[NATION.PK] The main suspect in the rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal has been jugged You have the right to remain silent... , Indian police say.
Milon Sarkar and another man, Ahidul Islam Babu, were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) late on Wednesday, CNN-IBN reported.
It is not yet clear what role Sarkar is alleged to have played in the case.
The 74-year-old nun was attacked in March during a burglary at her convent in a case which shocked India and led to street protests in many cities.
The number of alleged attackers in the case arrested now stands at five. Four men who were held in April over the attack have since been released.
Senior West Bengal police official Dilip Kumar Adak has previously said eight alleged attackers have been identified so three more remain to be tracked down.
Both of the men arrested on Wednesday, Milon Sarkar and Ahidul Islam Babu, are reported to be Bangladeshi citizens who had fled to Bangladesh.
During the attack in Ranaghat town on 14 March, money was stolen from the convent school and the building ransacked, before the nun was raped in the convent itself.
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[Rooters] A Georgia thug sheriff who was arrested after shooting and wounding a woman outside his jurisdiction said on Thursday that he will remain on the job.
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, 50, was arrested on Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of reckless conduct and released from the Gwinnett County jail after posting bail, police said.
He is accused of wounding Gwenevere McCord, 43, a friend and real estate agent, by shooting her in the abdomen in an Atlanta subdivision's model home on Sunday. According to the arrest warrant, the sheriff was "practicing police tactics" when his gun discharged.
"While focused on the recovery and healing of Gwenevere, I will simultaneously continue with my duties and responsibilities as the sheriff of Clayton County," Hill said in a statement posted on Thursday on his department's Facebook page.
Hill, who was acquitted by a jury in 2013 of corruption charges that he misused county-issued credit cards, has refused to discuss the case with police. Where, among other things, he fired all the white men on the force the day he took office.
McCord has not been physically able to do so, authorities said. Be glad you don't live here. Be very glad.
Because Hill faces a misdemeanor charge rather than a felony, Georgia law does not allow Governor Nathan Deal to appoint a committee of elected officials to recommend whether the sheriff should be suspended while the case is pending, said Deal spokesman Brian Robinson. The Rooters story is a bit watered down. Huffpoo has a more detailed accounting. You want tribal governance and law enforcement, move to Clayton, Co. Georgia. Don't bring the kids, unless you plan on home-schooling. Bonus Link: Clayton County Sheriff's Department website and most wanted page.
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I know headline writing is sometimes difficult. This time, i was wondering what on earth the sheriff could have been doing at a fraternity initiation.
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I was too, Richard, as well as wondering what kind of job required being shot as an incentive to continue at it?
The Garland, Texas Islamic attack was over in about 15 seconds. From what I have read, I have doubt whether the police officer actually shot two head shots, killing the two virgin-seekers. It appears the FBI, useful for once, had warned the Garland police about a suspected attack with enough time that a SWAT team had been deployed.
Perhaps even more interesting is the choice of weapons. One was a Kel-Tec Sub 2000 9mm semiautomatic "carbine", and the other was either a .22 LR or a Airsoft AR-15. Neither weapon could be classified as an "assault weapon", but they were by the paid press.
Guess how many Kel-Tec Sub 2000 9mms were available for sale on Armslist at the time of the incident? No peeking!
Three total nationwide in the last 90 days, going for between $200 and $300 used.
Quarterbacking this out, speculating, I suspect the Bad Guys went to someone they know and asked, "What can we get for $500?"
Like gun grabbing fascists, the jihadis say they will be back elsewhere for several more rounds. Let's say that Texas is picked clean for them.
Dunno why the left continues to pass laws which will be applied selectively, but I suspect it is part of the preparation of the coming battlefield. Universal background check laws are only useful under a registration regime, so perhaps they want to plant this turd hoping to grow a pony.
The left are enraged about the Oathkeepers' activity at Sugar Pine mine. To them the issue is saving wild animals, while for the Oathkeepers the confrontation is about scotching federal government overreach. At the moment Oathkeepers are having a devil of a time getting help into Oregon, I suspect because they are controlling the situation so much and so tightly that militias do not want to show up.
I think the Oathkeepers are ignoring the notion of available forces. They are going with the force they want, instead of the force they have.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly unchanged while rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
It should be noted that prices for .223 ammunition, having spiked to a high of .27 per round following the ATF threatened ban on M855 cartridges earlier in 1Q 2015, have now fallen to .24 each. At the start of the year .223 ammunition was .23 each, .02 higher than the previous quarter when it was .21 each. Even at the current .24 each price, .223 ammunition is still lower than it was in the spring of 2014, when it was .27 each. .223 ammunition can be expected to continue its slow fall back to .21 each, barring another federally inspired supply event.
Prices for used rifles and used pistols were mixed.
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Dunno why the left continues to pass laws which will be applied selectively, but I suspect it is part of the preparation of the coming battlefield. Universal background check laws are only useful under a registration regime, so perhaps they want to plant this turd hoping to grow a pony.
I dunno either. I guess the left wants the jihadis and thugs to be the only ones who are armed. Personally, I don't like being a sitting duck. I'm a bit long in the tooth to run--bad knee.
Universal background checks lead to universal firearm registration and paves the way for universal firearm confiscation and totalitarianism. You end up with a thugocracy or Nazi Germany scenario.
[Tolo News] A 21-year-old girl who was gang raped about a year ago in central Bamyan province has arrived in capital Kabul to demand justice after what she said her call for justice was not listened by the provincial authorities.
Bas Gul, resident of Waras district, told TOLOnews that one of the three rapists has been released from the jail.
She claimed that secret efforts were underway for the release of two other rapists.
"It was midnight when three gunnies broke into our home and raped me. They warned me to keep quiet," Gul said, demanding justice from the government.
The police incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... three men in connection to her rape. But Gul claimed that one of the rapists has been released from the jail by the support of some members of Parliament.
"The Attorney General's office wants to send the case back to Bamyan but we want it to be followed here in Kabul in order to prevent attempts for the release of two other rapists," Gul said.
Her brother, Ghulam Sakhi, also claimed that some members of Parliament were trying to release the two other rapists.
"The offenders have trampled our prestige," Sakhi said.
He warned that if the government doesn't punish the rapists, the incidents will likely grow throughout the country.
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Long technical article in New England Journal of Medicine.
The current outbreak of EVD is believed to have begun in December 2013.1 As of April 26, 2015, a total of 26,312 cases of EVD (including 10,899 deaths) had been reported in six countries in West Africa (i.e., Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal), the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.2 The outbreak has also resulted in the largest number of EVD survivors in history.
Among survivors of EVD, late complications that include ocular disease can develop during convalescence. However, few systematic studies have been conducted on post-EVD sequelae, so the incidence and clinical manifestations of post-EVD ocular complications are unclear. Here, we report the clinical course of a man in whom severe, acute, unilateral uveitis developed during the convalescent phase of EVD. We also report the detection of viable EBOV in aqueous humor obtained from the inflamed eye 14 weeks after the onset of the initial symptoms of EVD and 9 weeks after the clearance of viremia...It is reassuring that samples of conjunctivae and tears tested negative for EBOV, a finding that supports previous studies suggesting that patients who recover from EVD pose no risk of spreading the infection through casual contact
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See also: Possible Sexual Transmission of Ebola Virus — Liberia, 2015 A highly likely case of a woman contracting a fatal case of Ebola from a survivor of Ebola 199 days after his likely Ebola onset.
The CDC has changed its recommendations on sexual hygiene with Ebola survivors: "CDC now recommends that contact with semen from male Ebola survivors be avoided until more information regarding the duration and infectiousness of viral shedding in body fluids is known. If male survivors have sex (oral, vaginal, or anal), a condom should be used correctly and consistently every time"
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We're all an active research population for a disease control establishment that refuses to adhere to proven protocols long ago established but viewed as racists, homophobic, et al. These are the 'smart' people cause they have a piece of paper to prove it.
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A couple of so far unanswered questions: How many seroconverters who were never obviously sick from EV infection are now in the Hot Zone? How many of them are capable of transmitting the disease weeks or months in the future?
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So much for all the apodictic statements about EVD in humans made by government officials.
The cavalier attitude towards infectious disease control shown by some professionals last year didn't result in widespread tragedy because of sheer dumb luck.
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said he would press ahead with a planned referendum on the country's membership of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and he promised Scotland the most devolution "anywhere in the world" after his resounding election victory.
"Yes, we will deliver that in-out referendum on our future in Europe," Cameron said as he addressed the media after visiting Queen Elizabeth to start the process of forming a new government.
Cameron said he would move ahead as fast as possible with a plan to give more powers to Scotland, which voted overwhelmingly for the pro-independence Scottish National Party.
"In Scotland, our plans are to create the strongest devolved government anywhere in the world with important powers over taxation, and no constitutional settlement will be complete if it did not offer also fairness to England," he said.
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We'll all have a hearty guffaw at the Rooshun's expense, but recall that in the 1970s only about half of our domestically deployed M-60 tanks were expected to even make the railhead just ten miles away in the event of a general war in Europe.
The first major tank to be developed in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union abruptly grounded to a halt during a rehearsal for Moscow’s big May 9 Victory Day parade, Reuters reports.
The incident occurred yesterday during the final dress rehearsal of the highly anticipated 2015 military parade in Red Square, commemorating Soviet Russia’s victory over the German Third Reich in the Second World War. The parade is expected to involve 16,000 troops, 145 aircraft, 190 armored vehicles and a number of new missile systems (see: “‘Arma Virumque Cano’ – Parades and Militarism in Asia”).
According to the Moscow Times, one of eight T-14 — the world’s first series-produced third generation main battle tank, based upon the new Armata universal chassis system — suddenly stopped in front of the GUM department store while crossing Red Square with its engines still rumbling.
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This makes us even more pathetic: Vlad is beating us with tanks that don't even work. Hitler did the same thing with Czechoslovakia, taking over with tanks pulled into the country by trucks and mule teams. We have leadership issues.
Shame on the Gov't and the Army for permitting them to undergo such a grueling experience. Hat tip to each of them for their bravery, determination, and grit. Checking out of that hotel is no dishonor. Many men have done the same.
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“They’re a strong group of soldiers, who are working their way through the U.S. Army’s most physically and mentally demanding course.”
Uhh.. sorry General. There's another course that's a tad longer and tougher. So tough that sometimes no one finishes. FYI - they do it twice year at Bragg.
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Once you get away from the base and off the roads from the vehicles, the physical requirements ramp up rather quickly. It's a continuous compounding of wear on the body that does require something neither bureaucrats, judges, or critics can supplement...other than just pushing the button and going all nuke right up front. Now that would involve a lot of fallout.
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Once the body breaks down and they enter mountain phase it become a physiology issue, not a desire issue. HT to them for making the effort and going as far as they did.
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Yep,
My Ranger class lost almost 40%.
It was an irregular class, combat vets and reserve officers trying to get a regular commission, SEALS, Marines, and AF Pathfinder types. I learned a lot from the war stories by the camp fires during the mountain phase.
Ranger School is a tough nut and it is more psychological after the Harmony Church phase. You have to will yourself to the finish line.
When we had our graduation ceremony, they cancelled the pass in review, too many of us limping from injuries.
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Once they let tab hunters into the course it was bound to get to this point. Its really too bad. I'm glad to hear the cadre are holding the line on standards for every candidate.
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I concur on the comments about cumulative wear and tear being the biggest challenge - along with simply functioning at the point of total exhaustion and near starvation (you are given high-calorie food - maybe 1.5 meals per day - but when you are moving 20 hours per day under heavy loads, you would need 3 meals per day to break even).
Getting past Benning Phase (which is mostly about verifying your individual fitness to proceed, and teaching you the Ranger Handbook checklists and standard procedures) may be the immediate 9and appropriate) goal for the female students - but that phase is just the preliminary shake-out. The real ball-busting occurs in the later phases:
You are in a 20-man patrol, moving eight km (five miles)) to an objective. It is 2:00 am, pitch dark, and you are moving sideways along the side of the Appalachian mountains in Northern Georgia. It is pouring down rain. Everyone is carrying a minimum of 25 kg (55 lb) of gear - six students are carrying an extra 6 kg (13 lb) - a radio or machine gun. You are just a patrol member. The Ranger Instructor (RI) up front tosses out a "flash-bang" - and everyone drops to the ground. The RI tells the Patrol Leader that he just tripped a booby trap that blew one of his legs off, and killed two of the patrol members behind him. Then, the RI yells out "Ranger 112, report to the RI" - and 112 is you roster number. You and your Ranger Buddy stumble forward - to be told "Ranger 112, you are now the patrol leader. Assess damage, make necessary adjustments to the patrol order, and complete the mission - leaving personnel and no equipment behind."
It is 2:00 am, pitch dark, pouring rain, and you are moving sideways on a 30 degree mountain slope. You must have originally recorded the location of the objective, the artillery fire control registration points, the radio frequencies and call-signs, and encryption book key pages - and you better know exactly where you are on map.
Now - in the darkness - you have to organize the cutting of saplings to create three stretchers to carry out the dead and wounded. That's three casualties, and six stretcher bearers - nine out of 20 patrol members. You have to redistribute the weapons and equipment of those nine, among the other eleven. Now everyone is carrying (or bearing) 40m kg (90 lbs).
Did I mention this is all happening at 2:00 am, in pitch darkness, in a blinding rainstorm?
God help you if anyone leaves behind a weapon, or a radio, or a set of night vision goggles. And God help you if you have no idea where you are on the map (which you feverishly try to figure out, huddled on the ground, on all fours draped under a poncho, using a red-filtered flashlight, trying to sort out a grease-penciled map, that you created 12 hours ago, when the original operations order was dictated.
This same pattern goes on, day after day, night after night - as your calorie-deprived body starts digesting your muscles, putting you into Ketosis - with your brain only half-functioning. By the final 12-day patrol, there is no scheduled sleep - you are moving 19 or 20 hours per day - sleeping in 10-minute increments (alternating with you Ranger Buddy) any time the patrol stops for a few minutes. And - sure enough - many times, both buddies fall asleep - at night, in some marshy scrub-land - and when the patrol moves out, the sleeping duo continue to slumber - and no one notices for ten minutes - until the signal is given to "send up the count" from the rearmost guy (the assistant Patrol Leader) - and the count comes up two short. The patrol stops - and a buddy team is sent back to try to find the missing students.
Near the end, the entire class is basically walking zombies. It take ENORMOUS effort to motivate you mates to rise up and do what is necessary to help you "pass" a patrol for which you are being evaluated.
So - getting past Benning Phase is not the "ticket to paradise" for the women students. It is simply the price of admission to the festivities to come - and cumulative wear and tear (along with scorpion bites, pigmy rattlesnakes, cellulitis from cuts and abrasions, twisted ankles, heat stroke, immersion foot, poison ivy, bee stings - whatever) to try to eliminate you.
I give all the ladies credit for trying - and if any make it - to the real standards - they have my utmost respect. But - we are talking about incessant wear and tear - over many weeks - that you must take in stride, while concentrating on mental details of a complex military mission - never knowing when you might have to take full control - and kick ass when and where necessary - to get walking zombies to perform.
THAT kind of Ranger
Lone Ranger
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Graduate, Class 11-76
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The 8 have gotten recycled... so they go to the Gulag and get another chance in the next class. I know guys who got recycled in every phase and still got tabbed.
Generally, City Week (if that's what they still call it), was designed to weed out the weak sisters, the tab hunters as 49Pan called them. Camp Darby is designed to weed out the tactically unproficient and the personality deficient. As the others pointed out, after Camp Darby, it's really mind over matter: sleep deprivation, food deprivation, head games, exposure.
I cannot describe the feeling of elation I felt, 120 guys crammed into a room at Camp Rudder that should hold 40, when the student First Sergeant did not call my name to pack up and head for the gulag and knowing I was headed for graduation.
BTW, it does not surprise me at all that the remaining females got recycled after Darby. They just don't have the tactical knowledge that the men have after Infantry BOLC or a year-plus in the Ranger BNs. None the Marines and foreign students in my class made it past Darby for what I observed to be the same reason.
Yep that was my experience also but it was SNOWING at Dahlonega for me not raining.
you forgot to mention the live chicken, two potatoes, carrots and onions they gave us one day in the Mountain Phase.
Speaking of the ladies, I occasionally watch professional tennis, usually Wimbledon and the US Open. I think there are a couple of those 6-foot plus lady tennis players that are sturdy enough to cut it in Ranger School. I think the 5-4 x 130 lbs. women are not going to cut it.
Ranger school taught me a lot about myself and about human nature.
What it taught me saved my life more than once.
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I never went to Ranger school. I did pick them up in my aircraft and throw fried chicken and candy bars to them in the back during their mountain phase... Later in life I flew the regiment guys in our little birds, or should I say on them as they rode on the outside. Tough sons of bitches, I hold them in high regard. These nine girls must be pretty tough, if they are recycling them it looks like they might have a chance. They are in a gut check of a lifetime and I wish them the best! I saw pictures of them, shaved heads and all. If they will let aviators and admin clerks run the course, women should be allowed to hunt the tab as well.
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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.
[NATION.PK] The main suspect in the rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal has been 
David Cameron
