The state Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence of "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, who is on death row for 13 murders he committed during a crime spree that terrorized the Southland in the 1980s.
In a 104-page ruling, the state's highest court unanimously rejected Ramirez's claim that numerous errors were made in his trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Ramirez, who is now 46 and on death row at San Quentin State Prison, was sentenced to die for the crimes after a high-profile trial.
Along with the murders, he was convicted of 30 other counts -- including attempted murder, rape and first-degree burglary -- for the nighttime killings between June 1984 and August 1985 that made the self-proclaimed devil worshipper one of California's most notorious criminals.
Ramirez's appellate attorney, Geraldine S. Russell, told the California Supreme Court at a hearing in June that Ramirez did not receive a fair trial.
Among the defense's contentions were that two of Ramirez's trial attorneys, Daniel Hernandez and Arturo Hernandez, were not qualified for such a massive case, that Ramirez's mental competence should have been probed, and that the trial court erred in rejecting his motion for a change of venue in his trial.
Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno, writing on behalf of the panel, rejected all of those claims.
Ramirez committed murders in Glassell Park, Rosemead, Whittier, Monterey Park, Monrovia, Arcadia, Glendale, Sun Valley and Diamond Bar. His crime spree also extended to San Francisco and Orange County, where an engineer was shot but survived an attack in which his fiancee was raped.
In one slaying, the former drifter from El Paso gouged out a woman's eyes. Just over a year after being caught by a group of angry East Los Angeles residents, he called a guard over to his jail cell and showed photographs of two of the murder victims.
At his sentencing hearing, Ramirez rocked back and forth and turned to grin at the audience, vowing that he would be "avenged."
"You maggots made me sick, hypocrites one and all. We are all expendable for a cause, and no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of God and country and for whatever else they deem appropriate," Ramirez said then.
"You don't understand me," he said just before being sentenced to death. "You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil." Hillary thinks the same thing.
Gates and Winfrey aboard Norwegian airliner. Photo credit: Reuters
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A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said Monday. Freelance writer Bjoern Benkow said in a statement that the interviews, published in Norwegian and Swedish media, were partially concocted because of financial "desperation," newspaper Verdens Gang reported. "I have met and talked to these global celebrities," Benkow was quoted as saying. "But the circumstances and times have not always been as I described."
The acknowledgment came after Microsoft Norway said last week that an interview with Gates, printed in the Norwegian magazine Mann and top- selling Swedish tabloid daily Aftonbladet, was "totally fake." Benkow claimed he spoke to Gates during a two-hour commercial flight in Europe, but Microsoft Corp. officials said Gates had not been on that plane. In the four-page interview entitled "Big Bill," Gates was quoted as saying in the article that he never carries more than a "dime" in his pocket and that he makes $1 bets with his wife.
Benkow maintained that the quotes used in the article were real, but apologized for lying about when he spoke to Gates. "What I did was done out of desperation," VG quoted Benkow as saying. "To pay the rent, electricity, food and to survive." The editors of Mann apologized for the article last week.
Aftonbladet spokesman Olof Brundin initially said the paper was convinced the interview had occurred. On Monday, however, the newspaper published an article calling Benkow a "fraudster" who had deceived the editors. "We have been fooled, and thereby we fooled our readers," Brundin said, adding that the newspaper was considering suing Benkow. Aftonbladet also published Benkow's alleged interview with Winfrey earlier this year, but on Monday the article had been removed from the newspaper's Web site.
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Where's Waldo?
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Thank God for the 2,324,566 layers of fact checking in the professional media, otherwise something like this might have happened!
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I have actually listened to Alan Colmes on the radio and you would be surprised how liberal he aint. Yes he gets paid to play the part but he does have a solid rational side. He doesnt give LLL Mo0b@+5 a free pass on TV or on radio. I had hoped that FNC would team up Dennis Miller with Ann Coulter, but maybe Dennis will join Michelle Malkin on her new show?
Thousands of Congolese have fled clashes between troops loyal to General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army in the eastern town of Sake. At least 18 civilians, 17 government soldiers and two soldiers from Nkunda's brigade were wounded in the gun battle, UN officials said. Two government soldiers were killed in the clashes, the government said.
Democracy thing is working well, eh?
The UN said there was nothing to worry about after a deal was reached between Commanders of Nkunda's fighters and the army's 9th brigade to withdraw both forces from the town...
The clashes are less than one week after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held its first multiparty elections in more than 40 years, aimed at cementing peace after a 1998-2003 war during which Nkunda rebelled against Kinshasa. The UN said there was nothing to worry about after a deal was reached between Commanders of Nkunda's fighters and the army's 9th brigade to withdraw both forces from the town. But women carrying children on their backs and men bearing suitcases or mattresses walked in long lines along the road to the provincial capital Goma, 20 kms (13 miles) to the east, near to the Rwandan border. "The firing has stopped. There are fears and apprehensions. There was a small misunderstanding but there is nothing to worry about," Brigadier General GV Satyanarayana, commander of United Nations forces in North Kivu, told Reuters in Sake.
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The UN said there was nothing to worry about...
You'd think they'd know by now that that's Kofi-speak for "Run for your lives!"
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There was a small misunderstanding but there is nothing to worry about," Brigadier General GV Satyanarayana, commander of United Nations forces in North Kivu, told Reuters in Sake.
These people are right next to Rawanda. They know what to expect when Kofi's clowns say stuff like this, genocide is right around the corner.
I hesitate to post this -- being as it Reuter's, but what does peachful succession really mean? Could it be, "He's dead Jim."
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has set in motion a peaceful political succession, dashing U.S. government expectations of chaos following
Fidel Castro's hand-over of power to his brother, a leading Cuban intellectual and government member, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, said on Monday. "They (the U.S. government) had not expected that a peaceful succession was possible. A peaceful succession has taken place in Cuba," Fernandez Retamar said at a news conference. The writer and member of the Council of State was the first government official to say a succession under Raul Castro was in motion after Fidel Castro relinquished power a week ago following gastric surgery.
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I think the olde boy is hanging in there. But the day is not far off when we're going to have one hell of a funeral. I foresee split screen coverage Miami/Habanna. Huge I tells 'ya!
And it being Cuba I'll bet he's put in the floor of the cathedral.
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dashing U.S. government expectations of chaos following
Fidel Castro's hand-over of power to his brother Where did the "reporter" geet that tid-bit? Projecting his wishes? I don't recall any US official making a statement wishing for chaos, on the contrary, all I heard was we hope he's dead but chaos would not be anyone's best interest.
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It's just poorly written. Parse out that first sentence, and you'll see they are reporting what the Cuban "intellectual" said.
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DB, You were actually correct. The reporter is projecting, by using the term 'leading Cuban intellectual'. The quoted comment is also projection, just not of the reporter.
The fact that this government type brought it up probably means the Cuban government is very worried. Succession post Soviet-style has not been a successful process. North Korea and Belyorussia excepted.
'Leading Cuban intellectual' is an oxymoron.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he was digging in for a long battle to ensure his ruling-party rival is not declared the winner of presidential elections, calling on supporters to demonstrate in front of the court that ruled against his demand for a full recount.
Because mass action is better than obeying the law.
Lopez Obrador told tens of thousands of followers in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza that they should indefinitely man the sprawling, week-old protest camps that have brought much of the capital's normally thriving center to a halt. The blockades have snarled traffic, costing the city an estimated $23 million a day.
The former Mexico City mayor said that he would continue to demand a full recount in the presidential race, despite the Federal Electoral Tribunal's decision Saturday in favor of a partial recount. Electoral officials across the nation will begin sifting through ballots from 9 percent of the nation's 130,000 polling places on Wednesday, wrapping up their work by the weekend. An official count from the July 2 vote found that conservative Felipe Calderon of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party beat Lopez Obrador by less than 0.6 percent, or about 240,000 votes.
SUCRE, Bolivia - President Evo Morales launched his ambitious drive to give more power and opportunity to Bolivias Indian majority on Sunday when he officially opened a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the nations constitution.
Bolivia is living in a revolution, said Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. Those who have been excluded for 514 years, who have been marginalized for 514 years, those who have hidden in the basement during these 514 years today reclaim their right to equality, citizenship, and prosperity. Not with bullets, but with votes, with words, and with leadership.
Morales said a new era had begun with the start of the assembly. But there are challenges ahead for Morales Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS, which holds only a thin majority in the assembly _ not the two-thirds needed to control the body outright.
Conservatives, many from eastern provinces, want to keep more of their wealth from being consumed by socialist programs. And a proposal to grant states greater autonomy from the central government won overwhelming support in the wealthier eastern and southern states during a July 2 national referendum.
Bolivias current constitution was adopted in 1967 under Rene Barrientos Ortuno, who rose to power in a military coup and was then elected president. Morales, who rose to political prominence as leader of a coca growers union, wants not only to give the indigenous community more say in government but also to place more state controls over the free-market economy, following the nationalization of Bolivias natural gas industry on May 1.
That transfer of power will depend heavily on Quechua Indian political activist Sylvia Lazarte, elected Friday as assembly president. Just how Lazarte should run the assembly already is the subject of spirited debate.
Bolivian law requires that the text of the new constitution be approved by two-thirds of the assembly. But it is silent on whether the body needs such a majority to attend to administrative chores such as appointing committees and setting agendas. MAS delegates want to run the assembly by simple majority.
And if that doesn't work, they'll try colored ballots, new rules, intimidation of delegates, and whatever else they need to do.
Delegates from the conservative party Podemos have called for a two-thirds vote on all assembly actions. If MAS makes all decisions by simple majority, half of the population will feel excluded, said Podemos delegate Jose Luis Aruquipa.
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Where's a CIA operative with a bullet when you need him?
And the four guys lifting him are getting trusses.
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his Cuban counterpart, Fidel Castro, was already getting out of bed and on his way to a full recovery.
He's getting the best western medicine has to offer, which fortunately for him (and not for us) is a lot better than the best Cuban medicine has to offer ...
Speaking by telephone to Bolivian President Evo Morales during his regular Sunday television talk show Hello President, Chavez said he had gotten new information about the ailing Cuba leader and that Castro was improving after his gastrointestinal operation announced last Monday. This morning I learned that he is very well, is already getting out of bed, is talking more than he should because he talks a lot. We sent our regards, Chavez said to Morales on the program.
While Castro does talk alot when he's healthy, that doesn't mean he's talking now.
Chavez said he was ready to visit his old friend, addressing Castro on the air. Youre expecting my visit there so that we can drink a tsunami, an energy drink Fidel makes with 151 proof rum soy milk, an old cigar oatmeal and blood from a female dissident I dont know how many other things, Chavez added in his first broadcast in nearly two months.
It's an energy drink! It's embalming fluid! It's an energy drink and embalming fluid!
Since his return to Venezuela Thursday, Chavez had avoided mentioning Cuba or Castro, feeding speculation that the Cuban leader was in much worse shape than authorities in Havana had let on.
Just coordinating his strategy with that shifty Raul ...
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Hurry up and die a horrible death please Fidel, the sane world will not shed a tear for your passing into hell. lol just fck off and die Fidel.
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HAVANA, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Fidel Castro's illness has renewed interest in a legend of Cuba's patron saint predicting the death of a terrible ruler in the fourth decade of his reign. Stories about the prediction are making the rounds on the Internet -- with some variations -- the Miami Herald said Saturday.
The legend begins in the 1850s and goes something like this:
A Spanish priest, San Antonio María Claret, had been sent to Cuba to become archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, coincidentally Castro's home province. While riding his horse through Sierra Maestra -- also coincidentally Castro's mountain rebel stronghold in the mid-1950s -- he saw La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre in a vision.
She relayed to him the future of Cuba in the hands of a leader that resembled Castro -- long hair, a beard, a uniform, bearing weapons with followers who look just like him.
He would promise reforms to the Cuban people but betray, imprison, divide and inflict them with great pain and heartache.
Claret said the virgin told him the ruler would rule for four decades, and Cuba would be devastated during this time. However, the young man would grow old and die -- and Cuba would be free.
I like that prophecy. ¡Cuba libre!
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World leaders-nations ignore the Virgin Mary at their peril. The meaning of the Angel holding the sword ala FATIMA is that, like any person or good farmer trying to save good fruit, the bad part(s) of the fruit = earth will be excised/cut off in order to save the remainder. NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE CAN STOP GABRIEL'S SWORD EXCEPT GOD/CHRIST - EARTH'S "SPHERE" > LOSE A "EVIL PORTION" OF ITSELF. Most of the physical earth + large part of mortal humanity will survive the cataclysm. Iff mankind still refuses to turn to God for salvation, this surviving "fruit" will itself suffer ever-worse conflagration(s) unto total destruction = smithereenies/space dust. Asteroids + Planet X + Moon/Solar explosions, etal > LIGHT STUFF. DON'T BE SAYING WITHOUT SAYING "MAN IS GOD" OR "MAN MUST CONTROL GOD-UNIVERSE" ETC. BUT THEN FAIL TO DO GODLY THINGS, EVEN WITH YEARS AND DECADES OF ADVANCE WARNINGS.
USING THE MSM-HOLLYWIERD TO DENY OR HIDE THAT EVENTS TOOK PLACE ISN'T GONNA CUT IT BECUZ BIGGER THINGYS WILL SENT TOWARDS EARTH. And no even the UNO or the Global MIC will be able to hide it, or let alone stop it.
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Dear JosephM posts out of Guam, as he's said on occasion. Usually when observing airplanes flying overhead, and suchlike extremely useful information.
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I know physically they couldn't, but I always harken to the "it could be worse" mantra. Just imagine if Joe and mucky had a kid and that kid started posting here at RB? Not only lots of non-sense, but phonetically spelled at that!
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The Cuban vice president said on Sunday that Fidel Castro will to return to work in a few weeks. Earlier Sunday, Venezuela's president said that Castro was out of bed and talking following his intestinal surgery. Messages wishing the Cuban leader a quick recovery poured in from Latin America's leading leftists and Elian Gonzalez. Cuban officials have provided no details and released no pictures of Castro since his surgery was announced last Monday - fueling speculation around the world about his condition. Raul Castro, the defense minister, also has not been seen in public since the announcement.
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No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these werent Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They werent even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified themselves as likely voters in the pivotal states Democratic primary. And, behind closed doors, this is what nearly half of them are saying.
I was amazed, says Bennett. I thought there might be some negatives, but I didnt know it would be as strong as this. Its stunning, the similarities between the Republicans and the Democrats, the comments they have about her.
Bennett runs American Research Group Inc., a highly regarded, independent polling company based in Manchester, N.H. Hes been conducting voter surveys there since 1976. The polls are financed by subscribers and corporate sponsors. He has so far recruited 410 likely voters in the 2008 Democratic primary, and sat down with them privately in small groups to find out what they really think about the candidates and the issues.
His conclusion? Forty-five percent of the Democrats are just as negative about her as Republicans are. More Republicans dislike her, but the Democrats dislike her in the same way.
Hillarys growing brain trust in the partys upper reaches already knows she has high negatives among ordinary Democrats. They think she can win those voters over with the right strategy and message. But they should get out of D.C., New York and L.A. more often, and visit grassroots members. Because were not talking about soft negatives like, say, out of touch or arrogant. Were talking: Criminal . . . megalomaniac . . . fraud . . . dangerous . . . devil incarnate . . . satanic . . . power freak.
Satanic.
And: Political wh***.
(Note: I dont usually like reporting such personal remarks, but in this case you can hardly understand the situation without them. I have no strong personal feelings about the senator.)
There are caveats. Any survey can be inaccurate or misleading. And 55 percent of ARGs sample was either neutral or positive about Sen. Clinton. Thirty-two percent currently say they plan to vote for her in the primary.
But Bennett says hes never before seen so many N.H. voters show so much hatred toward a member of their own party. Hes never even seen anything close. He believes top national Democrats are missing this grassroots intensity. Instead, he suspects, they are blinded by poll numbers, which give Hillary a big early lead based on her name recognition.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginias Center for Politics, agrees. There is far more anti-Hillary sentiment in the Democratic Party than the pollsters understand, he says. In the race for the nomination, she is ripe for plucking, he says.
Sen. Clintons team could not be reached for comment.
New Hampshire is small, but its a bellwether state with clout. Its primary probably holds the key to the Democratic nomination. And New Hampshire, alone, swung from Bush to Kerry in 04.
Its hard to see any Democrat winning the White House without carrying the state in the presidential election. And its hard, right now, to see Hillary carrying the state.
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The problem with Hillary is she has the same ethics and devotion to truth as Bill with none of the charm.
I had a friend in the Secret Service and he said every second word out of her mouth was f***. She also spent a great deal of time bullying the "little people" on the White House staff.
Al
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(Note: I dont usually like reporting such personal remarks, but in this case you can hardly understand the situation without them. I have no strong personal feelings about the senator.)
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Between her and Joe Lib the Donks are going to self destruct before the primary.
And that Satanic picture of her still frightens me.
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Senator Clinton is a bright, ambitious woman with the wrong ambitions. While it is possible she is doing New Yorkers good by representing them in the Senate (I've not followed her voting record), she is entirely too elitist and lacking in the necessary people skills to run a successful national campaign. While no doubt charming on the individual level, even when she only had to appear as Bill's Wife she became a detriment the moment she opened her mouth in public. There are lots of elitists out there; most are smart enough to confine there endeavors to fields where this is an asset. However, like her fellow senator John Kerry, she will not be able to back away from her ambition until the two of them have led the Democrats ever further from the goal of returning to power, or even influence.
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The really good news is that she has all of the money already donated to her by the blind elitist lefties like Soros. She will run, and she will win the nomination. Then, the cancer inside the democrap party will consume it.
Bub bye democraps.
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When political elites put a populist in power, thinking that the populist will serve the elite interests, things often blow up in the face of those elites, with the newly anointed figure pursuing his own agenda which is often antithetical to what the elites wanted.
The German aristocracy in late Weimar Germany leap to mind - Hitler was the populist that they sought to "use" to restore the Reich. It blew up in their faces.
So leaps to mind the American left with the Clintons.
No, I'm not comparing the Clintons' policies to Hitler, for their isn't a comparison to make, and anyone who says there is can be properly named an extremist.
But in a similar fashion, the cultural elites here in the U.S. chose their charismatic populist thinking that he could be their trojan horse for getting their agenda done in America. Instead, he ended up screwing over the party in the long run. WJC was as likely to throw a Dem to the wolves as a Repub, if it would further his own career.
Dems, particularly hard left ones, have been so burned by what they perceive (rightly in many cases, IMO) as betrayal by the Clintons that they either distrust them or are openly hostile.
Apostasy is worse than paganism, I guess.
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NS-Yuck!!! A bust only the New York art crowd could love.
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Irked by a ban on Arab TV channels, apparently under the Israeli pressure, the Saudi daily Arab News in a front page report has criticised the Indian government for the unannounced ban.
In a country widely referred to as the worlds largest democracy, Indian government has succumbed to the Israeli pressure and ordered a nationwide ban on the broadcast of Arab television channels, the newspaper said.
The story pointed out: "The Indian governments ban on Arab television stations is in complete contrast to the friendship that Arab countries imagine exists with their neighbours across the Arabian Sea."
The report says that Nabila Al-Bassam, a Saudi businesswoman on a trip to Mumbai, told the newspaper how she became exasperated at not being able to watch Arab channels at a leading five-star hotel of Mumbai.
When she took up the issue with the hotel manager, she was told that Arab television channels had been banned across India.
A perplexed Al-Bassam sent an SMS to Arab News Editor-in-Chief Khaled Al Maeena to verify whether this was indeed the case. "Oberoi Hotel tells me that the government of India has banned all Arab TV channels. Why? I hate watching CNN and BBC," she wrote to Mr Almaeena.
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What's her problem with CNN and the BBC? Their women may not be veiled, but the kinds of things they say can't be *that* different from the Arab networks . . .
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So in India, you can't watch Arab TV (no loss there) annd if you want to "convert" you have to report it to government agencies.
hmmmmm. I guess there really is something to this "freedom of religion" stuff.
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Nabila runs the Arab Heritage Gallery. Carries a nice line in antiques. This is her view on democracy.
"Across the border in Saudi Arabia, even the notion of a debate is anathema. Saudi Arabia has virtually no political culture. "We don't need democracy, we have our own 'desert democracy," explained Nabila al-Bassam, a Saudi woman who ran her own clothing and gift store in Dhahran. What she was referring to was an ancient desert tradition known as the majlis, weekly gatherings hosted by members of the ruling family, where any of their subjects were free to present petitions or air grievances. In fact, the majlis was an intensely feudal scene, with respectful subjects waiting humbly for a fefw seconds' opportunity to whisper in their prince's ear.
Nabila told me of a friend who had recently petitioned King Fahd's wife to allow the legal import of hair-salon equipment. Technically, hairdressing salons were banned in Saudi Arabia, where the religious establishment frowned on anything that drew women from their houses. In fact, thriving salons owned by prominent Saudis and staffed by Filipina or Syrian beauticians did a roaring trade. "My friend is tired of having to run her business in secret," Nabila said. But so far she had received no response to her petition. "Petitions do work," said Nabila. "But in this society you have to do things on a friendly basis, like a family. You can ask for things, but you can't just reach out and take things as if it's your right." A rejected petitioner had no choice but to accept the al-Sauds' decision. With no free press and no way to mobilize public opinion, the al-Sauds ruled as they liked."
ISLAMABAD In an unprecedented move, 28 officials of Airport Police Station in Rawalpindi were arrested on Saturday on charges of dereliction of duty, but their incharge station house officer (SHO) escaped arrest.
Senior police officials ordered the arrests after a man wanted for murder, kidnapping and robbery escaped from the police station. A case was filed against 38 policemen, but 10 including the SHO Inspector Malik Sher Mohammad are still on the run.
The wanted man, Banaris Khan, was arrested two days ago in a kidnapping for ransom case and was being interrogated by SI Munawar Khan in Rawalpindi Airport Police Station. On Friday night, Khan sought permission to use the toilet. Constable Naveed escorted Khan to the toilet and was supposed to stand guard until Khan came out. The constable got a call on his mobile phone and Khan seized on the opportunity to flee.
The old "sorry, sarge, I gotta call from my girlfriend" ruse.
Azhar Akram, Supervisory Police Officer (SPO) Airport Police Station, lodged an FIR against the cops said he suspected dereliction of duty if not a conspiracy to allow the Banaris Khan to escape. No effort was made by the police station staff to trace the escapee, the SPO Azhar Akram said in the FIR.
I'm guessing it wasn't simple dereliction ...
The detained policemen were produced in the court of Civil Judge Malik Imran Shahbaz who sent them to Adiala jail for 24 days and directed the authorities to produce them in the court on August 29, 2006.
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That is thick heavy stuff isn't it? Japan is going to be hurting worse than the US. The Speculators will drive the prices higher but that is just a tiny impact in reality.
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According to the article BP needs to change out the piping; it's eroded faster than expected. Not a long term problem like in Nigeria where they are dealing with local insurgents kidnapping the workforce.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has set in motion a peaceful political succession, dashing U.S. government expectations of chaos following
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Leftist candidate 
SUCRE, Bolivia - President Evo Morales launched his ambitious drive to give more power and opportunity to Bolivias Indian majority on Sunday when he officially opened a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the nations constitution.
HAVANA, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Fidel Castro's illness has renewed interest in a legend of Cuba's patron saint predicting the death of a terrible ruler in the fourth decade of his reign. Stories about the prediction are making the rounds on the Internet -- with some variations -- the Miami Herald said Saturday.
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And hes never seen anything like it. 
Irked by a ban on Arab TV channels, apparently under the Israeli pressure, the Saudi daily Arab News in a front page report has criticised the Indian government for the unannounced ban.
ISLAMABAD In an unprecedented move, 28 officials of Airport Police Station in Rawalpindi were arrested on Saturday on charges of dereliction of duty, but their incharge station house officer (SHO) escaped arrest.
