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Former M16 boss says Brexit makes UK more vulnerable to attacks like Russian novichok poisoning – Politics live The Guardian (blog) … World at One that Brexit would make the UK more vulnerable to attacks like the Russian novichok poisoning in Salisbury. He is giving a speech today in which he will say that Russia would not have used a nerve agent on the streets of America orGermany. and more »

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Former MI6 boss says Brexit makes UK more vulnerable to attacks like Russian novichok poisoning – Politics live The Guardian (blog) Ex MI6 boss John Sawers’ argument that the Russians wouldn’t have attempted the Skripal poisoning but for Brexit would carry more weight if the Russians hadn’t killed Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in London in 2006, a decade before the Brexit vote. and more »

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Ex-spy chief says Brexit leaves UK vulnerable to attack The Telegraph … former Russian spy in Salisbury. John Sawers, who led MI6 between 2009 and 2014, says “I don’t believe Russia would have used a nerve agent on the streets of an American or German city” because the consequences would be too great. He says Britain’s … and more »

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Ex-spy chief says Brexit leaves UK vulnerable to attack Washington Post Sawers gave a speech Friday in Salisbury, where spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March with the nerve agent Novichok. Britain says the attack was ordered at a senior level of the Russian government, a claim Moscow denies. and more »

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Ex-spy chief says Brexit leaves UK vulnerable to attack PAHomePage.com LONDON (AP) – Brexit could leave Britain more vulnerable to attacks like the nerve-agent poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Salisbury, a former head of the U.K.’s overseas intelligence service said Friday. “I don’t believe Russia would have used a nerve … Brexit will make UK more vulnerable to Salisbury-style attacks, warns former head of MI6Yahoo Finance all 19 news articles »

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Brexit will make UK more vulnerable to Salisbury-style attacks, warns former head of MI6 Yahoo Finance Brexit will make Britain more vulnerable to attacks like the Russian novichok poisoning in Salisbury, a former boss of MI6 has claimed. Sir John Sawers said the Russian chose to attack in Britain because the country looks weak. He added they would … Ex-spy chief says Brexit leaves UK vulnerable to attackMyArkLaMiss (press release) (blog) all 17 news articles »

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Britain’s former top spy says Russia only dared to mount the Salisbury novichok attack because they thought the UK … Daily Mail Tory MP Mark Francois, who sits on the defence select committee, told MailOnline: ‘If this was what the Russians thought then they massively miscalculated. ‘The mass expulsions of over 150 Russian diplomats by Britain’s allies around the world … and more »

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1. Former FARC Fighters Continue to Commit Crimes

Under the peace agreement, only former FARC fighters who did not commit crimes after 2016 can benefit from the JEP. However, since it was established, there have been reports of high profile former guerrilla members being included in the special jurisdiction’s list.
The most emblematic case is that of Seuxis Paucis Hernández Solarte, alias “Jesús Santrich,” who was a lead negotiator in the peace talks and was set to assume a seat in congress in April 2018.
Colombian authorities arrested Santrich in early April 2018 after the United States charged him with drug trafficking crimes committed after the 2016 peace agreement, making him ineligible to face justice through the JEP.
More recently, US authorities sanctioned another former FARC fighter for his alleged ties to the drug trade following the peace agreement.
On October 18, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announcedsanctions against former FARC rebel Pedro Luis Zuleta Noscué, alias “El Inválido.” The agency alleges that Zuleta Noscué “continues to supply narcotics to criminal groups such as Colombia’s Oficina de Envigado.”
US authorities allege that Zuleta Noscué has long controlled a drug trafficking corridor in southwest Cauca department where he supported the FARC’s drug trafficking activities. Cauca had the fourth-highest number of hectares used for coca cultivation in 2017, according to illicit crop monitoring datapublished in September of this year by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

2. ELN Guerrillas on List of Demobilized FARC Fighters

Authorities in Colombia have in the past faced difficulties separating demobilizing FARC guerrillas with drug traffickers and other criminals trying to pass themselves off as FARC fighters in an effort to take advantage of the benefits awarded to the demobilized guerrillas as part of the peace agreement.
These problems persist today. JEP President Patricia Linares recently admitted that there are members of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) on the list of demobilized former FARC fighters, El Tiempo reported.
“I have information, which I myself have verified, that some of these people [ELN fighters] make up part of the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace’s lists that were prepared by the previous administration,” Linares said.

3. Tension with Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office

A new legislative proposal in Colombia has generated concerns from the JEP about their ability to adequately do their job. The proposal would limit the JEP’s access to confidential information, such as military, state, intelligence and counterintelligence operations that threaten to put the country’s national security at risk, Noticias Caracol reported.
JEP President Linares said that the legislation is “openly unconstitutional because it affects the [JEP’s] assigned transnational function.”
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The Attorney General’s Office and the JEP have also clashed over cases that don’t threaten national security, but rather raise questions about which institution has the authority and whether ordinary justice or transnational justice is the proper route to take. The Attorney General’s Office, for example, recently refused to hand over to the JEP information pertaining to assets seized from the FARC that could be used as part of reparations for victims of the armed conflict.
That said, relations between the two institutions appear to be improving. JEP President Linares recently met with Deputy Attorney General María Paulina Riveros. The two agreed to create a roundtable of sorts where the two entities can discuss solutions to the many issues that have stoked tensions between them, El Tiempo reported.
“The Government, Congress and Judicial Power are now paddling for the same side,” Colombia Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira said.
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