Written on May 19, 2012 by admin
(CNN) — The 30-year-old suburban Chicago husband being sought in the stabbing death of his new bride told an associate he was heading to Mexico, where his parents live, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.
Charged with first-degree murder, Arnoldo Jimenez of Burbank, Illinois, was tracked using his phone in southern Illinois near Memphis, Tennessee, through Arkansas to Houston and then to Hidalgo, Texas, near the Mexican border at 10:45 pm Sunday, the same day police found his new bride murdered in her home, the affidavit said.
On Sunday, Jimenez told his sister by phone that he and Estrella Carrera, 26, had a bad fight, and he left her bleeding, FBI Special Agent...
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Written on May 19, 2012 by admin
New York Police Department commissioner Ray Kelly reacted with anger this week to the revelation that FBI Director Robert Mueller did not inform him about a recently foiled Al Qaeda bomb plot.
According to the Daily News, Mullers agents waited a full week before briefing city cops.
We cant be treated like just any other city, fumed Kelly on Thursday. We had 14 plots here. We had almost 3,000 people killed just five blocks from City Hall. We had another attack in 1993. Were different.
Im not looking for a call from the FBI director, clarified Kelly, Im looking for information as quickly as possible for New York City.
Word of the failed Al Qaeda bomb plot surfaced...
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Written on May 19, 2012 by admin
As Bob Dylan used to sing back in the 1960s: The times, they are a-changin. Indeed the times they are changing, even in Syria, the last bastion of staunch Arab nationalism. And if the Assad dynasty began its reign in a bloodless coup, here too, things have changed.
When it comes to intra-Arab issues, Syrias tactics of resorting to strong-arm policies when dealing in the complex, complicated and, often, backstabbing politics of the Middle East stems from the fact that Damascus has dealt with parties that have been politically and/or militarily far weaker than itself. By and large this has been the secret to the Assad clans success over the past 40 years.
This has allowed Damascus...
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Written on May 18, 2012 by admin
26 March was Anita’s 103rd birthday! (Long time Capital Hill resident)
When I finished polishing off the huge slice of chocolate cake, which Anita had forced on me, I asked her if I could take a few snaps of her enjoying her birthday celebration.
She embraced the idea asking everyone around her to join in to mug for the “camera.”
After way too much people organizing she gave me the okay to shoot.
I took a few; stalling for the moment I could get one of her alone.
When I showed her the shots she asked me if she could have the roll of film so she could make prints. “My grandson can take it to the drugstore to print copies.”
For a brief...
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Written on May 18, 2012 by admin
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Regional Editor, Olawale Rasheed, examines the breakdown in national leadership consensus and the consequent fallouts, concluding that the way out is for the leaders to re-unite or face mass citizen revolt.
National challenges with multi-dimensional complications are driving the nation to the precipice. Increasing breakdown of consensus among the elite is driving brinkmanship politics out of control, leading to emboldening of centrifugal forces tearing at the heart of the nation.
In the last one month, the failure of ruling clique within the federation to agree on power management is threatening the foundation of the nation, forcing even the best of patriots to question...
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Written on May 18, 2012 by admin
No cameras are permitted. No transcripts are available. Only shareholders are even allowed to attend. But we have a ringside seat at the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A)(BRK-B) annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., where Tim Beyers and other Motley Fool analysts are live-blogging from the event of the year. (Join the chat here.)
For more than four decades, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have held court during these famously witty and insightful Qamp;A sessions. (The pair has commented on almost everything — from sex and markets, to China, to Googles (GOOG) competitive advantage, to nuclear disarmament.) Heres a closer look at what they talked about in todays meeting.
1. On his health....
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Written on May 17, 2012 by admin
US Rep. Barney Frank has been right on many things during his 32 years as a champion of the underdog in the House of Representatives, but he was dead wrong when he recently remarked that Democrats acted precipitously by rushing health care reform into law at start of President Obamas first term.
The remark has angered many congressional Democrats, some of whom wasted no time in suggesting that Franks gargantuan-sized ego had been bruised by the fact that his party sidetracked his sweeping financial services reform bill to pass the unwieldy and widely unpopular Obamacare.
Unfortunately, Frank, who is retiring at the end of the year, fails...
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Written on May 17, 2012 by admin
In an era of screaming cable television news shows and divisive debates via Internet comments, Thursday nights discussion at the Friends Meeting House in Duluth reflected the venues name: It was friendly.
The event was billed as two men discussing their support of the Occupy and Tea Party movements. Neither claimed to be a representative of his group, telling a respectful audience of about 50 people that they were just two men talking about their political leanings.
Robin Monahan reminded them that he came late to activism and eventually to the Occupy protests the past six months in Duluth and the Twin Cities area.
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Written on May 17, 2012 by admin
Those bonds have now been loosened. The revolution that last year upended Mubarak heralded the Brotherhoods political ascendancy and near control of parliament. But the worlds largest Islamic organisation is torn by conflicts between religion and politics, and calls from its young to be more pluralistic and modernise its voice for a new Egypt.
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lsquo;lsquo;We need unity, not an atmosphere where youre the majority and everyone else is against you, Hadi said. lsquo;lsquo;Its not good for the nation and puts enormous pressure on the Brotherhood. If the country fails, its all on them.
The rise of the Brotherhood mirrors a pattern of Islamists coming to political prominence,...
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Written on May 17, 2012 by admin
mentor priest, Taisitu Rinpoche, Ogyen even has the support of the Dalai Lama to the Karmapa title. The criminal case was related to seizure of Indian and foreign currency, including Chinese Yuan, amounting to nearly R6 crore from Gyotu monastery in Sidhbari in Kangra district after Ogyen’s key aide, Shakti Lama, was caught by the Una police carrying unaccounted one crore rupees in cash on January 26, 2011. Lama was caught red handed in a benami land deal on behalf of Karmae Garchen trust, which was then said to be headed by Dorje.
This was the culmination of a complex, nuanced and multi-layered game played between Indian intelligence agencies, rival high lamas of Tibetan Buddhism...
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