Next week, Napolitano said new terror Will Start warning system

April 20, 2011, 1: 24 pm EDT by Chris Dolmetsch

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April 20 (Bloomberg)--a new terrorism alert system will be held next week in the opinion of colours which were used by the United States for the past eight years, said today the Secretary of security inland Janet Napolitano.En under the new terrorism Advisory National Systemsays Napolitano which will begin April 26, the Homeland Security Department will coordinate with other federal entities to issue alerts. Media advisories will categorize threats that "high", indicating a "credible" against the United States and "imminent" terrorist threat a threat warning "credible, specific and imminent".Alerts can be sent to the application of the Act, distributed in areas of the private sector which may be affected or issued more widely to the public via Facebook and Twitter website of the Ministry. Media advisories will be issued for a specific period and will automatically expire in two weeks, although they can be extended if a threat is evolving or new information becomes available. "" It is a threat evolving domestic and international terrorist activity ", Napolitano said at a press conference at Grand Central Terminal in New York today. "These alerts are designed to where there is specific credible information where people have factual content need to know what to do, how they protect their family and how they can help us to protect their communities."CriticizedNapolitano of color Code announced in January that the United States had decided to abandon the color guide code of terror-alert adopted by the administration of President George w. Bush, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.Le color code has been criticized by lawmakerssecurity analysts and travellers as being too vague, and courses had moque on comedy shows such as "Saturday Night Live." New York representatives Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat and Peter King, a Republican who chairs the Committee of security inner House, said at the Conference of press today that the new system is an upgrade. "New York has always been terrorist target no. 1, I always felt that we were under red or orange alert,"said Maloney." "This new program say New York and the us that they want to know, when they need to know it and replaces the current system of color, which many people had settled fundamentally out because he has never really ended and you did not really know what that meant."Alert FluctuatedDuring the eight years, that the system has been implementing, alerts have fluctuated yellow for "high" and orange for "high, reaching red for"severe"once, August 10, 2006." Green or blue, symbols representing the lowest threat levels, had never been used.In this case, the alert has been applied to flights coming from the United Kingdom after that the discovery of what the officials was a Wells-plan suggesting that al-Qaeda has been traced to use liquid explosives and detonators disguised as electronic devices to blow up planes in the air of advanced. "Our goal is to maximize our ability to detect prevent them and deter terrorism and to minimize the likelihood that they will be successful," Napolitano said. "" " Even given that we must be very fair and say that there is no guarantee here. We cannot put America under a glass dome and to avoid any damage but we can minimize risk and maximize the information available to us. ?

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Trial in China tests limits of legal system reform

BEIJING - Attorney in one case has galvanized defense lawyers in China and a window that fragile can display legal system of the country such as the next generation of leaders, went on trial Tuesday with the production of testimony to its customers.

The lawyer, Li Zhuang, a 50-year-old man from Beijing, incitement has been accused of a client on fake certificate. Mr Li was sentenced on similar charges after one of his clients before, a convicted gangster from the Western City of Chongqing, against him late last witnessed the year. Mr Li is currently 18 months in prison.

But some Chinese commentators appear to believe that Mr Li is guilty in both cases. Many think that he was framed to combat what they see as a raw campaign against corruption.

"Li Zhuang case is so important because it is on the judicial reform, is an indicator, to what extent China come", law professor Beijing University, said he Weifang, which also a sharp criticism has posted the case on his blog. "It will be 30 years China's legal reform back."

The unusual case started in the year 2007, as one of the most popular politicians of the country, Bo Xilai, free of charge from Chongqing, a large community of 30 million people in the Western China took over. The appointment was considered a challenge for Bo Lord, the son of one of the most powerful leaders of China. It was also as characters widely, the Bo Lord fishing was for a top job.

He was Minister for trade, so it was a remarkable movement because Chongqing was poor and suffered from some of the most serious environmental problems in China and a plague of organised crime.

But Mr Bo embarked on a number of spectacular actions in national spotlight to stay. Using methods reminiscent of political campaigns in the early period of Communist rule, he mobilized neighborhood cleanups and greetings to residents with old-style of Communist slogans, although via SMS messages sent. In particular, he began a wild raid against organised crime.

Caught in the campaign, Gong was Gangmo, the Familie end of 2009 that to defend him Mr Li had rented. Mr LI, a successful lawyer, previously which had defended against organised crime, travelled to Chongqing and met with Mr Gong. A few days later, said Mr Gong prosecutors that Mr Li advised him, falsely to testify that he was beaten for eight days and nights.

Within a month, Mr Li had tried and been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. This was reduced to one and a half years, because Mr Li worked. At the sentencing, but Chinese news reports said that Mr Li called angry that he was framed had.

On Tuesday, Mr Li went back to court. Prosecutors say that he was involved in fraud and that he attracted to fabricate witness evidence.

Many Chinese say they are appalled at what seems a crude use of the courts for political gain. In both studies, Chinese court case was ignored. Mr Li was not confronted his accuser, for example, in the location, and interrogated, his lawyers could not take it.

Newspapers and magazines with far in this case, for example, one of the leading magazines of the country, Caixin, devoted a cover story reported it and an editorial in the latest issue. Minute by minute coverage had several sites. Many say that if Mr Li is condemned, it will be to defend their customers impossible for other lawyers. "Li Zhuang defend defense is, the right to work as a lawyer in China and the ideal of Justice," Wei Rujiu, one of his lawyers, wrote in his blog on Tuesday.

The advertising is in contrast, the many lawyers who have been rounded up in a recent political crackdown in quiet. A statement, analysts say, is that Mr Li not political dissidents, so that it acceptable for the Chinese media on the issue to report.

But it can also signal that forces Bo Lord use efforts, are against Chongqing as a springboard back to Beijing, and possibly of the Politburo Standing Committee.

"Bo not undisputed in the party,", said Joshua Rosenzweig of the DUI Hua Foundation, a group in Hong Kong human rights monitoring. "It feeds in concern about how Bo has dealt with criminal justice in Chongqing."

Could have wider implications for China Bo Lord, he should win a seat of the Standing Committee, should be brought for law and order. Mr LI could make treatment a harbinger for the next Government view of the legal system.

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