[Emirates 24/7] A Saudi court has sentenced a local man for five years in prison and ordered him lashed 500 times in public on charges of having an illegitimate relationship with a married woman, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The unnamed man met the 18-year-old Saudi woman at a wedding in the central town of Buraidah and took her to the capital Riyadh, where he rented an apartment for their relationship, Kabar Arabic language daily said.
Police tracking the woman's mobile phone calls at a request by her husband and relatives located the apartment and seized the couple, it said.
"The judge said he issued a tough sentence against the man because what he has done amounted to ruining a household and marriage...he also duped the woman, frightened her family and brought shame on them," the paper said without mentioning whether the woman has also been sentenced for adultery.
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[Emirates 24/7] A Saudi girl jugged after she was caught with a man in a public place stabbed a member of the Kingdom's most feared religious police group during investigation at a cop shoppe, newspapers reported on Sunday.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential Islamic law-enforcement group in Soddy Arabia, seized the unnamed girl with a man in a public place in the southwestern town of Abha and charged her with having an illegitimate meeting.
"They took her to the police centre, where they decided to refer her to the public prosecution...she jumped to the coppers' desk, picked a knife and tried to stab the policewomen who wanted to transport her," Alwatan daily said.
"When a member of the Commission tried to stop her, she stabbed him in the hand...but she was later overcome and transferred to the prosecution."
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Good for her. She stabbed the vice & virtue goon and not the police woman.
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Good for her. I'm a big advocate of oppressed women and girls getting stabby. Just a few more incidents like this, and the religious police thugs would get a LOT more respectful.
Tyrants are totally dependent on passive people. When people go active, the degree of difficulty of being a tyrant goes through the roof. Most tyrants just don't have enough chutzpah to continue.
[Ennahar] Four Algerians converted to Protestantism, prosecuted for illegally opening a place of worship in Kabylia (eastern Algeria), were sentenced Sunday to terms ranging from two to three months suspended prison sentence, said a judicial source.
Three of them were sentenced to two months suspended prison while the fourth on which weighed additional charges for hosting an illegal foreigner has been sentenced to three months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 10,000 Dinars (100 euros), the source said.
At the trial held November 28 in the Criminal Court of Larbaa Nath Irathen in the region of Tizi Ouzou, the prosecutor had requested a one-year prison sentence against the four defendants who were between 35 and 45.
They were accused of having opened a Protestant church in the region without first obtaining permission from the authorities.
The exercise of worship in Algeria - Mohammedan or not Mohammedan - is conditioned on obtaining an approval determining the place of worship and another pointing to the preacher, under a law of February 2006.
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Where's the outrage from the mouthy 'uman rights crew?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Laurent Gbagbo hit back at pressure to quit power in Ivory Coast after disputed elections, with his camp accusing Western diplomats of trying to turn the country's military against him.
Gbagbo continued Sunday to defy pressure to step aside, after the man he has named interior minister, Emile Guirieoulou, alleged that diplomats in Ivory Coast were working to "destabilise" him.
"For several days, civil and military members of certain Western chancelleries in Abidjan have discreetly approached senior officers in our national army to persuade them to pledge allegiance" to Gbagbo's rival Alassane Ouattara, Guirieoulou said on state television late Saturday.
He warned that Gbagbo's government, not recognised by Ouattara's camp and much of the international community, "will no longer tolerate meddling by any diplomat in the internal affairs of the state of Ivory Coast".
The two men both declared themselves president and formed rival governments after last month's contested polls, in a tense standoff which many fear could turn violent.
The UN refugee agency said some 2,000 people fearing unrest have fled west from Ivory Coast to neighbouring Liberia and Guinea.
The United Nations has ordered 460 non-essential staff out of the country and France is on alert to evacuate thousands of its nationals from its former colony if needed.
Ouattara has declared himself president based on UN-endorsed results from the November 28 election and his side is moving to get a grip on the levers of state, demanding that members of the military and civil service abandon Gbagbo.
Ivorians have been watching anxiously to see how Gbagbo would respond. Reports said he was ready to talk with Ouattara's side, which has rejected any suggestion of negotiations.
Guirieoulou's declaration meanwhile kept up a defiant front against pressure from world powers including the United Nations Security Council for Gbagbo to end his decade in power.
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Plots by Western Nations™
Means: "I can't find anyone else to blame, let me sow doubt by blaming it on the distant rich nations we are all jealous of"
(KUNA) -- Scotland Yard released pictures Sunday of 14 people who are wanted in connection with violence during the tuition fee demonstrations, it was announced. Do they include any more Pink Floyd spawn?
Detective Chief Superintendent Matthew Horne, leading the investigation, said "We want the public to help us identify these people who may have been involved in violent disorder, attacking coppers and smashing buildings, shops and windows.
"The vast majority of the people we are seeking are suspected of committing serious offences of violent disorder and criminal damage.
"The rights of protest and expression are important to us all. However, The infamous However... people breaking the law, endangering those protesting peacefully and committing offences such as this are criminals.
"We will investigate them and where we have the evidence we will arrest them. If you know who any of these people are, please let us know." Police launched a public order investigation, Operation Malone, to cover all fee protests held from November 10, when students stormed Conservative party headquarters in Millbank, Lonndon, until last Thursday's demonstration in Parliament Square.
A total of 175 people were jugged during the four demonstrations, including 34 who were nabbed on Thursday after havoc in central London left dozens of officers and protesters injured.
All of those jugged in the most recent demonstration have been bailed to return pending further inquiries.
The team is reviewing hours of CCTV and police footage.
Following the latest protest, Prime Minister David Cameron demanded that demonstrators who defaced war memorials and attacked the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall face the "full force of the law".
Cameron warned that it was not possible to blame the distressing scenes on a small cut-thoat element when so many in the crowd were acting in an "absolutely feral way".
The protests came after the decision by MPs to treble university fees to a maximum of 9,000 pounds a year.
Among the most shocking episodes was the attack on a Rolls-Royce carrying Charles and Camilla by a gang who smashed a window and threw paint while shouting "Off with their heads!" A Clarence House, the Heir to rthe thrones headquarters, front man refused to confirm reports that the Duchess was poked with a stick through an open window, but stressed that the royal couple did not seek medical help.
The Met Police declined to comment on reports that the royal car was driven into harm's way because of a breakdown in communication.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said an investigation was being held into the security breach and added that armed protection officers showed "real restraint" not to open fire as the situation slipped out of control.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is examining one incident where a 20-year-old student needed brain surgery after allegedly being hit with a truncheon.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will govern from a tent given him by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.He has invited families made homeless by recent torrential rains to live in his palace.
Socialist Chavez, an admirer of the African leader who has governed for more than 40 years, moved 25 families into the palace in November and on Friday told aides to speed up preparation to receive another 80 families.
"We can put some beds in my main office," he said.
Chavez has zig-zagged across the country to supervise humanitarian relief. He is criticized for not building enough new housing during his 12 years in office but blames huge, unstable slums on his free-market predecessors. Now all he needs is Fembots and some big Sprockets. Maybe a funny hat or two and some clothes donated by Libeerace"s estate.
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Lemme guess. A lotta tug boats?
Russia's new naval doctrine, as shown by its plans for shipbuilding over the next decade, is not directed against the United States and the West as was the Soviet Union's but rather is intended in the first instance to protect its economic interests on the continental shelf and to ensure that the sea lanes for delivering oil and gas remain open.
More and more details are coming out about Russia's new naval doctrine, one that will redirect that country's efforts away from the geo-political challenges of the past to the geo-economic ones of the future but that sets the stage in particular places for serious naval competitions involving the rising naval power of China, Japan and India.
Oh, boy! Gonna have to call my travel agent, like, right now... "Tours to Chernobyl are extreme tourism," head of the Ukrainian State Service for Tourism and Resorts Anatoliy Pakhlya said.. Ya don't say?
Russia also offers extreme tours, such as ones to the most infamous prison camps, Josef Stalin's Gulags. Tourists may spend their "holiday" in the Soviet prison camp and feel the experience of being a prisoner. Wonder if I can get a package deal? Nothing like the Kolyma in February ...
Crude oil prices jumped above 91 dollars here on Monday as the market digested OPEC's move over the weekend to maintain the cartel's output levels.
Prices are also going up as the markets bake in the costs of quantitative easing by the Fed.
Brent North Sea crude for delivery in January advanced by 91 cents to 91.39 dollars a barrel in London morning trade. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January, gained 68 cents to 88.47 dollars.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Saturday decided to leave production quotas unchanged at a meeting in Ecuador's capital Quito, stressing looming "risks to the fragile global economic recovery."
The 12-nation group said in a statement that the economic growth that had pushed oil to two-year highs above 92 dollars a barrel last week was likely to slow next year. That, and the challenges to the world's recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, "would negatively impact on oil demand," it said.
"An interesting aspect of the OPEC meeting were various statements on prices, showing that hawkish OPEC members such as Iran, Libya, Venezuela and Angola have no problem with (oil at) 100 dollars," noted analysts at JBC Energy Research.
"Some OPEC members may ask for higher prices, ignoring how fragile the global economy still is," they added.
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Nothing to do with the administration banning drilling in the Gulf. Nothing at all...
(KUNA) -- The Swiss People's Party criticized on Sunday having visa free access of the citizens of Albania and Bosnia Herzegovina to the visa free Schengen treaty countries including Switzerland.
The hard-line party said in a statement that the decision of the Swiss federal Council in this regard have been erroneous, depending on the derisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
"The Schengen Convention have to increase security and not to the lack of control in the waves of irregular migration to Europe.", said the Swiss people's party.
The Party calls for the need to evaluate the impact of the Schengen convention on Switzerland in particular on the visitors from the Balkans in various fields and to publish the results of this evaluation on public opinion to study the implications of this decision on the country.
It should be noted that Switzerland is not a member of the European Union but both sides have a huge number of bilateral agreements in order to arrange their relations, especially since the European Union is the first commercial partner of Switzerland.
The Swiss radical right intents to stir up public fears of foreigners claiming they threaten the internal security and Swiss culture or have a negative influence on the labour market.
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The Swiss radical right intents to stir up public fears of foreigners claiming they threaten the internal security and Swiss culture or have a negative influence on the labour market.
1) Learn to spell, KUNA
2) Mind your own business
3) Explain how they are wrong... if you can.
From Wikipedia: The SVP has 64 seats in the Federal Assembly, and its vote share of 29% in the last election was the highest any party has ever recorded in Switzerland.
"Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media and are a method the insider threat uses to exploit classified information. To mitigate the activity, all Air Force organizations must immediately suspend all SIPRNET data transfer activities on removable media," the order adds. Reality check with ugly results in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
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That's going to be pretty tough to do, CDs are routine for that sort of thing, and even a pre-burned CD is "removeable media".
I recall one ISSO even epoxy'd CD ROM players on the PCs shut (in addition to the USB ports they epoxy'd) - the security IT guys that did upgrades had to crack the case, install a working CD player, do the software updates, then remove the working CD player restoring the epoxy'd one. To this day I don't know why they simply didn't remove the damned drive other than they didn't have authorization to remove hardware.
Been through this horse puckey before back in the 1990's when you could never bring self-burned CDs into a SCIF, so you had to bring store bought ones in - and the fun part is they banned taking ANY CDs and CD players out! So if you wanted music there, you bought a no-radio, stand alone CD player that went into the SCIF permanently, and burned a copy of every CD, keeping the burned CDR at home, and the original goes into the SCIF never to be seen again.
That changed back in 2002 or 2003 I think, and the outflow of CD collections was big (too them a long time to scan them before releasing them to the unclass side of things).
I guess it now changes back to that as of the reg being handed down.
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In the long run, it's better to hammer unmercifully miscreants, no matter rank or intention or the execution of all other duties, than to erect unending procedures and regulations and make unworkable setups to cover these issues. However, no one wants to be the bad guy who sticks it to poor old Charlie who, you know, just screwed up and 'forgot'. It's amazing the irrational zero tolerance to benign things in elementary schools these days that get kids suspended or expelled, but the unwillingness of adults to hold other adults to basic standards around national security. Right, Mr. Stuff Socks Burger?
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CF: nope. You don't know the ISSO (Security Officer) mindset.
If it contains data and can be removed, then its removable media and therefore banned. I've been through this one before. The reasoning behind it is that someone could make a blank CDR that looked like a music CD, and could burn classified into it and could walk out with it, therefore NO home-made CDs of any type, nor any data CDs of any type, be they burned or commercial will ever be allowed into the facility except under strictly controlled procedures via the security office (this also prevents threat injection, ask the Iranians about STUXNET). Commercially made original music CDs may be brought in, but may not EVER leave the SCIF.
You can bet that's whats going on now - all those MP3 players and MP3 CD's will be destroyed since they cannot leave the SCIF and are not allowed to be in there (Data CD).
I feel sorry for the guys on mid watch over the holidays.
The real problem are the USB drives, since they can be as small as a thumbnail. ande hold 32GB in the microSD format (I have one in my Android phone at the moment).
I favor execution of those who deliberately leaked things like the Wikileaks stuff, as a deterrent and an appropriate measure for aiding and abetting treason as well as attempted multiple murders. Data misuse should be escalted - 1st offense a company grade Article 15 (for contractor or GS, a fine and a 1 week suspension of access), second a field grade article 15 (a larger fine and a 1 month suspension of access as well as a remedial course on security porocedures), and third a discharge under other than honorable (permanent revocation of clearance, firing and a federal felony prosecution that can be plea bargained to a misdemeanor but with a permanent record). Deliberate things liek Sandy Berger jump IMMEDIATELY to the third level at a minimum, and if they are sufficiently large and deliberate and resulted in a leak, than they go for life - and if its like Manning and Wikileaks (or the Walkers, or Boyce and Lee, etc) the death penalty should be automatic.
You do that, show people you are serious about it, and the instances will stop because there is a cost - a severe and sure cost.
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This is easy and it's criminal that it wasn't done a long, long time ago. There are such things as diskless workstations, or at least there could be if the government put out a request for bids on a contract to produce them. I've seen them at computer trades shows. The most notable ones that I saw were produced by Sun and they did NOT run Microsoft software which as far as I'm concerned is an extra added bonus. They will, however, run modern browsers, email, word processing, spreadsheet and other applications. The software for these applications resides on a central server and not on the workstation itself. If the OS on these types of workstations needs to be upgraded it can be done over the network from a central server. No disks. No USB ports. In fact, no I/O ports at all except for keyboard and mouse.
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Agree EU, it's a pre-80s topography of a server and smart client. It looks like Google is attempting to do just that. However, in the real world, the use of 'off the shelf' equipment means more players who can get their congresscritter to scream and howler about 'competition' and 'cost effectiveness' against hard learned lessons that somehow never get factored into the bottom line calculation because they're fuzzy, till it happens.
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Aren't those called 'thin clients'? Used to be called X-terminals (in that they only run a X-Windows Server. they have some which also run Remote Desktop only. Most however have floppy drive and a USB Port or two.
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Classic Knee-jerk reaction. How about we only allow access to personnel that have A NEED TO KNOW. How about we line up PFC Manning in front of a firing squad or under a noose. That would solve the problem and fast.
(KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill... hailed the Cancun Agreements as "meaningful progress" in the global response to climate change.
The agreements, reached after a just-concluded international climate change gathering in Mexico, are "a set of balanced international decisions" under the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Framework Convention on Climate Change, Clinton said in a statement released by the State Department on Saturday.
The agreements advance each of the core elements of the Copenhagen Accord, she said.
"They anchor the accord's mitigation pledges; build on a system of transparency, with substantial detail and content of International Consultations and Analysis, which will provide confidence that a country's pledges are being carried out; launch a new Green Climate Fund; create a framework to reduce deforestation in developing countries; establish a technology mechanism; and set up a framework and committee to promote international cooperation and action on adaptation," Clinton said.
The agreements "represent a balanced and significant step forward," she said.
"In the days and months ahead, the United States will work with our friends and partners to keep the world focused on this urgent challenge, and to continue building on this progress."
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"Mrs BILL" = Methinks thou are referring to 1990's NET's "MR. HILLARY" + [the former]"MADAME PRESIDENT"???
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"They anchor the accord's mitigation pledges; build on a system of transparency, with substantial detail and content of International Consultations and Analysis, which will provide confidence that a country's pledges are being carried out; launch a new Green Climate Fund; create a framework to reduce deforestation in developing countries; establish a technology mechanism; and set up a framework and committee to promote international cooperation and action on adaptation."
Absolutely!
Will the Rantburg translator work on that?
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Translation:
"We reckon that we can fly out and have another few taxpayer funded boondoggle in the sun for the next few years."
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Man, Cancun is nice! The weather, the women, the food... wait, why I am here again? Oh, yes: The Planet. We must save it, you know. For the children.
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.
Crude oil prices jumped above 91 dollars here on Monday as the market digested OPEC's move over the weekend to maintain the cartel's output levels.
"Unauthorized data transfers routinely occur on classified networks using removable media and are a method the insider threat uses to exploit classified information. To mitigate the activity, all Air Force organizations must immediately suspend all SIPRNET data transfer activities on removable media," the order adds.
(KUNA) -- US Secretary of State 
