Spanish police nabbed a Pak man accused of stabbing a man to death in Indonesia and then chopping his body into pieces, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Police jugged the 32-year-old father of two as he was about to enter a metro station in central Madrid, it said in a statement.
They identified him only by his initials, but Spanish media gave his name as Imran Firasat Sulaeman, who in 2006 was given permission to live in Spain on humanitarian grounds after claiming he faced the death penalty in Pakistain for marrying a non-Mohammedan and criticising Islam.
Indonesian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for his arrest following a kidnap-murder in the town of Karawang, about 60 kilometres east of Jakarta, in June.
Sulaeman and his wife are accused of contacting the victim on the pretext of hiring him to create a web page, and then kidnapping him for ransom, the interior ministry said.
"The crime culminated in a lethal knife stabbing and then dismemberment, with different parts of the body placed in bags and suitcases within refrigerators and then dispersed around Karawang," it said.
Sulaeman's Indonesian wife Jenny Setiawan, a Buddhist, was jugged in Indonesia over her suspected involvement in the murder, but he returned to Spain at the end of September.
In interviews granted to Spanish media while the couple's asylum request was being considered, Sulaeman said Pakistain police had amputated the thumb on his left hand and raped his wife as punishment for their relationship.
They decamped to Germany, but after their asylum request there was turned down they moved to Spain.
The couple settled in Cantabria in northern Spain where they opened several restaurants and where the local press dubbed them "heroes for love".
They left Spain in 2007 after being accused of defrauding their business partner in the restaurant business and leaving behind hefty debts.
Sulaeman returned to Spain at the end of September and got a job at a restaurant in Cordoba, but after one week he attacked the owner with a knife and stole 6000 euro ($8200) from him, according to the ministry statement. He then moved to Madrid.
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"You don't understand. His HTML sucked! Slow loading HD graphics on the main page. Impossible navigation. Broken links. Annoying auto loading sound files. It's optimized for Netscape, for Allah's sake! HE HAD TO DIE!"
[Emirates 24/7] Police in central India on Thursday investigated a home where two child sacrifices allegedly took place, casting a spotlight on witchcraft and occult beliefs that persist in some remote areas.
Parents of a two-year-old boy had alerted authorities after he went missing while playing on the street in the Durg district of the state of Chhattisgarh, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Raipur.
Police raided the house of the alleged witchdoctor on Wednesday and found the boy's body, before further searches of the property revealed the skeletal remains of a six-year-old girl.
The accused man confessed to killing both children to acquire "occult power and good fortune," police said.
"The witchdoctor, his family and six other people have been jugged on suspicion of holding human sacrifices," Durg police chief Amit Kumar told AFP.
Kumar added the house contained a "worship room" and that the man had originally said blood stains were the result of him slaughtering a goat.
The second body was thought to be a girl who was kidnapped nearby in March. Her body was found buried inside the house beneath a trident symbol.
Human sacrifices occasionally make headlines in deeply religious and superstitious India, and usually occur in poor areas where some people revere practitioners of black magic.
In April, in the last widely publicised case of suspected human sacrifice in India, a decapitated body of a factory worker was found in a temple in the eastern state of West Bengal.
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But just below the surface, there is a lot of potential female infanticide, especially among the Kshatriyas (rulers, nobles, and warriors) caste.
[Pak Daily Times] Zimbabwe's prime minister filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Bob Muggsy Mugabe, alleging he violated the constitution and a power-sharing agreement. Morgan Tsvangirai said he seeks annulment of Mugabe's unilateral appointment of 10 provincial governors last month, which he alleged in court papers intentionally violated the constitution. He pointed out that the power-sharing agreement requires the president to consult with the prime minister before making key appointments, and that Mugabe did not. The presidency did not immediately comment. In October, Tsvangirai sent letters asking the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, European Union and four nations not to recognize six ambassadors that he said Mugabe appointed without consulting him. The UN said it couldn't disown Zimbabwe's UN ambassador, but said it would urge full implementation of the power-sharing deal. The coalition government was formed after disputed, violence-marred 2008 elections.
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Some attitudes are not changed by time. Mugabe wouldn't share with Smith either.
FORMULA One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been mugged and robbed of jewellery - just weeks after he said only "simple" people got attacked in London.
Four men punched and kicked the 80-year-old billionaire to the ground after pouncing on him and his girlfriend, Fabiana Flosi, 31, outside the headquarters of his business empire, Formula One Holdings.
The attackers escaped with $320,000 worth of jewellery including a watch and diamond rings.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said police were called to the scene on Wednesday night to "reports of a man and a woman robbed".
"The man was taken to a west London hospital for treatment to a minor head injury and was subsequently discharged. There were no reports of any other injuries," the spokesman said. "The items stolen are believed to be a quantity of jewellery."
Mr Ecclestone, the commercial rights holder for motor racing's elite division, compared London to Sao Paolo earlier this month after Formula One driver Jenson Button escaped a roadside assault ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
"You have to remember we have a lot of problems in England, Oxford Street and places, and in New York people get mugged," he said.
"They look for victims, they look for people who are a little bit slow and simple, but the people who look a bit bright, they never go after them."
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Geez, a billionaire got mugged? He could just let it be known through several layers of firewall, that if some concerned citizens hunted down the thugs and gutted them like deer, that Lady Luck would smile upon them.
Seriously, drop a few hundred-k Pounds, and send a profound message to London's criminal entrepreneurial classes that they should respect their elders.
Police say they have retaken a sprawling slum area from drug gangs in Brazil's second-largest city after a five-day assault that killed more than two dozen people.
The government sent armoured military vehicles with high-calibre machine guns into Vila Cruzeiro, a major shantytown in northern Rio de Janeiro, in a concerted crackdown on drug gangs on Sunday.
Police said armoured vehicles backed by helicopters, snipers and thousands of heavily armed men from the military police and navy, with another 17,500 reinforcements were "on alert" for the operation.
At least 30 suspected drug traffickers were reportedly killed since the operation began on Sunday."At this moment, Vila Cruzeiro belongs to the state," Rodrigo Oliveira, a police spokesman, said late on Thursday, adding that forces remained on alert.
Police said gangs fought back with machine guns and torched at least 60 vehicles, including nearly a dozen city buses.
[El Universal] Venezuela's Ambassador to Spain Isaías Rodríguez established a link between the existing revolutionary movements in Latin America and the historical "indigenous resistance" that began with the arrival of Christopher Colombus in the New World.
Rodríguez talked about the "unofficial history" of Latin America and the importance of the independence of the countries in the region, during a conference held at the headquarters of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib) in Madrid, Efe reported.
Ambassador Rodríguez based his conclusions on the different views that Europe and Latin America have on the discovery of the new continent in 1492.
"Some people say that we Americans were discovered, thus "mutilating" our own identity, he said.
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[El Universal] Guillermo Zuloaga, the main owner of Venezuela's news network Globovisión, said that he is a victim of "political persecution" and confirmed on Wednesday that he requested political asylum in the United States. He said the asylum process was nearing conclusion.
"I would not like to be in this situation; I would like to be in Venezuela, but there is an authoritarian government (in my country) that manipulates judicial bodies to create fear and intimidate," Zuloaga said, according to an interview broadcast on CNN en Español.
However, The infamous However... President Hugo Chavez does not share the same view. The Venezuelan head of State claimed that Zuloaga is not a victim of political persecution but a "bandit."
"He is a bandit. (Despite the asylum), he is a bandit... and the government of the United States is an accomplice of bandidos and terrorists," Chavez said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the National Journalists' Association (CNP) rejected President Chavez's "threats" against news TV network Globovisión.
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With a Republican president and senate, perhaps we should help set up a Globovisión broadcast tower next door in Colombia, to help continue to provide the news to the Venezuelans. It would give Chavez piles.
[El Universal] Fernando Morgado, the president of the Venezuelan Council of Trade and Services (Consecomercio), said that there are no signs of an economic improvement next year.
"We should be ready for the worst," Morgado said in an opening speech to celebrate the World Trade Day.
Morgado added that uncertainty among businessmen will continue in 2011. "We are totally convinced that uncertainty will continue to limit investments."
The business leader stressed that Hugo Chavez's government represents a "lost decade" and that the Venezuelan authorities are the only ones that refuse to acknowledge this bleak outlook.
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[El Universal] Luis Pulido, the former president of state-run food distribution network Procesadora y Distribuidora Venezolana de Alimentos (Pdval), and former Pdval managers Ronald Flores and Vilyeska Betancourt will be indicted for the loss of 32,000 tons of imported food in Puerto Cabello port (state of Carabobo) that were purchased by the former subsidiary of state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).
The decision was announced by the 16th Caracas Control Judge Santos Montero Tovar, after he upheld the charges filed by the Attorney General Office against the former officials for negligence in the care of State assets and embezzlement.
The judge also decided that the only three people jugged in this scandal will remain in prison during the trial.
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(KUNA) -- Spanish finance Minister Elena Salgado said Spain's economic reforms and austerity measures undertaken during the global Economic crisis led to the national economy recovery and the reduction on public deficit.
A statement by the Ministry quoted Salgado as saying in a meeting of business leaders and executives of the biggest Spanish companies Thursday, that her country was in safe of economic dangers that threaten the region, and there is no risk the Spain will need a financial rescue package.
She added that it was still too early to assess the results of some taken reforms, such as the labor market reform, which will undoubtedly create more jobs and boost economic development during the first semester next year.
The Spanish government had taken last May a series of measures and austere economic policies to reduce the economic crisis effects and to face the deficit in the state budget which stood at 3.9 percent of GDP recorded last September.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Salgado said that the announcement of Ireland's economic details of its plan for the next phase would ensure financial stability in the EU and the Euro Zone, and will surely relieve the pressure on financial markets and reinforce investors' confidence.
Dublin announced Wednesday its strict austerity plan aiming at providing 15 billion Euros by 2014.
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They also got a big economic boost and created oodles of jobs with their green energy program. Oh, wait! That was a colossal...I'm trying not to use the word scam. Let's just say failure. So never mind!
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This is a very sad time for Ireland. Things were booming just a couple of years ago. Jobs, good pay and a rosy future. Now the youth are leaving to find a better life elsewhere.
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I find it curious that they ignore the high unemployment rate and double digit inflation.
Government speak to calm the fears of an uncertain future.
Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms. "We are going after the rent-seeking corporations feeding at the public trough," said FreedomWorks' spokesman Adam Brandon. e.g.: General Electric and Johnson & Johnson
Is there anybody out there who can expand on who FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research (and its Enterprise Project) are?
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In all fairness, a lot of these businesses need education instead of punishment. They focus on short term economic goals and have no idea of the long term damage to themselves and the country. They wouldn't know a socialist idea unless it is clearly labeled for them.
With just a brief write up, a concise description of the socialist agenda could be given to them, and how their business decisions have become part of this agenda.
And then, most importantly, they need to have it explained to them how this is going to seriously hurt them in the future.
Think about the coal industry. Even though the Democrats have been shouting from the rooftops that they want to utterly destroy the industry, the industry, and its workers still overwhelmingly support Democrats.
This doesn't mean we should boycott West Virginia.
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Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms.
If they're not socialist they certainly are not for 'free markets' but rather they just as much want government to rig the market system in their favor to preclude real competition. Just as despicable.
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Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms.
If they're not socialist
P2K, I don't think this is socialist but as far as I know it comports almost precisely with Benito's fascist model. Private ownership run by and for the government and fat-cats.
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Marxism and Corporatism
They're just 2 different forms of rent-seeking
Marxism: Rent-seeking direct from wages.
Corporatism: Rent-Seeking from government created monopolies.
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It's not that these corporations engaged in socialism per se.
But they supported(or were bribed into supporting) the implementation of 0bama's socialistic laws and policies like 0bamacare.
I already try and boycott GE and well as Siemens, Fiat, Hyundai and a few others for supplying the technology to Iran and teh Norks, that allowed them to build facilities capable attaining uranium enrichment, and control dissent.
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The Tea Party movement seems blissfully unaware of the meaning behind the catch-phrase "Socialize losses, but privatize the gains." Very few, Tea Partiers or otherwise, are interested in grasping what it means to have limited liability organizations with special privileges not available to real human beings, huge purses for lobbying and progandizing, a Supreme-Court granted right to influence elections, and immortality to boot. Even Noam Chomsky recently said, in a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. And they understand. Theyre instinctive Marxists; they don't have to read [about] it.
Urging boycotts is a fool's errand. The electorate continues to be robbed by the greatest theft from the public purse in world history. From "Econnned:"Only when we, the public, are able to call the underlying realities by their proper names extortion, capture, looting, propaganda can we begin to root them out.
[Pak Daily Times] Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has said that he went to meet Aasia Bibi for the sake of humanity only and the blasphemy law was man-made and not God-given, adding that his meeting with Aasia Bibi was being politicised, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. Talking during an interview with the channel, Taseer said no Mohammedan could even imagine blasphemy, adding that the issue important for him was reviewing the blasphemy law. "Even now, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Pakistain Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan, ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker... Nilofer Bakhtiar, Sherry Rehman and others have talked about bringing a change in this law," he said, adding that he had conducted a complete investigation of the matter that the law was used against Aasia. He said he did not want to further comment on the issue, as it would be dealt in the high court. The governor said that the blasphemy itself, in his opinion, was an offence, but to misuse it by falsely accusing someone was a bigger offence. He rejected the opinion that he was doing political point scoring, saying that he was surely a liberal, but he could not understand the allegations of pro-Westernisation made against him.
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NEXT weeks NATO summit in Lisbon is likely to be one of the most crucial in the 61-year history of the military alliance. Officially, the 28 members are meeting mostly to approve a new strategic concept that frames the threats NATO faces and the ways in which it should defend against them over the next decade.
It is 11 years since the last such concept was adopted. In that period, both the world and NATO itself have changed greatly. But attention will focus on more immediate worries: above all, the prospects for the long war in Afghanistan, the response to Irans nuclear ambitions and the need to reset NATOs ambiguous relations with its old enemy, Russia, after the chill caused by the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
All this comes at a time of tumbling European defence spending and fears that America, preoccupied by strategic competition with China and by global terrorism, sees NATO as less vital to its security than in the past.
The new strategic concept itself should be easy to agree to. It is a sensible document, the result of a report drafted by a group of experts led by a former American secretary of state, Madeleine Albright.
Last month NATO officials were claiming that it was 98% there, and although members continue to differ on some issues, such as the alliances future nuclear posture (of which more later), those will be papered over in Lisbon.
Over half of all injuries to U.S. troops are due to explosions, and a large percentage of those are head injuries. While helmets offer some protection, explosive pressure waves can be transmitted to soldiers brains via their unprotected faces.
Computer modeling of blast shock waves striking a human face head-on suggests a soldier wearing a helmet with a polycarbonate face mask would receive less stress to the brain. Further studies will investigate different blast angles, intensities and parts of the body exposed.
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In limited situations, face shields would useful : for example, combined with the cool suits for gunners on vehicles. For the infantry, unless the helmet and face shield have a micro-climate powered setup, tipover is exactly right -- fog heaven and heat build-up. Maybe if the micro fuel cells can be rolled out, a helmet/face shield combo would be practical for all troops, since the fuel cell could power a couple of small fans to move air around inside the face shield. But then, you have to worry about chemical weapons because the fan would pull the vapor into the helmet.
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The Army alone has dumped millions into helmet, protective mask, face shield research since the 1980s. It's just not happening.
That being said, there are some interesting alternatives. One I like is the "rifle fan". It is a transparent, bladed fan that attaches to the rifle barrel, either 180 degrees over the top, or a full 360 degrees around the barrel. It acts as a bullet and frag deflector, just knocking the bullet or frag a little off course, away from the face and hands.
And if a fan blade is hit, and thus its transparency reduced, you just rotate the fan, and the damaged blade is out of the main line of sight.
Diameter? ability to operate in urban environments? Wouldn't it be better to use "bite cones" like vets do?
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Actually, a bite cone, but pointed in the other direction, is the basic idea. The bad guy in the James Bond movie, The Living Daylights, used a transparent rifle shield, but it is problematic because it was inflexible and difficult to maneuver with.
With the 180 fan over the top of the rifle mode would be great in an urban environment, because you could scope peek around a corner while limiting your face exposure to enemy fire, or frag that went flying your way.
If you're moving tactically, you would use a full 360 degree shield.
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...A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds surprisingly, that lower-class people are better at reading the emotions of others.
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Seriously, do they have anybody review these things before publishing? I bet you would get identical results if you took two people, one of whom regularly had to do complex tasks all by themselves; and the other, who had to work in a team.
The former might be a poor person who works on a line sorting recyclable garbage all by himself. The latter might be a well to do Nurse who is part of a cardiac surgery team.
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Upper-Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Others' Emotions
No, they just don't give a shit.
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They have money"
someone other than FSF
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see: John F'n Kerry, Terezah Heinz Kerry. These people have absolutely NOTHING in common with you other than the desire to pay less less taxes. They do think, however, that you should pay more. As Allahpundit (voted Best Squish Eeyore 2010) noted in a heightened mood of testosterone and guts: "hey rich guys: you can always voluntarily pay more!"
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"The rich are different..." (as if we didn't know).
Or, there's the one that always made more sense to me, "Whether it's fair or not, people judge you by the way you speak."
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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.
For the first time, the majority of the country's MPs will be elected by the people rather than appointed by the king.
