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NATO will stand by member state Turkey if it comes under attack as a result of the fighting just across the border in Syria, alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. ISIS militants on Monday raised their flag on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian town of Kobani, six miles from Turkish territory. Stray fire from fighting around the town has hit Turkish land.
"The main responsibility for NATO is to protect all allied countries. Turkey is a NATO ally and our main responsibility is to protect the integrity, the borders of Turkey and that is the reason why we have deployed Patriot missiles in Turkey to enhance, to strengthen the airfence of Turkey," Stoltenberg told a news conference during a visit to Poland.
A senior NATO official told NBC News: "Turkey, as a Member of NATO, is under the protection of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty so of course NATO would be prepared to assist if Turkey asked NATO to invoke Article 5."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Ankara: The NATO alliance has drawn up a strategy to defend Turkey if it is attacked along its border with Syria, a Turkish official says.
Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz, whose country is a NATO member, said the alliance did that at his government's request as Islamic State militants, who have captured a large swath of Iraq and Syria, are trying to take the Syrian town of Kobane near the Turkish border.
"If there is an attack, NATO's joint defence mechanisms will be activated," Mr Yilmaz told reporters.
Turkish tanks line up on a hill overlooking the Syrian city of Kobane, near the Turkish border. Photo: AFP
"From the moment the incidents relating to Syria first started, we asked NATO to prepare for possibilities to make plans. NATO prepared a plan taking various alternatives into account.
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"Therefore, if there is an attack on Turkey, NATO will bring about the provisions of Article 5 of the Washington Convention."
Article 5 states that an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members.
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Ankara: The NATO alliance has drawn up a strategy to defend Turkey if it is attacked along its border with Syria, a Turkish official says.
Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz, whose country is a NATO member, said the alliance did that at his government's request as Islamic State militants, who have captured a large swath of Iraq and Syria, are trying to take the Syrian town of Kobane near the Turkish border.
"If there is an attack, NATO's joint defence mechanisms will be activated," Mr Yilmaz told reporters.
Turkish tanks line up on a hill overlooking the Syrian city of Kobane, near the Turkish border. Photo: AFP
"From the moment the incidents relating to Syria first started, we asked NATO to prepare for possibilities to make plans. NATO prepared a plan taking various alternatives into account.
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"Therefore, if there is an attack on Turkey, NATO will bring about the provisions of Article 5 of the Washington Convention."
Article 5 states that an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members.
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WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated NATO's commitment to defending its allies during a visit to Poland on Monday.
"NATO's most important task is to protect and defend our nations against attack," Stoltenberg underlined following his meetings with Polish President Bronisaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz.
"We will defend our Allies, all Allies."
Stoltenberg's trip to Warsaw, his first country visit since beginning his term as secretary general on Oct. 1, comes at a time of heightened concern about Russian aggression and the rise of Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
The NATO head's talks with Polish leaders focused, in part, on Russian actions in Ukraine and related international security challenges.
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BATAVIA With no public comment, Batavia School Board members on Monday unanimously approved the retirement of Batavia High School social studies teacher John Dryden, who made local and national headlines last year when he instructed his students that they had the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves before answering an in-class survey about emotional and at-risk behavior.
We thank him for his 22 years of service, said Steve Pearce, assistant superintendent of human resources for Batavia School District 101, during the meeting.
Dryden contacted District 101 officials Wednesday about wanting to retire. Wednesday was his last day with the district.
On Friday, he formally submitted his retirement letter, Pearce said.
The District 101 board voted in May 2013 to issue a written warning of improper conduct to Dryden for his actions.
Before the board issued the notice, then-Batavia School Superintendent Jack Barshinger docked Dryden a days pay.
Jon Gaspar was the sole board member to vote no. The notice warned Dryden not to provide legal advice to students, among other things.
On Monday, Pearce said he could not discuss whether Dryden had broken any conditions of the warning.
Dryden was not at Mondays meeting, and efforts to reach him have not been successful.
Batavia School Board President Cathy Dremel said she was surprised by Dryden choosing to retire.
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A man in Broward County, Florida, decided to wear a "F**k the police" shirt to his court hearing. Amazingly, he reportedly managed to win his case despite that fashion choice.
Michael Burns says in his video description on LiveLeak that he witnessed around 10 people being kicked off of public property around 1:30 a.m. last week and decided to break out his camera to record it. An officer told Burns to stop filming and leave, and he refused. Eventually, when the situation seemed to die down, he decided to leave on his own. As he was pulling away from the area, one of the cops got in his vehicle and started to follow him. Right as he was turning around to go home, the cop put his lights on, and to Burns surprise, it was the same officer who had asked him to leave earlier.
A short time later, six more police cars showed up as Burns was informed that he was being pulled over because his license plate was partially obstructed. Burns believes, however, that he was pulled over because the officer was angry that he refused to stop filming the earlier incident. Burns says he refused to answer any of the officers questions and told him that he would see him in court.
On court day, Burns decided to wear his F**k the Police shirt, and when he told the judge that he wished to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, the judge denied his request. Still, as Burns notes, he won the case against the multiple officers in the room.
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Washington, DC - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Nicholas Heien was arrested in 2009 after being stopped for a broken brake light. During the traffic stop, he consented to a search of his car that yielded a bag of cocaine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 to 12 months in jail.
Why isnt the consent the end of this case? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked.
The simple answer, according to Jeffrey Fisher, who represented Heien, is the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, which says evidence discovered through an illegal search must be excluded in a trial.
But Robert Montgomery, who argued on behalf of North Carolina, pointed out the states laws can easily be misinterpreted, and officers need to be able to use their discretion when they are out on as call or at a traffic stop.
Because of the conflicting laws, Montgomery argued, offices need to be able to exercise their judgment.
Still, Fisher said the search was illegal under the most relevant law, and therefore Heiens consent was irrelevant.
The constitutional problem is the admission of this evidence, Justice Antonin Scalia said. And it seems to me whether its properly admitted because the Fourth Amendment wasnt violated or whether its properly admitted because the remedy for that violation is not exclusion of the evidence; you lose either way, dont you?
The question came down to a definition what is unreasonable, which Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked.
Well, it would be unreasonable if there was plain language of the statute that no one could reach a different interpretation about at all if it was plain, Montgomery said, or if there was a definite decision by an appellate court, it would be unreasonable for an officer to interpret it in his own way.
Roberts called the definition broad, and he said giving officers such a scope would be troubling.
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With only a month until the scheduled trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road drug site, Ulbrichts defense lawyers have zeroed in on the argument that the U.S. government illegally hacked the billion-dollar black market site to expose the location of its hidden server. The prosecutions latest rebuttal to that argument takes an unexpected tack: they claim that even if the FBI did hack the Silk Road without a warrantand prosecutors are careful not to admit they didthat intrusion would be a perfectly law-abiding act of criminal investigation.
On Monday evening the prosecutors submitted the latest in a series of combative court filings from the two sides of the Silk Road case that have clashed over Ulbrichts Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The governments new argument responds to an affidavit from an expert witness, tech lawyer Joshua Horowitz, brought in by Ulbrichts defense to poke holes in the FBIs story of how it located the Silk Road server. In a letter filed last week, Horowitz called out inconsistencies in the FBIs account of stumbling across the Silk Roads IP address while innocently entering miscellaneous data into its login page. He testified that the FBIs actions instead sounded more like common hacker intrusion techniques. Ulbrichts defense has called for an evidentiary hearing to cross examine the FBI about the operation.
In the governments rebuttal, however, Ulbrichts prosecutors dont directly contest Horowitz description of the FBIs investigation, though they do criticize his testimony in passing as factually and analytically flawed in a number of respects. Instead, they obliquely argue that the foreign location of the sites server and its reputation as a criminal haven mean that Ulbrichts Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches dont apply, even if the FBI did use hacking techniques to penetrate the Silk Road, and did so without a warrant.
Even if the FBI had somehow hacked into the [Silk Road] Server in order to identify its IP address, such an investigative measure would not have run afoul of the Fourth Amendment, the prosecutors new memo reads. Given that the SR Server was hosting a blatantly criminal website, it would have been reasonable for the FBI to hack into it in order to search it, as any such hack would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary.
The Silk Road server in question, after all, was located not in the United States but in a data center near Reykjavik, Iceland. And though Ulbricht is an American citizen, the prosecutors argue that the servers location abroad made it fair game for remote intrusion. Because the SR Server was located outside the United States, the Fourth Amendment would not have required a warrant to search the server, whether for its IP address or otherwise, the prosecutions filing reads.
In a footnote, the memo adds another strike against Ulbrichts Fourth Amendment protections: The Silk Road was not only hosted in a foreign data center, but also rented from a third-party web hosting service. And because Ulbricht allegedly violated the companys terms of service by using its computers to deal in narcotics and other contraband, that company was exempted from any obligation to protect his privacy.
Finally, prosecutors argue that for the 30-year-old Texan to claim privacy protections for Silk Roads server, he would have to declare that it belonged to him. Thats a tricky Catch-22: Ulbricht hasnt claimed personal possession of that computers data, as doing so would almost certainly incriminate him. But because he hasnt he cant claim that his privacy was violated when it was searched, according to the prosecutors reasoning. Because Ulbricht has not submitted any affidavit alleging that he had any possessory interest in the SR Serverlet alone one that would give him a reasonable expectation of privacyhis motion should be denied, reads the prosecutors filing.
Early Tuesday, Judge Katherine Forrest ordered Ulbrichts defense to decide within the day whether it will argue that Ulbricht did have an expectation of privacy for the Silk Road server, as well as all his other seized computers and online accounts. Shes given him until the end of the day Wednesday to make that argument Ulbrichts defense didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
The pre-trial motion over which Ulbrichts defense lawyers and the prosecution have been sparring for the last two months doesnt directly seek to have the central narcotics conspiracy and money laundering charges against Ulbricht dismissed. Instead, his lawyers have sought to prove that the evidence gathered by law enforcement is tainted. If the initial pinpointing of Silk Roads server was illegal, they argue, practically all the evidence from the resulting investigation could be rendered inadmissible.
Early last month, the government responded to that motion with an affidavit from former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell describing how the Silk Road server was first found. As he described it, a misconfiguration of the anonymity software Tor allowed the sites login page to leak its IP address.
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On the evening of June 16, 2010, Northrup was walking down a street in his neighborhood, with his wife, daughter, grandson, and their Yorkshire terrier, and a handgun holstered on his right hip, when Alan Rose drove by on a motorcycle. Northrup and Rose did not know each other, but Rose stopped his motorcycle and began telling Northrup that he could not walk around in public while openly carrying a handgun. Northrup and his wife told Rose that open carry of a firearm is legal in Ohio, but the conversation quickly devolved into an argument. After a few minutes, Northrup and his family continued walking while Rose called 911. A dispatcher with the Toledo, Ohio Police Division sent Officers Comes and Bright, as well as Sergeant Ray, to investigate.
Officer Bright arrived first. He stopped and exited his car and approached Northrup and his family from behind, while on foot. The parties dispute the exact sequence of the events that took place next. Northrup testified his daughter informed him when she saw Officer Brights car driving down the street. Northrups cell phone was clipped to his belt, next to his holster. He took his cell phone off of his belt and accessed the camera feature in order to record the impending encounter with the officer. When Officer Bright approached, he said excuse me to get Northrups attention. Northrup then turned toward Officer Bright with his cell phone in one hand and the dogs leash in the other.
Officer Bright testified he said excuse me and asked Northrup to hand the dog leash to his wife. At this point, Officer Bright states Northrup reached back to remove his cell phone. Officer Bright thought Northrup had made a furtive movement toward his handgun. Officer Bright then placed his hand on his holstered weapon and ordered Northrup to hand his cell phone and the dog leash to his wife. He ordered Northrup to turn around and place his hands above his head while he removed Northrups gun from the holster.
Officer Bright asked for and received Northrups drivers license, before handcuffing Northrup and placing him in the back seat of his police cruiser. While Officer Bright entered Northrups personal information into the computer in his cruiser, Sergeant Ray arrived. Sergeant Ray and Officer Bright discussed the situation before Sergeant Ray contacted the Detective Bureau to determine if Northrup could be charged with committing an offense. Following this phone call, Officer Bright issued Northrup a citation for failure to disclose personal information; this charge ultimately was dismissed following the request of a City of Toledo prosecutor.
[First Amendment:] Northrup alleges the Defendants violated his right to symbolic speech when Officer Bright seized and harassed Mr. Northrup without probable cause and based solely upon his openly carrying a holstered firearm. He contends he was engaged in symbolic speech by openly carrying a firearm in a holster and that this expressed his opinion that Ohioans should exercise their fundamental right to bear arms and educate[d] the public that open carry is permissible in Ohio.
[U]nder Spence [v. Washington], the relevant inquiry is whether there is a great likelihood that those who observed the plaintiffs would understand the message they attempted to convey. Here, it is clear Northrup did not convey his intended message simply by openly carrying a handgun, as he and Rose argued about whether Northrup legally could carry a handgun in that manner. The fact that Northrup had to explain the message he intended to convey undermines the argument that observers would likely understand the message. [Rumsfeld v. FAIR (2000) also supports this conclusion on the courts part. -EV]
Northrup also fails to identify any case in which a court concluded that gun possession alone conveys any message at all. Moreover, the surrounding circumstances on June 16 offer no support to Northrups intended message. As he notes, he simply was walking on a public sidewalk in his neighborhood with his wife, daughter, grandchild, and dog. Northrup fails to show his action of openly carrying a handgun is sufficiently imbued with elements of communication or that the likelihood was great that the message would be understood by those who viewed it. Spence. Defendants are entitled to summary judgment on Northrups First Amendment claim on the basis of qualified immunity.
[Second Amendment:] [McDonald v. City of Chicago] was not issued until after the events at issue in this case took place. Prior to McDonald, the Supreme Court had expressly held that the Second Amendment prohibited only Congress from infringing on the right to bear arms and left the states free to restrict or protect the right under their police powers. [Moreover, n]either the parties nor my own research has identified any case in which the Second Amendment was held to cover [a right to openly carry a gun outside the home]. Instead, several appellate courts have expressly declined to hold this right exists.
A government official is entitled to qualified immunity from a plaintiffs claims of constitutional violation unless the officials conduct violated a clearly established constitutional right. A new constitutional rule simply could not have been clearly established at the time of [the] defendants alleged misconduct. Defendants are entitled to qualified immunity on Northrups Second Amendment claim.
[Fourth Amendment:] The Fourth Amendment requires that a police officer determine probable cause exists prior to making an arrest. The Fourth Amendment also covers a less intrusive category of searches and seizures known as a Terry stop. If an officer has a reasonable suspicion criminal activity is occurring, that officer may briefly stop an individual to make reasonable inquiries designed to confirm or dispel that suspicion. The officer also may undertake this course of inquiry if the officer has a reasonable suspicion the individual previously committed a crime. An officers reasonable suspicion must be supported by specific and articulable facts.
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Cryptocurrency markets stabilise, while Blockchain receives funding and Overstock plans stock exchange(IBTimes UK)
Following a tumultuous few days for bitcoinand other cryptocurrencies, most major markets seem to have stabilised over the last 24 hours.
Bitcoin, litecoin and darkcoin all shifted by less than 1% in value since yesterday, while dogecoin saw some positive movement to take its market capitalisation back up above $27m.
Blockchain raises $30m
Bitcoin wallet firm Blockchain has announced record Series A funding, raising over $30m in capital in its first round of outside financing that included notable investors such as British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.
Blockchain is the largest provider of bitcoin wallets in the world, with over 2.3 million consumer wallets being downloaded since the company was founded in 2011.
"The company has grown exponentially in every way over the last 18 months," Peter Smith, president of Blockchain, said in a statement.
"We are honoured to add investors and partners to the team with deep expertise in financial services and consumer technology."
Overstock to create bitcoin-based stock market
Online retailer Overstock has announced it is working on a decentralised stock market based on the bitcoin block chain protocol.
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