[An Nahar] A wily criminal was snared with a haul of 49 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers, Swiss police said Monday.
The 27-year-old Romanian -- believed to be either the actual thief or a receiver of stolen goods -- was arrested over the weekend in the city of Zurich.
To transport his stash, he had used an idea fit for a spy movie, by putting on two pairs of trousers with the ankle-seams sewn together.
The phones had been reported stolen from a techno party in Zurich.
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One of seven KSA residents due to be put to death on Tuesday by crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery, speaking over a smuggled mobile phone from his prison cell, has appealed for help to stop the executions.
Nasser al-Qahtani told Aypee from Abha general prison on Monday that he was arrested as part of 23-member ring that stole from jewellery stores in 2004 and 2005. He said they had been tortured to confess and had no access to lawyers.
"I killed no one. I didn't have weapons while robbing the store, but the police tortured me, beat me up and threatened to assault my mum to extract confessions that I had a weapon with me while I was only 15," he said. "We don't deserve death."
A leading human rights group added its appeal to KSA authorities to stop the executions.
[An Nahar] Police in the U.S. say a dog searching for a gun in a snowbank accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw, firing the weapon.
No humans --or dogs -- were hurt.
The episode started early Sunday when an officer on patrol heard three gunshots. When he went to investigate, he saw a vehicle speed away.
Police saw a man leap out and bury something in the snow.
Ivan, a dog handled by the Essex County Sheriff's Department in Massachusetts, was called to the scene to find whatever was buried in the snow. Police say he started digging furiously and fired the gun.
Three men were tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , and police determined the gun had been stolen.
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Lawrence, the anus of Essex County. Where even the police dogs shoot first.
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It'll be the usual paid admin leave pending internal investigation into the incident. It will be found that the dog violated no department policies. It will be reinstated and given a medal of commendation for valor in protecting the citizens of Essex county.
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Precisely why you shouldn't use a drug detection trained dog when searching for guns or bombs. Bomb dog sits when it hits on a scent, drug dog digs, understandably why.
Mega mosquitoes known as gallinippers could invade Central Florida this summer as flood waters from tropical storms force the larvae to hatch this hurricane season.
Entomologists at the University of Florida say the mosquitoes are 20 times the size of a typical mosquito, about the size of a quarter. That's nuthin'. In Alabama I've seen skeeters that could stand flat-footed and hump a turkey.
They also pack a painful bite, according to UF entomologist Phil Kaufman. He calls the species "notoriously aggressive."
The best way to protect against these super-sized mosquitoes is to wear bug spray with DEET and cover up as best as possible.
Gallinippers were spotted last year in Florida after Tropical Storm Debbie doused the state, but scientists predict they'll make an appearance again this summer.
According to Kaufman and his team one good thing about these mosquitoes is that they aren't known to carry any viruses that could be harmful to humans. But they could carry you back to their nest and feed you to their young larvae...
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better bump that bug-zapper up to 220V
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All jokes aside these suckers really hurt when they bite. They have eggs that can rest several years untill really heavy rains. Then the fun starts they are big enough that they get noticed in suburbia and thus make action news. A major hatch can get your attention. The worst Florida mosquito is the salt marsh mosquito they attack like the Chinese at the Yalu river. While you swat the 6 on your arm there are 12 on your hand. The real fun comes when you start inhaling them as they try to land inside your mouth or nose where there is no repellent. If you want the Florida cracker experience just try walking one the trails through the mangroves in Everglades without repellent. You'll believe the oldtimers' stories of the screens turning black. Then there is the little gnat sized one that gets in the house and seems only to bite ankles.
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Schools and many government offices in the Washington area closed for the day on Wednesday as snow began to blanket the region, the first wave of a storm that forecasters said could dump five to 10 inches inside the Capital Beltway and significantly more to the north and west. Is Al Gore scheduled into DC today? There was six inches of snow on my patio table at 7 am.
The Office of Personnel Management decided shortly before 4 a.m. to close all federal offices in the D.C. area for the day. Major school systems -- including the District, Alexandria, and Arlington, Fauquier, Fairfax and Prince William counties in Virginia; and Montgomery, Howard and Prince George's counties in Maryland -- announced that they would shut down. Government offices in the District and Arlington, Montgomery and Loudoun counties were closed; Fairfax County announced that its government would open on time.
If the predicted accumulations materialize, it will be by far the biggest snowstorm in the Washington region in the last two years. The storm two years ago was a doozy!
The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang is predicting five to 10 inches total accumulation inside the Capital Beltway, and seven to 14 inches further west. With much AGW warmer temperatures expected Friday and into the weekend, most of the snow will likely melt within a few days -- possible causing floods in low-lying areas. I wimped out, but when I called in, it seemed most of the office had done the same. I will go in Saturday to do the updates I was planning to do today.
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Fairfax County announced that its government would open on time.
The collection of taxes and revenues of Lord Fairfax shall not be interrupted. The undocumented must be fed.
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10" of snow around these parts is just an annoyance (and we received about that much annoyance yesterday). It means that some extremely rural schools and businesses might close, but more likely they would just delay the start times.
With the proximity of homes and buildings to the curbs in DC (short setbacks) and the lack of major 'Global Warming Removal' equipment, I bet it could get a bit dicey for the DC locals, though.
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much of the DC area will ultimately receive fewer than two inches and the streets will be in pretty good shape as the air is a just a bit warmer than forecast
the storm was probably jinxed when the WaPo's weather bloggers named it snowquester
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The head of the official veterans' committee, Ruslan Aushev, said Sheikh Abdullah - real name Bakhretdin Khakimov - was tracked down in Shindand district after a year-long search. He had served with a motorised rifle unit.
DO NOT blow off your semi-annual contacts. We will eventually find you!
[An Nahar] An Egyptian police officer nicknamed the "eye sniper" was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in prison for his involvement in deadly festivities in Cairo in 2011.
Judge Makram Awad of the Cairo criminal court sentenced Mahmoud al-Shinnawi to three years for having targeted the eyes of demonstrators during protests on Mohammed Mahmoud street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square in November 2011.
The prosecution described Shinnawi's acts as "evil", underlining that the victims "had done nothing but break their silence to demand their legitimate rights" during the protests.
Many protesters in Tahrir were seen in the days following the protests with their eyes bandaged.
Mobile phone footage circulated on the Internet showed Shinnawi aiming at protesters' eyes and another officer telling him, "In his eye! Well done, sir."
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[News24] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... 's president says the government will close all Islamic schools that do not meet basic safety standards, after nine children in a Qu'ranic school died in a fire on Sunday.
Senegalese President Macky Sall said the young students, aged 7 to 12, were killed in a fire in the Medina neighbourhood of Senegal's capital, Dakar.
After visiting the scene of the fire, Sall said on Monday night that Qu'ranic schools that do not meet basic standards will be closed to stop the exploitation of children. He said the young boarding students will be returned to their families.
The children who died in the fire were "talibes", which are students under 15 who stay with their master to learn the Qu'ran and to raise funds by begging in the streets.
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[News24] At least one person was killed and six others maimed on Monday when Guinea's security forces opened fire in the capital, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group said, warning of a deepening ethnic conflict stemming from rows over forthcoming legislative elections.
The gunfire broke out shortly after Guinea's main opposition leaders boycotted a meeting called by President Alpha Conde aimed at ending days of unrest that has spread beyond the capital and now killed at least six people.
Hundreds of protesters have been maimed since the unrest began on Wednesday. Guinea's notoriously ill-disciplined security forces have a history of brutal crackdowns on protests.
"Seven people were hit by bullets fired by the security forces," Thierno Maadjou Sow, head of Guinea's main human rights watchdog, OGDH, told Rooters.
"One of them, Mamadou Aliou Bah, died from his wounds," he added. "It has become an ethnic battle between the Malinke and the Peul. Wherever one group is in the minority, they are attacked by the other."
Government spokesperson Damantang Albert Camara said the situation was "worrying" but would not give a toll for Monday's festivities.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A month after the Shahbagh movement took the country by storm, its spirit continues to energise the youths who refuse to leave the streets despite many challenges.
A dynamic rally marking one month of the protest took place at the capital's Jatrabari yesterday, reminding everyone of the revolutionary gathering on February 5.
Imran H Sarker, the spokesperson for Gonojagoron Mancha, in his speech at the rally highlighted their major achievements and hurdles over the days, and urged protesters to continue the movement with the same determination with which they began it.
Tens of thousands of people joined the rally, despite security concern amid widespread instability and violence in the country.
"The Gonojagoron Mancha has set an example of a non-violent movement in the country," stated Imran.
Addressing Jamaat-Shibir, he said, "Take lessons from Gonojagoron Mancha about what democracy means. Democracy doesn't mean setting fire to buses and killing people; democracy doesn't mean setting fire to houses or places of worship."
Religious forces of Evil had "gone crazy" because of the movement, he said.
Recalling that the Shahbagh Gonojagoron was labelled as a movement of atheists by Jamaat and its allies, he said, "You have seen that people from different religions, including religious people, have come here. They have proved that this is not a movement of atheists."
Imran, also convener of Blogger and Online Activist Network, reiterated the movement's strong stance against religious intolerance and bigotry.
In response to allegations that the movement has a political bias, he said diverse groups with disparate interests have come under the same umbrella to fight for a common cause. It is a rare occasion in Bangladesh.
"Even parties that refuse to be on the same stage with each other have put aside their differences for a unified movement."
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Major Sam Bradshaw, who fought with the 7th Armoured Brigade throughout the conflict, including its famous campaign in north Africa, said he would like to wring David Cameron's neck.
The 93-year-old, from Wigan, said: "To receive the news like this is sad. I just can't imagine the 7th Armoured being without tanks."
Major Bradshaw likened current cuts to the situation in 1939 when hurried preparations had to be made for war and there was a shortage of basic equipment.
He added: "They are just cutting back, cutting back, cutting back. You can't put a price on defence. I won't live to regret it but my thoughts are with the people of the future. I hope they don't have to go through what we went through."
"I wish I could get hold of David Cameron. I would probably wring his neck."
Major Bradshaw is a former chairman of the now-disbanded Eighth Army Veterans' Association, which represented those who fought in the Army - led during the war by General Bernard Montgomery.
The Desert Rats, famous for victories in battles including El Alamein, formed part of the Eighth Army.
The major described how at the end of the war Montgomery had addressed the brigade. "He stood and said with great emotion in his voice '7th Armoured, I owe you so much.'"
Now, crews fighting under the famous black and red badge will now only be equipped with wheeled reconnaissance vehicles.
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If an armoured brigade does not have armour then why call it an armoured brigade? Air cavalry doesn't have horses, but they do at least serve the same tactical purpose.
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"They are just cutting back, cutting back, cutting back. You can't put a price on defence. I won't live to regret it but my thoughts are with the people of the future. I hope they don't have to go through what we went through."
Every democracy goes through this in peacetime. The cold war is over, so things will get cut to below the bare minimum. And then when things go hot, a lot of young men (and now women) will die because they lack equipment and training.
[Bangla Daily Star] Police in the Maldives enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed yesterday, defying pressure from regional power India which had called for him to be free to campaign for elections.
A spokeswoman for Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party, Shauna Aminath, said that about 20 masked coppers wearing riot gear locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! him at his family home in the capital Male.
She said that no arrest warrant was presented to the former pro-democracy activist, who served as the first freely elected president until last year, and that one of his security personnel was injured in a fracas.
Maldivian authorities said that the 45-year-old had been taken into custody on a court order and was to be presented in a magistrates' court today where he faces criminal charges.
A court officer who declined to be named said the case against Nasheed -- who has been charged with abusing his powers by ordering the arrest of a judge while president -- would be taken up at 04:00pm today.
The move threatens to bring more instability to the archipelago, a famous upmarket honeymoon destination which sits astride strategic shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean.
It has been wracked by violence and political infighting since February 2012 when Nasheed was ousted following a mutiny by security forces and demonstrations which he believes were fomented by former autocrat Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
The current government and Gayoom deny the accusations.
Seeking to avoid arrest, Nasheed took refuge in the Indian high commission (embassy) last month for 10 days and walked out only after an informal agreement was brokered by New Delhi under which he would be free to campaign.
Presidential elections are due on September 7.
A conviction would bar him from holding office and his party considers the charges against him to be politically motivated.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Monday called for drunk diplomats to be barred from United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... ' budget negotiations.
Annual talks on how much the global body spends have become increasingly tense as western nations call for spending cuts.
"We make the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should in future be an inebriation-free zone," Joseph Torsella, deputy U.S. ambassador for management and reform, told the U.N. General Assembly's budget committee.
The assembly's budget body, the Fifth Committee, holds marathon negotiations in December each year on spending and national contributions.
These often last all night for several days in a row so that a vote can be held before the end of year holidays.
The United States is not calling for a ban on alcohol just on drunks, U.S. officials said.
Some envoys have turned up for talks "falling down drunk," said one diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . "On one occasion the note-taker who was meant to be recording the talks was so intoxicated he had to be replaced," said another. Both spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the comments have caused some controversy. "It is absolutely not the case that everyone at the talks is drunk. All the people doing the negotiating are sober," said a third diplomat.
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The UN should be given a budget by the countries of the world (hopefully a tiny amount), not negotiate how much they need to rake from taxpayers wallets.
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If DARPA could only convince that fellow waving his arms in Quantico to carry an electronic device or drive a vehicle which transmits a signal and is registered in his name........... oh WAIT!
At 17,500 feet you will very likely neither hear it nor see it. The notion that U.S. international border monitoring of illegal entry is difficult or impossible is utterly mythologic, and has been for several years. Quite obviously, the unstated goal is to stitch together a network of airborne or near-space platforms that have interlocking Fields of View (FOV) which will enable the 24x7 monitoring of entire target areas regardless of size.
Streaming 9/11/12 live video of Benghazi anyone? Why do you ask ?
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I've gone galt BP. I've moved out of council housing and no longer taking the stamps! Unless my sheep give me away, they'll never find me in my wee little stone cottage near Betws-y-Coed. :-)
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Think carefully, constant, recorded surveillance, has huge applications for law enforcement. Coincidental to that, it has enormous prospects for abuse, the demise of all public expectation of privacy, associations, and travel for all of us. The bleed-over from military surveillance in a war zone to domestic surveillance is happening across the country under the rubric of law enforcement. But do you really think it will be contained, prevented from abuse?
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Well, if you're not committing a crime, you have nothing to fear from law enforcement, right? /sarcasm
The problem is what is defined as a "crime". For example, going to a Christian church, attending a Tea Party or pro-second amendment rally, going to a shooting range - all could be considered criminal someday.
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Will SCORPION STARE be next?
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Every homeowner in a local town could soon have to own a gun or break the law. It's a controversial new plan for the city of Nelson.
Leaders told Channel 2's John Bachman the reason they need the law is because the city straddles Cherokee county to the south and Pickens County to the north.
That, they said, can lead to slower response times.
One police officer patrols Nelson, Georgia for eight hours during the day. That leaves 16 hours overnight when the city is basically unguarded.
"When he's not here we rely on county sheriffs--however it takes a while for them to get here," said Nelson City Councilman Duane Cronic.
That's why Cronic proposed the ordinance.
"Every head of household will own and maintain a firearm," he said.
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The (Second) Militia Act of 1792, Passed May 8, 1792..
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, by the Captain or Commanding Officer of the company, within whose bounds such citizen shall reside, and that within twelve months after the passing of this Act. And it shall at all time hereafter be the duty of every such Captain or Commanding Officer of a company, to enroll every such citizen as aforesaid, and also those who shall, from time to time, arrive at the age of 18 years, or being at the age of 18 years, and under the age of 45 years (except as before excepted) shall come to reside within his bounds; and shall without delay notify such citizen of the said enrollment, by the proper non-commissioned Officer of the company, by whom such notice may be proved. That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. That the commissioned Officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that from and after five years from the passing of this Act, all muskets from arming the militia as is herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound; and every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for the payment of taxes.
Per Congress' Constitutional authority under Article I, Section 8,...To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.
Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions, and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
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Poor hospital care is "needlessly killing 1,000 NHS patients a month", The Daily Telegraph headline reads. It says that the largest ever study of errors in British hospitals has found that one patient in 10 is affected by potentially serious medical errors, with half of them dying as a result. I case you wondered why your elected representatives did not apply Obamacare to themselves.
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I ran across an article on the US Health care system and the stats are worse than the NHS.
Close to 100,000 die each year from medical malpractice, another 10-12,000 die from malprescription, and close to another 90,000 die each year die from misdiagnosis, as opposed to normal malpractice...OUR health care system kills almost 300,000 a year and narry a whimper. The AMA pays way too much to the Dems for that and the trial lawyers pay the rest...so the medical malpractice system shoots the innocent and rewards the incompetent. Only 5% of people injured by malpractice file a lawsuit and almost 75% of all medical malpractice awards go to claimants who were not harmed (mostly birth defects, genetic issues, and people dying after surgery that would have died anyway.).
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the stats are worse than the NHS
Bullshit.
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This is a problem in every developed country. We docs all know that hospitals are dangerous places.
There are plenty of preventable errors that occur daily in hospitals. It's a combination of human nature, stupidity, inattention to detail, not understanding best practices, and bureaucracy (but I repeat myself repeatedly). I'm sure I'm as guilty as anyone else.
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This is a problem in every developed country.
And in primitive countries, 'health care providers' may be killed if/when they fail. That cultural practice does wonders for the quality of medical arts there.
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.
[An Nahar] Police in the U.S. say a dog searching for a gun in a snowbank accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw, firing the weapon.
If the predicted accumulations materialize, it will be by far the biggest snowstorm in the Washington region in the last two years.
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