Just a few devout Muslims of Pak extraction in Britain. The girl was no doubt asking for it. A 14-year-old was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men after going missing from her home in Greater Manchester.
Nine men were convicted in connection with the abuse, which took place in February and March 2008.
The girl, described as vulnerable, was "used as a commodity" for sexual activity with the men, police said.
Supt Paul Savill, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said she had been through an "absolutely horrifying ordeal".
Police said the girl, who first went missing on 16 February 2008, had been abused by a number of different men "as she went from one vulnerable situation to another".
In each case the men identified her vulnerability to take advantage of her.
In a statement issued following the convictions, the girl said: "These people exploit young girls, introduce them to prostitution, feed them drugs and alcohol and tell them they love them.
Nine men convicted at Manchester Crown Court in connection with the abuse were:
Aftab Khan, 31, of Tarporley Avenue, Fallowfield pleaded guilty to one count of controlling a child prostitute and one count of sexual activity with a child. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. This was later reduced to seven years on appeal
Abid Khaliq, 30, of Shrewsbury Street, Stretford was sentenced to eight months in prison after admitting perverting the course of justice
Noorzai Ahmed, 29, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of paying for the sexual services of a child
Mohammed Anwar Safi, 29, of no fixed address, was sentenced to 31 months in prison after admitting paying for the sexual services of a child
Mohammed Khan, 26, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of facilitating child prostitution
Najibullah Safi, 33, of Reabrook Avenue, West Gorton was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child
Asad Yousaf Hassa, 28, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting two counts of sexual activity with a child
Mohammed Basharat, 28, of Prospect Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child under 16
Mohammed Atif, 29, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child
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When Nora W. Tyson entered the Navy in 1979, women were not allowed to go to sea on aircraft carriers. The idea of a woman commanding a mighty carrier strike group? That was certainly for another day.
That day arrived Thursday for Rear Adm. Tyson, who made history in assuming command of Carrier Strike Group Two in a ceremony on board the USS George H.W. Bush.
The strike group consists of the Bush, America's newest carrier, four guided-missile cruisers; Destroyer Squadron 22, which includes six guided-missile destroyers and two frigates, and Carrier Air Wing 8, with eight squadrons of aircraft.
In accepting her new assignment, Tyson spoke of the challenges that the Navy faces and said she was humbled to be selected. Talking later with reporters, she downplayed her history-making step.
"As far as the trailblazing piece, I understand I am the first woman on the job," she said. "But I'm a professional just like my fellow officers are, and my fellow strike group commanders."
Tyson said she's thought about whether she'll face more scrutiny. She said it all comes down to professionalism.
But while women have made progress in the Navy over the years, Tyson's appointment marks a dramatic step forward, said James V. Koch, president emeritus of Old Dominion University who also teaches World War II history.
"This is an exceedingly responsible position in terms of the pressure and the kinds of life-and-death decisions that have to be made," he said. "I think there is more pressure and more responsibility than a staff position in the Pentagon, even though the rank of that person might be higher."
Because carriers are a symbol of America's military might, "one is constantly on the front lines when you are a commander of a task force. And the tradition of the Navy is that whoever is in charge is responsible," he said.
Tyson acknowledged as much during her speech. "This," she said, "is not an easy position to be in."
[Straits Times] A POWERFUL earthquake struck waters of eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and officials said there was no threat of a tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 and was centred off Sulawesi island, around 26 miles (42 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.
Some buildings shook in Manado, 100 miles east of the epicenter, and in the nearby cities of Bitung and Tondano.
But Deny Hendrawanto, an official at Indonesia's earthquake monitoring office, said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Dr Fauzi, chief of the agency, said there also was no threat of a tsunami. Like many Indonesians, Dr Fauzi uses just one name.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that make the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.
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Methinks I spoke too soon.
See my Post #3 on the RB's "SOLAR TSUNAMI" thread.
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ION NEWS KERALA > [ENSEMBLE Euro = German Project]NEW CO2 MODEL TO ENSURE EARTH DOESN'T HEAT UP BEYOND TWO DEGREES, come Year 2100.
and
* SAME > NASA DEMYSTIFIES SPACE "RED GLOW".
IOW, NASA-JPL + USDOD-DARPA have to keep That Guy/Madonna Fan from Guam from roundaboutly detecting discrete RED PRISM LIGHT all over the place WIDOUT DE FACTO US GOVT + OWG PERMISSION.
A SUDANESE court ordered 19 Muslim youths to be flogged in public for dressing up like women.
The punishment was carried out immediately after the sentencing by the court in Omdurman, which lies across the Nile river from Khartoum.
Hundreds of people looked on as each young man received 30 lashes, an AFP correspondent reported.
They were convicted under laws that forbid "indecent clothing." The youths must also pay fines ranging between 500 and 1,000 Sudanese pounds ($250 to $450).
The Sudanese press said the men were homosexuals attending a same sex marriage. Northern Sudan is governed by Islamic law, which forbids homosexuality.
The law forbidding "indecent clothing" was brought into the spotlight last year when a court sentenced a woman journalist to be flogged for wearing trousers.
The sentence was commuted to a fine after a public outcry.
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I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...I sleep all night and I work all day.....I dresses up in womens clothing and hang around in bars. I wear highheals a low cut skirt suspenders and a bra !!
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Islam is a strange religion. On the one hand they flog believers who dress in womens clothing but on the other hand they are told to emulate Mo. So what is the situation?
Can they dress up in baby, infant female child clothing like Mo did or not?
Household products maker Clorox Co. says its fourth-quarter net income was nearly flat, even though its revenue rose one percent, because it paid higher taxes and had smaller margins.
The company says it earned $171 million, or $1.20 per share, in the three months that ended June 30th. A year earlier, it earned $170 million, or $1.20 per share.
The company's revenue was $1.52 billion in the quarter, helped by record shipments of Hidden Valley Ranch and Kingsford charcoal. Overall sales volume rose two percent.
The earnings met the average forecast of analysts for $1.20 per share on revenue of nearly $1.51 billion.
Clorox still expects to earn $4.50 to $4.65 per share for fiscal 2011, in line with estimates.
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I think they're based here in Oakland, they have a high rise in City Center. I don't know of ANYONE in California making money right now. Of course I dont know anyone in the financial sector though. Every time I go the Half Moon Bay I see some a-hole in a Ferrari, so somebody must be doing ok.
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CLOROX = TUPPERWARE, etc > its Brand/Product name is so well known + established its Competitors' copycat products are called/labelled as such widout hesitation.
As Spain prepared Wednesday to receive First Lady Michelle Obama, the U.S. State Department rescinded a warning to travelers in Spain that cautioned Americans to beware of "racist prejudices." Obama and her nine-year-old daughter Sasha are expected to begin a four-day vacation Wednesday in a five-star hotel in Marbella, on the Costa del Sol.
On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department was still advising tourists that "racist prejudices could lead to the arrest of Afro-Americans who travel to Spain." The website of the Office for Consular Affairs also mentioned "isolated reports" of racially-motivated arrests of tourists. The travel advice has since been removed.
"The note has been removed. It was 15 months old and out of date. Somebody forgot to remove it," the U.S. embassy in Madrid said. "We are in no way suggesting Spanish police are racist. This is an isolated incident."
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Funny enough, the State Department issued the same warning for New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, New Orleans, Richmond, and Newark. Apparently, if you're black the police watch you closer.
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OTOH TURKEY > repor ranks ahead of SPAIN in the market for EXPATRIATE REAL PPROPERTY DEV + INVESTMENTS, by Foreigners.
* Also, WAFF > NEW LAW IN TURKEY: PROPRIETORS MUST EMPLOY FIVE LOCAL TURKS FOR EVERY ONE FOREIGN RECRUIT, within six months of gaining their legal permits to employ foreign workers.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran on Tuesday rejected an offer by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to give asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for having an extra-marital relationship.
The sentence imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who denies the charges against her, has angered rights groups and caused an international outcry. It has been suspended pending a review by Iran's judiciary, but could still be carried out.
Lula called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week to let Brazil give refuge to Mohammadi Ashtiani, but the Islamic Republic rebuffed the offer.
"From what we know about Mr. da Silva, he has a humane and sensitive character and probably he has not been provided with enough information," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a news conference.
"What can be done here is to let him know about the details of the case of this person who has committed a crime so that he understands the case," he added.
Iran and Brazil have drawn closer this year after Brazil and Turkey brokered a proposed compromise deal on Iran's uranium enrichment work, which the West fears is a cover for developing a nuclear bomb. Tehran rejects the accusation, saying it only wants to generate electricity.
A humanitarian gesture
At a summit in Argentina, Lula reiterated his opposition to U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran and said he had offered asylum to the woman as a humanitarian gesture.
"For me, death by stoning is so barbaric that I said Brazil would receive this woman with open arms," he told a news conference. "My appeal was more humanitarian than political."
Washington urged Iran on Monday to accept Lula's offer.
"If Brazil is willing to accept... this woman, we would hope that Iran would consider that as a humanitarian gesture," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said. "And the fact that Brazil has stepped up and indicated a willingness to resolve it, we hope Iran will listen."
Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's sharia law, enforced since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Human rights group Amnesty International has said Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men and received 99 lashes as her sentence.
The rights group said that, despite this, she was subsequently convicted of "adultery while being married", which it said she denied, and was sentenced to death by stoning.
Amnesty has listed Iran as the world's second most prolific executioner in 2008 after China, and says it put to death at least 346 people in 2008. The Iranian authorities routinely dismiss charges of rights abuses, saying they are following Islamic sharia.
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Using diplomats, the way to deal with this is to be very clear that everyone involved is committing an *international* crime, and with a change in the political winds in Iran, they could, and will, likely find themselves in the dock. And that the international community is keeping records of who is responsible.
And, given such a hideous and obscene method of tortuous murder, Iranian leaders could spend the rest of their lives in prison. Most certainly, any chance of their leaving Iran in haste, to retire in another country, would no longer be possible.
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The rights group said that, despite this, she was subsequently convicted of "adultery while being married", which it said she denied, and was sentenced to death by stoning.
The woman was supposedly complicit in the murder of her husband, too. I don't know the circumstances, but perhaps she does deserve the death penalty. And maybe it's hogwash. And maybe he deserved it. And maybe it didn't happen.
If Brazil were to accept her, it would probably behoove them to look into the veracity of and circumstances surrounding her husband's death, and perhaps offer to put her in prison for life there.
The raising of livestock consumes two-thirds of the planet's farmland, and is a major source of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, tons of edible, sustainable protein swarms all around us, free for the taking. In a new policy paper being considered by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Belgian entomologist Arnold van Huis makes the sensible recommendation that the western world eat more insects.
Farming edible insects like mealworms and crickets would produce far less greenhouse gas -- 10 times less methane and 100 times less nitrous oxide -- than the large mammals we currently farm. Insects are metabolically much more efficient, which makes them far cheaper to feed and raise; and, since they're so biologically different from humans, they are less subject to contagious disease scares like mad cow. They are high in protein and calcium, and, with over 1,000 edible species, offer plenty of delicious variety.
In April, the FAO started a pilot locust-farming project in Laos, where entomophagy is not unheard of, but where it's been in decline under the cultural influence of the West. According to the Guardian, 15,000 household farmers already raise locusts in Thailand, and that expertise can be transferred elsewhere.
Introducing a bug-rich diet to the western world might be more of a challenge, although it's certainly not unheard of. A British author named Vincent Holt published an essay advocating it in 1885, along with a nice selection of menus -- moths on toast, anyone? -- in a pamphlet called Why Not Eat Insects?
Van Huis proposes a two-phase plan: first just farming insects to feed to more conventional livestock; and then gradually introducing them directly to the menu for humans. "We're looking at ways of grinding the meat into some sort of patty, which would be more recognizable to western palates," he says.
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Van Huis proposes a two-phase plan: first just farming insects to feed to more conventional livestock; and then gradually introducing them directly to the menu for humans. "We're looking at ways of grinding the meat into some sort of patty, which would be more recognizable to western palates," he says.
A good place to start? The cafeteria at the Whorehouse on Turtle Bay.
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I'm not above eating bugs in survival situations. I've often said if a plague of locusts eats my crops, then I will grow fat on the locusts. But in the meantime, let the third world's burgeoning and unsustainable population eat insects, I'll eat what I can grow and raise.
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August 2030. A consumer unit pulls up to the window of a McDonald's collective in his luxury, automobile, a 50cc cardboard tricycle, and places an order:
"I'll have a Bug-mac with a large order of flies."
"D'you want to super-size that, sir?" says the attendant, a destitute former capitalist.
"No, but leave off the mashed roach sauce, I hate the stuff."
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This is no surprise, because once a year, for decades now, delegates to the UN general assembly have voted that fried grasshoppers are their favorite snack. I'm not kidding.
Add that to the fact that, even though the western delegates have advanced degrees, the average education of *all* delegates is 5th grade. From a quarter to a third of delegates are illiterate, so are reliant on audio interpretation.
Several times, a resolution has almost passed, that would include varieties of "drum" as interpreted audio language.
And yet leftists still thing having these people rule the world would be a good idea.
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the EyeWitless news always carries the same shit when Cicadas come out: how to bread and fry em, blah blah. Hey newslady? You first, you last, and no cheeseburgers in between. Keep munching!
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* DAILY TIMES.PK > {PAK Federal Minster on Envrionment HAMEDULLAH] CLIMATE CHANGE PROMPTING HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS, in PAK + around the World.
and
* WMF > RUSSIA, CANADA SUFFER HIGH PRICES FOR GRAIN CROPS AS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS WORSENS.
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The leader of the Islamic Center of Irvine, Sheik Sadullah Khan, is very progressive. He was recently removed; I think its because he was liberal. For example, he thought that men and women should be allowed to shake hands.
This statement is one of the most frightening in the interview. The fact that someone is considered a wild reformer if they believe men and women can shake hands tells you what Islam is like.
The other frightening thing is how UC Irvine denied her financial aid once she became an apostate.
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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.
A 14-year-old was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men after going missing from her home in Greater Manchester.
[Straits Times] A POWERFUL earthquake struck waters of eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and officials said there was no threat of a tsunami.
The raising of livestock consumes two-thirds of the planet's farmland, and is a major source of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, tons of edible, sustainable protein swarms all around us, free for the taking. In a new policy paper being considered by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Belgian entomologist Arnold van Huis makes the sensible recommendation that the western world eat more insects.
