Canadian archbishop in pedophile case

Canadian police have charged the head of the Archdiocese of Canada of the Orthodox Church in America with two counts of sexual assault on young boys.

Archbishop Kenneth William Storheim, who has held many Church positions in Canadian communities, turned himself in to Winnipeg police on Wednesday after being charged. He has since been released on bail and is waiting to appear in court on January 10.

Authorities launched an investigation into the allegations after Storheim resigned from his post in October.

Canadian media report that the archbishop sexually assaulted the boys while he was the rector of a Winnipeg parish from 1984 to 1987.

Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged

BERLIN — A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of global wireless systems.

The action by the encryption expert, Karsten Nohl, aimed to question the effectiveness of the 21-year-old Global System for Mobile Communications (GMS –  Groupe Spécial Mobile), a code developed in 1988 and still used to protect the privacy of 80 percent of mobile calls worldwide.

Polar War Games Minus the Russians

Intelligence Online has learned that an Arctic Game in which several Western intelligence agencies will participate is due to take place in London on June 11-12 under the auspices of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The exercise will simulate several crises in a polar environment.

Thanks to Alaska, the U.S. is a member of the Arctic Council which speaks for all countries whose borders stretch up to the North Pole. Russia is a member of the Arctic Council but wasn’t invited to the London encounter.

The Arctic Game will be coordinated by retired general Rich Engel who heade ODNI’s climate change and state stability program (he was previously the leading scientist on the National Intelligence Council (IOL 593).

Engel oversees a small unit tasked with analyzing the impact of global warming on the security of the U.S. One of the factors studied by the group is the gradual melting of the ice cap, which has opened the northern regions to the prospect of oil exploration and shipping through the Northwest Passage. The Arctic Game will simulate clashes between countries determined to assert their sovereignty over the Arctic seabed, as well as ecological emergencies.

200 ‘potential terrorist’ kids in UK

The British Police brand as much as 200 youngsters as ‘potential terrorists’, claiming that they are attracted to hardliner extremists.

The chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and Britain’s most senior officer in charge of terror prevention, Sir Norman Bettison, revealed the number to The Independent on Saturday.

He said the ‘Channel Project‘ had intervened in the cases of at least 200 children who were ‘thought to be at risk of extremism’, since it was launched 18 months ago.

The Association of Chief Police Officers, which supervises the project, asks teachers, parents and other community figures to remain vigilant for signs that may indicate an attraction to extreme views or susceptibility to being ‘groomed’ by hardliners.