Authorities say a man was arrested after explosives were found in a vehicle on an Army base in Georgia and the FBI is investigating.
A spokesman for Fort Gordon near Augusta said Wednesday military authorities are not treating the case as a terrorist threat.
Spokesman Buz Yarnell gave few other details. A news conference was scheduled at Fort Gordon later Wednesday.
Yarnell said a search of the civilian's vehicle Tuesday uncovered a knapsack containing military hand grenades. He said the man arrested is a suspect in a theft of military equipment from Fort Gordon in April.
FBI spokesman Steve Emmett in Atlanta said federal charges are forthcoming but he does not expect them to involve explosives or terrorism. It will be interesting to see if the perp's name is "Sgt. Bubba Wayne Smith" or "Pvt. Abdul Muhammed Akbar Jihad."
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If it's the latter don't expect to ever see a follow-up to this story.
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There was a theft of large coils of copper wire (worth thousands upon thousands )in recent years. BTW why assume it's a Private or junior enlisted? Think bigger. To begin with I'd assume SFC and above, as was the copper wire thief. Army threw a rug over it. And Nadal Hasan was no private.
[Straits Times] GEORGE TOWN - A GROUP of parang-wielding men hacked off the arm of an insurance agent here and made off with it still holding onto an envelope containing RM5,500 (S$2,350).
However, police believe it could be a case of mistaken identity after it was learnt that the 35-year-old victim, who is from Kulim, had heard one of his assailants uttering the word 'silap' (mistake) during the incident.
The agent was walking to his car after having supper at a coffeeshop in Jalan Bukit Maju 2, Bukit Mertajam, when he was ambushed by at least three men at about 11.30pm on Sunday.
Penang deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm (I) Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the victim's left arm was hacked off when he tried to deflect blows from his assailants.
'They carried away the arm with the envelope still in the hand and sped off in a car. There were three rings on his fingers, one of which was recovered at the scene. It was unlikely that the rings were the target as they were only worth a few hundred ringgit,' SAC Tun Hisan said on Monday. 'The victim is now warded at a private hospital where his condition is stable.'
He said police were investigating the case for causing hurt during a robbery, which provides for a jail term of up to 20 years with a fine or whipping.
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Tiger, that's gonna cost you.
She is the second woman to claim she has one of Woods' cubs. Theresa Rogers said in December she had Woods' baby in 2004 and negotiated a multimillion-dollar settlement to keep it under wraps.
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Apparently his recent lack of access to the stable of sluts has drastically reduced his golf game.
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When I joined the Navy, my father gave me this advice, "Keep your dick in your pants son, you'll have a tremendous ammount of trouble if you don't"
I did, I saw others who didn't.
He was right, dead right.
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Not surprised he has a cub, probably others. And I doubt that tigers spends too many nights alone, women are far to easy. Doubt me? Evidence: Van Der Sloot talk a woman into going back to his hotel room. OJ Simpson has a girlfriend/fiance (I forget). And Scott Patterson received THOUSANDS of love letters AFTER being convicted of killing his wife and child.
Vid at link.
Charlie and his dad enjoy fishing out of Perdido Bay where his grandparents live. The oil spill is messing up his fishing.
If BP can't fix it, Charlie will. Charlie demonstrates a simple, quick and certain method for stopping the oil flow from the well-head. As Charlie points out, all that is required is a steel plate, a wrench and an underwater robot. The robot with a wrench attachment will loosen the bolts fastening the riser pipe flange to the blow-out protector flange. The bolts will be loosened just enough, and a couple removed, to allow space for a single steel plate to be inserted between the flanges by another robotic maneuver. Then the remaining bolts will be retightened to hold the plate firmly and to prevent any further oil leakage. Charlie demonstrates this simple solution using similar flanges and a plate to shut down the flow, and challeges BP to do the same. Problem solved. :-)
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gorb, there are a log of problems with the idea. I recommend 'The Oil Drum' for extensive discussion on the complexities of trying to control this well. For starters: lots of oil blowing in your sensors so you can't see once you get nuts loosened, the pipe is likely pratly crushed and pinned below the flange, tough to maneuver a plate into place with a vicious cross-flow, and even if you succeeded, the added stress on the upper part of the well could cause it to break off and lead to an even more uncontrollable situation.
junirony, there shouldn't be but one string of drill pipe in the riser - the pictures of the clipped riser look like two, side-by-side, but it could be just a a short little stub that slipped in somehow and got cut a second time, or it could be a stub of 9 7/8" casing bent into a figure 8 and no drill pipe.
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One thing that has me puzzled. The BOP is supposed to be able be removed and replaced in case of a problem. It can supposedly be pulled up, repaired and put back in place.
That the BOP has not be removed, another put in its place and the new one "fired" has me a little bit baffled. This would seem to imply that the well is blown out below the BOP. Otherwise, why wouldn't they try that?
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I don't know if anyone knows what the second pipe is or where it came from. But it may explain why BP would try to close the upper annular rather then one of the pipe rams. I have read that they needed 16 ppg. mud wt. to balance the well. .052 x 16 x 18000 gives you a btm hole pressure of about 15,000 psi. which is way above the burst pressure of the csg. You would be risking an underground blowout even if you could plug it off at the surface.
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You are supposed to be able to remove and replace the BOP, but you would do it with a plug in the well. In principle you could do it flowing, and dump the oil in the ocean (er, like is going on anyway), but I am not sure if the release hardware is functional. They had at one time considered doing that, or adding a new BOP on top of the existing one, but changed their minds. I presume because the casing strings in the shallow part of the well were damaged such that stopping the flow out the top would simply direct it out the sides into the shallow mud, which would then wash out from around the well, allowing the whole thing to fall over and result in unconstrained flow. Sounds from pressure data that they may be nearing unconstrained flow now anyway somehow - much less drop from below the BOP to ambient sea pressure than there used to be - so either the restrictions in the BOP have eroded and are unable to hold as much pressure differential or some of the pressure is bleeding off deeper, out through brokend pipe and into the sands and mud.
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crosspatch. The BOP weighs about 185 tons and is normally installed and retrieved by the riser which is laying like a pretzel on the ocean floor.
The crane operator testified that the first indication he had that there was a problem was when the gas buster blew up. About the only way that could happen is if the blow out preventers were already closed and functioning and the crew was circulating the gas through the choke line. As the pressure below the blow out preventers approached maximum allowable casing pressure the driller would have been sending more and more gas through the gas buster which caused it to explode. The gas blowing out of the ruptured gas buster was sucked into air intake of the rig engines which caused them to over speed then die. The hydraulics for the BOP'S and the emergency disconnect system is driven by an electric motor which would explain the loss of hydraulics. There are in fact at least three backup systems but someone would have had to be able to get to the main unit to activate them. Even if you could seal of the well off at the ocean floor, that would probably be a very bad idea at this point.
14 ppg. 13,000 psi at the wellhead. Reservoir formation was supposedly less than that - saw 12.5 ppg. Probably less than that now. Hope so or they may not be able to kill this thing until it depletes.
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I'm sure your right Glenmore. I was pretty sceptical about 16 ppg. mud myself. I would be interested to know where you found your data. I haven't been able to find anything reliable myself.
Here's a bit of the article:
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement a dopamine squirt that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored. Lots more at link.
President Hugo Chavez in an interview defended his country's political system and highlighted that "no country is more democratic than Venezuela," even though some sectors claim that he has established a dictatorship
Except maybe Burma ...
In an interview published on Monday by the BBC World News and BBC Mundo networks, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addressed a wide array of topics, from his relations with the United States to the independence of the Judiciary. The Venezuelan leader defended vehemently his model.
... and Zimbabwe ...
"There's no dictatorship here. I have been elected three times. And when the rich elite overthrew me in a coup, people brought me back to power. I am a democrat. I have the legitimacy that most people have given to me. This is democratic socialism in democracy," said Chavez when asked if Venezuela has a real democracy, Efe reported.
... and Iran ...
Chavez added that there is judicial independence in Venezuela and argued that the imprisonment of Judge María Afiuni, who is in jail for having granted conditional release to Eligio Cedeño, a banker accused of corruption, is "a case where one power has acted in total autonomy. The Judiciary has condemned a former judge."
... and of course Libya ...
On the critical reports issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Chavez said that this entity is a "manipulated commission" which "has supported coups." Guess it all depends on your definition of democracy. I'm pretty slender, too. And handsome. And a really good lover. And I might add that nobody dances the tango like I do.
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If he spelled democratic with a capital "D", I'd agree... but we're closing fast.
Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the Central Asian country's south after days of deadly ethnic riots.
The official death count from the past week of violence rose to 189 on Wednesday, with 1,910 wounded, the Health Ministry said. But observers believe the real toll is much higher, with many victims being buried quickly in keeping with Muslim tradition. A 3:1 wounded:dead ratio implies about 600 have been killed.
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In a bid to shake up Canadian broadcasting, media company Quebecor Inc says it will launch a 24-hour conservative news and comment channel that many observers are already dubbing "Fox News North".
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HELP! We need a Fox News UK. Sky News is just Al Ja Beebyas cast-offs.
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Just the thought of this happening has caused the Canuckistanian MSM to experience their ears blowing sideways off their heads and their collective jaw to leave a large dent in the dirt before rebounding and assuming its usual chattering about the "dangerous Christian far right".
Government spending is out of control and Obama's method of throwing more money at our economy is not working. Federal spending cuts needs to start somewhere, and there is no better place than a program that can survive on its own.
American taxpayers are subsidizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to the tune of over $420 million dollars in 2010 alone. CPB is the parent company of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the National Public Radio (NPR) radio network.
I wish him the best of luck, but the dhimocrats will not roll over and let their propaganda machine go away.
YouTube link.
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If I understand correctly, this electoral system gives everyone in an 'at-large' jurisdiction one vote per at-large position, and they may cast them all for one candidate or distribute them among as many as they like. I have no problem with it, though it could just as well be done by making more districts and eliminating the at-large seats.
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As a result, the village has elected its first Hispanic to the Board of Trustees. link The system is called "cumulative voting", and functions as Glenmore describes.
The Obama administration may have yet to bridge a trust deficit with the Indian government but cooperation is galloping in the military sphere. In a first of its kind, three crewmembers from India's indigenously built nuclear submarine INS Arihant sailed for a week onboard the USS Annapolis, a Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine, in the Arabian Sea last month.
The attachment, kept under wraps, formed part of the annual Malabar joint Indo-US naval exercises which concluded off Goa in early May. The move is significant. Just as the US is guarded about access to its nuclear submarines, the Indian navy is wary about granting access to its pioneering nuclear submariners or even a glimpse of its first indigenously built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, the Arihant.
Photography was banned at the Arihant's July 26 launch last year and the first official photograph of the nuclear submarine was released by the government only last week. (The first photograph of the Arihant was carried by India Today last year). The Arihant crew were given complete access to all areas of the Annapolis and had a hands-on experience of life on board a US nuclear powered submarine at sea. India's homemade SSBN is meanwhile undergoing harbour trials in Visakhapatnam and is expected to begin full-fledged sea trials only next year and is slated to be commissioned in 2012.
The Indian navy's first nuclear submarine, the INS Chakra, an Akula-2 nuclear powered attack submarine is to be commissioned later this year in Vladivostok. The Chakra is to join the navy on a ten-year lease and is to be used to train crews for the Arihant class submarines.
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This is the only photo the Indian MOD has so far allowed to be released.
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ION NEWS KERALA > THE INDIAN ARMY IS BEING INTENTIONALLY WEAKENED.
and
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE EOFURM > CHINA GIVING MASSIVE AID TO CAMBODIA.
* WMF > CHINA SHOULD NEGOTIATE OR OFFER "DUAL NATIONAL" CITIZENSHIP STATUS TO NORTH KOREA, MYANMAR, LAOS, CAMBODIA, + INDONESIA.
[Straits Times] THE police have plugged a major drug pipeline to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Klang Valley when they detained 15 people and seized an assortment of designer drugs last week.
One of the suspects is a 16-year-old student of a school here. The drugs comprised 17,451 ecstasy pills, 9,025 grammes of powdered ecstasy, syabu (454 grammes), 17,260 Eramin 5 pills, ketamine (5,052 grammes) and caffeine (4,260 grammes).
In the two-day blitz which began on Thursday, the police also seized eight cars, RM162,773, two computers, five wrist-watches, eight handphones and jewellery, believed to be ill-gotten gains from the sale of drugs. The seized drugs, cars and other valuables totalled about RM4 million (S$1.7 million).
Johor police chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the suspects, comprising nine men and six women, including two Myanmar nationals, were picked up in seven raids. He said the raids were carried out in Pagoh, Muar, Taman Austin Perdana, Seri Alam, Taman Megah Ria, Masai and Taman Molek.
Mohd Mokhtar said investigations revealed that the syndicate had been operating for a year, adding that it was supplying drugs to Thailand, Batam (Indonesia), Singapore, Klang Valley and here. He said six of the suspects had previous records for drug and gambling-related offences.
The suspects aged between 16 and 51 have been remanded until Friday to facilitate investigations under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the death penalty upon conviction, and the Forfeiture of Property Act 1988.
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[Straits Times] ELEVEN leaders of bloody, anti-government protests could face the death penalty after being charged on Tuesday with terrorism during the worst political upheaval in modern Thai history.
The Criminal Court denied bail for the 11 who were taken to a Bangkok prison after being charged with committing, threatening to commit and supporting terrorist acts. While the charges carry a maximum penalty of death, executions are rare in Thailand.
The leaders, including Veera Musikapong and Nattawut Saikua, had been detained since surrendering to the government on May 19 following weeks of clashes between so-called Red Shirt protesters and security forces in which nearly 90 people were killed and more than 1,400 injured.
Most of the dead and injured were protesters, largely made up of rural and urban poor, who demanded a dissolution of Parliament and new elections, claiming the government had come to power through illegitimate means.
Since the quelling of the Bangkok protests, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has attempted to implement a reconciliation policy to heal the social and economic rifts in Thai society. But critics said the charges of terrorism will only serve to deepen the divisions and possibly lead to more violence.
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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.
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