(AKI) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Monday that some 276,700 Afghans returned to their homeland in 2008 through its voluntary repatriation programme, 99 percent of them coming from neighbouring Pakistan. The remaining 1 percent of returnees came from Iran and other countries, Ewen MacLeod, Acting Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan, told a media conference in Afghan capital of Kabul.
MacLeod attributed this year's numbers to three main factors: the high prices of food and fuel which have strongly impacted Pakistan's economy, the closure of the large Jalozai refugee camp in the Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, and the "changing" security situation in Pakistan, particularly in NWFP, where the majority of Afghan refugees live.
MacLeod noted that over 5 million people have returned to Afghanistan since 2002, representing a 20 percent increase in the country's overall population.
Some 4.3 million of them were assisted through UNHCR's voluntary repatriation programme for Afghan refugees, the world's largest for the past six years.
"I think it is very clear to everybody that an increase in a population with a refugee return programme of that dimension would represent a very sharp challenge for even a Western industrialised country," said Macleod. "We are certainly not aware, in recent history, of any country that has absorbed so many people in such a short time. The solidarity demonstrated by the Afghan population in reabsorbing these huge figures is remarkable and without precedent anywhere else."
UNHCR's Afghan repatriation programme has now been suspended for the winter and will resume next March. The agency estimates there are still 2.8 million registered Afghans living in Pakistan and Iran.
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A young woman recently stoned to death in Somalia first pleaded for her life, a witness has told the BBC.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me," she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones.
Human rights group Amnesty International says the victim was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped.
Initial reports had said she was a 23-year-old woman who had confessed to adultery before a Sharia court.
The witness says she was forced into a hole, buried up to her neck then pelted with stones until she died in front of more than 1,000 people.
Cameras were banned from the public stoning, but print and radio journalists who were allowed to attend estimated that the woman, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was 23 years old.
However, Amnesty said it had learned she was 13, and that her father had said she was raped by three men.
When the family tried to report the rape, the girl was accused of adultery and detained, Amnesty said.
Convicting a girl of 13 for adultery would be illegal under Islamic law.
A human rights activist in the town told the BBC on condition of anonymity that he had received death threats from the Islamic militia, who accuse him of spreading false information about the incident.
He denies having anything to with Amnesty's report.
Court authorities have said the woman came to them admitting her guilt.
She was asked several times to review her confession but she stressed that she wanted Sharia law and the deserved punishment to apply, they said.
But a witness who spoke to the BBC's Today programme said she had been crying and had to be forced into a hole before the stoning, reported to have taken place in a football stadium.
"More than 1,000 people arrived there," he said.
"After two hours, the Islamic administration in Kismayo brought the lady to the place and when she came out she said: 'What do you want from me?'"
"They said: 'We will do what Allah has instructed us'. She said: 'I'm not going, I'm not going. Don't kill me, don't kill me.'
"A few minutes later more than 50 men tried to stone her."
The witness said people crowding round to see the execution said it was "awful".
"People were saying this was not good for Sharia law, this was not good for human rights, this was not good for anything."
But no-one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed, the witness said. He said one boy was shot in the confusion.
According to Amnesty International, nurses were sent to check during the stoning whether the victim was still alive. They removed her from the ground and declared that she was, before she was replaced so the stoning could continue.
The port of Kismayo was seized in August by a coalition of forces loyal to rebel leader Hassan Turki, and al-Shabab, the country's main radical Islamist insurgent organisation.
Mr Turki is on the US list of "financers of terrorism".
It was the first reported execution by stoning in the southern port city since Islamist insurgents captured it.
The BBC had a reporter in the area, but he was shot dead in Kismayo in June.
Sixty corpses of would-be refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia were found on a beach in Yemen over the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard, Medicins Sans Frontieres said on Monday.
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Well, having read the previous story about the 13 year old girl being stoned to death it's easy to see why people would risk their lives to get from Somalia to Yemen. But if I were a Yemeni I'd be afraid of being contaminated.
Jamaat-e-Islami and about two dozen other parties will be registered as parliamentary political parties to contest in the December 18 general election, confirmed the Election Commission (EC) officials.
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AN online computer game in which players score points for blowing up women and children has been condemned by Bali victims just hours before the bombers are to be executed.
Kaboom -- The Suicide Bombing Game features a cartoon man blowing himself up in a crowded market in a bid to kill as many people as possible. The free game shows graphic images of splattered body parts.
The UK-based Bali Bombing Victims Group wants the "sick, callous and upsetting" game taken down immediately. British woman Susanna Miller, who lost her brother Dan in the 2002 attacks which killed 202 people - including 88 Australians - told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "It's callous, inappropriate, irresponsible and deeply offensive. I find it disturbing.
"If you are deeply offended by this game then you're way too f***ing sensitive and I hope you've been scarred for life."
"I appeal to any sites featuring this game to remove it. It's completely sick."
The game's creator, known as Sam, writes on one website: "If you are deeply offended by this game then you're way too f***ing sensitive and I hope you've been scarred for life."
Sam added he was trying to portray suicide bombing as "crude and pointless".
Like any good, enlightened, sensitive soul of an artist, he's 'just trying to make us think'. The implication, of course, is that we don't.
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The odd thing is, if memory serves, the Bali bombing was not a suicide bombing. Yet the bombings that attacked london were. Yet the people complaining are a UK based Bali bombing group? What gives?
Pakistani students who want to study in the UK from March onwards will have to be 'sponsored' by colleges and universities that have acquired a licence from the UK Border Agency.
These new rules were announced by the Home Office on October 30 as part of a delivery plan for the student tier of the Australian-style points system. The system will clamp down on bogus students and ensure only those who benefit Britain can continue to come.
"International students contribute £2.5 billion to the UK economy in tuition fees alone. The student tier of the points system means Britain can continue to recruit good students from outside Europe," said Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas in a press release issued by the UK Border Agency. "Those who come to Britain must play by the rules and benefit the country. This new route for students will ensure we know exactly who is coming here to study and stamp out bogus colleges which facilitate the lawbreakers."
According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a total of 15,560 Asian or Asian British Pakistanis were studying at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UK. The overall number of students was 880,030.
Under the new system, colleges and universities who want to teach non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals must have a licence issued by the UK Border Agency. Licenced institutions can then sponsor non-EEA students to come to study in the UK.
Before they can study here, foreign students must be sponsored by a UK Border Agency-licenced education institution, supply their fingerprints and meet the new criteria.
From March next year, the following measures will come into effect: all colleges and universities that want to recruit foreign students will need a sponsor licence, every student will need a licenced sponsor, and there will be stricter rules to protect the UK's labour market.
From autumn 2009, the system will be tightened further with the introduction of a 'sponsor management system' - dedicated technology that will make it easier for universities and colleges to inform the UK Border Agency if students fail to enrol or miss more than 10 sessions. Since January 1, 2005, almost 300 bogus colleges have been removed from the Department for Universities and Skills Register of Education and Training Providers.
Britain's labour market will be protected by tough new rules, which mean visas will only be granted to students who show a proven track record in education and are applying for a course that meets a minimum level of qualification. Students must also be able to demonstrate they can financially support themselves and any of their dependants.
"I welcome the education sector's involvement in developing this implementation plan," said Minister of State for Higher Education David Lammy. "[It] will help to ensure we have a structure that allows international students to benefit from the excellent educational experience the UK offers, while giving them the opportunity to work in the UK for two years following graduation. However, we will not tolerate the minority of individuals who seek to damage the quality of our education system through bogus colleges. This is why we have introduced tighter checks to the current Register of Education and Training Providers. The new system will toughen this process further and give extra protection from the damage bogus colleges can cause."
Colleges and universities have been able to sign up to the sponsorship register since July.
Under current immigration rules, if someone has been given a student visa, they can take part-time or holiday work while studying in the UK, but they must not work for more than 20 hours a week during term time unless work placement is part of their studies, or the work they are doing has been agreed with their educational institution and leads to a degree or qualification awarded by a nationally recognised examining body. Colleges will be able to advise students on this.
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RULE 1: No blowing us up. Not even over a cartoon.
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That rule will be a showstopper for many muzz students. Likewise, rule no. 2, "You must go to class regularly and obtain passing grades," will prove insurmountable for many...
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A SURVIVOR of the 2002 Bali bombings says he is frustrated by delays to the executions of the bombers and has appealed to Indonesian authorities to "just get on with it".
Gold Coast real estate agent Glenn Cosman, who suffered a leg injury and hearing impairment in the Sari Club bombing on October 12, 2002, said he had hoped the execution would have gone ahead by now. "I just think these blokes talk the talk but they don't walk the walk, they say they want to die but yet they keep appealing,'' Mr Cosman said. "It's very contradictory and I think they should just get on with it.''
However, lawyers for the three bombers - Imam Samudra and brothers Amrozi and Mukhlas - yesterday lodged a fourth appeal against their execution. They have also flagged plans to take their case to Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission and to a parliamentary committee.
Mr Cosman said he would have a quiet drink to the trio's demise when the execution finally went ahead. "I think it's very important to make sure that they do get the death penalty because I think that's what they deserve - they are certainly guilty of the crime and have shown no remorse at all,'' he said. "It would make me feel a lot happier because I think the world will be a lot safer place without those guys here.''
A son of Osama bin Laden who grabbed headlines by marrying a British woman last year has flown to Spain and requested asylum, the Spanish government said Tuesday.
Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, is a metals trader who had been living in Cairo, Egypt with his wife. He has not renounced his father, but has said he wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between the Muslim world and the West.
His wife said, however, that he was denied a British residency request this year after officials there said he had demonstrated continuing loyalty to his father.
Omar Osama bin Laden one of the al-Qaida leader's 19 children arrived in Madrid Monday on a flight from Cairo to Casablanca, Morocco, an Interior Ministry official said.
He had been traveling on a Saudi passport, and remained at the airport Tuesday while the ministry considered his request for Spanish asylum, the official said on condition of anonymity in line with ministry policy.
The official did not know on what grounds asylum was being sought. The ministry has 72 hours to make a decision, and the petitioner has a right of appeal.
Omar Osama bin Laden caused a tabloid storm last year after marrying Jane Felix-Browne, 52,who has since taken the name Zaina Alsabah. The couple later said they were planning a 3,000-mile horse race across North Africa next year to draw attention to the cause of peace, but the plan was downgraded to a desert horse race within Egypt in light of the difficulties of obtaining permission to cross borders in North Africa.
Alsabah said in May in Cairo that Omar Osama bin Laden had been denied a British residency request. She showed The Associated Press a statement from the couple's legal firm quoting a British consular officer as saying his residency in Britain would cause public concern and would not be "conducive to the public good."
The British official is cited in the letter as saying that "statements made during recent media interviews indicate evidence of continuing loyalty to your father, who is ultimately held responsible for the London bombing" on July 7, 2005, that killed 52 people on three subway lines and a bus.
Omar Osama bin Laden had declined to directly condemn his father or the Sept. 11 attacks in media interviews, instead condemning all violent acts and saying simply that he had a different approach to problems than his father.
Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the Pakistan-Afghan border region.
Omar Osama bin Laden had moved to Afghanistan with his father in 1996 after living with him in Sudan, and trained at an al-Qaida camp. But Omar has said he hasn't seen his father since he left Afghanistan in 2000 and returned to his homeland of Saudi Arabia.
He has refrained from publicly criticizing his father, saying Osama bin Laden is just trying to defend the Islamic world.
ISLAMABAD - The government will not make former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharrafs life tougher as long as he stays out of politics, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday. Musharraf is history and the people have rejected him in the February elections, Gilani told a Turkish paper in an interview adding that his government is pursuing a policy of national reconciliation instead of unleashing a process of victimisation.
Until Gilani needs a scapegoat, that is ...
We want to focus on current problems and future projections such as terrorism, poverty, hunger, disease, health and education, instead of raking up the past, he said.
At present he (Musharraf) is keeping a low profile. If he is not politically active, then we would not want to open too many fronts, he said. He (Musharraf) was convinced that he lacked the parliaments support, and he stepped down, said Gilani.
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(AKI) - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday called drone attacks on the country "counter-productive" and called for the raids to be stopped.
Zardari spelled out his concerns to the Commander, US Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher at his official residence in Islamabad.
"Continuing drone attacks on our territory, which result in loss of precious lives and property, are counterproductive and difficult to explain by a democratically elected government. It is creating a credibility gap," he said.
Zardari said the raids should be stopped and the focus shifted to enhanced coordination and intelligence-sharing.
There is growing concern in the US about how Islamic militants are exploiting areas of Pakistan's rugged northwest region to support the growing insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Washington is suspected of conducting at least 17 missile strikes in Pakistan since August. In September, the US provoked outrage across the country when troops conducted a ground assault in a tribal region in Pakistan's northwest.
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, Secretary Foreign Affairs Salman Bashir, US Ambassador Anne Patterson and senior military officials from both countries also attended the talks.
Zardari said that US leaders had affirmed their respect for Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, adding however that in the wake drone attacks on our side of the border the government was under pressure to react more aggressively.
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"Facilitating and/or ignoring terrorist activity on your territory, which results in loss of precious lives and property, are counterproductive and difficult to explain by a democratically elected government. It is creating a credibility gap," we said."
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Thank you, Mr President. To commemorate our candid exchange of views, please accept this large, reflective sprocket for your sash. Yes, it is quite shiny. And highly visible in both radar and infra-red wavelengths.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that American troops can set up bases in northern Iraq's Kurdish region only if the Shiite-led government in Baghdad gives its approval.
"It is not possible for U.S. troops to stay in Kurdistan without the approval of the central government," Talabani said in an interview with state television Al-Iraqiya late on Sunday. "Kurdistan is part of Iraq, and all of the country's constitutional laws apply to it."
His remarks came after Massud Barzani, the president of the northern Kurdish administration of Iraq, said on a visit to Washington that the U.S. military could have bases in the north if Washington and Baghdad failed to sign a controversial security deal. The deal will decide the future presence of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2008.
Local Iraqi newspaper "Khabat" quoted Barzani as saying that his regional government would "welcome" such a move. "All the attempts are going right now to sign the pact, but if the pact is not signed and if U.S. asked to keep their troops in Kurdistan, I think the parliament, the people and government of Kurdistan will welcome this warmly," he said at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Barzani has strongly backed the controversial security deal, but its signing was delayed after the Iraqi cabinet decided to seek changes in the latest draft of the agreement. Barzani and other Iraqi Kurdish leaders have been strong U.S. allies since the 1991 Gulf War that pushed former dictator Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait and established a no-fly zone over the country's northern Kurdish region.
Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's group also criticized Barzani over his comments. "We reject the statement by Massud Barzani," sheikh Saleh al-Obeidi, spokesman for the group, told AFP. "This position reminds us that Kurds want to separate. There is a constitution in this country and they have to respect it."
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What do you think you are, a government?
We want a base, you say "Sure it's our idea". (Nice puppet, Works for me)
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It makes sense that the Government should have to clear foreign bases, but on the other hand the base is sort of designed to protect the Kurds from that same government. The Kurds need to build their own military bases on private land (for Hollywood movies, wink, wink) that the US could occupy in case of trouble.
Or the alternate, if Obama wins the Kurds should leave. If they all moved to the West Bank and Gaza and kicked out the locals they could have their own state and Israel would be a friendly neighbor.
DARPAs latest project is called DBAC, or Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation, and it consists of a device which stops internal bleeding almost instantaneously.
Internal bleeding is very dangerous and its very important to cure soldiers wounded in battle, but also for people who suffer car or other accidents. Irreversible hemorrhagic shock can be caused by internal bleeding which can kill soldiers, and now DARPA is trying to develop a portable device that will detect and stop the bleeding using ultrasounds.
DARPA has contracted the University of Washingtons Centre for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound and Texas A&M to develop the DBAC cuff which should be semi-automatic and any soldier with minimal training will be able to operate it.
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All things are Star Trek. Doncha remember when Chekov fell on the US aircraft carrier (yes, they did the old bend around the sun, go back in time routine) and was about to be operated on, then bones comes in, calls all the doctors butchers/savages, places a device on Chekov's forehead and he is A-ok in about 30 seconds.
Had to be the same thing, albeit more powerful and, no doubt, more neatly packaged.
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Besoeker, DARPA has initiated a lot of stuff that is saving soldier lives in theater today. The more publicly-known programs include the Predator and Global Hawk UAVs and their sensor payloads.
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Thanks Steve. Like I said, if you want to see the future, look at Star Trek. And here is a tidbit for Justice...there aren't any muslims on Star Trek!
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I can remember working with a dozen things that came from DARPA, but haven't been declassified yet. DARPA is full of tricks, and only a few of them are medical.
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"..there aren't any muslims on Star Trek.. unless they were the Red Shirted Crewman."
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My limited experience with DARPA and Advanced Concept Tech Demo's (ACTD) didn't give me many warm and fuzzies. If they've done well in the UAV area, I'll give them that Lotp.
THE Australian and US embassies in Jakarta have been threatened with bombings if the three Islamic militants on death row over the Bali blasts are executed.
The threat was received via text message to police, police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said. "We're investigating this to find out who sent the threat,'' he said.
He said it was being taken seriously although a similar threat against a shopping mall in Jakarta yesterday had proved to be a hoax.
The embassies' compounds had been searched, the Detikcom news website reported, quoting police. It said the text message read: "I will pull the trigger (of the bomb) if Amrozi and his friends are executed,'' referring to the Bali bombers.
The Australian embassy in Jakarta would not comment, referring questions to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
A US embassy spokesman confirmed that a threat had been received and was being taken seriously. "We are working closely with the Indonesian police,'' he said.
Security at the US and Australian embassies has been boosted amid fears of reprisal attacks after the executions.
Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and Imam Samudra, 38, are facing execution any day over the bombings of packed tourist nightspots which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, six years ago.
The threats came as Indonesia's Attorney General's Office rejected reports that the bombers' executions had been due to go ahead in the last day but were delayed at the last minute. The Indonesian newspaper Radar Banyumas said a new schedule had been set following the cancellation of a previous plan to execute the men early yesterday or early today.
A source on the bombers' prison island said the delay was to avoid "politicking from some parties'' and that a fresh appeal by the bombers' families was not a factor in the delay. "The new schedule has been issued and it's in the hands of the executor in the field,'' the source told the newspaper.
Attorney-General's Office spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said the exact timing of the executions was up to those who would carry them out. He said a decision had been made to proceed with the executions and authorities overseeing them had been advised of that.
Lawyers for the bombers are waiting to hear if they and family members will be permitted one final visit.
Members of the bombers' families and some of their lawyers were turned away yesterday when they went to the port of Cilacap seeking permission to travel to Nusakambangan Island for a final goodbye. They are considering taking the matter to Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission. Lawyers say the denial of a final visit violates the bombers' human rights.
(SomaliNet) Lawyers for the three Islamists facing execution for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people filed a desperate last-minute appeal on Monday to save them from the firing squad.
However, prosecutors said the appeal was invalid as the bombers - Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and Imam Samudra, 38 - had already exhausted their legal options and must now die in line with their 2003 sentences. "No more appeals can be accepted because the limit is only one," a spokesperson for Indonesia's Attorney General's Office said, even though the bombers have had at least three appeals considered by the Indonesian courts.
Lawyer Imam Asmara Hadi said the appeal filed in Bali's Denpasar district court rested on the bombers' claim they had not been properly informed of the rejection of their previous petition. "We have lodged an appeal because we haven't received a copy of the Supreme Court rejection of our previous appeal," Hadi said.
Police stepped up security around Cilacap port connecting southern Java to the high-security Nusakambangan prison island where the bombers are believed to be just days or even hours away from execution. Heavily armed police extended a no-go zone around the port and barred all traffic to the island in the latest sign that the executions are imminent.
Security has been tightened across the mainly Muslim archipelago due to concerns about revenge attacks from Islamist fanatics and the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network, believed to be responsible for the Bali carnage. The bombings of tourist nightspots on the resort island in 2002 killed more than 160 foreigners including 88 Australians, as well as 68 Indonesians.
Nusakambangan prison chief Bambang Winahyo said the bombers appeared to be calm and ready to die, in line with their repeated assertions that they want to be "martyrs" for their cause of creating a Southeast Asian caliphate. "They're in good condition, healthy. It seems they're facing this calmly," he said.
Relatives and lawyers were barred from visiting the bombers at Nusakambangan early on Monday as they did not have permission from Jakarta, officials said.
Ali Fauzi, the younger brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, blasted the authorities for refusing to let him see the bombers for a last time. He said he would leave Cilacap later on Monday if permission did not arrive within hours. "I'm very disappointed with the Attorney General's Office for not allowing us to go in as my brothers have been put in an isolation room" ahead of their execution, he said. "I want to pass a message from my family to Amrozi and Mukhlas. My mother said for them to be patient, to be sincere and to accept their fate.
"But she also said that if I can bring them home alive and free, then I should bring them home," he added, laughing.
The 2002 Bali attacks were the bloodiest in a sustained period of Al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist violence in mainly moderate Indonesia. Bombings at the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003, the Australian embassy in 2004 and Bali again in 2005, among others, killed scores of people.
Jemaah Islamiyah is still active in plotting attacks across the region and the alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings, Malaysian extremist Noordin Mohammad Top, is still at large.
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When I think about capital punishment, this passage from Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein, always springs to mind.
Well, if there was no way to keep it from happening once, there was only one sure way to keep it from happening twice.
... he got what was coming to him . . . except that it seemed a shame that he ... practically hadnt suffered at all.
But suppose, ... that he was so crazy that he had never been aware that he was doing anything wrong? What then?
Well, we shoot mad dogs, dont we?
Yes, but being crazy that way is a sickness
I couldnt see but two possibilities. Either he couldnt be made well in which case he was better dead for his own sake and for the safety of othersor he could be treated and made sane. In which case (it seemed to me) if he ever became sane enough for civilized society . . . and thought over what he had done while he was sickwhat could be left for him but suicide? How could he live with himself?
And suppose he escaped before he was cured and did the same thing again? And maybe again?
I couldnt see but one answer.
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as long as they die painfully at the end of a quick amnistiation.
I would float them out in the harbor in a cheap dinghy with a lot of kaboom materials and let them guess when it's going off. Then surprise them. Let the brother "recover" the "bodies' with a fine net
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The commander of NATO's naval forces says Iranian threats to close a strategic Persian Gulf waterway are imaginary.
Vice Admiral Maurizio Gemignani of the Italian Navy is visiting the oil-rich Gulf state of Kuwait.
He said Tuesday that he considers the threats Iran has made to close the Strait of Hormuz a "fantasy" and the international passages cannot be blocked.
Iran has warned that it would close the strait if the United States attacks it over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
About 40 percent of the world's oil passes through the strait.
Three NATO ships arrived in Kuwait on Tuesday to promote military cooperation.
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Again, while the World remembers the "BISMARCK versus HOOD" + the German U-BOAT threat ala BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, it was in the Mediterranean agz the smaller Italian Navy which proved to be the Royal Navy's "Ironbottom Sound" for its surface warfare fleet, espec for its destroyers and cruisers. PM Churchill fired several top Brit Air-Naval Commanders over their failure to stop Brit losses and defeat the Italian threat to North Africa + Gilbraltar + Suez. ALTHOUGH ITALY FINALLY LOST IN THE MED, THEY CAN CERTAINLY CLAIM TO HAD SCARED/INTIMIDATED THE BRITS AND CAUSED BRIT POLITICOS-ADMIRALS TO BITE THEIR NAILS A FEW TIMES, EAT THEIR NECKTIES, ETC.
Thousands of young Iranians marked the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy on Monday, a day before Americans elect a new president, with some demonstrators indifferent to the U.S. vote and a few wondering if it could help rebuild ties.
Lest we forget.
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See also TOPIX > IRAN: US POLICIES IN MIDDLE EAST IS DEFEATED.
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(AKI) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Monday that some 276,700 Afghans returned to their homeland in 2008 through its voluntary repatriation programme, 99 percent of them coming from neighbouring Pakistan. The remaining 1 percent of returnees came from Iran and other countries, Ewen MacLeod, Acting Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan, told a media conference in Afghan capital of Kabul.
Pakistani students who want to study in the UK from March onwards will have to be 'sponsored' by colleges and universities that have acquired a licence from the UK Border Agency. 
ISLAMABAD - The government will not make former president Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharrafs life tougher as long as he stays out of politics, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday. Musharraf is history and the people have rejected him in the February elections, Gilani told a Turkish paper in an interview adding that his government is pursuing a policy of national reconciliation instead of unleashing a process of victimisation. 
(AKI) - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday called drone attacks on the country "counter-productive" and called for the raids to be stopped. 
(SomaliNet) Lawyers for the three Islamists facing execution for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people filed a desperate last-minute appeal on Monday to save them from the firing squad. 
