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Jean Peters aka Candy in "Pickup on South Street" aka Deborah Greenleaf in "It Happens Every Spring" aka Mrs. Howard Hughes II (Died in 2000 at age 73)
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Yup, I spent years in the Army, reported something illegal in my unit, got screamed at day after and finally lost my temper when I was being punished for NOT breaking the law and told off the responsible officer and was dropped 3 ranks. Ultimately, doing the right thing cost me a year's worth of reprisal, and then I left when my contract was completed, which admittedly, was the outcome I preferred. After the incident, I left through the exit and I don't look back unless I have to. This article, though, didn't come as a surprise -- there is crap going on all the time. The Army is not worthy any more respect than any other organization unless it is earned respect. Yall can call me a loser all day, but to this day I still know I did the right things to difuse a situation that could have been much worse and took the burden on. Cutting corners and illegal acts are very common and this scandal in this article is probably just scratching the surface of things going on Army -wide. If my rogue unit and the criminals in it were any indication, this is huge, HUGE, dude. Rogue units are NOT uncommon. The Army culture is quite un-self aware, and allows minor and major petty crimes and not so petty crimes to perpetuate,as many people with rank and commissions are criminals themselves. Some of the Nadals and young hoodlums of the world know they can sign up to go kill with a government sanction, and loose entrance requirements usher them in. Had I known then what I know now, I would have never joined and been surrounded by felonious and petty tyrants.
For any hardcore advocates of enlisted or Officer status, spare the attacks on me or my character about what I am saying because I am not here to debate with you. I know what I know.
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TITLE 10 United States Code > Subtitle A > PART II > CHAPTER 47 > SUBCHAPTER XI > § 938
§ 938. Art. 138. Complaints of wrongs
Any member of the armed forces who believes himself wronged by his commanding officer, and who, upon due application to that commanding officer, is refused redress, may complain to any superior commissioned officer, who shall forward the complaint to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the officer against whom it is made. The officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction shall examine into the complaint and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of; and he shall, as soon as possible, send to the Secretary concerned a true statement of that complaint, with the proceedings had thereon.
It's a nuke hand grenade in the hands of any member of the armed services. It must be investigated by the IG of the appropriate service and resolved. Anyone caught in the process, usually can kiss their career good bye. Congress put it in there. Trying to bury it constitutes a violation of the statute. It's not advertised for obvious reasons. However, if you're going to commit professional suicide, you might as well take the bastards with you for the team.
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Thanks. I handled my business. Well, the irony is the same officer (the CO) got Court Marshalled for something else entirely . As for taking one for the team, there was no team. This CO's unit was wonky that way. It was everyone for themselves, make no mistake. Not all units are jacked up, just this CO's unit, I had been in good teams prior. The soldiers under him really did take direction and attitudes from the leadership, so since our leadership was lacking or even negligent, it is so very bad- you had crimes busting out.
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This is really wild and sick stuff. As a grunt, this shocks me. I wonder why I am just reading this now? Had this happen during Bush's term, Murtha, et al, would have been lined up to lay blame on George Bush for this. Bush will still get blamed for this in...3...2...1...
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Nothing shocking about it, IMHO, par for the course.Since the mil has UCMJ there are matters that are taken into the military's own hands and settled accordingly without ever breaking into civilian news- and details of cases, or entire cases can be kept secret and confidential, even within *especially* within a unit. Secondly, you have a volunteer force- if you were a criminal who liked to shoot and maim things or people and get away with it, and were so good at it that you didn't have a wrap sheet, (ie: you may have never been caught) you could easily continue your pursuits while in uniform. Chilling thought really. Because the screen out process is not tough enough, which gets us to the Nadal Hasans and this Sergeant ring leader.
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Private Eye: however belatedly, thank you for what you did. The Army is the team, and the nation that it protects. As the wife of a manager (and a former multiple managee), I'm quite certain that CO was looked at more closely because of what you did. I've seen that happen in the civilian organizations I've worked for: once the end of the thread is pulled, the fabric starts to unravel.
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Dear grunt/Punky Thavish9434, your shock and revulsion mark you as one of the good guys. You should be proud. This has been in the news for a bit -- google the names in the article at the link (click on the article title to go straight to it) -- but I imagine you've been a bit busy with more important things.
Thank you for what you have done, and what you have left to do. We here at Rantburg appreciate what you do, even this little civilian housewife.
[Arab News] An Islamic myrmidon commander from the Haqqani network and three other forces of Evil were killed in a firefight with NATO and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said Wednesday.
Ansari Khan, accused of conducting attacks on coalition forces, died in a clash in Khost province's Spera district in an overnight operation Tuesday, a NATO statement said.
As the security force moved in on a compound, two beturbanned goons threw a grenade and opened fire. Retaliatory fire killed four krazed killers, including Khan, it said.
The Haqqani network is a Pakistain-based faction of the Taleban with close ties to Al-Qaeda.
The group was started by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a commander supported by Pakistain and the United States during the 1980s war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Haqqani has since turned against the United States, and American military officials have said his organization, now effectively led by his son, Sirajuddin, presents one of the greatest threats to foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the alliance announced a NATO service member was killed Wednesday in an Islamic myrmidon attack in eastern Afghanistan. It did not provide a nationality or the exact location of the attack.
The death brought to 29 the number of troops killed in October. At least 2,017 NATO troops have died since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count.
It has been the deadliest year for international troops in the nine-year Afghan conflict, and the escalating toll has shaken the commitment of many NATO countries, with rising calls to start drawing down troops quickly.
In southern Afghanistan, Ahmed Khan, chief of Dihrawud district in Uruzgan province, was fatally shot by beturbanned goons Tuesday at a market, according to Mohammad Naeem, the district police chief.
Coalition forces captured a senior Taleban leader operating in southern lovely Kandahar city on Tuesday, NATO said.
The unidentified person distributed bomb components to Taleban fighters and facilitated attacks on Afghan and coalition forces, according to a statement released Wednesday.
The embattled south is the scene of Operation Dragon Strike, launched last month by NATO and Afghan forces in areas around lovely Kandahar province to flush out entrenched Taleban fighters and destroy their strongholds.
In the north -- where violence has surged in recent weeks -- Taleban commander Shirin Agha and another krazed killer were killed in a coalition Arclight airstrike in Kunduz province on Monday, NATO said.
Afghan and coalition forces have targeted Taleban leaders throughout northern Afghanistan over the past month, with 18 commanders killed or captured, the alliance said.
"Afghan and coalition forces have significantly reduced the Islamic myrmidons' capability to effectively execute terrorist operations (and) will continue targeting those who stand in the way of peace and stability," said US Army Col.
Rafael Torres.
Taleban front man Qari Yousef Ahmadi has accused NATO of engaging in a propaganda campaign to demoralize the beturbanned goons by inventing Taleban leaders and alleging they were killed or captured.
"Most of the commanders' names NATO are using don't even exist," Ahmadi said recently. "This is just a game from the American side, nothing else." In the west, a joint force operation in Herat province killed "several" forces of Evil in a raid targeting an unidentified Taleban leader allegedly responsible for a recent ambush that killed two Spanish soldiers, NATO said.
The force came under small-arms fire in Obe district and troops responded, killing the Islamic myrmidons.
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A British citizen working for Save the Children was kidnapped by masked Somali gunmen late Thursday, said the British charity. The gunmen seized the man and a Somali from a guesthouse compound in the town of Adado near the border with Ethiopia, but later released the Somali captive.
"Save the Children was assessing the feasibility of starting up a humanitarian program to help malnourished and sick children and their families in the area," the charity said in a statement. "We are extremely concerned about the welfare of those being held and urgently call upon whoever is holding them captive to release them unconditionally," it said.
Relatives of the Somali captive, Bashir Yusuf, said he had been set free by the gunmen. "Bashir confirmed to us he had been released. He told us he was on his way into town and that the armed men went with his foreign colleague," said family member Abdukadir Hassan.
Early reports said they had been taken to an area controlled by al Shabaab. Later, a pro-government Sunni militia said a smaller group known as Hizbul Islam was behind the kidnapping, possibly in cahoots with pirates, and that the Briton was being taken to the coastal pirate base of Haradheere.
"We have confirmed that about 15 armed Hizbul Islam fighters kidnapped the aid workers. They may be assisted by pirates," Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yusuf, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, told Reuters by phone from Adado.
[Al Jazeera] Bahrain has charged 23 Shia Mohammedan opposition muscle with terrorism and conspiring against the country's government, raising tensions before parliamentary polls in the Sunni-dominated Gulf state.
Authorities announced the charges on Wednesday against the muscle, who were jugged during a sweeping government crackdown earlier this year.
The suspects, who are due to appear in court on October 28, are accused of forming and financing an illegal organisation aimed at stopping the state from carrying out its functions, Abdurrahman al-Sayyed, a representative of the public prosecutor, said.
They also face charges of resorting to terrorism to achieve their alleged goal and spreading false and tendentious information, al-Sayyed said.
In a statement carried by the country's official news agency BNA, al-Sayyed said the accused are also charged with fomenting sectarian unrest. They could face life in prison under Bahrain's penal code.
Parliamentary elections
The announcement on Thursday comes just 11 days before the country's legislative elections.
Amnesty International, the UK-based rights organisation, has given warning on what it calls an intensifying "clampdown by the authorities on Shia opposition and human-rights muscle in the run-up" to the poll.
Bahrain's Shia Mohammedan majority of nearly 70 per cent has long complained of discrimination in state jobs and housing and claims they are barred from influential posts in the security forces.
But Shias currently have 17 of the 40 seats in the country's parliament and could make a bid for a majority in the elections on October 23.
In the 1990s, the country was hit by a wave of sectarian unrest, which has abated since the authorities launched steps to convert the Gulf emirate into a constitutional monarchy.
Bahrain has the only elected parliament in the Gulf Arab region apart from Kuwait, although bills need to be approved by an upper house whose members are appointed by the king.
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A total of six armed suspects have been killed and several others were wounded in several firefights in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican press accounts.
Five armed suspects died in a firefight with a mobile patrol of the Mexican Naval Infantry on the Saltillo, Coahuila-Monterrey road Thursday.
The battle took place at the road junction to Garcia, Nuevo Leon which is a small town 15 kilometers due west of Monterrey and about 10 kilometers north of Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon.
Reports are an unknown number of civilians were wounded in the exchange as well.
One unidentified Mexican Marine was reported killed.
In Monterrey Thursday evening, a large number of road blocks were put up by criminal groups following the firefight in El Carmen. Blocks were reported in 19 different intersections centering around the Villa Las Fuentes district, and avenidas Venustiano Carranza and Constitucion, as well as several other intersections in the city.
Roadblocks are a common tactic of criminal gangs associated with Los Zetas drug gang in Monterrey, and are usually a response to reverses in battle in Mexican security operations and to block intervention in transport of contraband moving through the affected area.
In Monterrey Thursday three car thieves were arrested following a pursuit and shootout with the Mexican Army Wednesday on the Monclova road in the El Carmen municipality. Reports indicate about 11 stolen vehicles were seized in the aftermath.
No one was reported hurt in the shootout.
Secretaria de la Defence Nacional (SEDENA) admitted Wednesday that a shooting in Monterrey which killed two members of a family and wounded five others was done in error. An unidentified army captain and three other soldiers were convicted in the shooting.
The shooting took place last September 5th in the Monterrey-Nuevo Leon road where an army patrol claimed a sedan had run a Mexican Army checkpoint and was fired on by soldiers.
Reports say SEDENA has already paid out compensation to the victims of the shooting about MP 335,660. (USD $27,053.65)
Google Translate from a variety of Mexican web sources. For a map, click here.
Elements of the Mexican Army and Mexican Federal agents totaling 400 effectives in more than 50 vehicles are currently conducting countergang operations and have been since Tuesday in northern Sonora, confirmed the Sonora Procurador de Justicia, Abel Murrieta Gutierrez.
Operations center around Tubutama and other villages in the Altar desert, which is an area considered to be a gang stronghold and communications center for Los Zetas drug gang.
Tubutama was the location of a massive intergang shootout July 2nd between Los Zetas and a sub group of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel known as Command X, as well as another shootout in nearby El Saric more than three weeks later which claimed the lives of at least three unidentified armed suspects, but may also have claimed as many as 21 lives.
Reports say numerous local police in towns such as El Saric, Tubutama and Carborca have resigned in recent weeks because of how freely armed groups operate in the area. The exits are so severe, El Saric, for example, is said to have no police presence.
The area around Tubutama and El Saric are so remote cell telephone communications are difficult and it could take days before word can get out about the current operations.
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Hey, that's just southeast of me, here in Tucson. I'll let you know when the war reaches our suburbs. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, they cancelled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that year - figuring it was too close to the war zone. Here it is on our back steps and little notice is paid? I'll let you know when the the war reaches the Tucson suburbs...telling friend from foe might be an issue, however. Los Zetas reglan?!
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Here it is on our back steps and little notice is paid?
The MFM is intentionally suppressing the information as effectively as any totalitarian state. Such news broadcast to the broad reach of the American population would kill any amnesty and force those in the Beltway to fortify the border. That is against their goal of 'one world' open border non-state America. They're too busy creating 'crisis' for ratings elsewhere that support their game and agenda.
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I guess I am kinda simple and naive. I think when you put on the uniform of your country or region, aside from the pay and the cool uniforms, you are making a statement that you are putting yourself on the line to defend what you think is right. I think the men, to call them what they are, who do that are the good guys until the moment they are not the good guys.
I understand the cynicism about the Federales being corrupt and so on, but I think the reason for that cynicism is largely anecdotal and not system wide. The average Mexican would agree.
Rinse the linked article through Google Translate, and read the comments. It's not like no one is commenting there's a problem; Mexicans recognize it, and they point it it out whenever possible in plain language.
Sorta like Americans would given the same situation.
So, I think if the Mexican Army and Mexican Federal agents get deployed to an abject sh*thole like the Altar desert to clean it out, a place that is so remote, so isolated there are gullies there you can't even get a radio message out, their successes should be cheered and their failings lamented, whenever possible.
twelve individuals were murdered in northern Mexican in drug and gang related violence that included a city bus yard manager shot Wednesday night, and one Juarez police officer shot while on his way to work his shift. For a map, click here
A manager at a Juarez city bus park was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday night, say Mexican news accounts. Reports say an armed group forced open the gates of the city bus pound on Kilometer 20 of the Juarez-Casas Grandes highway, and after shooting the manager, torched several buses using Molotov cocktails, destroying four and damaging several others.
A Juarez municipal police officer was shot to death early Thursday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. On the corner of Gomez Morin and Fuentes del Valle was where Arturo Gomez Guzman was shot numerous times in his Dodge Neon. Gomez Guzman was assigned to the Delicias station.
An unidentified woman was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Allende and 14th in the city central zone, where armed suspects aboard a van spoke with the victim who was on foot, before shooting her. 9mm weapons were used in the murder.
An unidentified woman was found beheaded in an SUV in Juarez Thursday morning near a shopping mall,say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found in a Jeep Grand Cherokee on the corner of avenidas Plutarco Elias Calles and Ejercito Nacional near the Soriana Iglesias shopping center. The victim's severed head was found inside a plastic bag inside the vehicle.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Valle de Juarez Thursday morning. The victims were found at the entrance to the town of Guadalupe. Valle de Juarez is about 35 kilometers southwest of Juarez.
An unidentified man was found immolated at a landfill in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday say Mexican press reports. The partially decomposed body of the victim was found near the intersection of calles 55 and Postes in the Granjas del Valle district.
An unidentified man was shot to death in the roof of a residence as he attempted to escape an armed attack Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news sources. The attack took place near the intersection of calles MarÃa Teresa Rojas and Volcan Nevado in the Parajes de San Isidro district where the victim was shot by armed suspects using 9mm pistols.
The partially burned body of an unidentified man was found near Mexicali, Baja California Wednesday, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found in the trunk of a sedan one kilometer from the corner of Libramiento La Rosita-Centinela road near the town of Coronitas.
A man was found shot to death at a residence near Parral, Chihuahua Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts. VÃctor Javier Chavira RamÃrez, 21, was found dead in the bathroom of the house in the Villa Ahumada district in Balleza shot numerous times.
A man was found shot to death near Guadalupe y Calvo near Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. Julio Manuel Arzabala Mata, 40, was found shot with an AK-47 assault rifle in his residence in Guadalupe y Calvo because of an anonymous phoned in tip.
[Al Arabiya] Victims of last year's shooting rampage at a Texas Army base faced their alleged assailant for the first time in court early Thursday, after a U.S. military board denied a request to delay the tribunal until November.
Major Nidal Malik Hassan, charged in a shooting spree at the Texas Army base's soldier processing center that killed 13 people and maimed 32 others, watched silently from his wheelchair in the Fort Hood courtroom as victims recalled the events of Nov. 5, 2009.
In the rampage at the world's largest military facility, Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford said he heard Hassan shout "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is Greatest" -- just before opening fire on a group of soldiers undergoing health checks before being deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The incident has raised concerns over the threat of "home grown" bad boy attacks. U.S. officials said Hassan had exchanged e-mails with Anwar al-Awlaki, an anti-American al-Qaeda figure based in Yemen.
Lunsford said Hassan, a U.S.-born Mohammedan, wielded a laser-targeted weapon and shot him five times, including once in the head. "I saw the laser come across my line of sight," Lunsford said."
He stood and silently pointed to Hassan, identifying the 40-year-old Army psychiatrist as the assailant. Lunsford started to unbutton his uniform to display his gunshot wounds, but Col. James Pohl, the hearing's presiding officer, stopped him.
No delay of hearing
Hassan sat silently, dressed in Army fatigues and a green wool cap that his lawyer -- retired Col. John Galligan -- says is needed for Hassan to regulate his body temperature after being paralyzed by bullet wounds inflicted by civilian police officers during the shooting. Hassan also used a blanket.
Earlier, Pohl denied a request by Hassan's lawyers to delay until November the Article 32 hearing, which will determine whether there is enough evidence against Hassan to justify a military-style court martial.
Legal experts expect the case to proceed and Hassan could face the death penalty, though Army prosecutors have not specified whether they will seek capital punishment if he is convicted.
Pohl has said he will call as witnesses the 32 people maimed during the shooting. The proceeding could stretch over a month.
Michelle Harper, a civilian laboratory technician who was testing soldiers' blood when the shooting started, broke down in tears as prosecutors played a tape of her speaking with emergency telephone dispatchers during the shooting.
"I thought I was hearing firecrackers," Harper said, choking back tears and declining to look at Hassan.
Harper was not injured during the shooting. She said she hid under her desk and watched as Hassan walked by, then saw him shoot and wound Fort Hood civilian police officer Kimberley Munley.
Harper's telephone line remained open as she decamped to her car, capturing sounds of victims screaming and moaning in the background.
Fort Hood is a major deployment point for the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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More from AP on testimony: Soldier says ordered to delete Fort Hood video
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A soldier who recorded the terror of last year's deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos, a military court heard Friday.
Under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles told an Article 32 hearing that his noncommissioned officer ordered him to destroy the two videos on Nov. 5, the day of the shootings.
The footage could have been vital evidence at the military hearing to decide if Maj. Nidal Hasan should stand trial in the shootings.
Destruction of evidence could have been expected. My uncle who survived the attack on Wheeler Field 7 Dec 1941 recalls that after the attack military police searched every enlisted man's possessions for diaries & letters & confiscated them. Of course at that time they didn't know whether or not they would be taken prisoner by a Japanese landing force. Even the dollar bills in circulation in Hawaii at the time were stamped in bright red "HAWAII" so they could be devalued if seized by the Japanese.
[Al Arabiya] A plea deal was reached in the case of the accused war criminal Omar Baby Face Khadr in Guantanamo on Thursday that ensures his return "soon" to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence, sources close to the trial told Al Arabiya.
Last night, the Military Commission's Convening Authority agreed to a deal presented by the Khadr's defense.
Khadr's trial, which started two months ago in Guantanamo, had been postponed due to the illness of his military lawyer, lt.col. Jon Jackson, who had collapsed during the trial at the navy base in Cuba.
Jackson refused to comment on the sentence.
Sources told Al Arabiya that the Pentagon was under pressure to accept the plea deal less than a month before the midterm elections. The deal would also save the U.S. government the embarrassment of having to try a detainee who was a minor--15 years old--when he was said to have committed his alleged war crimes. At the same time, the deal would guarantee that khadr serve the full sentence he was handed in his trial by the Guantanamo Military Commission.
Khadr's case had received a lot of international attention due to his Canadian citizenship, his young age and the allegations of torture he directed against his interrogators. Khadr, now 24, was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 after a firefight where he was severely injured. He challenged accusations by saying he was threatened with rape and death if he didn't admit to throwing the grenade that killed Sgt. Speer.
Khadr is the only person accused by the United States of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, where more than 1,200 US soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war.
The government and defense had painted two vastly different pictures of Khadr during the beginning of the trial in August: the prosecution claimed he was a hardened terrorist who admitted to being proud of planning to kill Americans. They showed a video of him planting explosive devises in Afghanistan. His defense disputes the assessment and says Khadr was a child who was pressured by his father, a follower of Bin Laden, to join an Al Qaeda cell in Afghanistan.
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So what price was paid to settle this case. Canadians do not want him back.
[Al Jazeera] The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner with explosives hidden in his underwear last December has waived his right to a speedy trial in the US.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who last month had asked how he could plead guilty to some of the six counts he was charged with, said little during the brief hearing in federal court on Thursday and agreed to give up his right to have a trial quickly.
"It's no problem," he told Nancy Edmunds, the federal judge, when she asked if he would waive that right, a common practice in major criminal trials.
She also asked if he had anything else to raise with the court during the pre-trial conference, to which Abdulmutallab said, "No".
In September, Abdulmutallab fired his court-appointed lawyers and raised the possibility of pleading guilty to some charges.
Attempted murder
He was indicted in January on six counts, including trying to blow up the plane and attempted murder.
He could face life in prison if convicted. Edmunds scheduled another hearing for January 12.
Abdulmutallab, originally from Nigeria, boarded a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day and near the end of the trip tried to ignite a bomb sewn into his underwear, prosecutors have said.
The explosives failed to fully detonate and he was subdued by the passengers and crew.
He had been co-operating with US investigators for several months and told them that he received the device and training from al-Qaeda gunnies in Yemen, US officials have said.
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RUSSIA TODAY > US JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAILING. Less than one in five Amers get the proper legal assitance they need, + the US System suffers from protractive, pervasive RACISM agz NON-WHITES.
* SAME > BRITONS HAVE LOST THEIR "LIBERTY REFLEX":CONSERVATIVE MP [MP Dominic Raab].
Milyuhns + Zilyuhns of nationwide Surveillance Cameras have resulted in the steady loss of British personal Freedoms = Civil Liberties in return for little or no change or improvement in Security.
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Smart asshole, by giving up the "Right to a Speedy trial" he's guaranteed 3 hots and a cot for years to come, Execution if any, has been moved years into the future.
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QUETTA: A child suffered splinter wounds in a hand grenade attack at his residence in Ferozabad area of Sayrab on Saturday. According to sources, unidentified people riding a cycle of violence hurled a hand grenade at the house of Nadeem Isahqzai and decamped from the scene. It landed and exploded in the courtyard of the house injuring a baby. The injured was rushed to the Provincial Sandeman Hospital, where her condition was stated to be stable.
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[Straits Times] PAKISTANI Taleban faceless myrmidons on Thursday released a video of a kidnapped professor in which he appeals to the government to accept the rebels' demands to secure his release.
Professor Ajmal Khan, a locally-renowned academic and a close ally of the ruling Awami National Party in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central province, was kidnapped on Sept 7.
In the video tape, aired by Pak private TV channels GEO and ARY, Prof Khan is shown wearing a traditional Pakhtun cap with a beard, and with two masked men holding Kalashinkov assault rifles standing behind him.
'I am a heart patient and cannot live here any longer. The government should do something for me and should negotiate with the Taleban,' Prof Khan said in the video recording.
'The government should solve their problems (with the Taleban), if they have any,' he added. An intelligence official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar said the professor was being held hostage in one of the lawless tribal areas where authorities have no access.
Pak security officials said Taleban Orcs and similar vermin have been using kidnapping as ransom tool, and to bargain for the release of their faceless myrmidons being held by Pakistain authorities.
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faceless myrmidons... priceless.
got my grin for the day. so totally apt a description
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[Pak Daily Times] Religious scholar Sardar Haider was killed in firing by unidentified gunnies in the Kotwali area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. According to details, Sardar Haider was on his way to his office from his house when some person or persons unknown opened fire on him in the Saikh-al-Islam area. Sources said that Haider was critically maimed in the attack and was taken to a hospital, but succumbed to his injuries. The scholar's followers protested his killing, urging the government to arrest the culprits, the channel said.
Had Mr. Haider recently ruled that jihadis will go to Hell, by any chance? They really don't like hearing that.
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Religious scholar shot dead in Peshawar
Many deserve it.
One got it.
Keep up the good work.
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I think the definition of a islamic religious scholar in Pak-land is some who can read.
[Pak Daily Times] Police jugged a group of Orcs and similar vermin plotting to kill the prime minister in a gun and suicide bomb attack at his house, officials said on Thursday. The conspiracy against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was nearly complete, police officials said. The suspects are accused of belonging to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Their plan included monitoring Gilani's movements and storming his private residence in Multan with guns and a boomer, police investigator Waris Bharwana said. Abid Qadri, a regional police chief, said authorities learned about the plot during an initial interrogation of the seven terrorists, who were jugged on Wednesday after a shootout near a village in central Pakistain. The Orcs and similar vermin opened fire when police tried to pull their car over for a routine check, Qadri said. Nobody was maimed in the shooting, but two men managed to escape, he said. A judge has ordered the seven suspects be held and questioned in a prison. Their next court date is October 27, Bharwana said. Some of the suspects are believed to have taken part in an attack last year on the ISI offices in Multan, Qadri said. Daily Times had earlier reported on August 12 that four of these Orcs and similar vermin had been jugged by the authorities.
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[Pak Daily Times] Bodies of three more Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) men were found on Thursday, while four people, including an MQM man and an Awami National Party (ANP) activist, were killed and two were injured.
The airport police said bodies of three MQM men were recovered from a car, which was parked near Malir Halt.
The victims were identified as Shahid Ahmed alias Charbi, Shahbaz Khan and Sabir Ali.
The Orangi Town police said an MQM man was rubbed out in Sector 1-D. Asim Noor Alam was sitting at a tyre shop when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. Alam keeled over dead.
The Peerabad police said an ANP activist was bumped off in Qasba Colony. 27-year-old Zahid Gul, a resident of Banaras, was on his way to work at a factory when faceless myrmidons opened fire on him.
Gul, who hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central, sustained four bullet wounds and was killed on the spot.
ANP Spokesman Qadir Khan said Gul was murdered in an incident of assassination. The Pak Colony police said a transporter was bumped off at Dhobi Ghat in New Mianwali Colony.
45-year-old Ahmed Khan, a resident of the Garden area, was on his way home when faceless myrmidons opened fire on him.
Khan, father of seven, was killed on the spot. His family said he neither had any enmity with anyone nor was he affiliated with any political or religious party.
The Boat Basin police said a watchman was rubbed out near the Sea View beach. Fazal Muhammad was on duty at a bungalow when faceless myrmidons opened fire on him. Fazal keeled over dead and his body was shifted to a hospital before being handed over to his brother. The Sharifabad police said two shopkeepers sustained critical injuries when faceless myrmidons opened fire on a carpet shop in Liaquatabad. The victims were identified as 24-year-old Ahmed Khan and 28-year-old Shahnawaz Hakeem.
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(KUNA) -- Police in eastern Pakistain Thursday claimed arresting about six terrorists, who were involved in an attack on an intelligence agencys headquarter and other terrorist activities.
Six forces of Evil of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain (TTP)-Qari Imran group were jugged on a lead, provided by three already detained terrorists, in eastern Bahawalpur city of Pakistain, District Police Officer (DPO) Baber Bakht Qureshi told newsmen in the city.
Sowing and reaping, and all that.
He said the six forces of Evil were behind an attack on Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) headquarter in Multan in December 2009 that left nine people dead and maimed about 45 others. The DPO said that the forces of Evil were also planning attacks on senior politicians and government officials He added that the jugged also included a TTP Commander Abdul Rehman alias Talha.
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[Iran Press TV] A senior Iraqi official's convoy was hit by a roadside kaboom just outside of Iraq, killing four people and wounding six others, including the politician.
Abdul Karim Al-Mohammadawi, a prominent member of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance, was traveling in Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of Storied Baghdad on Thursday when the roadside kaboom hit his convoy wounding him and killing his bodyguard, AP reported.
Three civilians were also killed and two were maimed.
The Iraqiya alliance is a secular bloc led by Ayad Allawi who is locked in a power struggle with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki since the election in March.
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[Straits Times] A MEMBER of a Mohammedan clan accused of orchestrating the Philippines' worst political massacre has been killed in an ambush, police said on Thursday.
Authorities said they were checking whether Wednesday's attack that killed Cliff Ampatuan and maimed four other people, including his wife, had a connection with the massacre.
The 50-year-old victim, a local government worker, was attacked by motorcycle-riding men as he drove a car carrying his wife and the other victims, said Marcelo Pintac, police chief of Maguindanao province.
He said Cliff Ampatuan was a nephew of Andal Ampatuan Jnr, who is on trial along with his father and four other relatives for the murders last November of 57 people, including journalists and members of a rival Mohammedan clan.
Cliff Ampatuan's sister, Nelly Sangki, said her brother travelled unarmed and without escort but had told her three days before the ambush that unknown motorists had been tailing his car on his daily commute to his home.
While he was not among the suspects in last year's massacre, Cliff Ampatuan had taken a low profile and been very careful because he carried the clan name, his sister said. Cliff Ampatuan worked for his sister's husband, who is the mayor of the town of Datu Abdullah Sangki.
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[Straits Times] THREE suspected members of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network went on trial in Indonesia Thursday over twin suicide kabooms on two luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.
Bayu Seno, alias Tono, faces the death penalty if convicted on charges of assembling the bombs used in the July 17 attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed seven people.
'He assisted in an act of terrorism by way of purposely using violence and stirring up an atmosphere of terror and widespread fear,' prosecutor Kiki Ahmad Yani told the West Jakarta district court.
Seno also assisted by buying and transporting kabooms which were to be used in a plot to assassinate Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, he said.
Two Islamic gunnies with backpacks filled with homemade bombs blew themselves up at the hotels, marking the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in attacks attributed to Noordin and Al-Qaeda-linked regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.
In a separate hearing, alleged Islamic bad boy Pandu Wicaksono was charged with hiding Noordin at his house in Surakarta district in Central Java in June 2009, prosecutor Iwan Setiawan said. Another suspect, Suramto, is on trial accused of recruiting one of the boomers and buying kabooms used for the hotel attacks. Both also face the death penalty if found guilty.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Arabiya] A plea deal was reached in the case of the accused war criminal 
[Al Jazeera] The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner with explosives hidden in his underwear last December has waived his right to a speedy trial in the US.
