On this day in history: April 6th
1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins.
1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated.
1917 - World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1973 - The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter.
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Just saw the picture of Marilu Henner today. I wish these retired actresses could learn how to grow old gracefully and not get plastic surgery that makes them look like alien creatures.
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NAIROBI - Somali pirates have hijacked a 20,000-tonne German container carrier in the Indian Ocean, a Kenya-based maritime official told AFP on Sunday. The ship was taken yesterday (Saturday) far out at sea, around 400 nautical miles from the Somali coast, between Kenya and the Seychelles, said Andrew Mwangura, of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.
He said he believed the ship has a crew of around 24 and may be using a flag of convenience.
400 miles is a long ways out to sea.
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A long time ago there was an attempt to electrify the skin of a ship with AC to remove barnacles.
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Barbed wire worked for the Israeli ship. I can just vision ships putting in to harbor with a roll of concertina wire around the whole vessel, just below the deck. Leave out the claymores, though - that would be hazardous to everyone's health.
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DUBAI - The deputy prime minister of Chechnya is being sought by Dubai Police for 'masterminding' the killing of former rebel leader Sulim Yamadayev. Whoa! I am so surprised!... No. Wait. No I'm not.
Dubai Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan Tamim said that Adam Delimkhanov brought a pistol into the UAE while on an official state visit, and that pistol was later used in the murder. "There is no immunity for the mastermind of this crime, or for the killer himself," Tamim told reporters on Sunday. "Therefore the name of the Chechen leader, Adam Delimkhanov, will be listed and circulated to Interpol."
Bet he's safely in Mother Russia now ...
The police chief further said, "This murder was part of the struggles that seem to happen on a daily basis in Chechnya. It is also one which the Chechen Republic is exporting outside its borders. These struggles cannot be allowed to take place in Dubai."
Sulim Yamadayev was shot dead in the car park of Rimal 6, in Jumeirah Beach Residence on March 28. At the time, police called the murder an "assassination". Once a fierce opponent of president Ramzan Kadyrov, the former commander of the largest independent militia in Chechnya fled to Dubai four months ago.
There are six suspects, including Delimkhanov, and police already have two men in custody. The other men have been placed on a wanted list.
Tamim said that the murder weapon was a Russian pistol owned by Delimkhanov. "The weapon was not bought in the UAE. We believe that Delimkhanov brought the weapon in on a previous state visit," he added, without specifying the date. "It was an abuse of the diplomatic process."
Police sources said previously that Russian authorities had been unwilling to cooperate in the investigation. The Russian consulate was unavailable for comment on Sunday.
Tamim said that the killer shot Yamadayev in the back of the head and then dumped the weapon. The bloodied gloves and shirt the killer had been wearing at the time were dumped on The Walk in JBR, while the gun was thrown elsewhere.
Police named the five other suspects on Sunday, but did not say who among them might have carried out the actual killing. One person acted as spy, Tamim said, reporting on Yamadayev's movements to time the killing properly.
Yamadayev had two guards with him at the time, both of Middle Eastern origin, although neither is suspected in the murder.
Those the police have in custody are Makhsood Jan, a Tajik, and Mahdi Lurnia, an Iranian. Search is on for the remaining: Zalim Khan Mazayev, a Russian, Salman Kemaef, a Kazak, and his brother Turbal Kemaef. They are believed to have left the country soon after the murder.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Five more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans yesterday confessed to magistrates that they were involved in the February 25-26 mutiny in the BDR headquarters.
Meantime, a Dhaka court placed 24 BDR jawans and a civilian on a five-day remand for each to interrogate about the carnage.
Besides, 45 more jawans were shown arrested in the mutiny case and they were sent to jail after being produced before the court yesterday. Apart from them, Rab at Pilkhana headquarters arrested eight more BDR men yesterday.
The jawans who made confessional statements under the section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) are havildar Yusuf Ali, Abu Taher, sepoys Nafiul Kazi, Alim Reza and Shafuil Azam.
Following a petition submitted by investigation officer (IO) of the case Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abdul Kahar Akand of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), metropolitan magistrates Tofail Hasan, Zulfikar Hayat, Abdur Rahim and AKM Emdadul Haque recorded their statements.
After recording statements, the five accused were sent to jail. With yesterday's tally, a total of 19 BDR jawans made confessional statements in connection with the case.
Metropolitan magistrate Faisal Atiq Bin Kader placed 24 BDR jawans and a civilian on a five-day remand for each after the IO prayed for 10-day remand.
The jawans, nayek subedar Monoranjan Sarkar, havildar Momin Ali, lance nayek Badsha Alam, nayeks Abu Sayeed, Abul Kalam, sepoys Iqbal Hossain, Shahjahan Ali, Abdur Razzak, Masud Rana, Mohammad Mizan, Mojibur Rahman, Hadiul Islam, Jalal Uddin, Bulbul Hossain, Mohaddes Kazi, Tarapada Mondol, Mohammad Zia, Shafiqul Islam, Shahjahan, Jahangir Aalm, Alam Ali, Abdur Rashid, Abdul Hossain, Akhter Hossain, and a civilian Abdullah Al Mamun are placed on remand.
A total of 155 BDR jawans have been placed on remand so far in the case.
Moreover, a total of 851 BDR jawans had been shown arrested in the case after it was filed with Lalbagh Police Station on February 28.
The were identified as Nayek Sheikh Mohammad Shahidur Rahman, Sepoys Sri Pulak Kanti Mallik, Mohammad Obaidul Islam, Zakir Hossain, Mohammad Rien Ahmed, Mohammad Rajibul Hasan, Mohammad Fazlur Rahman and Mohammad Rofiqul Islam.
Rab sources last night said they were preparing to hand them over to Lalbagh Police Station.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Arrestee Maulana Mohammad Russell of Green Crescent Orphanage and Madrasa yesterday in a confessional statement said one Hasan Saifuddin Badal and Humayun Ahmed used to hold meetings at Green Crescent.
He made his confessional statement to a Bhola magistrate under section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Answering to a query during the confession he said expatriate Faisal was the owner of the madrasa-cum-orphanage and Russell did not know anything about militant activities there.
Rab arrested Russell from the orphanage at Bhola on March 24. The elite law-enforcing agency also recovered a huge volume of arms and ammunition from there.
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ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber attacked a crowded mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility Sunday for the Islamabad attack, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. drone missile strikes against militants in Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The suicide bomber set off his explosives Sunday at the entrance to a mosque in Chakwal city in Punjab province, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Islamabad, during a religious congregation, said Nadim Hasan Asif, a top security official in Punjab. He said the blast killed 22 people and injured more than 30. The suspected man was stopped at the entrance and pushed himself in and exploded, Asif said.
Another police officer, Nasir Khan Durrani, said the attack could have been much worse. Had he succeeded in exploding inside it could have caused a much bigger loss because there were hundreds of people inside, Durrani said.
Chaudhry Nasrullah, the top health official in Chakwal, confirmed that 22 people were killed and that more than 50 were injured, a dozen of them critically. He appealed to the government to send helicopters to evacuate the most seriously wounded.
Farid Ali, who left the mosque just before the attack occurred, said he felt the blast on his back and looked back and saw smoke and dust. I saw several people lying dead, he told Express News TV. There was blood everywhere.
Local television footage showed pools of blood on the road in front of the mosque. Torn clothes and a pair of shoes also littered the ground. Police investigators were shown collecting evidence, not far from a car and four motorcycles that were damaged by the blast.
A policeman with both his legs bandaged and another wounded man whose shirt was stained with blood were shown on hospital beds crying in pain. A woman standing in the emergency ward of the hospital wailed, Oh my God. Oh my God.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack, saying it was masterminded by people who are against the state and want to give Islam a bad name.
Seems to be a lot of that going on in Pakistain.
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I see headlines blaming this on the Taliban. I think not likely unless they have a few spare Saudi boomers they haven't used in Afghanistan that are approaching their "boom by" date.
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A suicide boomer blows himself up in front of a mosque in Pakistan, blaming it on the US attacking targets in the NWFP. That can only make sense in a place like Pakistan. Just one more nail for the coffin of that failed state. The US and India need to start making contingency plans for when the pakistani government totally collapses.
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"The US and India need to start making contingency plans for when the pakistani government totally collapses."
They'd better hurry up, OP.
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NAIROBI - Somali pirates have hijacked a 20,000-tonne German container carrier in the Indian Ocean, a Kenya-based maritime official told AFP on Sunday. The ship was taken yesterday (Saturday) far out at sea, around 400 nautical miles from the Somali coast, between Kenya and the Seychelles, said Andrew Mwangura, of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme.
DUBAI - The deputy prime minister of Chechnya is being sought by Dubai Police for 'masterminding' the killing of former rebel leader Sulim Yamadayev. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Five more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans yesterday confessed to magistrates that they were involved in the February 25-26 mutiny in the BDR headquarters.
[Bangla Daily Star] Arrestee Maulana Mohammad Russell of Green Crescent Orphanage and Madrasa yesterday in a confessional statement said one Hasan Saifuddin Badal and Humayun Ahmed used to hold meetings at Green Crescent. 
ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber attacked a crowded mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility Sunday for the Islamabad attack, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. drone missile strikes against militants in Pakistan near the Afghan border.
