Is one of the Burgas terror suspects actively using Facebook?

Hezbollah operatives Meliad Farah, left; and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right.

On July 25, Bulgarian authorities released the names and photos of two Hezbollah operatives, Hassan el Hajj Hassan and Meliad Farah, who are wanted in connection with the July 2012 terror attack in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national. Subsequent press reports have made a few new claims regarding the suspects, whose names were known to investigators since at least February, such as that the suspects received $100,000 in money transfers from Hezbollah and that they smuggled parts of the bomb on a train from Poland.

Yet an interesting detail about the elder suspect appears to have gone relatively unnoticed. Farah, an Australian national who is believed to have built the bomb in Bulgaria, may still be active on Facebook as authorities search for him.

One Facebook account possibly attributable to Farah states that the user studied at the Lebanese International University (LIU) and lives in Australia. According to press reports, the printer utilized to create the forged licenses carried by the Hezbollah cell responsible for the Burgas terror attack was based at LIU, where the suspects are said to have studied engineering.

The user of this account, who has 'liked' an array of celebrities and athletes, including Usher and David Beckham, appears to have used online chat services, such as Tohla and Omegle, among others. The user of the account was also involved in online poker via Facebook.

Interestingly, none of the publicly available photos linked to the account provides a match to the photo released by Bulgarian authorities. In fact, the user has used photos of Turkish actor Necati ?a?maz and Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as profile pictures. A photo of Zamani is currently adopted as the user's profile picture.

The last public activity for this account, which has 62 friends, was today, July 29, when the user became friends with a few women based in Bulgaria, including at least one in Burgas.

A second account potentially tied to the wanted Meliad Farah shares a few Facebook friends with the first account. In addition, the account, which says Farah is married, lists his hometown and current location as Sydney, Australia.

Coincidentally, the second account, which currently has 65 friends and 'liked' a page about the AK-47, has uploaded a few of the same photos used by the first Meliad Farah account.

The user also appears to have played online poker via Facebook similar to the first account. In addition, the second account 'liked' a number of the same pages as the first account. The second account 'liked' nearly twice as many pages as did the first suspect account, however, including one honoring former Hezbollah spiritual guide Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.

Also, while the first account used a photo of Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as its profile picture, the second account appears to use a photo of the aforementioned Necati ?a?maz.

Of further note is the fact that the second account, which was used as recently as July 26, became friends lately with a number of women in Bulgaria, at least one of whom is also friend of the first account. It is also eye-catching that a couple of the friends of the second account have hardcore Hezbollah material on their own Facebook accounts.

Finally, a third account potentially tied to Farah, who allegedly returned to Lebanon a day before the attack in Burgas, was started on June 12, 2012. Within a day of starting the account, the user changed its profile picture to an image seen on a number of websites and videos sympathetic to Hezbollah.

This account appears to have taken greater steps to limit how much of the profile can be viewed by the public, so not much else can be gleaned.

While it is currently close to impossible to definitively say that any of these accounts are tied to the Meliad Farah wanted in connection with the Burgas terror attack, there are lots of coincidences.

Almost too many.

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Win a Sony Xperia Tablet Z case just by being friendly!

It?s Coolsmartphone competition time again! Yay! This week we?re giving away the two Sony Xperia Tablet Z cases that we?ve recently reviewed.

Seeing as I?m in in charge of this competition it has to be really simple, so all you have to do is read the reviews of the Zenus Masstige case (worth ?44.95) and the Tabletwear Advanced case (worth ?19.95) because they?re dead good (even though I wrote them!), then write a comment on those articles or any post on the site that?s published between today (25th July 2013) and Saturday 3rd August 2013.

Every comment will get an entry, so the more you comment the more likely you are to win!

The two winners will be drawn out of my ridiculously camp cowboy hat and announced on Monday.

Rules: Spam, inappropriate comments and trolling will result in the removal of your entries.
Coolsmartphone contributors? comments will not be entered into the draw.
Winners will be announced in an article on Monday 5th August 2013. It will then be up to the winners to contact Coolsmartphone with their postal address details.
Entries limited to UK only. Apologies to our international readers.

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About Ronnie Whelan

I work in IT and marketing, I spend my spare money on smartphones and tablets. My friends have grown weary of my fascination with mobile technology, so I write about it in the hope that someone out there is as obsessed as me? and it seems there is. Welcome to my world.

My current devices are: Oppo Find 5, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Ativ S and a Huawei G300.

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Microsoft sets Xbox One game prices at ?50 in UK

Microsoft already announced first-party Xbox One games will retail for $59.99 in the U.S., and now the U.K. price has been formally confirmed at??49.99.

The U.K. Microsoft Store lists upcoming games such as "Ryse: Son of Rome," "Dead Rising 3" and "Forza Motorsport 5" as all being priced at??49.99. That price shouldn't be too surprising, as it's the same as Xbox 360 game prices in the country. Previous speculation hoped Microsoft would drop prices, however, as U.S. $59.99 converts to less than??39.99 in U.K. currency based on current exchange rates, though the U.K.'s value-added tax is included in prices prior to checkout while sales taxes are added during checkout in the U.S..

Also noteworthy is the fact that Kinect-only games, such as "Kinect Sports Rivals," will share the same price point as regular games in both the U.S. and U.K. Kinect-only games for the Xbox 360 cost less than regular titles?? in the U.S., Kinect games for the Xbox 360 cost $49.99 versus the $59.99 price of regular releases. The change is likely due to the fact that Microsoft is pushing developers to make use of the next-generation Kinect that comes bundled with every Xbox One console, blurring the lines between what is a "Kinect game."

Sony has yet to announce prices for PlayStation 4 games, though Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony's U.S. business, previously said prices would top out at $60 in the U.S. Tretton said prices would range from 99 cents up to that price point.

The Xbox One is scheduled to launch in the U.S. and U.K. sometime in November. In the U.S., the Xbox One will cost $499, while it will cost??429 in the U.K.

Source: Microsoft via The Official Xbox Magazine (U.K.)

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-sets-xbox-one-game-prices-at-50-in-uk

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Anthony Weiner: Why his wife stands by him

Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 and apologized for the explicit text messages. Now a candidate for the mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner is apologizing again, this time with his wife beside him.

By Jonathan Lemire,?Associated Press / July 24, 2013

New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner glances at his wife, Huma Abedin, as she speaks during a news conference Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in New York.

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When a heckled, harried Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress and apologized for the explicit text messages that had destroyed his career, a key figure was notably absent: his then-pregnant wife, Huma Abedin.

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On Tuesday, there was Weiner again, making a public mea culpa for a newfound sexting scandal that erupted amid the mayoral run he hopes will rewrite his political future. But the Democrat was there to stay in, not bow out ? and Abedin was by his side.

"I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him," and the sexting matter is "between us," she said, a message that could prove important to shaping voters' views as they digest his latest admission.

After the gossip website The Dirty posted X-rated text messages and a crotch shot that it said the former congressman exchanged with an unidentified woman, Weiner acknowledged sending such messages as recently as last summer, more than a year after he resigned from the House because of similar behavior with at least a half-dozen women. With Abedin smiling at his side, he said at a news conference that "this is entirely behind me," and both made it clear they were moving ahead with his campaign.

"I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance," a collected Weiner said. Then he went on to talk policy at a candidate forum on gay men's issues, where he was warmly received.

Weiner, 48, has been near the top of most polls since his late entry into the race in May. The latest disclosures could severely test voters' willingness to forgive him. The New York Times, the Daily News and some of his mayoral rivals called on him to drop out of the race.

But Abedin's visible support may help him win voters' approval, too.

"I don't think it's a good sign" that Weiner's behavior continued even after his resignation, said Andrew Taub, 22, who works in the venture capital arena. "But I do believe for some people looking for a sign, for something to bolster his campaign, (the fact that Abedin is staying with him) says a lot."

Still, the disclosure suddenly puts Weiner's indiscretions, judgment and candor back in the forefront of his campaign, and political analysts say it could be damaging: "It makes it tougher to believe this is behind him," said Democratic former state Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, now a political consultant.

And some voters who were open-minded about a second chance may not be able to stomach a third.

"He had a chance to redeem himself, and if he did it twice, he really betrayed the public's trust again," Jeremy Green said. "I think he's past the point of no return."

Weiner and Abedin, however, sought to cast the newly revealed messages as nothing really new. "I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," Weiner said. In a sign of how much he was projecting taking the messages in stride, he added that he was surprised that more hadn't come out sooner.

Abedin said her husband had made some "horrible mistakes both before he resigned from Congress and after" but insisted she and her husband discussed "all of this" before he jumped into the mayor's race in May. Seeming a bit choked with emotion, she noted that she had chosen to stay in the marriage, but "it was not an easy choice."

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/Vr0p9aalYSA/Anthony-Weiner-Why-his-wife-stands-by-him

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Religion in the American Family in the 1950s ? Justin Taylor

For the majority of us, our knowledge of the American family in the 1950s is almost entirely mediated through popular culture. It?s sometimes hard to understand how the idyllic home life of the Baby Boomers in the 1950s turned into the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s, though if we know the economy of the gospel, we know that moralism is often the mother of?licentiousness.

We still find Christians today, however, pining for the supposed golden age of the 1950s.

D. G. Hart, reviewing Mary Eberstadt?s How the West Really Lost God, makes a helpful point on the religious life of American families in the 1950s:

That post-war family may now be forever tarnished by such maudlin television shows as ?Leave It to Beaver? or ?Ozzie and Harriet.? Even if those network families did not depict accurately the virtues of white, middle-class, suburban families (who never seemed to go to church), the Christianity of the 1950?s that blessed those families is not one that Eberstadt should use to support her case. For Protestants it was a time of neo-orthodoxy lite?more Niebuhr than Barth?when the American way of life (freedom and democracy)?not faith and repentance or word and sacrament?was synonymous with Protestantism. The situation among Roman Catholics was better but not by much. As Roman Catholics (in the United States at least) left behind their ghettos for suburban parishes, they assimilated American norms in ways that prepared the way for Vatican II?s engagement with the modern world, a posture that significantly undercut rationales for becoming a priest, nun, or monk. Of course, the families of the 1950?s were as responsible for increasing membership in conservative as in liberal churches. But in the case of liberal Christian families, domestic ties could not withstand the baby-boomers loss of faith.

. . .?If the family ever becomes more important to the conservative Protestant wing of ?family values? voters than the gospel and the Christian ministry, then what happened to 1950?s churches and families could well be the fate of Christian defenders of the family.

Copyright ? 2013 by the author listed above. Used by permission.

Source: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2013/07/23/religion-in-the-american-family-in-the-1950s/

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One killed in attack on pro-Mursi protest in Cairo: state news website

CAIRO (Reuters) - One man was killed and 15 people were injured in an attack against a protest by hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi near Cairo University early Tuesday morning, a state-run news website said.

Al-Ahram Online said police fired tear gas to quell the violence and several cars in the area were destroyed or set on fire.

Police sources said hundreds of pro-Mursi supporters clashed with local residents, street vendors and others near Cairo University's main campus in Giza province, south of Cairo. They said gunshots were fired and stones were thrown during the incident.

One person was killed and around 20 were injured on Monday in clashes between Mursi supporters and opponents in central Cairo. Around 100 have been killed since the army overthrew Mursi, elected last year, on July 3 after mass protests.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on the Facebook page of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which Mursi headed before he was elected president in June 2012, that five were killed in Tuesday's clashes.

"Leaders of the military coup continue to terrorize the peaceful protesters in Egypt," the FJP said in a statement in English.

The Brotherhood accuses the army of orchestrating a coup that has exposed deep political divisions in the Arab world's most populous and influential nation.

FJP said the ministers of defense and interior, whom it called "the leaders of the coup," would be held responsible for any future attempts to evacuate the Brotherhood protest areas.

Mursi's supporters are maintaining a round-the-clock vigil, now in its third week, in a Cairo suburb. They say they will continue until Mursi, held by the army in an unknown location since his ouster, is reinstated.

Some residents close to the Brotherhood's main protest area in Nasr City have filed a complaint with the public prosecutor asking for the removal of the protesters, who they say are disturbing their lives.

An informed security source said the case is expected to be taken to a court and ruled upon soon "to give the army a legal basis to end the protests."

(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh and Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-killed-attack-pro-mursi-protest-cairo-state-024744316.html

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White House, Senate Democrat at Odds Over Energy Revenue Sharing

If the Senate increases energy-revenue sharing for coastal states, it will do so without the?support of the Obama administration -- and likely after a debate that pits interior states against?their coastal counterparts in the fight for federal dollars.

For the White House, the measure to reallocate 37.5 percent of energy?revenues to coastal states poses a deficit challenge, according to Interior Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Pamela Haze, who said the U.S. Treasury would lose more than $5 billion if the bill became law.

She cited sequestration, saying the proposal from Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would stress an already reduced federal budget.

That did nothing to quash the senators? anger over the Obama administration?s position. Landrieu and Murkowski grilled Haze, noting the revenue sharing granted to interior states for coal and?gas revenues is about 50 percent.

?Is it the Department?s intention to perpetuate a double?standard?? Landrieu asked.

When Haze said the administration is not explicitly opposing?the bill, but simply ?cannot support it,? Landrieu cut her off. ?It?s the same thing,? the senator said.

Haze did not address the discrepancy in revenue sharing for interior states, stating only that the administration??would continue revenue sharing based on existing law.?

Murkowski responded, ?Right now, you?have a double standard.?

While Republican Sen. John Barrasso from landlocked Wyoming pushed back against the double standard argument, his GOP colleague Tim Scott,?R-S.C., argued for more Atlantic energy development. ?Unfortunately, it seems unless we do it?legislatively, the Atlantic will never be included ? in energy production,? Scott said. ?It would only?be appropriate and fair if the Atlantic states got the same 37.5 percent revenue sharing as Gulf?states.?

Landrieu added an emotional appeal in her questioning of Haze. ?After losing 1,400 lives in the?devastating floodwaters of Katrina and Rita ? I find it tragic the administration?s position on?this issue, and seemingly heartless considering the issues before the Gulf Coast states.? While?interior states have no requirements for conservation spending for their energy revenue funds,?Landrieu said, the proposal revenues for coastal states have such a mandate built in.

Committee Chairman Ron Wyden?s statement on the bill expressed a desire for more?information. ?I?m anxious to learn more about the substance of the bill, and the economic and?environmental benefits,? Wyden said. He said he wished the committee could start with a "clean slate" rather than comparing previous states' precedents. But, of course, coastal states that feel they aren't getting their fair share are unlikely to overlook the funding allocated to their landlocked counterparts.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Murkowski's political party affiliation.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-senate-democrat-odds-over-energy-revenue-175440788.html

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