[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A thief was placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! after being sprayed with invisible ultra violet dye when he broke into a 'trap car' set up by police.
Yafet Askale, 28, denied breaking into the vehicle which had been fitted with a traceable liquid called SmartWater, which contains a dye that becomes visible under ultra violet light.
As he stole items including a laptop he activated a system which sprayed him with the substance and alerted police the car had been broken into. Ultra violet lights showed Askale covered in the spray.
Releasing the images as a warning, Detective Inspector Madeline Ryder, of Brent Police, said: "This is another excellent example of the thorough work completed by Brent Officers. Using the trap car technology we were able to charge Askale and put him before the courts.
"The trap car forms part of an overall crime reduction strategy designed by SmartWater which is an effective weapon in the armoury of tools that we routinely use in Brent. We will continue to target those who are insistent on committing these types of offence.
"Brent Police say very clearly to any would be thieves - don't come to Brent - our trap cars and trap houses are waiting for you."
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Yafet Askale, 28, AKA "Nigel"
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If Jack Webb were alive today, I guess this'd be a pending Dragnet episode with a slapstick element.
[AJC] A two-decade family feud came to a violent end when a man rubbed out the two home invaders that killed his wife and son, not knowing the assailants included his long-estranged daughter, authorities said Sunday.
Though the investigation of Friday's shootings continues, authorities said it appears Josephine and Jeffrey Ruckinger planned to murder her family at their rural central Pennsylvania home -- but it remains unclear what exactly led to the deadly confrontation.
"They parked at the bottom of a long driveway, and walked up, heavily armed," said Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan.
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Sadly we are not allowed firearms on the offshore platforms in the gulf. However. I have noticed there is a fireaxe in the stairwell right outside my work unit. It's maybe 15' away. Should the need to repel boarders come, we can toss the Hydrochloric acid at them first, then follow it up with the axe for close range. Should that fail, there's always the food from the galley.
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Should that fail, there's always the food from the galley Never underestimate boiling water or boiling oil. I don't believe even body armor can protect against them.
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Sadly we are not allowed firearms on the offshore platforms in the gulf.
Two words: Armory ship.
Many of the fields off Western Africa and in the Indian Ocean employ them. One ship had the misfortune of being seized by the Nigerians (for failure to pay them off.)
[BREITBART] Local police say a middle-aged couple in central Ukraine was run over by a switcher locomotive while having sex on the tracks. According to the country's Interior Ministry, the woman died at the location while the man was hospitalized after losing both his legs. I don't think she had a handle on that concept of "pulling a train." The earth moved. But not for long...
The victims' names were not released, but it was reported that the man was 41 and the woman appeared to be thirty-something.
The ministry cited the surviving victim, who said that he and his girlfriend "failed to overcome their natural passion when walking home... and wanted to experience an extreme sensation near the railroad tracks." I guess you don't get more extreme than death. Losing both legs when a train runs over them would come pretty close, though.
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So The Man in Black got it wrong, when he sang about 'He heard that train a comin'...."
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I've had to take railroad safety training/certification to work in their right-of-way. One of the first things they teach you is that you won't hear the train moving at speed until it's too late
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And that's assuming, Frank, that your attention is reasonably focused on your surroundings, not your ... well, you know.
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As we wrap up September, there have been just two short-lived Category 1 hurricanes in the Atlantic. Yet seasonal forecasts predicted an extremely active season. What's going on? Global Warming!
Before diving into the seasonal forecasts, let's take inventory on where the season stands.
In an average season, 8 tropical storms, 4 hurricanes, and 1 major (category 3 or higher) hurricane form by this date. This year, we've experienced 10 tropical storms, 2 hurricanes, and no major hurricanes. So the numbers are within the confidence intervals of the projections. In other words nothing happened to hurricane season, it's just slightly off the average, nothing more...
Though we've had close to the average number of total storms, most have been short-lived and/or weak. If you went out for a cup of coffee at any time this hurricane season, you would've missed many of them.
[An Nahar] Afghanistan on Monday began two days of official mourning for people killed by the communist regime in the late 1970s after a list of thousands of the dead was released.
The names of nearly 5,000 Afghans tortured and killed in 1978 and 1979 by Afghan intelligence officials were published this month by the Dutch prosecutor's office as part of a war crimes investigation.
The lists have allowed some to discover the fate of relatives who disappeared decades ago, but thousands of other victims of the Soviet-backed communist government are still unidentified.
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[An Nahar] Dutch and British police have placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! four suspected human traffickers and rescued four teenage girls hidden in the back of a camping car headed for Britannia, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday.
Two of the suspects and their human cargo were on their way to Rotterdam to catch a ferry to Britannia when Dutch gendarmes searched their camping car at a rest stop near the southern Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom on Thursday.
"The marechaussee (gendarmes) went into action after receiving a British request for help," the Public Prosecutor's office said in a statement.
British police have arrested a man in the northern city of Hull in connection with the case. There is a regular ferry service between Rotterdam and Hull.
A fourth man was arrested on Friday in Beverwijk, northwest of Amsterdam.
Ali Muhammed Raza, 38, appeared Saturday morning in a Hull court, charged with four counts of facilitating illegal entry, plus conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry, Britannia's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) said in a statement.
The three other suspects, two Iraqi nationals and a man from Turkey, aged between 24 and 34, are expected to be extradited to Britannia soon.
The four teens, believed to be from Syria or Iraq, have requested asylum in the Netherlands.
"We believe those arrested were members of a well-established people-smuggling racket that was preying on vulnerable females in order to line their own pockets," said SOCA spokeswoman Jane Johnson.
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After the American initiative (shore of Tripoli), the Euros finally got around to ending the habit of North African muzzies 'pirating' ships in the Med to get white slaves that had gone on for centuries. Old habits die hard. I'm sure some in the Sudan could tell tales about the old slaving route to Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad not being quite history yet either.
[Al Ahram] Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday pledged to eradicate the "shame" of neo-Nazism as judicial authorities prepared sweeping criminal charges against members of the far-right Golden Dawn party.
"We are dedicated in completely eradicating such a 'shame'," Samaras said in a speech to the American Jewish Committee in New York.
"We must do it within the context of our democratic constitution. But we have to go all the way and do whatever it takes," the premier said, according to a text released by his office.
Some two dozen members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, including six politicians, will appear in court this week after a series of arrests and police raids on party offices at the weekend.
A first wave of suspects, including four Golden Dawn politicians and lower-ranking members, are to be officially charged on Tuesday.
The party's leader Nikos Michaloliakos is set to be charged on Wednesday, followed by deputy leader Christos Pappas on Thursday.
Testimony from former Golden Dawn members and police wiretaps have revealed a series of "criminal acts" by the group including attempted homicide and voluntary homicide, culminating in the murder of anti-fascist musician Pavlos Fyssas by a self-confessed neo-Nazi on September 18.
Golden Dawn regularly organised "assault militias" in which dozens of members would ride the streets on cycle of violences, hitting immigrants with sticks, according to a government report and testimonies cited in the Greek press on Monday.
"I took part several times in activities involving 50 or 60 motorbikes, with two people on each. The one who was sitting behind held a stick with the Greek flag and hit all the Paks he could see," one ex-member said in court testimony.
Golden Dawn has a "strictly hierarchical structure, the leader is all-powerful following the principle used by (Adolf) Hitler," said the report by the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Charalambos Vourliotis.
The neo-Nazi party started its attacks in 1987, the report said, initially targeting immigrants and then turning against Greeks.
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[Al Ahram] Spanish police detained 18 leaders of an association that aids jailed members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday and froze its bank accounts, the interior ministry said.
The "top managers" of Herrira were detained in simultaneous raids carried out in the Basque cities of Hernani, Bilbao and Vitoria as well as in Pamplona in the Navarre region, which has a significant Basque-speaking population, it said in a statement.
Police also closed down 38 websites run by Herrira as well as dozens of Facebook and Twitter accounts, and froze the group's bank accounts.
Spanish authorities argue that Herrira, founded in February 2012, has replaced two other groups that provided aid to ETA prisoners, Askatasuna and Gestoras pro Amnistia, which were banned in Spain due to their close links to the armed separatist group.
The interior ministry said Herrira had taken over the task of "organising and supporting demonstrations that praised and exalted ETA prisoners and their ideals", a role once played by Askatasuna and Gestoras pro Amnistia.
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[Al Ahram] Turkey on Monday announced it would lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in most public offices, following other measures critics say are aimed at Islamising the staunchly secular country.
In a major speech to introduce political reforms, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that, with a few exceptions, civil servants would be allowed to wear headscarves after a long-standing ban is overturned.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the ban will remain in effect for judges, prosecutors, police and military personnel, he added.
The lifting of the ban was part of major political reforms announced by Erdogan in order to enhance the rights of minority groups including Turkey's 15 million Kurds.
The headscarf controversy reveals the rivalry in Turkey between religious conservatives, who form the bulk of Erdogan's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), and secular opponents.
Secularists -- particularly those in the army -- see the headscarf as a symbol of defiance against the strict separation of state and religion, a basic tenet of modern Turkey.
Erdogan's government was hit by a wave of nationwide unrest in June that threw up the biggest challenge to his decade-plus rule. Protesters called Erdogan a "dictator", accusing him of Islamising the predominantly Musselmen but staunchly secular country.
Critics say that Erdogan's rule has left Turkish society more polarised than ever, with opponents of the AKP government openly voicing concerns that Turkey is sliding toward conservative Islam.
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The Knesset must give a sharp response to the High Court of Justice for canceling the Law to Prevent Illegal Migration, MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) said Monday at a meeting of the Knesset Caucus to Return Infiltrators to their Home Countries.
Shaked called for the Knesset to add a clause to Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom that would strengthen the legislature. The dangers of allowing judges---who self-select for idiotism impractical idealism---run things are obvious to anybody who been watching, what used to be, The West.
[Ynet] Despite illegality, between 50%-70% of Iranian households have satellite dishes, circumnavigating censorship on some foreign media. New report documents regime's attempt to fight phenomenon
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Iran: Hundreds of illegal satellite dishes confiscated, run over set up at Ayatollah's and IRG homes
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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.
[AJC] A two-decade family feud came to a violent end when a man 
[BREITBART] Local police say a middle-aged couple in central Ukraine was run over by a switcher locomotive while having sex on the tracks. According to the country's Interior Ministry, the woman died at the location while the man was hospitalized after losing both his legs. 
[An Nahar] Afghanistan on Monday began two days of official mourning for people killed by the communist regime in the late 1970s after a list of thousands of the dead was released.
[Al Ahram] Spanish police detained 18 leaders of an association that aids jailed members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday and froze its bank accounts, the interior ministry said.
[Ynet] Despite illegality, between 50%-70% of Iranian households have satellite dishes, circumnavigating censorship on some foreign media. New report documents regime's attempt to fight phenomenon
