Armed pirates swooped on two fishing trawlers and looted valuables, throwing 18 fishermen into the Meghna in Monpura area on Thursday night. Narrating the incident, the fishermen, who came back yesterday, said a group of pirates swooped on their trawlers, beat them up severely and threw them into the river before looting their valuables. They also took away their trawlers. The fishermen, however, swam ashore. The fishermen were asked to contact the pirates at a place in Monpura area with Tk 50,000 in toll to get back their trawlers and nets.
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Well at least they wern't stranded with pirates.
Britain owes its survival in the second world war to many causes. A standard list might include the bravery of our Battle of Britain pilots, the leadership of Winston Churchill, the resilience of the people - and the sacrifices of the Red Army. But there is little doubt that Britain would not have survived without lend-lease either.
Between March 1941 and September 1945, the United States' lend-lease programme transferred some $48bn worth of war material to other nations, the largest part of it (worth some $21bn) to Britain. This was an enormous sum, nearly equal to an entire year's UK gross national product. But it came at a price and the Americans drove a hard bargain. At one point Washington pressed for the transfer of the British West Indies in return. Though that proposal fell through, Britain did agree to give up the rights to and royalties on innovations such as radar, antibiotics, jet aircraft and nuclear research to the US as part of "reverse lend-lease". And when the war was over, the Americans handed in their bill.
Britain has been paying off our lend-lease bill in annual instalments ever since 1950. This week the Treasury confirmed that the last payment of £45m will be made by the end of this year. Lend-lease was an extraordinarily far-sighted American move - hardly "the most unsordid act in the history of any nation", as Churchill described it. But it was also the price of our survival. Repayment of debt may be unfashionable these days. But if ever a debt deserved paying it was lend-lease.
There remains considerable accounting dispute about the exact sums involved. Historians estimate that payments to the major recipients included about $14 to $20 billion to Britain; $9-10 billion to the Soviet Union; France, $3.5 billion; and China and India, $2.2 billion, for a total of $48 billion.
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You are welcome Tony, and we will be with you when you need us again. This time without the loan ;)
And thanks for the chobham armor!
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Well, us frenchies have paid you back with all that warm, solid pro-US tradition radiating from our heartland. Feel the love. Don't you feel better already?
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The West Indies would have been a sweet deal, and strategically advantageous. The BVI is great, but Americans would probably ruin it with commercialization. Compare Virgin Gorda and St. Thomas...Britain is showing great integrity and we thank you.
One of the more sordid episodes IMO of Anglo-American affairs was the sending of the Indianapolis to Capetown to collect the last of the Empires gold reserves, to ensure the Brits were indeed broke. Bad business.
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Well 6,
They were desperate times for Britain, and at the time lend-lease was initiated, the US was still a neutral country.
And of course, the amount of money the US has spent in keeping the free world free since WWII makes the lend-lease program look like peanuts...
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It was mean, 6, exactly because we were neutrals. Very clever of Roosevelt in terms of destroying the British Empire, one of his major war goals in WWII. I wonder what his goals were wrt the Soviet Union. We suffered 50 years of cold war and now this absurd war with Islam because of Roosevelt's desire to destroy all the European empires except Russia's. Once the "Greatest Generation" is off stage there will be a major revison in history's appraisal of FDR.
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Tony - as far as this American is concerned, y'all have long since paid that "debt."
I wish our government had forgiven the debt years ago. Both our countries have more than their share of moonbats, idiots, and fellow-travellers, but still we're friends.
I love the Brits. I remember in 1976, when we were celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, there was a big sign somewhere in London that said, "Happy Birthday, America. Love, Mum."
Y'all are fantastic. I hope we stay friends for the next 200 years, too. :-D
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NS: Very clever of Roosevelt in terms of destroying the British Empire, one of his major war goals in WWII. I wonder what his goals were wrt the Soviet Union. We suffered 50 years of cold war and now this absurd war with Islam because of Roosevelt's desire to destroy all the European empires except Russia's. Once the "Greatest Generation" is off stage there will be a major revison in history's appraisal of FDR.
That's correct. I think Roosevelt is quite possibly the worst president in the history of the country for precisely this reason. Carter was terrible, but Roosevelt presided over a time when it was important for him to make the right decisions, and he made all the wrong ones. GI's paid in blood in Korea and Vietnam because of Roosevelt's obsessive stupidity. And that's leaving out the part where Roosevelt was catatonic for weeks after Pearl Harbor. Kind of makes Bush's 9 minute post-9/11 interlude seem like an instant.
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The UK is a staunch ally, inspite of the moonbats which we both have in abundance.
I never really understood Roos motivation or why he so ham handedly helped to dismantle the Brits authority after the war.
The zeitgeist of freedom and independence was sweeping the world anyway and would have come to pass in-spite of Roos meddling, perhaps with a lot less damage.
I'm sure John could shed real light on this subject.
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I wasn't thinking so much of Empire and its end so much as how damn cheap it was to snare the last piggy bank. We trusted them for billions why not another few million? It was tacky.
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I hate to defend FDR and Harriman, but there were reasons.
Throughout the 19th century, the Brits expected the US to pay back any debts, in gold, to the last farthing. Then, when fortunes turned, after WWI, they could find the money to keep India and Iraq subdued, build their navy to keep ahead of ours, but not to repay their loans. Not to mention that it was really a "voluntary" war that could have been ended in 1916 or 1917 by negotiation.
Actually, I think that was a worse case than WWII. We really should have waived the latter but insisted on repayment of the former. I'm not proud of what we did, but it's also not the worst moment in our foreign relations.
Further, remember that in early 1941, there was still a question whether Brittain would survive. Sure, as long as the RN existed, an invasion would be impossible, but a combined air/U-boat campaign was coming close to success. We may have been looking ahead to a coming conflict with Germany leading a united (through conquest) Europe and needed all the bases and resources we could get.
Finally, one of the primary goals of our foreign policy since 1777 (the treaty with France also had a clause that the US was given MFN status) has been that our ships and goods should be able to travel and sell to everywhere in the world, hence the "Open Door" policy in China, short-lived "wars" against anyone who messes with our shipping, demands that "Imperial Preference" be cancelled, and so on. This is something generations of our statesmen had as a basic goal of foreign policy, almost an instinct. It's only natural that they would continue to press for this.
Also, note that after 1945, the US greatly reduced its tariffs, so it wasn't quite as one-sided as our previous policy of high import tariffs coupled with demands that no one else do the same.
And finally, Britain (and the rest of the world) free-ride on our drug R&D. They all threaten to break our patents if our companies dare to distribute their R&D expenses. That's the reason our costs are so much higher.
To pay for purchases in the US, Britain cashed in its massive investments in American railroads and then began borrowing heavily on Wall Street. President Wilson was on the verge of cutting off the loans in late 1916, but with war imminent with Germany, he allowed a massive increase in U.S. government lending to the Allies. After 1919, the U.S. demanded repayment of these loans, which, in part, were funded by German reparations, which, in turn, were supported by American loans to Germany. This circular system collapsed in 1931 and the loans were never repaid.
My understanding is that because of the defaults earlier, and because the US was just emerging from the Depression when the 2nd world war broke out, Congress insisted on selling war materials on a cash and carry basis originally, with the lend-lease program instituted when it became clear Britain was going bankrupt under the burden of fighting the Nazis.
Tbilisi. May 06 (Prime-New) The government of Georgia will take into consideration the experience of Israel in its intention to return the exiled Muslim Georgians. Israel has gained a considerable experience in repatriation, Giorgi Khaindrava, Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution told journalists after his meeting with Shaptay Tsur, Israeli Ambassador to Georgia on Friday. According to him, the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel will visit Georgia on the next week and share their know-how in repatriation.
After its affiliation to the Council of Europe in 1998, Georgia committed itself to return the descendents of the Muslim Georgians, exiled by the decision of the Soviet Government in 1940s.
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even the left side's not moving
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"The situation is extremely volatile," said Renaud Dehousse, director of the Center for European Studies at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris. "The government has lost any credibility whatsoever."
In Paris they're calling it the French Watergate. What began as a discreet investigation into a computerized list of secret bank accounts has exploded into major scandal that threatens to disgrace President Jacques Chirac at the end of his long political career.
A CD-ROM sent to an investigative judge listed Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy among industrialists, secret agents and politicians holding accounts at Luxembourg bank Clearstream, flush with kickback money from the $2.8 million sale of French frigates to Taiwan in 1991.
The list turned out to be fake, embarrassing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who ordered an investigation into the allegations.
Villepin is fending off demands for his resignation and allegations that the whole thing was a scheme to discredit Sarkozy, his chief rival for the governing party's presidential nomination in elections next year.
Now politicians are demanding that Chirac who is widely believed to support Villepin for the nomination break his silence over the scandal and answer questions over his own alleged role. This president's office insists he had little to do with it. But last week, Le Monde newspaper published extracts of testimony from an intelligence agent who said Villepin asked him to investigate Sarkozy on Chirac's orders.
In what is likely the final year of his political life, the 73-year-old president who served as prime minister 30 years ago could see his long climb to the summit of power wither to an ignoble end. Even members of his center-right party are getting impatient with his refusal to address the controversy publicly.
"The president of the Republic, where is he? What is he doing? Has he disappeared?" said lawmaker Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, of Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement party.
Sarkozy, meanwhile, is being portrayed as a victim and profiting from a scandal that had threatened to smear his reputation.
The affair had a discreet beginning an investigation in November 2003 at the Defense Ministry to verify the list of Clearstream accounts.
It is Villepin's entrance into the case that raises questions today.
Villepin then foreign minister summoned Gen. Philippe Rondot, in charge of special Defense Ministry operations, to a January 2004 meeting.
Also present was Jean-Louis Gergorin, vice-president of European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co., which owns 80 percent of Airbus. It was Gergorin who allegedly provided the list to Rondot and informed Villepin of a potential problem.
Villepin said he had been made aware of "national security risks" from money laundering potentially tied to terrorism or organized crime that could threaten French economic interests. He said it was his duty to ask Rondot to investigate.
The prime minister at first denied that Sarkozy was mentioned in the meeting, saying he only saw the list of names later.
But Villepin backtracked slightly this week after the daily Le Monde published alleged extracts of Rondot's testimony to investigators in which he says that the prime minister on Chirac's orders specifically asked for an investigation into Sarkozy.
Villepin admitted Thursday that Sarkozy's name was mentioned, but only "as interior minister," not in connection with the probe. He denied that Chirac ordered the probe, as did the president's office.
Rondot eventually concluded that the list was fabricated. But Sarkozy contends that Villepin refused to quash the investigation even after he found out the list was phony.
In January, Sarkozy filed suit to clear his name. That prompted an April search of the Defense Ministry that thrust the affair in the media spotlight.
One of the main mysteries surrounds the identity of the person or people who fabricated the list and to what end?
The crisis is the third in six months for Villepin, who faced riots in poor suburbs in November and recent student protests that forced his government to withdraw a youth jobs law.
Chirac, president since 1995, has been left to watch seemingly helpless as the Gaullist right majority he helped build tears itself apart.
"The real question is to know whether the president is going to continue for a year like this, deaf and blind," said Dupont-Aignan, the governing party lawmaker.
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That $2.8 Billion. Of that money, $500 million was phoney "commissions" to various Taiwanese, French and Chinese officials. That's the kind of money that buys a lot of grease.
Now, about that $400 million "commission" on Mirage sales to Taiwan.
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whether the president is going to continue for a year like this, deaf and blind," said Dupont-Aignan, the governing party lawmaker.
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De Villepin will go down for this - as Captain Ed notes, Dominique has NEVER been elected to any post he's held, all the way to the 2nd highest positin of power. Will Jacques finally face prosecution for his crimes as mayor? He's been avoiding it while he held elective office...
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A 56-year-old German living in Paraguay is seeking to become the legal father of 1,000 foreign children so they can have German nationality, education and social benefits, Der Spiegel reports in its Monday edition.
Jurgen Hass, a former local leader of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) party, told the weekly magazine he intended to exploit grey areas in Germany's paternity law to do so.
He said he had already legally recognised 300 children in Paraguay, Romania, Hungary, Moldavia, Russia, Ukraine and India.
Hass told Der Spiegel he was "playing" with Germany's 1998 paternity law, which allows men to legally recognise a child when the mother agrees and no other man claims to be the father.
Rear Admiral Robert "Bob" Timbrell of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 86, was plucked out of Portsmouth gunnery school at the age of 20 and plunged into his first command - one of the "little ships" that helped to rescue the British army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
Go read his whole story in the Guardian. Another amazing, quiet man who did his job very well on a terrible day.
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"Evacuation of Dunquecue"
Withdrawal orders had just come through,
Where we were bound for no one knew,
As time past by we heard the talk,
Of our destination being the beach at Dunquecue.
For days and nights on the country wide,
The troops on foot fought side by side,
While on roads in one unending line,
The convoys race against father time.
Hedges and roadside we know its true,
Were strewn with guns and vehicles too,
But no one seemed to think of the loss or gain,
Their thoughts were one, to live and fight again.
The weary trek was oh! so long,
But the allied troops were still in song,
The thought of loved ones there at home,
Gave British tommies no want to roam.
A ruined mass was what we saw,
When at last we reached the Dunquecue Shore,
The blazing docks with their reddish light,
Give guide to see us thought the night,
But what a sight there was in store,
The boys in blue and ships galore,
The Air Force too did play their part
In the Epic of Dunquecue right from the start.
Written by a member of the Enniskillen Fusiliers recuperating in Leicester in 1941
A suspected gangster wanted for 18 cases of murder and looting was among three people killed in a shootout with police in a crowded court, police said on Friday. "Hardutt Singh, a criminal wanted in 18 cases was to be produced before a court, when three men fired at him," said Hanif Qureshi, senior police officer in Gurgaon town, which borders the capital New Delhi. "Two of the gunmen were killed by the police when police returned fire," he said.
Police suspected intra-gang rivalry to have sparked the mayhem as Hardut was brought into the courtroom for trial. One gunman was still at large.
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The Indian government has alerted the police fearing Hindu-Muslim riots over a nude painting by the countrys most celebrated artist M F Husain, a report said on Friday. The painting, in which Husain a Muslim depicts a nude Mother India, has already raised the hackles of Hindu groups, one of which this year offered an 11.5 million dollars for the murder of the controversial artist.
"Mother India ain't got no titties! Ever'body knows that!"
A case against Husain for hurting the sentiments of Hindus is also pending in a court.
"An' then... An' then... An' then, yer honor, he hurt my feelings!"
"Order! Order in the court!"
The federal government has alerted police in New Delhi and Mumbai to objectionable paintings by Husain and asked for appropriate action, the Hindustan Times reported.
"He must be killed!"
The newspaper said the government advisory followed intelligence reports that the painting and other controversial works by the artist in which he has painted nude Hindu goddesses could spark sectarian riots.
"Hindoo goddesses do not have plump, succulent, well-formed yonis!"
The law ministry examined about half-a-dozen works by Husain and
... the eyes popped right out of their heads, so then they...
told the government that prosecutors would have a strong case against the artist if they sued him for deliberately hurting religious feelings.
"Oh, hold me, Mukkerjee! My religious feelings are so hurt!"
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That artist must be happier than a clam for all the PR. If he can stay alive, his paintings will be worth as much as a Renoir, sooner than later.
If there was just some way he could do a painting of some goddess showing her breasts before a large crowd of men, with the same effect as opening the Ark had in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Actually, I had some particularly delectible apsarases (nymphs) in mind as I wrote that -- with my tongue in my cheek.
Hindoos used to spend a lot of time and money painting pictures and sculpting statues of comely young wenches, heavy on the bosoms and hips, often in the process of sharing bodily fluids.
Classical Indian erotic art is not good for the blood pressure. Apparently there's something wrong with it for the current crop of Hindoos, too.
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LOL, Fred. I empathized with PD's very early posts about watching Indian Bollywood movies on Dubai TV - I, too, was something of a vagabond and looked forward to the Wednesday night singing, fighting, and sexy costumed extravaganzas. It served as a reminder that all was not lost. That was a long long time ago, but I actually followed up by seeking and finding employment in India after the UAE. A more erotic culture would be hard to imagine, LOL. I'm very sorry to hear the Hindoos may have lost their way. Voluptuous. That's the word I was looking for! Yes. :)
BTW, should we tell WS2683 that he / she is probably thinking about Nepalese peaks? LOL.
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"I'm very sorry to hear the Hindoos may have lost their way."
I am married to an Indian woman, and I do not believe that the mainstream Hindoos have "lost"
thier way. Eroticism still seems to be very much on the menu.
I suspect that the Hindoos with their nose out of joint are the more militant variety. Besides there is palpable undercurrent of tension between the
Hindoos and Muslims in India.
I expect that at some point in the future, you will see the more militant Hindoos slaughter
a whole bunch of Muslims. Just returning the favor, don't you know.
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Mr. Wife was given a statuette of a classic Indian dancing girl as a going away gift when he completed a factory start-up over there. Carved in soapstone, I think. I agree that it must be religious fanatics (or totalitarian types using religion as an excuse) blathering on about insult, because the factory workers certainly didn't notice any problem. On the other hand, she certainly can't be counted as a proper nude -- she's wearing lots of jewelry over her lack of clothing.
PESHAWAR: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that an accused person could be tried for a criminal case and civil suits at the same time. A two-member bench consisting of Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Syed Jamshed Ali dismissed the Peshawar High Court (PHC) verdict that a person could not be tried for criminal charges as long as a civil suit against him was pending undecided in the civil court. The PHC had allowed an appeal of three employees of Mohafiz Khana, NWFP, who appealed to stop the anti-corruption department from taking any action against them in criminal cases until the civil suits filed against them were decided. Faqir Gul and Naimat Khan, residents of Peshawar had filed civil suits against the three employees of Mohafiz Khana (record room of courts cases) for tampering the dates of their land transfers (Intiqalat) after taking bribes from their rival parties.
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PESHAWAR: Female members of the NWFP Assembly (MPAs) demanded on Friday that the provincial government take action against nazims, councillors and elders in Upper Dir who declared in a jirga that honour killing was not only permissible but anyone filing a case with the police or moving the courts would also be executed.
In her adjournment motion, Farah Aqil Shah of the Awami National Party (ANP) raised the issue and expressed concern over the decision made by Upper Dir elders, nazims and councillors in a jirga. "It is an important issue. Their decision is against the law. Honour killing is a crime and therefore, the government must take action against those involved in declaring it permissible," she said. Farah said it was a state-within-a-state like situation and people were making their own laws.
Naeema Kishwar of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) expressed concern that nazims and councillors were involved in the jirga. "Honour killing is not only against Pakistan's laws but also against the Hudood laws. Both laws do not allow honour killing," said the MMA member. Naeema said the Dir jirga's decision was un-Islamic and the government must take action against the jirga members involved. Nasreen Khattak of the Pakistan Peoples' Party Sherpao (PPPS), protested against honour killing. "It is murder and Islam does not permit it."
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"It is murder and Islam does not permit it."
Problem, dear, is that islamism not merely permits murder, it enforces it.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Doctors treating ailing former Indonesian dictator Suharto said Friday his condition is still not stable because his organs have partly failed, but ongoing blood transfusions have slightly improved his condition. Suharto, 84, was admitted to Pertamina Hospital on Thursday evening for intestinal bleeding. He also was having problems swallowing food, doctors said.
Brig. Gen. Marjo Subiandono, the presidential doctor, said the function of some of Suharto's organs has decreased by 70 percent. "His condition is slightly better" because of an increased red blood cell count, Subiandono said. "There was still bleeding and therefore he is still given blood transfusion," he added.
It was the fourth time since May 2004 that Suharto has been hospitalized for recurring intestinal bleeding, including a weeklong stay a year ago. Suharto suffered permanent brain damage resulting from at least two strokes after his ouster in 1998.
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A couple of mine are failing as well, generally from lack of use. Kind of to be expected with old age. He's made it to 84. I'd say that isn't too bad for a dictator, particularly in that part of the world.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has waived a law to make a group of Myanmar refugees, almost all of whom back an armed group fighting the Yangon military junta, eligible for resettlement into the United States, the State Department said Friday.
With the waiver, some 9,300 ethnic Karen refugees housed in Tham Hin camp in Thailand along the Myanmar border and who backed the Karen National Union (KNU) will no longer be viewed as terrorism supporters, officials said.
Under US law, people who provide material support to terrorist organizations are not eligible to immigrate into the United States. One provision defines terrorist organization as any group of two or more people who bear arms with the intent to endanger the safety of any individual. Now what the secretary did was she exercised a waiver authority -- and this is under the Immigration and Nationality Act -- so that certain refugees who might otherwise meet all the criteria for refugee resettlement in the United States could be considered for resettlement in the United States, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
So this waiver is not a guarantee that individuals might be resettled in the United States, but merely something that allows the Department of Homeland Security to consider them as potentially eligible, even though they might be considered under the law to have provided what I refer to as material support, he said. Thats the term under the law.
The waiver, which Rice signed Wednesday, followed months of internal argument among the State, Justice and Homeland Security departments. The argument has pitted concerns about combating terrorism against worries that people with legitimate claims to asylum were being blocked from immigrating to the United States, the Washington Post reported.
The State Department said that because of their association with the KNU, a significant portion of the refugees were expected to be affected by the material support issue. But the waiver does not apply to KNU members who had fought the junta but are now living as refugees in the camp, said Aung Din, co-founder of the US Campaign for Burma, which is coordinating a global push to free Myanmars democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
This is going to split families and we appeal to the US authorities to reconsider and give all of them a chance to be resettled in the United States, Aung Din said. The KNU is the de facto civilian government of the Karen tribe in areas it controls in Myanmar, resisting and seeking autonomy from the junta.
Given the behavior of the Myanmar government -- all of them in the last 20 years or so -- the KNU should be classified as a legitimate resistance movement, and the non-combatants amongst them ought to be considered as refugees.
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Tehran, Iran, May 05 Iranian authorities flogged 54 people for attending a mixed-sex party in the northern province of Mazandaran, a state-run daily reported.
The men and women were arrested by the anti-vice police in a park in the suburbs of the town of Babol as they were partying during the night, the daily Iran wrote on Thursday. The report said that all 54 men and women were flogged inside the offices of the Ministry of Justice in Babol.
Co-ed parties are banned in Islamic Iran. Thousands of teenage boys and girls were arrested last year for taking part in similar parties. Some were flogged in public.
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"Get flogged tonight!" is what Iranian teens shout to each other while cruising the main drag.
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
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Armed pirates swooped on two fishing trawlers and looted valuables, throwing 18 fishermen into the Meghna in Monpura area on Thursday night. Narrating the incident, the fishermen, who came back yesterday, said a group of pirates swooped on their trawlers, beat them up severely and threw them into the river before looting their valuables. They also took away their trawlers. The fishermen, however, swam ashore. The fishermen were asked to contact the pirates at a place in Monpura area with Tk 50,000 in toll to get back their trawlers and nets.
A suspected gangster wanted for 18 cases of murder and looting was among three people killed in a shootout with police in a crowded court, police said on Friday. "Hardutt Singh, a criminal wanted in 18 cases was to be produced before a court, when three men fired at him," said Hanif Qureshi, senior police officer in Gurgaon town, which borders the capital New Delhi. "Two of the gunmen were killed by the police when police returned fire," he said.
The Indian government has alerted the police fearing Hindu-Muslim riots over a nude painting by the countrys most celebrated artist M F Husain, a report said on Friday. The painting, in which Husain a Muslim depicts a nude Mother India, has already raised the hackles of Hindu groups, one of which this year offered an 11.5 million dollars for the murder of the controversial artist.
Actually, I had some particularly delectible apsarases (nymphs) in mind as I wrote that -- with my tongue in my cheek. 
PESHAWAR: Female members of the NWFP Assembly (MPAs) demanded on Friday that the provincial government take action against nazims, councillors and elders in Upper Dir who declared in a jirga that honour killing was not only permissible but anyone filing a case with the police or moving the courts would also be executed.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Doctors treating ailing former Indonesian dictator Suharto said Friday his condition is still not stable because his organs have partly failed, but ongoing blood transfusions have slightly improved his condition. Suharto, 84, was admitted to Pertamina Hospital on Thursday evening for intestinal bleeding. He also was having problems swallowing food, doctors said.
Tehran, Iran, May 05 Iranian authorities flogged 54 people for attending a mixed-sex party in the northern province of Mazandaran, a state-run daily reported.
