[Ennahar] According to security sources, an autopsy is underway at the center of the forensic in Chateauneuf on the body of the girl Yasmine, found buried in the yard of an abandoned house in the village of Tala Lekhroub, province of Bejaia. Today's dispatch from the depths of depravity...
The body of a nine year old girl, who was buried there 18 years ago (in 1993), was exhumed following information given by an anonymous person according to which a girl of about twenty would be sequestered in an abandoned house used for rearing livestock owned by a man of about sixty.
After investigations by the security services, it comes that the kidnapped girl was the daughter of the owner.
The latter, under interrogation, acknowledged the facts.
But the surprise was when the dogs used by police discovered something underground. It was the body of a nine year old girl, whose death was not natural. This would be his daughter, who disappeared 18 years ago when she was only nine years old. At that time he had said that she had gone to join her mother (his third wife) in a nearby village. He had repudiated her as she was unable to give him a boy.
His other daughters finally acknowledged that their father had pushed his nine year old daughter from the first floor. He then left her fight against death throughout the day and ordered them to observe and advise him when she would have died. The unfortunate little girl was still alive and at night, the father decided to achieve her; his own daughter with a shovel before he dig a grave in the middle of the court.
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Clearly they haven't enough to occupy themselves with in the coastal cities of Algeria.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped, Kyodo news reported on Thursday.
Kan told the Japanese Communist Party leader that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant should be dismantled, Kyodo said.
Nearly three weeks on from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the situation at the plant remains unresolved after its reactor cooling systems were knocked out, triggering explosions and fires, and releasing radiation.
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AFAIK only as per Reax #1-4 as Tokyo + TEPCO are still debating about #5 + #6.
Apparently a partial-vs-total shutdown = CHERNOBYL-STYLE BURIAL of the plant's reactors will ultimately depend on how successful efforts are to tone down Plant + Area radiation levels.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > US MARINES [CBIRF Team] BEING SENT TO JAPAN FOR NUCLEAR CRISIS.
* NEWS KERALA > RADIOACTIVE IODINE 4,385X LEGAL LIMIT FUND IN SEAWATER NEAR FUKUSHIMA NUKE PLANT.
>1250x since last Friday.
>1850x since last Saturday.
>3355x since Tuesday.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > JAPAN: MOST FALLOUT FROM STRICKEN FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT IS LOCALIZED, BUT COULD PERSIST IN SEAS, REGION FOR YEARS.
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They were already planning to decommission 1-4 anyway. To date, still nobody has received the maximum allowable dose. The workers that were reported to have "burns" on their feet turned out not to and they were sent home with clean bills of health.
[Al Jazeera] Cote d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara said forces under his command were "at the gates" of the country's main city Abidjan and called on the remaining loyalists of his rival Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... to switch sides to prevent further suffering.
Heavy gunfire was heard throughout Abidjan on Thursday as pro-Ouattara forces advanced towards the city. It was not clear whether the troops had already entered Abidjan.
"I call on you to serve your country [...] It is time to join your brothers in the Republican Forces," Ouattara said in a statement on his television station on Thursday.
The statement was aired soon after South Africa said that president Gbagbo's army chief had sought refuge in the South African embassy in the country.
French troops deployed
French forces have also been deployed in some parts of Abidjan, local residents said. One source said soldiers from the 1,000-strong French Licorne force had been deployed in Zone 4, in the south of the city.
A Western military source said others were sent to rescue some Frenchies being attacked in the Deux Plateaux neighbourhood by youth supporters of incumbent president Gbagbo. La Belle France's armed forces declined to immediately comment.
Ouattara's forces took several towns near Abidjan, including the cocoa port of San Pedro, overnight, tightening the noose around Gbagbo, who has resisted previous call to step down.
Two San Pedro residents said shooting erupted in the town overnight on Wednesday. San Pedro is a strategically important town because it ships half the cocoa beans from the world's top cocoa grower.
"Shooting started at around 9 pm (2100 GMT) then we saw the rebels' vehicles drive into the town," said one resident, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
"Everyone's staying indoors, but we're still hearing a lot of gunfire."
Resisting pressure from the African Union and the West, Gbagbo has refused to step down since an election last November, which UN-certified results showed he lost to Ouattara by an eight-point margin, triggering a deadly power struggle.
The disputed election that was meant to draw a line under a 2002-3 civil war has instead reignited it, as rebels who control the northern half of the country and now back Ouattara, advance south into Gbagbo's territory from all sides.
Pro-Quattara forces seized the official capital Yamoussoukro on Wednesday, and they have advanced thousands of miles in the east towards the main city of Abidjan, where analysts expect the fiercest battles will be.
Earlier, Captain Leon Alla, a defence front man for Ouattara, said his forces took control of Sinfra on Tuesday and Bouafle and Soubre, 130km north of San Pedro, on Wednesday. Residents of Tiebisso, 40km north of the capital, also reported fighting.
Ouattara's prime minister Guillaume Soro told French radio Gbagbo had just "hours" to leave power peacefully.
UN sanctions
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution demanding an immediate end to the escalating violence in Cote d'Ivoire.
The resolution urges all Ivorian parties to respect the election of Ouattara as president. It condemns Gbagbo's decision not to accept Ouattara's election and urged him "to immediately step aside".
The resolution also slapped a travel ban and asset freeze on Gbagbo, his wife, and three key aides.
Thousands of people continue to flee the country due to the heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... following November's contested elections.
In the past few days, forces loyal to Ouattara have stepped up their military campaign - moving from their strongholds in the north into the government-controlled south.
Earlier this week, they reportedly seized the towns of Daloa, Bondoukou and Belleville and were fighting for the town of Duekoue.
However, The all-purpose However... Marco Oved, a freelance journalist in Abidjan, said it is unclear how much control is coming from Ouattara himself.
"He distanced himself from these rebel forces for the last eight years. It was only after the election that the rebels rallied to his side," he told Al Jizz.
"Ouattara accepted their support, but was hesitant to have any fighting going on, saying as the legitimately elected leader he didn't want to have to take the country by force. The offensive over the last few days has shown that he feels he has no other options now."
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Rwanda's justice minister welcomed Thursday a life sentence handed to a former senior government official for involvement in mass killings during the 1994 genocide. ... when victims were known to pay their killers to put them away with a bullet rather than beating them to death with shovels...
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced former top-ranking family ministry official Jean-Baptiste Gatete to life on Tuesday.
"He got a deserved sentence. Gatete is the symbol of death and destruction in this country. In eastern Rwanda he is known as the Butcher of Murambi," Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama told AFP.
"He's a beast and he should be kept away from people," the minister said.
Gatete was in 1994 working in the family ministry, having earlier served as mayor of Murambi in the east of the country.
The tribunal concluded he had retained influence in Murambi and was responsible for the deaths of "hundreds and possibly thousands" of minority Tutsis there, including by having them buried alive in mass graves.
The genocide led by ethnic majority Hutus claimed some 800,000 lives.
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Nine students of Rajshahi University were maimed yesterday in an attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL) activists on a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... (JCD).
JCD convener of RU unit Arafat Reza Ashiq and two of his fellow leaders are among the injured.
Sources said about 100 BCL leaders and activists attacked the JCD procession around 11:45am when it was heading towards the Folklore Chattar of the campus protesting Sunday's police attack on a procession that left nine JCD men injured.
The law enforcers chased the protesters to the campus' Kazla gate.
Later, the JCD men gathered on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in front of the Kazla gate around noon and blocked the road till 1:00pm. They also vandalised a university bus there.
Reaching the spot, police charged baton to disperse them. The JCD men responded hurling brickbats at them.
JCD convener Ashiq claimed RU Proctor Chowdhury Muhammad Zakaria provoked the BCL attack.
The proctor, however, said police broke up the JCD men as they held the procession defying restrictions on activities of students' bodies on the campus.
Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station, said they charged baton as the JCD activists were trying to create anarchy.
The JCD on Sunday brought out a procession on the campus demanding punishment of BCL activists who stabbed JCD member Ahsanuzzaman on February 8.
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[Dawn] Another member of Britain's House of Commons has been sentenced to prison for making fraudulent expense claims.
Former Labour Party MP Jim Devine was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in prison. He had been convicted of two charges of false accounting for filing bogus invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling more than 8,000 pounds ($13,000).
Two other former Labour politicians have been convicted and sentenced to prison in the scandal of expense claims. John Taylor, a former Conservative member of the House of Lords, is awaiting sentencing after being convicted in February.
A total of 392 current and former politicians were ordered to repay a total of 1.12 million pounds in expenses.
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Who says serendipidy is dead.
A geologist sitting on a bush toilet in a remote part of the Northern Territory has discovered a potentially lucrative mineral deposit.
On April Fools Day, Stalinist supporters will be speaking at NYU. Seriously, Im not joking.
The six-hour conference Academic Freedom in the 1960s is set to take place at 1 Washington Mews from 12 to 6 p.m. The theme of the event will focus on education, yet a quick background check on the venues stars is quite revealing.
For starters, Ellen Schrecker, a Yeshiva University Professor and author of The Lost Souls of Higher Education, will deliver the keynote address. Ms. Schrecker has written that guilty Soviet spies in the 1950s should have been excused for their crimes because they did not subscribe to traditional forms of patriotism.
In addition, Paul Robeson biographer Martin Duberman will be speaking on a panel. Through his retelling of Robesons life, Duberman has a strange fascination with the actors support of the Beloved Comrade, a.k.a. Joseph Stalin.
But perhaps the most radical of the participatory academics is Rutgers University-Newark Professor and author H. Bruce Franklin, who will be serving on the Vietnam War panel. Franklin has called Stalin one of the greatest heroes of modern history. In addition, Franklin wrote in an introductory essay for the book The Essential Stalin, I used to think of Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and a butcher but, to about a billion people today, Stalin is the opposite of what we in the capitalist world have been programmed to believe.
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Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein on 7 November 1879, a small village 15 miles (24 km) from the nearest post office. He was the fifth child of a well-to-do farmer, David Leontyevich Bronshtein (18471922) and Anna Bronshtein (18501910). The family was Jewish but reportedly not religious....
- Wikipedia as of April 1 2011.
Jews (particularly Russian Jews) and Communism, now theres a fun group! Hey kids er Komrade, lets plays us some dreidel. Anyone with a Judaic studies grounding care to take a crack at why the J and the big C seem to J Date with high frequency?
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Jews tend to take leading roles in most philosophical movements, Fi. We're a philosophical people, so we're trained in the skillz. I've been waiting for you to follow up about why that rabbi wasn't interested in converting you, but you never did.
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Face it, folks, Stalin is a fascinating historical figure and without his help most of Europe would most likely be speaking German today. Er...that is NOT to say that I endorse his politics.
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The only thing surprising here is that these history illiterate semi-morons know who Stalin was.
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why that rabbi wasn't interested in converting you, but you never did.
At heart, Im Christian. Got right with God, family left Judaism before I was born. Had my doubts awhile ago, though of exploring returning to Judaism, but ultimately wasn't compelled enough. Wanted to feel good about the Judaic end of things, but it just hasn't materialized.
Why DO certain elements in the Judaic community gravitate towards Communism and Ponzi schemes? Those two aforementioned things seem to be pinnacles of "anti" intellectualism. Something in the Judaic religion has been hijacked and tainted. Not sure what. Or maybe its a systematic perverse mindset wherein ponzi schemes and communism is what the Jews may view as giving praise to their own birthright of "intellectual superiority" and those are mere vehicles to suppress nonbeliever. Either way, no bueno.
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Can't wait for the academic forum on the benefits and glory of Southern Plantation Slavery. /sarc off
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Professor H. Bruce Franklin of Rutgers has called Stalin one of the greatest heroes of modern history
Rutgers University also paid Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of the reality TV show "Jersey Shore" $32,000 for showing up.
Rutger's standards for an educational experience for students aren't too high. Hope this doesn't come out of the student activity fee. Students got hosed.
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Point of information: the correct terminology is the Jewish community, not Judaic, Hebraic, or Israelite.
Elements of the Jewish community gravitate toward capitalism and democracy, too -- the same idealism expressed in a different way. This has been complained about extensively, and at several points in history Jews have been hung for it... or immortalized in Shakespearean plays. *shrug* That's what happens to minorities which refuse to disappear.
Or maybe its a systematic perverse mindset
Way to tar an entire people for the sins of a few, my dear. I've been polite to you, thinking you were just expressing childhood hurts out of ignorance, because I'm idealistic. But really, you stride gleefully beyond the pale.
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A people aren't "tarred." And I said "elements" which refers to a part not a whole. Soros very well might be tarred though. Throw in Bernanke. Its whatever. Christianity has the likes of Westboro. So you have some jackasses amongst you. Its not worth getting all bent out of shape and trying to come at me over. Im a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in about 2 seconds. Please don't tempt me.
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heh. I don't think you get it. Your 2 seconds just passed.
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Some University Scolars had argued that an alternate name{s] for the HYSKOS whom invaded + occupied ancient Egypt was "HEBRAU/HEBU", i.e. "HEBREWS" in the modern spelling - does that count???
The theory is that these abovesame later devol from Conquerors of Egypt to becom Partners + Allies of Egypt once the locals were able to successfully regain power in their own land , in sociopolitical alliance including intermarriage + power-sharing, etc. which ultimately broke down oer time due to the Hebrau's adoption of religious monotheism vee the Egyptian-perceived heretic PHAROAH AKHENATEN, + also great regional natural disasters???
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"Hebiru", JosephM. "The dusty ones", the Egyptian term for the various nomadic tribes, of which Abrahams lot were only one. That's the theory as I understand it, anyway. The last I read, which isn't all that up to date, there are contemporaneous Egyptian references to the "House of David" during the reign of one of the unimportant kings of Judah.
An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever said that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency's office on Arizona's southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods.
Dever said his recent conversation with the Border Patrol supervisor was the latest in a series of communications on the subject that he has had with various federal agents over the last two years. Dever said he plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
That should make life quite interesting. I assume the Democrats plan on losing the border states in the next election...
Map of Arizona Counties. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. And now Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever.
[Tolo News] Pakistain's cricket accepting defeat from India on Wednesday's famous match ended up difficult to Paks.
Two Paks have reportedly died of heart attack after their team lost to India in the World Cup semifinal.
Two Paks have reportedly died of heart attack after their team lost to India in the World Cup semifinal.
More than a billion people are believed to have watched India beat Pakistain by 29 runs in semifinal in the Indian city of Mohali.
The match was attended by top Pak and Indian officials, including Pak Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his counterpart Manmohan Singh. The match has been called the first since relations between the two nations frosted after 2008 Mumbai attacks.
On Saturday India will play against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
Pakistain announced a half-day holiday to let people watch and enjoy the match and money offices in India closed for the occasion.
Security was tightened as thousands of police and paramilitary forces were positioned around the match venue.
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They lose wars against India, the peace against India, cricket... Clearly the Land of the Pure isn't pure enough. I vote the entire population works to purify themselves against all current forms of corruption before they dare try moving against any external foes, lest Allah do it for them with flood, fire and quakes.
Yadin Kaufmann, who famously provided venture capital to some successful startups in Israel is working with a Palestinian, Saed Nashef who is a noted software exec. They have gathered up about $30m from some big tech companies, e.g., Cisco, Google and some from Soros.
Some Paleos already work in the tech sector in Israel but they are worker bees or specialists, not in the creative part of the biz.
It may work, it may not but that's venture capital.
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25 people are dead after severe flooding in southern Thailand. Thousands have been evacuated after whole villages were engulfed by the rising waters.
Floods more than a meter deep have washed across the south as unseasonably wet weather deluged the homes and businesses nearly a million people in what should be one of the hottest months of the year.
Around 9,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas, including nearly 1,000 holidaymakers stranded on islands in the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea who were picked up by naval ships on Wednesday and Thursday.
Thailand's army used its helicopters to air-drop aid into isolated areas on Friday and rescue elderly people trapped by the floods.
That explains why there have been fewer reports of terrorism there this week. Although this story is interesting.
[Straits Times] THE United States said on Wednesday it remains deeply concerned by the 'oppressive political environment' in Myanmar even with the disbanding of a military junta.
Washington is demanding the release of political prisoners and official recognition of the National League for Democracy, the main and now dissolved opposition party of pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
'We remain deeply concerned about Burma's oppressive political environment,' said State Department front man Mark Toner. Myanmar's strongman leader Senior General Than Shwe ...The effective king of Burma. He has held positions within the military dictatorship since at least 1992 and has in the process managed to sideline or bump off all his rivals. Under his sway Burma has remained a xenophobic cultural and economic backwater. Than Shwe ranked No. 4 on Parade Magazine's 2009 World's Worst Dictators list of 2009... signed a decree officially dissolving the military junta, clearing the way for the installation of a civilian government.
The army hierarchy retains a firm grip on power in the resource-rich South-east Asian country, however, and many analysts believe Than Shwe will attempt to retain some sort of control behind the scenes.
The handover came after widely-panned elections last November - the country's first in 20 years - which were marred by the absence of Suu Kyi and claims of cheating and intimidation.
Mr Toner, without commenting directly on the move, blasted the November vote as a 'fundamentally flawed electoral process that has ensured the key military regime figures have continued to dominate the government.'
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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.
[Ennahar] According to security sources, an autopsy is underway at the center of the forensic in Chateauneuf on the body of the girl Yasmine, found buried in the yard of an abandoned house in the village of Tala Lekhroub, province of Bejaia.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped, Kyodo news reported on Thursday.
Laurent Gbagbo
[Straits Times] THE United States said on Wednesday it remains deeply concerned by the 'oppressive political environment' in Myanmar even with the disbanding of a military junta.
