[Dhaka Tribune] Four people, including a six months pregnant woman, were killed after an ambulance ran them over at the entrance of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday morning Back when I was driving an ambulance we actually tried not to kill anybody.
The dead were Gulenur Begum, 27, her son Sakib, 7, six-months pregnant Amena Begum Surjo, 35, and an unidentified beggar in his sixties. The incident also left three people injured ‐ Ramzan Ali, 30, Bachchu Mia, 35, and Sajib, 5. Amena’s unborn child also died in the accident.
DMCH police outpost In-charge Bachchu Miah said: "The incident left two people [Gulenur’s son Sakib and the unidentified beggar] spot dead and later Gulenur succumbed to her injuries." "Amena succumbed to her injuries around 7pm," he added.
Amena’s husband Zakir Hossain, who is a truck driver, said his wife fell victim to the incident when she was returning to the hospital with some breakfast for the family. Zakir was undergoing treatment at DMCH at the time of the incident.
Zakir and Amena’s son Sajib is undergoing treatment at DMCH, along with the other two injured, as the impact of the accident broke his left leg.
Al Amin, a witness of the accident, said the ambulance had first hit a rickshaw at the gate when it attempted to enter the hospital premises. The initial accident had caused passers-by to come to a halt and that is when the ambulance instantaneously rammed the people standing in front of the gate. The driver might have panicked and pressed on the accelerator in fear, he added.
The DMCH outpost in-charge said in primary investigation they found that the private ambulance was being driven by Sohel who is the helper of the ambulance’s owner Nasir Mistri. Police said they were looking into how a helper was allowed to drive an ambulance.
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Back when I was driving an ambulance we actually tried not to kill anybody.
Chalk it up to cultural differences. It's OK, really.
The Russian border patrol has opened fire during an inspection of a fishing vessel with North Korean crew on-board.
The crew resisted a search, were aggressive, and then attempted to flee with the members of the Russian security forces on board.
A total of one Russian border patrol officer and nine North Korean fishermen were injured during the stand-off.
"During the search and control activities, Russian border guards found illegally-obtained water bio resources ?
on board the vessel. The ship's crew behaved aggressively towards members of the search group, refusing to comply with legal requirements," the FSB said in a statement.
One fishermen later died in the hospital.
The incident happened on Friday 19:20 GMT in Russia's economic zone in the country's Far East.
[Izvestia] All the levers of power in the event of declaration of martial law will be handed over command of military districts. Russia seems to be doing a lot of prep work recently. With all due respect to descendants of The Twelve Tribes: Matthew 24:6
The last thing Putin wants is a war. The old USSR might - at least theoretically - have been able to do things like this without regard to economics, but his Russia can't. A war might be really cool from his point of view, but realistically with Russia thoroughly integrated into the world economy, even a small, victorious and relatively limited war would be a disaster for the Russian economy, and his people have a tradition of being less than understanding towards failed leaders.
So - he's ex-KGB. A cop. A very sophisticated one, but a cop nevertheless. He's studied us, learned our MOs inside and out. And he knows that if he can get us to THINK he's going to war, we're going to cripple ourselves just in arguing over or not we are justified in doing so, and just how bad he actually is. (Remember the six-month 'rush to war' over Iraq...only several orders of magnitude worse, because for the first time in decades we're dealing with an enemy who can really lay some hurt on us)
The 'Better Red than Dead' crowd will be out in force, and you will see mobs actually trying to swarm bomber and missile bases. The media will be nothing but 'all megadeaths all the time', and the Usual Celebrity Suspects will be all over the place - even a Trump Administration wouldn't be able to stand up against a Peace Offensive like we'll see. A Clinton Administration - run by people who redefined the word 'triangulation' - will let the balloon inflate for a bit, then make it clear we're not going to do anything 'precipitous'. The bottom line is that we'll end up doing more damage to ourselves politically and economically than he can ever do militarily. At that point, as long as he can present his demands in a reasonable fashion, we'll gladly give him anything he wants AND keep his economy going.
And when it's all said and done, the Unified Ruling Party(TM) will explain to us how things are the new normal and the world changes and how we have to get used to it.
Until the next time.
Mike
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IMO, Putin is doing that every reasonable person would be doing when confronted with injured feelings of an ego putz like Obama on Syria.
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The 'Better Red than Dead' crowd will be out in force, and you will see mobs actually trying to swarm bomber and missile bases
That's the problem with NIMBY. Those key bases are out of the concentrated 'Blue Zones'. That amount of protest can't be done quietly enough to hide intent in order to move to an appropriate location. Then there is the problem of feeding and billeting in literally a 'hostile' region, as such facilities are usually surrounded by a population that is far closer to 'Red Zone' than any protestor is used to. Take the law in your own hands, you might find others take the same approach.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US military says it’s detected what’s being described as a failed missile launch by North Korea.
A military statement says the launch occurred near the northwestern city of Kusong and that the missile is presumed to be a Musadan intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The military says launch was attempted at 11:33 p.m. EDT Friday (12:03 p.m. Saturday local time) and that the missile didn’t pose a threat to North America.
North Korea has claimed technical breakthroughs in its goal of developing a long-range nuclear missile capable of reaching the continental United States. South Korean defense officials have said the North doesn’t yet have such a weapon.
In August, Japanese and South Korean officials said a medium-range ballistic missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters.
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Secretary of State Bloomberg? It’s not unthinkable. Yes it is.
A confidant of Mike Bloomberg floated to a top Hillary Clinton adviser the idea of giving the former mayor the Cabinet post, according to a batch of e-mails released Saturday by WikiLeaks.
Clinton aide Neera Tanden asked Howard Wolfson -- a current Bloomberg consultant and former deputy mayor -- in a June 3, 2015, e-mail whether the former mayor was seriously considering a run for president.
She then asked what Bloomberg would want to do in a Clinton administration.
Tanden floated an ambassadorship to China but worried it might be "way too small" for the media magnate, her e-mail said.
Wolfson countered with a bigger title: secretary of state, but mused that it "ain’t gonna happen."
But the Clinton camp was dead serious about the exchange and Bloomberg’s ambitions. The entire e-mail chain was forwarded by Tanden to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
She added the note, "Something to know for down the road."
Wolfson backed off his earlier e-mails, telling The Post on Saturday that the only job in politics that interested Bloomberg was the presidency.
"I think Mike made it pretty clear that the job he wanted was the top job," Wolfson said.
Bloomberg thinks Henry Kissinger would make a good choice for secretary of state, Wolfson added.
The three-term mayor has lusted after the White House since 2006 and came closest to launching a bid in January when he asked his advisers to analyze the viability of an independent run.
But Bloomberg backed down two months later, saying in an announcement, "If I entered the race, I could not win."
Clinton reached out to Bloomberg shortly after his decision, according to a March 11, 2016, e-mail from Clinton aide Huma Abedin to Podesta, which WikiLeaks released Saturday. AG has already been promised to Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix. The thought of Lynch as AG and Bloomberg for State is frightening enough. More frightening would be Bloomberg for AG and head of DOJ. We could expect him to go after the 2nd and sugary drinks.
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The race is surprising close. I would guess that the reason the Dems are pulling out all the stops to destroy Trump would indicate their internal polling has them worried. Were Jesus Christ running for POTUS, he would get crucified again by the Dems and Rinos. Prior to crucifixion they would accuse him of everything scurrilous under the sun.
Ulusomble the Rasher5411: Elect Trump; not perfect but good enough. He has actually accomplished something in this life other than venality, criminality and corruption. Also, not being mentioned much is the importance of SCOTUS appointees. Trump has mentioned this and has some decent potential appointees like Scalia. These appointees will be as important as anything the new POTUS accomplishes.
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I've been reduced to voting for "the other guy" since Reagan.
Now, "good enough", has been replaced by "not fatal".
I truly believe that if Hillary (aka Evita North) gets in we can kiss any semblance of our Republic good bye. She will rule as a dictator with the help of her SC nominees, bureaucrats, MSM and the Demo/Rino party.
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@#6: Ferrriners are easy to keep in line, with their families and such under the "care and protection" of their "Friend of the Clinton Foundation" home governments.
Btw, check out the link. It appears to me that "Foundations" are the new mob families.
[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A clash left one woman dead and four others injured, including a pedestrian and a ward master from the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital (BBH) on Friday, police said.
Three injured, Mazram Bibi, Raja Tanveer and Ibrar Elahi, were brought to BBH. They were followed by their rivals, who then opened fire in the hospital, injuring two other people including a ward master.
Police claimed to have incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! five of the attackers, and said a hunt has been launched for the individuals who escaped. Mazram Bibi, who was critically injured, was pronounced dead by hospital doctors.
The clash began between Ijaz Ahmed and Shahbaz, outside their home on the Service Road in Sadiqabad. Their relative Mazram Bibi and three others ‐ including Shakeel Ahmed, a pedestrian ‐ were maimed in the crossfire.
The Ameer Afzal group, the other party in the clash, followed the injured to BBH and started quarrelling with the relatives of the injured. Someone involved in the quarrel then pulled out a gun and opened fire. Raja Noman, a ward master on duty in the emergency ward, was injured.
Police reinforcements were later called in to control the situation.
According to witnesses, once the gunfire began in the emergency ward, several patient attendants ran outside the ward in panic.
DSP Raja Taifoor said all the individuals involved in the clash belonged to the same family. Mr Taifoor named Khaliq Mehmood as the individual who opened fire in the hospital.
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[DAWN] A woman has been tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on the charge of killing her husband with the help of an accomplice, police said on Friday.
On September 30, the body of a man was found dumped near a road at Haji Camp. The police said the victim was stoned to death and his face was beyond recognition. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... nothing was found on the body that could help the police identify the dear departed.
The police took fingerprints and approached Nadra for the identification of the victim.
Later, the victim was identified as Mohammad Aslam, an employee of the EME College, the police said, adding its Special Investigation Unit (SIU) traced the wife of the dear departed and arrested her.
The woman told the Sherlocks that she had murdered her husband with the help of her boyfriend by hitting his face and head with concrete blocks. Later, they dumped the body along the roadside. The police said the accomplice of the woman was yet to be arrested. The couple had a one-month-old baby. Caved his head in with a concrete block? I think I used to be married to her.
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[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: The Kamalia city police tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Friday night a private college teacher on the allegation of committing blasphemy.
According to the case registered under section 295 A of PPC, the complainant told police that his son, a student of Quaid-e-Azam School and College of Science and Commerce, was absent on Thursday and when he went to school on Friday, his teacher inquired from him reason of his absence over which his son said he remained absent due to some personal matter.
"The teacher not only tortured his son but also said something about his religious belief," said the complainant.
Scores of citizens staged a protest demonstration against the teacher outside the school.
DSP Mehr Muhammad Saeed assured them that a case would be registered and later police arrested him after registering a case.
According to our Sialkot correspondent, Daska city police arrested a man on blasphemy charges on Friday.
According to the first information report, complainant Chaudhry Waqas Bilal says the suspect often denied the Islamic beliefs and articles of faith and provided the recording of his `utterances’ to police.
DSP Lal Muhammad Khokhar told Dawn they had arrested the suspect after local people resorted to protest.
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Let's just get this out of the way: Maverick. Iceman. Charlie. Are you done swooning yet? For many, the 1988 film Top Gun caused the F-14 to embody everything cool about fighter jets and the pilots that flew them.
And the Tomcat was cool--entering service in 1975, it was arguably the first operational fourth-generation jet fighter that successfully combined the characteristics of high speed, high maneuverability, and sophisticated avionics and armament that are now standard today.
However, there’s a profound irony in the Tomcat story. The Tomcat is one of the U.S. fighters that has seen the most sustained and intense air-to-air combat of its generation. And yet, American F-14s only shot down five hostile aircraft.
The Tomcat, however, chalked up its extraordinary combat record in the service of one of the United States' bitterest rivals, Iran.
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sacrificed at the Altar of the Hornet.
did some Bombcat and RCS reduction work in another life; also cut up 2 that were pristine A models cuz pentagon didn't have $ to on convert to D's, but had $ to ontinue to patch up ragged ones......
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Perhaps the best reason the F-14 shot down so few enemy aircraft is it was so superior for its time few would challenge it. As in 'Peace Through Superior Firepower.'
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Ask yourself a question: If it was for sale today, who would buy it? Don't split your gut laughing if you are honest, or black out if you are not...
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Panda,
The IDF used F-14s as AWACS also to good effect.
Too bad they decided to scrap it for a new shiny object.
Can you imagine an F-14 with fifth generation avionics and engines plus a modest dose of stealth?
It is still a viable airframe and even the crappy old A and B models can fly circles around an F-35 and shoot one down over the horizon with a AMRAAM missile...probably the best jet fighter ever built and now we have the flying turkey.
No one will ever call the F-35 anything like an eagle or a hawk or cat...its a dog...maybe instead of a turkey...the wild turkey being a very wiley critter...
I think the F-35 ought to be called the Poodle or Shitz Zu or something like that.
Cmdr. Michael Wohnhaas, who commanded LCS Crew 106, was relieved “due to loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead and carry out his assigned duties” on Oct. 13 by Commander of Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet (SURFPAC) Vice Adm. Tom Rowden.
The decision was made following an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the July 11 incident where USS Freedom’s number 2 main propulsion diesel engine was damaged.
The engine was damaged when “a leak from the attached seawater pump mechanical seal… resulted in seawater entering the engine lube oil system,” SURFPAC told USNI News in August. The ship returned to its San Diego homeport two days later for unrelated maintenance work and followed contamination procedures, and then returned to sea to participate in the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise while using its gas turbines for power instead of the main propulsion diesel engine. Only on Aug. 3 did a a Southwest Regional Maintenance Center diesel engine inspector discover “significant damage to the engine caused by rust and seawater,” SURFPAC spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Haggard told USNI News in August.
The Navy still has not made a final decision on how to repair Freedom following the engineering casualty, according to the Navy’s announcement today.
Wohnhaas has been temporarily re-assigned to Rowden’s staff, and deputy commodore of LCS Squadron One Capt. Matthew McGonigle will temporarily serve as Crew 106 commanding officer.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Dhaka Tribune] Four people, including a six months pregnant woman, were killed after an ambulance ran them over at the entrance of Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday morning
The Russian border patrol has opened fire during an inspection of a fishing vessel with North Korean crew on-board.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US military says it’s detected what’s being described as a failed missile launch by 
