The third and final report into the death of Bob Woolmer has confirmed evidence that the former England batsman was not murdered, Jamaican police will reveal this week, reported a British daily on Sunday. Jamaican officers finally received all the reports they requested into the cause of Woolmers death in March, as the last of the three pathologists verdicts into the case was received last Tuesday from a strangulation expert in South Africa confirming that Woolmer was not strangled.
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Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) will soon start reinvestigation of some cases including four for murder filed earlier against City Corporation Mayor Majibor Rahman Sarwar. Sarwar, arrested in Dhaka on May 29, is now in jail.
Sarwar is the prime accused in four murder cases and accused in two other murder cases. Twenty-nine cases were filed against Sarwar in last 29 years. The four murder cases were filed after 1979. Some of the cases including the six for murder are unresolved as complainants did not pursue those because allegedly of threat or political pressure and non-appearance of witnesses. Some of the cases were dismissed as complainants became disinterested to continue trial. Other cases were for intimidation and threat terrorism, extortion, toll collection and repression, police sources said.
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Rajshahi Mayor and ex-BNP lawmaker Mizanur Rahman Minu went into hiding soon after a district and sessions judge had freed him on bail yesterday afternoon.
Minu went into hiding just an hour after he had been granted bail. Sources said the mayor went to his residence after he had been freed from jail around 5:45pm. He later visited Shah Makhdum's Shrine and offered his prayers, sources said. "The police headquarters directed the police to arrest him again following his bail and somehow he (Minu) got the information," said a police source adding that they were following him since he had been freed and saw him changing cars several times within a short period time.
Police started raiding Minu's two houses at 7:00pm and questioned his relatives about his whereabouts. But nobody could give any information.
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Six more top corruption suspects including former prime minister Khaleda Zia's detained son Tarique Rahman and her brother Shamim Eskandar submitted their wealth statements to the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on the last day of the seven-day deadline yesterday. Tarique showed in his statement that he owns movable and immovable properties worth Tk 1.37 crore, and his uncle Shamim who was a Biman official declared that his wealth is worth around Tk 4 crore and 75 bhoris of gold.
With yesterday's submissions, 13 including the six out of the 21 high profile corruption suspects on the ACC's second list of corruptionists now have their wealth statements submitted, while eight others applied to the commission seeking seven more days to submit their statements.
The eleven others who also submitted their wealth statement are BNP's MAH Selim alias Silver Selim, former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Habibur Rahman Mollah, former BNP minister Shahjahan Siraj, former member of the Public Service Commission Prof Mahfuzur Rahman, ex-AL minister Syed Abul Hossain, ex-chief engineer of the Public Works Department AFM Monjurul Islam, film actor Monwar Hossain Dipjol, Editor and Publisher of the Bangla daily Janakantha Atiqullah Khan Masud, ex-additional inspector general of police Shahidullah Khan, AL's Sheikh Helal who is also AL chief Sheikh Hasina's cousin, and a pro-BNP doctors' association leader AZM Zahid Hossain.
The eight who submitted prayers seeking an extension of the deadline are ex-BNP minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, ex-minister from Jatiya Party Anwar Hossain Manju, ex-BNP minister Ziaul Haq Zia, ex-AL lawmaker Kamal Ahmed Majumder, ex-AL minister Obaidul Quader, former chief forest conservator Munshi Anwarul Islam, Obaedul Karim of Orion Group, and AK Azad of Hamim Group.
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Detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu was for the first time placed on a three-day remand in a criminal case while Chief Conservator of Forests Osman Gani taken on a three-day fresh remand. Meanwhile, Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Obaidul Quader and former BNP lawmaker Ali Asgar Lobi were sent to jail yesterday on completion of their three-day remands. Proceedings of the case filed against former law minister barrister Moudud Ahmed for possession of contraband liquors were adjourned yesterday following a time petition by defence lawyers.
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Bangladeshs army-backed authorities moved on Sunday to overhaul the countrys voting system, photographing thousands of would-be voters in a bid to stamp out cheating. A general election scheduled for January was postponed due to political violence amid accusations of vote-rigging and corruption by the two main parties. A state of emergency was subsequently imposed by the interim authority and all political activity banned. A re-run of the poll is expected by the end of 2008.
The pilot project to overhaul the registration process involves taking photographs and obtaining fingerprints of eligible voters. The information could also be used for identification cards. The project would run for three weeks and will cover some 45,000 eligible voters in the Sreepur district, 70 km north of Dhaka, said Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda. Huda said if the project was successful the model would be used to create a national voters list.
The most recent list made in 2006, which was to be used in the postponed Jan 22 election, was found to be grossly flawed. The Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs said the list contained more than 12 million fake entries. The army has set up 30 camps in Sreepur to assist election commission officials with the project. This is a very good step, we had been asking for it for many years, said Bakhtiar-Uddin Mridha, who voted in the past three elections. I saw many voters going back without casting their ballots, because someone else with the blessing of corrupt poll officials or powerful candidates had cast it already. The new system will hopefully end such abuse.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrived in Tehran on Sunday for talks with Iranian leaders as Tehran seeks to boost ties with leftist Latin American critics of the United States.
Ortega, a Cold War foe of the United States, was welcomed personally at Tehrans Mehrabad airport by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an unusual step indicating the warm ties between the two nations. Ahmadinejad visited Managua in January shortly before Ortegas swearing-in as president and the two leaders announced the restoration of full diplomatic relations and the re-opening of embassies in each others capitals. We will work together to put in place a world order based on peace and justice, Ahmadinejad told reporters at the airport, reprising one of his favourite themes. The two peoples have great capacities to put at each others disposal on the way to independence and freedom, he added.
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You are SO HOT!!! How is the daughter you used to "play with" (sexually abuse) doing these days? I'd be willing to bet that you've been a real hero and fatherly inspiration in her life in recent years. You're a morally-corrupt commie has been. Your current effort to resurrect yourself just ain't gonna fly, you rat-bastard socialist loser fuck!
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Those were the daz my friend we thought they never end
MOSCOW - Russia will not change its opposition to Kosovo gaining independence despite President George W. Bushs wish to settle the provinces future soon, a senior Russian official source told Reuters on Sunday. Bush said during a visit to Albania that the United Nations should grant independence quickly to the breakaway Serbian province and would not let Russia block the idea indefinitely.
Of course the Islamic world gives us no credit for helping Muslims in Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia.
Asked about Bushs comments, a top Russian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: The Russian position remains unchanged.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to discuss Kosovo on Saturday on the margins of an economic forum in St Petersburg. The Russian president specifically asked him whether the Serbs still stood by their position (of opposition to Kosovo independence) and, after hearing a positive reply, said that Russias position will not change either, the official said.
Russias firm position on Kosovo is motivated partly by a desire to support its historic ally Serbia and partly by a wish to flex its muscles against the West on the world stage, diplomats say. Moscows consistently firm response has led most observers here to conclude that if a Western-sponsored plan to grant Kosovo supervised independence is formally tabled at the United Nations Security Council, Russia will use its veto to block it.
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Albania's culturally Muslim, but with a pretty secular government. They've sent a small force of troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan, cooperated in shutting down finance flows to jihadi groups and are enthusiastically pro-US due to our position on Kosovo.
Maybe the 'Islamic world' doesn't give us credit but the Albanians do. And others (non-Muslim but choosing their alignments anew) in places like Slovakia watched and give us credit too.
Free Kosovo from those in the Serbian power structure who are KGB accolytes, continue our growing and warm relationship with Bulgaria and what you get is a band that stretches nearly from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, north of a potentially Islamacist Turkey, that is pro-US. Bulgaria wants in on missile defense. Albania doesn't have the infrastructure to support it, but watch to see if we start doing joint training exercises and an Albanian or two ends up at one of our military academies. We've already graduated a couple Bulgarians who are now back in their militaries and climbing the ranks.
The head of Italy's influential bishops conference has received a second envelope containing bullets and a death threat, following comments he made opposing same-sex unions, news reports said Sunday. The envelope - with three bullets and the written threat - arrived Saturday at the Genoa archdiocese of Monsignor Angelo Bagnasco, the ANSA and Apcom news agencies reported. ANSA quoted Genoa police chief Salvatore Presenti as saying the incident did not require any increase in the archbishop's protection. Bagnasco was given bodyguards several weeks ago after graffiti threatening him was scrawled on buildings.
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This guy is selling us out to China. He's selling us out to Mexico. Now he's trying to sell Serbia to the Muslims. Does he have any scruples or any values at all? How can we trust him with anything? Why doesn't he stay the hell out of Kosovo? We have no interests there. WTF is he doing in Albania? Is he just trying to get a boost after the failure of his immigration bill?
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It's part of the push to encourage democracy in the smaller countries in eastern Europe, I think. (Or maybe not, but here's one scenario that might explain it.)
Serbia continues to have close ties to Putin. The nastier parts of Serbian leadership have KGB sponsorship. Plus, to the south you have a Turkey that may go overtly Islamacist soon, but where there's still hope of a secular, moderate future. So what do you do to counter Mr. KBG and encourage neutral/allied governments in the area?
First, you counter the power play from Putin's ally Iran and then you build up allies of your own. For the first part, Bush is moving to put ballistic missile defense in Poland and the Czech republic. Bulgaria wants in as well. Bush was pretty popular in Bulgaria as well as in Albania on this trip.
Bulgaria sits just north of Turkey and has a Black Sea coast, but the country doesn't extend all the way west to the Adriatic. Albania does sit on the Adriatic, across from Italy and to the west of Bulgaria, with Kosovo and a small part of the rest of Serbia between them.
So if you can set up a moderate allied democracy in Albania (as happened in Slovenia, farther north in the Adriatic) and if Bulgaria continues to seek our protection against Putin, it's one more chess move in the region.
Our taxi driver in Florence last month had lots to say about Albanian boat people landing in the south of Italy and working in fields, restaurants etc. for cheap wages. The EU has started talks with Albania, but the chances of that country getting into the EU are remote right now. For small investments on our part we can probably have a fair influence on the country.
I'm guessing that's the theory, anyway. Not necessarily defending it, just trying to see what the administration is up to.
[Albanian has] sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, frozen the assets of suspected terrorist-financiers, and taken in eight former Guantánamo Bay detainees whom no other country would take in....
The roots of Albanian pro-American sentiment, people here say, date to Woodrow Wilson's support of the country's independence after World War I and were cemented during the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, a majority ethnic Albanian province of Serbia. Albanians also see the US as the strongest advocate for the independence of Kosovo, whose status is due to be reviewed by the UN Security Council this month.
Although Albania's contribution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are numerically small 120 troops in Mosul, and 30 in Afghanistan with an additional 110 to come soon they have a symbolic importance for the US. The US sees Albania as a model of moderate Islam and religious tolerance. Officially 70 percent Muslim, the country has a strong secular ethos after nearly a quarter of a century of state-enforced atheism under communism.
Hand-wringing piece from AP, but to the extent that this is true, we need to be better about helping our troops after they return. A few additional dollars would have a measurable impact.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Soldiers returning from war are finding it more difficult to get mental health treatment because military insurance is cutting payments to therapists, on top of already low reimbursement rates and a tangle of red tape. Wait lists now extend for months to see a military doctor and it can takes weeks to find a private therapist willing to take on members of the military. The challenge appears great in rural areas, where many National Guard and Reserve troops and their families live.
To avoid the hassles of Tricare, the military health insurance program, one frustrated therapist opted to provide an hour of therapy time a week to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for free. Barbara Romberg, a clinical psychologist in the Washington, D.C., area, has started a group that encourages other therapists to do the same. ``They're not going to pay me much in terms of my regular rate anyway,'' Romberg said. ``So I'm actually feeling positive that I've given, rather than feeling frustrated for what I'm going through to get payment.''
Joyce Lindsey, 46, of Troutdale, Ore., sought grief counseling after her husband died in Afghanistan last September. The therapist recommended by her physician would not take Tricare. Lindsey eventually found one on a provider list, but the process took two months. ``It was kind of frustrating,'' Lindsey said. ``I thought, 'Am I ever going to find someone to take this?'''
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it can takes weeks to find a private therapist willing to take on members of the military
I wonder how long does it takes to find one willing to treat illegal immigrants?
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"The therapist recommended by her physician would not take Tricare." Sound like the therapists is the problem and not the military. It's not like TriCare said no and trust me I hate defending TryCare, but in this case they are not the bad guy.
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"The therapist recommended by her physician would not take Tricare."
So what's the therapist going to do when Tricare II Hillarycare is the only payer? Or like most Bluies, he/she hasn't thought much beyond getting Ms. Mandatory National Health care in power? Oh, that's right, the leftie mantra is 'one set of rules for me, a separate set of rules for thee'. Nevermind.
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The therapist probably wouldn't take Tricare because either 1) the price Tricare would allow for the treatment was less than the therapist was willing to work for (large insurors negotiate much lower rates with providers than individuals pay), and/or 2) The paperwork and payment delays involved in dealing with Tricare (and other large insurors) cause providors to decline to deal with them.
The referring physician probably recommended that therapist because they were 'good', but for that same reason they probably had as many well-paying private clients as they could handle, and hence decline dealing with Tricare. My wife's OB-GYN for years declined Big Insurance ABC patients - but he was good and his prices were fair to individuals, so we paid our own way outside the insurance coverage. ALL these problems will be fixed by HillaryCare, where nobody can decline anybody and all rates are defined by the government. Of course, that good therapist may decide to become a stockbroker instead of treating PTSD, but .....
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"wouldn't take Tricare because either 1) the price Tricare would allow for the treatment was less than the therapist was willing to work for"
Yeah, she willing to treat an injured veteran, but not unless she gets paid extra. (What an American!) The second reason (thankfully), slow payment, is not an issue now, at least in region 1. My claims get processed in a couple weeks, as opposed to several months back when it was called CHAMPUS.
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"wouldn't take Tricare because either 1) the price Tricare would allow for the treatment was less than the therapist was willing to work for"
Yeah, she willing to treat an injured veteran, but not unless she gets paid extra. (What an American!) The second reason (thankfully), slow payment, is not an issue now, at least in region 1. My claims get processed in a couple weeks, as opposed to several months back when it was called CHAMPUS.
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"wouldn't take Tricare because either 1) the price Tricare would allow for the treatment was less than the therapist was willing to work for"
Yeah, she willing to treat an injured veteran, but not unless she gets paid extra. (What an American!) The second reason (thankfully), slow payment, is not now an issue, at least in region 1. My claims get processed in a couple weeks, as opposed to several months back when it was called CHAMPUS.
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Sorry for the triple post. After I clicked on the "submit query" button, I kept be re-directed to the Roadside America webpage and though that the comment did not take.
US President George W Bush on Wednesday expressed surprise at the need for a German translation of his comments to the press at a G8 summit being held at the Baltic coastal resort of Heiligendamm. "Everybody speaks English, right?" Bush asked, after a German- language interpreter began to translate his brief statement to the press following talks with G8 summit host German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A laughing Merkel asked the US leader to "be patient" and gestured for him to wait by her side while the interpreter did his job.
"Is that what I said?" Bush asked Merkel with a grin after his words were translated.
"Almost 100 per cent," laughingly answered Merkel, speaking in English.
Merkel and other German politicians have made it a point to speak German both at G8 gatherings and at European Union meetings in a bid to boost the global standing of their language. This is in contrast to other nations, including Austria and Finland, whose leaders and ministers frequently spoke English during their stint as EU president. English is also increasingly used by the European Commission, the EU's executive body.
However, recognizing that the international press is largely composed of English-speakers, Merkel and her foreign minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier often bring along interpreters when speaking to reporters.
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"Everybody speaks English, right?"
looking at our home front, doesn't Bush realize that interpreters are necessary even here in America?!
Jan from work
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Merkel and other German politicians have made it a point to speak German both at G8 gatherings and at European Union meetings in a bid to boost the global standing of their language.
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.
The third and final report into the death of Bob Woolmer has confirmed evidence that the former England batsman was not murdered, Jamaican police will reveal this week, reported a British daily on Sunday. Jamaican officers finally received all the reports they requested into the cause of Woolmers death in March, as the last of the three pathologists verdicts into the case was received last Tuesday from a strangulation expert in South Africa confirming that Woolmer was not strangled.
Bangladeshs army-backed authorities moved on Sunday to overhaul the countrys voting system, photographing thousands of would-be voters in a bid to stamp out cheating. A general election scheduled for January was postponed due to political violence amid accusations of vote-rigging and corruption by the two main parties. A state of emergency was subsequently imposed by the interim authority and all political activity banned. A re-run of the poll is expected by the end of 2008. 
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrived in Tehran on Sunday for talks with Iranian leaders as Tehran seeks to boost ties with leftist Latin American critics of the United States.
