A man was being robbed at gunpoint when he pulled out his own gun and shot one of the suspects.
It all happened early Thursday near 1st and Clarke. The 23-year-old Milwaukee man was in the area when two teenagers pulled out a gun and tried to rob him. That victim also had a gun. He shot and killed one suspect, 17-year-old Kevin Ollie. Ollie's gun also went off, and he accidentally shot the other teen robber.
The robbery victim's family says he had no choice but to fight back. That robbery victim has never been convicted of a crime and is not in custody.
The 19-year-old surviving robber is behind bars. The DA is deciding whether he will face felony murder charges for his role in the botched robbery.
The robbery victim's family hopes that happens. The robbery victim was not hurt during the ordeal. Friday detectives brought him to a line up to identify the robbery suspect. "That's him! The one with the hole in him!"
A decision on charges against the 19-year-old surviving robber should come Monday.
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In Wisconsin, only police officers and sheriffs' deputies can 'conceal carry' for protection. We're trying to change that.
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P.S. - Wisconsinites can 'open carry' but one would probably be stopped for doing so (public nuisance or some such charge) in downtown Milwaukee where this incident took place.
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So, Mullah, though the robbery victim is not currently in custody, he will likely be successfully prosecuted as a firearms law violator, which should give the robbers & their families solid footing for a civil lawsuit.
Hall of Famer Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, who played on five Toronto Stanley Cup championship teams, died Friday in Port Colborne, Ontario. He was 83.
Kennedy played 14 seasons in the NHL, all with the Maple Leafs.
"The entire Toronto Maple Leaf hockey club sends our deepest sympathies to the Kennedy family," said Brian Burke, the team's president and general manager.
"He truly was a man of great class and he was one of the most accomplished leaders in our team's long history."
Kennedy, who died in a nursing home, won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player in 1955. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Oh yeah, when I was a little kid I once asked how was it that President Kennedy's brother, a seemingly overweight US Senatooor-r-r, was also a famous hockey player???
D *** NG IT, INQUIRING IMPRESSIONABLE KIDDIE MINDS WANNA KNOW!
The trailing daughters think it's delightfully cool that their innocent little mother (have I got them fooled or what!) knows lolcat and uses FAIL in conversation. Rantburg pays off in a number of unexpected ways!
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meh Media Empire sheeemdia, deh Power is in deh bibel
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5MT If you can't speak (Print) English correctly, stop posting, you may think it's cute, but here in Alabama too many people slur that way everyday and it's only annoying.
Or is annoying your goal?
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He's writing in Lolcat, Redneck Jim. It's as demanding a dialect as mucky-speak, whose originator has not been seen around here in entirely too many years.
Believe it or not, I suspect Mucky is now a regular over at www.fark.com (Imagine Rantburg...with a severe attitude problem...and you have Fark.) Someone posting by that name shows up a couple times a week - not in the dialect, mind you, but there's some subtle hints that suggest to me, at least, that it's our old friend.
Mike
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Thank you, Mike. It's good to know he only wandered off to other playgrounds. I get concerned when one of our regulars stops showing up, because one can't knock on the kitchen door of digital friends to make sure they're ok. Just me being a nosy parker, I know.
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I'm on Fark as well. As "Mart Laar's Beard Shaver," the prime minister of Estonia who established the flat tax.
Don't hold my immature humor against me. You see it pop up on Rantburg occasionally. But I have a severe case of gallows humor.
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FARK > "WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN ... CANNOT BE UNSEEN!"
and other.
As SAMANTHA THE WITCH'S DAD MAURICE ["BEWITCHED" TV Show] once graciously allowed SHAKEPEARE to quote him .....BEFORE THE "GREAT MAHA-RUSHIE" LIMBAUGH THERE WAS "MAURICE"!
Opera's new breed of slight, scantily clad sopranos take the plaudits at the Salzburg festival.
The much-parodied large, Wagnerian soprano, resplendent in a horned helmet, may soon be a fond operatic memory. This summer pundits are hailing the birth of a new breed of female opera singers all of them sylphs compared to the conventional Brünnhilde-type.
At the world-renowned Salzburg festival, the heaving bosom of a traditional, generously proportioned opera diva has been replaced by slim waists and scanty outfits. The streets and shop windows of the Austrian city are papered with posters celebrating the svelte figures of international stars who have flown in to sing. And three of them together would fit inside the voluminous costumes once worn on stage by great singers such as Joan Sutherland and Montserrat Caballé.
Opera-goers at the festival have been wowed by a succession of sleek singers, including the Australian-born soprano Danielle de Niese, who has welcomed the new emphasis on the visual as well as aural experience.
"In opera we needed this breath of fresh air," de Niese said recently. "We could not go on being elephants on stage." Latvian singers Marina Rebeka, a soprano, and Elina Garanca, a mezzo-soprano, both appearing at Salzburg, are one step closer to Hollywood than such established slimline divas as Anna Netrebko and Magdalena Koená, the partner of the conductor Sir Simon Rattle.
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Before the invention of microphones, opera singers had to have massively developed abdominal muscles and diaphragms to project their voices over orchestras. Wagnerian singers in particular had to sing over massive orchestras, with seven harps and every member of every instrument family represented (there are tubas in 4 different sizes, and Wagner used all of them at once) The late, great Anna Russell said that a Wagnerian singer had to have "a voice like a buzz saw" to project over such an orchestra.
As a teenager, I saw Pavarotti and Sutherland sing "Lucia di Lammermoor" in Chicago. Whoever did the costuming for Lyric Opera's production did a fine job with the riding habits for the first act. Both singers were as wide as barn doors, and Sutherland was already in her 50s, but the cut of the costumes helped disguise the fact. Alas, the costumers blew it with Lucia's wedding dress. She looked like an outsized Baby Snooks. I had to shut my eyes to enjoy that scene fully.
Get a CD of Sutherland singing Lucia out of the library and enjoy.
Also, get the recent DVD version of Metropolitan Opera's 2008 production of "La Fille du Regiment" with Natalie Dessay. It's excellent.
[Straits Times] MOTOLA, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg.
The 48-year-old pachyderm became a symbol of the plight of today's elephants, and her injury sparked international sympathy and donations.
Experts were making a cast of her injured left front leg for a plastic prosthetic limb which will be attached Sunday.
'I do hope she will accept the new leg. It would be wonderful to see Motola and Baby Mosha walking together side-by-side,' said Soraida Salwala, secretary general of the Friends of the Asian Elephant, a non-governmental group.
Mosha, also a land mine victim, became the world's first elephant with an artificial leg, attached in 2007. Soraida said Mosha, now a 3-year-old, is faring well and has outgrown three of her prosthetic devices.
Both elephants have been cared for at the Elephant Hospital, set up by Soraida's group in 1993. The world's first such facility, the hospital has treated thousands of elephants for ailments ranging from eye infection to gunshot wounds.
Motola was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp along the Myanmar-Thailand border, a region peppered with land mines after half a century of insurgency. Her mangled foot was amputated, and she hobbled on three feet until fitted with a temporary, canvas shoe-like device two years later. Motola's initial operation used enough anesthetic to floor 70 people - a record noted in the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records.
'It has been 10 years now, but in all these long years Motola enjoyed a happy life, walking out of her shelter for a sun bath,' Soraida said. Soraida said Motola has otherwise been in fine health, with her once bony frame now weighing more than 3 tons.
The artificial leg has been constructed by the Prostheses Foundation, which also makes cheap but effective artificial limbs for human amputees. A number of elephants have had land mine injuries. But that is only one of many problems facing the domesticated giant, whose numbers have dropped from 13,400 in 1950 to today's estimated 2,500. The number of wild elephants has also dropped dramatically.
Traditionally the truck, taxi and logging worker of Thailand, the elephant has lost most of its jobs to modernization. One saving grace has been the tourism industry, which employs large numbers for elephant trekking and other activities.
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a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations
[Iran Press TV Latest] Sudan's main opposition parties say they will boycott next-year's election unless their demands for constitutional amendments are met; some immediately and some by mid-October. "We have an ultimatum that all those laws should be amended before the elections ... (or) we will boycott the elections," Reuters quoted Saddiq Yousif, a leader of the Communist Party, as saying on Saturday. "We should be able to have our meetings without permission," Yousif added.
The opposition believes that the current laws, including a clause that allows authorities to dissolve meetings, leave little room for free and fair campaigning in the twice delayed elections, part of a 2005 peace deal between the warring north and south Sudan.
In June, Sudan said its first free nationwide elections in more than two decades would be delayed for two months to April 2010, the second time the date, originally stipulated for 2008, has been changed. Electors will vote for their president as well as members of parliament and other government bodies.
Head of UN peacekeeping forces in Sudan's vast conflict-ridden Darfur region warned last month that Darfuris would be left out of the poll. The ruling coalition, headed by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's National Congress Party and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), from Sudan's north and south respectively, dominate the assembly. Recently tension between the two main parties has raised concerns that it would challenge efforts for democracy and upholding a peaceful election.
The 2005 North-South Peace Agreement ended a long-running civil war which had claimed above 2 million lives, while a fresh conflict continues to claim lives in Darfur since 2003. Violence has intensified in the desert region with increasing attacks against aid workers following the ICC warrant against Bashir over alleged war crimes in Darfur.
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Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of its members, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed almost 800 in the remote northeast. Niger state police commissioner Mike Zuokumor said officers backed by reinforcements from the capital Abuja had surrounded the compound of the Darul Islam community on the edge of the town of Mokwa early on Saturday.
"We received a series of reports about the activities of the sect from neighboring communities, the local government and the emirate (traditional leader)," Zuokumor said. "Some of them were expressing apprehension concerning the activities of the group and it is our duty to ensure law and order among the citizens of the state," he said.
Police and immigration officers were screening about 600 members of the sect who had been detained and taken to a nearby school for questioning, police spokesman Richard Oguche said. Some of them were believed to have crossed into Nigeria to join Darul Islam from Chad, Cameroon and the country of Niger. Local journalists said as many as 3,000 people were believed to live in the community. Male members dress in white robes while its women are fully covered in black. Zuokumor said police had received reports that Darul Islam was forcibly holding women to be the wives of sect members. The arrests were peaceful and no shots were fired.
The leader of the sect, Amrul Bashir Abdullahi, originally from the northern state of Kano, told reporters after being detained that he had lived in Mokwa for 17 years. "We are not against Western education as we are being accused, but we have our own belief which is not in any way an infringement of the state authorities," he said. "We decided to create a camp for ourselves outside the community because of the problems in the larger society. These are problems of corruption, drunkenness, prostitution and so on which Allah forbids," Abullahi said.
Zuokumor said police wanted to find out more about the beliefs of Darul Islam and that any members found to be from neighboring countries would be deported. Should investigations uncover evidence that women or children had been forcibly detained, those responsible would be charged, he said.
[Bangla Daily Star] Police have arrested a man and are on the lookout for several others in a village in Brahmanbaria after village elders by an edict executed 101 lashes to a woman for an alleged illicit affair.
The woman, Bashira Khatun, has filed a case against the men who administered the lashings on her. She told The Daily Star, "After failing to extract sexual favours from me, my husband Md Nannu Mia's uncle Manju compromised my reputation and fulfilled his revenge on me by persuading the village elders to whip me."
"I was unjustly whipped for no reason in public. I want justice," sobbed Bashira as she told The Daily Star her story.
Bashira's husband is an expatriate worker and she lives with her mother-in-law in Kena village under Budumti union in Brahmanbaria Sadar. She wrote in her complaint with the police that her husband's uncle Manju Mia has long been trying to take advantage of her husband's absence. After repeated failed attempts to lure her into giving him sexual advances, Manju Mia decided to punish her.
On July 24, Manju Mia along with five cohorts Siraj Mia, Liton Mia, Masum Mia, and Kutubul Alam approached Bashira's room late at night. With the help of her maidservant Jaju Banu, Kutubul Alam entered her room. Manju then rushed to the scene and raised a hue and cry and the other three men came out to help him. Bashira's mother-in-law Bilatunnesa was away visiting her daughter the night of the incident.
The following evening Manju Mia summoned a village arbitration to try Bashira but not Alam. During the arbitration presided by Tota Mia, a teacher of Kena Madrasa, the muazzin of the local mosque Muhammad Hossain delivered the edict or fatwa for 101 durra (lashes) on Bashira Khatun's back as a punishment. Manju Mia himself administered the lashings. Bashira collapsed and fainted after about 20 lashes while Manju administered the remaining lashes on the unconscious woman.
The following day Bashira's maternal uncle Joynal Abedin rescued her from Kena village and brought her to her parental home at Bulla village for medical treatment. Traumatised and sickened by the brutal torture, it took her days to regain her strength. She decided to ignore the threats of her perpetrators and reported the incident to Brahmanbaria Sadar Thana on August 9 and filed a case accusing eight people, including Manju Mia.
Police raided the village the same night but was only able to arrest Tota Mia. Manju Mia and his cohorts are absconding. Manju's homestead remains abandoned.
On Thursday last week, this correspondent found muazzin Muhammad Hossain, who declared the fatwa as he was fleeing the village. As he fled, the man denied proclaiming any such edict. He said he had merely mentioned that had there been Shariah Law in the country, Bashira would have been given 101 lashes.
Basira's uncle Joynal Abedin, himself a teacher of Haraspur Darul Islamia Madrasa, Md. Abdul Kaiyum Bhuiyan, principal of Kena Madrasa, chairman of Budumti Union Parishad Mizanul Islam, local Mahila Parishad leader Nandita Guha, and others have denounced the incident and called for the punishment of the culprits. Brahmanbaria Sadar Thana Officer in-Charge (OC) Rezaul Karim Bhuiyan told The Daily Star that all the absconding criminals would be arrested soon.
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Again, as in the past, let's hear it for 7th century cultural attitudes in the 21st century.
A$$hole barbarians.
Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a law that paves the way for the government to take over private buildings and land in urban areas.
The law says urban property will be turned over to authorities if deemed necessary for social development. It will go into effect following its publication in the Official Gazette.
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HAY OBAMA! Look at Venezuela! They are ahead of you. Bet your playbook does not have land redistrobution in it! HAHAHA!
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"Jeez Oogo, don't give away my ideas!" - Barry
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The USPS has a mandated (read Federal Law) service requirement. They are not ALLOWED to alter that requirement. To me that means they are NOT a private company. They are a federal organization mandated to pay for itself through fees and Congress approves those fees.
I know that some don't like the USPS but at least in Idaho we have good service. My regular delivery man is working serious overtime and they (management) are talking about consolidating routes which will probably aggravate the problem. Of course full time employees on overtime and double time has to be a real budget killer but for some reason (??) there is no budget for temp workers that could bring that cost down when folks are sick or on vacation. Can't blame this one on the Unions.
Considering the final word in management is the Congress it is amazing to me that they don't have more problems.
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I read somewhere that the USPS is bound by law to contribute sizeable sums of money to pay for their employees retirement expenses, way over & above what other companies do. I also know that labor contracts forbid the USPS to lay off employees. The USPS position sounds impossible, if so things can only go from bad to worse. Perhaps the only solution is to have the USPS go bankrupt & re-organize a la GM & Chrysler.
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Apparently there are a lot of other 'gotcha's' in the financing of the USPS. Found this on a blog somewhere, supposed to be from a USPS employee: If a person works for the US Military,GSA,Forestry Service,Dept. of Interior,
the Federal Gov't.,etc, but retires from the USPS, the entire retirement is charged to the USPS. DOD spends no money for the 4 ,8,or 12 year stint. Ditto the other agencies. This becomes a stamp tax on every US citizen.
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I've not seen service to match the US post office elsewhere in the world, nor price either. I realize my experience is limited to Europe, though, so perhaps elsewhere there is a national postal service that does exceed the American one.
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Obama cited the USPS as an example of a government agency that can't compete successfully with the private sector but asserted that a similar agency in the form of a public healthcare insurance option is needed - by his logic - to provide competition to the private health insurance companies.
And the USPS is having problems meeting its health and pension obligations.
Real estate lender Colonial BancGroup Inc. has been shut down by federal officials in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which was appointed receiver of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Colonial and its about $25 billion in assets, said the failed bank's 346 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas will reopen at the normal times starting on Saturday as offices of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T.
The FDIC has approved the sale of Colonial's $20 billion in deposits and about $22 billion of its assets to BB&T Corp.
Regulators also closed four other banks: Community Bank of Arizona, based in Phoenix; Union Bank, based in Gilbert, Ariz.; Community Bank of Nevada, based in Las Vegas; and Dwelling House Savings and Loan Association, located in Pittsburgh.
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MOSCOW Two Russian air force fighters collided Sunday as they rehearsed for an air show near Moscow, killing a pilot and sending one jet crashing into houses below, a military official said.
The Su-27 fighters were members of the elite Russian Knights flying group preparing to perform at the MAKS-2009 air show. The largest and most important exhibition for Russias aerospace industry opens Tuesday.
Air force spokesman Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik said the jets collided near Zhukhovsky airfield, east of Moscow, where the air show will be held.
Drik said three pilots ejected from the jets after the collision. He said one was killed, while rescuers found the other two in satisfactory condition.
The RIA-Novosti and Interfax news agencies reported that the dead pilot was the Russian Knights commander.
RIA-Novosti also said a woman was seriously injured when one jet struck a house near the airfield, and up to four other people on the ground may have been injured. Authorities said the other jet crashed in an unpopulated area.
In recent years, Russian air force jets have suffered a series of mishaps, many blamed on the aging condition of Soviet-era planes. Earlier this year, officials grounded the air forces entire fleet of Su-24s after two crashes in three days.
Two crashes of MiG-29 jets in 2008 let to the grounding of that entire model as well. A subsequent investigation demonstrated that a large number had become unsafe to fly and were scrapped.
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the missing freighter Arctic Sea took a new twist yesterday afternoon when it was reported that its tracking system had been broadcasting signals off the coast of France.
Sovfrakht, a Russian maritime web site, said the signals could be traced to the Bay of Biscay, near the port of La Rochelle. They were reportedly detected around 8.30am yesterday, but the website said it could not confirm whether the Automatic Identification System equipment was still on the ship itself.
The Maltese-flagged vessel was reportedly seen on Friday off the northern coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic. But the sighting could not be confirmed and was later denied by Russia's ambassador to Cape Verde. The 4,000-tonne vessel was meant to arrive in Béjaïa in Algeria with its cargo of around £1m worth of timber on 4 August, but it is unknown what became of it following its last official recorded position off northern France on 30 July. The ship passed through the English Channel on 28 July on its way from Finland.
Previously, the ship's 15-strong Russian crew had reported that they had been boarded on 24 July in Swedish waters by up to a dozen masked men. The crew said the men left 12 hours later after tying them up, questioning them about drugs and beating them.
It has been suggested that the ship has been boarded by pirates or that it is the subject of a commercial dispute. There have also been claims that the vessel is carrying a "mystery cargo" of arms or drugs, but these were denied by the ship's owners.
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The drugs claim is plausible - Russia is the conduit for most drugs flowing into northern Europe, as well as for human trafficking.
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This novelesque plot thickens. La Rochelle was where the Knights Templar kept their fleet of ships, it was a Maltese-flagged timber ship, with an open cargo hold capable of transporting large missiles.
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Ansar Pervez in unequivocal terms has said Pakistan is far better then India in civil nuclear technology, adding that, under construction Chashma Nuclear Power Plant II (CHASNUPP-2) would be functionalized by 2001.
Talking to media men after workshop on "welding science", he said, Pakistan has infrastructure and effective system to run nuclear power plant. Pakistan had got the civil nuclear technology in 1970 and we are manufacturing fuel and surpluses parts of atomic power plants themselves, he said.
He hoped more development would be done in the field after functionalizing of Chashma Nuclear Power Plant II.
Replying to a question, he said, Chashma Nuclear Power Plant II located at Kundian and the site is situated next to Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-1 would start generating 340 mega watt electricity by 2011 and it would also inject 315 megawatt electricity to national grid.
Replying to a question, he said, it is not possible for any country to give a nuclear power plant to country, which has not necessary infrastructure. There are so many countries in world who is eager to get power plant but Pakistan has infrastructure and effective system to run nuclear power plant, he said.
We are running civil nuclear power plant for last 40 years and we are also running Chinese nuclear power plant safely, he said.
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One wonders then, why Pakistan has been having riots over power black outs. Perhaps that is just proof of one's ignorance.
[Straits Times] US SENATOR Jim Webb will fly out of Myanmar Sunday with an American convicted to seven years imprisonment after securing his release from the military regime, Webb's office said in a statement Saturday.
'I am grateful to the Myanmar government for honoring these requests,' Webb said in the statement. 'It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future,' he said.
Webb, a Democrat who is close to US President Barack Obama, became the first US official to hold talks with junta leader Than Shwe and also held talks with detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
Webb said that the junta agreed to free US national John Yettaw, who was convicted along with Aung San Suu Kyi after the American swam uninvited to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home.
But they'll keep Suu Kyi in the slammer. Nice going, Jim ...
'Yettaw will be officially deported on Sunday morning,' Webb's office said in the statement. 'Senator Webb will bring him out of the country on a military aircraft that is returning to Bangkok on Sunday afternoon,' it said.
Webb said he also urged the military regime to free Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the last two decades under house arrest. Webb described the meeting as 'an opportunity for me to convey my deep respect to Aung San Suu Kyi for the sacrifices she has made on behalf of democracy around the world.'
Officials in Myanmar, previously known as Burma, had earlier said that Yettaw would likely be deported soon after Webb's departure. Yettaw, a diabetic and epileptic former military veteran, is being held at Yangon's notorious Insein Prison. He was hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a series of fits.
Webb, a Vietnam veteran and former journalist who has reported from across Asia, is a longtime advocate of taking a new approach with Myanmar. He has clashed with Myanmar exile groups by calling for an eventual end of US and European sanctions on the regime, saying that they hurt the people without bringing any results.
Myanmar advocacy groups had earlier warned that the junta could use Webb's visit to 'endorse' its treatment of Suu Kyi and the more than 2,100 other political prisoners in the country's jails.
But the White House and State Department have both welcomed the trip, even though it is officially being made in a private capacity by Webb, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific affairs.
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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.
Opera's new breed of slight, scantily clad sopranos take the plaudits at the Salzburg festival.
Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of its members, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed almost 800 in the remote northeast. Niger state police commissioner Mike Zuokumor said officers backed by reinforcements from the capital Abuja had surrounded the compound of the Darul Islam community on the edge of the town of Mokwa early on Saturday. 
Real estate lender Colonial BancGroup Inc. has been shut down by federal officials in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year.
