[NYDailyNews] The killer who crept up behind an imam and his friend near a Queens mosque and shot both men in the head may have been settling a score in a feud between Muslims and Hispanics, police sources said early Monday.
And he may have left behind another victim who unwittingly held the clue that solved the crime, the sources said.
The suspected killer was taken into custody Sunday night but had not been charged or identified, according to the sources. Police officials would not confirm whether a suspect was nabbed.
Video of the horrific Saturday afternoon murders of mosque leader Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 65, at Liberty Ave. and 79th St. in Ozone Park showed the brazen crime to be a planned execution.
But the killer may have gotten sloppy in his haste after pulling the trigger and hit a bicyclist with his car, sources said.
The cyclist took down the car's license plate number and gave it to police, who began tracking down their man.
Members of an NYPD Regional Fugitive Task Force were conducting what turned out to be a "brief surveillance" of the suspect in Queens when he rammed an unmarked cop car, sources said. That's when officers nabbed him.
Investigators were questioning him early Monday and were waiting for a warrant to check his home.
Sources pointed to an ongoing feud between Muslims and Hispanics in the neighborhood, saying the shooting may have been payback after a group of Muslims allegedly attacked some Hispanics a few weeks earlier.
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[Telegraph] Riot police were summoned and a man was wounded by a harpoon when a mass brawl erupted at a beach in Corsica, apparently triggered by a tourist taking a photo of women in 'burkinis'. The riot took place on Saturday in a cove near the village of Sisco in the north of the island.
Sisco mayor Ange-Pierre Vivoni said, "It happened because a tourist was taking photos,” said , the local mayor. And the Maghrebins (North Africans) didn't want to have their photos taken. It was quite a trivial matter to begin with."
Things got out of hand when young, North African men harangued the tourist who took the pictures, prompting local youngsters to intervene in defense of the visitor. Local media said that a group of older North African men soon arrived, some armed with hatchets and harpoons, and took on the young Corsicans.
The tumult lasted for several hours, during which three cars were burned and four people were taken to hospital, one of them for an injury caused by a harpoon. A pregnant woman was among those hospitalized.
Tensions were still high on Sunday, when a mob of around 500 gathered in the nearby town of Bastia and tried to enter a housing estate with a large immigrant population, chanting, "To arms, this is our place and we will go where we want."
Riot police held back the mob, which eventually dispersed.
You don't see this every day...a hacking group claims to have hacked a U.S. intelligence agency-linked hacking group and has put the 'best' cyber weapons up for auction.
When Kaspersky Lab released a report on the cyberespionage "Equation Group," researchers said the threat actor "surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques." The group's toolset resembled what is used by U.S. intelligence agencies and included an attack that could reprogram your hard drive firmware. Kaspersky didn't go so far as to accuse the NSA of being linked to the Equation Group, but many news outlets and security researchers did.
Well now a group dubbed the Shadow Brokers claim to have hacked the Equation Group and put the possible NSA-linked cyber weapons up for auction.
Quite honestly this could be fake ‐ even the broken English announcement could be faked to make the attackers seem to not use English as their native language ‐ but the Shadow Brokers said on GitHub:
How much you pay for enemies cyber weapons? Not malware you find in networks. Both sides, RAT + LP, full state sponsor tool set? We find cyber weapons made by creators of stuxnet, duqu, flame. Kaspersky calls Equation Group. We follow Equation Group traffic. We find Equation Group source range. We hack Equation Group. We find many many Equation Group cyber weapons. You see pictures. We give you some Equation Group files free, you see. This is good proof no? You enjoy!!! You break many things. You find many intrusions. You write many words. But not all, we are auction the best files.
[History Channel] In the late fourth century, the Western Roman Empire crumbled after a nearly 500-year run as the world’s greatest superpower. Historians have blamed the collapse on hundreds of different factors ranging from military failures and crippling taxation to natural disasters and even climate change. Still others argue that the Roman Empire didn’t really fall in 476 A.D., since its eastern half continued for another thousand years in the form of the Byzantine Empire. While just how--and when--the Empire fell remains a subject of ongoing debate, certain theories have emerged as the most popular explanations for Western Rome’s decline and disintegration. Read on to discover eight reasons why one of history’s most legendary empires finally came crashing down.
1. Invasions by Barbarian tribes
2. Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor
3. The rise of the Eastern Empire
4. Overexpansion and military overspending
5. Government corruption and political instability
6. The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes
7. Christianity and the loss of traditional values
8. Weakening of the Roman legions
The Eastern Empire is still Rome. It lasted another 1000 years under Christianity. Scratch those two "causes".
Slavery and economic instability were not new, and the replacements still had both. There's a collection of Roman coins at the Palazzo Massimo Museum that show the coinage fluctuating from silver to base to silver and back -- while the empire was still growing. Scratch those.
The military was weakened because of corruption; part of the answer was to hire entire tribes in exchange for Roman citizenship and land. Fewer ethnic or cultural Romans served because they we'r the most productive workers, and the Senators valued their income more than the safety of the Imperial fringes.
Political instability was so common -- in the early and late Empire -- that stability was remarkable -- and under the Eastern Empire the one time succession went the way everyone expected, they were so shocked they gave the emperor the by-name "born to the purple".
Rome fell largely because the political elite stopped caring about Romans so much as themselves.
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Rome fell largely because the political elite stopped caring about Romans so much as themselves.
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Rob - Agree! Would your 'political elite' cause fall somewhere under #5, with #2 and many of the rest as helpers ?
Yes, over-simplification indeed. Author Edward Gibbon would be appalled. I've come to appreciate simple.
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Anders article and the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire doesn't translate directly into modern times items one-for-one but there are definitely parallels today. Invasions of the barbarbian tribes could be translated into unrestricted immigration of often "hostiles" with little vetting or assimilation, loss of values (✔), economic troubles (✔), government corruption (✔), and weakening of the military (✔).
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The military was weakened because of corruption; part of the answer was to hire entire tribes in exchange for Roman citizenship and land
For which the barbarians developed the skills and organizational abilities that the Romans had bringing them on par in battles. See - The Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378)
Remember the late Republic and Early Empire, capital was created through conquest and looting of enriched neighbors. Part of the reason the East lasted so long was it was far more economically viable as a region than the West. Once the expansion was done, the availability of new economic resources became a zero sum game.
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B - that's why they called the follow on the "Holy Roman Empire". There was still prestige in the name for some, if nothing more some sense of legitimacy to the hierarchical position they had carved for themselves. See also - Caesar, Czar, Kaiser, et al.
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Did you not see the episode where Nostradamus predicted that aliens would time transport Hitler to Roman times where he assumed the identity of Julius Caesar then faked his death and was re-transported to 1935?
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Last spring, the wife and I got off the cruise ship and took a day tour of Olympia, where the guide told us they held the Olympic games for a thousand years. Wars were put on standby for a couple of weeks, plus travel time, so the games could continue. There are still statues erected to the cheaters who got caught. Dopers were caught by tasting, or so we were told.
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What causes nations or empires to be defeated and to disappear?
There are two essentials; there must be external enemies willing to take over. And the entity must lose the ability to defend itself from them.
Surprisingly enough, a long period of internal peace and external security is the main cause of the second cause.
Until near the end of the Fourth Century, there was constant strife within and without Western Europe. The Germanic tribes were mainly hostile to the Roman Empire, and the heads of the legions that defended the Empire from them, when not occupied by such efforts, dreamed of widening their powers to other areas. Most of the time there were several "Caesars" and two or three "Caesar Augustus's" among them, and these (who we call emperors) were constantly fighting, and fighting off would be rivals from among the legion leaders.
The Emperor Julian (the Apostate) was a highly successful military leader until his death fighting the Persians. He came up with a solution that created internal stability. He required that every official city or town in the empire create a locally selected council, which had to approve of all its expenses. This meant that military leaders were deprived of their absolute rule, and greatly weakened their powers. It cut down on internal strife, as intended, but also put economic stress on the legions. They became less attractive for locals. As the Germanic tribes became more comfortable with Roman life, they were happy to serve in the legions, which paid better than alternatives at home. The Western Romans, experiencing too much peace lost interest in and ability to defend themselves.
In the East, there were Turks and Persians and Arabs and others who were not subdued, and who required its Empire to keep on its toes until modern times.
Funny that nobody seems to remember this.
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#6 many within the far flung empire continued to consider themselves Romans
A plague on the vulgar barbarians
Who, after our fall, have the arrogance
To -- outside this city
(it makes a pol giddy!) --
Consider themselves, all, Americans!
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Well let's just ask some of History Channel's panel of history lecturers:
"The Romans. Did not. Pay reparations."
-Jesse Jackson jr.
"Resisted they must."
-Al Sharpton
"So there I was, when the walls fell."
-Brian Williams
"The hostati acted stupidly."
Henry Gates
"They did not fight well against Vercingetter getter getter ix."
John McCain
*If you cannot tell whether these are real quotes, they are not. However, they were all presented as experts in history on various programs, such as The History of US and Barbarians Rising.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Fighting flared in South Sudan late on Saturday southwest of the capital between forces loyal to the president and those backing the opposition, after festivities last month raised fears of a slide back into civil war.
Did the civil war ever stop in South Sudan?
Steven Lodu Onseimo, the information minister for Yei region where Saturday's festivities took place, told Rooters two civilians and a soldier were killed but said the area was calm on Sunday.
Witnesses had reported heavy gunfire around Yei, which lies on a road linking the capital Juba with neighbouring Uganda.
The government and opposition each blamed the other side.
Following the fighting in July, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a 4,000-strong protection force to support the existing 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission.
"Our forces have managed to close Juba-Yei road. Our forces destroyed the government’s convoy that attacked our forces in the area," opposition front man James Gatdet said by telephone.
The Yei information minister described it as an "ambush" of a government convoy by the opposition.
Political differences between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar first erupted into conflict in late 2013. They signed a peace deal in August 2015, but sporadic fighting has continued.
Machar had recently returned to Juba to take up his position as deputy again when the July festivities flared. Machar then withdrew with his forces from the capital.
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[Breitbart] A row has erupted between the Turkish and Austrian governments following a decision by the Turkish Constitutional court to effectively lower the age of consent in Turkey to 12.
The decision, made last month, was reported in Austrian newspapers whose headlines were used in news tickers at Vienna’s international airport. This caused Turkey to summon Austria’s charge d’affairs on Saturday. The headline has now been removed from the ticker. Can there be any doubt where this is headed ?
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Just creates a longer woman's 'child bearing' cycle in their minds.
Nothing to do with the health of the mother or children. Everything to do with 'colonization'.
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Given the evident proclivities of our ruling class (See Epstein's island), the wholesale importation of Muzzies could be viewed as an attempt at the legitimization and legalization of p***philia by the uh, backdoor, as it were..
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's foreign ministry has summoned the Austrian charge d'affaires in protest at what it said was a "false" news ticker at Vienna airport about the age of consent, further damaging ties between the two countries.
Ankara voiced fury at the headline broadcast on screens at the airport which said Turkey allowed sex with children under the age of 15.
"This headline tarnishes the image of Turkey, and is false," a Turkish diplomat said after the Austrian envoy was summoned to the ministry on Saturday.
The Turkish constitutional court last month ruled in favor of removing an article in the criminal code which characterizes all sexual acts with a child of less 15 years as "sexual abuse".
Relations between Ankara and Vienna have taken a dive in recent days, with several Austrian ministers speaking out against Turkey's longstanding bid to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , particularly in the wake of the massive purge that followed the July 15 coup bid.
Austrian Defense Minister Hans-Peter Doskozil has compared Turkey to a "dictatorship", while Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu decried Austria as the "capital of radical racism".
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Hillary Clinton, who prides herself on the details of public policy, has said little about what is now the most ambitious and expensive proposal on her agenda: making public college tuition free for most Americans.
On the campaign trail, she typically offers a sentence, maybe two, about the plan. Sometimes it goes unmentioned altogether. Her campaign has offered few specifics about how the program would work, hasn't said how much money states would have to provide or where the program would fall on her list of priorities.
The campaign website no longer lists a cost for the program, though campaign aides said they estimate it would take $500 billion in new federal spending over 10 years, $150 billion more than the college plan she put out last summer. Others estimate the costs would be much higher.
Certainly when the deans, chancellors, chairpersons and university presidents get done the costs will be much higher...
The sketchiness may owe something to the way the free-tuition plan came to be part of Mrs. Clinton's platform. Rather than taking months or years to craft, like many of her other proposals, it was inserted as part of negotiations in July to win the backing of Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders. Besides, who would want to flesh out the terms of a bribe in public?
Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, who tracks higher education and other issues at the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, said it was obvious that the plan was put together to win over Mr. Sanders.
Most of Mrs. Clinton's policy proposals "are five pages of dense text with very specific ways of how they're going to pay for it and how much it would cost," she said. "This sounded much more like something intended to energize a campaign rally."
The Clinton plan still is more detailed than most of the ideas put forth by her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, who doesn't typically give the cost of his plans and sometimes changes significant planks. Still, Mrs. Clinton prides herself on her policy chops and says candidates owe it to voters to be clear about their plans. Mr. Trump's campaign didn't respond to a request for comment.
Mrs. Clinton says she would pay for the college plan with higher taxes on the wealthy, including new limits on deductions.
Does that include all the donors to the Clinton Foundation...
Campaign aides said that once school is back in session and younger voters are paying more attention, she would talk more about the college plan.
Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson said Mrs. Clinton is "deeply committed" to the revised plan. "Hillary Clinton put forward an ambitious proposal in the primary and, after listening to voters on the campaign trail, expanded it to more effectively reach the goal of erasing the barrier of debt to a college of education," he said.
Passing this program into law will be a challenge, though, particularly if Republicans continue to control at least one house of Congress. Even some Democrats think Mrs. Clinton's first proposal would have a better chance and worry that the revised version is too heavy a lift.
The new Clinton policy was described in a single paragraph issued by the campaign in early July amid talks with Mr. Sanders, who had campaigned against her in the primary on a more expansive free-tuition plan. His concept was that public colleges should be free for all, like public high schools.
Mrs. Clinton had already put forth a detailed plan last summer to assure that students could attend public colleges without borrowing money for tuition, but she said families should contribute what they could afford. To win over Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Clinton agreed that students in families earning $85,000 a year or less would be assured free tuition, with that threshold climbing to $125,000 over four years.
The political goals were clear. The policy was a priority for Mr. Sanders, and after her shift, he endorsed her. She also put herself in position to appeal to younger voters, who overwhelmingly backed Mr. Sanders in the primaries and are an important part of the coalition that twice elected President Barack Obama.
In his speech at July's Democratic National Convention endorsing Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Sanders specifically cited this policy shift. It was one of several she made that were key to winning his support, including an agreement to back additional funding for community health centers.
Mary Schwalm/Reuters Sen. Bernie Sanders, right, endorsed Mrs. Clinton at an event in Portsmouth, N.H., on July 12. At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Mr. Sanders cited Mrs. Clinton's shift on college-tuition policy, which helped to win his support.
For now, the new plan appears to cut against two points Mrs. Clinton made during the primaries.
First, she had long described her plan, which she calls the New College Compact, as a balanced way of making sure all players have "skin in the game," including federal and state governments, universities, families and students.
"I think it ought to be a compact," she said during a Democratic debate last year. "Families contribute, kids contribute."
Under her new plan, 80% of families would qualify for tuition-free school, even if they could afford some contribution. A Clinton aide replied by noting that students are still expected to have a job that will help pay expenses, and said that it is most important that government pay its fair share.
Second, one of her chief criticisms of the Sanders tuition-free plan was that it relied on governors, including critical Republican governors, to put up one-third of the funding. But her plan requires substantial state contributions as well, though her campaign hasn't specified how much.
The Clinton aide said states will be more likely to fund her plan because it would be phased in gradually.
She did stick by her view, voiced often during the primaries, that the government shouldn't offer free tuition to very rich families.
Other aspects of the Clinton plan would lower borrowing costs for existing borrowers and those who attend private colleges, and would make community college free.
Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Economic Issues
Meantime, Mrs. Clinton appears to be offering another change to her program that she hasn't yet explained. In an economic speech on Thursday, she promised "tuition-free" college for the middle class, and "debt-free college" for everyone.
Aides said debt-free is a goal meant to assure no student has to borrow money to pay any college costs, including room, board and other expenses, which can represent half the total costs. That goes beyond her original concept and isn't detailed in the pages of facts sheets provided by her campaign.
Many advocates welcome the expansions. Tamara Draut, of the advocacy group Demos, which promotes debt-free college, said it is essential that students be able to pay for all college expenses without taking loans, and that this is her understanding of the Clinton plan. She said she expects more details to come.
"I think we're a long way from governing and there is more detail there than her opponent's policy platforms, for sure," she said.
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Current student debt is just north of a trillion dollars. She'd have to wipe that slate clean and pay off the banks, otherwise, it wouldn't be 'fair'. Don't forget to add that to the 'cost'.
Then I'd need to be compensated for my student loans, which were all paid off within (about) five years of graduation. Oh, and include forty years of interest, Ms. Clinton. Thank you.
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No free tuition or forgiven loans for STEM students, sorry.
A Navy sailor facing the possibility of years in prison for taking a handful of classified photos inside a nuclear submarine is making a bid for leniency by citing the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over classified information authorities say was found in her private email account. Let the fallout begin.
Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, 29, is set to be sentenced Friday on a single felony charge of retaining national defense information without permission. In May, Saucier pleaded guilty in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn., admitting that while working on the U.S.S. Alexandria in 2009 he took and kept six photos showing parts of the sub's propulsion system he knew to be classified.
The defense and prosecutors agree that sentencing guidelines in the case call for a prison term of 63 to 78 months, but defense attorney Derrick Hogan cited the treatment of Clinton as he argued in a filing last week that Saucier should get probation instead.
"Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Secretary of State Hilary [sic] Clinton...has come under scrutiny for engaging in acts similar to Mr. Saucier," Hogan wrote. He noted that FBI Director James Comey said 110 emails in 52 email chains in Clinton's account contained information deemed classified at the time, including eight chains with "top secret" information and 36 with "secret" information. Not to mention the compartmentalized info. But hey, that does that matter since it was a while ago?
"In our case, Mr. Saucier possessed six (6) photographs classified as 'confidential/restricted,' far less than Clinton's 110 emails," Hogan wrote. "It will be unjust and unfair for Mr. Saucier to receive any sentence other than probation for a crime those more powerful than him will likely avoid." I suspect one of the reasons it took so long for Shrillary's case to be decided was trying to figure out a way to allow folks like Saucier to be prosecuted while allowing Shrillary to "walk". It will be interesting to see what the judge magically comes up with as being the distinction that doesn't really make a real difference.
There are distinctions between the cases. Saucier admitted as part of a plea bargain that he "knew from his training and his specialized work upon the submarine" that the photos contained classified information and he wasn't authorized to take them. He also admitted that after being confronted by law enforcement in 2012 he destroyed a laptop, camera and memory card.
Clinton has said she didn't know any information on her server was classified, although Comey has said anyone in Clinton's position "should have known that an unclassified system was no place" for some of the subjects being discussed. While Clinton had tens of thousands of emails erased from her system in 2014, she did so with the advice of lawyers and before the FBI investigation was underway.
Saucier's drive for leniency may ultimately benefit more from the treatment of some of his fellow submates than from the handling of cases involving Clinton or other prominent officials. Hogan cites incidents involving two other Navy sailors on the Alexandria who were caught taking photos in classified spaces on the vessel. One received a one rank reduction and was docked $560 in pay. The other was just docked $560 in pay. Both cases were handled through a Captain's Mast hearing used for relatively minor cases. And maybe this will be how Shrillary's case will be separated from Sauciers. Avoidance.
Letters submitted on Saucier's behalf attempt to shift some of the blame to the Navy, both over the command climate for junior sailors on the Alexandria and lax policies in that era towards electronics on subs.
"We worked them too hard, we didn't give them as much time off as we should have, we didn't treat them with the dignity and respect that they deserved, and we never let off. Ever," wrote retired Chief Machinists Mate Scott Nelson, who worked with Saucier on the Alexandria. "The men were showing signs of cracking left and right...The human pieces of the machine were being pushed past their limits."
"I believe that we, the leadership own a significant portion of the blame for creating the environment where these men thought this was a good idea," Nelson added.
Another former colleague of Saucier's, Ryan Meldrum, called Saucier a "war hero" and wrote that the case should have been handled in the Navy by bumping the sailor down a rank.
"I am sorry to see that this is taking up time in Federal District Court, but I pray that this can be disposed of so as to not dissuade other patriots such as Kris from serving our great country," said Meldrum, who recent graduated from Pace University law school.
"Kris does not deserve what he is going through....If you look at the Navy records you will see countless mishandling classified material cases where many people are still in the Navy and many more where people were asked to get out," added Mark Robb, another former submate who said he was pushed out of the Navy over a similar incident in 2014.
Some submitting letters on Saucier's behalf attribute the relatively tough treatment he seems to be receiving to "serious" allegations his ex-wife leveled at him early in the investigation. Saucier's defense disputes a probation officer's conclusion that the sailor intended to share some of the photos with "foreign agencies," an allegation that prosecutors have not made publicly.
Still, court records show the probation officer is recommending Saucier receive less than the five-year, three-month sentence called for by federal guidelines. The precise recommendations from the probation official and prosecutors have not been made public. Or maybe false lenience now, then relying on this being a one-off leniency combined with the Memory Hole effect regarding Shrillary's emails.
Saucier remains in the Navy, but expects to be dismissed from the service with an "other than honorable" discharge, the defense filing said. Maybe we should dismiss Shrillary while we're at it.
An Iowa man was arrested Thursday and was charged with desecrating the U.S. flag after hanging it upside down beneath a Chinese flag in protest at his home.
The Fort Dodge Messenger reported that Homer Martz, an Army veteran, of Somers, put up the flag to protest an oil pipeline being built without his consent next to a well that supplies water to his home. Martz said he was arrested at by Calhoun County sheriffs at around 11 a.m.
"Martz said he didn't know he was breaking the law. According to Iowa code 718A, Martz was charged with a misdemeanor because he tried to "publicly mutilate, deface, defile or defy, trample upon, cast contempt upon, satirize, deride or burlesque, either by words or act, such flag, standard, color, ensign, shield, or other insignia of the United States, or flag, ensign, great seal, or other insignia of this state."
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The flag is fine. It's a signal of a nation under duress. How is this desecrating the flag? It seems more like a free speech issue.
[DAWN] JHELUM: The former husband of Samia Shahid, a British Pak woman who died of ’unnatural causes’ while visiting family here last month, has confessed to killing his ex-wife, sources in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police revealed to DawnNews on Saturday.
A police officer part of the investigation team, seeking anonymity, told DawnNews that Shakeel had confessed to strangling Samia to death after drugging her.
Also read: Samia’s former husband has ’criminal record’
Police said Shakeel had killed her after Samia refused to part ways with her second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim. The accused went on to say he acted alone and that the dear departed’s father, Chaudhry Shahid, did not have anything to do with the murder.
Shakeel was nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! after his interim bail expired. He was then presented in a local court that sent him into police custody on a four-day physical remand.
Earlier, British MP Naz Shah had written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to intervene in the case.
British police started a probe into Samia Shahid's death after her husband Syed Mukhtar Kazim claimed she was killed while visiting her family in Pakistain because she married someone who was seen as an outsider.
Kazim, a Pak national, said he received news his wife Samia, a Bradford resident of Pak origin, had died while visiting her relatives in Pandori village near Mangla Dam.
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[The National] Abu Dhabi // A Jordanian writer was on Sunday charged with offending Islam after he shared a cartoon depicting God and heaven that sparked anger in the kingdom.
Nahed Hattar, a newspaper columnist, were tossed into the calaboose on Saturday after he reposted the image on his Facebook page.
The cartoon, the origins of which are unclear, lampooned how gunnies view the afterlife, but immediately sparked accusations of blasphemy and distorting the image of Islam.
Hattar, a leftist writer known for his critical views against Jordanians of Paleostinian origin and a staunch supporter of the Assad regime in Syria, shared the cartoon to his Facebook page on Friday.
The cartoon depicts God with a white beard talking with an Death Eater who is lying in bed. Depictions of God are considered an insult.
Amman public prosecutor, Judge Abdullah Abul-Ghanam, said Hattar was charged with inciting sectarian strife and racism and insulting religion. He was remanded in jug pending further investigation.
Hattar could face up to three years in prison. The prosecutor also banned media coverage of the case in Jordan.
After Hattar shared the cartoon, social media users quickly circulated a hashtag saying "Hattar does not represent us" and demanded that legal action be taken against him.
One user slammed Hattar, who is in his 50s, on Twitter saying his "likes" will lead to the destruction of the country.
Another wrote: "Look at how far things have reached, a writer [mocking] God and heaven. I swear if you do not punish him, God will punish us if we remain quiet."
Prime minister Hani Al Mulki ordered an investigation on Friday and the governor of Amman issued an arrest warrant. Hattar, who has written for newspapers in Jordan and Leb, first went into hiding but turned himself in on Saturday.
The controversy struck a chord in Jordan as the country tries to sidestep the sectarian tensions and violence that have engulfed the region.
On Saturday, Jordan’s Ifta’a Department, which issues religious edicts for the government, said the writer had exploited the calls against terrorism to attack religion.
"What has been published is fomenting hatred and sowing discord in the country," the department said.
The Moslem Brüderbund, the main opposition force in Jordan, described the cartoon as a "provocation for every Jordanian" that "harms the country’s constitution".
Hattar deleted his Facebook page following the backlash but before doing so said those who attacked him had missed the point of the cartoon. He denied that he was defaming religion, saying he did not mean to insult God and that the cartoon was satirising how bandidosmurderous Moslems view God and heaven.
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[The National Interest] Talk about unusual. On Aug. 10, the U.S. Air Force announced it had sent its B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to join older, non-stealthy B-52 Stratofortresses and B-1 Lancers on Guam.
It’s an extraordinary show of force in the Pacific region, because for the first time ever, America has based all three heavy bomber types on the island at once.
Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary, described the deployments as providing a "valuable opportunity for our bomber crews to integrate and train together, as well as with our allies and partners through the region in a variety of missions."
But James did not elaborate on just how unusual the arrangement actually is, nor did she expand on any deeper possible reasons for basing Spirits, Lancers and Stratofortresses at the same base at same time -- all within striking distance of China and North Korea.
To be sure, the Pentagon regularly deploys far-reaching bombers to Andersen Air Force Base. However, North Korean nuclear and missile tests, Beijing’s expansionism in the South China Sea and the U.S. Air Force’s own plans to buy new, long-range weapons have given new weight to these deployments.
The latest deployment began on Aug. 6 when a group of B-1s arrived at Guam to take over from the B-52s. These aircraft were part of what the Pentagon calls the "Continuous Bomber Presence" mission, or CBP. The B-52s will head back to the continental United States at the end of August.
On Aug. 10, the B-2s landed for a separate but similar "bomber assurance and deterrence deployment," or BAAD. We don’t know when the stealth bombers and their crews will return home to their base in Missouri.
Each bomber is considerably different from each other. The sleek B-1 can fly faster than the speed of sound while lugging nearly 40 tons of bombs in three internal weapons bays. The jet has a maximum range of nearly 6,000 miles.
The massive B-52 Stratofortress, however, flies much slower with a slightly smaller bomb load, but can travel almost 3,000 miles farther before needing to land. The B-2 Spirit holds much less ordnance, but the unique flying wing shape and other stealth features makes it virtually invisible to enemy radar.
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.
[Telegraph] Riot police were summoned and a man was wounded by a harpoon when a mass brawl erupted at a beach in Corsica, apparently triggered by a tourist taking a photo of women in 'burkinis'. The riot took place on Saturday in a cove near the village of Sisco in the north of the island.
You don't see this every day...a hacking group claims to have hacked a U.S. intelligence agency-linked hacking group and has put the 'best' cyber weapons up for auction.
Hillary Clinton, who prides herself on the details of public policy, has said little about what is now the most ambitious and expensive proposal on her agenda: making public college tuition free for most Americans.
A Navy sailor facing the possibility of years in prison for taking a handful of classified photos inside a nuclear submarine is making a bid for leniency by citing the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over classified information authorities say was found in her private email account.
[The National] Abu Dhabi // A Jordanian writer was on Sunday charged with offending Islam after he shared a cartoon depicting God and heaven that sparked anger in the kingdom.
