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This reminds me of the old joke that the late 19th century British Army was a "social institution prepared for any emergency save that of war."
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"Enemy" JosephM? Sounds a little judgemental and unappreciative of another's point of view. I suggest a 500 credit fine and two weeks of cultural sensitivity reeducation classes.
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That's more buzz words and trendy language in one sentence than I've seen in years.
Geez, the guy really knows his way around gobble-degook.
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Besoeker
All those words have a place, just not together in that sentence.
Six-Sigma is just a name for process
I use paradigm a lot (designing DB systems)
Synergy is a useful word in business.
The problem is not the nomenclature, it's that its use is designed to obscure not enlighten.
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Love the referal to the Double ugly as Queers; The Single ugly was the Straight. When I was new to the A6 world, I wondered what the 'Q' meant in the VAQ; I was told by the Chief.
Add CPO initiation to the waste bin of PC....
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BTW, the halal food requirements look suspiciously like KOSHER food requirements. Will that put some Imam's shorts in a wad?
BC, I don't think so. Where do you think they stole the money making idea from?
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Mr. Petraeus sold his right to walk among, or represent men of the ranks. Unless he is eventually faced with confinement, please keep him away from the Disciplinary Barracks (DB) at Leavenworth.
Subhash Ghai's Khalnayak with Sanjay Dutt in the lead role released on June 15, 1993. This was around two months after Dutt was first arrested on April 19, 1993, for his involvement in the Bombay bomb blasts which happened on March 12, 1993 (Bombay is now Mumbai).
The story goes that Ghai had shot multiple ends for the movie, and after Dutt's arrest he used the one which showed Ballu, the character played by Dutt, in a positive light.
That's the thing with reel life, if the director does not like the end, he can change it. Real life should work a little differently, that's what you and I might think. But it doesn't always work like that. At least, not if you are Sanjay Dutt.
On March 21, 2013, the Supreme Court of India, convicted Dutt for illegal possession of arms and sentenced him to five years in prison.
Between then and now a small cottage industry seems to have evolved which is trying to tell the world that Dutt is innocent and is trying to change the end of a long judicial process which has finally delivered some justice.
This cottage industry includes those working with him in the Hindi film industry. They cannot believe that Sanju Sir, as they like to call him, will have to go to jail. Rakhi Sawant, who is largely famous for what the Hindi film industry refers to as item numbers, has even volunteered to go to jail instead of Dutt.
"If there is any provision in the law, then I'd like to request the court to send me to jail in place of Sanjay. Not because he is a big actor today, but because he has a family and kids at home to take care of," she has remarked.
Support has also come in from Marakandey Katju, Chairman of the Press Council of India, who on other occasions has spoken out strongly against media's obsession with celebrities. Katju is also a former judge of Supreme Court. He wants Sanjay Dutt to be pardoned.
He has offered various reasons for the same. In the last twenty years Dutt has suffered a lot. He had to take the permission of the Court for foreign shootings. He has two small children. And to top it Dutt has through his film revived the memory of Mahatma Gandhi and the message of Gandhiji, the father of the nation. Justice Katju in his appeal to grant pardon to Dutt had also said that "his parents Sunil Dutt and Nargis worked for the good of society and the nation".
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has jumped into the rescue-Sanjay-Dutt bandwagon as well. "Sanjay Dutt is not a criminal, he is not a terrorist. Sanjay Dutt, at a young age, in the atmosphere of that time, thought that perhaps the way Sunil Dutt had been raising his voice against communalism and favoured the minorities, then perhaps he could be attacked. So, as an obvious reaction of a kid to do something, if he has committed a mistake then I feel that he has undergone the punishment for it," Singh said.
Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, who normally goes cholbe na cholbe na against everything, has also come out in support of Dutt. "Today, I fondly remember Sunil Dutt ji. He used to come to my residence whenever he was in Calcutta. If he were alive, he would have no doubt made all efforts to see that Sanjay does not suffer any more. My heart echoes the same sentiments ," the Trinamool Congress chief wrote on Facebook, getting nostalgic.
Let me demolish this arguments one by one. In 1993, Sanjay Dutt was 33, going on 34. He was no kid, as Digvijaya Singh makes him out to be. On the other hand Ajmal Kasab, who was recently hanged to death, was actually a kid, when he carried out the gruesome act that he did.
In the last twenty years Dutt has suffered a lot, feels Katju. But so has everyone else who was accused in the Mumbai bomb blasts case. Yusuf Memon, one of the accused, who will be serving a life sentence, is schizophrenic and the Supreme Court dismissed his plea seeking relief from his conviction and life sentence.
During the last twenty years Dutt managed to marry twice (Rhea Pillai and now Manyata earlier known as Dilnawaz Sheikh ). So much for him suffering. And as far as kids go, if people were pardoned because they had kids, nobody in India would ever go to jail.
The movies Katju is talking about are Munnabhai MBBS and Lageraho Munnabhai. Dutt did not make these movies, he just acted in them. The movies were the vision of director Rajkumar Hirani who also co-wrote them. In fact, Dutt was not even supposed to play the role of Munnabhai in Munnabhai MBBS. The original choice was Shah Rukh Khan, who later declined due to a back injury. So Sanjay Dutt was simply lucky to have first landed and then played the role which made Gandhi fashionable again. And that is no reason to let him go.
Digivijaya Singh in his statement seems to be justifying Sanjay Dutt possessing illegal weapons for self defence. What he forgets is that we are not talking about some desi katta or a revolver here. We are talking about AK-56 rifles. It's worth remembering that the year was 1993 and not 2013. "And AKs were not weapons you almost ever saw outside some militant districts in Punjab and Kashmir," writes Shekhar Gupta in a column in The Indian Express.
And as far as the nostalgia of Mamata Banerjee goes there are people who might still feel nostalgic about the late Head Constable Ibrahim Kaskar of Mumbai police. As S Hussain Zaidi writes in Dongri to Dubai -- Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia: "In the predominantly Muslim stronghold of Dongri, Ibrahim's baithak was the first place people went to if they had a problem. It was privy to everything-from people discussing their choking lavatory drain to the excitement of the elopement of lovers or cases of police harassment."
Kaskar's son is Dawood Ibrahim. So should sons committing crimes be let go because there fathers happened to be nice men? Maybe Justice Katju and Mamata Banerjee can give us an answer to that.
In fact, it would be safe to say that Sanjay Dutt was very lucky not be convicted under the the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (or what we better know as TADA). Dutt was arrested in 1993, for acquiring three AK-56s rifles, nine magazines, 450 cartridges and over 20 hand grenades. One doesnt need so many weapons and ammunition for self defence. This despite the fact that Dutt already had three licensed weapons. And when was the last time you heard anyone keeping hand grenades at home for self protection?
In fact, it would be safe to say that Sanjay Dutt was very lucky not be convicted under the the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (or what we better know as TADA). Dutt was arrested in 1993, for acquiring three AK-56s rifles, nine magazines, 450 cartridges and over 20 hand grenades. One doesn't need so many weapons and ammunition for self defence. This despite the fact that Dutt already had three licensed weapons. And when was the last time you heard anyone keeping hand grenades at home for self protection?
Some of these weapons were later stored at the home of a woman called Zaibunissa Kazi. This included two of the three AK-56s rifles that Dutt had got. Kazi was convicted under TADA. Same was the case with Baba Mussa Chauhan and Samir Hingora, who delivered the consignment of arms to Dutt's house. And so was Manzoor Ahmed, whose car was used to ferry the arms out of Dutt's residence.
But the special TADA court did not convict Dutt under TADA. This is very ironical given that those who got the arms to Dutt's house were convicted under TADA. So was the women in whose house the arms were placed, after they were moved from Dutt's house. He had also admitted to being directly in touch with Anees Ibrahim, the main conspirator Dawood Ibrahim's younger brother. Further, CBI did not challenge the TADA court's decision which relieved Dutt of charges under TADA, in the Supreme Court.
In fact Satish Manishinde, Dutt's lawyer later admitted in front of a spy camera in a sting operation carried out by Tehelka that "The moment she (Zaibunissa Kazi) was convicted, I thought Sanjay too would be convicted under TADA ." No wonder Kazi's daughter feels ""I wish I was a celebrity or my mother was a celebrity or a sister of an MP. Even my mother would have got the kind of support Sanjay Dutt is getting. If it is on humanitarian grounds then why only Sanjay Dutt, why not Zaibunisa. Isn't she a human? Isn't she a citizen of this country?"
As a line from the song Yaaram written by Gulzar, from the still to be released Ek Thi Daayan goes "koi khabar aayi na pasand to end badal denge". Everyone who is trying to appeal for a pardon for Sanjay Dutt is trying to change the end of a long judicial process which has finally delivered some justice.
To conclude, let me say this loudly and emphatically, if Sanjay Dutt is innocent, then I am Amitabh Bachchan.
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So Amar Singh and Jaya Prada went to the Maharashtra Governor's office to ask him to pardon Sanjay Dutt. Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has already said that he 'was of an impressionable age'. This impressionable age, for the record, was 33 years. Jaya Bachchan says he's suffered enough for 20 years. She too wants to go to the governor. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee went public on her Facebook account saying Sanjay should be pardoned. Among the first to start the chorus was Press Council of India Chairman, Justice Markandey Katju.
The Dutt saga is well known. What many may not know is that Zaibunissa Kazi, a 70-year-old widow, was convicted under the now repealed TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities -Prevention). She was accused of keeping at her home the weapons that came from Sanjay Dutt's house: grenades, AK 56 rifles and ammunition. Her sentence too was upheld by the Supreme Court and she was given five years in jail. No Bollywood celebrity or politician is clamouring for a pardon for her.
Samir Hingora of Magnum was also convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison under TADA. He delivered the weapons to Sanjay Dutt's house.
What many wondered even in 2006-07, when the special court pronounced Ms Kazi guilty under TADA, was this: how could a person who received illegal weapons and a person who delivered them be guilty under TADA, a terror law, and not the person from whose house the weapons came?
Many years later, there are still no answers. But let's look at the questions. Ms Kazi kept the weapons at home, like Sanjay Dutt. Then how was she sentenced under a terror law and the actor under the illegal arms Act? Unlike Sanjay Dutt, Ms Kazi did not call underworld don Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim to have weapons delivered to her house. Well-known underworld operative Abu Salmen did not deliver the weapons to her house. Again, unlike Sanjay Dutt, Ms Kazi did not have three licensed guns to her name. Yet, all this wasn't enough to get her either a lower sentence or an acquittal under TADA. She still has a little over a year left to serve her sentence of five years.
Manzoor Ahmed famously told investigators of the 1993 blasts, "main to sirf actor Sanjay Dutt ko dekhne gaya tha." He drove his Maruti 1000 to Sanjay Dutt's house along with Abu Salem. He got 10 years in jail under TADA. He did not appeal against his verdict, but the CBI did - to enhance his sentence.
Curiously, what should come most naturally to any investigating agency, especially one that calls itself the country's premier investigating agency - the CBI - was not done. The CBI did not appeal against the lower court's acquittal of Sanjay Dutt under TADA. So Manzoor Ahmed's offence deserved higher punishment, but Sanjay Dutt's acquittal did not merit so much as an appeal. We are still waiting for the CBI to answer that query, which naturally begs the question: does a certain convict's name or surname automatically guarantee him different treatment?
When asked why he didn't take up Ms Kazi's appeal to the Governor, Amar Singh said her family had not approached him. Mr. Singh, did Sanjay Dutt's family come to you with their request? Or did they go to Mamata Banerjee, Digvijaya Singh, Jaya Bachchan or Justice Katju?
It's easy to say he's suffered so many years, '20 years is almost a lifetime' they say. Well, so have others. The 1993 blasts case was never about a celebrity or a commoner, but it's equally true that Sanjay Dutt has been held guilty for illegal weapon possession in that very case: it's still the worst terror attack on the country. 257 people died. A hard fact even his 'well-wishers' cannot ignore.
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Comment from Delhi Journalist SandeepUnnithan In '93, Sanjay Dutt sees van-load of AKs, grenades...says 'I'll take three.' Where did he think rest of arms were going? To a film shoot?
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[Dawn] RATHER than increasing confidence, the report on Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata presented to the Supreme Court on Tuesday on behalf of Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence gives cause for greater concern. In January, the attorney general had conceded that some 700 suspected gunnies were confined in internment centres established under the Action in Aid of Civil Power Regulations 2011, a time-bound and area-specific law that legalises the detention of suspected terrorists. In trying to defend such detentions, the report for the SC exposed worrying details that many had suspected but the agencies had not officially revealed before now: that there is a fear of increased terrorist activities in several border agencies because of a nexus between the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and the Afghan government, and that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain is merging with violent sectarian outfits that operate in the country on the lam, with the implication being that if incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! members of the latter were removed from internment centres they would slip away into other parts of the country, including urban centres, and carry out further violence.
This leaves a lot of questions to be answered. Why did it take a legal petition against the AACPR to bring these issues to light? This information ought to have been shared much earlier with parliament and the people, because the mergers being talked of have very serious repercussions. In particular, the information about the TTP-sectarian nexus and the ability of any freed Death Eaters to carry out attacks in major cities and other settled areas constitutes an official admission that the militancy issue is not confined to the tribal belt, which is more of a hub from where violence is being exported to the rest of the country.
If reality is as presented in Tuesday's report, this necessitates a rethink in Pakistain's approach to the militancy problem. The authorities argue that the AACPR helps keep the peace in the restive tribal agencies, given the well-known issues, such as the lack of witnesses, with prosecuting terrorism suspects captured in the area. But if the problem is not restricted to Fata, are we to see the scope of the law expanded to other parts of the country too? Now that this information is public, it needs to be recognised that detention of the kind permitted by the AACPR is a short-term response rather than a real solution to the problem. Pakistain delays the creation of a comprehensive strategy at its peril.
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"But what iff Iran buys one or two Nuclear warheads from North Korea"? > Yuuuppp, but also keep in mind that Nuke-armed Pakistan is now Iran's BFF in West Asia besides nuke-armed, "post-US", "future World #1" wannabe Rising China.
E.g. the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, iff peace talks succeed come 2014 the Taliban, etc. Hard Boyz will be legally or formally allowed to share power wid the Pakistan Govt. THE PROB IS HIGH THAT THE TALIBAN, ETC. WILL EVENTUALLY SUCCEED IN LEGALLY GETTING CONTROL OF PAKISTAN'S NUKE ARSENAL + OTHER WMD/CBRN/NBC PROGRAMMES.
Undoubtedly Iran has mulled being able to use Pakistan's NucWeaps to help deter or militarily defend its Nucprogs + Country agz the US-Israel + aligned.
Lastly, the jury is still out of whether Iran was able to procure/transfer Nukes-WMDS from post-Soviet "-Stans", on the Regional, International Black Market(s; or even from post-Soviet Russia, etc. per se as part of a specific or general anti-US agendum.
IOW, WE DON'T KNOW WID ABSOLUTE OR OBJECTIVE CERTAINTY IFF IRAN DOES, OR DOES NOT, ALREADY POSSESSES SOME NUMBER OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS + DELIVERY SYSTEMS, + HAD SINCE THE 1990'S = FALL OF THE USSR???
Eg. SADDAMIST IRAQ + all those mysterious late-nite flights of Soviet/Russian, Other transport planes flying in-n-out of the country on a seemingly rotating basis, ALLEGEDLY TAKING THINGS OUT OF IRAQ N-O-T PUTTING OR DELIVERING THINGS TO IRAQ???
Northern Lebanon is currently suffering the kind of violent absurdity that occurs nowhere in the world but the Middle East.
The Syrian civil war is spilling into the city of Tripoli, the second largest in Lebanon. Sunni Muslims in the poor neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh are at war with an Alawite militia in the adjacent hilltop neighborhood of Jebel Mohsen that supports Bashar al-Assad's regime. Last week there was even a shootout at a hospital, of all places.
So far this is hardly original. What makes this conflict absurdly unusual is that segments of the Lebanese army are protecting both militias, and they're doing so on behalf of a foreign government--Syria's.
I drove up there from Beirut to meet with Mosbah Ahdab, a political liberal who was a member of the anti-Syrian "March 14" bloc of Lebanon's parliament until a deal was struck to get rid of him after Hezbollah's invasion of Beirut in 2008.
Long interview, some of it wandering through Tripoli's various precincts, with Mr. Totten's photos.
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Maybe but Islamic Charity is, at least, an order of magnitude more important in funding terror. In fact, jihad is an explicitly approved use of zakat (islamic charity). The use of zakat for terror, either direct or indirect has been documented thoroughly and redundantly.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
