The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns defendants' rights "upside down."
A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda rights warnings, which police recite to suspects during arrests and interrogations. But the justices said in a 5-4 decision that suspects must tell police they are going to remain silent to stop an interrogation, just as they must tell police that they want a lawyer.
The ruling comes in a case where a suspect, Van Chester Thompkins, remained mostly silent for a three-hour police interrogation before implicating himself in a Jan. 10, 2000, murder in Southfield, Mich. He appealed his conviction, saying that he invoked his Miranda right to remain silent by remaining silent.
But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the decision for the court's conservatives, said that wasn't enough.
"Thompkins did not say that he wanted to remain silent or that he did not want to talk to police," Kennedy said. "Had he made either of these simple, unambiguous statements, he would have invoked his 'right to cut off questioning.' Here he did neither, so he did not invoke his right to remain silent."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's newest member, wrote a strongly worded dissent for the court's liberals, saying the majority's decision "turns Miranda upside down."
"Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent which counterintuitively, requires them to speak," she said. "At the same time, suspects will be legally presumed to have waived their rights even if they have given no clear expression of their intent to do so. Those results, in my view, find no basis in Miranda or our subsequent cases and are inconsistent with the fair-trial principles on which those precedents are grounded."
Van Chester Thompkins was arrested for murder in 2001 and interrogated by police for three hours. At the beginning, Thompkins was read his Miranda rights and said he understood.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's newest member, wrote a strongly worded dissent for the court's liberals, saying the majority's decision "turns Miranda upside down."
Expect this to be the first of many bleatings from the Wise Latina. Nevermind that most will be all in favor of upending standing laws
*spit*
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I thought this was always the case. At least it makes fucking sense. Once you acknowledge you know your rights, you are supposed to shut the fuck and ask for a lawyer.
Otherwise, your dumb ass just might implicate yourself.
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The best statement to the police Ive heard so far is Please direct all statements and questions to my attorney.
This works in several ways. First of all, if you just invoke your right to remain silent, and your right to speak with an attorney, the police have learned that they can still coerce you by making statements to you that are not questions.
If you just ask for an attorney, they will ask you what your attorneys name is, knowing that most people do not have a criminal attorney on retainer.
Most people dont think to immediately also request a phone call to either arrange an attorney, or to talk to a family member who will get an attorney for them. And police will not volunteer that phone call for a long time, likely until right before you are arraigned, unless you demand it.
This puts you at a disadvantage, because while you may choose to not speak to the police, you must speak to the judge, unless you have an attorney with you. And not having an attorney means that you lose the initial court gambit.
Likewise, federal judges in recent years have muddled Miranda by letting the police detain you without arrest, getting information from you that they use to find other information, and then arresting you and reading you your rights. It is "information freely given", which leads to incriminating evidence, which is admissible.
Other sticky situations are that must show identification laws vary tremendously between States, and that the SCOTUS has severely weakened protections against police search. Add to that PATRIOT Act provisions against terrorism, that are almost exclusively used for non-terrorist situations, and the civil rights of an arrested person are very, very limited.
This all leads back to the original statement: Please direct all questions and statements to my attorney.
Once you have made this statement, you have handed off your rights, as it were, to your attorney, as an officer of the court. For the police to do anything else to you directly amounts to their interfering in the court process. And this is a new kettle of fish.
Attorneys and judges are very protective of their turf, and get irritated when police mess with their process. So you are no longer the main issue.
The bottom line is that Miranda was always passive, because citizens are not lawyers, and are dealing with people who know how to manipulate the law. Requiring the arrested to actively demand their rights is a stretch, because people fear the police, and fear retribution if they speak up.
This is why "dumb insolence" was previously never a crime in the US, because as long as you obeyed police orders, except to speak, your rights would be protected.
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Miranda rights have no effect on confessions or convictions. They would long since have been abolished for being meaningless, except that no one is willing to take the PR hit for abolishing everybody's "rights."
The Fifth Amendment, not the rapist Ernesto Miranda, gives you a right against self-incrimination, notwithstanding what forty years of TV crime dramas have told you.
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In addition, they have witnessed large parts of the Karakoram highway - which connects Pakistan with China and is the only means of transportation for these people - submerge into the rising lake, leaving them cut off from the outside world.
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You'd think that with the amount of explosives floating around in P'stan that they could come up with a way to clear the landslide (unless those explosives are only allocated for 'non-peaceful' or 'non-humanitarian' usage).
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Lakes are frequently threatening to overflow,or bust or have bad storms. Ya just can't please them.
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The lake wants to do jihad? Only in Pakistan...
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These kinds of landslide dammed lakes are very dangerous because sooner rather than later they will overflow and rapidly cut an overflow channel likely causing a wall of water downstream.
I'm surprised the authorities haven't dealt with it before now, but then this Pakland.
This story fits all three parts of the file category - weather, and sign/portent. All we need is monster flying out of it. The photo is incredible. Too bad we can't open one of these holes under the BP well.
Tropical Storm Agatha swept across Central America yesterday, bringing torrential rain that killed more than 100 people and opened a 60m-deep sinkhole in Guatemala City which reportedly swallowed up a three-storey building.
The 30m-diameter sinkhole opened up in a northern district of Guatemala City, with residents blaming the rains and substandard drainage systems. Local reports said one man was killed when the building was swallowed. In 2007, three people died when a similar sinkhole appeared in the same area.
WASHINGTONThe bulk of U.S. military forces will depart Haiti on Tuesday, leaving United Nations forces and civilian groups to help the country rebuild its devastated capital in the wake of January's deadly earthquake.
The departure, which was agreed upon by the U.S. and Haitian governments and long anticipated, signals that "we have reached a basic level of sustainment in Haiti," said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley in an interview on Monday. "The military played an essential short-term role, but now this is getting back to where the focus is on development, and that expertise rests in the civilian sector."
The U.S. will remain involved in assisting Haiti through the U.S. Agency for International Development, the lead agency coordinating the U.S. response, U.N. efforts and nonprofit groups, U.S. officials said.
In addition, 500 National Guard troops will be stationed in Haiti for several months to help construct schools, clinics, and community centers, while medical staff aboard the USS Iwo Jima will offer continued medical care to Haitians when the ship arrives in the Port-de-Paix area in July.
Gen. Doug Fraser, head of U.S. Southern Command, which is based in Miami and runs the Haiti mission, said in a statement that these projects "demonstrate our continued support to the people of Haiti. We also have a robust capability to rapidly respond to any future disaster situation in Haiti."
An aide to Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said the transition was discussed and jointly agreed to by the Haitian and U.S. governments. She said the right U.S. teams "will be here to do the necessary work for agreed upon projects."
The country faces numerous challenges as it tries to recover from the January quake, which left more than 230,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands injured.
An immediate issue will be ensuring the safety of the country's 9.9 million residents during the coming rainy and hurricane season, which runs from June through November.
More than two million peoplemostly in the capital, Port-au-Princewere displaced by the quake, and hundreds of thousands still live in tents or other temporary shelters that could be affected by flooding. U.S. and U.N. forces have worked together to move people living in locations subject to flooding, and U.S. Navy engineers have helped shore up nine settlement camps, clearing canals and putting down gravel, among other measures.
Other challenges include beginning reconstruction of damaged buildings and roads, getting children back into schools, and ensuring residents have access to clean water and food.
The country is also slated to hold national elections that had been postponed by the quake before year-end.
There are currently about 500 U.S. military personnel stationed in Haiti, a big decrease from the 22,000 or so at the peak of the effort. They have helped with everything from transporting supplies to reopening the airport to providing medical services and performing surgeries. According to USAID, humanitarian assistance to Haiti by USAID and the Department of Defense so far has totaled $1.08 billion, including $460 million from the Department of Defense.
The State Department and USAID have asked for $1.64 billion in additional funding to assist Haiti; the request is pending before Congress.
"The U.S. military presence in Haiti was extremely useful... [but] we are still at the emergency phase," said David Wimhurst, director of public information for the U.N.'s stabilization mission in Haiti, based in Port-au-Prince. "It is going to take the country 10 years to pick itself up and do some smart reconstruction," he added.
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Not to mention that Congress that writes the procurement laws makes it a criminal offense to simply go down to Sears and buy craftsman hammers which are cheaper than the bids submitted. Tag on that Sears et al get fed up with complying in filing all sorts of 'mother may I' paper work to adhere to some PC program pushed by some inadequate Congresscritter and you get those 1000 dollar impact devices.
Ay-Pee. Rest at link.
Global manufacturers struggling with life-or-death pressures to control costs are finding that the legions of low-wage Chinese workers they rely on have limits.
A strike at Honda Motor Co. and the official response to a spate of suicides at Foxconn Technology, a maker of electronics for industry giants such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, suggests China's leaders are at least tacitly allowing workers to talk back.
Seems to me that low-cost Chinese labor has been holding inflation in check. This force may diminish substantially if this catches on.
Walmart just announced a general lowering of prices. But they seem to be sourcing well beyond China these days...
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Mr. Wife says most manufacturers set up in China to sell to the Chinese, not to manufacture for Walmart customers in the U.S. There have been cheaper labour pools elsewhere for fifteen years.
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The abortion industry fights regulation and uses "rights" as an excuse to escape normal health care restrictions. Even veterinarian offices have more health regulations and restrictions than the politically connected factories for the destruction of human life.
Elective abortion must be stopped. It is a moral evil to deliberately destroy a defenseless innocent human life for the mere convenience of someone else and the profit of the doctors and clinics.
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You really want the kind of people who have such a poor impulse control to propagate themselves, Beldar?
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Read the article. This is just the start. They still have "thousands" of women that need to be tested. Also, indications are that the infections are not accidental.
Abortion clinics are run so poorly and with such little regard for the law that they would long since have been abolished just on public health grounds, but for the whole "abortion" controversy.
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What is it with Hepatitis C? We had a woman here in the Springs that infected some 25 people with the disease while working in a surgical ward. She was literally stealing pain medication and replacing it with sterile water.
With that kind of infection rate, I'd be checking the "hospital" closely for other problems, such as back-door supplying some people with drugs and other supplies.
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of course, someone with so much concern for the health of the fetus will be equally concerned with the health of the mother. Surprised?
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I agree with Beldar: you're (deliberately?) ignoring the question - what's the matter, scared to answer?
Is human life so meaningless to you as to be destroyed for mere convenience?
Frank G, what about the LIFE? You need to be alive to have health be a concern, its a prerequisite. That argument in favor of abortion is a pretty piss poor attempt at moral equivalence between a physically healthy woman and the destruction of a human life for her convenience.
The health of the mother? Of course that's a concern. Women who have elective abortions tend to have worse health AFTER the abortion.
See Elizabeth Ring Cassidy and Ian Gentles, Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence [Toronto: de Veber Institute for Bioethics] for a plethora of research indicating increased mental issues, premature delivery and complications in subsequent pregnancies, higher instance of STDs post abortion, and a whole host of troubles.
You see, your error is assuming that the abortion is lower risk than pregnancy. Studies indicate that simply is not true in the case of induced elective abortions.
Then there is the moral aspect:
Do you agree that deliberately destroying an innocent defenseless human life for the profit or convenience of another person to be evil?
If not, then there is no discussion - you can go stand with Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, etc, in hteir own little hell of justification of that very thing.
Now lets look at the science
Is it alive? Yes, it meets the biological qualification of "alive"
So its a life.
Is that human? Yes, DNA says it is, and nothing less.
So it is a Human Life.
Is it defenseless? Yes. It is incapable of resisting effectively.
So it is a Defenseless Human Life.
Is it "innocent"? Yes, it has not had the opportunity to make any moral decisions, nor has it become a threat to the physical life of the mother (Remember we are talking elective abortions, not medically necessary).
So it is an Innocent Defenseless Human Life.
No religion needed. Even a libertarian or Objectivist can see this - nobody has a *right* to choose to initiate deadly force against another that is an innocent and defenseless one.
Elective abortion is the destruction of a defenseless innocent HUMAN LIFE no matter how you try to slither away from the basic facts of the matter.
As for the Hep C, not surprised. Abortion "clinics" have attempted and exempted themselves from normal sanitary procedures. They claim "political persecution" if you try to impose regulations or an inspection regime that would be minimal for normal invasive procedure clinics.
Abortion clinics need to be regulated, inspected and forced to keep proper medical records. THier records shoudl be reviewed regularly, to show the health consequences of abortion, and to hold the abortionists responsible for the consequences of their work on the women.
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Us Catholics say Abortion creates 2 victims - the aborted, and the mother. One dead, one wounded. I've worked as a volunteer with Rachel's Vineyard, but only in support. The emotional and moral consequences endured by women are crushing. Yet the abortionists walk away without a care for the damage they have done.
For me, all the above arguments (in the previous post) are rational, but seeing the evidence first-hand of the damage done to these women by the abortion industry has me utterly convinced of the evil of the act and the moral wrong of those who support them.
BP was given permission to drill in the Gulf of Mexico after submitting documents promising it was equipped to deal with a spill 10 times larger than the current leak.
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I see there's no definition of 'ten times' what.
They will stop it - in four or five months.
Remember it took Pemex 10 months in 1979 in 160 feet of water.
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It took about 7 weeks for the original well to get to where it blew out from where the first relief well is right now, and that included getting stuck and sidetracking. IF nothing goes wrong the relief well could kill the blowout in about that length of time (a little less for a clean job but a little more for added caution.) But they have to not get stuck, not lose circulation, and actually hit a 7" target 3 1/2 miles away (I normally ask for a 100-200' target, but they normally are within ~20' without hardly trying.)
The door-handles of my old Berlin apartment are beautiful. Brass, art nouveau and engraved with flowers worn smooth by more than 100 years of hands - the hands of those who lived here before.
There's a room with a blue carpet. It was the kitchen for about a century. Now, it holds the piano.
But we've all stopped playing.
None of us likes that blue room. In fact, we're a little scared of it.
My daughter, Miranda (she's four), tells me about "the family of ghosts with big, dark eyes" who live there. She's petrified.
When, feeling idiotic, I confide this to her kindergarten teacher, the response is straightforward.
She gives me a business card.
"Oh, you probably had Jews in your house. Here, use this guy. He's great."
I look at the card, which promises, "Energy change in the home or workplace".
I ask if it's a common problem?
"Oh, yes," she replies, "happens all the time. Hardly surprising when you think of what went on here in the war."
In the pavements of Berlin, there's brass. Here and there, small cobbles of it. They're a little worn - like the lovely door-handles in our home - but by wind and weather, rather than hands.
And instead of flowers, each is engraved with a person's name, date of birth and their death.
The word, "ermordet" - murdered - is almost always there. Or sometimes, "Flucht in den Tod" - "killed whilst trying to escape". Or "Freitod" - "Suicide".
These brass cobbles are "Stolpersteine" - "stumbling blocks" - hand-made by sculptor Gunter Demnig....I had made an appointment with those "energy-change" people - the ones who deal with houses with troubled atmospheres.
TORONTO (Reuters) Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.
Ontario, Canada's most populous province, kicked off a fierce battle with drug companies and pharmacies when it said earlier this year it would halve generic drug prices and eliminate "incentive fees" to generic drug manufacturers.
British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit -- an idea that critics say is an illegal user fee.
And a few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery.
It's likely just a start as the provinces, responsible for delivering healthcare, cope with the demands of a retiring baby-boom generation. Official figures show that senior citizens will make up 25 percent of the population by 2036.
"There's got to be some change to the status quo whether it happens in three years or 10 years," said Derek Burleton, senior economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.
"We can't continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.
"At some stage we're going to hit a breaking point."
MIRROR IMAGE DEBATE
In some ways the Canadian debate is the mirror image of discussions going on in the United States.
Canada, fretting over budget strains, wants to prune its system, while the United States, worrying about an army of uninsured, aims to create a state-backed safety net.
Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all "medically necessary" hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets, or some C$183 billion ($174 billion) last year.
Spending has been rising 6 percent a year under a deal that added C$41.3 billion of federal funding over 10 years.
But that deal ends in 2013, and the federal government is unlikely to be as generous in future, especially for one-off projects.
"As Ottawa looks to repair its budget balance ... one could see these one-time allocations to specific health projects might be curtailed," said Mary Webb, senior economist at Scotia Capital.
Brian Golden, a professor at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business, said provinces are weighing new sources of funding, including "means-testing" and moving toward evidence-based and pay-for-performance models.
"Why are we paying more or the same for cataract surgery when it costs substantially less today than it did 10 years ago? There's going to be a finer look at what we're paying for and, more importantly, what we're getting for it," he said.
Other problems include trying to control independently set salaries for top hospital executives and doctors and rein in spiraling costs for new medical technologies and drugs.
Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked.
"Our objective is to preserve the quality healthcare system we have and indeed to enhance it. But there are difficult decisions ahead and we will continue to make them," Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan told Reuters.
The province has introduced legislation that ties hospital chief executive pay with the quality of patient care and says it wants to put more physicians on salary to save money.
In a report released last week, TD Bank said Ontario should consider other proposals to help cut costs, including scaling back drug coverage for affluent seniors and paying doctors according to quality and efficiency of care.
WINNERS AND LOSERS
The losers could be drug companies and pharmacies, both of which are getting increasingly nervous.
"Many of the advances in healthcare and life expectancy are due to the pharmaceutical industry so we should never demonize them," said U of T's Golden. "We need to ensure that they maintain a profitable business but our ability to make it very very profitable is constrained right now."
Scotia Capital's Webb said one cost-saving idea may be to make patients aware of how much it costs each time they visit a healthcare professional. "(The public) will use the services more wisely if they know how much it's costing," she said.
"If it's absolutely free with no information on the cost and the information of an alternative that would be have been more practical, then how can we expect the public to wisely use the service?"
But change may come slowly. Universal healthcare is central to Canada's national identity, and decisions are made as much on politics as economics.
"It's an area that Canadians don't want to see touched," said TD's Burleton. "Essentially it boils down the wishes of the population. But I think, from an economist's standpoint, we point to the fact that sometimes Canadians in the short term may not realize the cost."
[Iran Press TV Latest] Ahead of the 25th Africa-France summit, the leaders of 38 African countries have called for drastic reform of the United Nations Security Council and a stronger role for their continent.
The 38 African leaders plan to attend the summit, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which opens on Monday in the Riviera city of Nice, AFP reported.
Pundits say the meeting, which was organized to renew France's ties with the continent, reflects France's shift of relations from its traditional West African allies toward the whole continent.
In 2005, African countries' joint call to be given two veto-wielding permanent seats and two non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council was rejected. The African leaders have now relaunched the debate, pressing France to help materialize their request.
The African leaders argue that the current UN Security Council structure is a remnant of the Cold War era and say that the continent should now be given a stronger voice on the council, given that 27 percent of UN member-states are African.
"When there is a serious economic crisis in the world, we cannot continue to hold meetings without Africa and make decisions without Africa on behalf of the entire world... Africa cannot continue to be the fifth wheel and the Security Council cannot continue to be without Africa," Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso said ahead of the summit.
France supports the increase of African representation on the Security Council but contends that the request is not realistic and suggests that Africa ask for only one permanent seat.
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I will agree to the permanent African seats the day after the new UN Headquarters is opened in Mogadishu, and all the staffers are in their offices.
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WMF > XINHUA NEWS: "UMMEDIATE/PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE" PROPOSED US SPACE WEAPONS WILL DETRIMENTALLY ADD TO GEOPOL, NUCLEAR WAR-FIGHTING CHAOS. Less LEAD TIMES for effec post-launch recall from attack + drawing proper MilPol decisions to wage War or NOT wage War.
* SAME > ESA ASKS CHINA + SOUTH KOREA TO JOIN SPACE STATION; + US THINK TANK: PLAAF DESIRES TO EXTEND ITS EFFEC COMBAT OPER RADIUS TO 1000-KM FROM CHINA'S COASTS IN 2010, extend to 3000-KM by 2030.
[Straits Times] UN HUMAN rights chief Navi Pillay called on Monday for an independent probe into the recent deadly violence in Thailand and for those responsible for rights violations to be held to account.
'To foster longer-term political reconciliation, I urge the government to ensure that an independent investigation of recent events be conducted and all those found responsible for human rights violations are held to account,' Ms Pillay said.
The comments by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights came as Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was accused in parliament of violating human rights when he ordered an army crackdown on opposition protesters that left 88 people dead.
Ms Pillay acknowledged that the Thai government had tried to resolve the deadlock and that the authorities had the responsibility of restoring order.
'In doing so, however, they must abide by international standards concerning the use of force and due process for those detained,' she said.
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[Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN court on Monday sentenced a man to eight years' jail for sheltering terrorists involved in suicide bomb attacks on two luxury hotels last year.
Aris Susanto, 31, was convicted of hiding Syaifudin Jaelani, who recruited the bombers, and a florist called Ibrohim who helped the bombers access the central Jakarta hotels ahead of the July 17 attacks that killed seven people.
He 'made it difficult for law enforcement officers in their hunt for perpetrators of terrorism,' chief judge Haswandi told the South Jakarta district court.
'His actions also tarnished the image of the nation in the eyes of the international community.' Jaelani and Ibrohim were killed in police raids after the bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, an attack masterminded by Malaysian terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top.
Noordin was killed in a shootout with police in September, ending a massive manhunt for one of South-east Asia's most-wanted men.
Susanto also accompanied Noordin on a trip to meet accomplices in West Java ahead of the hotel bombings, Haswandi said.
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[Straits Times] ORGANISERS say fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pulled out of a Paris speaking event for security reasons.
The French government has urged Mr Thaksin not to make any public statements given the sensitive political situation in Thailand.
Thai authorities issued a warrant for Mr Thaksin on terrorism charges last week, accusing him of fomenting violence that wracked Bangkok earlier this month.
Mr Thaksin was scheduled to speak at the Center for Political and Foreign Affairs in Paris on Monday.
Fabien Baussart, director of the center, says Mr Thaksin called on Sunday to cancel his appearance. Mr Baussart says Mr Thaksin demanded security guarantees that couldn't be provided.
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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.
