[Gipfelsoli Newsletter] L'Aquila

[International Newsletter]

- Leftist terrorist suspects arrested in Italy over plot to target G8
- Demonstration on 4th of July 2009 in Berlin
- Italy/Libya: Gaddafi Visit Celebrates Dirty Deal
- ITALY 25-27 Jun 2009 G8 foreign ministers meet in Trieste

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Leftist terrorist suspects arrested in Italy over plot to target G8

Rome - Italian police on Thursday morning arrested six suspected members of a
leftist terrorist cell who were allegedly planning attacks, including one
targeting a Group of Eight (G8) summit, according to the news agency ANSA and
other media reports. Among the six taken into custody, is a man who in the past
was investigated on suspicion of providing support to the Red Brigades, the
extreme-left wing terrorist group that caused much bloodshed in Italy in the
1970s and 1980s, the reports said.

The arrests, which were carried out in several Italian regions, including
Sardinia, stemmed from material gathered by investigators by wire-tapping
conversations involving the suspects.

More:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/272744,leftist-terrorist-suspects-arrested-in-italy-over-plot-to-target-g8.html


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Quake G8 2009 – We are your crisis!

Demonstration on 4th of July 2009 in Berlin

    * italiano: www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/7223.html
    * deutsch: www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/7224.html

While the worldwide financial crisis and the struggles against it are
reinforcing, police and military are preparing for increasing protests and
resistance. The institutions of the „leading economic nations“ are forced to
reorganize, so this year´s summit of the selfappointed „world leadership“
(Italy´s foreign minister Franco Frattini naming the G8) stands entirely under
the sign of this reorganisation.
On the agenda there are climate, resources, food and migration – as security
political risks for the industrial countries. Normally no subject for G8
summits, Berlusconi wants to drive forward the „regulation of the internet“.

The inofficial motto of the G8 issued by Frattini is called: „We produce
security“.
NATO, G8 and EU are supposed to collaborate more in the „struggle against
terrorism“ to secure the „chains of resources“. In the „Tampere Programme“
(1999) and the „Hague Programme“ (2004) of EU ministers of the Interior and of
Justice decisions were made to tighten up the migration politics and new
departments were established such as Europol and Frontex. A following
restrictive „Stockholm Programme“ shall be adopted in autumn 2009 under Swedish
presidency. Also envisaged are several missions of the „ European Gendarmerie
Squad“ in order to suppress insurrections in „crisis zones“.
In the „civil-military cooperation“ „Anti-Terror“ laws are functioning as a shim
for the militarization of social conflicts by NATO, G8 and EU . Those are long
since put into position as well against anticapitalistic resistance to bring
for example protests against summits under control.

More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009/G8_2009_english/7241.html


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Italy/Libya: Gaddafi Visit Celebrates Dirty Deal

Italy and Libya Join Forces to Prevent Boat Migrants From Leaving or Seeking
Asylum

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Mu`ammar al-Gaddafi are building their
friendship agreement at the expense of people from other countries whom both
regard as expendable. It looks less like friendship and more like a dirty deal
to enable Italy to dump migrants and asylum seekers on Libya and evade its
obligations.
Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) – Libyan leader Mu`ammar al-Gaddafi will visit Italy on June
10, 2009 to celebrate the ratification of an Italy-Libya Friendship Treaty that
has already resulted in joint naval patrols that run roughshod over refugee and
migrant rights, Human Rights Watch said today.

More:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/09/italylibya-gaddafi-visit-celebrates-dirty-deal


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ITALY 25-27 Jun 2009 G8 foreign ministers meet in Trieste

When the foreign ministers of the G8 group of major industrialized countries
meet in Trieste they will be putting together the agenda for the G8 summit in
La Maddalena in July. The United States is said to be pressing for the
inclusion of Iran when the ministers discuss problems in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The fringe will be watched for bilateral meetings between Russia and
Japan and the United States and Iran.

More:
http://www.newsahead.com/preview/2009/06/25/italy-25-27-jun-2009-g8-foreign-ministers-meet-in-trieste/index.php