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2 Americans Tied to Carlos Ghosn’s Escape to Be Extradited to Japan
Two American men believed to have helped Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan chief, escape Japan in a speaker box in 2019 as he faced criminal charges lost their last bid on Saturday to block their extradition from the United States to Japan. Without comment, Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by lawyers for the two men — Michael Taylor, 60, a former Green Beret, and his son Peter Maxwell Taylor, 27 — to suspend a lower court order that cleared the way for them to be sent to Japan to face trial. The two men are wanted for their role in a caper that seemed straight out of a Hollywood movie, with the country’s most famous criminal defendant fleeing right under the authorities’ noses.
In December 2019, Mr. Ghosn was spirited from his Tokyo apartment to the Osaka region, where he was smuggled onto a private plane bound for Turkey. He then flew on to Beirut, putting him out of reach of the Japanese authorities, who had accused him of financial wrongdoing.
Japanese prosecutors issued a warrant for the Taylors’ arrest in January of last year. U.S. officials detained them in Massachusetts in May as the younger Mr. Taylor prepared to fly to Lebanon, where Mr. Ghosn now lives. The Taylors have spent the intervening months in a county jail, fighting to avoid being sent to Japan, which has an extradition treaty with the United States. The men were denied bail after the U.S. attorney’s office deemed them “an enormous risk for flight,” citing their role in Mr. Ghosn’s escape.
The men have not denied involvement in Mr. Ghosn’s flight. The Japanese authorities have presented extensive documentation of the two men’s role, including detailed accounts of their movements before and during Mr. Ghosn’s escape.
According to the Japanese authorities, Peter Taylor traveled to Japan three times in 2019 to meet with Mr. Ghosn — who was awaiting trial under surveillance at his home in Tokyo — including on the day before his escape.
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The next day, Mr. Ghosn walked to a nearby Tokyo hotel, where he met with Michael Taylor and another man, George Antoine Zayek, a veteran of the Lebanese civil war. The two men accompanied Mr. Ghosn to Osaka, before hiding him in a large speaker box with holes drilled in the bottom and placing him aboard the private jet bound for Turkey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/business/carlos-ghosn-escape-extradition-japan.html
The U.S. Air Force Is Planning To Get Six New E-11A With The Battlefield Airborne Communication Node Payload
The U.S. Air Force announced that on January 21, 2020, Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $3.6 billion contract for operations, sustainment, and support of the Battlefield Airborne Communication Node (BACN), including research, development, testing and evaluation, and integration of existing and future payloads. Together with the sustainment contract, the service disclosed that the BACN Program Office, headquartered at Hanscom Air Force Base, is working to procure six more E-11A aircraft over the next five years. Funding for the first aircraft has already been secured and negotiations are in progress, with the contract award expected by end of March and delivery of the aircraft by the end of June.
This announcement arrived just one year after the fatal crash in Afghanistan of one of the E-11As, which reduced the fleet from four aircraft to three. In the investigation report published last month, the Air Force mentioned that a series of factors, together with the catastrophic failure of the left engine, contributed to the crash that led to the death of both pilots. The E-11A is based on the Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express business jet, which requires no external modifications as the BACN payload is carried internally. The aircraft, first leased at the beginning of the program and later bought by the Air Force in 2011, transitioned in 2019 from contingency funding to a long-term program of record. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) website reported in the aircraft’s description that the Air Force already thought about acquiring a new aircraft in the same timeframe.
All the E-11As are assigned to the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron at Kandahar Airfield (Afghanistan), from where they provided near constant coverage in theater together with the EQ-4B. Recently, some of the airframes were spotted by ADSB tracking websites while operating over the Persian Gulf, flying out of Al Dhafra Air Base (UAE). The Air Force, however, did not provide any official info about this deployment. As you may know already, the BACN is an airborne communications relay and gateway payload carried by the four unmanned EQ-4B Global Hawks and the three manned Bombardier E-11A aircraft currently in service. The BACN payload was developed in response to the communication shortfalls experienced in Afghanistan in the 2000s that were hampering combat operations, ultimately leading to the tragic outcome of Operation Red Wings, famous following the success of the book and subsequent movie “Lone Survivor” by Marcus Luttrell, a former SEAL and the only surviving member of the mission which claimed the lives of 19 U.S. special operations service members.
The BACN technology was fielded in 2009 and the first combat mission was flown over Afghanistan in December 2010. Since then, it has provided military commanders with a long-range, over-the-horizon secure communication capability that connects troops to combat pilots, despite adverse terrain or distance, often when terrestrial services are either restricted or unavailable. The BACN payload, defined as a “Wi-Fi in the sky”, was developed also as the first step towards multi-domain operations, acting as a “gateway” system that allows aircraft with incompatible radio systems and datalinks to transfer information and communicate. The same concept is behind the development of the gatewayONE payload that was tested on the XQ-58 Valkyrie UAV as part of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and will allow the F-22 and F-35 to communicate in their native “languages”.
https://theaviationist.com/2021/02/11/the-u-s-air-force-is-planning-to-get-six-new-e-11a-with-the-battlefield-airborne-communication-node-payload/
Myanmar coup removes central bank chief, alarming global financiers
As news of the military coup in Myanmar reached the halls of the Bank of Japan, staff raced to gather information about the ongoing developments. "They have apparently kicked out the central bank governor as well." The shocking news was passed up the command chain at the head office in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district.
On Feb.1, Myanmar's military took control of the country's administrative, legislative and judicial branches, detaining de facto leader State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and several other democratically elected officials. It is unclear what happened to former central bank chief Kyaw Kyaw Maung, but deputy governor Bo Bo Nge has been detained, according to media reports. Than Nyein, who served as central banker under the previous junta before the first free election in decades in 2015, has been reappointed to the role.
The Bank of Japan, like most central banks around the world, is watching carefully, to see how the military leaders could affect bilateral and regional cooperation on monetary policy and financial stability. The move brought back stark memories of the country's decades of military rule, when it was closed off from much of the world. The period of isolation began to change when the military embraced reforms at the beginning of the last decade, with foreign investors flooding into the largely untapped market rich with natural resources.
Japanese companies and financial institutions made significant inroads in Myanmar in the past decade, expecting the market to grow rapidly as it moved toward democracy. Public and private Japanese players helped Myanmar build its financial and market infrastructure. The Japan International Cooperation Agency contributed to the core systems at the Central Bank of Myanmar, as a joint project with NTT Data and the Daiwa Institute of Research. The BOJ shares deep connections to the Central Bank of Myanmar as well. It has trained staffers for the Myanmar bank at its head office in Tokyo, and assigned its alumni to advise the Myanmar bank.
What brought Myanmar deeper into the region's fold was the Chiang Mai Initiative. The currency swap agreement, designed so members assist each other with liquidity in times of crisis, originally launched with Japan, China, South Korea and five countries in Southeast Asia. The remaining members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including Myanmar, have since joined the framework.
Myanmar formally joined the Chiang Mai Initiative in 2010, during BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's tenure as president of the Asian Development Bank. The ADB on Feb. 2 issued a statement saying it was "deeply concerned about the current situation in Myanmar, which could constitute a serious setback to the country's transition and development prospects." The U.S. has decided to impose sanctions on Myanmar military officials over the coup, while China, a major economic partner for Myanmar, has largely kept silent.
Turning back the clock on democracy could affect future public and private investments in Myanmar. There is also concern over how the coup can affect Myanmar's membership in the Chiang Mai Initiative.
"The initiative is an important link for Myanmar to the international community, but the country may have a harder time using it under protracted military rule," a source at the BOJ said. Some at the Japanese bank worry that developments in Myanmar could undermine international monetary cooperation.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Coup/Myanmar-coup-removes-central-bank-chief-alarming-global-financiers
how did I miss this yesterday?
source from feb 12
Myanmar coup removes central bank chief, alarming global financiers
http://malaccatimes.com/myanmar-coup-removes-central-bank-chief-alarming-global-financiers/
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Indian AF INDIA1 PM Modi 737 south from New Delhi, Gandhi Int'l Airport
Mr. Modi uses a 747-400 for longer trips however both these birds are equipped similar to the 747's used here.
Self-protection suites include radar warning receivers, missile-approach warning and counter-measure systems.
The aircraft has the capability to shoot chaff and flares to deviate radar-guided and heat-seeking missiles off their track along with other security tools.
The aircraft (737) has been configured to the same security specifications as the Boeing VC-25 that flies the President of the United States
Central Bank of Myanmar
Its headquarter located in Naypyidaw, and it has branches in Yangon and Mandalay. The Governor is Kyaw Kyaw Maung and three Vice Governors are Soe Min, Soe Thein, Bobo Aung (Mohammed Aarif) and Bo Bo Nge. The Central Bank of Myanmar became an autonomous and independent regulatory body by the Central Bank of Myanmar Law which was enacted by the Myanmar Parliament in 2013. The Central Bank of Myanmar was founded as the Union Bank of Burma on 3 April 1948 by the Union Bank of Burma Act, 1947 and took over the functions of the Rangoon branches of the Reserve Bank of India. The Union Bank of Burma was opened at the corner of Merchant Road and Sule Pagoda Road and had a sole right of currency issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Myanmar
Life After Burma: The Saga of Bo Bo Nge
https://www.aier.org/article/life-after-burma-the-saga-of-bo-bo-nge/
April 2, 2019
The real driving forces behind Myanmar’s opium trade
https://asiatimes.com/2019/04/the-real-driving-forces-behind-myanmars-opium-trade/
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Current view of CONUS
Not much up that is showing and quiet
Expected over a holiday weekend
PUFFY88 US Navy E-6B heading east from Tinker AFB
RCH544 C-17 ws from North Island with a Sea Stallion H53 sw along the CA/Mex border
RCH791 C-17 wn from Bragg
AVLON44 USAF C-40C east from Peterson AFB-that started at Tucson Int'l earlier today
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