Operation octopus

Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia (Human Rights Watch Report, September 8, 1994) September 8, 1994 Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia TABLE OF CONTENTS • • • • • • • • • • • • • Copyright 8 September 1994 by Human Rights Watch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-78257 ISBN: 1-56432-139-8 Human Rights Watch/Africa (formerly Africa Watch) This report is based largely on a Human Rights Watch fact-finding mission to Liberia in April 1994. The participants, and the authors of this report, were Janet Fleischman, the Washington representative of Human Rights Watch/Africa, and Lois Whitman, the director of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project. Human Rights Watch/Africa was established in 1988 to monitor and promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Africa. The Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project was established in April 1994 to defend the rights of children around the world by investigating, reporting on and publicizing abuses against children and working to end them. The project's concerns include such issues as the killing of street children by police, the use of children as soldiers, torture and inhumane treatment of children by police, locking up children without due process, and bonded and forced labor of children. We are grateful for the help of the many people who work closely with children in Liberia and who gave so freely of their time and assistance...

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By Manjeet Negi, Jitendra Bahadur Singh: The largest-ever crackdown that was conducted against the Ahead of the operation, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with top officials wherein the searches at premises linked to the PFI and action against terror suspects were believed to have been discussed, officials said. Amit Shah is said to have taken stock of the action taken against the terror suspects and activists of the PFI across the country. When the crackdown was planned against the Islamic outfit, the IB had the majority of the details ready with it as its sleuths had been working on it for many years with profiles of almost all operatives ready with the agency, top government sources told India Today TV. HOW IB, NSA PLANNED CRACKDOWN The remaining details were also brought in within a few days and enabled the National Security Advisor (NSA) to go ahead with Operation octopus with its tentacles spread over 11 states. The IB ensured that the PFI operatives didn't get any tip off about the storm coming towards them and caught over 110 of them in raids. On September 2, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was commissioning the INS Vikrant in Kochi, his security team led by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was working to uproot the entire network of the Popular Front of India in Kerala. NSA Doval held meetings with the police officials of Kerala to act against the PFI operatives during his visit to Kochi for the aircraft carrier commissioning. From Kerala, the N...

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): In fight against Seven naxals were killed and 436 arrested or surrendered in Chhattisgarh, four killed in Jharkhand and 120 arrested/surrendered, and 36 arrested or surrendered in Bihar, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General Kuldiep Singh said while addressing a press conference. Similarly, Singh said, three naxals have been killed by security forces in Madhya Pradesh. "This success becomes even more important because many of these Maoists (naxals) killed had bounties of lakhs and crores of rupees on their heads like Mithilesh Mahto, who had a reward of Rs 1 crore," the CRPF DG said. Singh shared the inputs while informing how the security forces for the first time entered the 'Budhapahad' situated at the border of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and the extremely inaccessible areas of Chakrabandha and Bhimabandh of Bihar and successfully ousting the naxals from their strongholds, and set up permanent security forces camps there. "All these areas were strongholds of top Maoists and a huge quantity of arms, ammunition, foreign grenades, Aero Bombs and IEDs were recovered by the security forces at these places." Noting that a special strategy is being adopted against Left Wing Extremism from 2019, Singh said the coordinated efforts and campaigns of Central and State Security Forces and related agencies have led to unprecedented success in the fight against LWE. While informing action being taken by security forces to eliminate...

Was sailing around South America when word of this came out. Pretty audacious attack. Give the French Navy all the credit it deserves for doing this. Well done Lads. Didn't find out for a few years as to who actually did it. Operation Octopus: The French Sabotage of the Libyan Dat Assawari The secret French mission to take out the Libyan Navy’s flagship. By Matteo Pugliese October 2022 Naval History Magazine FEATURED ARTICLE At dawn on 29 October 1980, a powerful blast breached the hull of the Libyan flagship Dat Assawari, docked for repairs in the Italian port of Genoa. The sabotage was claimed by the Maltese Nationalist Front; however, such a complex operation would have needed larger resources and military capabilities that very few countries could deploy in 1980. Until recently, responsibility for the attack remained uncertain.1 The smoking gun emerged in France’s hand thanks to the publication of a book containing the posthumous memoirs of Alexandre de Marenches, former director of French foreign intelligence.2 The question remains: Why did France take such a drastic step against Libya? The attack in Genoa is significant, considering it was a sophisticated military covert operation conducted in the territory of a NATO ally, with possible serious political implications. This should be viewed in the context of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s international activism during the Cold War and Libya’s underground conflict with France, but also the country’s geopolitical tensi...

History Libya Name Dat Assawari Builder Laid down 27 September 1968 Launched 13 October 1969 Commissioned 1 February 1973 Stricken 1990s General characteristics Class and type Vosper Mk 7 Displacement • 1,325 tons standard • 1,625 tons full load Length 100.6m (330ft 1in) Beam 11.0m (36ft 1in) Draught 3.4m (11ft 2in) Propulsion • 2 shaft • 2 • 2 Paxman Ventura diesels 2,600kW (3,500hp) Speed 37.5 Range 5,700 Complement 132 Sensors and processing systems • As built: • Plessey AWS-1 air-search radar • Decca 629 navigation radar • 2 × Contraves Sea Hunter fire-control radars • Types 162, 170 and 174 sonar • Post refit: • Decca TM1229 navigation radar • Selenia RAN-10S air-search radar • Selenia RAN-12L/X air/surface-search radar • Thomson-CSF Diodon sonar • 2 × Italian fire-control radars • Italian combat data information system Electronic warfare & decoys Decca RDL-1 Armament • Guns: • 1 × • 1 × twin • 2 × single • As built: • 1 × triple • 1 × triple • Post refit: • 1 × quad • 4 × single • 2 × triple 324mm (12.75in) ASW Dat Assawari was a Alvand-class frigate built for the Design and description [ ] Dat Assawari was a modified version of the Alvand-class Dat Assawari had a Dat Assawari had a range of 5,700 Dat Assawari was initially armed with a triple Modifications [ ] During the 1979–1981 refit, Dat Assawari 's armament and sensors were both modified. The Limbo mortar was removed, its well plated over, and four single Mk I Construction and career [ ] Dat Assawari was ordere...

In a democratic setting, a slow process is often misconstrued as the absence of the rule of law. Anti-social elements take the system’s fairness and justice for granted. They commit in illegal activities without fear of being caught and punished. They, however, forget that in the end KARMA will always come back to bite them. Apparently, the same has happened with the extremist Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI). The bigoted outfit did everything possible to create an atmosphere of hatred and communalise society. But now with the relentless actions of the security agencies, it must have learned its lessons the hard way. Operation Octopus On 29th of August, Home Minister Shah held a key security meeting with the high ranking officials tasked with the duty to safeguard India’s national security. Key attendees of the security meet included National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, IB Chief Tapan Deka and Raw Chief Samant Goel. In the meeting, Union Minister Shah directed all the intelligence agencies to collect all the minute details on PFI and its activities. The security agencies were then tasked to carry out a well planned Operation against PFI. This operation was code-named as ‘ Operation Octopus ’. After the security meet, the Intelligence agencies, IB and RAW started an extensive campaign to gather important details about all the past and ongoing activities of the extremist group PFI. The intelligence agencies found inputs and evidences that the PFI leaders and cadr...

Alexis Medina (Octopus?), brother of Lucia Medina and ex president Danilo Medina. Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry on Mon. said it investigates adulterations in the “clean hands” packets bought under “emergency” by Public Health under the tenure of Lorenzo Wilfredo (Freddy) Hidalgo, detained as part of the Operation Octopus that revealed a corruption network that pocketed at least US$82.6 million of taxpayer money. Lead prosecutors Wilson Camacho and Yeni Berenice Reynoso, argued that under Hidalgo’s management at least RD$236.9 million were embezzled for the criminal network headed by Juan Alexis Medina. They labeled as “deplorable” the fact that some of the bottles of hand sanitizing gel supplied by the Medina Sánchez companies contained methanol and even some irritant for people’s skin, reportedly thinner, which is why they could not be used.