"It was definately the most brutal graphic display of police brutality i have ever seen," says one witness.
An activist group called "CPWP" also known as "Crazy People for Wildlife Protection" had been holding a rally in Downtown Eugene speaking out against the use of roadside pesticides.
One member named Ian Van Ornum put on a mock exterminator suit. That's when things quickly turned ugly. Van Ornum began spraying plants and people in the area with an unknown substance. Organizers say it was water but when police showed up, Van Ornum told them it was poison. That's when 4 officers tackled and arrested him and while being cuffed, shocked with a Taser at least two times.
Officials say he was tased because he resisted arrest and swung at officers while one handcuff was on. Just why did it take 4 officers and a Taser to stop this 19 year old? Sergeant Pete Kerns with the Eugene Police Department explains. "In order to take a full grown man into custody who was actively resisting it takes more than one officer. This is in order to avoid injury to both the officer and the subject."
Witnesses say something different. "All he was saying was 'Why? Why are you doing this?' he wasn't resisting," says Carly Barnicle, an organizer of the demonstration. She adds, "They absolutetly abused it. They tasered him at least two times while he was on the ground. Face down. Face in the cement. There was blood coming from his head. His hands were held behind his back."
Two other men were also arrested during the scuffle. Their names are Anthony Jameson and David Owen. Police say they assaulted officers and tried to interfere with the prior arrest.
While police say it came to such extreme measure because their safety and the safety of others in the area was put in danger, others involved still aren't sure what to do next.
"I don't know where to go from here because they're supposed to be the law," says Barnicle. "They're supposed to be the peace. And it's scary to think, to think that they are'nt letting people speak their minds."
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If it had been poison then officers softness would have translated into many people dying. They could not know what it was so if anything, the officers should be blamed is for having been much too soft.
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When the idgit shows up a the bank and pulls a toy gun, but declares it a gun, and gets hosed by a concealed carry holder, that's just tough crap. It doesn't matter whether it was a real whatever or not, the intent determined that the other parties are within their rights/powers to act based upon reasonable perception.
Officials say he was tased because he resisted arrest and swung at officers while one handcuff was on. Just why did it take 4 officers and a Taser to stop this 19 year old?
The writer has never seen much of the twenty years or so of COPS to grasp the answer.
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Told clearly, unless they a had very good reaosn to know he was lying they should have shot fisrt and asked questions later. Next time it will be a real terrorist and they will give him the time he needs.
Not to mention that causing a stampede can kill so the sooner bystanders see the suspect is no longer causing trouble, the better.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.
Despite his caution, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield, 21, was shot point-blank in the neck during a robbery at a bus stop. Feeding and breathing tubes kept him alive 4-1/2 months, until he died of an infection on May 18.
Two men have been charged in the attack, and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said Friday the case was under review to decide whether to seek the death penalty. Yeah, that's a tough one. These two have so much to contribute - like being permanently assigned to "barrel" duty in the state prison.
"It is an awful story," said Alberta Holt, the young Marine's aunt and his legal guardian when he was a teenager determined to flee a troubled Cleveland school for safer surroundings in the suburbs.
Crutchfield was attacked on January 5 while he and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus. He had heeded the warnings of commanders that a Marine on leave might be seen as a prime robbery target with a pocketful of money, so he only carried $8, his military ID card and a bank card.
"They took it, turned his pockets inside out, took what he had and told him since he was a Marine and didn't have any money he didn't deserve to live. They put the gun to his neck and shot him," Holt told The Associated Press. If he'd been carrying enough money for a couple hits of crank, he'd have been deemed an OK guy, it seems.
The two men charged in the attack were identified as Ean Farrow, 19, and Thomas Ray III, 20, both of Cleveland. Their attorneys did not respond to The Associated Press' requests for comment. Ean can't even spell his own name right.
I can imagine the attorneys didn't have much to say, other than wishing that they hadn't drawn public defender duty ...
Crutchfield knew he was returning to Iraq for another tour of duty, but had hesitated to tell his family until he was nearing the end of his 30-day leave. He apparently had a troubled family. Holt wouldn't discuss it except to say "his mom and dad didn't raise him, just his grandmother and me." He didn't smoke or drink, she said.
He had attended Cleveland's inner-city East High School, but asked that he be allowed to live with his aunt and grandmother and attend suburban Bedford High School for his final two years. "He saw his school was in turmoil and asked to get out," Holt said.
Bedford High teachers recalled Crutchfield's smile, his pride in his appearance, his determination to join the Marine Corps after graduation in 2005 and his aspiration to become an architect. "He was friendly and kind and willing to help out in any way that he could," counselor Yvonne Sims said in an e-mail.
Connie LaNasa, who works in the school office, said Crutchfield was a well-behaved student and went about his school work with little notice. "He lived out what he wanted to do and that is to be a Marine," LaNasa said.
Faculty members remembered Crutchfield as a top student in the computer design program, an office assistant and participant in the prom fashion show.
After his long hospitalization, an infection broke out a week before he died. "He said it felt like he was getting hit by lightning," Holt said.
When Crutchfield's body was laid out Tuesday in the Sacrificial Missionary Baptist Church, his white military dress hat was tugged down close to his eyes to conceal the skull flap that had been kept open to relieve swelling in his brain.
Marines provided an honor guard at his funeral service and carried the casket to his grave at the Western Reserve National Cemetery near Akron. He was buried there on the same day as a Vietnam veteran, two veterans from World War II and three from Korea.
Damn. A fine young man who had made it into one of the elite organizations of the world. You will be missed, sir. Rest in peace.
Wait for this one: Mrs. Bobby says a recent study shows more forclosures are clustered around military bases. (She figures they have less choice about when to move than the general population.)
That may only be in the D.C. area, but when The New York Times picks up on it, it'll be "Soldiers Skip Out" or "Military Abandons Transferred Troops".
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JHC, these two fuckers need to swing. The needle's too good for them. Let Robert's fire team have some bayonet practice on them.
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Mrs. Bobby says a recent study shows more forclosures are clustered around military bases.
Mrs. Bobby hasn't lived around military bases to understand that the camp follower communities go back to the WWII eras. They're little Kerryvilles* of previous generations. That even the military authorized to live off base don't live there because to paraphrase someone of renown, "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy". They're little ghettos that only people of low income could afford in many of the municipal areas which correlates to the 'special' mortgage programs that Congress pressed banks to issue for diversity goals.
*Kerryville (n), life, style, and perspective forever frozen in time of the pre-1980s.
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Ean Farrow, 19, and Thomas Ray III, 20, both of Cleveland. Why not let the Marines take care of these two. Let the fellow Marines decide if these two have any aspects worthy of living on this earth. Then they can use them for target practice. It will help young promising men learn to shoot and protect our country, while, saving American taxpayers if they go to prison.
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Ohh, but Ohio is the swing state that decides the fate of the nation in elections? Puhlease. The rust belt continues to be a disasterous drag on the rest of America. All that dem socialism is sure creating a utopia, huh yah?
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Am I the only one who thinks that graphic is completely inappropriate? For any story.
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I've removed the graphic. It's inappropriate when talking about one of our fine young Marines, that's for sure.
AoS
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As to the two accused men, let's not become vigilantes about this. We have a justice system, so let's let it work. They get lawyers, a judge, and a jury. Let's make sure the prosecutor does his/her job properly; we don't want another Nifong-style travesty.
If they're guilty, and if they're convicted, and if the conviction holds up on appeal, then they get the death penalty.
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What are you trying to say about Rantburgers, Steve White? That is the second time you have pulled that stunt today in the comment sections.
Why don't you have the courage to be more direct in your insulting of people here?
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I thought Dr. White's comments were clear and non-insulting. If you want to get on his case about the pink highlighting, that's one thing but questioning his courage is quite another.
Yeah. Precisely what I am refering to. Has always presented himself as better than anyone else with his put downs, and per NSpimble, all must bow down...
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www. Don't dis Dr. Steve for your faults
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Jerk? Why don't you come right out with your name calling, too, Barbi baby.
I thought we were being called "Vigilantes" by the HIGHLY educated, better than all of you White.
Or maybe we should be kissing the butts of anti-war Liberals as White wants us to do per a comment on another part of the page, since he testified that he is a liberal, too. Oh, but Liberal only to a certain extent.
What liberal university did you go to White? One that with the ACLU destroyed any moral influence in that university and then allows for "Free Palestine" mantras and foot baths for the Mohammedans in America?
Next time you stand up for the murderers of a Marine shot in the neck on a street corner, then say they should get the death penalty, (two faced and narrow minded perspective) don't leave out the media and the entire Liberal establishment that fermented that hatrid of that Marine on the street corner in an American city, chump.
You need to chill. That's completely uncalled for. I certainly hope you're not sober.
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You want to see unhinged? A marine survives Basra only to come back to America to be taken out at a bus stop.
THAT is unhinged. Unless you have a good Dr. telling folks to chill about it...
Now, all you folks get back to your happy la la land, while America continues it downward spiral. Oh, by the way troops, better stay in Iraq. At least there, no liberals have influenced society to take you out when you are unarmed and back in the US.
Iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, dubbed "The King of Fashion," died Sunday evening at the age of 71.
The reclusive Frenchman passed away in his Paris home after suffering months of declining health, said his long-time partner, Pierre Berge, who was at his side.
Saint Laurent had repeated bouts of depression and a fall during Paris Fashion Week in October last year. He was most recently hospitalized for a respiratory ailment
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Best typo I've seen in a while:
"Yves Saint Laurent, fascist designer, dead at 71."
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The reclusive Frenchman passed away in his Paris home after suffering months of declining health, said his long-time partner, Pierre Berge, who was at his side.
AIDS?
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Seems as though the older the parents, the higher the risk of genetic problems. Seems to me the "fix" for now would be have your kids by the time you're 30ish until problems can be screened out or fixed. This might account for some of the way-increased levels of autism etc., but you'd think that would have been spotted long ago. Maybe it's a second-generation thing.
A mass study found that deaths of children fathered by over-45s occurred at almost twice the rate of those fathered by men aged between 25 and 30.
Scientists believe that children of older fathers are more likely to suffer particular congenital defects as well as autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy. The study was the first of its kind of such magnitude in the West, and researchers believe the findings are linked to the declining quality of sperm as men age.
A total of 100,000 children born between 1980 and 1996 were examined, of whom 830 have so far died before they reached 18, the majority when they were less than a year old.
The deaths of many of the children of the older fathers were related to congenital defects such as problems of the heart and spine, which increase the risk of infant mortality. But there were also higher rates of accidental death, which the researchers believe might be explained by the increased likelihood of suffering from autism, epilepsy or schizophrenia.
Most research into older parents has, until now, focused on the risks passed on by older mothers. But the new study, published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, was adjusted to take account of maternal age and socio-economic differences.
The research also found higher death rates among children of the youngest fathers, especially those below the age of 19. However, the study said these differences were explained by the risks of teenage motherhood and poorer diet and lifestyle.
Previous research using the same data found that older men were four times as likely to father a child with Down's syndrome, while other studies have found that the genetic quality of sperm deteriorates as men age.
More than 75,000 babies in Britain are born to fathers aged 40 and over each year, or more than one in 10 of all births. This includes more than 6,000 born to fathers aged 50 or over. The average age of fathering a child in this country is 32.
Dr Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology the medical specialty dealing with male reproduction at the University of Sheffield, said: "A lot of people know that there are risks for the child that come from having an older mother, but children of older fathers also carry an increased risk. These sorts of results provide another good reason to have children early, when possible."
Dr Pacey, who is secretary of the British Fertility Society, said scientists were unsure exactly what impact the ageing process had on the quality of sperm, making it impossible to detect defects before conception.
Dr Jin Liang Zhu, from the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, which carried out the research, said: "The risks of older fatherhood can be very profound, and it is not something that people are always aware of."
The mother's age still has the bigger impact on child health, however. About one in 900 babies born to women under 30 have Down's syndrome a figure which reaches one in 100 by the age of 40. The number of over-40s giving birth in Britain each year has doubled in the past decade to 16,000. The risk of miscarriage rises sharply with age.
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From what data I have seen, the body just isn't designed to really have kids after 35. Risks for everything go up and it just isn't worth pressing your luck.
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More than 75,000 babies in Britain are born to fathers aged 40 and over each year, or more than one in 10 of all births.
Now tie this to the other news data point that implies the fastest growing portion of the UK pop is muzzie. The question begged, but will never be addressed by the controllers of information [ie MSM], is there a relationship between the two items. Since they didn't give real hard numbers on accident versus genetic issues [and even then genetics may be related to geographical point of origin and multi generational transmission imported] are we dealing with just more junk science?
Scientists are to be permitted to use tissue from dead people to create cloned human stem cells for research, under a legal change put forward by the government.
Health ministers have proposed that laboratories should be allowed to use stored human tissue to create cloned embryonic stem cells without the explicit consent of the tissue donor. This would allow research to be done on tissue donated for medical research as long as 30 years ago. Scientists would also be able to use cells from people who have died since they donated their tissue or who cannot be contacted.
Many laboratories have banks of stored tissue which act as DNA libraries that can play a vital role in finding cures for serious disorders such as diabetes and motor neurone disease.
Ministers have until now insisted that scientists contact tissue donors to gain explicit consent before DNA can be used to create cloned embryonic stem cells.
Leading scientists, including three Nobel prize winners, say gaining such consent is sometimes impossible because the donors have died, donated anonymously or cannot be contacted. They say the ban on using DNA without consent could hold up vital research.
Ministers have tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, now passing through parliament, which would allow stored tissue and cells to be used without the explicit consent of donors. The amendment, which is expected to be supported by most MPs, will be debated this week.
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The kind of people who become wealthy also tend to be very independent. I imagine there would soon be mutters of, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth..." about their ungrateful twins. Agreed about the aged DNA issue as well -- a real issue, since most people don't become rich in their early youth, and later will be too late.
One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded and on Saturday in a clash over disputed land near a Christian monastery in central Egypt, security sources said. Muslim Khalil Mohammed, 39, was killed by gunfire, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. At least two of the wounded Christians were monks at the monastery, the sources added. The groups exchanged fire after Christians in the town of Mallawy, about 300 kilometre south of Cairo, began constructing a wall around disputed land near the Abu Fana monastery, the sources said. Muslims who believed the agricultural land belonged to them objected, triggering the exchange of fire. Relations between the Christians and the Muslims in Egypt are usually harmonious. Disputes, most commonly over land, religious buildings or young women, sometimes lead to violence. Fifteen people were injured and 35 detained last year in a nearby monastery in Minya province that also began over a land dispute.
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Only Muslims have rights in Muslim majority areas.
Hard-liners walked out of the Parliaments inaugural meeting to protest the absence of head scarves on two women Cabinet ministers.
The nine men walked out as the ministers began taking their oath of office and only returned when the two women, Modhi Al-Homoud and Nouria Al-Subeih, had been sworn in. Al-Homoud, the minister of state for housing and development, ignored attempts by conservative lawmakers remaining in the chamber to take the floor as she read her oath, wearing a skirt rather than the head scarf and long robes.
Education Minister Nouria Al-Subeih, who does dress conservatively though not with a head scarf, was not interrupted. She went through a similar situation when she was first appointed in April 2007.
Kuwaiti women failed to win any seats in the two elections since they were given the right to run for office and vote, but one did come close in the last contest.
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One former soldier recounted an interrogation of an Iraqi by his fellow combatants so brutal he likened it to "a frat house gang rape."
Another was still troubled not by his close brushes with death, but by the times he nearly shot innocent Iraqi civilians.
And a third was exasperated and puzzled by being asked to fulfill what he called "ridiculous" orders to harass Iraqi residents and was discouraged from helping those in distress.
He called the war "immoral and absurd."
All came together Saturday afternoon at Seattle's Town Hall to share their troubling and sometimes graphic war stories in the hopes that they will inspire and motivate a largely silent public to call for an end to the military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a counterpoint to calls to continue the occupation, nearly a dozen U.S. soldiers, a military wife, the mother of a soldier and a doctor treating veterans with psychiatric problems told their anti-war stories to a respectful audience that filled the hall.
Former Army Sgt. Joshua Simpson served in Mosul with an intelligence team trying to get information about insurgent forces attacking Americans.
"Ninety-five percent of the people we arrested had nothing to do with the insurgency, but we were still told to interrogate them," Simpson told the crowd.
He'd scream and yell at the prisoners, sometimes reducing them to tears or self-abuse such as hitting their heads repeatedly against the wall. He saw prisoners horribly bruised and bloodied by Iraqi interrogators. He wants the war to end.
"We need to support the troops who refuse to fight," Simpson said.
The event was organized by the nonprofit Iraq Veterans Against the War, which is working for an immediate end to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the payment of reparations to the Iraqi and Afghan people for harm caused in the wars, and full funding for the Veterans Health Administration to better provide medical care for returning veterans.
There didn't appear to be any counterprotesters at Saturday's Town Hall event, which was called Northwest Winter Soldier. It was modeled on the first Winter Soldier protest held in 1971 in opposition to the Vietnam War and also organized by veterans.
After the speakers finished, a march was scheduled through downtown.
The soldiers called on U.S. lawmakers to cut funding and force the Bush administration to stop what they saw as an unjust, unwarranted war.
"The longer we're over there," said Joshua Farris, a former Army specialist in Iraq, "the more it will inflame the violence when we leave."
Many said they went to Iraq hoping to help civilians, but found that often wasn't the case. U.S. troops frequently referred to all Iraqis and Middle Easterners as "hajji," an ethnic slur. In medical units, they became "range balls," meaning they were like the golf balls hit on driving ranges that are of low value and that you don't mind losing.
The veterans called for better medical support for returning soldiers, saying they'd see friends suffering from untreated post-traumatic stress, leading to suicide, domestic violence and divorce.
"Where is our government when they need them the most?" asked Tracy Malzan, who spoke along with her husband, Seth, who served as an Army sergeant. "We must talk about these issues every day ... until every service member comes home."
I have been bothered by this usage myself, but NOT because it is an ethnic slur, because it is NOT. Literally it is a term of respect, given to a Muslim who has made the pilgramage to Mecca. The disrespect is in the demeaning of the term by using it to refer to non-deserving people.
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Anybody in Kookooland Seattle bother to check to see how many of these "soldiers" actually were in our military, and, if they were, how many of them were actually in Iraq?
Thought not.
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Journalists don't need to check anymore. When they say the right things its magically true.
It's only those nasty bloggers who insist on checking so-called facts etc.
Confusion continued to prevail regarding the fainting of 30 employees of a factory in SITE on Saturday. The authorities concerned have closed the factory (S.M. Denim) for one week for inspection to acertain the cause.
However, with a cause yet to be attributed to the incident, the debate about whether the fainting was a result of ghosts or the release of poisonous gases inside the stitching department, raged on.
Ostensibly in an attempt to assuage both sides of the debate, scientific and spiritual, the inspection team will consist of both a team of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) and Ulema.
The mysterious fainting of 30 employees of the factory has led to widespread speculations.
Many workers of the factory are of the opinion that there are some ghosts present on the premises of the industrial unit, that were behind the fainting of these employees. They believe that the factory used to be the exclusive abode of these ghosts, who were angered by the presence of human beings. Scientific experts, however, scoff at such an explanation, stating that they believed that the cause was the sudden release of chemicals used in the factory.
They added that the factory, since its inception, had never reported any such type of incident before a week ago, when workers had started fainting from time to time. This, they said, had caused fear and dismay among the workers in the factory. Being of simpler nature, a majority of them believe that a supernatural cause is behind the fainting.
The incident, say experts, should be thoroughly investigated to lay to rest any such speculation.
Sources said that the factory had been sealed by the authorities concerned as they had suspicions regarding the presence of poisonous gases inside the premises of the department on the 3rd floor in the stitching department.
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"TROY" Movie on TV > KING PRIAM to son HECTOR -"DON'T MOCK THE GODS". Ditto for Ghosts and Ancestral Spirits.
AL GORE + OLIVER STONE, etc. were Army soldiers in Vietnam, etc. but GUAM TAOTAMONAS = THE DEAD [Past and Future] ALREADY KNEW ABOUT "GORACLE" + JFK/TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS.
Why should World Humanity listen to SECULARISTS whom, despite deniably recognizing the predomin role of SOLAR ACTIVITY in GLOBAL-PLANETARY WARMING, want us to CONTROL THE GIANT SUN BY UNILATER CONTROLLING THE TINY EARTH, AND ONLY THE EARTH, AND WITHOUT HAVING TO ASK ANDOR EXPLAIN ANYTHING AS TO WHY!?
Have to give God, the Unknown or Incomprehensible its due!
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I have had some little disease last week, I would be dizzy unexpectedly, and have to sit down, I said nothing and really thought nothing of it.
But now My wife is complaining of sudden dizzy spells, so whatever it is, it's comunnicable.
Since I didn't say anything, it's NOT hysteria, it's some litle something, but very real.
Sounds much like what the workers reported, a bit stronger.
(I've always shrugged off any illness quickly, and get hit more lightly than other folks I've talked to about such illnesses?)
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Unidentified people set fire to a man from Vehari on Sunday, Geo News reported. The channel said that five people kidnapped the 40-year-old man, who could not be identified, from Thokar Niaz Baig, tortured him and set him on fire. They then fled, leaving the man severely burned. Locals moved the man to hospital where he was said to be in critical condition. The channel reported that the victim was in Lahore to visit his sister.
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Federal Investigation Agencys (FIA) passport and immigration cell arrested a fake passport holder at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Sunday. According to FIA sources, Muhammad Sabir, a resident of Gujranwala, was trying to go to Athens, Greece, using a passport under the name of Faisal Nadeem. On close inspection, the FIA officials found out that the picture on the passport was tampered with. They arrested Sabir and a case was registered against him. Later, during investigation, Sabir confessed that he had bought the passport from Faisal Nadeem and had just pasted his picture on it.
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Police have arrested four people, including two sons of former Sindh Minister Altaf Unar, on charges of attempted murder and stealing Rs 2,500 from their neighbor. Of the arrested, Adeel and Adil are Unars sons, while Sikandar is their cousin and Ali is in their employ. Following a complaint from their neighbor, Fawad Khan, the police conducted a raid at their residence, 59/1, Khayaban-e-Mujahid, within the jurisdiction of the Darakshan Police Station. The police have registered FIR No. 244/08 under Sections 324, 392 and 34. Khan, in his statement in the FIR, said that the arrested men beat him and snatched the money from him and fired at him as well. I do not think that this is a case of robbery, said Clifton Town SP Azad Khan. Rather it is a case of a disagreement with the employees. Initially, the police registered the case on Khans behalf and an investigation is in progress.
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Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon.
The community of Jews in Baghdad is now all but vanished in a land where their heritage recedes back to Abraham of Ur, to Jonahs prophesying to Nineveh, and to Nebuchadnezzars sending Jews into exile here more than 2,500 years ago.
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The article glosses over the fact that Jews have been leaving Iraq in large numbers since 1936. Once the Baath Party took over in Iraq, a lot of Jews got out since the Baath Party is the Arab National Socialist Party and they had heard how bad it got in Europe when the National Socialists took power. At one point in the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam was NOT letting Jews out of Iraq except when he was bribed with intel on the Iranians, by the Israelis.
Then he started rewarding the PLO and its brethren by allowing Paleos to live rent-free in Iraq, and let the Paleos run out more of the Jews in Baghdad.
(VOI) Shiite cleric Ayatollah Muhammad Reda al-Shirazi died of a heart attack in the Iranian city of Qom at the age of 46, an official from a Shiite foundation in Karbala said on Sunday. "We today received news of the death of Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Reda al-Shirazi, the son of Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Husseini al-Shirazi, who died of a heart attack," Sayyid Ali al-Talqani, the official in charge of the al-Rasoul al-Aadham Foundation's public relations office, told Aswat al-Iraq.
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Whoa, heart attack at age 46??? Here on Guam, and TMK even on the US mainland, it seems that a large number of mine and other generations aren't as physically potent as our 60 -80+ year old parents.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Federal Investigation Agencys (FIA) passport and immigration cell arrested a fake passport holder at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Sunday. According to FIA sources, Muhammad Sabir, a resident of Gujranwala, was trying to go to Athens, Greece, using a passport under the name of Faisal Nadeem. On close inspection, the FIA officials found out that the picture on the passport was tampered with. They arrested Sabir and a case was registered against him. Later, during investigation, Sabir confessed that he had bought the passport from Faisal Nadeem and had just pasted his picture on it.
