How does one "provoke" an acid attack? Ask an Afghan. Or a Pakistani. Or a Saudi. Or a Yemeni. Or a Syrian...
[FOXNEWS] A 17-year-old in Essex was sentenced to eight years in jail Friday for an acid attack on a group of friends at a train station, The Guardian reported.
Alexander Bassey, who reportedly showed no remorse after the March 22 attack, admitted to three charges of causing grievous harm, according to the report. The three victims suffered permanent scars and one of them may have suffered a life-changing eye injury.
The Sun reported that the teens said they thought they were going to die when splashed with the highly corrosive substance that “burned into their flesh.”
A video provided by the British Transport Police showed the brief interaction at the South Ockendon station in Essex. Police said it shows Bassey running up to the teens who were sitting on a bench on the train platform.
He takes out what appeared to be a water bottle and squeezes its contents out into the vicitims’ direction. The teens can be seen running. The Sun said the substance was an alkaline liquid.
Jason Corden-Bowden, the prosecutor in the case, said Bassey “went out that evening with a bottle of highly corrosive industrial strength drain cleaner with the intention of brining harm to someone.”
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[Hot Air] This report from the BBC is confirmed by first hand accounts from not only the Israeli team, but from the hateful Lebanese team as well. More on the Lebanese reaction in a moment. Here are the basics from BBC: Perhaps the Lebanese team got the memo.
Lebanese athletes refused to share a bus with the Israel team to get to Friday’s Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony, members of both teams said.
Lebanon and Israel are officially at war and have no diplomatic relations.
The incident happened as the Lebanon team sat on the bus waiting to head to the Maracana stadium, before demanding the Israeli athletes must not board. The Israeli team refused to be bullied and they boarded the bus heading for the Kumbaya, world peace ceremonies.
Hateful little men pretending to be big. More of the same will be seen throughout this Olympics, just like many other international sports competitions. Update at 1:00 pm ET:
[USA Today] More than 40 people were injured when a railing gave way during Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa's concert in southern New Jersey on Friday night, according to a county dispatch.
A three-foot railing collapsed at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, N.J., sending fans tumbling to the concrete below, according to multiple published reports. The railing separated fans from a sloping lawn near the concert area.
42 concertgoers were reportedly transported to local hospitals, most with minor injuries.
[History.com] On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. So at 1:56 a.m., a specially adapted B-29 bomber, called "Bock's Car," after its usual commander, Frederick Bock, took off from Tinian Island under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records).
General Leslie R. Groves, the man responsible for organizing the Manhattan Project, which solved the problem of producing and delivering the nuclear explosion, estimated that another atom bomb would be ready to use against Japan by August 17 or 18--but it was not necessary. Even though the War Council still remained divided ("It is far too early to say that the war is lost," opined the Minister of War), Emperor Hirohito, by request of two War Council members eager to end the war, met with the Council and declared that "continuing the war can only result in the annihilation of the Japanese people..." The Emperor of Japan gave his permission for unconditional surrender.
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There was a coup attempt on the 15th by junior officers, who were going to "free" the Emperor from the clutches of the Japanese diplomats but it collapsed when the General commanding the Home Guard wouldn't support them. The General committed seppukku later that day.
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Notice that the evil is never call upon those who knew they had lost the war, but refused to take the opportunity to do the unthinkable till after the bombs were dropped. Never hold the Japanese militarists responsible. They could have called it quits when Germany surrendered. Instead they were training Japanese school girls to die holding a bamboo pole with knife in the end of it*, to try to save their worthless skins. Make no mistake. They were the evil. They didn't care about civilians deaths. They ordered their own citizens at Saipan and Okinawa to commit suicide rather than be captured by Americans. Remember Manila.
*see World at War, episode Japan, last two minutes for the archival film.
My father was a CB on Saipan and the only war story he ever told me after having a few drinks at the bowling alley 30 years later was about cleaning up the rocks and beaches after the Japanese defeat.
Dealing with dead women and children left deep scars.
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It was is their way. Most of the women and children who jumped were Korean farm workers. Japanese soldiers rarely jumped preferring to die by blast or shot to the eye. Saipan was the first island assaulted with any kind of civilian population and the last until Okinawa. Tinian was fine flat county with a large number of forced laborers to cut sugar cane. Their losses were low since the 4th MD surprised the hell out of them.
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Alternative explanation: USSR Declares War on Japan August 08, 1945. Japanese high officials had a Forlorn Hope that Stalin could be persuaded to soften the US position.
The atomic bombs did serve as an balm to Japanese pride: it wasn't that their Army, Navy, and Industry was overwhelmed, No!, The US Cheated! With A-Bombs! Cheaters!
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Then there is the theory that Truman dropped the bomb to convince Stalin not to mess with him.
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After photos of G.I. beheadings started filtering back to the U.S. rules of war were out the window--little mercy was shown to the Japanese during the Pacific islands campaigns. Today, there does not seem to be the outrage with regards to beheadings, burning prisoners alive, drownings in cages or rapes of civilian women by ISIS. PC has run amok. There are no consequences anymore. Photos.
A police officer says Puntland security forces have detained hundreds of Ethiopian migrants heading to Yemen in the coastal city of Bosaso on Saturday.
I cannot imagine how Yemen would be preferable to Ethiopia, but then again I've never been to either place...
Col Abdihakin Hussein, the police boss of Bar region, told reporters that the army netted 200 of people, including Somalis who were trying to depart from Bosaso coast. Hussein said the arrested migrants have determined to risk their lives to try and enter Yemen on unseaworthy boats in search for a better life in Saudi Arabia.
Define "better" life...
The illegal Ethiopian migrants, along with the Somalis who have been arrested by Puntland state police are being questioned at Bosaso detention police station.
The war-torn Yemen is mainly used as a transit country, with African migrants often aiming to move on to neighbouring oil-rich Gulf nations to find work.
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[DAWN] Three decades after media mogul Rupert Murdoch instigated its demise as the centuries-old home of Britannia’s newspaper industry, London’s Fleet Street bade farewell on Friday to its last two journalists.
Fleet Street once housed thousands of news hounds, editors and printers working for the country’s biggest national papers as well as international and provincial publications. While the British press is still collectively known as "Fleet Street", there will no longer be any working journalists there after the Scottish-based Sunday Post newspaper closed its London operation.
"It’s a far sadder day for journalism than it is for me personally," said Darryl Smith, 43, one of the street’s last two "hacks". "Journalism is no more in Fleet Street."
The thoroughfare became synonymous with publishing from 1500 when Wynkyn de Worde established a printing press. The first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was launched in 1702.
In the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, the street was ideally located for journalists, being in walking distance of the city’s financial district, the Royal Courts of Justice and politicians in Westminster.
Murdoch, who bought the News of the World tabloid in 1969, was at the heart of the street’s decline when in 1986 he moved his newspaper stable, which by then included the Times and Sunday Times broadsheets and the Sun tabloid, to a new purpose-built operation in east London, where new technology replaced the hot metal printing presses.
Within three years, all other national newspapers had followed, anxious to cut costs in an industry now decimated by the growth of the internet. Journalists have long departed the old Rooters headquarters at number 85, now the site of a smart restaurant.
Nowadays the street that once echoed to the sounds of clattering typewriters is the haunt of bankers and accountants; the Art Deco building that once housed the Daily Express is now home to Goldman Sachs.
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....where new technology replaced the hot metal printing presses.
..and a horde of union (we hates Baggins management) [now former] employees.
Igor Plotnitsky, president of the Lugansk People's Republic was wounded in a bombing attack on Saturday morning, according to Russian language news accounts.
Plotnitsky is reported in serious condition, but he is expected to survive the attack.
According to a news account on korespondent.net, the attack took place at 0750 hrs in Lugansk city at the intersection of Karpinski and Vatutin when the Toyota SUV he was riding in passed a roadside directional bomb packed with about 15 kilograms of explosives.
Though speculation as to the culprits has been muted in Lugansk official media, Ukrainian officials have denied involvement in the attack, themselves speculating that the attack may be part of a larger power struggle within Lugansk.
Adviser to Ukrainian president Igor Poroshenko, Alexander Motuzyanik said in a separate korrespondent.net report that Lugansk officials have been involved in an internal power struggle for "cash" and resources. Other news reports say that recent statements by Plotnitsky regarding how his forces would respect the truce regardless of what happens in Donetsk may have deepened a rift between the two republics.
Motuzyanik also pointed to past attacks on commanders of military formations who have been killed through unknown circumstances. The best known, Alexei Mozgovoy, commander of the Ghost Brigade in Alchevsk was killed almost a year ago in a bomb and small arms attack. The involvement of Plotnitsky and his government was vehemently denied by both Lugansk and Donetsk officials at the time. Some of Mozgovoy's aides at the time openly fingered Plotnitsky in that attack.
The death of Mozgovoy, one in a line of several commanders who were killed in roadside attacks, did not set well with other formation commanders in Lugansk.
A number of other rebel formation commanders in both Donetsk and Lugansk have seen a violent end since the winter of 2015, many of them Cossacks who had been angered by Lugansk's insistence on dealing with Ukrainian authorities by selling products for cash. The most famous of these, Colonel Pavel Dremov was killed in December, 2015, seven months after he made severe public criticisms of military commanders in the Debaltsevo defensive operation in February, 2015. Those remarks came on the heels of Dremov being awarded the rank of colonel and an honorific for his regiment.
Like Dremov, Mozgovoy has severely criticized the leadership of both Donetsk and Lugansk for the defensive operation in Debaltsevo.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- The president of Planned Parenthood is heading to New Hampshire to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the state’s Democratic candidates.
Cecile Richards will attend events in Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth on Saturday and Sunday. Richards will kick off canvassing events and host a "women’s house party," focusing on women’s health and family issues.
Access to reproductive health care and other women’s health services, including abortion, is a core issue for Democrats, and Planned Parenthood is a key ally for the party. Democrats statewide campaign on women’s health issues and have slammed Republicans who oppose Planned Parenthood.
Clinton’s campaign says Richards will also talk about the gender pay gap, paid family leave programs and Clinton’s economic policies.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A man was killed and two others injured, police said on Friday.
The incident took place at Ghori Town after a man and three of his sons responded to a call regarding a scuffle between the man’s daughter and her husband.
The man, who is a naib qasid, went to Ghori Town where he and his sons exchanged harsh words with his son-in-law and his brother. Later they attacked each other with batons. Two of the man’s sons and another man, Hamid, from the other party, were maimed. They were shifted to a hospital where Hamid died.
The naib qasid told the police he received a call from his son-in-law asking him to come and take his daughter away, as he had divorced her. The police, however, suspected the call was actually made by the man’s daughter and not his son-in-law. The man, two of his sons and his daughter were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! .
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Things like this almost make me appreciate lawyers.
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I took a class in baton twirling when I was young, Shipman. When Mr. Wife started studying staff fighting, I noticed that the skills were exactly the same. It was interesting picking it up again so I could oblige him with two man forms.
[DAWN] Five suspects were killed after an attempted robbery in Burewala city, some 45km from here, on Friday afternoon.
The suspects forcibly entered the house of Mirza Jawed, a UK-based businessman who was visiting his hometown, in New Model Town of Burewala. They took the family hostage in a room. One of the family members informed police through Whatsapp.
Model Town police led by Station House Officer (SHO) Malik Tahir Aziz reached the house. On seeing police, the suspects opened fire on them that was retaliated. Two hours later, the five suspects were found dead.
According to SHO Aziz, the suspects used a car with a fake registration number. They were identified as Ziafat, Naeem, Imran, Sajid and Raja Khawar.
District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Saleem told Dawn the suspects were involved in dozens of cases of dacoity and murder in Sargodha. Police seized five 9mm pistols and a number of bullets.
He said these pistols were only used in anti-terrorist operations by security forces. Police were collecting criminal data from various towns, including Sargodha, Kamalia, Khushab, and other cities of the province.
He added the bodies were sent to the Burewala THQ Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
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Model Town police were initially stymied by their inability move. Luckily Mr. Hands came to the rescue and victory was assured. Unfortunately a civilian, one Mr. Bill was cut down in cross fire while he was walk Spot is dog across the street. First aid had to be suspended when a Sluggo Services garbage truck ran over Mr. Bill and then back up.
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.
So 'bus' them all home. 
[DAWN] Three decades after media mogul Rupert Murdoch instigated its demise as the centuries-old home of 
