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-Lurid Crime Tales-
DOJ Requests More Time To Give Lawmakers Trump Wiretap Evidence
[Daily Caller] The Justice Department asked House intelligence leaders for more time to provide evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.

The House Intelligence Committee initially gave a deadline of Monday for the DOJ to comply with their request, but said it would grant a one week extension to March 20, the date of the committee’s first open hearing on the investigation into Russia’s influence peddling during the 2016 election.

"If the committee does not receive a response by then, the committee will ask for this information during the March 20 hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered," Jack Langer, a spokesman for Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, told the Associated Press.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 03:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Delayed until March 20? It takes Obama's legacy DOJ (deep-state DOJ) awhile to get rid of the evidence?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't wait to read the rejected June 2016 FISA request...
Posted by: Tennessee || 03/14/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Pass 'America Health Care' and we'll show yaz what we got.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  DOJ's job here is harder than it sounds

they want to be able to preserve the intricacies of the FISA process and decide what parts of the documentation are to be kept confidential
Posted by: lord garth || 03/14/2017 17:57 Comments || Top||

#5  they want to be able to preserve the intricacies of the FISA process and decide what parts of the documentation are to be kept confidential

Or to find something that allows them to spin it the right way.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 23:10 Comments || Top||


Philadelphia teen claims motel knew she was being trafficked
[BOSTONHERALD] A teenage girl in Philadelphia was the victim of sex trafficking, over two years, at a motel that knowingly profited from her exploitation, she alleges in a new civil suit.

The suit -- filed Friday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court -- specifically accuses the Roosevelt Inn in Philadelphia, its manager, Yagna Patel, and its parent company, UFVS Management Company, of profiting by renting rooms used in the teen’s prostitution.

The girl "was 14 years old when she was forced into the illegal sex trade in 2013 and was exploited through 2014," her lawyers alleged in a statement.

She is identified in the suit, which was obtained by PEOPLE, by the initials M.B.

"The Philadelphia girl, now 17, was dressed in sexually explicit clothing and was ’visibly treated in an aggressive manner’ by traffickers," the statement claims, quoting from the lawsuit.

The complaint alleges the defendants "knew or had constructive knowledge" that the victim was "being sexually exploited" at the Roosevelt motel. The suit further alleges they failed to intervene or contact police and continued to pocket revenue for the room rentals, as M.B. was trafficked.

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nonprofit floats child sex dolls as treatment for pedophiles
Scandinavian experts are urging the use of child-like sex dolls in a bid to stop pedophiles from abusing real life children.
Bag limit ?
The Sexpo Foundation in Finland wants the disgusting dummies to be made available to pedophiles following a reported boom in imports in neighboring Norway.

Norwegian cops revealed they are increasingly seizing creepy child-like sex dolls, mostly made in Hong Kong.

More than 20 have been impounded by customs officials in the past six months.

Child sex dolls are banned in Norway.

Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service says those who have ordered the dolls are men aged between 18 and 60. Some of the men have been convicted of sexual offenses against children in the past.

Police fear the purchasers “may pose a risk of committing abuses against children in the future.”

But in an open letter to the Norwegian authorities, the Sexpo Foundation argues that the dolls should be made available.

The letter by Sexpo executive director Tommi Paalanen says: “Both Sexpo services and international studies have shown that the risk of a sexual offense against a child can be reduced by providing a pedophile with a channel for their desires.”

“Sex dolls are one such channel.”

“A person who uses a lot of money and effort to purchase the doll has already made the decision that he wants to carry out the sexual tendency.”

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooh! Mom! Get me an anatomically correct dolly the size and shape of a nine-year-old!
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I can see UN program supplying these dolls.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2017 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Islamic Dilemma™: a 9 yr old model blowup doll named Aisha
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm with he Coppers on this one. Seems enabling.

As an aside, what kind of whack-o could go to work at that kind of assembly line?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/14/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Related: - It's pedophilia put into practice
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/14/2017 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Great way to firmly wire pedophilia into their brains. Yup.
Posted by: Angusock Chuting6110 || 03/14/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  PUt a tracking device on the dolls so that anyone that requests one can be dealt with.

I don't see how this can possibly help when they get the joy out of the abuse, and dominance of emotionally immature victims.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I assume the Bill Clinton will be on the board?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/14/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||


Wife Of DC Lawyer Worth $1.5 Million Arrested For Taking Food Stamps, Welfare
[DAILYCALLER] An Arlington, Va., woman allegedly falsified welfare applications to receive more than $100,000 in benefits while her husband raked in $1.5 million salary.

Police say Helen Agbapuruonwu, mother of four, collected food stamps and Medicaid benefits from 2010 to 2016, while here husband, Fidelis Agbapuruonwu, was earning $1.5 million as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., NBC News 4 reports.

Helen Agbapuruonwu "fraudulently obtained public assistance in excess of $100,000 under false pretenses" police allege, and she has been charged "with felony welfare fraud and document forgery," according to a police report.

Fidelis Agbapuruonwu, who immigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria in the 1990s, worked as an associate at Mayer Brown in D.C., according to his LinkedIn profile. A front man for Mayer Brown told NBC 4 that Agbapuruonwu no longer works there. Agbapuruonwu received a Paul & Daisy Soros Scholarship for New Americans, which he used to pay for law school at Ohio State University.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, liquor up, Muse, and regale us
With news of attorney Fidelis,
Bold immigrant, model
For all who would waddle
To Washington, there to assail us.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/14/2017 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Fidelis Agbapuruonwu, who immigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria in the 1990s

"It's a cultural thing. You wouldn't understand.
However, I am pleased to share with you that I am the recipient of a great fortune from the Late Sani Abacha..."
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  She didn't have any grocery money because Fidelis gave all he earned to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2017 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Fidelis bailed on her. Is there no honor among thieves?

Note:
A lawyer and recipient of a prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship for immigrants has reportedly fled the U.S., possibly to Africa, as his wife faces criminal welfare fraud charges in Arlington, Va.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  So I guess Fidelis isn't a nephew of an Oil Minister?
Posted by: Raj || 03/14/2017 14:53 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Meet London's New Nightlife Czar!



No comment necessary, but go ahead anyway.

Posted by: charger || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's this fat broad gonna do, teach people to eat two cheeseburgers at the same time?
Posted by: Raj || 03/14/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Just her damn shadow will weigh 40 pounds.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/14/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||

#3  She also knows how to get people off their sofas and into communal spaces vomiting in the streets on a Saturday night.
Posted by: james || 03/14/2017 17:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The pastiest rake in all Vauxhall,
She's racy right down to her foxhole.
They'll wonder, in Flanders,
"From London, what thunders?"
"Just Amy Lamé's knocking shops'l."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/14/2017 19:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd love to see how she'll do against the sharia patrols.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/14/2017 19:47 Comments || Top||

#6  "I'd love to see how she'll do against the sharia patrols"

Sit on them?
Posted by: Barbara || 03/14/2017 20:02 Comments || Top||

#7  The souk, where the future is bright
To the butchers' and tanners' delight.
At the close of the day,
Who should come out to play
But the cockroaches: "We own the night!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/14/2017 20:22 Comments || Top||


Thai soap opera ‘mimicking’ Myanmar’s last dynasty angers its royal descendents
[SCMP] The family of Myanmar’s last king hit out on Sunday at a Thai soap opera inspired by the palace intrigue of their ancestors, accusing Thailand of double standards in how it treats another country’s royals.

Soe Win, the great grandson of Myanmar’s last monarch King Thibaw, said his family was angered by A Lady’s Flame, a new hit prime-time soap that recounts a bloody dynastic power struggle.

The show is set in a fictional kingdom but almost entirely mimics the final years of the Konbaung dynasty in the 19th century in the country formerly known as Burma.

It portrays the scheming among a key queen and princesses who orchestrated the massacre of nearly a hundred people to ensure Thibaw had no rivals to the throne following his father’s death in 1878.

While the massacre is historical fact, Thibaw’s scions are upset with their family’s portrayal by a country that shields its own monarchy from any criticism.

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Mubarak ordered released following acquittal in killing protesters case
[AlAhram] Egypt's prosecutor-general ordered on Monday the release of ousted President Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
following his acquittal earlier this month on charges of killing protesters during the 25 January Revolution.

In January 2016, the Court of Cassation upheld a three-year prison sentence for Mubarak and his two sons for using public funds ‐ slated for the maintenance of presidential palaces ‐ to upgrade their private properties.

According to judicial sources, Mubarak will be released as his sentence in the presidential palaces case is considered already served due to the time he spent in pre-trial detention.

Following the verdict in that case, Mubarak's sons were released for time served, as they had already been behind bars for more than three years pending trial.

Mubarak is still banned from travel pending investigations by the Illicit Gains Authority into an increase in his personal wealth since the 2011 revolution, according to his lawyer Farid El-Deeb.

El-Deeb added that the ousted president's assets are still frozen.

The 88-year-old Mubarak has been confined to Maadi Military Hospital for treatment since 2012.

The former autocrat ruled Egypt from 1981 until a popular uprising ousted him on 11 February 2011.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Japan is pulling its troops out of South Sudan
[SCMP] The Japanese government’s decision to withdraw its Self-Defence Forces (SDF) from their UN peacekeeping operation in South Sudan has raised a host of questions about the depth of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s commitment to global security.

Abe’s stated reason ‐ that the peacekeepers’ mission to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the ongoing civil war has been completed ‐ met widespread scepticism, including from within the SDF.

Abe announced on Friday the 350-strong unit presently in South Sudan would be returning to Japan in May after a deployment lasting seven months.

"As South Sudan enters a new phase of nation-building, we have decided that we can now put an end to our infrastructure building efforts," Abe said in Tokyo.

Yoshihide Suga, the chief cabinet secretary, was quick to emphasise the troops were not being recalled "because of the deteriorating security situation". Some were unconvinced.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I agree, South Sudan is a lost cause.

NATO does not have the backbone or the will to do what is needed, so no point is wasting good money and personals there.

JSDF is better used where they can actually do some good!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 03/14/2017 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  JSDF is better used where they can actually do some good!

On the Chinese island initiative.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 17:00 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
EU extends sanctions over Ukraine crisis
[AA.TR] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
on Monday extended its sanctions related to the Ukrainian crisis for another six months.

The renewed sanctions, which include asset freezes and travel bans, target 150 persons and 37 entities the EU says undermine or threaten Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The sanctions were first introduced in March 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea following an illegal independence vote.

They aim to put pressure on Moscow to implement the Minsk Agreement in Ukraine and work towards a de-escalation in the country.

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "EU says undermine or threaten Ukraine’s territorial integrity"

Yet the EUSSR was part of the coup that removed the democratically elected president.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/14/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Regime changes can have consequences. Who knew ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||


Girkin says contractors are part of rebel army in Donetsk


Russian Reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin said in a television interview that a total of 15,000 well paid contractors are part of the rebel army in the separate republic of Donetsk, according to a korrespondent.net news reports.

The Donetsk army counts 40,000 effectives in their ranks including, according to Ukrainian reports, about 4,000 Russian regulars.

Col. Girkin, who goes by the call sign Strelkov, was a key figure in the start of the civil war in Ukraine, and played a central role in the takeover of Crimea during the spring of 2014.

Girkin also said in his remarks that the rebel army no longer has the combat power to expand the territory Russian backed separatists now control, save for a Russian-backed general war and offensive. The reasons include the increased strength of the Ukrainian Army in the area.

Despite temporarily holding the post of Donetsk minister of defense before Vladimir Kononov took over in early August of 2014, Girkin has not had friendly relations with the political and military leadership of Donetsk.

In a Live Journal post last Sunday, Girkin all but called Donetsk president Aleksandr Zakharchenko and Lugansk president Igor Plotnitsky criminals who would not be able to maintain their posts in any future administration, even in the unlikely event a political solution to the Ukrainian civil war could be found. Girkin's suggested solutions included the formation of a Transnistria-like autonomous entity which would presumably fold both former Ukrainian provinces into a single autonomous region.

Transnistria is a nation state between western Ukraine and Romania recognized by only three other nations, including Russia. It was formed following a brief civil war just after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1992.

Since the start of the Ukrainian civil war in the spring of 2014, autonomy for Donetsk and Lugansk has been discussed between Ukraine, Russia and the European Union as a possible solution to the conflict, the most immediate effect of which would be to turn Ukraine into a federation. Ukrainian nationalists, such as members of Right Sector and other political blocks, vehemently oppose federalizing the nation to suit a Russian speaking minority in southeastern Ukraine.

Recriminations have been flying between Girkin and the former and current political leadership of Donetsk in recent days.

According to former foreign minister of Donetsk Aleksandr Koffman, it was Girkin's actions in the early part of the civil war while in Slavyansk in the spring of 2014 that provoked the Ukrainian military into attacking the separatists with military force. Girkin already had been fingered along with Ukrainian GRU Colonel Igor Bezler for the murder of Vladimir Rybak, a Gorlovka politician in March of 2014.

Reports following the separatists' retreat from Slavyansk in the summer of 2014, even those most favorable to Girkin, painted his charges as armed thugs who conducted checkpoints to rob passersby.

Fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk
According to several news reports in lb.ua, a total of seven Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers were wounded in the ongoing fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk on Monday.

According to one of the lb.ua accounts, rebel 120mm mortars struck Ukrainian positions in southern Donetsk at Shirokino, Novotroisk, Marinka and Krasnogorovka. Rebel 82mm mortar fire hit Gnutova.

The report said that rebels used rocket artillery, tank gunfire and mortar fire in Avdievka. Rebel 82mm mortar fire hit Opytnoye, Kamenka and Zaitsevo.

In Lugansk, rebel 120mm mortar fire hit Ukrainian positions at Krimenskoye.

Rebel media claimed that Ukrainian artillery fire damaged 13 buildings in western Donetsk city and in Zaitsevo overnight.

Ukrainian artillery fire was reported at the Kuibyshevsky district of Doentsk city, at the Donetsk airport, at Spartak and Zaitsvo.

In southern Donetsk, Ukrainian artillery hit rebel positions at Novoazovskiy, Sakhanka and Kominternovo.

A mortar duel between rebel and Ukrainian forces was recorded near Debaltsevo, near the Svetlodarsk region.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea warns of 'merciless' strikes as U.S. carrier joins South Korea drills
[REUTERS] North Korea warned the United States on Tuesday of "merciless" attacks if an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson, which is joining South Korean forces for exercises, infringes on its illusory sovereignty or dignity.

North Korea, which has alarmed its neighbors with two nuclear tests and a string of missile launches since last year, said the arrival of the U.S. strike group was part of a "reckless scheme" to attack it.

"If they infringe on the DPRK's illusory sovereignty and dignity even a bit, its army will launch merciless ultra-precision strikes from ground, air, sea and underwater," the North's state news agency KCNA said.

North Korea's official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"On March 11 alone, many enemy carrier-based aircraft flew along a course near territorial air and waters of the DPRK to stage drills of dropping bombs and making surprise attacks on the ground targets of its army," KCNA said.

A U.S. Navy front man said the Carl Vinson was on a regular, scheduled deployment to the region during which it would take part in exercises with the forces of ally South Korea.

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Oh, good grief. These feces-flinging commiemonkeys have been jumping up and down screaming about "dire revenge" or whatever for the last 60+ years.

Time for this shit to end. Nuke 'em, and be done with it.
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/14/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Do I hear a motion to accept Dave D's recommendation at #1? Do I have a second ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Second
Posted by: chris || 03/14/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Third!
Posted by: Threger Jomose8309 || 03/14/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  If I were Trump...
I'd invite Pudge for a personal meeting at Mar-a-Lago and make a deal. No, not to buy him off, silly! That just encourages more of the same behavior, but to explain the facts of life and how the current situation cannot continue.

First, of course, you'd need to meet with Xi Jinping to sort things out. (That's scheduled for next month I believe)

And in the meantime, I'd continue assembling the Big Stick as per #1. War games, positioning assets and missile defense. All very public. Here's Seal Team Six memorizing the floor plan of the Pudgidential Palace and all that. Without a stick, there is no carrot.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/14/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Does Dave have to buy a round at the Club for the nuke comment, or does that only apply to F-150 and Arc-Light?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/14/2017 15:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Might be a good time for some fake leaks about coups that would start North Korea purging their military ranks.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 17:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Coups supported by China of course, to send a message to China that we're sick of them using the North Koreans as a puppet to annoy us.

Perhaps one or two about Nuclear experts and missile experts planning to escape to the South and about sabotage to nuclear tech sold to Iran.

Stir the paranoia pot.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2017 17:55 Comments || Top||


Malaysia gives Kim Jong-nam's family three more weeks to claim body from morgue
[SCMP] Malaysia’s health minister said on Monday the government will give relatives of North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
’s estranged half brother two to three weeks to claim his body before deciding what to do with it.

Malaysian authorities said Kim Jong-nam died after two women smeared his face with the banned VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur’s airport on February 13 but North Korea ‐ which is widely suspected to be behind the attack ‐ rejected the findings.

North Korea demanded the body back from day one and objected to Malaysia’s autopsy. Pyongyang also refused to acknowledge Kim Jong-nam was the victim and referred to him as Kim Chol, the name on the passport Kim was carrying when he was attacked in a crowded airport terminal.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Wary of China, Duterte tells navy to build 'structures' east of Philippines
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Isn't the water a little on the deep side there
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 03/14/2017 6:10 Comments || Top||


China presents new killer drone ‘more efficient & powerful' than American Reaper
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  you really have to prove it in combat before these claims can be taken at face value

where is that data?
Posted by: lord garth || 03/14/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||


US starts deploying drones in South Korea capable of striking North Korean targets
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Economy
Trump to visit Detroit to stop EPA's rushed auto rules
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump will visit bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Wednesday to halt Environmental Protection Agency regulations that would force manufacturers to make cars that average more than 50 miles a gallon.

An industry executive privy to the White House plan told the Washington Examiner to expect Trump to roll back a final decision that the EPA rushed out late last year, when President B.O. was heading for the exit, imposing stricter fuel economy and emissions standards for vehicles beginning this year.

Trump will make his announcement at the American Center for Mobility in the Detroit suburb of Ypsilanti, Mich. He'll also visit Nashville, Tenn., that day.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Low gasoline prices mean people are buying more SUVs and pick-up trucks than fuel-efficient cars, hybrids and electric vehicles. Ninety-five models of electric, hybrid and other fuel-efficient small vehicles have failed to match the market demand for a single model of pick-up truck, industry says."

Free markets at work. Forcing people to buy certain vehicles they don't want is like forcing people to buy crappy, high-priced health insurance with a penalty if you don't. I recall when Joan Claybrook's (Nader's pal) NHTSA, under Carter tried to come up with a government safety car back in the '70s. You don't see any of them on the road. The govmint is not too good at design.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Lots of Zero's pals had big holdings in green companies - the EPA rules were pushed out to protect them.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/14/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#3  the EPA rules were pushed out to protect enrich them.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/14/2017 19:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Jirga marries off 3-year-old girl to settle family dispute in Neelum Valley
[DAWN] A jirga in Azad Jammu and Kashmire’s (AJK) Neelum Valley, in order to settle a dispute, had a three-year-old girl married to a nine-year-old boy which police claim to be a case of Vani.

Athmuqam Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammad Farooq said the jirga in the nearby village decided to marry off Aurangzeb's daughter to Mohammad Younis's son in order to settle a dispute between the two.

Aurangzeb, who filed the First Information Report (FIR) with the area police, alleged that Younis had accused him of cheating with his wife and had demanded Rs500,000 from him as penalty if he were to absolve Aurangzeb of the alleged misconduct.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
since Aurangzeb was unable to come up with the amount, Younis allegedly bribed the area police and had him tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
"That is when the jirga gathered and got my daughter married to Younis's son to settle the dispute," the petitioner alleged, claiming that his father conceded to the jirga's demand following which the marriage was solemnised.

Aurangzeb also claims that he was "forced" to give his thumbprint impression on the document the jirga prepared.

The document states that if Aurangzeb married his daughter to Younis's son, all allegations against him would be withdrawn, he would not have to pay the amount asked for and that he would not be sent to jail again.

"However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
things did not go as planned and I could not send my daughter away," he claims.

The Athmuqam SHO said six out of the fifteen people who allegedly participated in the jirga have been taken into custody.

Three of the six tossed in the clink
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
include Younis, the girl's grandfather and the holy man who solemnised the marriage.

The marriage was not registered, said the police official, adding that the police is still looking for the others accused in the case.

AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has taken notice of the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure the new husband will wait at least six years - like the profit did.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2017 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Was the young 3-year girl named Aisha by any chance?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Mohamhead would be proud.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's import as many of these ghouls as possible.
Posted by: charger || 03/14/2017 21:14 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
American Exceptionalism explained: 3.5 min video
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2017 12:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why not just embed the video here?
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 03/14/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice video.

Jeb! was perfectly happy to allow China to demand these jets be manufactured in China, thereby transferring the technology.

And not a peep from 0bean against this.

It took Trump to throw the red flag.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2017 23:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Beautiful. Nice touch at the end: "fly dubai"

When Muslims work one with another,
It's rubbing two camels together
And racing the offspring.
Replacing a watchspring
Takes dhimmis. It must be the weather.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/14/2017 23:51 Comments || Top||


What Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Thinks of Trump's Cyber Stance
[Defense One] Former National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander wants government to take a more active role defending private-sector networks from cyberattacks and he thinks President Donald Trump can help make that goal a reality.

Alexander was one of several cybersecurity experts who met with Trump and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani shortly after the inauguration to discuss early-stage plans for a major government push on cybersecurity.

Alexander declined to provide details about the closed-door portions of that meeting, but told Nextgov he was impressed with the new president’s demeanor and his interest in the issue.

"I was impressed with the way he took on advice and came back with questions," Alexander said. "I think, if the nation could have sat in and watched it, they would have said, ’that’s our president; that’s what we need done.’ I’m very upbeat based on that."

He also hopes Trump will allow the Defense and Homeland Security departments to pivot from responding to private-sector breaches and cyberattacks after they happen to more actively preventing adversary nation-states and other cyberattackers from penetrating U.S. companies’ networks in the first place.

"Here’s the question: Is defense of the country incident response or preventing an attack?" Alexander said. "In the [Obama] administration, it was incident response. That means after the attack. That means, the missile landed and blew up the city and now, we’re in there cleaning up. If that’s your city, you’d say, ’we’d like to stop that missile’ and that’s what we should be doing [in cyberspace] in my opinion."
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