POLLARD GETS SCREWED.... AGAIN!!!

Blogmaster's two shekles worth: I think that the conviction of someone spying for the People's Republic of China and stealing sensitive military secrets and equipment to enhance China's military capabilities is a supurb peace of work. Where my stomach turns is the Plea-bargain that gets this putz only two years behind bars. Think about it.... this guy Ming gets a lousy 2 years for giving military secrets to a proven adversary of the U.S. and the West. Pollard gives some intelligence information about Arab troop movements to Israel, and he gets life in prison. What's wrong with this picture???? Write your Congressman and Senator, Jonathan Pollard's life depends on it. Shabbat Shalom


Department of Justice
United States Attorney Scott N. Schools
Northern District of California

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 2, 2007

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CONTACT: Natalya LaBauve
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FORMER CHINESE NATIONAL CONVICTED FOR

COMMITTING ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE TO BENEFIT

CHINA NAVY RESEARCH CENTER IN BEIJING

AND FOR VIOLATING THE ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT

First Conviction in the Country Involving Source Code Under the Arms Export Control Act

WASHINGTON– Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 42, formerly a resident of Beijing, China, and resident of Cupertino, Calif., pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the Foreign Economic Espionage and violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein and Scott N. Schools U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

The defendant entered into a plea agreement whereby he pleaded guilty to Count Five (EEA) and Count Seven (AECA) of a superseding indictment that had been filed on December 13, 2006.

Count Five charged that Meng violated the EEA by possessing a trade secret belonging to Quantum3D, a San Jose company by whom he was formerly employed, intending and knowing that this possession would benefit a foreign government, instrumentality, or agent, namely the People’s Republic of China ("PRC") Navy Research Center.
The trade secret at issue, known as "Mantis," is a Quantum3D product used to simulate real world motion for military training purposes. Meng installed a demonstration unit of Mantis on the PRC Navy site. Meng also altered Mantis to make it appear as if it belonged to ORAD, Meng’s new employer, a competitor of Quantum3D based in PRC. This altered version of Mantis was included as part of the demonstration project in the PRC.
Count Seven charged that defendant Meng knowingly and willfully violated the AECA and ITAR when he exported "viXsen" source code, a Quantum 3D product that is a designated defense article on the United States Munitions List, and for which Meng had no Department of State export license. viXsen is a visual simulation software program used for training military fighter pilots.

United States Attorney Scott N. Schools noted that this prosecution is the result of a nearly three-year joint investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - Office of Investigations, as well as Customs & Border Protection (CBP). The Department of State and the Department of Defense also provided valuable assistance on the case.
"This conviction, the first in the nation for illegal exports of military-related source code, demonstrates the importance of safeguarding our nation’s military secrets and should serve notice to others who would compromise our national security for profit," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth L. Wainstein. "This case is the latest evidence of the Department’s enhanced investigative and prosecutorial efforts to keep America’s critical technology from falling into the wrong hands."

"One of ICE’s top priorities is ensuring that U.S. military products and sensitive technology does not fall into the hands of those who might inflict harm upon America or its allies," said Julie L. Myers, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE. "These items, such as the proprietary source code stolen and altered by the defendant in this case, are controlled in the interest of national security. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners and industry to enforce U.S. technology export laws."

"The economic -- and often national -- security of the United States rests largely upon a foundation of technological superiority, and to maintain that superiority our trade secrets must be protected with the fervency with which we guard other vital interests," said Charlene B. Thornton, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco office. "The successful prosecution of Mr. Meng is a blow to those who seek to circumvent the long and costly process of research and development to gain a technological advantage through lies, deceit, and theft; it is a victory in the struggle to ensure the economic security of Silicon Valley and the United States."

Quantum3D, Inc. has cooperated fully in the government's investigation. A company official noted that the company "believes that enforcement of export and trade secret laws is critical to the functioning of our industry and we’re pleased to work with the government in these efforts."

The U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Northern District of Alabama, District of Minnesota, and Middle District of Florida also joined the plea agreement as some of the conduct in the case occurred in those jurisdictions.

Defendant Meng is scheduled to be sentenced before United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose on January 23, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. Meng is currently out of custody on $500,000 bond.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, the maximum term of imprisonment is twenty-four months. Meng also is subject to a maximum fine of $500,000 on the Economic Espionage Act conviction and a maximum fine of $1,000,000 on the Arm Export Control Act conviction, and a three-year term of supervised release. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. § 3553.

Mark L. Krotoski is the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case out of the CHIP Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office with the assistance of Legal Tech Lori Gomez.
Prior Economic Espionage Prosecutions:

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Meng case is the second conviction and only the third case charging violation of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996, under 18 U.S.C. § 1831. Both EEA convictions have been obtained within the last nine months by the CHIP Unit in the Northern District of California.

The first economic espionage indictment was returned on May 8, 2001, in the Northern District of Ohio in United States v. Okamoto and Serizawa. (For more information: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/Okamoto_SerizawaIndict.htm).
The second economic espionage indictment was filed on December 4, 2002, by the Northern District of California CHIP Unit in United States v. Fei Ye and Ming Zhong, CR 02-20145-JW. The first EEA convictions, involving defendants Ye and Zhong, were obtained on December 14, 2006.

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SYRIAN ATTACK THREATS CONTINUE

Note: Syrian Officials continue to brace their citizens and the rest of the Arab world for their planned aggression against Israel in an attempt to seize and hold the Golan Heights. Israel must not succumb to, or fear the Syrian saber-rattling. Any consideration of giving one centimeter of Israeli land to Syria for a so-called peace agreement is not only stupid, it is treasonous. Syria will not live up to any promises it makes to Israel. Talks of peace for the Golan is nothing but Syrian deceit and subterfuge. Syria's intent is the seizure of Golan by military force and the provocation of a war with Israel. Syria, and partner Iran, are the most dangerous factors today in the Middle-East. Israel should already be on a wartime footing.
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Miqdad Underlines that the Liberation of Golan and the Occupied Arab territories is President al-Assad's Top Priority Local News / Jun 26, 2007 - 01:40 PM Damascus,(SANA)- Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Miqdad, has stressed that the liberation of the occupied Arab territories forms top priority in President Bashar al-Assad's policy. During a political review made at the Arab Cultural Center in the liberated city of Quneitra on the occasion of the liberation anniversary of city, Miqdad said that Golan represented the hope and aspiration of Syria toward a bright tomorrow, stressing the Syrian people and their leader President al-Assad's strong belief that Golan will be restored to the mainland Syria. Miqdad made a review of the events that took place in the 80s and early 90s and the hegemony of a one- polar power on the world particularly where the American and Israeli interests are located. He also talked about the American occupation of Iraq and the US. destructive war on Iraq stressing Syria's care for the unity of the Iraqi people and land , and for the necessity for laying down a time table for the foreign troops withdrawal from Iraq , rebuilding the Iraqi army , and convening a conference on national reconciliation among all the spectrums of the Iraqi people. He also reviewed the tragic events in the Palestinian territories , stressing Syria's support to the unity of the Palestinian ranks and ending the siege on the Palestinian people. Regarding the Lebanese situation, Miqdad stressed Syria's support to the Lebanese brotherly people until they reach reconciliation and consolidation of security and stability in Lebanon . He stressed Syria's support to the Syrian detainees in the Israeli detention camps , and Syria taking pride in their honorable steadfast stances.A.N.Idelbi This article is from Syrian Arab news agency - SANA - Syria www.sana.org

Jewish Summer Camp Attacked in Canada

Police investigating suspicious fire at Jewish summer camp near Montreal

Canadian Press

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

MONTREAL (CP) - Police are investigating a fire at a Jewish summer camp north of Montreal that destroyed one of its residences.

No one was injured in the blaze in Val-David in the Laurentian mountains.

Investigators said Tuesday they have yet to determine whether the fire was deliberately set, but say they have several clues that suggest arson.

"The investigators... know for sure it's a suspicious fire, but we cannot say right now if it's an arson," said Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Isabelle Gendron.

Adding to their suspicions, Gendron said the summer camp was the site of a smaller fire last Saturday.

"At that time there was not much damage, but with the fire that occurred last night there is nothing left," she said.

Investigators believe someone broke into one of the camp's buildings over the weekend, prior to the first fire.

Val-David is about a one-hour drive from Montreal and is the site of several summer camps for Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.

L.A. TIMES = THE WORST JOURNALISM

Open Letter to the L.A.Times..

By Arlene Peck

For years, I've been a working member of the press. There was a time when I looked with pride at my life's accomplishments. Of course, those were the days when such men as Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Morrow were the role models. In recent years, I've become increasingly alarmed with the trend that I've seen among those who consider themselves 'reporters' as well as those talking heads on the television's nightly news programs We listen to dumbed-down, usually attractive post-puberty 'experts' who can only speak in sound bites before they're interrupted by their co-anchor in the box. They talk about the Middle-East, but I'll bet if you put a map in front of them and asked them where that is, they wouldn't have a clue.

The CEOs of these companies wonder why their newspapers are going out of business. It's simple: it's the same as with the airlines. Lack of service.
When the newspapers began to invent the news instead of reporting the news, the public had nowhere to go but to the call in to talk stations where there was at least a chance of hearing the truth.

The worst so-called" journalism" I believe, is practiced by the LA Times. For years, I've held on to my subscription if only because I am a columnist and felt that reading the morning paper was the only way to keep up with what was happening in the world so I might give my opinion on it; which is what a columnist does.

A recent edition of the Los Angeles Times was the last straw! That Sunday's front page was covered with a picture of Jerusalem entitled, "The Struggle For Jerusalem."
I'm surprised that they didn't use their resident anti -Semite to write the biased column against the Jewish state, but nevertheless it was pretty awful.

I'm not surprised when I see that the sympathetic slant of their series is for "the plight of the poor Palestinians." After all, that's what they do best. Everything, in my opinion, that they write has always been against Israel. For example when they write that Arab families are being "cut off for good from the city of birth" because of the "Israel barrier" which Israel "insists" is aimed at keeping out suicide bombers from entering. The concept that suicide bombers are homicidal mass murderers is foreign to the Times.

Their dumbing-down the issue is working. Israel was forced to build a fence to keep out the murderers that constantly came into Israeli cities to bomb their schools, pizza restaurants, buses and neighborhood markets at will.

Prior to the barricade, we were reading in that same biased paper about how many Jews were being killed on an almost daily basis. Of course, why should I be surprised?: This is the same paper that instead of writing about how the open borders from Mexico have turned California into Mexifornia and our cities into places resembling third world countries. This same paper was also writing multi-page series about how the poor illegal immigrant families are being separated and forced to live in poverty. I wish our government had had the foresight that Israel is now showing before our country got so out of hand.

Meanwhile the L.A.Times reporter sat in their safe comfortable office, sipped lattes, and wrote about Jews and Arabs living bitterly apart. They wrote about how "Their schism is one of the key obstacles to peace"
and how the Palestinians have been "hemmed in by Israeli rule over their East Jerusalem neighborhoods."

Well gol-ly, this pampered bunch of so-called journalists write that "the status of Jerusalem remains one of the biggest obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement" and the issue was a major stumbling block at the Camp David talks of 2,000." I wonder how they might feel if any of the wonderful illegal aliens who have come across our border from Mexico were to build an un-permitted shack without permits next door to their Starbucks. Would they write a column about how unfairly Gonzalez and his eight children were being treated when forced to tear it down? Actually, with the leftist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attitude that I've learned to expect from this bunch, they would probably write the same treasonous trash.

In addition to relating to poor Kamil Saou, and his five children, they elaborated how "scores of Israeli police officers converged on a bluff in East Jerusalem, surrounded his modest home and escorted a bulldozer to the door." They went on to lament that since Kamil had neglected to get a permit, "That gave the government the legal right to demolish the home." As well it should! Try that in Beverly Hills and see how fast the bull dozers come!

I wonder while the Los Angeles Times is publishing these four day, three page spreads that they noticed that virtually every other page in their paper was filled with the violence and terror caused by Islamic terrorists elsewhere? Or, is it just the "question" of Jerusalem that is causing the problems from Iraq to Dakar? This is a culture that doesn't give a damn about living in peace, side-by-side as the non-informed columnists write. I wonder if in the effort to be fair and balanced these reporters have spoken to non-Muslims from areas now controlled by the same Islamic fundamentalists who want to control Jerusalem.

I'm sure that they don't remember, but I'd like to remind them that the town of Bethlehem was once about 86% Christian. That was until pressure from front page stories and an incompetent State Department caused that holy city to be turned over to Arab control. Since then, the city has become a wasteland of roaming terrorists who have brutalized, murdered and mutilated the Christians who had been living there for generations. They've done such a good job that Bethlehem's Christian population is now less than 5%. Maybe they might want to pay more attention to the promise that once the Muslims are finished with the Saturday people, they will implement their plans for the Sunday people.

Call me silly. Call me a tad old-fashioned, but, I take offense that this beacon of understanding writes to the masses of how, "In the absence of peace, Israel and the Palestinians jostle for advantage, reshaping the holy city and further diminishing changes for an agreement." I do want to tell them though, that the Jews maintaining control of the Jewish State, for which the deed was given to them 3,500 years ago is not the reason for discord.
It's because we are dealing with a barbaric mind-set intent on killing all who are not them! The Times doesn't get it. None of the liberal press seems to get it. But, giving these savages a hug or more land isn't going to bring peace. They understand death and destruction, and want a martyr's death. I'm all for giving it to them!