[An Nahar] A 107-year-old Arkansas man was killed during a shootout with U.S. police and SWAT team members, local authorities said.
Police were responding to a disturbance at a house in Pine Bluff city Saturday afternoon and determined that suspect Monroe Isadore had pointed a gun at two people, according to a statement given to local media.
The two victims were led out of the house. As the officers approached the bedroom where Isadore had taken cover, he shot through the door.
Isadore failed to injure any of the officers with his gunfire. Supervisors began negotiating with Isadore and a Special Weapons and Tactics team was called out.
Using a camera inserted into the room, the SWAT team was able to confirm that Isadore was armed with a handgun. The officers then slipped gas into the room before Isadore responded with gunfire.
"Shortly afterwards, a SWAT entry team inside the residence breached the door to the bedroom and threw a distraction device into the bedroom," the Pine Bluff Police Department statement read.
"Isadore then began to fire on the entry team and the entry team engaged Isadore, killing him."
The statement did not say which type of distraction device was used.
Law enforcement officials are investigating the incident.
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Sounds like Murder to me.
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Hate to armchair this one, but I wonder if anyone suggested warm milk and a few cookies, a preacher or two? He might have harmlessly just dozed off. The foto with him in a suit and tie, looked pretty respectable. I'll bet he worked hard and paid taxes all his life. Clean living took him to 107. Too bad no one told him about the new Police State.
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I think I would have had the cops wait a whole lot longer before trying to put gas, 'distraction' devices, etc., into the house.
Once the two victims had been secured safely and it was determined that Isadore was in the house alone, there's no rush. Put up a perimeter, get a bullhorn and start talking. The goal is to bore him into surrendering.
We don't have near all the facts yet, but I wonder what the rush was.
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Exactly, Doc. They couldn't wait him out? He likely had a nap coming up soon.
Suicide by cop. Ably assisted by kids who have toys they have to use because they're there.
SWAT teams are wannabee miitary. OK, then they go under the State not the city or county. For law enforcement they belong to the AG. The AG personally clears the use of them in an incident. All actions are filmed. A formal official After Action Report is filed with each case. At least once a year all cases are reviewed for adjustments to TTP and employment. If you want to be professional don't moan about it. It you just want to play cowboys and indians/cops and robbers, grow up or have your toys taken away from you.
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I can imagine a real problem for police and certain politicians if more elder ex-military types decide they need to serve their country one last time in an extralegal, violent fashion.
That is twinkle, twinkle little star
Along come Brady in his electric car
But he's got a mean look right in his eyes
He's gonna shoot somebody just to see him die
He's been on the job too long
[Al Ahram] The daughter of Libya's ex-spy chief under dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... was released by her abductors after her tribe cut off the capital's water supply, officials said Sunday.
Commander Haitham el-Tajouri of the militia that kidnapped Anoud el-Senoussi said that she was handed over to her tribe in southern Libya late Saturday after the country's prime minister negotiated her release.
El-Tajouri's militia is part of the Supreme Security Committee, which is comprised of militias that work with police and are paid to help with security by the Interior Ministry. The 21 year old's abduction highlighted the government's inability to control even its own paid forces.
Prime Minister Ali Zidan has struggled to reign in a combustible mix of tribal feuds, disgruntled tribes and renegade militias. The country's nascent police and army have been unable to secure the country and rely on help from former rebels who fought in the 2011 civil war that toppled Gadfhafi. The armed militias born out of the war often act above the law and have taken part in a string of abductions, often seeking Dire Revenge™.
Amnesia Amnesty International said last week that el-Senoussi's abduction "casts a shadow on the Libyan authorities' ability to ensure the safety" of around 8,000 detainees held in relation to the 2011 war.
The rights group said masked men armed with heavy weapons attacked a three-car judicial convoy carrying her Monday and that no one was reported injured.
Amnesty said the judicial police have been significantly weakened because of the war and that hundreds of officers have failed to report back to work since. It added that around 10,000 former members of armed brigades that fought against Qadaffy are being courted by the Interior Ministry to beef up policing, but "lack the necessary training and experience to handle detainees," Amnesty said.
The militia claimed in a statement online that it had kidnapped el-Senoussi to protect her from criminal gangs amid a security vacuum in the North African country.
El-Senoussi was kidnapped as she left al-Rayoumi prison in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... where she was visiting her father, Abduallah el-Senoussi. He is locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over his alleged role in crimes committed during the civil war. His daughter was previously detained for 10 months on charges of using a forged passport and entering Libya on a forged document.
Days after her abduction, el-Senoussi's Megraha tribe in Sabha in southern Libya cut the power on pumps that keep water flowing to the northwest and the capital. Water shortages hit Tripoli, forcing hospitals and homes to rely on wells and large tanks.
Water Minister El-Hady Hansheer said Sunday that water valves in the south were opened after three days of being shut off.
El-Tajouri said el-Senoussi's release was not a result of blackmail or pressure.
"If Anoud had committed a crime against Libyans or her arrest was required she would not have been released even if our air and not just our water was cut off," he told news hounds.
Hisham Hassan, a front man for the International Commission of the Red Thingy in Libya, also confirmed to the AP on Sunday that el-Senoussi was safely released.
Also Sunday, a Libyan security official said a disgruntled officer in uniform shot up the front gates of the prime minister's office in the heart of Tripoli. No one was injured. The official said civilians tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! the man and handed him over to the building's guards.
In the eastern city of Benghazi, another Libyan official said Capt. Salem Shabaan, one of several officers in charge of a group of special forces at the airport there, survived a boom-mobileing. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
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[An Nahar] The leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's M23 rebels said Sunday they were ready to disarm under two conditions: the return of Congolese refugees and the eradication of Hutu militia the FDLR.
M23 chief Bertrand Bisimwa said the army mutineers, whose rebellion has terrorized eastern DR Congo for more than a year, would return to civilian life if the government agreed to their demands at peace talks set to resume in Uganda after breaking down in May.
"We are ready to disarm under two conditions: first, that the question of the FDLR be resolved, and second, the return of the Congolese refugees living in camps" in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The M23 was founded by former Tutsi rebels who were incorporated into the Congolese army under a 2009 peace deal.
Complaining the deal was never fully implemented, they mutinied in April 2012, turning their guns on their former comrades and launching the latest rebellion to ravage DR Congo's mineral-rich but conflict-prone east.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and various rights groups have accused the M23 of atrocities including rape and murder in a conflict that has caused tens of thousands of refugees to flee the country.
The U.N. also accuses Rwanda's current Tutsi leadership of backing the M23, a charge the country has adamantly denied.
The rebels for their part have accused the Congolese army of joining forces against them with the FDLR, or Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, which is also active in eastern DR Congo where its members fled in the wake of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Some FDLR members are wanted on charges of taking part in the genocide, when Hutu bully boyz killed around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
"We don't want them (the FDLR) on our territory anymore," said Bisimwa, calling for the Hutu group to be "neutralized" and Tutsi refugees returned.
The M23 have recently retreated from their positions around the key eastern city of Goma in the face of a fresh offensive by the army and a new U.N. combat force created to fight the rebels.
Speaking three days after declaring the M23 was willing to resume peace talks, Bisimwa said Sunday the rebels were ready to become civilians again.
"The M23 isn't interested in joining the army or the Congolese government," he said.
"That army's not attractive," he added. "The M23 is ready to demobilize and return to civilian life."
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[Al Ahram] A group of men in a stolen car shot 29 people on the main street of a poor indigenous town in the mountains outside Guatemala City, killing 11 in an incident that some residents blamed on corrupt coppers.
Officials blamed the attack on gang violence but that was greeted with skepticism by some residents of San Jose Nacahuil. Residents expelled the national police six years ago and set up a community police force that patrols with sticks and machetes, and officials said the community had low crime rates in recent years.
Eight of the dead were shot in a just-opened cantina, a one-story cinderblock building where a group of men were drinking beer and liquor around plastic tables. The majority of the maimed were shot in the street between the cantina and a second, older establishment owned by the same local businessman. Two of those shot in the street died, along with a man shot in the second cantina.
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A discussion of problems Canadians are having in getting people employed. And some measures being discussed to remedy the problem
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There has been some structural movement to try to shrink the gap between available and in-demand skills among university grads. Ontario, for example, will soon halve the number of students accepted into teachers college programs and double the amount of time it takes to complete the degree. The University of Alberta announced last month that it will be closing 20 of its arts programs. And the University of Ottawa and Mount Royal University in Calgary recently said they will suspend admissions to their journalism programs. These changes may nominally affect the numbers of grads serving you your morning latte. But it wont give the post-secondary system the shakeup it needs.
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Ontario, for example, will soon halve the number of students accepted into teachers college programs and double the amount of time it takes to complete the degree.
Ridiculous padding. How about just jacking up standards? No additional costs involved. Oh wait, what am I saying, they want the money. The others are only being shut down because someone finally discovered the negative ROE.
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Mrs. Phester and I have (3) grand-morons who finished college in the past (3) years.
Of the three, none are working in their fields. Two are secretarial assistants (one of whom works in the same place as her Mom and Dad), and the other recently landed a job in retail sales. None of these jobs require more than an Associates Degree.
Another one of the kids is being pushed into going to college, and my recommendation that he consider the "successes" of the above is looked at as being, er, unwelcome to say the least. When I ask why he wants to go to college to begin with, I get "To play ball." (He's a pretty good catcher.) as the answer.
Four-year college used to be a place that taught you how to think; it is now somewhere where you are taught what to think with very low levels of actual education. The little pieces of paper you now get at the end are little more than expensive certificates of attendance. Corporate Cultures are pushing the "College Degree Required" crap all the way to broom pushing.
IM(not so)HO, College education is, for most students (Dr's, Engineers, etc. excepted) a scam not far removed from a Ponzi Scheme....
My "wake-up call" happened a number of years ago when I saw a book we used in one of my college courses in a $1-bin at K-mart. Kind of put it all in perspective....
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Uncle Phester, you know the grand kids better than I of course and I don't know what majors they have, but the job market is in the toilet and the kids got jobs. That is something.
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job market is in the toilet
Don't know what you have been searching for in the way of employment, but out here north of Seattlestan, we have a dearth of engineers and program managers for our little ol' aerospace company. Boeing is sucking them all away, but if you are fresh out of school, this would be a place to get some 'sperience.
[Al Ahram] housands of Romanians erupted into the streets for the eighth straight day Sunday to protest a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine in a picturesque Transylvanian village.
Canadian firm Gabriel Resources hopes to extract 300 tonnes of gold in Rosia Montana in the Carpathian mountains with mining techniques requiring the use of thousands of tonnes of cyanide.
Around 3,000 people gathered in capital city Bucharest's University Square and marched to the government headquarters chanting "United we can save Rosia Montana".
Carrying banners reading "I love nature, not cyanide" and "Corruption equals cyanide", they called for the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, whose government last month adopted a bill clearing the way for the open-cast mine.
The draft law still has to be approved by parliament.
Some 6,000 protesters also rallied in Cluj, the major Transylvanian city, police said.
"We are calling on the government to withdraw this draft law without delay," said Tudor Trif, a 29-year-old engineer marching alongside his wife and son.
"We cannot bequeath to our children a lake full of cyanide and a polluted region," he told AFP, referring to the huge tailings lake where used water from the gold mine will be stored.
Gabriel Resources, which owns 80 percent of the Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, acquired a mining licence in 1999 but has been waiting ever since for a crucial permit from the environment ministry.
The company promises 900 jobs during the 16-year extraction period and economic benefits.
Opponents say the mine will be an ecological time-bomb and threaten the area's Roman mining galleries.
The project will also lead to the destruction of four mountains and require hundreds of families to be relocated.
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Spot price of Gold on 9/9/13 = $1386.40 / troy ounce. 1 ton = $40,435,742.40 x 300 = $12,130,722,720.
The Twelve Trillion Dollar Protest
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Correction that should be the Twelve Billion Dollar Protest....I get excited thinking about Gold
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Well, they'll have some expenses, right?
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Rhodium is at $1700 per ounce.
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That's because Dave D. has cornered the market Deacon.
[Dawn] An orphan girl who was in illegal detention and faced 'death warrants' issued by a local jury (panchayat) for contracting love marriage was recovered by police on the orders of a court that later sent her to a local shelter home (Dar-ul-Aman) with directions for the safety of the couple.
Ammara Maqsood and Muhammad Salman of Bhaagowal village had contracted civil marriage in a local court on Sept 1 and since then she tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! '>were tossed into the calaboose by her uncle and his family.
The husband, 22-year-old Salman and his family had moved the court against Ammara's detention.
The court appointed a bailiff and ordered the police concerned to recover the girl.
On Saturday, Ammara was produced in the court of Class-I Magistrate Imran Yaqub amid tight security that sent her to Daar-ul-Amaan, directing the Sadar police to provide security to her and her husband.
Ammara's uncle had also got registered an abduction case against Salman.
Ammara told the court that she contracted love marriage with Salman and denied she was kidnapped by him. She urged the court to provide them with security as they wanted to live a peaceful marital life.
She also told the court that their lives were in danger as a local jury had already issued 'death warrants' for the couple in case they refused to end their marriage by Saturday.
The court sent Ammara Maqsood to a local shelter home till tomorrow (Monday) there.
Sources said after the couple contracted love marriage, Ammara's uncle called a village punchayat (jury) over the issue. Headed by a local PML-N activist, Aman Ullah, the jury gave its verdict that if the couple did not end their marriage through divorce by Sept 7, they would be murdered.
The jury also ordered Salman and his family to leave the village while Ammara was detained by her caretakers, who kept her in chains and were torturing her.
Talking to newsmen by telephone from an unknown place, Salman said his and his wife's life was in danger as the deadline given by the jury ended on Saturday.
He alleged that Sialkot Sadar police were also obeying inhuman and illegal orders of the jury.
He appealed to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, prime minister, Punjab chief minister, police IG and the district police officer to take serious notice of the matter and sought security of his own and his wife's life.
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What do you expect in this day and age, after all it is Ziqa'ad 2, 1434, in the Mohamadean Calendar.
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contracting love marriage
Makes it sound like an STD.
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"The National Team fully expected our permit to be rejected, and have already drafted a Plan-B. That Plan-B will be posted a little later today once the final details have been bolted down."
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I understand perfectly, no one wants Two Million Bikers in Washington DC on the day after The Big O's speech on Syria, now do they.
Think what might happen if the content of his speech is disagreeable to the majority of Americans
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You and whose army?
What, you need reinforcements?
Sorry everyone is in sensitivity training today. The only people working are the maintenance crews to have the copter ready for the golf outing.
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What they wanted was a permit to drive straight through without stopping (lights, etc.).Looks like they're still gonna be there but,
What could have been a one or two hour ride through will now likely be an all day event. We will be obeying all laws. We will be stopping at all stoplights, stop signs, and yielding to all pedestrians.
So enjoy the traffic nightmare, DC morons.
Isn't there supposed to be be some Bazillion Muslim Whinefest in DC on 9/11?
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Hell's angels was started by maverick paratroopers who used to parachute in to drop zones with dynamite on their legs. Send them an invite then pass the pop corn.
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No doubt CAIR and it's supporters will be there to claim how all the bikers were 'disrespectful' of the muslim protesters - but somehow they won't be able to find any videos....
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
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[Al Ahram] A group of men in a stolen car shot 29 people on the main street of a poor indigenous town in the mountains outside Guatemala City, killing 11 in an incident that some residents blamed on corrupt 
[Dawn] An orphan girl who was in illegal detention and faced 'death warrants' issued by a local jury (panchayat) for contracting love marriage was recovered by police on the orders of a court that later sent her to a local shelter home (Dar-ul-Aman) with directions for the safety of the couple.
