[NBC Washington] A gunman robbed someone at a church in northwest D.C. over the weekend.
Before 12:30 p.m. Saturday a gunman entered St. Stephen's in the 1500 block of Newton Street, demanded money from the victim and ordered the victim to the ground, police said. The gunman went through the victim's pockets, taking personal property including cash, a wallet and an iPhone.
The gunman also pointed the handgun at a woman who entered the room, police.
The gunman then fled. He was described as black, age 18-20, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-11, with brown eyes. He wore a black mask; a striped, polo-style, short-sleeve shirt; and blue jeans.
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What's all the fuss about?
Simple have the local gendarmerie arrest this miscreant.
[Al Ahram] Constituent assembly agrees that president will not be head of police force under new constitution; city, district and local leaders will be elected, constituent assembly member Salah Abdel-Maksoud says
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State media said villagers in the south were attacked on Tuesday night by around 100 armed bandidos who killed people and made away with dozens of cattle.
The day before, festivities between criminals and the security forces in Belo-Tsiribihina, in the south-west, resulted in the death of three army officers.
Police said criminal gangs, under the control of Arthur Rabefihavanana alias Remenabila, are behind the attacks.
Rabefihavanana was once part of the presidential guard regiment under incumbent President Admiral Didier Ratsiraka.
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Madagascar?
MADAGASCAR???
What could they possibly have ... that anybody would want???
[actually a line from Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid]
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Chad's FPR rebel chief Abdel Kader Baba Ladde, who was wanted by his country's army, landed in the capital Ndjamena Wednesday, days after turning himself in to Central African armed forces.
The leader of the Popular Front for Recovery (FPR) arrived in Ndjamena aboard a UN plane and was welcomed by Chad's Public Security Minister Ahmat Bachir, an AFP journalist reported.
"I'm pleased to be back home in Chad, I hope the rest will follow," Baba Ladde said, adding that "the FPR did not come (to Chad) to make political demands".
"We have no demands, our wish is for peace in our country and throughout the subregion," he said.
Baba Ladde, who claims to fight for the Fula tribe whose people are spread over many African countries, surrendered Sunday in Central Africa after negotiations with the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and other groups.
"We're happy to have accompanied Baba Ladde home," said Central African mediator Paulin Pomodimo on Wednesday.
He added that Chad officials had guaranteed the rebel chief's physical well-being.
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Georgia, Tbilisi -- Georgia will surely become a NATO member, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Tbilisi on Thursday at a joint press conference following the meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. So Tbilisi is Berlin is Paris is Rome is New York...
Commenting on the statement by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the 2008 war was aimed to wreck Georgia's accession to NATO, Rasmussen said that "in this case this plan failed."
"Georgia will become a NATO member, since it is the right of any state, if certain requirements are meet, and no third country can prevent it," he said. "We said at the Bucharest summit that Georgia will become a NATO member, and at the Chicago summit this year we confirmed this decision, and we have stated clearly that our doors are open to countries that carry out reforms. You are carrying out these reforms and achieved in this way a great success and we are confident that Georgia will become a NATO member."
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Not that I don't like Georgia and all but NATO is really unlikely to risk our big cities to defend the little nation so having them join NATO is simply asking for humiliation and needlessly provoking the Russians.
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Currently yes "Obama and the dhims". The party has been hijacked by a collection of oddball groups interested in their own needs not the countries. The majority of Democrats have no interest in this current crop of leadership. I believe turnout for this next election will be one of the lowest for the Democrats. Like pulling for the Redskins. Only seniors pull for them because they are old enough to remember they had won anything. Normal down to earth leaders will change everything for them. Dog collared leaders and leather tight stone faces are out. This comedy has gone on too long.
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I don't mind defending Georgia, but do we have to defend Jimmy Carter too?
/oops wrong georgia
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We don't need to defend Israel. They are more than capable of doing that themselves. We just need to make sure they have the few extra toys they ask for so they can do their job.
And we also need to keep from undermining them politically.
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I'm starting to understand why a certain agency in VA is advertising for new field personnel. It's not just a job - it's an adventure. Especially when the Spetsnaz are breathing down your back. Ahhh well, it beats boredom I guess :-)
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. on Thursday constituted an investigative team, headed by a senior police superintendent (SSP), to probe the Rimsha Masih case. The child still hasn't been released despite the apprehension of the guy whut dunnit....
A high level meeting was chaired by the interior minister in Islamabad to review the progress of investigation regarding Rimsa Masih, the 14-year old Pak Christian girl accused of blasphemy -- a case that has prompted worldwide concern.
The investigation, headed by SSP Tahir Alam, will be supervised by a district magistrate. Alam will submit a daily progress report of the investigation to the magistrate.
The interior minister on Thursday also directed the Chief Commissioner to take into confidence the Islamabad Ulema Council and share the investigation in a transparent manner.
The young girl, belonging to a poor Islamabad suburb, has been in jug for nearly three weeks after she was accused of burning pages containing verses from the Koran.
Last week, Khalid Jadoon, the imam who first gave police evidence against her, was cooled for a few years Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! after his deputy accused him of adding pages from the holy book to the burnt papers taken from Rimsha.
The girl, who is "uneducated" and has a mental age of less than 14 according to a medical report, will remain in a high-security prison until Friday at the earliest -- by which time the minor will have spent 22 days in jug.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A gunman robbed someone at a church in northwest D.C. over the weekend.
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