[Emirates 24/7] A masjid imam was sentenced one year in jail for sending pornographic pictures over BlackBerry to seduce girls to have sex with him.
The Dubai Criminal Court also orded the convict's deporation after serving of jail term.
According to the prosecution sheet, SM, 35, Egyptian sent pictures to a number of women to have sex with him. He communicated with them via BlackBerry Messenger and forwarded indecent photos to them attempting to seduce and persuade them to have sex with him.
SM was also accused of possessing indecent photos with the intention to show them to others.
A police officer testified before the prosecution that the accused was jugged following a tip.
A policeman was assigned to pretend to be a girl and coordinate with SM in order to have him jugged red handed. Indeed SM sent the policeman an indecent photo of himself, so necessary procedures were taken to arrest him.Police confiscated a sex toy in his possession.
The coppers, who pretended to be a girl called 'Mariam', testified before the prosecution that he chatted with SM on his BBM. "SM started seducing Mariam by talking about sex matters over BBM. Then he made a direct offer for sexual intercourse by asking her to meet at a hotel where he made a reservation to have sex. A sex toy was confiscated in his possession when he arrived at the hotel," said the policeman.
SM attempted to erase the BBM messages from him BlackBerry at the time of his arrest.
SM has testified before the police that he has admitted to the accusation. However, The infamous However... he denied the accusation in court but the court found him guilty and awarded him the jail term.
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"I learned from Bret Favre."
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[Emirates 24/7] Soddy Arabia's top religious authority has caught a Bangladeshi for alleged involvement in witchcraft with the aim of blackmailing money by destroying marriages, the Arabic language daily Okaz reported on Thursday.
The feared Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said its men seized the Bangladeshi expatriate in the southwestern province Khamis Mushayt after they had watched him for nearly two months, it said.
"They caught the man, in his 50s, red handed and seized some books and papers that have to do with sorcery and black art," the paper said.
"The Commission said these books and other magic items were used in destroying safe homes and separating couples."
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I remember the back-biting against one of my HS teachers, who - rumor had it - had been in the WACs. And she was a gym teacher and kinda butch-looking, which only doubled the nasty assumptions. I'm sorry Ms Arthur felt that she had to disappear her service that way. But considering the context that military service for women was regarded in the 50's and 60's - and it must have been even worse for someone in the acting profession - I don't altogether blame her.
Now if she had said the heck with it and been open about her service, she would have had quite a fan base among Marines past and present. My daughter - who did two tours as a Marine - says this is the reason that the Marines adore Drew Carey. She could have had a chunk of that fan-base!
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OK why is this just now news? I included the fact she was a Marine in the Obit article I wrote up when she passed. I thought everyone knew this about her
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I included the fact she was a Marine in the Obit article I wrote up when she passed. I thought everyone knew this about her
So much to remember, Knottie, so little brain space -- in my case, at least. If you wait six months, I'll probably be astounded again. I can never remember jokes, either, which hopefully isn't why I think Mr. Wife a marvelously witty man...
The FAA lacks key information on the ownership of as many as 1/3 of the 357,000 private & commercial aircraft registered in the US due to defects in its database. Drug traffickers have used phony registration numbers to evade law enforcement & police have raided the wrong aircraft due to erroneous registration information. Up until now US aircraft registration with the FAA has been mandatory only on an initial sale with no requirement to update information as it changes. In 2007 the FAA warned that there was a large pool of registration numbers that could be used illegally due to defective records. Starting next year the FAA will cancel existing registrations & force aircraft owners to re-register.
(KUNA) -- French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said Thursday that Alasanne Ouattara was the legitimate president of the Ivory Coast "in the eyes of all the international community." Speaking on "La Belle France Inter" radio, the minister pointed out that Ouattara was not just supported by La Belle France but he was also the president "in the eyes of the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society since yesterday, and before that in the eyes of ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States), the African Union and Europe." The UN Security Council on Wednesday backed Ouattaras election despite a decision by the Ivory Coast Constitutional Council which backed his opponent, Laurent Gbagbo.
She remarked that incumbent Ivory Coast president Gbagbo, who is refusing to accept defeat at the hands of Ouattara, had no legitimacy anymore.
"Indeed, things are clear. It has been said by everyone," Alliot-Marie remarked about the election result.
Both Ouattara and Gbagbo have appointed Prime Ministers to form new governments, leading to gridlock and a dangerous stand-off in Ivory Coast that has already experienced a bloody civil war and has a tense balance between ethnic groups in the north and south of the country.
Alliot-Marie recalled that Ivory Coast has a long democratic tradition and was even a model for Africa along with Senegal.
"What we need today is that the results of the will of the people of Ivory Coast, expressed in a vote that was controlled by the United Nations, be respected," the French foreign minister affirmed.
She said that the transition "must take place gently and there must be no violence." She also warned that "there are a certain number of procedures that could be put in place at the international level if the transition is not carried out" by Gbagbo.
The minister also remarked that this was not a problem just for La Belle France, but it was also being followed closely at European and international level.
La Belle France has close economic ties with Ivory Coast and is the major foreign investor in that country. There are also 15,000 Frenchies living and working in Ivory Coast.
"We do not ignore the presence of our compatriots in Ivory Coast. Their safety is a major concern. Today, their security is not threatened," she indicated, although she noted that special recommendations had been given to French residents in Ivory Coast during the electoral period there.
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(KUNA) -- After five days of haggling, the Security Council finally recognized late Wednesday opposition leader Alassane Ouattara as the winner of the presidential elections in C`te d'Ivoire.
The council took the stance despite outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo's claim to victory, his call for calm and warning of "targeted measures" against anybody threatening the grinding of the peace processor in the West African country.
Russia held up action in the 15-member body, claiming the Council has no business certifying domestic elections in any country.
Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS have already recognized Ouattara's victory.
In the meantime, Gbagbo is clinging to power and even formed his new Cabinet last week.
"In view of ECOWAS' recognition of Mr. Alassane Dramane Ouattara as President-elect of C`te d'Ivoire and representative of the freely expressed voice of the Ivorian people as proclaimed by the Independent Electoral Commission, the members of the Security Council call on all stakeholders to respect the outcome of the election," US Deputy Permanent Representative Brooke Anderson, whose country holds the Council's rotating presidency, told news hounds in a statement following Council closed-door consultations. "The members of the Security Council condemn in the strongest possible terms any effort to subvert the popular will of the people or undermine either the integrity of the electoral process or the free and fair elections in C`te d'Ivoire," she added. The UN's Special envoy in the country Young jin Choi told a presser yesterday in the country's commercial capital Abidjan that "The Ivorian people have chosen Mr. Alassane Ouattara with an irrefutable margin as the winner over Mr. Laurent Gbagbo." The UN has been exerting efforts to reunite the country - the world's largest cocoa exporter - after it was split by civil war in 2002 into a Government-controlled south and a rebel-held north. The Council reiterated in its press statement its readiness "to impose targeted measures against persons who attempt to threaten the grinding of the peace processor, obstruct the work of the UNOCI (the UN Mission in C`te d'Ivoire) and other international actors, or commit serious violations of human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... and international humanitarian law." It deplored the suspension of non-governmental media, recalled "the importance that all citizens of C`te d'Ivoire have full access to pluralistic and diverse information," and urged the authorities to immediately restore equitable access to State media.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Jubo League ... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League... activist was bumped off by unknown assailants here yesterday.
The dear departed was identified as Zafar Sheikh, 38.
Witnesses and police sources said criminals in a cycle of violence shot at Zafar Sheikh while he was returning home on foot near the airport of the town around 8:00pm. Too early for the RAB ...
The killers decamped the scene just after the shooting.
Locals rushed him to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim!
Moazzem Hossain Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Police Station said an investigation is going on to know the motive behind the killing.
However, The infamous However... Zafar might have been killed over some internal dispute, he added.
Zafar was also accused in a case of attempt to murder of local Jubo League leader Dhole, said police sources.
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[El Universal] The family of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has USD 137 million in several US bank accounts, according to an investigation made by Mexican newspaper La Razón.
La Razón reported that "under the umbrella of power, the Venezuelan president's family has a life style that includes jewelry, cars, travels and even weapons, in contrast to Chavez's anti-capitalist discourse."
According to La Razón, reports issued by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2008 show that DEA found five bank accounts in US banks amounting to nearly USD 140 million and belonging to the brothers and mother of the Venezuelan president.
The report claims that Adelis Chavez Frías, a brother of the Venezuela president, tops the lists with USD 90 million, followed by Adan Chavez, with USD 18 million. Elena Frías de Chavez, Hugo Chavez's mother, allegedly has a USD 16 million account.
If we had a CIA worth anything at all those accounts would be emptied, Mexican drug lords would be blamed, and the money would be used to fund the opposition in Venezuela ...
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"If we had a CIA worth anything ..."
Information such as this and more would be printed out daily (or at least weekly) on simple printer paper and distributed by "wind" throughout Chavez's more supportive districts. He is most popular with the poor, who would also be most sensitive to him enriching his family through his position.
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"They're supposed to deplore it, so they are fascinated by it. This is why communists are hypnotized by money, the same way that Jesuits are hypnotized by sex."
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Goes to show that the biblical saying "For the love of money is the root of all evil." . That is why the Dems are such huge tax and spend aholics. They have gotten drunk on the wealth of America and now want more if not all of it.
MOSCOW - Russian planes flew in the region of joint U.S.-Japanese naval training drills in the Pacific Ocean but did not violate airspace rules, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Roman Martov, a spokesman for Russia's Pacific Ocean Fleet, was quoted by the agency as saying: "They carried out their planned flights in the region of regular activity of (Russia's) fleet.
"There were no violations of international rules of the use of airspace or flight rules on the Russian side."
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PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > RUSSIAN SPY PLANES AT US-JAPAN DRILL - SHOW SUPPORT FOR CHINA?
IOW, VLADVEDEV = KIMMIE = WANNA BUILD DEM PROPOSED NEW RUSS MILBASES IN THE FORMER JAPANESE KURILES, EFFEC HELPING THE US + JAPAN + ROK KEEP CHINA OUT OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST + NORPAC + ARTIC ROUTES WHILE SSSSSSHHHHHHH.......
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THE Rudd government publicly played down reports of a hostile Chinese reaction to the defence white paper released last year, while secretly briefing the US that Beijing had threatened Australia would ''suffer the consequences'' if references to China were not watered down.
The revelations of China's true reaction to the paper released in May, which called for a substantial boost in Australia's air and naval power in response to China's increasing military presence in the region, are revealed in secret US government cables written in the same month.
The paper declared China would be Asia's strongest military power ''by a considerable margin'' and warned that the pace and scope of its growth could give its neighbours cause for concern if not properly explained.
Former deputy secretary of the Defence Department and co-ordinator of the white paper, Mike Pezzullo told US diplomats of being ''dressed down'' by the deputy director of foreign affairs in China's defence ministry, Major-General Jia Xiaoning.
According to the cable, Major-General Jia ''demanded Australia make changes to the paper or suffer the consequences''. Mr Pezzullo's initial meetings with other Chinese officials were also ''frosty''.
Another cable, written on May 19, reported Mr Pezzullo describing Major-General Jia as a ''bruiser'' who had a ''look of cold fury'' on his face at China's repeated mentions in the white paper.
He and other officials were particularly annoyed by reference in the paper to China's military build-up being beyond the scope required for any conflict over Taiwan.
''During each of the briefings, the Chinese asked Pezzullo to revise the description of the regional security environment,'' the cable said.
''Pezzullo said he responded firmly that the white paper would not be changed, and that he had not come to negotiate it.''
The lobbying over language continued even as Mr Pezzullo was about to board his outbound flight, with a Chinese colonel appealing to his ''intellect and sophistication''.
Following the briefing by Mr Pezzullo, China denied an Australian request to host People's Liberation Army officers on Australian vessels near Hong Kong.
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Bow before China. Bow like Obama. They may accept you as second- or third-class citizens in their brave new world, if you show appropriate humility.
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Australians have made a deliberate effort to develop interests in Asia. China would consider this a threat. I believe Australian has done very well when most European Countries have suffered.
[Dawn] Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) jugged the joint secretary of religious affairs ministry while broadening its probe.
Raja Aftab, the joint secretary had been jugged by FIA officials and transferred to unknown place for further investigations.
Key sources of the FIA told DawnNews that the agency also jugged the former Director General Hajj, Rao Shakeel in the first phase of investigations amid corruption scandal in this year Hajj events.
The probe revealed that Raja Aftabul Islam hired the residential buildings rather than booking hotel rooms for the Hajj pilgrims, the hired buildings were very remote from the Haram (Kaaba) subsequently the Pak pilgrims had to suffer by the irresponsible act.
In Mina, the tents provided to the pilgrims, lacked basic utilities as well.
FIA sources also informed DawnNews that the agency will arrest all individuals involved in the Hajj corruption scandal and will submit the final report to the Government and the court.
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A theoretical dream for decades, the railgun is unlike any other weapon used in warfare. And it's quite real too, as the U.S. Navy will prove in a record-setting test today in Dahlgren, VA.
Rather than relying on a explosion to fire a projectile, the technology uses an electomagnetic current to accelerate a non-explosive bullet at several times the speed of sound. The conductive projectile zips along a set of electrically charged parallel rails and out of the barrel at speeds up to Mach 7.
The result: a weapon that can hit a target 100 miles or more away within minutes.
"It's an over-used term, but it really changes several games," Rear Admiral Nevin P. Carr, Jr., the chief of Naval Research, told FoxNews.com prior to the test.
For a generation raised on shoot-'em-up video games, the word "railgun" invokes sci-fi images of an impossibly destructive weapon annihilating monsters and aliens. But the railgun is nonetheless very real.
An electromagnetic railgun offers a velocity previously unattainable in a conventional weapon, speeds that are incredibly powerful on their own. In fact, since the projectile doesn't have any explosives itself, it relies upon that kinetic energy to do damage. And with today's test, the Navy hopes to produce a 32-plus megajoule firing -- more than three times the previous record set by the Navy in 2008.
"It bursts radially, but it's hard to quantify," said Roger Ellis, electromagnetic railgun program manager with the Office of Naval Research. To convey a sense of just how much damage, Ellis told FoxNews.com that the big guns on the deck of a warship are measured by their muzzle energy in megajoules. A single megajoule is roughly equivalent to a 1-ton car traveling at 100 mph. Multiple that by 32 and you get a picture of what would happen when such a weapon hits a target. Brings a whole new meaning of "Reaching out and touching someone". Eat Ferrio-nickle slug North Korea!
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"See that incoming anti-ship missile? Watch what happens to it when it hits the wall of water caused by shooting a one-pound projectile at Mach 7 into the sea right in front of it."
"Wow! What what are you using for the projectile?"
The term is somewhat overused - a railgun was a featured weapon in the Quake game and appeared in the Arnold move 'Eraser' where the projectile would pass through walls, buildings, bad guys, etc...
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CF, Well, looking at the energy involved here, it could very well be the railgun of fiction - that projective would certainly blow through damned near anything in a non-ballistic direct fire mode at short range. A hardened high density 100lb projectile in a ferro-sabot could do some pretty nasty thing in terms of penetrating armor, concrete, etc, at speeds approaching or exceeding of 2000 meters/second.
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To put it in visual terms, take a 100lb slug at 2000m/s, put it into a small office/house structure and all that would be left is a crater. And the crater wouldn't even be smoking afterwords. It would be the equivalent of a meteor hitting.
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Do we want to aim a few at the North Korean emplacements? And lend another to Israel for going after Iran's in-mountain uranium refineries... or should they wait until the Stuxnet virus is cleared from Iran's computers?
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.
[Emirates 24/7] A masjid imam was sentenced one year in jail for sending pornographic pictures over BlackBerry to seduce girls to have sex with him.
MOSCOW - Russian planes flew in the region of joint U.S.-Japanese naval training drills in the Pacific Ocean but did not violate airspace rules, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
A theoretical dream for decades, the railgun is unlike any other weapon used in warfare. And it's quite real too, as the U.S. Navy will prove in a record-setting test today in Dahlgren, VA.
