Top NATO general says Ukraine has cease-fire 'in name only'

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Published September 21, 2014

September 20, 2014: NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe or SACEUR, U.S. Gen. Philip M. Breedlove attends NATO Military Committee Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

NATO's top general said Saturday the two-week-old truce between Ukraine and pro-Russian militants fighting in the country's east is a "cease-fire in name only," and he said that by enabling a free flow of weapons and fighters across the border Russia has made it nearly impossible to determine how many of its troops are operating inside Ukraine.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told a news conference after meeting with NATO military chiefs that he is hopeful about Saturday's announced agreement for creation of a buffer zone between Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces.

The deal reached by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Moscow-backed rebels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe marks an effort to add substance to the Sept. 5 cease-fire agreement that has been frequently broken by clashes.

Breedlove has put the main blame on Russia for the continuing conflict, which has killed an estimated 3,000 people in eastern Ukraine since April.

"So the situation in Ukraine is not good right now," he said. "Basically we have a cease-fire in name only."

Breedlove said violence levels in Ukraine, including the number of artillery rounds fired in the past few days, are as high as prior to the cease-fire. The general added that Russian forces are still operating inside eastern Ukraine but numbers cannot be pinpointed.

"Right now the border is being maintained open by Russian forces and Russian-backed forces, and the fluidity of movement of Russian forces and Russian-backed forces back and forth across that border makes it almost impossible to understand the numbers," he said.

He said it is clear that the number of Russian troops in Ukraine has declined significantly over the past week or so, with some returning to the Russian side of the border "which is good, except that they haven't returned home and are still available to bring their military force to bear on Ukraine, should it be desired" by Russian government leaders.

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Snowden reveals connection between NSA and Israel's spying on Palestinians

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JERUSALEM, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The "refusniks," a group of dissenting spies from Israel's Unit 8200 agency, spoke out against Israel's spying on Palestinians last Friday. The group of 43 dissenters wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's army claiming the citizens they were spying on posed no security threat and should not be spied on any longer. Now, Snowden documents reveal the NSA may have had a hand in the spying that was done.

NPR's Arun Rath spoke with James Bamford, a journalist who's interviewed Snowden recently, and he explained documents from Snowden that show the NSA spied on Palestinian-Americans and shared the information with Israel without any censoring of names, which is something that is usually done.

"You have a lot of Palestinian-Americans who happen to live in the United States, and if their private communications with relatives in Israel and occupied Palestine, then that puts them at great risk, puts their relatives at great risk," Bamford told Arun Rath. "If they talk about confidential things in an email, or in a telephone call, what right does the U.S. government have to give that information to a government that's basically hostile to them?"

It remains unclear if the NSA has been directly involved in spying on Palestinians not located within the borders of the United States.

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The Nackey Loeb School of Communications has announced that general admission and VIP package tickets to its annual First Amendment honors event, with featured speaker Donald Trump, are available at http://www.loebschool.org. A small number of sponsorship opportunities remain as well.

The early evening event is on Nov. 12 at the Radisson in downtown Manchester. The 12th annual honors program, it will highlight individuals or groups that have used their First Amendement freedoms in some important way in the past year.

Previous honorees have included an outspoken school board member, a former state attorney general, and reporters or editors from newspapers such as the Nashua Telegraph, Portsmouth Herald, and Keene Sentinel. This year's honorees are expected to be announced within a few weeks.

Businessman Trump is known as much for his business-reality TV series as for his mega-deals. But he has also been mentioned for political office, from governor of New York to the White House, an address he has not ruled out.

His last New Hampshire appearance, a Politics and Eggs breakfast at St. Anselm College, drew a record crowd.

Tickets for the event, which begins with receptions at 5:30 p.m., range from $75 to $150.

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