[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] According to Wolf, a whistleblower at NASA informed him about Jiang's dodgy behavior and said he was concerned that the doctor was carrying "source code for high tech imaging technology," that could be used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to develop drones and advanced aerospace projects. Jiang had taken the hard drive with him on a previous visit home in violation of security policy, Wolf claimed.
The congressman also accused the space agency of bending the rules by hiring "certain foreign nationals of concern," and demanded to know how many other Chinese boffins NASA was employing. Wolf called for an independent investigatory panel to review the situation, an immediate block on the new hiring of foreign nationals, and a thorough investigation of any foreigners working at the agency, with full prosecution of any security offenses.
But Jiang was exonerated in a hearing on Thursday. "None of the computer media that Jiang attempted to bring to the PRC on March 16, 2013, contained classified information, export controlled information, or NASA proprietary information," according to the statement of facts filed in Jiang's case, Bloomberg reports.
A gentleman's private collection
The contents of the laptop and hard drive he was trying to conceal turned out to be nothing more than pirated films and "sexually explicit images." He pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of violating NASA's administrative rules, but this was dismissed on the proviso that he leave the country within 48 hours.
"Dr. Jiang is relieved this ordeal is over," said his lawyer, Fernando Groene. "Although he was accused in arena of public opinion and in the halls of Congress, once due process was given he was cleared of any and all allegations that he was a spy."
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[KREBSONSECURITY] Organized hackers in Ukraine and Russia stole more than $1 million from a public hospital in Washington state earlier this month. The costly cyberheist was carried out with the help of nearly 100 different accomplices in the United States who were hired through work-at-home job scams run by a crime gang that has been fleecing businesses for the past five years.
Last Friday, The Wenatchatee World broke the news of the heist, which struck Chelan County Public Hospital No. 1, one of several hospitals managed by the Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth, Wash. The publication said the attack occurred on Apr. 19, and moved an estimated $1.03 million out of the hospital's payroll account into 96 different bank accounts, mostly at banks in the Midwest and East Coast.
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[KREBSONSECURITY] A 24-year-old Algerian man tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Thailand earlier this year on suspicion of co-developing and selling the infamous SpyEye banking trojan was extradited this week to the United States, where he faces criminal charges for allegedly hijacking bank accounts at more than 200 financial institutions.
Hamza Bendelladj, who authorities say used the nickname "Bx1″ online, is accused of operating a botnet powered by SpyEye, a complex banking trojan that he also allegedly sold and helped develop. Bendelladj was arraigned on May 2, 2013 in Atlanta, where he is accused of leasing a server from a local Internet company to help manage his SpyEye botnet.
A redacted copy of the indictment (PDF) against Bendelladj was unsealed this week; the document says Bendelladj developed and customized components of SpyEye that helped customers steal online banking credentials and funds from specific banks.
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"The federal government needs to step in," said Chandler. "But I'm not sure what they're going to do or where will they go. Peter Stefan is a very respected and respectable funeral home director in Worcester. He's a good man. This can't continue. He's taking a financial loss as a result of this."
Stefan accepted Tsarnaev's body Friday after it was initially sent to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.
"We have a body for burial that has caused a lot of controversy and we can't continue to play this game," Stefan told The Herald. "Under normal circumstances, the government would say it's (the funeral parlor's) responsibility to find a place for burial, but this is not normal circumstances. This is a nightmare.
"My problem here is trying to find a gravesite," Stefan added. "A lot of people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this. I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too." Nooo. No one had to do those. They could easily have been cremated and scattered in the nearest sewer. Or beheaded to be displayed at the cities' gate. Only YOU feel the the need for a *respectful burial*. Perhaps you should re-examine your priorities.
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If you can't cremate or bury him, then sew him up a canvas sack, weight it with rocks and take him offshore and chuck him over the side. Jeeze louise, it's not a big problem.
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where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.
Each one should be immediately arrested, and held as terrorist accomplices.
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Well now, this is interesting, given the discussion yesterday regarding Mrs. Tsarnaev. Why is she MIA here? Active, willing accomplice proud of hubby for martyring himself for Allan? Or relieved she's free, without having to take any action on her own.
I suppose a cynic might pick door #3: a calculated move on the advice of her lawyer. But if she were a true-blue Islamonutter like Momma Speedbump, I would think she'd be there screaming about a proper Muslim burial anyway.
As for Mr. Stefan . . . how about your own backyard, next to Snowball I, Snowball II, and Snowball III.
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The Federal Government could quietly move in and bury the bastid in a military cemetery with an unmarked grave. They won't however. The news chatter keeps the little people gainfully distracted and occupied, whilst the scoundrels in Washington pursue their usual shenanigans.
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RandomJD has an excellent point: where is Mrs. Tsarnaev in the handling of her late husband's remains?
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Do something kind. Burn ( oh sorry 'cremate") the cadaver. You can't DO that? Its not "islamic"? Well do something "islamic to it, I am not sure what, and deliver it to his next of kin and its then THEIR problem. You can at least get another headline that his own mother doesn't want his body? That would sound nice for Islam, I think. Yes? No?
Well then, are there no Mosques out there full of Islamic charity, after all Islam is so well known for its overflowing and generous loving charity toward all. Zakat and all that. Pillars of Islam, hummahumma.
No Mosques ANYWHERE who will take the deader's corpse? There's a headline right there also. NO MOSQUE WILL TAKE HIS DEAD ISLAMIC WHACKAROONI FOR ANY REASON. or words to that effect. Should look good on Islam's resume'. They say they don't want it. Offer every Mosque in the US a chance. ANY takers? OFFer it to CAIR and see if there is another headline there?
Suggestion: wait awhile and then "lose" it. New Jersey has a lot of real estate that gets dark early. Try Massachusetts or California.( another Headline or two there) The Media can surely sell this for quite a while with any imagination at all. Off it to CNN and see what they can arrange or if they have any raffle or charity they can "involve". Someone "spiritual" with lots of eye makeup perhaps, a televangelist who ooozes charity and needs the publicity? Someone "sincere" who will tell us all to pray over it.
Is there ANYone out there who will bury this man out of the milk of human decency and caring charity? Or am I just looking at a lot of Americans who really really want him to rot in the sack?
You can at least be honest about your own true feelings.
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He had a wife and mother, send them the bill and a note saying the body will be cremated and dumped in the garbage if they dont come and get it.
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Alaska Paul has the right idea, give him the Usama Bin Ladin treatment, the Atlantic ocean is a big place. No land burial or his supporters will likely place his name on this list and there will be no end to it.
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My point above is a serious one: the body belongs to the next of kin. That's the missus. If not her, given that Mumzy and Daddzy are overseas, that means one of the uncles who is still here in the U.S.
Where are they in all this? Why haven't one of them claimed the body?
This is elemental common law. The corpse belongs to the next of kin. The funeral director makes a call -- "come and get it." Or he can ship. Whatever.
If no one claims the body then it goes into the potter's field with a numbered grave marker. Given that could be a problem for the future, perhaps a sea burial is reasonable.
But first I'd like Mrs. Katherine (Russell)Tsarnaev to state publicly that she doesn't want it.
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I agree, Dr. White - claiming the body and burial expenses are the family's responsibility. Not the taxpayers, who have been fleeced quite enough by the Tsarnaevs already.
However, there is the shrine problem. That is a potential security issue, and it's probably why he can't find a graveyard willing to accept the body. Mr. Stefan IS in a bit of a sticky wicket. Perhaps he'd be all too glad to toss the ashes, but would like some legal cover in case some relative tries to sue him.
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Sent his worthless body back to the Hell-Hole-istan from whence he came.
From 30,000 feet.
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Cremate the body and add it to the nearest stockpile of high-level nuclear waste.
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Wifey knows that hubby Tsamaev's body is a hot potato, so she is not going to touch it now. That is how deep islamic traditions go when the heat is on. Kick the coffin down the road, so to speak.
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[An Nahar] British actress Keira Knightley married singer James Righton in a discreet ceremony in the southern French village of Mazan on Saturday, according to the mayor. They left James' name out of the headline, so I guess he's not very important.
Mayor Aime Navello told Agence La Belle France Presse the small civil ceremony was attended by "about 15 people", mostly family.
The parents of the 28-year-old actress, known for her role in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, own a house in Mazan, a town of about 5,000 people near the medieval town of Avignon in Provence. Her husband is part of the band The Klaxons. That sounds pretty melodious.
Knightley is also known for her roles in "Love Actually" (2003), "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), "The Duchess" (2008) and "Anna Karenina" (2012). I thought Greta Garbo was in Anna Karenina?
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[An Nahar] Algerian police beat tens of young people with batons as they protested outside parliament on Sunday about a lack of job security, and tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! several, an opposition MP said.
"This morning, almost 200 young people gathered peacefully outside parliament to make MPs aware of their difficult situation. Police beat them with their batons and arrested seven of them," said Ahmed Betatache, head of the opposition Socialist Forces Front (FFS).
"I was beaten by the coppers even though they know who I am," he added. Betatache had gone along with another MP from his party to talk to the protesters.
"It is ironic that at the very same time, a debate about press freedom was taking place in parliament," he said.
The young protesters, who work on pre-employment contracts, were "demanding their integration to stop this slavery," Betatache told Agence La Belle France Presse.
These insecure jobs do not even pay the minimum wage of around 180 euros ($240) per month, and do not guarantee future work.
The FFS in a statement sent to AFP condemned "this savage repression" of the young demonstrators, as well as "the attack on the head of its parliamentary grouping, in violation of his political immunity".
Algeria is plagued by high youth unemployment affecting 21.5 percent of those under 35, according to estimates from state agencies and the International Monetary Fund. Nationwide unemployment stands at 10 percent.
But those in work are also dissatisfied with their situation, and private and public sector health workers began a series of actions on Sunday to call for better working conditions.
The situation is worse in the south, an underdeveloped but hydrocarbons-rich region flooded by job seekers from the north.
Health workers have held sit-ins and demonstrations in Algiers' Mustapha-Pacha hospital center, the most important in the country, and accused authorities of being deaf to their "legitimate demands".
For several weeks, Algeria has been hit by strikes not only in the health sector, but also among education and transport workers.
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"I went down to the demonstration
to get my fair share of abuse"
A MUSLIM cleric at one of Scotlands biggest mosques was arrested in a major drugs swoop.
Cops reportedly found a significant quantity of crack cocaine and cash at a property owned by the imam in Leith, Edinburgh.
Its understood the religious leader, who cannot be named, regularly leads prayers at the capitals Central Mosque. Last night one source said: Nobody had any idea. This will come as a huge shock to everyone.
We must be careful not to jump to conclusions. This comes totally out of the blue.
The arrest on Thursday came as part of Operation Amend, which saw officers seize more than £500,000 of drugs and cash in the city in two days.
Police Scotland confirmed a man had been arrested and charged in connection with alleged drug offences.
None of the mosques directors were available for comment last night.
Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his republic is safer than the United Kingdom in response to the British Foreign Office's warning against travel to the North Caucasus.
His Twitter account said, "England's Foreign Office warns against visits to the North Caucasus. I am stating with entire responsibility that it is safer in Chechnya than in England! Welcome!"
On Friday, Britain's Foreign Office issued a warning against trips to Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and some area of the Stavropol region. The list also included North Ossetia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
[An Nahar] North Korea demanded Sunday that South Korea drop all "military provocations" if it wants to revive a jointly-run business estate which has suspended operations amid high military tensions on the peninsula.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex, opened just north of the tense border in 2004 as a rare symbol of cooperation, has fallen victim to the escalating stand-off. If South Korea reopens Kaesong they need their national head examined.
Pyongyang, accusing Seoul of sparking the military tension, banned entry to the estate by South Koreans and pulled out all its 53,000 workers early last month, rejecting repeated calls by the South for talks.
Seoul last week withdrew all its nationals from Kaesong. A final group of seven returned Friday night after the South had sent cars loaded with $13 million in cash to the estate to cover unpaid wages and taxes.
The North's National Defense Commission, its most powerful body, on Sunday again blamed the South for the suspension. If the South was truly worried about Kaesong's future, it "should take measures of stopping all the hostile acts and military provocations, the source of the prevailing situation", said a front man for the commission, which is chaired by leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-Un.
The front man's statement, on the Korean-language service of the official KCNA news agency, cited anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border in balloons by conservative activists and defectors.
It also cited the South's preparations for an annual military exercise with its US ally scheduled for August.
"These are parts of confrontational actions and war practice taken by the enemy government when it is rambling that it wants to normalize the Kaesong complex," the front man said.
Scrapping hostile acts and provocations would be a "way for re-opening the traffic, re-linking the communication line and putting (Kaesong) on a normal operation", the front man said.
The statement on the English-language version of KCNA did not specifically mention the leaflet launches or the planned exercise.
Previously Kaesong -- where 53,000 North Koreans worked at factories for some 120 South Korean firms -- had remained largely immune to strains in relations. While neither side has gone so far as to declare a permanent shutdown, experts say the next step could be for the South to cut electricity to the estate.
The cross-border leaflets typically contain messages criticizing the Kim dynasty that has ruled the North with an iron fist for more than six decades.
Amid high tensions across the border, South Korean police on Saturday stopped a planned launch of such leaflets, sparking an angry protest from activists.
The North's statement on Korean-language KCNA described the police action as "at least a bit fortunate" but said "malicious" groups plan further launches.
Tension has been high since the impoverished but nuclear-armed North issued blistering threats of missile and nuclear attacks on the South and the United States. The threats followed tougher U.N. sanctions for its third nuclear test in February, and US-South Korean joint military drills.
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So when there is another incident created by the Norks, SKor will again have bring loads of money to pay the kidnappers. Chalk up Kaesong as a bad idea, SKor.
One time, shame on you, twice shame on me.
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New Conditions Set by North Korea for Reviving Kaesong Industrial Complex
And ignored as "Flapping Mouth" by the world.
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Have the South Koreans quit laughing long enough to comment or did they hyperventilate and faint?
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NEW DELHI: After a tense face-off for a couple of weeks, Chinese troops have decided to withdraw from Indian territory in Depsang plains in northern Ladakh. This will pave the way for foreign minister Salman Khurshid's visit to Beijing on May 9 and the Chinese premier's India visit on May 20.
While the official line is that both armies have withdrawn to their previous positions, its unclear why the Indian army would have to move back since it is very much within Indian territory. In fact, in his statement to a parliament committee, the ministry of defence had clarified that Chinese troops had come 19km inside Indian territory.
Both sides held the fourth and fifth flag meetings between local commanders over the weekend, amid the faint possibility of a resolution to the continuing troop standoff in the Depsang Bulge area in the coming days, which would make it possible for the visit to go on. The first three flag meetings, on April 18, 23 and 30, at Spanggur Gap between the Daulat Beg Oldi and Chushul sectors had failed to break the deadlock.
It is unclear whether India made any concessions to the Chinese or whether the withdrawal was unconditional. The Indian government had been reluctant to take a strong line with the Chinese for what was a national security scare. It is only under intense public and political pressure that the UPA government finally took a hard line.
The Chinese had been insisting that India dismantle its security and monitoring posts built in Chumar and other areas. India had resisted this because Chumar is considered to have strategic significance, particularly since Indian soldiers can monitor troop movements across the Line of Actual Control from there.
Before the news of the troops withdrawing was announced, some sources had said India might agree to remove some of the structures as "a face saver" to enable the Chinese troops to withdraw to their pre-April 15 positions. Analysts said if the Indian government had indeed agreed to make a deal with the Chinese, this kind of incursion would be repeated over and over again.
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See BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Telegraph India] INDIA'S [2 ea. = Forward ABS] AIRSTRIPS BOTHERED CHINESE INTRUDERS.
D *** NG IT, CLOSE 'EM BOTH DOWN [or else?], DEMANDS CHINA.
* SAME > [Times of India] "QUID PRO QUO" BEHIND SUDDEN INDIA-CHINA DE-ESCALATION?
Khurshid's a'vistin, gotta save face - China also demanded their troops will leave only iff Indjuh's boyz leave first???
* SAME > UAV IMAGES SHOW CHINESE TROOPS INTRUDING INTO INDIA.
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Same pattern as in NORK? They push and then demand concessions as a condition for withdrawal and/or postponement of missle/nuke test. The likes of Kerry, Kurshid and Chamberlain grant the concessions for peace in our time.
[Dawn] Sherakot police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified robbers who injured a constable and snatched a wireless set, a weapon and cash from two coppers on Friday night.
ASI Khalid of Sherakot investigation wing, who lodged an FIR with the police, stated he was going to conduct a raid along with constable Arshad when they confronted 10 robbers. The robbers held them hostage near Darbar Sadiq Sayen and snatched valuables. They also injured constable Arshad on resistance.
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[Dawn] Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmed confirmed on Sunday that the police report over the seizure 90,000 fake ballot papers in Lower Dir was received by the Election Commission of Pakistain.Police had earlier claimed the recovery of 90,000 ballot papers from a vehicle in Chakdara area of Lower Dir on Sunday.
DIG Malakand range Obaidullah Khan told Dawn.com that the police team recovered and confiscated the National Assembly ballot papers during the search of a vehicle and that the papers were not carrying the seal of the Election Commission of Pakistain and appeared to be fake.
Two persons were also taken into custody and were booked under sections 419, 420 , 468 and 471 of the PPC. The fake ballot papers were meant for NA-34 constituency of Lower Dir.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Ishtiaq Ahmed hailing the police team that had recovered the fake ballot papers said that the preparation and transportation of the ballot papers was being carried out under the Army's supervision to minimise risk of ballots leakage and fake voting.He added that the use of fake ballot papers was curtailed and those who were using them should no longer dream of applying them to use.
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For a second there, I thought there was an error in the headline, Lower DIR abbreviation for Detroit popped into my head. Maybe this is where the democrats get their training. Another startling idea was that the papers did not carry the seal of the Election Commission of Pakistain,(spelling is incorrect) so I thought, you know seals are very heavy and big animals plus they are messy. Likely the papers would be covered in Paki stain in no time perhaps therefore making them valid in Pakistain.
The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.
The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] According to Wolf, a whistleblower at NASA informed him about Jiang's dodgy behavior and said he was concerned that the doctor was carrying "source code for high tech imaging technology," that could be used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to develop drones and advanced aerospace projects. Jiang had taken the hard drive with him on a previous visit home in violation of security policy, Wolf claimed.
[An Nahar] British actress Keira Knightley married singer James Righton in a discreet ceremony in the southern French village of Mazan on Saturday, according to the mayor.
Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his republic is safer than the United Kingdom in response to the British Foreign Office's warning against travel to the North Caucasus.
North Korea
[Dawn] Sherakot police have 
