The son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was one of a gang of men jailed for stabbing a teenager to death near a London underground station, a British judge revealed on Friday.
Faisal Wangita (25) was one of 13 men convicted over the killing of Mahir Osman in January 2006. Osman was stabbed more than 20 times in a feud between rival gangs.
Wangita was cleared of murder but was jailed for five years after being found guilty in April of violent disorder and conspiracy to wound.
His lawyer revealed at an earlier hearing that his father was the former Ugandan dictator, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of people during his rule between 1971 and 1979.
But Wangita's relationship to Amin was kept from the jury at London's Old Bailey criminal court after Judge Stephen Kramer decided it would be prejudicial.
It was made public only on Friday after the judge lifted a banning order on the media following the conviction of the final five members of the gang charged over the killing.
The court heard Wangita was one of up to 40 African men and youths who attacked Osman (18) outside the station in Camden, north London.
Closed-circuit television footage showed the mechanical engineering student being attacked with knives, bottles, hammers and scaffolding poles in front of horrified onlookers.
During the assault, the gang shouted: "Stab him through the heart, stab him dead through the heart."
Prosecutors said the violence was the culmination of a series of incidents between rival Somali gangs, the Centric Boys gang, of which Osman was a member, and the North London Somalis.
The gang escaped on a bus but were caught after it was surrounded by police. "It was a premeditated attack using a level of violence I have rarely seen," said Detective Chief Inspector Michael Broster.
London has suffered a rise in gang-related murders in recent years, often involving teenagers. "The attack was an example of gang culture that is all too prevalent on the streets of London," Kramer said.
Amin had at least four wives and is believed to have had about 40 children. -- Rooters
My daughter was there waiting for her American Airlines connection at the time & heard announcements about the Connecticut flight, but there was no big airport-wide 'to-do' about it. Probably some drunk pulling a stupid prank, but one never knows.
MIAMI -- Two men were removed from a plane at Miami International Airport Friday night when a passenger alerted authorities and said she overheard them saying they had planned to hijack the plane.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on board American Airlines flight 936 from MIA to Hartford, Conn. The flight never left the gate. The two men were removed and questioned.
K-9 units searched the plane and the flight was given an all-clear to take off. There were no arrests reported Saturday in the investigation.
210Po is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of 138.376 days; it decays directly to its daughter isotope 206Pb. A milligram of 210Po emits as many alpha particles per second as 4.215 grams of 226Ra. A few curies (1 curie equals 37 gigabecquerels) of 210Po emit a blue glow which is caused by excitation of surrounding air. A single gram of 210Po generates 140 watts of power.[13] Because it emits many alpha particles, which are stopped within a very short distance in dense media and release their energy, 210Po has been used as a lightweight heat source to power thermoelectric cells in artificial satellites; for instance, 210Po heat source was also used in each of the Lunokhod rovers deployed on the surface of the Moon, to keep their internal components warm during the lunar nights.[14] Some anti-static brushes contain up to 500 microcuries of 210Po as a source of charged particles for neutralizing static electricity in materials like photographic film.[15]
The majority of the time 210Po decays by emission of an alpha particle only, not by emission of an alpha particle and a gamma ray. About one in 100,000 decays results in the emission of a gamma ray.[16] This low gamma ray production rate makes it more difficult to find and identify this isotope. Rather than gamma ray spectroscopy, alpha spectroscopy is the best method of measuring this isotope.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Six Africans who came to Denmark to play in the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament deserted their national teams and disappeared in the Danish capital and authorities said they would begin searching for them on Sunday.
Bring some homeless Africans to Europe and they .. disappear.
The Homeless World Cup, started in 2003 by editors of newspapers sold by homeless people, is a six-day street soccer tournament that drew 500 players from 48 countries. The tournament, which ended Saturday, aims to focus attention on the world's estimated 1 billion homeless people and put players on a path to independence.
Six of them already are independent, in fact ...
Liberia managed to take third place, despite playing with no substitutes after four players deserted the team. Two more players, from Cameroon and Burundi, also vanished into the streets of Copenhagen. Authorities said they would begin searching for the missing players after their visas expired Sunday.
Guess it would be illegal to start searching for them, oh, right away ...
The street-style game features hockey-like boards and small goals, with four-player teams of mixed ages and genders. Each game lasts 14 minutes, with two seven-minute halves. Since its 2003 inception, when 18 nations participated in Austria, the tournament has steadily grown.
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"Thought Screen Helmets" long overdue. Denmark, step into the 21st Century and help us rid the planet of Alien Abductions before it is too late.
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There was an expose several years ago of young African soccer players lured by shady and unscrupulous European "agents" who take the players to Europe in hopes of a big pay day if the kid gets signed.
When the kid doesn't get a contract, the agent dumps him on the streets of France, Italy, Spain, with no return ticket, language skills, etc.
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These folks used to have nukes (some bright folks saw what was coming and gave them up in 1991). The IAEA and their ilk may think they had a hand in this, but was and is still my belief that de Klerk and the crew saw what the future was going to foist on the subcontinent in the way of politics and governments and decided to take away a really big threat.
I may not have always agreed with the de Klerk government policies, but I commend them for this choice.
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British businesses are losing more than £50-million a year because of employees leaving work early on Friday, according to a survey published on Friday. The top excuses for starting the weekend early are a long lunch, doctor's appointment and an out-of-office meeting near to home.
"Our evidence suggests that more and more workers are seeing Friday afternoon as an unofficial holiday," said Pam Rogerson, head of personnel at Employersafe. "We have estimated that this is costing British business just over £50-million a year, which all goes to form part of the overall £13-billion cost of workplace absenteeism."
The company has developed a software system which detects patterns of absence and recommends appropriate disciplinary action. Employersafe also said the "Friday Feeling" trend has been reinforced by motoring organisations which report that the Friday rush hour now starts around noon.
Research by the Confederation of British Industry suggested earlier this year that managers believe one in eight of all workplace absences are due to staff faking illness -- and the favourite days to do so are Fridays or Mondays.
They get paid for research like this? When did they do it, on a Friday?
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Hmmm.... Tie promotions (or retentions) to end-of-play Friday attendance and watch the screeching begin...
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Just distribute paychecks at 1700 on Fridays. You must be present to collect your own paycheck, none will be given to representatives. Then I suppose the problem will shift to Monday mornings.
Asias first nuclear reactor Apsara will not be Mumbais pride henceforth. The reactor situated at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Turbhe, is set to be shift out of Mumbai. Apsaras foundation stone was laid 51 years ago on August 4, 1956.
The development has been underlined with the finalisation of Indias nuclear deal with America on Friday. According to the deal, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have the powers to inspect those of Indias nuclear reactors that are built from foreign assistance and are operational for civil purposes.
S K Malhotra, Executive Director (Media Relations) of BARC, confirmed the development. Apsaras core was built with an assistance from the United Kingdom. So only the core will be shifted from Mumbai. However, its new location has not been finalised yet, he reveals.
Justifying the decision to shift Apsara, Malhotra says, Apsara is situated in the BARC complex, which hosts other strategic nuclear reactors too which are completely indigenous and would not be open for inspection from any international body.
We dont want any foreign body to come to the BARC at the pretext of inspecting Apsara. That is why the reactor will have to leave Mumbai.
According to the pact, Apsara will be under IAEAs inspection wherever it will be situated.
Indias nuclear power programme began with Apsara on August 4, 1956. It enabled Indian scientists and engineers to gain insights into the complexities of design and construction of a nuclear reactor and to learn the intricacies of controlling the nuclear fission chain reaction.
Apsara served as the stepping-stone for advanced work in several nuclear facilities that were subsequently set up at Turbhe. It is also used for research purposes by universities and educational institutions countrywide.
Apsara is a swimming pool type reactor loaded with enriched uranium as fuel. The fuel core is suspended from a movable trolley in a pool filled with water. The pool water serves as coolant, moderator and reflector, besides providing the shielding.
Father of the Indian atomic programme, Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha, conceptualised Apsaras design. It was built entirely by Indian engineers in a record time of about 15 months. It was named Apsara (celestial damsel or water nymph) by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru because of its swimming pool type reactor.
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Apsara was named by Nehru when he likened the blue Cerenkov-radiation to the beauty of the Apsaras - the dancers in the court of the God Indra.
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The second oldest reactor CIRUS (Canada India Research U.S.) will be shut down rather than moved.
CIRUS, an NRX type reactor, was supplied by Canada in 1954, but used heavy water supplied by the US (hence its name).
Canada wants it shut down before it will sell Uranium to India.
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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.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Six Africans who came to Denmark to play in the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament deserted their national teams and disappeared in the Danish capital and authorities said they would begin searching for them on Sunday.
