[Mail] Twenty years on from OJ Simpson's 'trial of the century' a key witness who was accused of trying to help the defense says he always believed the former football star was guilty of murder.
Kato Kaelin, an aspiring actor who was living in Simpson's guest house at the time of the slayings, was called as a key prosecution witness during the now-infamous 1995 case. He was supposed to help establish a time period when Simpson was away from his house and could have committed the killings, but his inconsistent testimony actually saw him ruled a hostile witness.
But now, in a new interview with Barbara Walters for Investigation Discovery due to air on Monday, Kaelin said he actually believed Simpson was guilty all along.
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Was he waiting until the statute of limitations expired to say this? Book deal in the making, or did that happen already with nobody remembering it?
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Based on conversations with a couple of LA high-level law enforcement types, Mr. Kaelin should have been in the seat instead of OJ.
He was a LOT more involved than reported, but that doesn't make good press (and reflected poorly on the DA's ability to discern collected evidence in an objective manner).
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[Hurriyet] A cholera outbreak in Iraq has spread to Kuwait and Bahrain, and risks turning into a region-wide epidemic as millions of pilgrims prepare to visit the country, UNICEF's Iraq director said.
The disease, which can lead to death by dehydration and kidney failure within hours if left untreated, was detected west of Baghdad in September and has since infected at least 2,200 people in Iraq and has killed six.
"It (the outbreak) already has a regional dynamic and the risk of that can only be increased by people from all over the region coming into Iraq," UNICEF country director, Peter Hawkins, said on Nov. 5.
Hawkins said cholera had spread to Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria but, in a later statement, UNICEF said the cases in Syria were not confirmed: "However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... given the scale of the outbreak in Iraq the risk of cholera spreading across Iraq's borders remains high," it said.
Millions of Shi'ite Muslims are due to visit Iraq in December for Arbaeen, a religious ritual marking the end of an annual mourning period for the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein, whose death in 680 AD entrenched the schism between Shi'ites and Sunnis.
Hawkins said UNICEF was working with holy mans in the Shi'ite shrine cities of Najaf and Kerbala to convey information about how to guard against cholera, which is endemic in Iraq and the wider region.
The outbreak can be traced to a number of factors including low water levels in the Euphrates and winter flooding that has contaminated the river and shallow wells with sewage water.
The war against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Lions of Islam who control large swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq has also contributed to the outbreak.
The conflict has displaced more than 3 million people, with many living in camps where conditions are conducive to the spread of cholera - a bite of contaminated food or a sip of contaminated water is enough to cause infection.
Hawkins said UNICEF has only limited access to areas controlled by ISIL, which swept across the Syrian border in mid-2014 in a bid to establish a modern caliphate.
Higher military expenditure and other costs associated with the battle against Islamist militancy has aggravated a cash crunch for Iraq, a major OPEC oil producer that has suffered from the drop in global crude prices over the past year.
A higher proportion of the government budget is also being spent on security at the expense of other services and infrastructure such as water supply, Hawkins said.
One in five of the confirmed cases in Iraq is among children, and in large parts of the country the start of the school year was delayed by a month as a precaution, UNICEF said in a statement.
In response to the outbreak, UNICEF is providing bottled water, oral rehydration salts and installing community water tanks, but like most humanitarian operations in Iraq it is severely underfunded.
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We had an article a couple weeks back about a 'food poisoning' incident that was blamed on saboteurs. IMHO, the whole thing smelled and was more likely cholera (yeah, there's a poo joke there but I ain't touching it!)
Kuwait and Bahrain are nominally functionally areas. For this to go regional suggests serious breakdown of society and infrastructure. Stopping it will take more than UN bottled water and rehydration salts. Maybe dropping those barrels of chlorine on the opposition wasn't the genius idea it first appeared, eh?
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An informal impromptu discussion began in this column last week about gun ranges, when I mentioned about problems getting an AK-74 zeroed in at 100 and 200 yards. No conclusions, just a divergence of opinions on just what is a tough shot with a rifle over open sights.
Weapons Man has a discussion about long range shooting concerning a club called the One Mile Club. According to the post, a shooter can qualify as a member of the One Mile Club if he can hit a target at one mile (1,750 yards), then his next shot he must hit at 100 yards, or the long distance shot and membership is disqualified.
Speaking of disqualifications, Stewart Rhodes, head of Oathkeepers is facing disbarment for a number of offenses to the court. The linked article seems dismissive of Rhodes due to his travails, but if he does get disbarred, his stock with the patriots and 2nd Amendment supporters will rise.
That is not the best way to transport a firearm, but then everyone can see the shotgun's chamber is open and therefore empty. It is not like the guy is going to swing the shotgun into action, shove two shells into the shotgun, cock the gun, and engage a safety, thus presenting a danger to anyone.
Speaking with an acquaintance in meatspace yesterday about those issues, I always have been told that the very best, safest way to transport any long gun is strapped to the back, muzzle down, action open and chambered clear, but as long as the action is open and the chamber is clear, Cruz was transporting the firearm safely.
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So someone added to my Jetlag Appreciation Day list of to-dos - check smoke detectors, change batteries in important electrical devices such as electric safes, and now begin practicing conceal carry drills while wearing winter clothing: gloves, various coats, so forth. Not only to refresh yourself, but also if you have new clothes - coat, gloves, undershirt - or new equipment - holster, firearm accessory, new firearm - you give yourself a chance to train and adjust and train again while merely looking out of place at the range rather than finding out at the worst time in your life that your fine new gloves do not allow you to properly operate your equipment.
I'm going to take some liberty from the show The Best Defense. As always, they remind viewers that awareness is your best defense. Second to that, they reviewed defense with items other than a firearm. They talked about escalation, focusing on pepper spray. They stressed practicing your pepper spray - do research and make sure the brand will disable most attackers rather than spice up their dinner. Go and spray it. Does it mist or stream, little of both? Here is me putting words in their mouths. Spray is not bad, don't have to be as accurate, but how does it behave in x mph wind? How offset is the aim with a crosswind? At what headwind does it come back on you?
I was hoping to post something else, but regionally we have an uptick of meth. If you are unfamiliar with the beauties of said drug, I can give you my opinion. Had an employee deal with a large male so twacked out a different customer had 911 all but dialed until said head left. It put the employee in an awkward position - leave him alone and he steals anything of value. Escort the head and potentially put them self into harm's way. Guy could have put $300 of graphing calculator into waist band pretty easily and nobody would have known. The merchandise loss would be a kick in the pants, but we know that at even a quarter value is a good haul (meth is cheap) but then we get the reputation of an easy mark so the whole damn hive starts coming in. It self perpetuates.
Awareness and communication, attitude, numbers were employee's best defense. Backing that up was pepper spray and telescoping baton - and it was at that moment employee realized she didn't know if she could properly deploy the pepper spray, because toe to toe would have been a loser even with the baton.
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IDPA is good practice too. Wear different clothes, wear different jackets. I don't do IDPA to compete, I use it for practice. My wife bought me some turkish ammo that failed about 1 in 20 rounds. Only thing I've seen fail in my XDm. But, it was good practice for a bad round, having to actually practice tap-rack-bang under some pressure. It was rather strange how quickly that became automatic too, after the initial surprise wore off, going through that drill is quick and reflex. No bang? Slap the mag, rack it and start firing again.
Another thing I found about the 3.8" XDm is that apparently there's a huge muzzle flash, but I never notice it when firing. Other IDPA people keep asking what I'm shooting but I think they forget it's a 3.8" and not the 5".
[DAWN] Rescue crews continued digging through the rubble of a horrifying factory collapse in Sunder Estate, with the corpse count rising to 41 as rescuers pulled out more bodies from the debris on Friday.
At least 102 survivors have already been pulled from the fallen structure of the four-storey Rajput Polyester polythene bag factory near Lahore after it came crashing down on Wednesday evening, trapping scores of people inside.
But hopes were fading for anyone left alive as rescuers scrabbled through the debris.
"There are less chances of finding more injured under the rubble but we are looking for dead bodies," Arshad Zia, head of rescue services in Punjab, told AFP.
Soldiers and rescuers were preparing to clear the rubble in front of the factory and move towards the rear of the building where they fear they will discover more victims.
"We expect to find at least 25 more dead bodies in that part of the factory," Zia said.
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[Mail] Twenty years on from OJ Simpson's 'trial of the century' a key witness who was accused of trying to help the defense says he always believed the former football star was guilty of murder.
