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According to Monaghan, the SVR operates abroad through three classes on foreign agents......The people they tried to recruit were described in the complaint as "several individuals employed by major companies, and several young women with ties to a major university located in New York" as well as a "number of other Russian-origin individuals associated with" the unnamed university.
But, but, but SA Agent Monaghan, that's how all clandestine intelligence agencies operate. Very few put up shop signs or drive cars with logos on their doors. Universities, large multi-national corporations....? Please say it just isn't so.
[Washington Post] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
The Interior Ministry said Moussa al-Zahrani was executed in the city of Jiddah. The ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said al-Zahrani was convicted of luring underage girls, intoxicating them, forcing them to watch pornographic videos and then physically and sexually assaulting them.
His alleged victims were children assaulted in 2011 in a string of attacks in Jiddah.
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Please let me be the first to extend my congratulations to the Magic Kingdom, nothing has changed...
[Dhaka Tribune] A mob beat seven suspected robbers to death at Chakshal village in Narsingdi Sadar upazila early yesterday.
Another 40-year-old man in the gang named Abdul Rahim was also injured in the beating, and was admitted to Narsingdi District Hospital. He is the son of Samsu Mia of Jhauakanda village in Araihazar of Narayanganj.
Neither of the seven could be identified.
Police and locals said a group of 10-12 gunnies, claiming themselves as security officials, knocked on the door of the house of Ershad Munshi in the village around 2:45am.
But they broke into the house, and stole gold ornaments as well as cash by holding the residents at gunpoint when no one opened the door from inside, said Anisul Islam, son of Ershad Munshi.
The robbers blasted crude bombs in order to create panic when they were leaving but neighbours came out when the members of the house yelled out in fright.
The robbery was also announced on the loudspeaker of a mosque in the village, hearing which a host of villagers and also people from nearby Bhatpara village came out to chase the robbers.
The criminals were chased over an area of three kilometres in both villages and were given a mass beating, causing seven of them to die on the spot.
Anisul said the robbers also tied up the family members and beat them.
Motiur Rahman, a witness to the incident who lives in Bhatpara village, said he saw the robbers blasting crude bombs while escaping.
"They were captured and beaten in rice fields in different areas," he added.
Rahim told news hounds at the hospital that a man named Rehan of Kalyandi village in Araihazar brought him to Narsingdi on a trip on Sunday.
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Narsingdi mob kills seven 'robbers' and here I thought things were changing in Ferguson MO.
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Playing the devil's advocate, I think he's right for the wrong reasons.
This was not a typical terrorist attack on a class of people but not on specific individuals.
The Charlie Hebdo massacre paralleled incidents like the Markov assassination or the attempt on Pope John Paul II's life.
A better designation than 'terrorists' would be something like 'freelance Sharia executioners' or 'islamofascistic death squad.'
Kufala's real reason for rejecting the term 'terrorism' is, of course, that a sizable fraction of his audience approves of the Charlie Hebdo massacre because it was an example of just Sharia punishment.
He will thus object to any choice of words that would cast the islamofascistic death squad in a bad light.
[LATINO.FOXNEWS] Kazakhstan joined the rest of the world Monday in condemning the attack by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine that left at least 30 civilians dead over the weekend.
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry expressed in a statement its "deep concern" about the escalation of violence that took place in Ukraine, and "particularly about the bombardment that caused the death of civilians."
"We are convinced that peace negotiations are the only alternative for resolving the crisis in southeastern Ukraine," the ministry said.
The Donetsk regional government, loyal to the Kiev authorities, said at least 30 people died and another 93 were maimed Saturday during an artillery attack against the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
Kazakhstan is "prepared to provide a platform for resolving the Ukraine crisis, at the right time and in the most suitable way for both sides," the ministry said, calling on the parties involved to help find a way out of the conflict.
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Charts showing break-even prices for Texas crude ($43 - $86) and foreign producers - what they need to sell crude for in order to maintain government services - from Kuwait at $54 to Venezuela at $151 to Libya at $184.
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This is Walmart in the oil patch. As soon as the small operators are forced out of business, prices will begin to rise. May or may not be a cause, but it's certainly an effect.
[DAWN] After Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , it is Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf who invited passengers' wrath for what appears to be a delay in the take-off of PIA flight PK-741 on Monday.
The said flight was scheduled to depart from Islamabad to Jeddah but there was a delay of about 30 minutes. Some politicians were also said to be present among the passengers.
It later emerged that the flight was waiting for the religious affairs minister who was due to come to the airport.
Angry passengers protested at the airport's waiting lounge against what they called was an example of 'VIP culture' that allows influential people to call in favours, and also chanted 'Go Nawaz Go' slogans.
Sensing the sensitivity of the situation upon his arrival at the airport, the federal minister is said to have issued an apology but passengers still continued with their protests after which they boarded the plane. The take-off was subsequently delayed by an hour.
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[DAWN] The prime suspect in the assault and murder of a seven-year-old boy in Lahore's Green Town area was killed during a foiled escape bid, while being shifted to an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in the picturesque provincial capital city on Monday, police sources claimed.
Reminds me of the old cross-fire days. Good times, good times...
Teenager Shoaib was the prime suspect in the murder of the seven-year-old boy whose body was found hanged at a mosque on Jan 2, a day after he was kidnapped near his house in Lahore's Green Town.
Police had taken a number of suspects in jug before carrying out a thorough investigation that included DNA and polygraph tests. The other suspects were later released.
The murder mystery was solved after the DNA report of 17-year-old Shoaib, had confirmed him as the convict.
Shoaib was being transported to the ATC today when he allegedly made an escape bid after snatching the rifle of a police guard escorting him when the vehicle he was travelling in neared Moslem Town underpass, police sources claimed.
Sources added that the suspect was killed in an ensuing encounter.
Initially a video circulating on social media websites had shown a muezzin (prayer caller) 'confessing' to the gruesome assault and murder in front of local police.
The video was not verified by police nor recognised by the court hearing the case.
Later a probe by the CIA police had declared the muezzin innocent in the murder, following which he was released on the orders of Lahore's ATC No. 2.
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Mr Modi changed his clothes three times on Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal. While some dismissed the attention to detail as nothing more than sheer narcissism, Mr Obama used his toast at the state banquet to describe the Indian Premier as a "style icon". I sincerely hope that, one day, Mr. Obama will be wearing a suit with his name emblazoned upon it.
[CBC.CA] The male monopoly in the leadership of the Church of England ended Monday, as the 500-year-old institution consecrated its first female bishop.
The Rev. Libby Lane became the eighth Bishop of Stockport in a service at York Minster. Her consecration comes after the church ended a long and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... dispute by voting last year to allow women to serve as bishops.
"My consecration service is not really about me," she said. "With echoes of practice which has been in place for hundreds of years in the church, it is a reminder that what I am about to embark on is shared by the bishops around me, by those who have gone before me and those who will come after."
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it is a reminder that what I am about to embark on is shared by the bishops around me, by those who have gone before me and those who will come after
Ahhh...alter boyssss
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It's amusing to ask them if they think it's genetic. If they say yes, then look puzzled and point out that as that nominally remove them from the gene pool, they understand it makes it a genetic defect according to biology. Then they froth at the mouth.
I don't honestly care what other people do as long as they leave me alone. When they don't do that, then I'll start pushing back.
h/t Instapundit
A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putinâs inner circle.
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Unregistered agents of a foreign entity. If there's a regime change in the Beltway, those useful idiots could find themselves busier than they imagined.
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"The great difference between our western Christian world and the atheistic Communist world is not political, gentlemen, it is moral. For instance, the Marxian idea of confiscating the land and factories and running the entire economy as a single enterprise is momentous. Likewise, Lenin’s invention of the one-party police state as a way to make Marx’s idea work is hardly less momentous."
Speech of Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950
[Fox] ALEXANDRIA, Va. â A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter.
Jurors convicted 47-year-old Jeffrey Sterling, of O'Fallon, Missouri, of all nine counts he faced in federal court. On the third day of deliberations, the jurors had told the judge that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. But they delivered guilty verdicts later in the afternoon after the judge urged them to keep talking. Three days is not enough? Don't come out until you reach a guilty verdict.
Oh, ok. We'll see what we can do.
At issue in the two-week trial: Who told journalist James Risen about the secret mission, one that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified was one of the government's most closely held secrets as well as one of its best chances to thwart Iran's nuclear-weapons ambitions?
The case was delayed for years as prosecutors fought to force Risen to divulge his sources, though they ultimately decided not to call him to testify once it became clear he would not reveal those sources even if jailed for contempt of court.
Prosecutors had acknowledged a lack of direct evidence against Sterling but said the circumstantial evidence against him was overwhelming. Defense lawyers had said the evidence showed that Capitol Hill staffers who had been briefed on the classified operation were more likely the source of the leak.
The plan involved using a CIA asset nicknamed Merlin, who had been a Russian nuclear engineer, to foist deliberately flawed nuclear-weapons blueprints on the Iranians, hoping they would spend years trying to develop parts that had no hope of ever working.
Risen's 2006 book, "State of War," describes the mission as hopelessly botched, and possibly backfiring by giving the Iranians blueprints that could be useful to them if they sorted out the good information from the errors.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Eric Olshan said the chapter of Risen's book seemed to be clearly written from Sterling's perspective as Merlin's case handler. The book describes the handler's misgivings about the operation while others at the CIA push the plan through despite its risks. No 'buy in' from the CO? Operation was not terminated? Strange, very strange.
Furthermore, Sterling believed he had been mistreated and was angry that the agency refused to settle his racial discrimination complaint, Olshan said. Racial discrimination complaint? Ag! So now we at least have a GOV'T motive.
Risen had written about that complaint, and he was known to have a relationship with Sterling. The two exchanged dozens of phone calls and emails, Olshan said.
But defense lawyers said the government had no evidence that Risen and Sterling talked about anything classified in those phone calls and emails. The government failed to obtain Risen's records to see who else he may have contacted.
Defense attorney Barry Pollack said Risen first got wind of the operation in early 2003, within weeks of Sterling reporting his misgivings to staffers at a Senate intelligence committee â a channel that Sterling was legally allowed to pursue. Pollack said it makes more sense that a Hill staffer leaked to Risen.
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.
[Dhaka Tribune] A mob beat seven suspected robbers to death at Chakshal village in Narsingdi Sadar upazila early yesterday.
