natural world.

The work of the Prey Lang group is but one example of the heroic and dangerous work being done every day by activists around the world in the essential fight against "the resource curse." We must let them know they are not alone. Making sure our aid money reaches its target is the right place to start.

Edward Zwick is a member of the Global Witness Advisory Board.

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John Feffer: America the Serial Killer

Everybody loves Dexter. He?s handsome. He?s helpful. He works at the Miami Metro Police Department, and he?s very good at his job as a blood-splatter analyst. Oh, did I mention that he moonlights as a serial killer? Don?t worry: he only kills bad guys. That?s part of the code that Dexter?s adoptive father, himself a police officer, passed down to his son. As a child who had watched his mother die a horrendous death, Dexter couldn?t overcome the murderous impulses that surged within him. His father, channeling those impulses in the only constructive way he could think of, created a better monster of his son?s nature: a serial killer of serial killers.

The other essential rule of Dexter?s code: don?t get caught. He is very precise in the way he dispatches his victims, and he will do almost anything to evade detection. Dexter works for the law, but his second job is most definitely above the law.

During its six seasons on Showtime, the popular TV show Dexter has asked a vexing moral question: can a person do good by doing bad? Let?s throw in one more twist. Sometimes Dexter makes mistakes and kills people who don?t fit his definition of Really Bad. He must then wrestle with his (rudimentary) conscience and, more importantly, try to resolve the paradoxes of his father?s code. One last painful element of the Dexter story: his efforts to wipe out bad guys occasionally endanger and even lead to the death of his own nearest and dearest. Dexter has a serious problem, in other words, with blowback.

By this point, you?ve probably figured out my theory. Dexter is all about U.S. foreign policy and the moral calculus of a superpower. Our government has likewise been on a killing streak for a long time, and there?s no end in sight. But we are also, as a country, conflicted about this propensity toward murder. We try to tell ourselves that we only kill bad guys like Osama bin Laden and his ilk. We maintain that we intervene in the affairs of other countries for only the best and purest of reasons. But we also suspect that we have deviated from our code ? many times and with devastating consequences.

The first season of Dexter aired in 2006, and it?s tempting to draw the parallels between the serial killer and our serial wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. But let?s go post-partisan here and instead look at what the Obama team is doing today. ?More recently, there has been hope for a more humane set of policies from the Obama administration,? writes Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) senior analyst Adil Shamoo in an excerpt from his new book Equal Worth. ?However, such hope has not materialized in the form of a new policy toward the [Middle East]. The Obama administration is bent on proving its ?national security credentials? by following the old policy of vengeance and not of justice.? This tension between vengeance and justice, a major preoccupation of Dexter, was on display last week when a U.S. drone strike killed Fahd al-Quso, a top al-Qaeda operative in Yemen.?

Quso helped plan al Qaeda?s attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and he would certainly fit Dexter?s definition of Really Bad. He pledged to attack any and all Americans, soldiers and civilians alike. Maybe, you say, we should have apprehended him. Actually, Quso had been apprehended ? several times. The FBI interrogated him prior to September 11. He escaped from prison in 2003 only to be recaptured in 2004 and then released by the Yemeni government in 2007. Maybe Washington should have tried extraordinary rendition. But the Obama administration has largely backed out of the business of extraordinary rendition in favor of extrajudicial killing.

Dexter would have no compunction about taking out Quso. Extrajudicial killing is what he?s all about. America?s favorite serial killer is judge, jury, and executioner all wrapped up in one.

But how do we feel about the U.S. president occupying that role? To make a final judgment, we must consider the legal issues, the foreign policy implications, and finally the practical matter of blowback.

The Obama administration only admitted publicly back in January to the existence of its CIA-directed drone attacks in Pakistan. Talk about open secrets. The New American Foundation estimates that the Obama administration has expanded the drone program sixfold over what the Bush team had initiated in Pakistan. And that doesn?t include the expansion of drone warfare to Yemen and Somalia or the drone strikes that the Air Force conducts over Afghanistan.

Two weeks ago, in an effort to increase transparency in one of the most opaque overseas operations the United States conducts, White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan was more expansive about the program. "One could argue that never before has there been a weapon that allows us to distinguish more effectively between al-Qaeda terrorists and civilians," Brennan said. "It's this surgical precision, the ability, with laser-like focus to eliminate the cancerous tumor called an al Qaeda terrorist while limiting damage to the tissue around it that makes this counter-terrorism tool so essential."

Next time I need surgery, I?m certainly not going to employ Brennan. Tasked with removing a tumor in my toe, he?d lop off my entire leg, remove an arm from an attending nurse, and accidently cut away a couple limbs from patients waiting in pre-op. That?s how ?surgical? the drone strikes have been. The New America Foundation estimates that they have a 17 percent error rating (in other words, we?ve killed 300-450 non-militants). This corresponds to the calculations of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has compiled a list of 317 civilians killed by drones in Pakistan.

There are two major categories of drone strikes. The first, dubbed the personality strike, goes after a known bad guy. The second, the signature strike, targets unidentified individuals and groups according to their pattern of behavior. Neither type qualifies as ?surgical.? In the first case, U.S. drones killed Zabet Amanullah?on the presumption that he was a top Taliban commander when in fact he was a human rights advocate. Even Dexter would have felt bad about that. In the second case, the United States is expanding its definition of enemy combatants to include groups in Yemen and Somalia, and this makes even the State Department uncomfortable.

We should all be uncomfortable. It?s bad enough when the president directs the extrajudicial killings by handpicking a set of discrete targets. But signature strikes give the CIA even more latitude in drawing up kill lists and racking up ?collateral damage.? As William Saletan explains in Slate, ?in the Pakistani frontier regions, the CIA has license to take out fighters who appear to be involved, or intent on getting involved, in the Afghan insurgency. The drone campaign has spread from counterterrorism to counterinsurgency.?

So, the United States doesn?t do so well with the first rule of Dexter?s code ? only kill bad guys. It works a great deal harder to abide by the second rule: don?t get caught. It has done its utmost to conceal the drone program and create plausible deniability. ?To absolve itself in the most sensitive strikes, the CIA has become skilled at using lawyers to cover its tracks. "They use paper when it is going to help them," says the former official. "Or they get on the secure phone. Or they get in an elevator casually with a lawyer and ask for his advice, like, 'There's nothing preventing me from destroying those tapes, is there?'" writes Michael Hastings in an ?in-depth article on drones in Rolling Stone.

Wait, you might say, what Dexter does is clearly illegal. Murder is illegal. But aren?t drone strikes legal? It?s a war, they?re combatants, we?re combatants, we take them out. Why bring in any lawyers?

Back in the 1970s, the United States banned the practice of assassination until Congress passed a law in the wake of 9/11 that empowered the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force" in going after those responsible for the terrorist attacks. But the targeted killing of American citizens, the ?collateral damage? inflicted on innocent bystanders who happen to be in the vicinity of targeted drone strikes, and the dispatch of unknown targets based on unreleased evidence of their behavior all raise difficult legal questions. That?s a polite way of saying that these are lawsuits waiting to happen.

Moreover, what if other countries made the same claims in assassinating individuals in the United States? Washington might rethink the legality of its actions when China or Russia authorizes a drone attack on a Uygur or Chechen ?terrorist? hanging out in Chicago. They too could use the self-defense argument.

So, strictly speaking, targeted killings are legal because the Congress passed a law declaring them legal. But they still fly in the face of international law and establish a dangerous precedent that will one day be used against the United States.

Meanwhile, the blowback continues. In a drone strike last year, the United States killed an American citizen, Anwar al Awlaki, a leading al Qaeda militant. A subsequent strike took out two of his close relatives. ?The October drone strike that killed Awlaki?s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, a U.S. citizen, and his teenage cousin shocked and enraged Yemenis of all political stripes,? writes Jeremy Scahill in The Nation. ?'I firmly believe that the [military] operations implemented by the U.S. performed a great service for al-Qaeda, because those operations gave al-Qaeda unprecedented local sympathy,? says Jamal, the Yemeni journalist. The strikes ?have recruited thousands.? Yemeni tribesmen, he says, share one common goal with al-Qaeda, ?which is revenge against the Americans, because those who were killed are the sons of the tribesmen, and the tribesmen never, ever give up on revenge.??

Dexter is an individual driven by his nature to kill. He can?t help himself. The United States is not an individual, but rather a collection of institutions subject to the democratic control of more than 300 million individuals. Like Dexter, the United States was baptized in blood ?the slaughter of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans ? and has been steeped in blood ever since. But it need not be part of our nature any more than the Holocaust defines Germany today or King Leopold?s monstrous crimes compel modern-day Belgium to behave in like manner. If the U.S. government argues, as Dexter does, that the system is broken and the Really Bad act with impunity, Washington can do something Dexter can?t ? use its unprecedented power and influence to strengthen international law rather than undermine it.

If Dexter turns himself in, the show is over. The United States, in its last flush of unipolar glory, fears the same ending should it suddenly adhere to international law. With its expanded drone program, the Obama administration has kept America?s serial killer persona on the air for too long. More and more Americans are just saying no, as Medea Benjamin chronicles in her new book on drones. It?s time for the United States to stop breaking bad and behave like a proper, law-abiding member of the international community.

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Ron Paul admits the obvious: He won't be the GOP nominee

Ron Paul (Cliff Owen/AP)

Ron Paul is not suspending his presidential campaign. That's the message his staff pushed Tuesday following the candidate's declaration that he won't spend any additional funds to?campaign in new states.

But campaign manager Jesse Benton clearly stated that the hopes of Paul winning the Republican presidential nomination are officially over.

"We recognize that Gov. [Mitt] Romney has what is very likely to be an insurmountable delegate lead," Benton told reporters on a conference call Tuesday. "And we acknowledge that we're very, very unlikely to be able to block that nomination."

The campaign followed a delegate strategy that would have put it in a "good position" to influence the outcome, should there be a brokered convention, said Benton. But "unfortunately, other candidates were not able to maintain their strength."

Other than Paul and Romney, every major Republican running for president has suspended his campaign, given Romney's strong delegate lead. Romney currently claims 973 delegates, according to the Associated Press, and he needs 1,144 total delegates to seal the nomination. Paul has 104 delegates and has won a majority of delegates in just one state thus far: Maine.

But winning the nomination is not the campaign's goal, Benton stressed. Rather, amassing delegates and influencing the nominating process continues to be the focus.

"We still have very, very strong things that we can accomplish by continuing this campaign," Benton said.

Paul will continue to lobby for speaking roles at state conventions and other events, and will continue to actively campaign (all without spending more money). The next stop is Minnesota, where the campaign believes it can win a majority of support at this weekend's state convention. Benton mentioned Washington, Missouri, Louisiana and Iowa as other states where he believes Paul can end up with a majority of support.

The campaign says it will be able to count on "several hundred more" delegates bound to Romney at this summer's national convention?noting that those delegates are obliged only for the first round of voting.

But Benton stressed repeatedly that the campaign will be emphasizing "decorum and respect" among Paul's delegates, noting that "our supporters are going to get an excessive amount of blame for problems that arise in heated moments at conventions."

The campaign has been in talks with Romney's team regarding party platform, but an endorsement of Romney is not guaranteed, said Benton. "I?would never say never,"he said, but added, "I do not believe that that is likely." He sharply ruled out a Paul endorsement for Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson. There's "no chance of that."

Expect Paul to continue promoting a platform of government transparency, federal accountability, monetary reform, prohibitions on definite detention and Internet freedom, said Benton.

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Republic Wireless now issuing invites for summer beta program: is your name on the list?

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Republic Wireless is now issuing the cellphone equivalent of Willy Wonka's golden tickets: an invite to its forthcoming beta. When you've been assigned a wave, you'll then be placed on a wait list, only told a week before you have to place cash on the barrel for a handset. Our tipsters have told us that the company is pitching (via a survey, of course) to hit three price points for customers, each fee buying a smartphone and the first month's service. All they could supply were the specs, so we've suggested some handsets that could fit the bill:

  • Entry Level: $199 gets a phone from an "unknown" manufacturer with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 600MHz CPU, 0.5GB of storage and a 5-megapixel camera -- which puts us in mind of the ZTE Libra or the iNQ Cloud Touch.
  • Mid-range: $299 will buy a handset from a "well known" manufacturer, 3.7-inch touchscreen, 1GHz CPU, 1GB storage, 5-megapixel camera and a VGA front-facer, similar to the Galaxy U, HTC One V or Huawei Vision.
  • Top Line: $499 gets you a 4.3-inch touchscreen phone with a 1.2Ghz dual-core CPU, 8GB storage and, weirdly, a 7-megapixel camera. We hope that last stat is a typo, since it rules out the vast majority of handsets at that level. If it was 8-megapixels, for example, we'd be thinking about phones like the Galaxy S II.

We reached out to the company for more details, and were told that it's simply in a discovery phase of sorts -- it's still trying to get a better grasp on exactly what phones would be desired. Unfortunately, that means that there aren't any concrete handset decisions to be shared just yet, but we'll be sure to pass those along as soon as we find out ourselves.

[Thanks, Matt]

Republic Wireless now issuing invites for summer beta program: is your name on the list? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Zerg Rush: That was an order, soldier

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Zerg Rush is Google's latest easter egg and it's admittedly a little late for the holiday itself. Search for the term (it's a Starcraft thing), and you'll be welcomed by a point-and-shoot mini-game where your enemy is an infinite number of color-coded, marauding o's. These will proceed to decimate your search results, which is currently a bizarre meta view of people explaining the game's existence. Get your trigger finger ready -- the internet needs you. (You also can publish your final score with pride on Google Plus.)

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Google Zerg Rush: That was an order, soldier originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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First image of Sony NEX-F3 leaked, outs 16.1 MP sensor

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Leave it photography buffs to leak product shots that are decidedly unblurry, if poorly framed. Dpreview forum goer Bibogue outed a sneak peek at the Sony NEX-F3, a mirrorless shooter that seems to be poised to replace the NEX-C3. The leaked picture appears to reveal a 16.1 megapixel sensor, a built in flash and a 180-degree tilting screen, and Bibogue says the unit sports a new peaking level feature to help fine-tune manually focused shots. The new unit seems to retain its predecessor's proprietary accessory connector as well, so prospective buyers should choose their peripherals wisely.

[Thanks, Sjoer]

First image of Sony NEX-F3 leaked, outs 16.1 MP sensor originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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