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| | RETIRED MARINE AND DAUGHTER KIDNAPPED IN THE PHILIPPINES | | | Monday, July 21, 2008 (2:02 AM)
(I'm feeling angry) | | Ex-Marine, daughter snatched near Manila
MANILA, Philippines - Gunmen kidnapped a retired U.S. Marine and his daughter from their Philippine home, but released the ex-serviceman three hours later after demanding a ransom for her safe return, police said Monday.
On Sunday night, four armed men barged into the house of Filipino-American Ver Loyola in the resort city of Tagaytay, south of Manila, and drove away with the man and his daughter, a report from the regional police office said. Their ages were not disclosed.
Three hours later, the kidnappers abandoned Loyola and the car in a nearby town but demanded ransom for the daughter, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss details with the media.
He said the kidnappers were demanding $67,400 for her release, adding the case was handled by the Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response, a special unit.
Senior Superintendent Hernando Zafra, the provincial police chief, said there was a robbery at the family's home before the former serviceman and daughter were snatched. He refused to provide details of what was taken. It was not clear if the kidnappers were also involved in the robbery.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in the Philippines but are mostly confined to the violence-torn south.
Police officials say they have neutralized most kidnapping gangs in Manila and nearby provinces, with only a handful still operating.
Earlier this month, police arrested and filed kidnapping and murder charges against a police officer who allegedly confessed to abducting a retired pilot and his driver near Tagaytay. The victims were later found dead. | | | 14 Views | 2  Thumbs Up | 3 Comments |  |
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| | VIDEO OF TEEN CAUGHT IN 2003 | | | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (1:23 AM)
(I'm feeling amused) | | Video of Guantanamo Prisoner Interrogation Released for the First Time
TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobbed during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging for help in a video released Tuesday that provided the first glimpse of interrogations at the U.S. military prison.
The 10 minutes of video — selected by Omar Khadr's Canadian lawyers from more than seven hours of footage recorded by a camera hidden in a vent — shows Khadr weeping, his face buried in his hands, as he is questioned by Canadian intelligence agents over four days in 2003.
HE WAS CAUGHT AT THE AGE OF 15 IN AFGHANISTAN FIGHTING FOR THE INSURGENCY. HE IS A CANADIAN CITIZEN. WHY WAS HE IN AFGHANISTAN FIGHTING AGAINST AMERICAN TROOPS? WHERE ARE HIS PARENTS? WHY ARE HIS LAWYERS EXPECTING AN INTRNATIONAL OUTCRY? HE IS BETTER OFF IN PRISON. HE COULD BE DEAD OR MAIMED FOR LIFE. I FEEL HE SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIS ASS IN CANADA. HE WOULD NOT BE CRYING. I DON'T LOOK AT THIS AS A MUSLIM ISSUE. THIS IS TYPICAL TEENAGE BEHAVIOR. YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG NOW YOU CAN'T FACE THE PUNISHMENT GIVEN, SO YOU CRY. DO YOU THINK CANADA WANTS HIM BACK? HELL NO, THAT IS WHY HE HASN'T BEEN RELEASED. THAT IS ALSO WHY HE WAS BEING QUESTIONED BY CANADIAN OFFICIALS. THERE ARE 235 PRISONERS IN GUANTANAMO. THEIR COUNTRIES DON'T WANT THEM BACK. YOU CAN'T RELEASE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO WHERE TO GO. SOME HAVE BEEN AND THEY TURNED INTO SUICIDE BOMBERS AND KILLED MORE PEOPLE. THIS PRISON IS THE BEST PLACE FOR HIM. I DOUBT CANADA WANTS HIM POLLUTING THEIR PRISON SYSTEM. THIS YOUNG MAN IS ALSO CHARGED WITH KILLING A CORPSMAN. IRONIC. HE KILLS SOMEONE THAT IT IS THEIR ONLY PUPOSE IS TO TREAT AND SAVE LIVES ON THE BATTLEFIELD. I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THIS YOUNG MAN. | | | | 16 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 2 Comments | |
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| | GUILTY PLEA | | | | Monday, July 14, 2008 (4:18 AM) | | Three men accused of plotting a series of terrorist attacks on transatlantic jets have pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause explosions.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, Assad Sarwar, 28, and Tanvir Hussain, 27, admitted the offence at Woolwich Crown Court, in south east London.
The trio and two other defendants, Ibrahim Savant, 27, and Umar Islam, 30, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause a public nuisance by publishing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks.
A jury must still decide if the five men, and three others, are guilty of conspiring to murder thousands in a wave of mid-air terrorist explosions using
homemade liquid bombs.
All eight men deny two charges of conspiracy to murder between January 1 and August 11 2006.
One of the charges specifies that the attacks would involve the detonation of improvised bombs on passenger aircraft.
Prosecutors claim the eight men plotted to blow up passenger jets flying from Heathrow to major cities in North America.
They planned to use powerful hydrogen peroxide liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks to bypass airport security, jurors were told.
The devices would be assembled by injecting the chemicals into plastic soft drinks bottles and detonated using a battery from a camera flash, it was
claimed.
They were being assembled at a bomb factory flat bought by the gang in north east London, the court heard.
The same flat was used by six members of the gang to record martyrdom videos in which they ranted hatred against the West and non-Muslims, jurors were told.
In their defence, Ali and Sarwar said they planned to record a documentary highlighting injustices against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
A small explosion at the Houses of Parliament in which no one would be hurt would act as a publicity stunt to draw attention to the programme. | | | | 12 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | TWO SOLDIERS FINALLY COME HOME | | | Friday, July 11, 2008 (6:13 AM)
(I'm feeling SPLIT) | | Bodies of 2 missing US soldiers are found in Iraq
DETROIT — For more than a year, Gordon Dibler held out hope that his stepson, Army Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, would return home from Iraq. Then military officials delivered the grim news that the body of Fouty and another soldier captured during an ambush south of Baghdad had been found.
"Every day that he's been missing has been a day of `what could have been' ... but after hearing the news ... I'm still in shock," Dibler said Thursday, after military officials came to his Oxford home and told him his stepson's body was one of two discovered in the Iraqi village of Jurf as Sakhr.
Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich., and Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., were kidnapped in May 2007 in the volatile area south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death." The body of a third captured soldier, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was found in the Euphrates River a year later.
The men were identified using dental records, Dibler said, adding that the bodies of both soldiers were taken to Dover, Del., where military officials are expected to perform further tests to positively identify both men and determine a cause of death.
"It's a very sad relief," Dibler said. "But I know I have to go forward, not just for our family, but for the other men and women who are still doing their job over there."
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| | BIG BROTHER | | | Thursday, July 10, 2008 (7:56 PM)
(I'm feeling annoyed) | | | PEOPLE ARE BRINGING UP THE IDEA OF EYE IN THE SKY OR BIG BROTHER AS IT IS REFERRED TO. IT SEEMS TO ME IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO THINK THAT MOST PEOPLES LIVES ARE SO MINISCULE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, THAT NO ONE CARES? TAKE THIS WEBSITE FOR INSTANCE. MANY HERE TRY TO SPREAD THE RED PILL. YOU PLAGERIZED THAT FROM A MOVIE. NO ONE HAD THE RED PILL FEVER UNTIL THE MATRIX. THEN THEY TWIST IT INTO WHAT EVER THEY ARE TRYING TO PEDDLE ON THEIR CHANNEL. PEOPLE ARE THE BIG BROTHER. THEY TRY TO DISCREDIT ANYONE THAT CROSSES THEM OR DOESN'T AGREE WITH THEIR PARTICULAR VIEW POINT. PEOPLE SNOOP TO FIND DIRT ON ANYONE THEY CAN. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. WHEN A CANADATE STARTS RUNNING FOR A HIGH POSITION. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING THEIR OPPONENT DOES? START DIGGING FOR INFORMATION TO DISCREDIT THEM. NOT THE GOVERNMENT. MOST COURT CASES ARE NOT WON OR LOST ON EVIDENCE. THEY ARE ABOUT DISCRETITING THE WITNESSES. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. PERSONALLY IF THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO LISTEN TO MY BORING PHONE CALLS TO MY MOTHER OR THEY WISH TO GET MY SURFING HABITS BETWEEN RECIPES AND LIVE VIDEO, IF IT STOPS A TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE NATION DO IT. I AM VERY AWARE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE THE TOOLS AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT OFFICES THAT ARE TASKED TO PROTECT YOU, YOUR CHANCES OF BEING AT RISK GREATLY INCREASES. YOUR CHANCES OF BEING CENSURED BY THE MODS HERE ON LV IS MORE LIKLEY THAN THE GOVERNMENT. HAS ANYONE HERE BEEN THREATEN BY THE MEN IN BLACK FOR POSTING REDICULOUS STORIES OF UFO'S? OR HAVE YOU BEEN THREATENED BY THE CIA OR FBI OR HOMELAND SECURITY FOR POSTING ANYTHING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OR A PARTICULAR PERSON IN THE GOVERNMENT? NO. EDGAR J. HOOVER WAS THE LAST BIG BROTHER. THE INFORMATION HE SAID HE HAD AND IT WAS SAID THAT HE HAD DIED WITH HIM. I SAY POST WHAT YOU LIKE. TO ME WIRETAPPING SHOULD BE USED. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN USFUL IN BREAKING UP CHILD PORN RINGS,TERRORIST PLOTS, AND TERRORIST CELLS. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW NOR DO I CARE IF THEY TAP MY PHONE. YOUR PHONE IS NOT YOURS IT BELONGS TO THE PHONE COMPANY, ALSO IF YOU ARE PLANNING A CRIME IN ANOTHER STATE BY WAY OF PHONE. IT NOW BECOMES A FEDERAL TRAFFICKING CASE. THE ONLY ONES THAT NEED FEAR WIRETAPPING ARE CRIMINALS. THE PRIVACY ISSUE IS ONCE AGAIN DRIVEN BY BIG BUISNESS. FEAR OF THEIR SHADY DEALS BEING UNCOVERED. WHO HERE IS THE CEO OF A LARGE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY? NO ONE. SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. IF WIRETAPPING AND MONITORING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY GETS DRUGS OFF THE STREET, SO BE IT. WHAT IS REALLY FUNNY TO ME IS THE PEOPLE THAT USE THE TERM" THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX", AS IF THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE THIS CAPABILITY. THAT IS A WAY FOR THEM TO TAKE CONTROL AND BELITTLE YOU. IT IS THEIR OWN INSECURITIES THAT MAY THEM USE THIS TERM. ONCE AGAIN THEY HAVE TAKEN A TERM AND RIPPED IT FROM IT'S ORIGINAL CONTEXT, MEANING TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN IDEAS. NOW IT GETS USED AS TOOL OF BELITTLEMENT. | | | | 13 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | END OF THE INTERNET | | | Monday, July 7, 2008 (5:18 PM)
(I'm feeling surprised) | | Report: The End of the Internet Is Near
The end of the Internet is near — and in less than three years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The reason? More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011.
These aren’t the normal web addresses you type into your browser’s window, and which were recently freed up by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body responsible for allocating domain names, to allow thousands of new internet domains ending in, for instance, .newyork, .london or .xxx.
Beneath those names lie numerical Internet protocol addresses that denote individual devices connected to the internet. These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.
When the current IP address scheme was introduced in 1981, there were fewer than 500 computers connected to the Internet. Its founders could be forgiven for thinking that allowing for a potential 4 billion would last for ever. However, less than 30 years later, the Internet is rapidly running out. Every day thousands of new devices ranging from massive web servers down to individual mobile phones go online and gobble up more combinations and permutations. | | | | 22 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 2 Comments | |
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| | ABSOLUTELY NO WEAPONS OR POTENTIAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ? | | | Sunday, July 6, 2008 (2:42 AM)
(I'm feeling shocked) | | |
Report: Uranium Stockpile Removed From Iraq in Secret U.S. Mission
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
What is now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.
"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
REALLY??????? ONE STEP FROM BEING ENRICHED URANIUM/? YOU KNOW THE SHIT THAT MAKES NUCLEAR BOMBS GO BOOM, BUT DON'T WORRY WE HAD NOTHING FEAR. RIGHT??????????? IRAN WANTS THAT. COULD IT BE THAT IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD PERHAPS WANTED IT? PERHAPS THAT IS WHY IRAN HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN TRAINING AND AIDING THE SHIITES WITH STRONER IEDS AND GIVING THEM WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES TRANING? MAYBE YOU SWEET POTATOES OUT THERE CAN EXPLAIN AWAY THAT IN YOUR ANTIWAR ATTITUDE. JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE. THEY WILL LEAVE US ALONE. LOL. WAKE UP AMERICA OR YOU ARE ALL GOING TO BE WEARING BURKAS AND PRAYING TO A MOON DEITY. OH YOU ARE A SENTIENT BEING AND YOU ARE AN ATHEIST. GOOD YOU WILL BE THE FIRST ONES BEHEADED.
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