[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 01/27/10

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:10:05 -0500
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: saftergood@xxxxxxx
Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/27/10 (alt list)

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2010, Issue No. 9
January 27, 2010

Secrecy News Blog:

<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/>

**      OSC TRANSLATES THE 2009 FATAH CHARTER
**      PROJECT BIOSHIELD, HONEY BEES, AND MORE FROM CRS

OSC TRANSLATES THE 2009 FATAH CHARTER

Last year, the Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah in the Arabic
acronym) led by Palestinian National Authority president Mahmoud Abbas
gathered in Bethlehem and approved a revision of its charter for the first
time since the 1960s.  That revised charter has recently been translated
into English by the DNI Open Source Center.

The document is not particularly conciliatory in tone or content.  It is a
call to revolution, confrontation with the enemy, and the liberation of
Palestine, "free and Arab."  Interestingly, it stresses the role of women in
the movement.  "The leading bodies will work to arrive at 20 percent
participation for women, provided this does not conflict with organizational
standars or the Internal Charter."  And it insists repeatedly on the need to
safeguard the movement's "secrets."

But what is perhaps most significant is what is not in the document.  The
original Fatah charter (or constitution) from the 1960s embraced "the
world-wide struggle against Zionism," denied Jewish historical or religious
ties to the land, and called for the "eradication of Zionist economic,
political, military and cultural existence."  None of that language is
carried over into the new charter, which manages not to mention Israel,
Zionism, or Jews at all.

The English translation of the new Charter, which does not seem to be
available elsewhere, has not been approved for public release by the DNI
Open Source Center.  A copy was obtained by Secrecy News.

        http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/fatah-charter.pdf

PROJECT BIOSHIELD, HONEY BEES, AND MORE FROM CRS

Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not
been made readily available to the public include the following.

"Terrorist Attacks on Commercial Airlines: Federal Criminal Prohibitions,"
January 22, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/R41035.pdf

"Project BioShield: Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues
for Congress," January 22, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/R41033.pdf

"Charitable Contributions for Haiti's Earthquake Victims," January 22, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41036.pdf

"U.S. and South Korean Cooperation in the World Nuclear Energy Market: Major
Policy Considerations," January 21, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41032.pdf

"Argentina's Defaulted Sovereign Debt: Dealing with the 'Holdouts'," January
21, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41029.pdf

"Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder," updated January 7, 2010:

        http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33938.pdf

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