Heres another wrinkle to add to the realm of terrorism law, which has been on our radar this week.
As horrific as it was, the Boston Marathon bombing isnt likely to qualify as a terrorist attack for the purposes of insurance coverage.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that its an act of terror whenever bombs are used to target innocent civilians. But in the world of terrorism insurance, thats not the definition that matters.
In order to trigger the post-9/11 federal reinsurance program, a violent act must be certified as an act of terrorism by the Secretary of the Treasury currently Jack Lew in agreement with the Secretary of State and the U.S. Attorney General. A spokeswoman for the Treasury Department said that no certification has been issued.
After the September 11th attacks, Congress sought to stabilize the terrorism insurance market in key industries such as construction and commercial real estate. The result was a backstop known as the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program, a system for spreading catastrophic losses between the U.S. government and private insurers.
As prices for terrorism coverage have come down, about 60% of commercial policyholders have purchased coverage over the past few years, according to a 2012 research report prepared for Congress. The biggest buyers are larger businesses in cities with higher risk exposure.
A new study says just tasting beer increases a persons desire to get drunk. Just like the taste of pie makes you want to eat more pie.
According to CBS News , the study found that people who only tasted beer, without any effect from the alcohol itself, had dopamine, a brain neurotransmitter associated with alcohol and other abused drugs, released into the brain. Why only men?
Researchers gave 49 men two scans, one when they tasted beer and one when they tasted Gatorade, which looked for evidence of a dopamine increase. I do prefer beer over Gatorade.
According to the study, researchers found that there were increased levels of dopamine when the men drank beer and also a significant increase in dopamine activity with participants whos families had a history of alcoholism. I think it's called a Learned Response.
We believe this is the first experiment in humans to show that the taste of an alcoholic drink alone, without any intoxicating effect from the alcohol, can elicit this dopamine activity in the brains reward centers, said David A. Kareken, Ph.D., professor of neurology at the IU School of Medicine and the deputy director of the Indiana Alcohol Research Center in a press release.
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A new study says just tasting beer increases a person's desire to get drunk.
I suspect this is an expert study.
Next they will likely get a grant to prove the Shipman/Fischer Rum Paradox.... why do cheap drinks have more alcohol?
[FOXNEWS] The FBI has confirmed that a letter addressed to President B.O. has "preliminarily tested positive" for ricin, a day after politicians said another letter sent to the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Roger Wicker ...junior United States Senator from Mississippi, a member of the Republican Party. In December 2007 he was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to fill the seat vacated by Trent Lott, winning reelection the next year. A lawyer by training, he was previously a Congressman, and before that a state senator... tested positive for the same substance.
The warnings come amid a flurry of reports on suspicious packages on Capitol Hill. Fox News has learned of several suspicious packages or envelopes in various Capitol Hill office buildings. Capitol Police say three packages that were flagged have been removed and the areas have been cleared. Separately, the office of Sen. Carl Levin, ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... D-Mich., reported a "suspicious-looking letter" at one of the senator's Michigan offices, and other suspicious packages were reported at the Arizona office of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years...
The package alerts compounded security concerns in the wake of the letter incidents and the Boston bombing, which the FBI has said do not appear to be related.
Both of the initial suspicious letters were apparently intercepted on Tuesday. They never reached the Hill or the White House.
An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News said the letter sent to Obama is still being screened, though it initially tested positive.
The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
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It appears the hunt for the so far unidentified Boston nomber may be coming to an end. From Bloomberg:
OFFICIALS BELIEVE BOMBING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED, CNN SAYS
ONE SUSPECT CLEARLY IDENTIFIED IN VIDEO, CNN'S KING SAYS
AUTHORITIES HAVE IMAGE OF SUSPECT W/BAG AT 2ND BOMB SITE:GLOBE
IDENTIFICATION COMING FROM STORE SECURITY CAMERA, CNN SAYS
Authorities have an image of a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene - Globe.com
And the kicker:
Suspect is a "dark-skinned male" according to CNN. Apparently that is the proper nomenclature.
(CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 1:47 p.m. Wednesday ]
An arrest has been made in the Boston bombings investigation based on two videos showing images of the suspect, a federal law enforcement source told CNN's Fran Townsend.
(NBC) -- [Breaking news update at 2:47 p.m. Wednesday ]
Authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombing said Wednesday they have the face but not the name of someone seen on video leaving a black bag near the scene of the blasts.
The person was seen on a surveillance camera from a Lord & Taylor department store, one official said. Investigators said they had "solid leads" after viewing hundreds of hours of video. NBC News sources said there had not been an arrest.
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I don't like the look or the two-handed lock grip that bearded guy has on his...rather hefty looking bug-out bag. Those other fellows wearing caps and cargo pants...troubling also.
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Squank: I doubt it. Legitimate "security" personnel [and bad guys] would attempt to blend in, look innocuous. Looking like a knuckle dragging, Oakleys wearing Blackwater contractor is not the desired look.
Tracking a a cellie circuit board detonator from a blast site to a tower, then on to a specific user could be [could be] futile as well. The cellie could be stolen or purchased using no ID or false ID. The Feds are running the traps correctly at this stage, soliciting fotos and video from civilians and businesses.
My only criticism is not having a single point of contact for Law Enforcement (LE) media releases. This may have already been corrected.
Similar to DoD overseas dining facilities (DFACS), you can say goodbye to carrying bug-out bags to events such as the Boston Marathon. this won't stop suicide vests however. It has arrived.
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Looks like we might start seeing security tables at the entrances to Malls and other public gatherings. That is what the've been doing for years in the Philippines.
Please open your bag or purse and let us peek inside with this little penlight...
Big Sis was been wanting for years to install TSA in malls, Bus depots, and other places.
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Besoeker. Yep. You are correct. IEDs have arrived. As a direct result of knuckledragging politicians running amuck in DC. It is going to be up to us to counter this sadistic state of affairs here now.
If you have a simple free graphics program such as Infranview that can be downloaded and installed on any pc you will be able to import these these images onto your pc, open them with Infranview, and zoom in to the logo of the cap of the far right member of the cargo slacks adorned security detail in the back area viewing the entire scene. You will see that logo is the the Seal Team 6 Skull Mask logo.
BOSTON - The investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing is focusing on a suspect or suspects believed to have carried heavy bags or backpacks, but entered a third day on Wednesday without any arrests or word on who was responsible.
Investigators appeared to have gathered enough evidence at the crime scene on Tuesday to slightly narrow their search. A stretch of Boston's Boylston Street almost a mile long and blocks around it remained closed on Wednesday as investigators searched for clues. The explosions sprayed shrapnel far enough that police were collecting fragments from rooftops along the marathon's course.
Hospitals are saving the shrapnel pieces doctors pick out of the wounded for police. Dr. Peter Burke, the chief of trauma surgery, said the fragments include metal, plastic, wood and concrete.
"We've taken on large quantities of pieces we send them to the pathologists and they are available to the police," he said.
Among the items recovered at the bomb scene were pieces of black nylon that could be from a backpack, fragments of ball bearings and nails, and possibly the remains of a pressure cooker device, Richard DesLauriers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's special agent in charge in Boston, told a news conference on Tuesday. Evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, DesLauriers said.
Bomb scene pictures produced by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force and released on Tuesday show the remains of an explosive device including twisted pieces of a metal container, wires, a battery and what appears to be a small circuit board.
One picture shows a few inches of charred wire attached to a small box, and another depicts a half-inch nail and a zipper head stained with blood. Another shows a Tenergy-brand battery attached to black and red wires through a broken plastic cap. Several photos show a twisted metal lid with bolts.
A U.S. government official, who declined to be identified, made the pictures available to Reuters.
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White House mail handlers identified a "suspicious substance" in a letter sent to President Barack Obama the same day one suspected of containing the poison ricin was found in a Senate mailroom, the Secret Service said Wednesday.
Both letters arrived Tuesday at off-site postal facilities set up after the 2001 anthrax attacks and have been sent to laboratories for additional tests, authorities said.
"A letter addressed to the president containing a suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said. The Secret Service, FBI and Capitol Police are investigating, he said.
Shortly after that announcement, Capitol Police were checking out reports of suspicious packages or letters in two Senate office buildings. The first floor of the Hart Senate Office Building was evacuated shortly before noon.
That news came a day after preliminary tests on a letter sent to the Senate indicated the presence of ricin, a deadly toxin with no known antidote. Further tests on that letter took place Wednesday, the FBI said.
And the authorities have a suspect in mind. Let us hope he actually is the culprit. Then give him a fair, fast trial, followed by a fast, fair sentence
While domestic terrorist events now grip the news, the recent UN weapons bill was only narrowly defeated (53 to 46). Follows is a roster of 46 of our United States Senators who were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.
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Would like to point out that Gov. Brownback is on a roll today, signing two bills, one which requires drug tests for welfare recipients and another supporting the 2nd. amendment. These coupled with the voting law previously passed show that Kansas is in the vanguard of State's Rights.
Pressure cookers by their very nature help make good bombs, amplifying the blast and the carnage.
They don't just hold the explosives. The tightly sealed pot that speeds the cooking of beans and meat makes easier-to-obtain but weaker explosives faster and stronger. And they may also help Sherlocks find out who built the deadly homemade bombs that went kaboom! at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Investigators found fragments of BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker, said Richard DesLauriers, the FBI agent in charge in Boston. He said the items were sent for analysis.
If a pressure cooker was used, it probably cost around $100 to construct, say former federal forensic and explosive Sherlocks. It's like a pipe bomb but bigger and more powerful.
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"dicarded property" story says 6 liters; probably black with tactical assault handle clips. I am under good information though that if we simply ban pressure cookers, you know, once they have been used they will simply disappear from the shelves.
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All my pressure cookers have the seals removed for safety, can I keep them? They've been in the family for years. I use them as sauce pots tho, is that wrong? Can I get in any sort of trouble?
Secretary of State John Kerry's meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister was abruptly closed to the media Tuesday. Sec. Kerry's previous rounds of meetings with foreign ministers had been open to the press. And the meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister should have been far less controversial than his meetings with foreign ministers in Asia where the North Korean crisis was still underway.
The meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister should have been open to the press as well. But then suddenly, it wasn't.
Politico reports:
A meeting Secretary of State John Kerry was to hold with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal was abruptly closed to press coverage Tuesday morning.
The State Department provided no reason for the change, which was announced just 15 minutes before the scheduled 10am session, but media reports have said that a Saudi national in the US on a student visa is a "person of interest" to investigators probing the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
"Apologies for short notice," the State Department's press office told reporters as it announced the change. A spokesperson did not immediately respond to a query about the closure of the meeting, which had been scheduled to include a so-called "camera spray" at the top of the session.
Later Tuesday, at the daily briefing for reporters, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the exclusion of the press from the meeting was due to Kerry's busy schedule.
"This was just a scheduling change on our part," Ventrell said.
That met with a skeptical reaction from journalists, who had been advised that the meeting would include a so-called "camera spray" at the top of the session.
"Are you really trying to say that this [meeting was moved from a] camera/photo op to being closed, for scheduling reasons? Is that seriously your answer: that because the secretary was tired after 10 days on the road and is going to the Hill tomorrow?" the Associated Press's Matt Lee asked..."So does it save time somehow, canceling the photo op? It doesn't wash," Lee replied.
The Saudis tend to be aggressive in protecting their nationals, even when they are involved in terrorism. And Kerry clearly is trying to avoid any kind of public exchange or questions at the topic.
Smail Gueddari was working in the back room of his store, Mazagan Urban Ware, around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when, suddenly, he heard his wife, who had been manning the cash register, screaming from the front of the shop.
Gueddari rushed from the back room to find a robber, with the lower part of his face covered by a makeshift black bandanna, pointing a handgun at his wife and motioning with it for her to empty the stores cash register. When the robber spotted Gueddari rounding the corner, he fired a shot at the store owner, but the bullet narrowly missed him and instead struck two mannequins before lodging into a nearby wall.
Gueddari said thats when he pulled his firearm and shot back twice, hitting the robber once in the torso. The robber, identified Monday as 26-year-old Jeremy Scott Irvin of Fairfield, tried to escape with some of the stolen money after being wounded, but collapsed on the sidewalk just outside of the store located at 201 Main Street. Irvin would be pronounced dead shortly afterwards at Fort Hamilton Hospital.
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They are right to fear a backlash. If this turns out to be jihadis, things are going to be unpleasant for a while.
Guys, now would be a good time to invite the television cameras to see you replace your Saudi-supplied teaching materials and Saudi supplied teachers. Just saying...
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ME + Asian Militant-Terror Groups are celebrating or applauding the blasts as they did 9-11, both 1993 + 2001, + Other - WHAT MUSLIM GROUP(S) + PERSONAGES IN AMERICA IS PUBLICLY DENOUNCING THEM FOR APPLAUDING DEADLY TERROR???
D *** NG IT, BE VERY QUIET NOW, WE'RE TRYING TO HEAR THE CRICKETS!
What could possibly go wrong????
* FYI DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > BOSTON MARATHON BOMBS HAVE HALLMARK OF "LONE WOLF" DEVICES, EXPERTS SAY - CNN.COM.
"Wolf Pack" doth notteth a Loner maketh.
* SAME > US DHS HAS NOT ISSUED TERROR ALERT AFTER BOMBINGS.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [YouTube = Reddit] VIDEO: LOOTING [marathon shirts] APPEARS TO HAD BEEN IN WAKE OF BOSTON MARATHON BLASTS.
Possible, but no official confirmation of this as yet.
Also FYI, post-Blast items = souvenirs repor went on sale on E-BAY + Newspaper Classified Ads???
* SAME > [NBC News] BOSTON MARATHON BLAST INJURIES REQUIRED BATTLEFIELD SAAVY [for on-site treatment, first-response], EXPERTS SAY.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... , D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing.
Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation being led by Capitol Police and the FBI after tests indicated that a letter mailed to the Mississippi Republican's Washington office contained the potentially deadly toxin. The letter was intercepted at a Senate mail facility in Prince George's County, Md., just outside Washington, said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... , then the junior senator from Illinois.... , a member of the Senate's Democratic leadership.
The letter's discovery shook the U.S. Capitol, where several events were canceled Tuesday in response to Monday's Boston bombing that killed three people, injured more than 170 and ignited fresh fears of terrorism. There was no evidence of a connection between the two events.
FBI front man Paul Bresson said initial field tests on the substance produced mixed results and it was undergoing further analysis at a laboratory. Only after that testing could a determination be made about whether the substance was ricin, Bresson said.
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Odd that a Tn Senator, widely regarded as a conservative, and O. would be on the same mailing list....
One soldier was killed and three others seriously injured Tuesday in a roadside terrorist bomb attack in Pattani province district. The blast killed Lt Boonpeng Bootyothee, 50, head of the community development unit.
The attack took place on a local road about 12:30 p.m.
The soldiers were returning from a community visit in one of two military pickup trucks. A terrorist bomb attached to a motorcycle parked beside a bridge was detonated as the truck carrying the four soldiers passed by.
Two drive-by shooting attacks were also reported in Mayo and Yarang districts the previous night, killing two people.
Maropee Ma was killed in a drive-by shooting while traveling home in a car. Two terrorists attackers rode up on a motorcycle and opened fire while the victim, along with his wife and child, were traveling on a road in Mayo district.
Maropee was struck by several bullets and lost control of his car, which crashed into a tree. He died at the scene while his wife and child escaped unharmed.
In Yarang district, Sgt Maj 1st Class Pawakorn Klomkhunthod, a military ranger, was killed in another drive-by shooting by two terrorists attackers riding a motorcycle. The soldier was returning home from work when the attack took place.
Meanwhile in Narathiwat province, a banner opposing peace talks between the government and terrorist separatist groups, and two Malaysian flags, were found on the side of a road in Muang district. The banner said in Malay language: "Peace will not occur as long as the host does not endorse it."
Police examined the site and found a fake bomb buried under the banner.
Pol Lt Col Somchai said the terrorists militants who hung the banner were probably responsible for hanging similar banners calling for an independent Pattani state across Pattani and Narathiwat last month. These terrorists militants oppose the peace talks between the government and representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional separatist movement, he said.
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Most of the Left aren't really leftist. True Leftists are a small, hardcore lot who know exactly what they are doing.
The emotional voters here are the squishy, low-information middle. These people do not know, and do not want to know what is going on. But they do respond to an emotional appeal. They Left knows this. The Right just wants to ignore it and pretend that discussions of Keynesiam vs. Monetarism will eventually bring these people around. Won't happen.
Reagan knew how to reach the squishy, emotional middle. Current Republican leadership just wants to give them handouts.
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I don't like the term "low information voter." It's implying that there is some information that they are getting. I prefer to call them "Brainwave." Cause they only have one wave, and it's flat.
In a tweeting binge following the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, the Westboro Baptist Church celebrated the carnage and announced its intention to picket the funerals of victims.
The tiny Topeka, Kan., fundamentalist group urged the U.S. government to "reinstate" the death penalty for homosexuality and warned "violence will fully consume u [sic]" if that doesn't happen. Most of the church's tweets said same-sex marriage caused the bombing, but others mentioned abortion and supposed mistreatment of the church. Come on down to Beantown, a-holes, I'll be there with an axe handle or two...
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These guys are a piece of work. Domestic Kimmies foaming at the mouth. This group works overtime to create an incident, and they depend upon (knowingly or unknowingly) their safety from the decency of those they attack. They are tickling the dragon's tail.
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I cordially suggest that the authorities look into these obvious "persons of interest", who clearly have a demonstrated interest in causing pain, anguish, and dismay. They ought to be brought in for questioning.
Preferably whenever there's a funeral in town.
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At least it wasn't called a church. Occupy uses the phelps' method - get into their personal space, agitate, video and prosecute counter-attacks. Meanwhile, another hate spewer chris matthews hides in his bunker of cameras, with a mime's level of makeup.
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Just wanted to remind SOME people that just because we live out here (Kansas, that is) with THEM, doesn't mean that WE (99.94% Kansans polled) are out THERE (insert punchline here)with them.
These a$$clowns should up in Garden City sometime back for a soldiers funeral. The feedlots and packing plants were calling complaining abut the smell........
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Yeah, could smell 'em being up wind, and its usually 30mph out thisaways.
IMNSHO, with their well documented connections to prominant democrats and background in law, they also double as a bogey for the liberals, keeping them chummed up with a straw man. Professional agitation for profit.
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It's a little late in the day to ask this question, but here's a mental exercise I haven't been able to solve. Is there a way to disperse these folks without technically performing an 'assault'? I thought maybe spraying them with something horrible-smelling, or just dousing them with water or something, but those are assault, correct? Maybe some loud noise directed primarily at them?
[Iran Press TV] Opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have planned to pelt her coffin with eggs, coal or milk or simply turn their backs on the passing procession, media reports suggest.
Over 800 people have pledged to attend "Maggie's good riddance party", which is organized by Thatcher's opponents outside St Paul's Cathedral in central London on the day of her funeral on Wednesday.
"Let the world know the hypocrisy of a state-funded funeral for the person who influenced 30 years of cuts to state funding of welfare," the public protest's Facebook page reads.
Some protesters have threatened to hurl coal at her coffin, a reminder of the 1984-1985 miners' strike which Thatcher crushed, leading to the closure of dozens of mines and tens of thousands of job losses.
Others have suggested they will throw milk because Thatcher cut free supplies for older school pupils, earning her the nickname "Thatcher the milk snatcher".
Former British premier died on April 8 at the age of 87 after suffering from a series of strokes.
Thatcher's death unleashed a hail of street parties and other joyful reactions across Britain.
Hundreds of Britons staged a large demonstration against Thatcher's legacy in London's Trafalgar Square on April 13, chanting slogans such as "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! Dead, dead, dead!"
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Emotional about everything. Actually i think Thatcher would enjoy how she still gets under their skin evenacter decades out of power (and now being dead and all).
[READINGEAGLE] The parent company of Reading Hospital, Reading Health System, laid off 210 employees today as part of a cost-cutting plan that also will eliminate an additional 181 jobs through attrition and change the employee retirement package from a defined-benefit pension to a 401(k) plan. Hospital officials said the cuts are in response to changes in the national health care system, including cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals.
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[Iran Press TV] Senior Iranian politician Alaeddin Boroujerdi says Syria will play a stronger role in the region after the restoration of calm in the crisis-hit country.
"Resistance of the Syrian people and government against pressures exerted by the world powers will protect the country against foreigners' avarice in the future," the chairman of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said in a meeting with new Syrian ambassador to Tehran, Adnan Mahmoud, on Tuesday.
The Iranian politician reaffirmed the Islamic Theocratic Republic's support for Syria and added that the Syrian government and people will proudly end the ongoing crisis in the country, and "will not allow the [current] foreign conspiracy undermine the independence and illusory sovereignty of Syria."
Mahmoud, for his part, lauded the strategic relations between Iran and Syria, and urged more cooperation between the two countries to boost the resistance front against the Zionist regime of Israel.
"The ongoing developments in Syria have prompted the countries in the region and the world to reconsider their views about us, and recognize Syria as a powerful country...," he added.
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[cincinnati.com] Marguerite Kloos walked into court Tuesday as a nun who devoted her life to her religion. When she walked out, she was a convicted felon who escaped a prison term.
Kloos, 54, of Delhi Township, pleaded guilty to illegal voting, admitting to filling out and filing an absentee ballot for Sister Rose Marie Hewitt, Kloos' friend who died before last November's election.
In a brief hearing before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Winkler, Kloos pleaded guilty as charged but was sentenced to the diversion program. If she stays out of trouble, usually for a year, her record will be erased and legally it will be as if it never happened. As part of that agreement, she also has to report to authorities periodically and perform community service. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 18 months.
Hewitt requested an absentee ballot from the Board of Elections in September. It was mailed to her Oct. 4, the day she died.
"When the absentee ballot was received at Ms. Hewitt's address, (Kloos) opened the envelope, forged Ms. Hewitt's signature, voted Ms. Hewitt's ballot, and mailed the ballot back to the Board of Elections," a court document notes.
After the allegation was made public, Kloos resigned as The College of Mount St. Joseph's Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities,
It will be interesting to see what Pope Francis makes of this, as he works to clean out the disobedient from among the Church's distaff brethren.
Hers was one of three cases Hamilton County decided -- so far -- to prosecute from last fall's elections.
Melowese Richardson, 58, of Madisonville, is in court Wednesday charged with eight counts of illegal voting. She was a poll worker accused of voting twice in the November presidential election and for relatives in various elections. Her charges charges carry up to 12 years in prison.
Russell Glassop, 75, of Symmes Township, is in court May 14, charged with one count of illegal voting. He also is seeking diversion. He is accused of voting for his deceased wife who requested an absentee ballot before she died.
I vote they all lose the right to vote for life, in addition to any other punishments, plus have a permanent mark on their records.
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In the old days, conviction of a felony did involve forfeiting the right to vote in most states. Of course in the real old days before prison warehousing took hold, conviction of a felony usually meant a hanging too. However, as often noted on the Rant, that wouldn't effect voting, as this case demonstrates Sister Rose Marie Hewitt's exercise of the franchise after death.
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This strikes me as a diversion. One poor little nun votes for someone else and is caught. The PtB can now walk around with puffed up chests saying how they're cracking down....all the while ignoring the industrial scale voter fraud being perpetrated at party HQ. Bleeehh.
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Still think they should make an example out of every voting fraud case. Give them 20 years so that in 2014 folks remember the cost of their chipping away at our democracy with a pickaxe. Bastards.
[Pak Daily Times] Two kabooms which brought carnage to the Boston marathon with three dead and more than 100 injured was being treated Tuesday as a "potential terrorist" attack. Multiple kabooms targeting crowds of civilians would seem to be terrorism by definition, but I guess I'm not subtle enough to understand...
The two kabooms 13 seconds apart threw victims into the air as the famed race came to an end, tearing the limbs off some. An eight-year-old boy was reportedly among the dead.
Security was stepped up in major cities across the United States amid fears of a repeat of the September 11, 2001 attacks. President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... said those who planted the bombs will "feel the full weight of justice." "Just like those miscreants at Guantanamo!"
Obama went on national television to warn against "jumping to conclusions", but a senior White House official said such an attack was "clearly an act of terror." Ahah. Nose/face syndrome strikes again.
Special agent Rick DesLauriers, who heads the FBI's Boston bureau, told news hounds: "It is a criminal investigation that is a potential terrorist investigation." "Y'see, it could be Al Capone rubbing out some guys that cheesed him off, but he operated out of Chi, and he's dead now. But it could be somebody like him. Most likely it's white supremacists or Tea Partiers or something."
More than 100 people were maimed, Massachusetts governor Deval (Whoa! Nice) drapes! Patrick said, without giving an exact figure. The Boston Globe said more than 140 were hurt and that one of those killed at the scene was an eight-year-old boy.
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Yeah, when I go into Subway, I'm going to "potentially" order a sammich....
[Pak Daily Times] An Indian "witch doctor" who beheaded an 11-year-old boy and offered the head as a sacrifice to a goddess to improve his fortunes has been sentenced to death, police said Tuesday.
A local court in impoverished Chhattisgarh state in central India convicted 32-year-old Dilip Rathia on Monday of murder and sentenced him to hang for beheading the boy, police said.
"We proved the man beheaded the boy and his head was offered to the local goddess to obtain better luck," investigating officer Praful Thakur told AFP by telephone.
The case, which highlights the persistence of occult beliefs in remote areas, came to light when police found the child's headless skeleton in the tribal-dominated village of Barpali in Raigarh district, 195 kilometres northeast of state capital Raipur.
Forensic tests proved the skeleton was that of an 11-year-old boy named Praveen who disappeared in February 2012 while visiting a village fair, Thakur said.
Police, acting on a tip-off, raided the home of a man said by locals to be a "witch doctor" where they found the child's head.
The man was "practising witchcraft" and "was convicted on charges of murder, hiding evidence and giving false information to conceal the offence", local police official Rahul Bhagat told AFP.
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North Korea lashed out at the South Korean media on Sunday for being insufficiently enthusiastic about anniversary celebrations for nation founder Kim Il-sung.
Norks are peeved at just about everything, aren't they...
The impoverished country called South Korean reports about the extravagant celebrations "another grandiose kind of ugly provocation that can never be pardoned."
In a statement, a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland denounced the South Korean government for letting the media get away with reports that portrayed the lavish festivities as inappropriate at a time of food shortages and increasingly belligerent rhetoric in the North.
North Korea is getting increasingly frantic in attacks on the South Korean press, which has conspicuously ignored calls to respect the regime's elusive "dignity."
I recall Saddam was demanding that everyone respect his dignity as well...
The statement accused Seoul of "casting dirt on compatriots for observing a festive day," while calling the Park Geun-hye administration a "traitorous clique" that is no different from its predecessor, the Lee Myung-bak government.
Since last week, various kinds of events have been held, including an art festival, a Kim Il-sung flower festival, and a national sports festival. The official Rodong Sinmun even shunted the bellicose rhetoric of editorials from the front page to the back pages and reduced their length.
On Sunday, the North Korean government, party and military leadership solemnly marked the occasion of Kim Il-sung's 101st birthday. Kim Yong-nam, the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, stressed the need to "increase the stockpile of nuclear weapons and engage in a more resolute confrontation against the U.S. to cope with a warlike situation."
Leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un did not attend the event but paid his respects to his grandfather's embalmed corpse at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at midnight Monday.
No military parade is expected this year. A Unification Ministry official said, "Last year, the regime carried out an unprecedented parade because of the symbolic nature of the Kim's 100th birthday, but normally there are no parades" on the anniversary.
Yeah, yeah, whatever...
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"I got yer dignity *grabs crotch* riiight here"
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[OBSERVERS.FRANCE24] The capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, was rocked by festivities between Seleka forces (the new coalition in power) and locals during the weekend of April 13 and 14. Residents living in the affected areas claim the new government's disarmament operation has become a pretext for Seleka troops to pillage the population.
Saturday's violence coincided with the presidential inauguration of Michel Djotodia, leader of the Seleka rebellion that ousted president François Bozizé. Unelected, he has claimed the title for the next eighteen months. Seleka rebels seized the capital on March 24 and some have since been appointed ministers in the new government.
The new president has said he is committed to carrying out the so-called 'DDR' process: disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, which mainly targets former soldiers loyal to Bozizé.
This process lies at the heart of last weekend's violence: Bangui residents refuse to acknowledge the Seleka rebels' authority and accuse them of using the disarmament drive as an excuse for widespread looting.
A first wave of looting had already taken place immediately after the Seleka rebels' coup in March. According to the Red Thingy, at least 119 people died and 456 were maimed. Last weekend, three areas of the capital were particularly badly hit by violence. On Saturday and Sunday, shots were fired between local residents and coalition patrols in the eastern neighbourhoods of Ouango and Ngaragba while, also on Sunday, pillaging in the northern neighbourhood of Boy Rabé led to heightened tensions between locals and Seleka forces.
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[Pak Daily Times] A jacket wallah killed sixteen people and maimed dozens more at an election campaign rally attended by former cabinet minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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. on Tuesday, officials said.
Senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who served as railways minister in the outgoing government, escaped the Peshawar bombing with cuts and bruises. He was shown on television footage with blood splattered on his trousers after the attack. "Six persons was struck down in his prime while others lost struggle for life while on their way to hospital or in hospital," a front man for the Lady Reading Hospital told media. The attack comes days after ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan wrote to the Election Commission of Pakistain protesting the withdrawal of security from big shots after completion of their government's constitutional term.
Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year.
"As Ghulam Bilour arrived for the corner meeting in a vehicle the suicide bomber went kaboom!," a leader of ANP leader told Daily Times. "The people were moving to receive the Bilours when the kaboom took place," he added. Police said it was a suicide kaboom. Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year.
The Taliban quickly grabbed credit for the attack, but apologised for injuring Bilour, saying it had been targeting his nephew, Haroon. "We apologise to Ghulam Bilour because we announced an amnesty for him," Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location. Haroon is the son of slain ANP leader Bashir, the elder brother of Ghulam who was killed in a suicide attack at a political meeting in Peshawar on December 22.
The Taliban has directly threatened the ANP and its outgoing coalition partners, the PPP and the MQM which are perceived as secular. Up to six kilogrammes of explosives along with splinters and ball bearings were used in the bombing, officials said. "We have found the feet of the bomber," police official Malik added. In another election-related attack, as many as four people, including the son, brother and nephew of Pakistain Moslem League-N 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... chapter President Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, were killed and 30 others injured when his convoy was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb in Zehri, on Tuesday.
Talking to this correspondent, a Levies official in Zehri said that Nawab Sanaullah Zehri was heading from Anjeera to Zehri as part of his election campaign in a convoy comprising as many as 30 to 35 vehicles. "When the motorcade reached Ghat Bulbul Tarsani, a remote-controlled bomb which was attached to an overpass went off," he said and, adding that it completely destroyed a vehicle and killed on the spot as many as four people -- the son of Sanaullah Zehri, Mir Sikandar Zehir, his nephew Mir Zaib Zehri and his younger brother Mehrullah Zehri and their gunman. Moreover, 30 people were maimed in the attack and five vehicles were damaged.
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DAMASCUS President Bashar Al Assad declared a general amnesty on Tuesday as the conflict ravaging Syria showed no signs of abating, with Western and Russian differences proving unbridgeable.
Assad has issued several amnesty decrees since an uprising against his regime erupted more than two years ago, though it is unclear if they have been implemented, and tens of thousands of political prisoners remain missing.
It does seem a tad one-sided...
The official Sana news agency said that under the latest amnesty, which was to take effect immediately, the death penalty will be replaced with a life sentence of hard labour.
So you can be worked to death...
The amnesty would give lighter sentences to people convicted of joining the rebellion, but it would not apply to those found guilty of smuggling weapons or drug-related crimes, Sana added, quoting the text of the decree.
Which all the rebels did, of course, whether they knew it or not...
Syrians who joined a terrorist organisation will only have to serve a quarter of their sentences, said the decree.
So you only get a boot stamping your face daily for five years instead of twenty...
The decision does not apply to those who avoided conscription unless they handed themselves over to the authorities within 30 days if they were in Syria, or 90 days if they were abroad, it added.
The decree also annuls death sentences previously handed out to people over 70 years of age.
"Here's your amnesty, Gramps!"
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[Ynet] Iran's nuclear chief is saying the country may need to obtain uranium enriched to a higher percentage than what it currently produces.
A Tuesday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quotes Fereidoun Abbasi as saying that Iran has no plan to enrich beyond 20 percent, "but in some special cases like ship and submarines, where we must manufacture small engines, it requires fuel enriched up to 56 percent." It was the first time an Iranian government official spoke about higher enrichment.
[Pak Daily Times] Two men, including a cop, bit the dust falling prey to separate acts of violence in remits of Korangi Industrial area cop shoppe, here on Tuesday. A policeman was rubbed out in a targeted attacked near Bilal Colony bus stop within the remits of Korangi Industrial area cop shoppe. SHO Mohammad Ali said that victim Jawaid Iqbal, 32, resident of Gulzar Colony was on his way home after duty when unidentified armed riders sprayed bullets on him. As a result he sustained multiple injuries and was struck down in his prime. His body was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to his heirs. SHO Ali said that deceased was deployed at Jackson cop shoppe, and suspected that the motive behind the incident was on-going attacks on police, while further investigation are underway.
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[Pak Daily Times] Relatives of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo and activists demonstrated on Tuesday outside the US embassy in Sanaa demanding the release of inmates on hunger strike.
"Obama, Obama, enough detentions," the protesters chanted in an appeal to US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... , an AFP correspondent reported.
Twenty protesters wore orange jumpsuits, similar to those worn by prisoners at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We urge the US government to immediately release the detainees at Guantanamo," read a banner carried by protesters at the rally. The "94 Yemeni detainees are on hunger strike in Guantanamo," said Mohammed al-Ahmadi, an official from Al-Karama, a local non-governmental organization. A veiled black-clad mother of a detainee also said inmates were on hunger strike.
"The Americans say they hold our sons to rehabilitate them. They can return them to us and we could take care of them," said the woman who told AFP her son was captured in Pakistain where he worked.
"He has no links to terrorism," she said. The protesters handed a US embassy representative a petition urging the release of Guantanamo prisoners.
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[An Nahar] Authorities are investigating a Canadian's possible death in Mogadishu after reports said he led a recent attack by Shabaab Islamists on the main courthouse in the Somali capital.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police "is aware there are media reports linking a Canadian to terrorist attacks in Mogadishu," Sergeant Greg Cox told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We cannot provide specific details but are working with relevant domestic and international partners to gather information."
The daily Toronto Star said that Somali Sherlocks are focusing on a Canadian, Mahad Ali Dhore, whom they believe organized the assault by nine fighters wearing police or army uniforms.
Three of them blew themselves up to clear the way for the six others, who took hostages and started battling the Somali and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops guarding the courthouse. The shootout lasted for several hours.
Thirty minutes into the attack, as military reinforcements were arriving and the maimed were being evacuated, a boom-mobileexploded in the zone.
The attack left at least 34 people dead.
The National Post, citing unnamed sources in Toronto's Somali diaspora, said Dhore died in the attack. He had either been one of the jacket wallahs or was making a court appearance when fellow Shabaab fighters stormed the complex, according to two scenarios outlined by the paper.
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Fascists are bad, as everyone knows. But caudillos are a wonderful thing, worthy of a personality cult and all the other trappings of fascism.
[An Nahar] Violent protests over Venezuela's disputed presidential election have so far left seven people dead and dozens injured, as president-elect Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival traded blame Tuesday.
Protests swept parts of Caracas and other Venezuelan cities Monday after the country's election authorities proclaimed Maduro, the acting president, the narrow winner in Sunday's vote and refused demands for a recount.
By Tuesday morning, government officials were reporting seven deaths, 61 injured and 135 placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! around the country.
Maduro, blaming "fascist mobs" for the violence and reiterating charges that the opposition was fomenting a coup, said he would not allow the opposition to go ahead with a planned protest march Wednesday through the streets of Caracas.
"You are not going to the center of Caracas to fill it with death and blood," he said in a nationally televised statement, while calling his own supporters into the streets.
"They can do what they want. I'm not going to allow it. I'm going to use a hard fist against fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and intolerance. If they want to overthrow me, come get me. With the people and the armed forces, I am here," he said.
Capriles shot back on his Twitter account, blaming Maduro and his government for the violence.
"The illegitimate one and his government ordered that there be violence to avoid a vote count! They are the ones responsible," he said.
Tensions have soared since the National Electoral Council proclaimed Maduro the victor in the snap election to replace the late president Hugo Chavez by a narrow 50.75 percent to 49 percent margin.
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WASHINGTON -- The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.
The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives emerged as investigators appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues to who carried out the attack. The chief FBI agent in Boston vowed we will go to the ends of the Earth to find those responsible.
A person who spoke on condition of anonymity said the explosives were put in 6-liter kitchen pressure cookers, hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground. They were packed with shrapnel. The person said law enforcement officials have some of the bomb components but do not yet know what was used to set off the explosives.
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[FRANCE24] US mail authorities intercepted a letter bound for the Washington office of Senator Roger Wicker that contained the poison ricin, a Senate leadership aide said Tuesday.
The letter was detected during a routine inspection of mail at an off-site facility and did not reach the US Capitol or Wicker's office, the aide said, citing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who briefed lawmakers about the security breach.
The letter had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer wrote in an e-mail to senators and aides.
Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... told news hounds after a briefing for politicians that a suspect has already been identified in the incident, but a knowledgeable source said no one was in jug Tuesday night.
Wicker (R), the junior senator from Mississippi, has been assigned a protective detail, according to a law enforcement source.
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A total of five individuals have been killed or were found dead in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Tamaulipas state including three armed suspects who died exchanging gunfire with a unit of the Mexican Army, according to official government news sources.
According to a press release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE) or attorney general, the three armed suspects were amongst a group travelling in a convoy aboard a Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck and a Chevrolet Malibu sedan near a gap that leads to the village of Lopez Rayon in Gonzalez municipality when they were encountered by a Mexican Army road patrol.
In the aftermath soldiers secured four rifles and 58 poncha llantas or spikes used to puncture automobile tires, along with the vehicles.
According to a press release posted on the website of the Tamaulipas state PGJE, two other individuals were found dead in southern Tamaulipas state.
A man was found shot to death Monday evening in Ciudad Victoria. The victim was identified as Rodrigo de los Santos Gonzalez Gomez, 48 and was found at 1940 hrs near the intersection of calles 6th and Carrera. He had been shot three times with a .223 caliber rifle.
Tuesday morning a man was found shot to death in ejido Francisco Villa in San Fernando municipality at around 0830 hrs. The victim was identified as Luis Arrellano Herrera, 64, and was found aboard a Dodge Caravan minivan. The victim had been shot once in the head.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
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A total of nine unidentified individuals were found dead in a grave in northern Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news account which appeared on the website of El Universal news daily, the victims were found in a grave on the banks of the Rio Silla between Nuevo Leon and Reforma colonies near the intersection of calles Villa de Santiago and Agualeguas in Guadalupe municipality, a suburb of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon state.
Initial reports by the Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado (PGJE), or attorney general were that two bodies were found. Later it was reported that a total of nine had been found.
The report of the medical examiner said that the victims had been shot to death two days before.
A separate news account which appeared more than two weeks ago on the website of El Porvenir news daily said that one unidentified man was found on the banks of the Rio Silla near the intersection of Avenida Paseo de las Américas and Calle Escritores Mexicanos in Contry La Silla colony.
The find was made at around 1115 hrs and the victim was not found in a grave. Reports were the victim may have died of natural causes.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com
[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation all condemned on Tuesday the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon, calling them an act of terrorism.
Three people were killed and more than 170 maimed in the bombings in the worst attack in the United States since the September 11, 2001 atrocities.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia sent a message of condolences to the American people, saying he was "saddened by the news of the two kabooms in Boston," state news agency SPA reported.
"We condemn these acts of terrorism targeting innocent people and committed by criminals who represent only themselves and have neither religion nor faith."
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation of 57 Moslem states, said in a statement that "such actions targeting an event are cowardly and reprehensible."
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Taking a leaf from Arafat's play book: kill & condemn.
Read the article I linked, g(r)omgoru. Dr. Fadl's argument is not that jihad is bad as such, but that jihad which brings down disproportionate death and destruction on the ummah -- as Al Qaeda did -- is proved to be a bad idea.
Tensions have been mounting for weeks in the Korean peninsula, all due to the saber rattling of a young, inexperienced and untested North Korean dictator. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to China, North Korea's only ally of note, ostensibly to ward off a possible nuclear war, and talked about -- global warming?
All love The Second Smartest Man In The Room. Only sorcery could have altered the vote count in Florida that time.
Meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing, thoughts of North Korean troops invading its neighbor to the south took second fiddle to a threat Kerry deemed more immediate -- "anthropogenic" global warming. And he and his hosts agreed that discussion of the issue would send a "significant message" globally, according to CNSNews.com.
"We are seeing the science of climate change come back to us now at a rate that is far faster and with far greater levels of damage than anything that scientists predicted 10, 15, 20 years ago," Kerry said. "Every prediction that has been made is coming true, but coming true bigger and more dangerously."
Sounding like a true Al Gore acolyte, Kerry claimed the science on global warming is settled and the time for debate is over.
"The two countries took special note of the overwhelming scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change and its worsening impacts, including the sharp rise in global average temperatures over the past century, the alarming acidification of our oceans, the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice, and the striking incidence of extreme weather events occurring all over the world," according to the joint US-China Statement on Climate Change.
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The Chinese must think that US leaders are ignorant, stupid, frog in a box mental, or all the above.
Unbelievable.......and our taxes are fair.....and I could go on and on and on and on.
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"We are seeing the science of climate change come back to us now at a rate that is far faster and with far greater levels of damage than anything that scientists predicted 10, 15, 20 years ago," Kerry said.
And I immediately thought of this map. So where are all the refugees?
Not to mention anyone who says, "the science is settled" either doesn't know the first thing about science, or is playing his audience for ignoramuses.
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We've seen a 16 year stop in warming (that proves the CO2=Temp models wrong).
Azerbaijan -- The IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) contacted the Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority (INRA) concerning the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which occurred at 12:44 UTC today in the south-east of the country. INRA informed the IEC that the earthquake caused no damage to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant or other nuclear facilities, IAEA reported.
Turn up the juice and hit 'em again...
The IAEA has made an offer of good offices to Iran, indicating it is ready to help the country obtain any assistance required to ensure the safety of radioactive sources such as medical equipment that may have been affected by the earthquake. The offer is in line with IAEA's IEC routine procedures after strong earthquakes that might affect nuclear or radiological safety.
INRA said records showed no fixed high-level radiation sources were installed in the area of the earthquake, which struck near Iran's border with Pakistan. It is noted that this is one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit Iran over the past 40 years.
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[An Nahar] North Korea's military on Tuesday threatened the South with imminent "sledge-hammer" retaliation unless Seoul apologized for anti-Pyongyang protestors burning effigies of its revered leaders.
South Korea called the North's ultimatum "regrettable" and vowed a tough response to any military provocation.
The warning came a day after U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... wrapped up a Northeast Asian tour aimed at defusing soaring military tensions on the Korean peninsula and getting China to help rein in a belligerent Pyongyang.
As North Korea marked the birth of late founding leader Kim Il-Sung on Monday -- a major national holiday -- around 40 protesters in Seoul burned portraits of Kim, his son Kim Dear Leader Jong-Il ... hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of reunification isn't the same as the definition in Seoul... and grandson and current leader Kim Jong-Un.
Condemning what it described as a "thrice-cursed... monstrous criminal act," the Korean People's Army (KPA) Supreme Command issued an "ultimatum" threatening "just" and immediate action if an apology was not forthcoming.
"Our retaliatory action will start without any notice," it said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
"The military demonstration... will be powerful sledge-hammer blows at all hostile forces hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership," it added.
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[Pak Daily Times] A bomb attack killed four Pakistani soldiers and wounded many others on Tuesday in the country's most notorious militant stronghold on the Afghan border, local officials said.
The bomb struck on a road under construction, five kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town of the district of North Waziristan, known as a strong bastion of Taliban and al Qaeda linked militants. "An improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off near a military truck, killing four soldiers and wounding many others," a local intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said that the soldiers were providing security to workers building the road between Miranshah and the area of Ghulam Ali.
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[An Nahar] Bombings in Iraq, including one near a governor's convoy, killed eight people on Tuesday a day after a wave of attacks left 50 dead ahead of the first elections since U.S. troops withdrew.
A boom-mobile killed four people and maimed 15 in Aziziyah, while a roadside kaboom killed a soldier and maimed two near Mussayib, both south of the capital, security and medical officials said.
Three separate blasts north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed three people and maimed eight others, and a roadside kaboomwent kaboom! near a convoy carrying Nineveh province's Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi near the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, though no one was hurt.
Gunmen also attacked a military site northwest of the disputed city of Kirkuk in the north, wounding two soldiers, while two workers on an irrigation project were kidnapped west of the city.
The spate of bombings comes a day after more than 30 attacks killed 50 people and maimed almost 300, raising further questions about the credibility of April 20 provincial elections seen as a key test of Iraq's stability and its security forces.
A total of 14 election hopefuls have already been murdered and just 12 of the country's 18 provinces will be taking part in the vote.
Soldiers and coppers cast their ballots for the provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote, the country's first since March 2010 parliamentary polls.
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[JPOST] During an Independence Day speech in Herzliya, defense minister says that Israel must prepare for he possibility of striking the Iranian nuclear program on its own, warns Tehran's drive for nukes could end in disaster. Picked right up on that, dinny? Not much gets by that boy!
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Y'all didn't expect anything else, what with Bambi in charge of our military, did you?
There's a special seat in hell for him, right next to another Hussein. >:-(
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Thanks to the Sequester + overall US Debt = Entitlement Burden ...
> No US Airpower.
> No USN CVNS or Gator Amphibs.
> No heavy Armor, Mech forces.
> As of this Guam AM, potentially NO USMC.
Other to come, e.g NO REPLACEMENTS FOR ISRAELI IDF LOSSES IFF A NEW "YOM KIPPUR II" MAJOR WAR EVER OCCURS - NO POTUS' NIXON, REAGAN, OR BUSHES, + NO US NUCLEAR UMBRELLA EITHER???
WHATS THERE FOR OWG CALIPHATE-HAPPY IRAN = "POST-US" CHINA = "DPRK" = ... ... @??? NOT TO LIKE!?
Perhaps the best of all, espec for CHINA, US MONETARY EASING = US TO KEEP BORROWING US$85.0BILYUHN PER MONTH TIMES 12 MONTH TIMES ONE YEAR TIMES TEN YEARS [or more]???
Under the POTUS Bammer Admin, the US is already accumulating 2013-Jan 2017 such new Debt that it wasn't forecasted to accumulate until close to 2020 or after.
Iff one believes that the Bammer is an anti-US Marxist-Anarchist-Globalist, then by extension its in China's = Iran's, etc. interests to ensure a similar or worse POTUS is elected in the US come Nov 2016 = Jan 2017.
[Pak Daily Times] The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that at least 71 hit mans who were locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by the 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 but never charged for the heinous offences rather booked for minor crimes have been released on bail.
After going through joint investigation team (JIT) reports, a five-member special bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistain Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, gave 24 hours to the Sindh law enforcement agencies to arrest the people whose names have been divulged in the JIT reports and directed them to register FIRs against them and submit a report by today (Wednesday). The court was hearing the suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case regarding the worsening law and order situation in Karachi.
The bench was also told about the arrest of 68 cut-throats during targeted operations in different parts of the city that were conducted from March 1 to 31. The court sought a report about how many of them have been challaned before different courts and directed different anti-terrorist courts hearing their cases to complete trials within a week after holding day-to-day proceedings. The high court monitoring the pace of the ATCs will also ensure finalisation of the trials within the stipulated period.
Citing one of the JIT reports, the Supreme Court lamented that Muneer Ahmed who had pleaded guilty to killing 115 people was released on bail because he was not charged under Section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code for killing but under Section 353 PPC which suggests punishment for assault on a public servant or to deter him from discharging official duties.
Likewise, in another case, Sheikh Naeem who had also confessed to killing 47 innocent people was released on bail because he was also booked under the same charge of assaulting coppers. The court questioned whether it was not a crime that the killers were never prosecuted for murder despite confessions. It asked how would law and order in Karachi improve when murderers are released because of political influence and coppers care only about their promotions and job security. "This is all a political game," Justice Ijaz observed.
The counsel for Karachi police, Shah Khawar, told the bench that out of a total of 106 cop shoppes, no-go areas exists only in the jurisdiction of seven, namely Kalakot, Pirabad, PIB Colony, Sohrab Goth, Sachal, Chaki Wara and Mangopeer. It is admitted in the report that the police still have no access to 35 percent areas of Layari. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... criminals from the tribal areas also take refuge in areas adjacent to Mangopeer, it added.
Referring to a letter written by MQM leader Nasreen Jaleel about Talibanisation of Karachi, Justice Ijaz observed that those who have been in the government for the last 20 years were complaining and requesting the court to end the tendency. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the court was informed that that Pakistain People's Party (PPP) is supporting the criminal elements in Lyari, to which the chief justice remarked that every act in the city is politically motivated. The Rangers counsel stated that if armed action was taken against Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... criminals who, he said, take shelter behind women and kiddies, a Lal Masjid-like situation could erupt and things could go out of control.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Pakistan Taliban has denied responsibility for the bomb attacks which killed three people and wounded more than 100 in Boston.
"Please don't hurt us!"
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They could be lying again.
Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted Times Square bombing by Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad in May 2010 yet the Pakistan Taliban denied this.
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I'm more inclined to think that this group has a higher probability of being involved. Two of their imans in MA and RI were busted for immigration fraud.
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I think the Taliban has had enough of our shock and awe and has lost enough people to understand not to pull our tail.
It seems to me, Bill, that the Taliban believe they have chased us out of Afghanistan, which means they think they've won. Even if lots of their guys are suffering from depression as they await the next drone, wondering if it's their turn to kiss a missile.
[Al Ahram] Sudanese Government forces have counter-attacked a rebel-held town in southern Darfur, as the UN's top Sudan official called for immediate access to help thousands of civilians
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[An Nahar] Belgium went on the offensive Tuesday against radical Islamist recruitment networks, staging dozens of early morning raids and several arrests of individuals suspected of sending imported muscle to the Syrian front.
More than 200 police carried out 48 early raids in the northern port city of Antwerp and in Vilvorde just outside Brussels, home to most of the 80 young Belgians known to have departed for Syria in recent months.
The prosecutor's office said six people incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
were tossed into the calaboose for questioning -- one of whom was charged -- and computers, mobile phones and 30,000 euros seized, though no weapons or explosives were found.
Tuesday's police operation was part of an ongoing year-long inquiry to determine whether a group known as Sharia4Belgium "is a terrorist group," an offense that carries a 10-year jail term, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The lengthy seven-page statement said the group appeared to be a hardline jihadist Salafist movement with international contacts and that several of its members had signed up to fight with al-Qaeda-inspired fighters on the Syrian front.
The lengthy seven-page statement said the group appeared to be a hardline jihadist Salafist movement with international contacts and that several of its members had signed up to fight with al-Qaeda-inspired fighters on the Syrian front.
It is believed to have recruited 33 volunteers for the Syria front, said chief investigator Stanny De Vlieger.
"The investigation shows ... they appear to have participated in combat and even in the kidnapping and execution of those they call 'non-believers'," he added.
Belgium is among several European nations concerned over the departure to Syria of hundreds of young Islamist radicals.
Amid reports some 80 Belgians have joined opposition fighters in Syria, authorities have vowed to take steps to prevent others leaving.
The prosecutor's office said that among those placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in the northern port city of Antwerp on Tuesday was a well-known Belgian Islamist figure, Fouad Belkacem, who was charged later on Tuesday.
Belkacem was the front man for a group known as Sharia4Belgium that favored installing Islamic law in Belgium but which voluntarily announced an end to its existence in October.
Another man who was maimed in Syria had been interrogated by police and was among the six detained.
A 38-year-old Frenchie well-known in radical Islamist circles in Belgium was killed Sunday while fighting Assad forces as part of an Islamist brigade in Syria, a relative told the Belga news agency.
Raphael Gendron left for Syria several months ago to fight with a unit of the 'Falcons of Sham' headed by Abdelrahman Ayachi, who was maimed Sunday and is the son of Syrian-born radical Imam Bassam Ayachi, Belgian media said.
A report released early this month by King's College London said up to 600 people from 14 countries, including Austria, Britannia, Germany, Spain and Sweden had taken part in the Syria conflict since it began in March 2011.
The largest contingent was from Britannia but based on population, the figures for Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands were the most significant, with around 200 between them.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that there is no sign the explosions in Boston were part of a "broader plot," but that her department is still being cautious.
"While there is no current indication to suggest that the events in Boston are indicative of a broader plot," she said in a written statement.
You would know this how on day 2?
"Out of an abundance of caution," she added, "DHS continues to keep in place enhanced security measures at transportation hubs, utilizing measures both seen and unseen."
And DHS Secretaries who are unseen and unheard while the investigation is on-going...
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You would know this how on day 2?
Information obtained by strip searching a 70 years old nun?
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What "moderate" US-based Muslim Groups or Personages are denouncing those ME + Asian MilTerr Groups whom applaud, cheer, or otherwise support the Boston Bombings???
FYI MILBLOG POSTER = opined that the Boston Marathon bombings prove clearly that Al-Qaeda = Radical Islamist MilTerrs have successfully landed in America + are in operation. US WILL NOW WITNESS OR WAGE A DOMESTIC "GWOT/WOT II" AGZ BOOM-MINDED JIHADIS ON ITS OWN SOIL.
[Al Ahram] Iraq put 21 men to death on Tuesday, a senior justice ministry official told AFP, the latest in a series of mass executions that have drawn international condemnation.
All of the men were Iraqis and had been convicted on anti-terror charges, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered...
The latest executions brought to 50 the number of times Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has carried out the death penalty so far this year, despite widespread calls for a moratorium on the country's use of capital punishment.
Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari insisted last month that Storied Baghdad would continue to implement the death penalty in the face of widespread calls for it to issue a moratorium.
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all Sunnis, I'll bet....
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[Pak Daily Times] Anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers came under attack in Khanewal and 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... on Tuesday. According to media reports, members of a polio vaccination team were beaten up in Kabirwala town of Khanewal. DCO (Health) Dr Afzal Bashir said that two lady health workers, identified as Sorayya and Tasleem, were thrashed in Mastpur. Separately, another anti-polio vaccination team was attacked in Karachi's Baldia Town. According to police, the polio team entered Sector 8 of Baldia Town where assailants opened fire on them, adding that no injuries were reported. SSP Asif Sheikh said that they had placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... four people, including a woman, involved in the attack. The police also said that the polio campaign in the area had been suspended until today (Wednesday).
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[IsraelTimes] A top emergency medicine doctor at a Boston hospital where many of the maimed from Monday's bombing attack were being treated credited Israel with training the hospital's first-response team and readying it to deal with mass-casualty incidents.
While briefing media hours after the devastating attack that killed three people and maimed over 100 others near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Dr. Alasdair Conn said that the scene of the carnage and the horrific injuries sustained by the victims were reminiscent of "a bomb kaboom that we hear about in the news in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... or Israel, or some other tragic place in the world."
Afterward he added, "About two years ago, in actual fact, we asked the Israelis to come across, and they helped us set up our disaster team so that we could respond in this kind of manner."
Hard-won expertise shared where it turned out to do the most good.
Ed Kelly is the head of the state firefighters association, but hes no desk jockey. Hes a working firefighter, and on Tuesday night, 27 hours after Boston changed forever, I followed him up the stairs at the District 4 station on Columbus Avenue that houses Ladder 17 and Engine 7 in the South End.
Heres the deal, Kelly said, stopping me before we went in the room. They dont want their names in the paper. They dont want to be singled out. They did what every firefighter in the city did. What every cop, every EMS worker, did. They dont think theyre special.
What they did was nothing short of heroic. They ran toward the bombs. They saved lives.
One of the firefighters from Engine 7 is a Marine who did three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He saw bad things overseas. He didnt expect to see them in the Back Bay on Patriots Day.
We were on a call, Comm. Ave and Exeter, he said. There was a barbecue on the porch. College kids.
Their gruff lecture on fire safety and common sense was cut short when the first bomb exploded around the corner.
I know what a bomb sounds like, he said. We tore around the corner thinking we were going to find a fire. But there was no fire.
Instead there were dozens of people spilled on the sidewalk. The firefighters worried about secondary bombs and biological weapons. But they dove into their work.
The first person I encountered was a woman. The bone was sticking out of her leg. Four inches in width, 10 inches in length. The femoral blood was a dark, dark red.
A 12-year department veteran from Dorchester was right next to him, working through the victims in front of Marathon Sports. He saw a guy he knew from the neighborhood, Bill Richard.
I cant find Denise, Richard cried, referring to his wife.
The Richard family had been caught in the blast as they watched runners pass the finish line. Bill Richard and his son Henry avoided serious injury. But Denise Richard was hit in the head with shrapnel, and her 6-year-old daughter Janey lost part of her leg. Eight-year-old Martin Richard caught the full force of the explosion, and when the firefighter looked down at him, I knew Marty was gone.
Marty Richard was a third-grade classmate of the firefighters daughter. In fact, almost everyone on Engine 7 knew the Richards; the lieutenants kid was a classmate of one of the Richard kids.
My daughter goes to the same Irish step dance school as Janey Richard, Ed Kelly said. This is the thing. All these guys, theyre neighborhood guys. When they were working on these people on Boylston Street, in some cases they were working on friends and neighbors, and they were working on strangers just as hard. They saved many lives.
One of those strangers was a homeless man, whose foot hung by a thin shred of flesh.
I looked him in the eye and asked him if he was OK, the former Marine said, but he was in shock. He couldnt talk.
The Marine was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder after his last combat tour. I asked him if he needed more treatment after what he went through on Monday.
He didnt answer for a while, then nodded slowly and said, Probably.
Another former Marine was on Ladder 17, and when he jumped down from the truck and waded onto the bloodied sidewalk he had to make a choice: which child to grab first.
There were two kids missing legs, he said. I grabbed one of them and another guy grabbed the other kid.
He and an EMT tried to put a tourniquet on the boys leg, but the blood made the tubing slippery.
Its OK, buddy, the firefighter told the screaming boy. Its OK, pal.
Ed Kelly had brought his kids to watch his wife run the Marathon. She had just crossed the finish line and had walked down Boylston toward Berkeley when the first bomb went off. Kelly ran down Berkeley Street, burst into the station house, and grabbed his gear from his Ladder 17 locker and ran back to the bomb site.
A lot of off-duty guys did the same. Not just firefighters. Cops, EMS, Kelly said. It says something about this city.
I asked one of the firefighters, the former Marine with eight years on the job, why he and his brother firefighters did what they did, without any concern for their own safety. Why they ran toward the bombs. Why they were prepared to die if need be.
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The Israeli Medical profession has literally written the book on medical treatment of innocents hurt by Paleo bombers that had serious diseases and blew themselves up with vests laden with shrapnel and rat poison, creating more shrapnel and disease with their own flesh and bone.
The Israelis have seen more evil than most people have seen and still worked out medical miracles to save so many. My hat is off to them.
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DUBAI A Saudi diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda in Yemen for more than a year has urged the kingdom to secure his release, in a new video published by the extremist networks media arm. Abdullah Al Khalidi, Saudis deputy consul in the southern port of Aden, was dressed in a traditional black outfit and appeared to be in good health in the 19-minute video interview by Al Malahem Media, apparently produced between February and March.
He appealed to the custodian of the two Holy Mosques,King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, to secure his release by meeting his kidnappers demands, asking: Will he release me and return me back to my family and children?
They are demanding the release of a few women and some clerics detained by Saudi authorities over their links to Al Qaeda, he said.
Militants from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula seized Khalidi on March 28 last year seeking the release of female prisoners and to collect a ransom. AQAP claimed responsibility for Khalidis abduction in April.
This is Khalidis fourth such appeal. He last appeared in October in a similar recording, and made appeals on May 25 and again on July 1.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] The king of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... on Tuesday condemned the Boston Marathon bombings, saying no religion or morals would condone such an attack.
In a condolences message to President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... and the American people, King Abdullah said the perpetrators of such "heinous terrorist acts" are "enemies of any humane considerations." He said the perpetrators represent only themselves.
In a separate statement, the Saudi Embassy said a Saudi woman was among those injured, suffering from minor injuries due to glass fragments.
The Saudi government has been cracking down on Islamic hard boyz since their own ox was gored al-Qaeda launched a wave of attacks in the country in 2003, killing dozens. It has sought to distance itself from terrorist acts in the past, including the Sept. 11 attacks, where 15 of the 19 hijackers involved were Saudi citizens.
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[Pak Daily Times] Sindh chapter of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) while expressing concern over increased incidents of terrorism against political parties and their candidates in the country demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan and caretaker governments to provide security to them.
Speaking at a press conference at his residence, Jeelani House provincial president of the party, Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that his party is concerned about the deteriorating law and order situation, especially, terrorist attacks against the PPP, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) leaders and their candidates. You'd think that it would be a govt responsibility to provide security all the time, wouldn't you?
Baby steps, Fred. First they need to provide security for a single day; once they master that, in perpetuity can begin to be contemplated.
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[Al Ahram] Three Egyptian Coptic Christians arrested in Libya in February for alleged proselytising are set to return to Egypt after being acquitted of charges, state news agency MENA reports
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[Pak Daily Times] US Sherlocks on Tuesday pledged to go "to the ends of the Earth" to find those behind the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and maimed more than 170, many with horrific injuries.
Boston's Boylston Street, scene of the finish line carnage on Monday, remained sealed off as Sherlocks sought leads in the worst attack in the United States since the September 11, 2001 atrocities.
President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... vowed that the attackers "will feel the full weight of justice", police searched the apartment of one "person of interest" and a Saudi man remained under guard in hospital. But there were no convincing answers for a city in mourning.
"This was a heinous and cowardly act," Obama said at the White House. "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror."
Obama said while the impact of the attacks near the finish line of the Boston marathon on Monday, which killed three people and maimed more than 170 others, were clear, the motives and the identify of those responsible was not.
"What we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual," he said.
But the president again vowed to bring whoever was behind the assault to justice, and warned that America would not be cowed by terrorism.
"We also know this -- the American people refuse to be terrorized," he said.
In frank and direct language, Obama vowed to keep Americans up to speed with developments in the investigation and asked them to remain vigilant.
"What I have indicated to you is what we now know. We know it was bombs that were set off. We know that obviously they did some severe damage. We do not know who did them," he said.
"We don't have a sense of motive yet. So everything else at this point is speculation."
No suspect was in jug though several people were being questioned in the Boston area, but the hunt was expected to expand to other countries, police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said.
"This will be a worldwide investigation," said Rick DesLauriers, head of the FBI's Boston office.
"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects responsible for this despicable crime," he added. "We are using full capacities of the FBI, to its fullest worldwide extent."
The two bombs, which were 13 seconds and about 100 meters apart, killed three people and injured 176, with 17 people at death's door, Boston police commissioner Ed Davis told news hounds.
US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel told politicians on Tuesday that the bombings appeared to be a "cruel act of terror." "There were no intelligence warnings that we know of," said Representative Peter King ...U.S. Representative for New York's 3rd (central Long Island) congressional district, serving since 1993. He is of the Publican persuasion and is known for his active support for the IRA Irish republican movement... , a member of the House Intelligence Committee who gave details of the huge hunt launched by US authorities. "The war on terrorism is far from over, whether it is Islamic jihadists or right-wing myrmidons," he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... led a chorus of global condemnation, describing the twin kabooms as "barbaric".
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Words are not backed up by a history of deeds. Just words. Just words.
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But "frank and direct words", AP. That means our president is really serious!
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Would Pyongyang be beyond the 'ends of the Earth?'
What about Riyadh, Bejing, Damascus, Tehran etc ?
What would Obama do if nuclear North Korea tomorrow publicly declared that they did it?
They got away with announcing (not threatening) nuclear attacks on the US.
"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate."
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001
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I caught a brief news clip, I believe it was CNN, in which the news bureau had actually purchased a pressure [which they said] was identical to the one(s) used in the Boston bombings. The cooker they displayed was made in Canada. There have been attempts at bringing explosive into the US from Canada in the past.
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Toothpaste and shampoo are made in Canada, the TSA confiscates those carry-on items for flights, Canada has a seperatist movement, therefore this is the work of the Tea Party. Whoah, just got a tingle, who's up for golf?
It may be symbolic, but its the right symbol, aimed by the Democrat-controlled Senate at the Democratic president who might think of having other ideas when the time comes.
[Jpost] Resolution to provide diplomatic, economic and military support to Israel if the Jewish State is forced to act militarily against Iranian nuclear program adopted by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
On Israel's 65th Independence Day, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted "Senate Resolution 65," stipulating that the US will assist Israel diplomatically, economically and militarily if the Jewish state is compelled to take military action against Iran "in its defense of its territory, people, and existence."
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... (R-SC) sponsored Tuesday's resolution, which garnered a bipartisan group of 79 co-sponsors. The resolution also emphasizes that the US must be committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has sent a very clear and enormously important message of solidarity with Israel against the Iranian nuclear threat--which endangers American, Israeli, and international security," the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said in a statement.
"AIPAC urges the full Senate to act expeditiously to adopt the resolution."
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IMO Tel Aviv = PM Netanyahu + Govt. recognize that the only real way to stop Iran's NucProgs is via attack, invasion, + ultimately OCCUPATION, not just attack. The alternate is to get Iran to unilaterally halt its programme.
As things stand, neither the US nor Israel has any cause to attack Iran - while Iran is dev the capability, economies, or proficiencies to produce NucWeaps, it hasn't actually done so, nor unlike Saddam is there proof that Iran intends to give deadly NucTech knowledge to Radicalist Groups. In addition, both Russia + China are opposed to any Milaction agz Iran.
UNLESS A UN-APPROVED COALITION + MANDATE TO INVADE + OCCUPY IRAN IS CREATED, THIS RESOLUTION IS JUST PCORRECT COMEDY, AS RIDICULOUS + FARSICAL AS TAKING AWAY EVERY AMER'S RIGHT TO OWN GUNS WHILE DELIBERAT LEAVING US BORDERS UNSECURED.
SOLVING A PROB BY NOT SOLVING IT, BUT WANTING THE MAINSTREAM OR ELECTORATE TO BELIEVE IT WAS.
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As per PACIFICNEWSCENTER [aka Guam K-57 Radio News] Artic, USMC Commandant Amos has indic that the Sequester may undermine the Nation's need for having a Marine Corps - IIUC, IOW THE SEQUESTER = US DEBT BURDEN IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE MARINE CORPS [ + likely other US Elite Units, etc]???
ADVANTAGE > CHINA = SSSHHHH "DPRK/NOKOR", IRAN, HARD BOYZ + NUCLEAR GLOBAL JIHAD.
The more + longer that the DemoLeft + aligned keep expanding the US Debt levels, the greater the likelihood that Israel will indeed be on its own be it any attack on Iran , or in just confronting the general Militant threat or hostile post-"Spring", pro-Islamist + Hardline Sharia, pro Nukulaar Arab-Muslim States.
WE'RE ALL OWG UNO "PEACEKEEPERS" = "GLOBAL PARA-MILITARY CONSTABULARIES/POLICE" NOW???
["FIFTH ELEMENT"S SCANTILY-CLAD MILA "MMMUUULLTTIIPPAASSSS" JOVOVITCH here].
[Pak Daily Times] DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least four police officials were maimed and two gunnies killed when forces of Evil attacked a police mobile on Tuesday. According to sources, the police mobile came under attack by a terrorist group outside the house of the Political Agent (PA). Four police officials sustained injuries, while two of the bad boyz were potted during crossfire. The injured coppers were shifted to a nearby hospital. Police cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
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PESHAWAR - Lawyers say judges have disqualified Pakistan's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, from running in the upcoming parliamentary election.
The law community there really has it in for Perv. Something about hounding him from the ends of the earth...
Musharraf applied to run from four different districts, which is allowed in Pakistan.
And in some parts of Chicago...
Over a week ago, judges reviewing Musharraf's nomination papers disqualified him from running in three districts because he suspended the constitution while in power. But a judge in the remote northern district of Chitral gave Musharraf approval to run.
Lawyer Taufiq Asif says he challenged the decision in Chitral because of Musharraf's actions while in office and a three-member appellate tribunal disqualified the former military ruler from running on Tuesday. Musharraf can appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
Packed with Chaudrays. Don't look for a favorable ruling there...
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SEOUL -- North Korea may be looking to relieve tensions on the Korean Peninsula after having increased them to a near-boiling point over the past weeks with almost daily threats against South Korea and the United States, a senior U.S. military official in Seoul said Tuesday.
"I think the DPRK leadership is trying to figure out a way off from the heightened state of rhetoric we have seen over the past couple of weeks," the senior U.S. official told reporters and correspondents in Seoul.
That's nice. Look behind you, there's a solid wall marked No Escape Here. Quite possibly Sun Tsu would not approve.
And no, you can't make like a cartoon character and paint a door onto the wall, then pass through...
Although the reclusive communist nation has ratcheted up its bellicose rhetoric recently -- particularly against the South Korea-U.S. joint annual drills this March and additional U.N. sanctions imposed earlier on the North for its third nuclear test in February -- North Korea's threats have been "always conditional," the official said.
"So if the U.S. does this, then (the North says) we are going to do this. So there was always a backdoor to it (tension)," the official said. "What I would hope is that they are exploring the use of that backdoor to scale back their rhetoric."
See wall comment, above.
The U.S. official said Seoul and Washington have been closely watching for signs of a missile launch or any provocations, but North Korea has not recently shown any large-scale troop movements or exercises.
"The launch of an intermediate-range missile is one of many tactical levels of provocations we've been exploring and trying to figure out what the true intentions are," the official said. "Any of those things can happen with little to no notice and we may not know that it happens until the missiles are launched."
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The Maha-Rushian questionne' is whether "post-US", "Mahanist", future "World #1" wannabe, Why-does-the-US-keeps-calling-it-sharing-the Pacific Rising China will allow the DPRK "exit"???
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So was it Kimmie running up a foam-a-thon, or was it the military leaders pushing Kimmie to foam for them? It is beginning to look like a massive loss of face.
No more industrial area, no more food aid. If the Norks want aid, talk to their sugar daddy to the north. Not SKor, not Japan, not the US. The present Nork leaders are toxic and have to go if the people of Nork are to survive.
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By boxing himself in through his belligerent rhetoric Kim Jong-Un has not not only made a spectacle of himself, but also made those who support him look foolish.
By threatening to launch missiles and then standing them down Kim Jong-Un has provided himself with an easy exit from the box.
I'm sure Susan Rice, John Kerry and the Obama administration will eventually assign themselves credit for backing North Korea down on what, in the end, will probably prove to be nothing more than the same old North Korean propaganda overblown by the media.
To suggest that a poorly drawn Photoshop graphic of Pudgy in a box would be of interest to Susan Rice is, I think, a litle bit exaggerated.
As a person not gifted with the journalistic skills of most of posters here I often attempt to express myself through my graphics. The opinions I attempt to express do not always come accross as I had intended.
I would very much like to know what it is that you find objectionable.
[An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Tuesday urged Kuwait to drop charges against people accused of offending the emir, a day after a former MP was handed a jail term for insulting the Gulf state's ruler.
"The Kuwaiti authorities should drop criminal charges against dozens of online activists, journalists, and politicians for legitimately exercising their rights to freedom of expression," HRW said in a statement.
The New York-based group also said the authorities in the oil-rich country should withdraw charges and overturn the sentences for at least 10 people already convicted in such cases.
On Monday, the lower court sentenced key opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison for "insulting" Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah during a public rally on October 15.
Thousands of Kuwaitis demonstrated late Monday to protest the sentence which defence lawyers have described as illegal.
"No one should ever be prosecuted solely for expressing peaceful criticism," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW.
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[Pak Daily Times] India's security forces on Tuesday rubbed out nine Maoist rebels during a fierce gunbattle in a remote forested area of central India, a police brass hat said.
"Nine Maoists have been killed in a gunbattle with security forces and their bodies have been recovered," police inspector general Himanshu Gupta told AFP.
The battle was the latest in a simmering conflict pitting the left-wing gunnies against local and national authorities in the forests and rural areas of mainly central and eastern India.
Tuesday's fighting took place in the thick forests of Sukma district, some 525 kilometres south of Chhattisgarh state capital Raipur.
"Eleven sophisticated weapons, including self-loading rifles, have been recovered from the battle site," Gupta said.
Police commandos raided the area following an intelligence tip-off, Gupta said, adding that no casualties were reported among the security forces.
In February, the guerrillas, who say they are fighting for the rights of tribal people and landless farmers, killed six coppers in a landmine attack in Bihar state.
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[Pak Daily Times] Militants in Khyber Agency on Tuesday attacked a security checkpost in the Akakhel area, injuring five security personnel. Security sources said that bully boyz stormed a security checkpost and shot injured the officers. Forces retaliated and pushed back the bully boyz into the mountains. Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the entire area and defused four bombs during a search operation following the exchange of fire. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... bully boyz fired at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... tankers in the Ali Masjid area of Jamrud. Luckily, no loss of life was reported in the incident.
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