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[NBCMiami] The suspect was identified as 19-year-old former student, Nikolas Cruz.
A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
The shooter, who was equipped with a gas mask and smoke grenades, set off a fire alarm to draw students out of classrooms shortly before the day ended at one of the state's largest schools, officials said.
Authorities offered no immediate details on the 19-year-old suspect or any possible motive, except to say that he had been kicked out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which has about 3,000 students.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the suspect was expelled from the school "for disciplinary reasons," and that Cruz had an AR-15 and multiple magazines in his possession.
Tweleve of the victims were found dead inside the school. One of the victims have been identified as the school's football coach, Israel said.
The Sheriff said they've begun to investigate the suspect's social media and described it as "very disturbing."
He called the shooting a "horrific, homicidal and detestable act."
Psychopath, paranoid schizophrenic, bipolar, bad reaction to antidepressants, gang initiation, Sudden Jihad Syndrome? No doubt it will be revealed.
We've somehow created a generation of teenage monsters. Perhaps it has something to do with the electronic boxes and games. If we are still worthy of being saved, God rescue us from this terrible curse.
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I blame 'justice delayed.'
Now if the perpetrators knew they'd get swift (5 days or less) very painful public justice involving harsh chemicals, fire, insects, and or impalement, culminating in prolonged, certain death......
Of course you'd have the odd one or two suicidal maniac, but the penalty might give others pause.
Heinous acts call for heinous measures. Somehow it must stop !
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This boy’s problems started a long time ago.
Easier to push victims of abandonment thru a poorly run system into the future than address the psychosocial issue immediately.
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The DSM-V does not recognize or offer diagnosis of psychosis in adolescents.
We've had enough cases of marginalized children and young people, bullied or ostracized, abused by parents, siblings or family, that eventually commit horrific crimes. The entire paradigm of diagnosis is flawed. The fact that all of these factors lead to similar conclusions in the progression have been proven time after time and both law enforcement and the mental health community refuse to go there with anything meaningful in the way of treatment and or identification.
I can tell you from the pictures, the boy is a fair skinned red head. The term red headed step child is operative here. If he were adopted by Hispanic parents and living in a Hispanic community, the taunting and verbal abuse of a red head could be horrific.
I can speak of this, I had some nasty moments in elementary school because I was a red head. I developed a nasty right cross and a good jab, other than a few trips to the principle, I put an end to that crap when I stood up for myself.
Now schools won't let kids stand up for themselves and condone the bully. In fact, teachers are the worst bullies in a school setting.
The kid was on a path to this for a long time and no one helped or cared. Intervention could have helped him and saved lives but...
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There are hints of Autism in stories, don't know if that's true or not. Too much swirl of smoke right now
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I'm pretty sure some day they'll determine that anti-depressants and other drugs have a 1% chance of causing this type of behavior and that if the doctors that prescribe the drugs do not keep a very close watch and moderate dosage you end up with a monster.
I read a blog of a woman who started taking such drugs and seriously started planning all sorts of crazy stuff until she realized something was seriously wrong and told all to her psychiatrist. It was chilling and I can imagine for a teen it might be easier to slip into that sort of state.
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Ref #15: Blinding flash here, but there is an extremely high incidence of alcoholism in Russia. Parents wishing to adopt Russian children are generally advised of potential difficulties and outcomes.
Sorry, but as long as the ACLU keeps His commandments of Love, Honor, Respect and You Will Not Murder out of our schools or children will do just the opposite.
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The Daily Mail updated as of 8 a.m. ET. With lots of photos. Sorry it’s not properly, but I’m rushing out the door.
REVEALED: Expelled gunman in gas mask and armed with smoke grenades 'SET OFF fire alarm so he could draw students into halls for maximum devastation' before shooting dead 17 people
Former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel confirmed that 17 people had been killed and dozens more were injured
Cruz was armed with at least one AR-15 rifle and had 'multiple magazines' when he stormed the school
Investigators are now looking into whether Cruz may have pulled the fire alarm to draw people into halls
The teenager had been expelled from the school last year for unknown 'disciplinary reasons'
Police say the shooter managed to evade police by fleeing the school with hundreds of terrified students
He was tracked down in a nearby neighborhood after authorities reviewed surveillance footage
Traumatized students said that once they heard reports of a mass shooting at the school they knew it would be Cruz, while one teacher said he had been identified as a potential threat to his classmates last year
Some students barricaded themselves inside their classrooms while others were seen sprinting away from the school as police and SWAT teams swarmed the building
A student who claims to know Cruz said the suspected gunman was a 'troubled kid' and obsessed with guns
[Al Jazeera] Zim-bob-we opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died aged 65 after a battle with cancer, party officials have said. At least he hung on long enough to see Bob and Grace shown the door.
Elias Mudzuri, a vice president of the Movement for Democratic Change party, reported Tsvangirai's death in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.
"It is sad for me to announce that we have lost our icon and fighter for democracy," Mudzuri wrote.
Tsvangirai had been in and out of hospital in South Africa after revealing in 2016 that he had colon cancer.
Read more about Tsvangirai here, and watch a 2009 interview with him here.
He served as prime minister under ex-President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... in a 2009-2013 unity government.
Obert Gutu, party front man, confirmed Tsvangirai's death on Twitter, calling him "a political icon, a humble and tenacious fighter for the creation of a peaceful, stable, democratic and progressive nation state in Zim-bob-we".
Last week, Tsvangirai had taken to Twitter to play down speculation that his illness was terminal.
"I have cancer and [am] not feeling too well, but I am stable and the process is under control. ... I am recovering," he wrote on February 6.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Harare, said that people in Zim-bob-we's capital were "shocked" at the news of his death. Sounds like he was too.
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[EMGN] Tanja Brandt is a German photographer who has dedicated her career towards photographing animals and wildlife. In one of her most recent projects, Brandt shot photographs of a highly unlikely pair of friends ‐ Ingo, the Belgian shepherd; and Poldi (Napoleon), the one-year-old owlet.
[PopularMilitary.com] The needs of the Army and the quality of the recruits it is acquiring have changed, so the Army is adapting. One of the many changes coming to Army Basic Training (BCT) is the removal of grenade qualification from basic training, which could happen as early as this summer.
So the Army has decided to dedicate more time for recruits to become physically fit and develop discipline by spending more time on drill and ceremony, inspections, and learning military history.
"We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven’t thrown growing up." That's the ticket. They can't do it anymore, so drop the requirement. Or maybe recruit among Palestinian-Americans.
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This is stunning. So is the idea that drill and ceremony, inspections, and history class will cure this situation.
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Solution is fairly simple. Set up a plywood board or some such with a typical target painted on it (series of alternating red and white circles). Set it up at 60 feet. have recruits spend a set amount of time everyday throwing baseballs at it.
Eventually they will be able to hit the target. Move target further away (up to 120' or so) as training progress.
For added bonus, cut small hole in middle of target, perhaps twice the size of the baseball or slightly larger. Get ball through hole, get excepted from KP or some such.
Resume normal grenade training after that.
If they cannot complete baseball throwing and hit target in a week, wash them out.
Since baseball viewing and participation is at a serious decline, what other throwing plays can kids do?
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FUCK D&C. And Fuck a parade. Go down to the TASC, get training grenades, and take them to the field.
Garrison Army never was and never is a way to win a war. Train on the tasks that save lives.
Many think that basic exercise is the answer. To a point it is. But what really matters is E&E, Tactical driving, shooting, Grenades, running horse trails and train tracks, 12 mile ruck marches, and everything else everyone is exposed to in war.
Boot shiners are for boot lickers and it never taught me discipline. It wasted my time and increased my learning curve.
The real work did not get done.
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When I was in basic training the grenade throw was a part of the PT test. I believe the distance was sixty feet.
When I go to the PX or the medical facility the men and women I see look more physically fit than did the average draftee in the Middle Paleolithic. They certainly were by the time I retired, and the ones I worked with 2004-2007 certainly were -- and they weren't combat arms.
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Harcourt has it at #3. How about a few games of 'Aunt Sally' and we'll call it a day. No loud noises or dangerous bits of iron flying around. Sticks it is !
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It's all part of a number crunchers idea of how long basic training should be. They try to shove into 90 days the development of a soldier which should take 120 days or more. Something jumps up needing attention and time gets shifted from one 'priority' to another. However, the machine says they have got to move in the production line regardless. The Puzzle Palace doesn't want to hear that Physical Ed has been dropped from a lot of school systems and even when it is still there its been made 'equal'. You know instead of two sets of standards (like your service PT tests), they just go with the lowest common denominator. That means if you want physically qualified soldiers you better well add more time to getting them fit right at basic. Mother nature doesn't care what your plans are, body development and prep are going to go at their own pace. Of course you could add a PT test for application and entry, but I'm pretty sure that would mess up your recruiting numbers (which you destroy careers over).
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Some troops can be jacks of all trades --
Berets and big blades and nice shades --
But others, just hatching,
Are better at catching
Than pitching-- er, throwing grenades.
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When my kid graduated Marine Boot Camp in 2000, we took him to the San Diego zoo the next day. The kid behind us at the gate wore his USMC uniform. My son said he lost so much weight in basic that none of his civilian clothes fit him anymore.
There might be a lesson for the Army in there, somewhere.
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Maybe they should drop the sensitivity training and focus on push-ups.
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Well every body has pretty well covered it. I keep thinking of the Italian gentleman who said of the Pope , "You no palya the game, you no maka the rules."
Yep, Phys Ed is now optional in most high schools after the sophomore year. They don't teach phys ed in Junior High School (who came up with this term middle school anyway?). They discourage football and consider baseball hazardous. They charge a fee of a couple of hundred dollars to participate in team sports. They encourage "civilized games" like soccer which does not develop the upper body.
Most young people don't contribute to the family with summer jobs, usually unskilled labor.
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....or remove the protective bunker on the grenade range and make it Go-No Go training.
Arguably the most famous and skilled slingers of the ancient world were those from the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean. They underwent similar vigorous training from a very early age. Parents gave a sling to their children as their first toy so that they would become familiar with it as quickly as possible. Once familiarity had been achieved, a piece of bread was placed on a stake in front of the children. The parents withheld food from their children until they could successfully hit the bread and knock it off the stake.
[All Africa] President Mnangagwa has, with immediate effect, appointed Deputy Commissioner-General Tandabantu Godwin Matanga as substantive Commissioner-General of the Zim-bob-we Republic Police (ZRP).
The announcement was made by Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah in a statement yesterday.
Dr Nzuwah said President Mnangagwa made the appointment "in terms of the Section 221 (1) and (2) of the Constitution of Zim-bob-we Amendment No. 20 as read with Section 340 (1) (e and f) to appoint Cde Tandabantu Godwin Matanga as the substantive Commissioner-General of the Zim-bob-we Republic Police with immediate effect".
Cde Matanga was born on February 5, 1962 in Chipinge.
In 1978, a 16-year-old Matanga crossed the border into Mozambique where he joined the liberation struggle.
He was deployed for training in Romania and Egypt in 1979.
"Following his return from Mozambique, Comm-Gen Matanga was attested into the Zim-bob-we Republic Police as a patrol officer in October 1982. Through hard work and innovation, Cde Matanga acquired vast experience in the Zim-bob-we Republic Police, rising through the ranks to Deputy Commissioner-General in 1992, a rank that he held until his recent elevation to Commissioner of Police," said Dr Nzuwah.
Comm Gen Matanga holds several professional qualifications in Active Field Artillery, Management and Financial Management.
"The Chairman, Police Service Commissioners and the Secretary to the Police Service Commission wish Cde Matanga success in leading the Zim-bob-we Republic Police for peace and security of our nation," he said.
Commissioner-General Matanga was appointed Acting Comm Gen on December 19, last year following the retirement of the then Commissioner General, Dr Augustine Chihuri.
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[Al Jazeera] An elite South African police unit has raided a home of the influential Gupta family in Johannesburg as part of an investigation into corruption and influence peddling with the government.
Wednesday's raid in the northern suburb Saxonworld comes as the country waits to see if President Jacob Zuma would resign after being asked to do so by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
The Gupta family, an Indian-born South African business family, is central to the corruption allegations pitted against Zuma.
It is alleged that the president gave the family undue access to sensitive state information, government contracts, as well as a role in hiring and firing of cabinet ministers.
These accusations became known in local parlance as "state capture".
Zuma's presidency has been characterised by allegations of corruption and racketeering in a tenure that has tested both the resolve of the ANC and government to hold its own to account.
Both Zuma and the Guptas have denied any wrongdoing. "No, no! Certainly not!"
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[Al Jazeera] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has expressed its deep concern about ongoing ethnic fighting in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , warning that the violence that has forced tens of thousands to seek shelter in neighbouring Uganda "may spread further".
More than 22,000 people fled festivities between Hema herders and Lendu farmers in Ituri province last week, according to the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).
This marked a dramatic increase in the number of people crossing Lake Albert to reach Uganda in search of safety, bringing the overall figure since the start of the year to 34,000.
The latest influx follows what a UNHCR spokesperson called "the latest and biggest wave" in an outbreak of violence that started in the area in December.
"A number of local monitors have confirmed to us that more than 1,000 houses have been burned in Djugu, Ituri territory, which is the epicentre of the violence. The displaced say that groups of gunnies set houses on fire and killed civilians," Andreas Kirchhof told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
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Hasn't changed much since Joseph Conrad's captaincy of a river steamer in the Congo over 100 years ago.
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I thought it was Kerry in Viet Nam, Abu-Alaska?
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I wonder how much African life has changed in the last few thousand years. Sure tastes in clothes are different and everyone has the latest gadgets like cell phones and AKs, but is the culture any different? I suspect the DRC isn't some kind of outlier, but a regression to the mean.
As for Kerry, pity he never found Marlon Brando after all that time looking for him up around the Cambodian border.
[Al Jazeera] Jacob Zuma, South Africa's embattled and controversial president, has announced his resignation in a televised address to the nation. More dance time in the offing? It really is his first love.
"I have to come to decision to resign with immediate effect," he said late on Wednesday in Pretoria.
Zuma's resignation followed weeks of intense public pressure to step down amid longstanding corruption allegations.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) formally asked Zuma, 75, to resign on Tuesday. He initially refused, saying he did not understand why he was being told to step down.
The party later announced plans to hold a no-confidence vote against him on Thursday in parliament.
"It is my party that placed me the representative of the people. It is my party that availed me," Zuma said in his speech from Union Buildings.
"Make no mistake, no leader should stay beyond the time the people they serve. No leader should seek an easy way out because they could face a life without the perks of political office."
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[Dhaka Tribune] BNP leaders and activists have started observing a 6-hour hunger strike in Dhaka, demanding the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. I had a six hour hunger strike last night. I slept right through it.
The members of BNP started the hunger strike as part of its countrywide program on Wednesday morning.
The program began around 10am in front of the Jatiya Press Club. It will continue until 4pm.
Several Hundred leaders and activists, including party standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Nazrul Islam Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, joined the programme amid tight security by police.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Hackers from North Korea pulled off one of the biggest cyber heists in history when they stole $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank, America’s top spymaster told politicians on Tuesday.
National Intelligence Director Dan Coats told Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that North Korea poses a major threat to cybersecurity globally and the US in particular.
Criminals from the hermit state developed and launched the WannaCry ransomware in May 2017, judging from technical links to previously identified North Korean cyber tools, tradecraft, and operational infrastructure, he said.
"We also assess that these actors conducted the cyber theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank in 2016," Coats said when testifying on the assessment of the intelligence committee on worldwide threats.
Hackers broke into Bangladesh Bank computers and issued fake payment orders tricking the Federal Reserve Bank of New York into paying out $101 million to accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Bangladesh has managed to recover parts of the money. Its central bank says it will sue Manila-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation from where the money disappeared.
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[DAWN] A Senate special committee on Wednesday asked the Foreign Office (FO) to approach the German Embassy in Islamabad to extradite Pakistain International Airlines' (PIA) former CEO Bernd Hildenbrand for his alleged involvement in the unauthorised renting and subsequent sale of an Airbus-310 belonging to the national carrier last year.
Hildenbrand and retired Air Commodore Imran Akhtar (brother of former director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Rizwan Akhtar) are under investigation in Pakistain ‐ the former for reportedly having flown the said Airbus to Germany and the latter for selling the same for the price of scrap in Germany.
A German national, Hildenbrand had his name on the Exit Control List but was still allowed to leave the country for a month in June 2017 on the intercession of the German Embassy.
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[DAWN] A man was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! for allegedly wounding his aunt and murdering her husband in an apparent "honour killing" in the Manghopir area of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , police told DawnNews on Wednesday.
According to Station House Officer (SHO) Manghpoir Haji Sanaullah, the couple ‐ Rozi Khan and Zainab ‐ had entered a free will marriage in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... last year and moved to Karachi where they had rented a house in Wandi Sharif Goth, Manghopir. Several members of Balochistan's Marri tribe also live in the area.
Though several of their relatives opposed the marriage, Zainab's mother and one of her brothers had consented to it, police said.
According to police, the chief suspect had arrived at the couple's house on Tuesday night with at least five other accomplices. He opened fire on Rozi, who died from a shot to the head.
The suspect then tried to shoot at Zainab, but his gun malfunctioned, leading him to attack her with sticks and a knife, leaving her injured. She is currently being treated at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The suspect, who sustained wounds after Zainab put up resistance, later went to a private hospital in Gulshan-e-Maymar with a friend and claimed his injuries were a result of a robbery incident. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... acting on a tip, the police arrested him while he was undergoing treatment.
Six people, including Zainab's nephew, have been nominated in the first information report (FIR) lodged at the Manghopir cop shoppe with Rozi's brother, Mangal Khan, as the complainant.
The primary suspect's friend who accompanied him to the hospital is also being treated as a suspect; however, he has not been nominated in the FIR.
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[DAWN] Mashal Khan's family on Wednesday filed an appeal in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) challenging the acquittal of 26 people in the 23-year-old student's mob murder case.
The appeal, filed by Mashal's brother Aimal Khan, argues that the decision by the Haripur Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) should be set aside and those acquitted should be awarded capital punishment as substantial proof against them exists.
The appeal states that the 26 men acquitted on all charges admitted to their involvement in a procession that was held right after their release from custody following the ATC's decision. Video proof of their involvement is also present, among other things, making the prosecution's case against them very strong, read the appeal.
The ATC's decision, the appeal argues, would "encourage the respondents to commit such acts in the future".
The acquittal is also against the principles of Qisas, it says, adding that the evidence of the men being present at the scene of the crime with the common objective to kill has not even been contradicted in the court.
Following the submission of the petition, Aimal said that a total of five appeals will be filed in the case on a step-by-step basis.
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[DAWN] The federal government wanted a de novo trial of Axact
...the secretive Pakistani software company accused of taking hundreds of millions of dollars from scams involving fake degrees, non-existent online universities and manipulation of customers across 197 countries...
chief executive officer Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh and other members of the company in the fake degree case.
This was stated by Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Raja Khalid Mehmood Khan during the hearing of the appeal filed by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against the acquittal of Mr Sheikh before a division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) headed by Justice Athar Minallah.
When the bench resumed the hearing of the FIA’s appeal on Tuesday, the DAG requested the court to remand this case back for a re-trial.
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Axact
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[Axios] The international aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (or Doctors Without Borders) said on Wednesday that it had fired 19 people connected to 24 sexual harassment cases last year, per Reuters. The group has investigated 40 complaints of sexual misconduct, it says.
Oh, Oxfam loves kids and they'll father 'em,
Returning anon for to bother 'em
In illegal amours
On your tropical shores
So the sun never sets upon Rotherham.
leaving "Hogarthian whores" on the cutting room floor. Sigh.
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"All the girls get prostate checks before puberty. It's our rule"
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You wonder why so many heavily lefty organizations are centers of sexual misconduct till you remember back in college all the guys who went left to pickup chicks, then it starts to make sense. 'Follow the p*****g' is right up there with 'follow the money'.
Getting back to normal: kittens stuck in trees and little ones stuck in soup pots.
[Iraq News] Iraqi rescue teams have managed to release a toddler in Kirkuk province from entrapment inside a small cooking container, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday. "Here, dearie! There's tasty things waiting for you in the oven! Have a look!"
"Hansel! Don't do it! It's not an oven! It's a pressure cooker!"
His father made a rescue call to Iraqi civil defense teams to pull out the child from a concave, deep cooking container, Qais Abdel-Razek, a spokesman of civil defense service, told the network.
The kid was in a good condition, he said.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid, presented a bill to the Israeli Knesset this week that would recognize the 1915 genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide was ultimately rejected by the Israeli Knesset after a lengthy discussion this week.
"There is no reason that the Knesset, which represents a nation that went through the Holocaust, shouldn’t recognize the Armenian Genocide and have a remembrance day for it," Yair Lapid stated, as quoted by the Jerusalem Post.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely previously said that the country would not take an official stance on the matter, "in light of its complexity and diplomatic repercussions and because it has a clear political connection," the Jerusalem Post stated.
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[Washington Examiner] The Air Force on Monday revealed its long-range plan to eventually jettison its supersonic B-1 and stealthy B-2 bombers earlier than planned while keeping the venerable B-52, an aging Cold War workhorse that first flew in 1954 and was last built in 1962, flying into the 2050s.
The Air Force confirmed that it plans to send its two newer bombers into early retirement, but keep the B-52 in the inventory well past its 100th birthday.
"With an adequate sustainment and modernization focus, including new engines, the B-52 has a projected service life through 2050, remaining a key part of the bomber enterprise well into the future," said Gen. Robin Rand, Air Force Global Strike Command commander, in a statement issued by the Air Force.
But today’s B-52 has evolved from the planes first flown in the '50s. The Stratofortress has undergone numerous upgrades and modernization over the years, including the addition of an advanced communications system that displays real-time intelligence feeds overlaid on moving maps.
The B-1 conventional bomber and the B-2 stealth bomber are also getting upgrades in the Air Force budget, but eventually their mission will be taken over by the new B-21 long-range stealth bomber, now in the design stage. B-1s were supposed to fly into the 2040s and B-2s until 2058, but the new plan moves their retirement up to the early 2030s, Air Force Magazine reported.
While the B-52 will continue as a conventional bomber, it will also carry the new long-range stand-off nuclear cruise missile.
The Air Force budget request for fiscal 2019 includes money to replace the B-52’s "inefficient and aging engines," according to the Pentagon budget overview.
"The Air Force will update the B-52 bomber fleet and fund development of replacement engines," said Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson. "We will also continue necessary B-1 and B-2 modifications to keep them relevant until the B-21s come on line."
The Air Force plan calls for the B-1s and B-2s to be "incrementally retired," once enough B-21s are operational. "If the force structure we have proposed is supported by the Congress, bases that have bombers now will have bombers in the future," Wilson said. "They will be B-52s and B-21s."
The Air Force has 76 B-52s based primarily in Barksdale Air Force Base, La.; Minot Air Force Base, N.D., and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
In all, 744 B-52s were produced by Seattle, Wash., and Wichita, Kan., plants between 1952 and 1962, according to Boeing, the maker of the iconic plane.
#3
Pardon the ignorance, but I thought the B-1 was subsonic. The original spec was supersonic, high level bomber but was changed to make the B-1 less expensive. Am I wrong?
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They reduced top speed from Mach 2.2 to 1.25 and were able to increase subsonic cruise speed from 0.85 to 0.96 Mach. So it's cruise is just under the speed of sound.
#8
Budget sense lining up with common sense. What a difference a change in administration makes.
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Yes, it has been over 30 years since the reengining idea was first raised. About time they do that for the BUFF. I like the idea of the eight smaller but proven efficient engines, gets away from tight ground clearances with the bigger nacelled high bypass engines that the twin ETOPS commercial jets use.
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