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POPSDirty war rages on Russia's doorstep There, they were bound with duct tape and placed inside a car that had been wired with explosives and doused in petrol. Their captors sprayed chloroform into their hoods and abruptly departed. The men, who have never been charged with any crime, were left waiting to be blown to bits. It is usual for the security forces to claim that terrorist bombers have inadvertently triggered their device before they were able to plant it. On this occasion, however, Butayev and his friend Islam Askerov, 21, were not rendered helpless by the chloroform. They freed themselves, removed the explosives and placed them in a nearby field. But they were unable to wake the rest of the group before the death squad returned. They fled, leaving Butayev’s 22-year-old brother Artur and the other two behind. Days later, the three men were found dead at another spot, their bodies charred. The survivors are still hiding.
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POPSSafety Tips For Women and Men I enjoy some of the forwards that go around and around and around the world wide web... Some of the better ones I'll make a webpage to keep them circulating without the collection of email addresses. This particular email came with some good and maybe, not so good advice. Perhaps, it was a waste of time but if one person could be saved by keeping an important tip in their memory bank, it was wasted time valued. :cool: Website below: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/pics/tentips.html
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POPSGeneral (ret.) Barry McCaffrey on Mexico - 23 March 2009 This isn't AfPak, it's AmMex. Drugs are flowing north, weapons are flowing south, and money is flying everywhere. AmMex is not about al Qaeda and the Taliban, but equally ruthless criminal gangs -- with far more money than al Qaeda could ever dream of. These gangs will be bringing guns and drugs to your city, and they will hope to make your kid a customer. And if your kid causes problems, he'll be shot. Or worse.
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POPSDrug Cartels & Traffickers Prompt 500 More Federal Agents @ The Border Phoenix is clearly seeing the worst of the spillover. Investigators here suspect some of the kidnappings have led to killings in which bound and bullet-riddled bodies have been dumped in the desert. In the kidnapping of the motorist earlier this month, the victim managed to escape from the house before any ransom was paid. Investigators suspect he was mixed up in drug- or immigrant-smuggling because his captors believed he could get his hands on $30,000 in cash. David Denlinger, chief of criminal investigations for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, likened the cartels to the tire business. "You don't have a manufacturer of a tire that's the one putting it on your car at the end," Denlinger said. "So what you see up here in the interior is not your formal cartel. That's pretty much ended once they passed it through the United States."
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POPSWhen the Molester is Someone You Trust(ed) Here are some red flags that all parents and caretakers should be mindful of: Red Flags * Someone who repeatedly tries to arrange one-on-one, alone time with a child. * Someone who lavishes an extraordinary amount of attention or praise on a particular child. * Someone who often gives special gifts or treats to one child for no apparent reason. * Someone who prefers to spend most of their free time with children and seems to have no interest in age-appropriate relationships or friendships with other adults or colleagues. * Someone who often seems “too good to be true”. What to tell your kids: * No one, especially another adult, has the right to touch you in any way that makes you feel uncomfortable, yucky, or weird. * Be careful around any adult who wants to make you their “special girlfriend/boyfriend” and tells you to keep it a secret. * Sometimes people may seem nice at fir
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POPSCongress Appeals To Obama For Help At The Violent Border Meanwhile, the hearings will continue, including another today. "It's mainly a way to call attention to the issue and to make sure that the federal agencies are on the job and know they're being watched," said Leslie Phillips, spokeswoman for Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The lack of legislation does not mean Congress is not taking it seriously, said Rick Van Schoik, director of the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. "I think the hearings are much more than window dressing," he said. "They're recognizing what a close neighbor, ally and partner Mexico is in so much of our security and prosperity, and they're trying to help Mexico and, in the process, help ourselves." The death toll from drug-related violence in Mexico last year surpassed 6,000, more than double the previous year.
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POPSA Missing Child Case From 1912: The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar Part. 2
Growing up in Winston-Salem, N.C., Margaret had heard the old family tale of her grandfathers exciting kidnapping and recovery. Newspaper clippings of the trial roused her attention and she began researching the events of 1913 for herself. Cutright spent months scanning and transcribing the telegrams, letters and depositions from the 900 page defense file. Witnesses had placed Walters and the boy he called Bruce miles away from Opelousas the day Bobby went missing at a time when traveling between cities could take days. Julia Anderson settled in Mississippi after the trial and told her remaining children that their half brother had been stolen from them. The return of Bobby to the Dunbars’ had resulted in the kidnapping of Bruce from the Andersons’. The boy, when realizing that he had gone from homespun clothes and sharecropping to a nice home with a pony and bicycle, had spurned his mother. Years later, in a story to another newspaper, The boy now known as Bobby claimed he re
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POPS"Save Zimbabwe Now" If you talk and speak your mind, you're labelled an activist - and that's it, you're gone. The one thing people have been excited about is the inauguration of US President Barack Obama.There's a feeling that because he's of African descent he's going be more involved with our politics and he's somebody who's going to really put his foot down that there has to be a solution.
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POPSLRA rebels accused of more atrocities in DR Congo The LRA is facing a joint military offensive code-named Operation Lightning Thunder being undertaken by the UPDF, SPLA of South Sudan and the Congolese army (FARDC). The offensive was launched on December 14 after Kony failed to sign the final peace agreement that was negotiated with the Government between July 2006 and April 2008 in Juba, South Sudan.
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POPSGlobal Warming a Huge Expense in 2008 Recent events have proved that companies and nations aren't made out of money and can run out. Still, let's keep pretending that GW isn't happening and it's all some nutty idea like alien abductions. Really, what's the worst that can happen? Besides, the economy's freakin' awesome and we can totally afford to pay ten of billions a year.
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POPSMugabe Unleashes Wave of Terror with Mass Abductions Robert Mugabe is a 'dictator in democratic clothing'. The South African Development Community has been urging Mugabe to address the cholera epidemic (which he refuses to acknowledge) and the economic crisis (which he helped create). The U.S. recently gave $600,000 to fight the cholera epidemic. Any aid sent to this country ends up in the pockets and mouths of the ruling elite. Recent elections were marred with violence and intimidation designed to keep Mugabe in office. 'International pressure' and 'sanctions' are not changing anything in Zimbabwe. How can the world stand by and allow this humanitarian crisis to continue? We need a mechanism to rid ourselves of this vermin not give them aid.
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