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Thousands of miles away and three decades apart, the rescue of hostages in Colombia and the killing of Israeli hostages by Lebanese terrorists have some unexpected links as well profound differences. Barring last minute glitches, the Israelis are expected within a week to release five terrorists, including the notorious Samir Kuntar, who bashed a four year old girl to death, in exchange for the bo

I would have thought with former war hero Ehud Barak on board as Defense Minister, the Olmert Administration would have become a bit wiser when dealing with hostage crises. Unfortunately the recent "live murders for deceased hostages" idea must rank as one of the most foolish foreign policy ideas that I have ever heard. While the hallowed remains of fallen soldiers should always be sought out, th

First accounts on the rescue operation, now being provided by Colombian military officials, while still veiled on some key points, suggest that Colombia carried out a spectacularly successful sting operation in which Colombian commandos pretended to be FARC officials come to take the hostages to a new location for a possible diplomatic negotiated exchange. According to Colombian Defense Minister J

The first reports about the Colombian military’s rescue of the 15 hostages held by FARC (in Spanish) indicate an impressive intelligence operation. The hostages were held in three separate locations. Colombian intelligence had infiltrated one of the FARC fronts holding the hostages as well as the FARC Secretariat. They told the front commander “Cesar” that the hostages were being

An armed man has taken four people hostage in the city hall in the Dutch city of Almelo, about 150km (100 miles) east of Amsterdam, reports say. A city council member and three others were reported to be among those being held by the owner of a restaurant. The man had recently lost his restaurant licence, the [...]

An armed man has taken four people hostage in the city hall in the Dutch city of Almelo, about 150km (100 miles) east of Amsterdam, reports say.A city council member and three others were reported to be among those being held by the owner of a restaurant.The man had recently lost his restaurant licence, the national broadcaster NOS said.According to one report, he set his car on fire in front of t

Scary reports of a malicious ransomware virus—a software that encrypts your files and holds them hostage until you buy a decryption tool—make you glad you’re running one of the best antivirus applications. Even better: An automated backup plan is just as important in situations like this. Full Article

The man, sounding very authoritative yet friendly and helpful, told us that the mosque was closed for prayer and that we would have to come back in a couple of hours. In my blissed out state the streaming hoards of obviously non-Muslim people in and out of the mosque didn’t register as a sign [ >> more ]

Watch free, online, full movieHostage 2005Cast: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben FosterDirector: Florent Emilio SiriIn a small town in California, the chief of police Jeff Talley is facing relationship problems with his teenager daughter. One year later, he was the prime police negotiator in Los Angeles, but after an unsuccessful negotiation, he gave-up his position an

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This next hostage tape isn’t anything new but we had to throw it up on the new site. Some nice NLLR tapes coming out so enjoy this tape among the others. Alan Hostage - NLLR Mixtape Tracklist 01. HiJack - Possessed 02. Oh Snap! - Bill Cosby Sweater (Hostage Remix) 03. Kid Cudi - Day N Night (Crookers Remix) 04. In [...]

A very disturbing event. CIVILIAN kids TARGETed by a terrorist. Warsaw: Jewish teens held captive A foreign man claiming he had a bomb briefly held three Jewish teenagers captive in their Polish hotel room Monday where they were staying for Holocaust commemoration ceremonies, police said. The three Brazilians - originally identified as Israelis - were pulled into [...]

Little Hostage es un entretenido juego turco de escape publicado por Zibumi, la cabeza te da vueltas, no sabes donde estas, lo ultimo que recuerdas es una fiesta, busca objetos, resuelve puzzles y sal cuanto antes de la extraña habitación en la que te encuentras ... si necesitas ayuda, consulta la solución aquí.Otros juegos de Zibumi:The Final SpellLate for Date

Room Escape — Little Hostage est le nouvel escape room turc de Zibumi, récent créateur de Restroom Trap. Dans ce jeu, Tom "Tucker" Crubucker est kidnappé et a besoin de vous [...] Little Hostage sur P2TPrise2Tete c'est des enigmes, des jeux, des tests ! Exemples : 434 119 56 418 204.

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A mediator involved in negotiations to free two Austrian tourists kidnapped by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Tunisia is believed to have been killed.According to an Algerian source quoted in the Arab daily, al-Sharq al-Awsat, the Tuareg mediator was murdered in a region on the border of Mali and Algeria.His death has reportedly brought a stalemate in negotiations between Austrian authorities and representatives of Abdel Hamid Abu Zayd, local head of the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb.The Austrian couple was abducted in Tunisia Feb. 22, and have been moved from Tunisia to Algeria to a remote area of Mali, which is well-known as an Al-Qaeda stronghold.Prayers for the family of the murdered negotiator, and continued prayers for the safety and rescue of Andrea and Wolfgang.Via Not Rea

As policymakers globally grapple with soaring food prices, Asia seems to have an added problem on its hands, that of rising inflation threatening its policy credibility, its asset markets and its currencies. Economists say Asia's inflation monster has become so large that it is worrying foreign and domestic investors... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Image from Wikipedia-makes-last-appeal-for-ill-hostage/20080402170909990003Excerpt:"France, Spain and Switzerland launched a delicate mission Wednesday to help an ailing hostage held by Colombian rebels, the French president's office announced....Betancourt - who is both French and Colombian - has been held in a jungle for more than six years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC."A humanitarian mission of three facilitator countries, Spain, France and Switzerland, has started, in liaison with concerned authorities," the statement said, its vagueness underscoring the delicacy of the mission."Related articlesFrance Tries to Aid Woman Held by Colombian Rebels [via Zemanta]French Hostage Mission Heads to Colombia [via Zemanta]Son Says Hostage Betancourt Needs Blood; Cou

Image from Wikipedia-makes-last-appeal-for-ill-hostage/20080402170909990003Excerpt:"France, Spain and Switzerland launched a delicate mission Wednesday to help an ailing hostage held by Colombian rebels, the French president's office announced....Betancourt - who is both French and Colombian - has been held in a jungle for more than six years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC."A humanitarian mission of three facilitator countries, Spain, France and Switzerland, has started, in liaison with concerned authorities," the statement said, its vagueness underscoring the delicacy of the mission."Related articlesFrance Tries to Aid Woman Held by Colombian Rebels [via Zemanta]French Hostage Mission Heads to Colombia [via Zemanta]Son Says Hostage Betancourt Needs Blood; Cou

MIAMI — A manager at a Walgreens escaped serious injury after a robber took him hostage to escape police following an armed holdup at the drug store on Biscayne Boulevard. The gunman was captured hours later in an area not far from the drugstore. Local 10 cameras were rolling as the armed man led the [...]

More information is available on the story posted earlier.Woman in hostage incident now charged in murders of her two childrenA 37 year old Louisville woman has been charged with the shooting deaths of her two children at their Okolona home. Gail Lynn Coontz is also the woman that was involved in a hostage incident Thursday at the University of Louisville. At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Louisville Metro Police announced Coontz's arrest in the children's deaths, ages 10 and 14. Their bodies had been found Thursday morning inside the family's home at 4709 Settle Blvd.Coontz has been charged with the murder of her 14 year old son Gregory and 10 year old daughter Randi. It is always a tragedy when children are the victims of such horrible acts of violence. But when the violence is p

WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | Police arrest woman with gun at UofL Belknap campusA woman who walked into a health services building with a gun at the University of Louisville about 8:30 a.m. Thursday briefly took a counselor hostage before being disarmed, and that incident may be connected to the discovery of the bodies of two young children in an Okolona home....According to campus police, the woman is a student, and used a gun to hold her female counselor hostage. We're told the student was at the health center trying to get some sort of help, but the situation quickly turned confrontational.Here is the chronology as presented in the news reports.8:30am (approx) Woman arrives on campus with a gun.8:32am A distress alert came in from student services, asking for an officer.8:34am Campus poli

A rise in data kidnappings makes data protection more important than ever. It's little more than electronic thuggery. Demanding payment for the safe return of your data is one of the newest scams perpetrated by cyber-criminals. And they're using ransomware - malware that's expressly designed to encrypt your data - to do it.In a ransomware attack, the criminal will send the victim an email saying that they have control of their system, and the victim can't get any data on their system unless they pay the criminal through an untraceable wire service.

Horton hears a bad fashion choice Here’s Jaime Pressly as she arrives at the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her voice work in Horton Hears a Who! All seems well, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that Jaime posesses weapons of mass fugliness. That’s right, folks. The Ugg boot has [...]

A recent story that went almost un-noticed (to my utter amazement). Opec has all but admitted that they intend to hold oil prices above $100 a barrel for all of 2008 and that they will only consider increasing production in 2009 pending a "new American President".Isn't it amazing that our enemies can hold our economy hostage to try and force the political outcome they want......and our politicians are silent?~Sonlit

Eugene Armstrong - Our hearts bleed and our prayers go out to the families of these men that had to live through this nightmare. I post these on here so people never forget nor ever forgive the barbaric acts commited against innocent non-military men, by a group of very angry people that like to hide beneath masks and a veil of mis-guided religious duty. I know the family of one of these executed hostages came out to say they find forgiveness in their hearts towards the executioners, but I can not see how monsters can ever be forgiven by anyone. These men went to the middle East to work, not to fight any battle, they had no political or military agenda. After being taken hostage, Armstrong was beheaded on 20 September 2004 by the Tawhid and Jihad militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is believed to have personally beheaded Armstrong. The following day, the group beheaded fellow American Jack Hensley, and threatened to kill their third hostage, Briton Ken

Colombia hostage families ask Chavez for more help(Reuters) Reuters - Families of hostages held by Colombianrebels have asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to keeptrying to broker a deal to free the kidnap victims despitebeing fired from that job by Colombia's leader two weeks ago. Peru's Fujimori faces trial for civil war abuses(Reuters) Reuters - For 15 years, Raida Condor organizedmarches and lobbied Peru's Congress in pursuit of what seemedliked an impossible goal: putting former President AlbertoFujimori on trial for the murder of her son, Armando. Trumpet player killed in southern Mexico(AP)AP - A trumpet player was found dead with his hands and feet bound and a nylon bag over his head in southern Mexico, in what authorities said was apparently the country's third murder of a musician in less than a week. Fidel Castro wishes Cuban poster boy happy birthday(Reuters) Reuters - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whohas not appeared in public for 16 months, ca

There is breaking news from Rochester, NH as there is an ongoing hostage situation at the Hillary Clinton campaign office. Two Clinton campaign workers are being held hostage. Senator Clinton is not on site. She was to speak at the DNC meeting this afternoon in Virginia. She has since canceled her appearance there and is being guarded by the Secret Service. My prayers are definitely with Senator Clinton, her campaign staff, and all the families involved in the situation. You can watch the news as it happens HERE

A hostage situation is unravelling at the headquarters of Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire.MSNBC is reporting two hostages have been takenUPDATE: Hostage taker apparently wants to talk to the Senator, who is in Washington D.C. at the moment, not in New Hampshire

~Snooper~Awaiting print reporting to come out via Breaking News Sources.FOX News is reporting now.Report: Armed man takes hostages at Hillary NH office (mm.com)An armed man has taken people hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said.It was not clear how many hostages there were or what weapons the man has. Police have set up a command post near the office on 28 North Main St.More to follow:Right Wing Sparkle:[...] A State Police said the man released a mother and a child from the office, but is holding others.A young woman carrying an infant ran into a nearby store in tears, saying she had been in the campaign office when a man walked in, opened his coat and showed them a what looked like a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape. She said the man let her and her child go.There are reports from the scene that the hostage taker is demanding to speak with Senator Clinton. [...]Video here:Right Voices:Via Drudge Man claiming to have bomb holding two hostage

Five Western security contractors kidnapped a year ago in Iraq are still alive, according to their employer, Crescent Security. The four Americans and an Austrian colleague employed by Kuwait-based Crescent Security Group were among 14 people kidnapped Nov. 16, 2006, by men in Iraqi police uniforms who ambushed a convoy they were escorting near the southern Iraqi border city of Safwan. Crescent managing partner Franco Picco said the company has been working with the FBI to find the men. They are alive and “we do have an idea where they are.” The last indication that the men were alive came in January, in a video recording showing all five speaking briefly and saying they were being treated well. Since then, State Department officials have indicated they believe the men are still alive, according to some family members. Related Posts18 Die in Clash With al-Qaida in IraqMore Good News In Iraq, More Pain For DemocratsBetter Late Than Never: New York Times Admits Iraq Progress

Forty-seven year old George O’Down has been formally charged with the false imprisonment of a twenty-eight year old London resident. Hardly his first run in with police, the former Culture Club lead singer has been arrested numerous times since he split with the multi-platinum band in 1987. Details are still fuzzy at this point, but it appears Boy George unlawfully held the much younger man inside his residence for an unknown period of time back in April

As seminars go, it doesn't seem as if it would appeal to many but Rocky Abramson has no shortage of journalists and aid workers willing to listen to him. Based in Israel, Abramson is a Canadian-born organizational psychologist and a former member of the Israel Defence Forces. In his four-hour seminar on the hostage experience, he stresses that the best-case scenario involves avoiding being taken hostage in the first place but, in the event of capture, following some important guidelines can increase the likelihood of survival. These guidelines include: If you must venture into dangerous situations where kidnapping is a possibility, do so in a group, rather than on your own, because there really is strength in numbers. If faced with capture, try to resist passively, a tactic that will at least buy extra time and may confuse your captors. During interrogation, insert a lengthy pause before answering any question, even the most straightforward – a tactic aimed at preventin

As seminars go, it doesn't seem as if it would appeal to many but Rocky Abramson has no shortage of journalists and aid workers willing to listen to him. Based in Israel, Abramson is a Canadian-born organizational psychologist and a former member of the Israel Defence Forces. In his four-hour seminar on the hostage experience, he stresses that the best-case scenario involves avoiding being taken hostage in the first place but, in the event of capture, following some important guidelines can increase the likelihood of survival. These guidelines include: If you must venture into dangerous situations where kidnapping is a possibility, do so in a group, rather than on your own, because there really is strength in numbers. If faced with capture, try to resist passively, a tactic that will at least buy extra time and may confuse your captors. During interrogation, insert a lengthy pause before answering any question, even the most straightforward ??? a tactic aimed at preventing your

Well after a four day stand off and a review of all our paper work by the hospitals attorneys , they asked...."What's the problem ? " It's been in black and white in front of you all this time. This is an adoption situation. No kidding , sherlock. So now little Lily will have her MRI and be released to us. I can't wait to get her out of there !Now we can move on to put the next fire out.....the psych unit is having a hard time dealing with Ebony and her psychotic phases are lasting longer and longer.

UPDATE: The troops had not been kidnapped after all: The militants had claimed they had seized 300 men in south Waziristan. But the military said the soldiers in the convoy which had lost contact were sheltering in a valley during a storm and would return to base on Friday. "There is no suggestion of kidnapping or fighting," Major General Waheed Arshad told the AFP news agency. The original post continues below. This is going really well... In an audacious display of force, Taliban fighters on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said. The convoy of more than a dozen vehicles was traveling between two towns in the South Waziristan area, near the Afghan border, when it was overtaken by fighters, officials said. ... Across the border in Afghanistan, meanwhile, the Taliban turned over the last of the South Korean church volunteers seized by the group in mid-July. The release of the seven

What a day , I'm telling you for some strange reason these things only happen to Bob and I. Lily has not been released from the hospital in fact she is being held hostage until we can prove she is who she is. What a fiasco. It all started when we gave them her medical records to make a copy of everything. Some of her records state ______ __________ then other records give her adopted name ______ ________ then there are a few that both names together and use the term "also known as" , one would think they could put it together as an adoption situation but instead the hospital called together their legal team and they have been in a meeting since 3:00 this afternoon. They are not getting anywhere because adoption records are sealed and the birth name no longer exists in records. The hospital has so far called vital statistics , all past Drs. , other hospitals she has been in and yes....even checked with missing children. They refuse to release her to us or our adoption agency who

Good News! Please continue to pray for the release of the others - 14 women and 5 men are still being held. 2 others have been executed. The kidnapping of the 23 Korean Christians was the largest abduction of foreigners in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. More info

Looking for love in all the wrong places... But it has to be said: If you fall for something like this, you only have yourself to blame. Going to Mali to meet an internet bride and collect a dowry of gold bars worth £40,000...?? What the hell was this guy thinking? A lonely Australian farmer was held hostage in Mali for 12 days in an internet bride scam that almost cost him his life. Des Gregor, 56, had travelled to Mali to meet his supposed bride, Natacha, whom he had met on the internet, and collect a dowry of gold bars worth £40,000. But when he arrived, the wheat and sheep farmer was kidnapped by a gang of armed bandits who bound him, beat him with a machete and stole his cash and credit cards. The men also threatened to hack Gregor's limbs off with a machete unless he paid them a £40,000 ransom. The scam was stopped when Australian and Malian police, alerted by Gregor's family in Australia, tricked the kidnappers into taking Gregor to the Canadian Embassy to c

I wish I hadn't been so busy in the past two weeks, otherwise, I would've had more time to blog about this horrifying case of at least 21 Korean relief workers who were taken prisoner in Afganistan by Taliban terrorists. To make matters worse, two of them may have already been murdered by the terrorist filth.The Korean government must not bow to these monsters who've taken these heroes hostage, and should do whatever they can to rescue the hostages.

Update on this story. No hostages have been freed so far, and a second Korean was executed yesterday by the Taliban: Police at daybreak Tuesday discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage slain by the Taliban, officials said. A purported Taliban spokesman had said the man was killed because the Afghan government failed to release imprisoned insurgents. ... The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that 29-year-old Shim Sung-min's body had been found. The former information technology worker was volunteering with a South Korean church group on an aid mission to Afghanistan. ... A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said senior Taliban leaders decided to kill the male captive Monday evening because the government had not met Taliban demands to trade prisoners for the Christian volunteers, who were in their 12th day of captivity Monday. "The Kabul and Korean governments are lying and cheating. They did not meet their promise of releasing Taliban prisoners

The first South Korean hostage has been executed by the Taliban: The bullet-riddled body of a South Korean hostage was found by police Wednesday in central Afghanistan after a purported Taliban spokesman said the militants had killed one of the captives. The male victim had 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach, and was discovered in the Mushaki area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni province, said police officer Abdul Rahman. The Taliban spokesman said earlier that the hostage was was killed because Afghan authorities hadn't met their demands to release other militants from prison. Some hostages have supposedly been freed, so it wouldn't surprise me if all sorts of demands have already been met by South Korea, showing the Taliban scum and the rest of that ilk that their methods work. It wouldn't be the first time. Source: "Bullet-riddled body of S. Korean found," AP, July 25, 2007 Technorati tags: bad thinking • missionaries • Taliban

AFGHANISTAN: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS CONTROL THROUGH TERRORWHO ARE THE TALIBAN? CRITICAL ALERT 04  Taliban kill one Korean hostage From: Intercessors Network den 25 juli 2007 15:28Taliban kill one Korean hostageAfghanistan´s Taliban killed one of the 23 Korean hostages on Wednesday - July 25 - after Kabul failed to free Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the group said, adding insurgents would kill more if their demands were not met."Since Kabul´s administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taliban shot dead a male Korean hostage," Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location. AFGHANISTAN: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS CONTROL THROUGH TERRORREAD the entire article from Intercessors Network: Critical alert  - Pray as if nobody else prays. . .    UPDATE: Korean Victim Identified 42-year-old pastor Bae Hyung-kyu [26/07/07 07:21 CET]Technorati tags: Taliban Afghanistan ::

Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona was held as hostage in her own home togehter with husband Mark Croft, and the couples 5 month old daughter Heidi yesterday.A group of 3 masked men entered the couple's home around midnight, armed with knives and a sledge hammer.Kerry and daughter Heidi was held back in a room downstairs, while her husband was forced to follow the robbers around the house.The little family are unharmed, but obviously extremely shocked after the horrible incident

Which shows that, contrary to what the sickening leader of the Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was trying to insinuate a few months ago prior to the election, Nicholas Sarkozy's marriage is doing quite well, and the first lady herself is now making an important visit to the nurses who've been wrongfully imprisoned on what sound like very fake charges:French First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy on Thursday visited five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with HIV, France's president said. Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters that on her trip his wife was also seeing Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and meeting children infected with HIV.Libya's official news agency Jana said the meeting with Gadhafi had taken place but gave no details. Jana said Cecilia Sarkozy expressed her sympathy with the plight of Libyan children infected with HIV.The trip was Cecilia Sarkozy's first appearance on the international scene since her husband took office

DownloadVOICE ONE:This is Rich Kleinfeldt.VOICE TWO:And this is Stan Busby with THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States.(MUSIC)Today, we tell about the administration of the thirty-ninth president of the United States, Jimmy Carter.VOICE ONE:Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in the inaugural paradeIt is January twentieth, nineteen seventy-seven. Inauguration Day. America's newly elected president, Jimmy Carter, is on his way to the White House after his swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol building.But the new president is not riding in a car. He is walking. His wife, Rosalynn, and his daughter, Amy, walk with him. Crowds along Pennsylvania Avenue cheer. Bands play.On this cold day in Washington, Americans look to the future. Watergate -- the crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon -- is several years in the past. The Vietnam War is history, too.VOICE TWO:Republican Gerald Ford served the remaining years of Nixon's t

I am reluctant to give Prospero's Books more publicity but their marketing techniques really, really offend me. If I were in Kansas City, I would make it a point to avoid the store just based on what I've seen from them in the last few days. By now most of us know of the fake book burning that the store owners used to bring attention to the fact that they have some 20,000 books in stock that they can't easily move. In some misguided attempt to place blame for their excess inventory on someone other than themselves, the guys decided to point the finger at a reading public that is somehow letting them down by not reading or appreciating books to the degree that the owners think they should.So Prospero's decided to burn a few books and to threaten to continue the process unless buyers showed up to take the rest of them off their hands. It's all our fault of course, so we should feel guilty enough to rush to the rescue. After all, are there any book lovers out there who don't sh

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“Has it ever occurred to you that we work so hard to protect what was never ever really ours?” The man had a gun, what were they going to do? Disagree? Which is not to say he didn’t have a point. It’s just bad manners to try and press a point when you’re holding a loaded gun. Doesn’t really allow the other person opportunity to properly consider an argument. Or courage. How many people would argue in the presence of a gun? Even if they happened to have one of their own nudging the smalls of their backs. Not many, not any actually. A person’s ability to spit words pales in comparison to a gun’s ability to spit lead. A harsh word might sting for years after it’s been forgotten by the one who uttered it but the permanence of a smooth bullet’s impact ensures we don’t get to feel anything at all. Nobody accepts that choice willingly when the gun is in someone else’s hand. So they stayed down like they were told to and waited or prayed or wished or hoped for the

Some people are so dishonest and sleazy. The words on those pages are personal thoughts of mine and my name is all over those pages. I contacted Marty at Cyberlabs dot ca who runs the scraper site and he advised me that all I need to do is turn off my RSS feeds and he won't be able to copy my pages anymore. But he won't remove the content he has already stolen from my shopautodotca seocontest

One of my best friends is from SOuth Africa. A couple of years ago he came to the states and we got him a visa approved for 3 years. A couple months back he flew home to visit family for Christmas ans although his Visa was good for another year, the South Africa embassy would not allow him to return to the United States. They said that they felt he had been here long enough. This sucks, if the US says he can come back why should some third world country tell him he can't leave. The whole thing is ridiculous and we are fighting to get our friend back.

Washington, April 21 (Xinhua) A gunman killed a male hostage and committed suicide after barricading himself with two hostages inside a building at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Texas Friday. However, the second female hostage appeared to be unharmed, police said. “The suspect shot himself one time on the head,” Houston police captain Dwayne Ready said at a press conference. “Also on the same floor, one hostage was shot dead. We believe that may have occurred in the early minutes of this whole ordeal. And another hostage who was unharmed (was found) taped and (is) being looked at by our paramedics,” he said. The gunman man, believed to be between 50 and 60, was a contract worker with NASA. He initially barricaded on the second floor of the building 44 of the space centre and police said they heard two shots inside the building. The motive of the gunman was still unknown. Police had surrounded the building and all employees inside the building were alread

Parnaz Azima, a journalist of dual US-Iranian citizenship, has been taken prisoner in Iran by Ahmedinejad's dictatorship (H/T: One Jerusalem and Markedmanner):PRAGUE, Czech Republic: The U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said Saturday Iranian authorities have prevented one of its journalists from leaving the country.Parnaz Azima, who is based in Prague where she works for Radio Farda — RFE/RL's Persian service operated jointly with the Voice of America radio broadcaster — arrived in the capital, Tehran, on Jan. 25 to visit a sick relative, the broadcaster said in an e-mailed statement.On arrival, authorities seized her Iranian passport and so far have failed to return it to her, it said. It was not clear what the reason was. The statement said Azima was once asked to cooperate with Iran's intelligence services, which she refused.Azima has dual Iranian and U.S. citizenship, the radio said.I think Britain can be blamed for this, as the hostage situation a few weeks ago t

With a dramatic introduction, the Burlington County Times reports on a disturbing hostage drill at the Burlington Township High School. BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage.Thankfully, school shootings are not all that common and I hope they never have the air of familiarity implied by this

So it has pretty much ended up with Iraq exchanging a captured Iranian official and we have agreed to allow Iran to visit some of their people we have in custody in Iraq. I imagine this was the outcome that Iran wanted all along. And of course Iraq and our government have denied any tit for tat with Iran. I have to wonder if Nancy Pelosi fits into this somehow. A trip to Syria while all this is going on is a bit of a coincidence. I was not surprised by her trip as I expected the most powerful (self proclaimed) woman ever to take a shall we say “more active” lead in foreign affairs. I have wondered if Speaker of the House is really her ultimate goal or might she be errr “ambitious” with other plans. Regardless it is good to see the Iran Britain issue resolved. It must break Rosie O’Donnell’s  heart to see that it was not in fact another Gulf of Tonkin Incident as she has alleged. My congrats to the families of the hostages. ~RJH New York Times article link  Iran to Release 15 Br

This is the problem when you elect a spoiled rich brat President. He whines and whines and acts selfish until he gets want he wants.Congress gave him a funding bill; one with a SUGGESTED date for withdrawal. This is not even as fierce and binding as the people want. The people want out.Yes, I understand the President of the United States is the commander-in-chief, but when the people loose faith in their leadership, they look for new leadership (which is why, I believe, interest in the 2008 presidential race has started so early.) Since the people couldn't throw Bush out in 2006, they threw out his party as a sign to Bush that if they could, they'd send him packing back to Texas.The Democrats are the new leadership and they have the power of the people behind them. The President has been defeated, faith in him has been lost. It is time for the President to began facing reality. The war in Iraq has been won and the post-war castles in the sky this man has built are unachievable. Stop

The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis : "A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.Early on the morning of 11 January, helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a long-established Iranian liaison office in the city of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. They captured five relatively junior Iranian officials whom the US accuses of being intelligence agents and still holds.In reality the US attack had a far more ambitious objective, The Independent has learned. The aim of the raid, launched without informing the Kurdish authorities, was to seize two men at the very heart of the Iranian security establishment."

Propaganda Confession VideosThe Brits were likely too close to Irananian government protected smuggling support to terrorists in Iraq. Suffice it to say that the Brits were in Iraq's waters when captured, while Iran has historically disputed these boundaries. Therefore, Iran asserts their justification for kidnapping the Brits for trespassing... One of the 15 British service members held captive in Iran appeared Friday on the government's Arabic-language TV and apologized for entering Iranian waters "without permission."The serviceman, Royal Marine rifleman Nathan Thomas Summers, said he was aware that the incident in which he was seized was the second time since 2004 that British military personnel had entered Iranian waters."Again I deeply apologize for entering your waters," Summers said in the clip broadcast on Al-Alam television. "We trespassed without permission."Summers was shown sitting with another male serviceman and the female British sailor Faye Turney against a floral cu

Second ‘confession’ letter released questioning UK’s presence in Iraq The Iranian hostage crisis took a sinister turn last night when Tehran withdrew an earlier offer to release one of the 15 captive sailors and marines and issued a second, strangely-worded letter in her name calling for Britain to withdraw from Iraq. The letter, signed by Leading Seaman Faye Turney, the only woman in the naval crew seized last Friday, was addressed to “representatives of the House of Commons”. Although the letter was handwritten, it was stilted and lacked the personal tone of the first letter, sent to her family the day before. The second letter appeared to have been dictated to her. “Unfortunately during the course of our mission we entered Iranian waters. Even through our wrongdoing, they have still treated us well and humanely, which I am and always will be eternally grateful,” the letter said. “I ask representatives of the House of Commons after the

MSNBC.com reports:Photo by Bullit Marquez / AP A hostage gestures for a cell phone as a grenade is held close to her by a hostage-taker inside a bus in front of the Manila City Hall, on Wednesday, in the Philippines. A man with a history of attention-grabbing stunts took a busload of students and teachers hostage from his day-care center and drove them to City Hall Wednesday, keeping them onboard for hours and demanding better lives for the children.

My makeup is up in the master bathroom... in the master bedroom... behind the bedroom door that I'm currently keeping an eye on as I sit here, balanced on the edge of the couch at the foot of the stairs so I can continually glance up and make sure my bedroom door stays closed.The front door, just 4 feet away from me is wide open and my purse is outside on the front step.Five minutes ago I was half naked in my kitchen clutching yesterdays clothes to my chest. I have those same clothes on now and it's a good thing I didn't spill spaghetti sauce on them yesterday because I damn well would be wearing spaghetti sauce today if I had.You see.... after blogging this morning I had another cup of coffee and read the news and a couple blogs. I then did the dishes, wiped down the counters and threw a load of clothes in the dryer. I then proceeded to the bedroom where I stripped out of my clothes, put on new underwear and my bra and washed my face. As I entered the walk-in closet I smelled a

U.S. service members executing a rescue mission for two Iraqi Policemen. Scenes include troops entering a house, recovering various disguises, locating the Iraqi hostages and moving them out of the house. Nothing spectacular, B-Roll footage. March 4, 2007.

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Blackmail, a hostage, a little extorsion and some stealing did the trick.These girls have something Diesel doesn't. And they don't just mean the website.Two crazy girls have kidnapped a Diesel sales representative, have locked themselves in an hotel room and now want to show the world what they're doing to him.And they're going to become FAMOUS! Or at least so they say.All this is being streamed on line, starting Monday 22nd of January.People arriving now at the website ­ www.diesel.com can not only interact with the girls (and our poor sales rep) thorough alive chat, but can actually choose the camera angle they are going to be viewing from.There's a video that shows how the kidnapping happened: Crime ReconstructionCheck it now, because it's not clear how long they can last.Thanks Martina

Right after Ford put put out its horrible quarterly numbers, the folks at Goldman Sach upgraded the stock from "sell" to "neutral". Maybe someone spiked the punch at the investment bank's office party. Hopefully, Goldman does not do banking work for Ford.The basic reason for the change of heart is that the restructuring at Ford will overwhelm its poor sales. The company has said that its market share will probably drop from the current level of 17% to settle at 14% in the US.A number of astute observers have noted that restructuring will not save Ford. Cutting costs is not a successful long-term strategy of products don't sell.Fitch, the rating service, has taken a much more sane approach to Ford's problems. The credit rating agendy put Ford on its negative credit watch list. Fitch made the additional note that "unsecured holders would recover approximately 68% in a bankruptcy scenario". Standard & Poor's made a similar call on Ford's propects. Quite a contrast to Goldman's view

Link to the Yahoo! article, and an excerpt: MANILA, Philippines - A man with a history of attention-grabbing stunts took a busload of students and teachers hostage from his day-care center and drove them to City Hall Wednesday, keeping them onboard for hours and demanding better lives for the children. Jun ...

I believe there are many important lessons to be learned from the whole Ducat deception thing, and that we will do well taking these lessons to heart (even if you're not a Filipino). Lets look at a few of these, shall we? People who take children hostage are altruistic philanthropists who ...

During my tenure here on the Radio 2020 Blog, I have looked at technology, community, content, and other aspects of the radio ecosystem. I have talked at several points about how fundamental radio was to us in New Orleans after the levee failure of 2005. Now I want to show ...