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Subject: Suharto's health 'deteriorating' Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:38 am
The health of former Indonesian president Suharto is getting worse, doctors treating him in Jakarta say.
Suharto, 86, was taken to hospital on Friday with symptoms of anaemia and low blood pressure.
He has now also developed lung and kidney problems and may need another heart pacemaker operation, doctors say.
Suharto took power in 1966 and ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years. He and his family deny reports that they stole billions of dollars.
He has lived quietly in Jakarta since being overthrown in 1998 amid political upheaval and an economic crisis.
But although accused of embezzling huge sums from state funds during his three decades in power, his lawyers have always successfully pleaded that his failing health meant he should not stand trial.
Mr Suharto has been in and out of hospital in recent years with a series of health problems, including a stroke.
The current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has visited him in hospital, where doctors described his condition as conscious but drowsy.
RISE AND FALL OF SUHARTO
* Born in Java, June 1921 * Comes to power in 1965 after alleged Communist coup attempt * Formally replaces Sukarno as president in March 1967 * Modernisation programmes in the 70s and 80s raise living standards * East Timor invaded in late 1975 * Asian economic crisis of the 1990s hits Indonesian economy * Spiralling prices and discontent force him to resign in May 1998 * Indonesia pulls out of East Timor in 1999 * Judges rule he is unfit to stand trial for corruption in 2000 * Transparency International says he tops the world all-time corruption table in March 2004 * In hospital intensive care unit with intestinal bleeding in May 2005 * 'Time' magazine ordered to pay $106m damages after alleging corruption in September 2007
Subject: Re: Celebrate Evildoers Unintended Contribution to ANCAP Values Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:02 am
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The health of former Indonesian president Suharto is getting worse, doctors treating him in Jakarta say.
YaY!!!
That's excellent news!!! Thanks scumbag!!! But don't die on us yet!!! Oh noooo... we want you to motherfucking suffer... like the countless innocents which you put through your meat grinder and exterminated... so scumbag, give us all here some satisfaction, will ya... it's the least you can do... suffer... and then suffer... and then motherfucking suffer some more!!!
Feel the PAIN, you evil piece of wretched human shit!
I hope it is as prolonged as possible... hit 10 on the Richter scale will ya!?
Motherfucker!
RR Phantom
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Subject: Re: Celebrate Evildoers Unintended Contribution to ANCAP Values Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:21 am
Update.
Suharto's health state 'critical'
Indonesia's ex-leader Suharto's health has worsened and is now "critical", his doctors have told the country's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"The team of presidential doctors... explained that his condition is critical.. We have to do what we can do to restore his health. We should pray for the best," he said.
Subject: Re: Celebrate Evildoers Unintended Contribution to ANCAP Values Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:50 am
Don't die on me motherfucker... not yet!!!
Doctor! Doctor!! Doctor!!!
Is there a fucking doctor in the house???
Can anyone please keep this shit alive, so the party can continue???
H-E-L-P!!!
Save him from death!!!
It's the fat fuck's escape clause!!!
Don't let him cash in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS to the motherfucker's PAIN, AGONY & SUFFERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RR Phantom
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Subject: Iraqi soldier 'killed US troops' Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:28 pm
An Iraqi soldier has opened fire on American troops, killing two and wounding three others, US and Iraqi officials have said.
The incident happened during a joint patrol in the north on 26 December, but fuller details have only now emerged.
An Iraqi general said the patrol had come under fire from gunmen in the city of Mosul, but his soldier had "abused" the situation and shot the Americans.
It is thought to be the first such case since the US-led invasion of 2003.
The US initially reported the deaths of Capt Rowdy Inman, 38, and Sgt Benjamin Portell, 27, as resulting from hostile small arms fire.
But Iraqi general Mutaa al-Khazraji said: "They [the joint patrol] were attacked by gunmen and the [Iraqi] soldier abused the situation and killed the two soldiers."
He said the Iraqi serviceman had been "an insurgent infiltrator". He was arrested and is being questioned.
An interpreter was also wounded alongside the three other soldiers.
Tensions remain high in Mosul - an ethnically mixed area that is home to a variety of Muslim and Christian communities.
The shooting was deliberate, it was not an accident Noor al-Din Hussein Iraqi general
Subject: FBI to CIA:'It's Payback Time' Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:40 pm
FBI to CIA:'It's Payback Time'
Inquiry into CIA tapes seen as payback for FBI
WASHINGTON: The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has been sharply at odds with the CIA over the agency's interrogation practices.
In some law enforcement circles, the prospect of the FBI interviewing high-level CIA officials, under the plan announced Wednesday, and rummaging in the files of the agency's secret interrogation programs represents a payback moment in the rich history of rivalry between the agencies.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, FBI officials have refused to allow agents to take part in CIA interrogations in which harsh methods were used, questioning the effectiveness of the techniques. Others have feared agents might be compromised if they later testified in criminal cases. Some former FBI officials have been among the most vocal critics of what the CIA calls enhanced interrogation techniques.
Some of the sharpest disputes between the agencies have focused on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, one of two terrorism suspects whose interrogations were recorded on the destroyed tapes. The tapes showed harsh interrogation techniques and were destroyed, according to the CIA, to protect the identities of personnel involved.
Some government officials have insisted that the most successful parts of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah came when FBI agents, using nonconfrontational interview techniques, extracted a wealth of information from him before the CIA authorized a tougher approach.
CIA officials have said their tactics were responsible for extracting the most important information from Abu Zubaydah. President George W. Bush has cited the Abu Zubaydah interrogation as an example of the success of the CIA program.
Leaders of both agencies have asserted for years that cooperation and coordination between the FBI and the CIA on counterterrorism issues have increased dramatically since 2001 attacks, which by accounts from each side, is true.
Nevertheless, despite the official pronouncements that the rivalry has ended, the investigation will be carried out against a backdrop of ill will that pervades the culture of the two agencies.
Law enforcement officials said Thursday that past disagreements would not influence the FBI investigation into the destroyed tapes.
They insisted the inquiry would be handled in a professional manner under the direction of a Justice Department team led by John Durham, a career U.S. prosecutor from Connecticut.
Intelligence officials have said they would cooperate fully with the criminal inquiry as they have with similar inquiries in the past.
Bush said Thursday that the White House would cooperate with the investigation. "I strongly support it," Bush said in an interview with Reuters. "And we will participate."
Bush, who was asked during the interview whether he was concerned that the investigation might raise questions about his counterterrorism policy, replied: "See what it says. See what the investigation leads to."
In another development Thursday, Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, released a letter she sent to the CIA in February 2003 in which she expressed concern about the agency's interrogation techniques and its intent to destroy videotape of Abu Zubaydah. That Harman had expressed those concerns was reported last month, but the contents of the letter had not been released.
The letter, declassified at Harman's request, was written shortly after she received a classified briefing about the agency's detention and interrogation program because she had become the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
The letter, dated Feb. 10, 2003, said Harman had been informed five days earlier by Scott Muller, then the agency's top lawyer, that the CIA planned to destroy the tape after its inspector general had completed an inquiry into the agency's detention and interrogation program.
In the letter, Harman urged CIA officials to reconsider their plan to destroy the videotape, which she said "would reflect badly on the agency." The letter from Harman asked whether White House officials had determined that the interrogation methods used by the CIA were "consistent with the principles and policies of the United States" and whether Bush had approved the methods.
In a brief reply, dated Feb. 28, 2003, and also released by Harman on Thursday, Muller did not answer directly, saying only that "a number of executive branch lawyers" had participated in the determination that "in the appropriate circumstances, use of these techniques is fully consistent with U.S. law."
The reply did not address the issue of videotapes.
Feuding between the FBI and the CIA dates to the founding of the intelligence agency in 1947.
In recent years, their debates have been sharpened by disputes about whether the CIA or the FBI bore greater responsibility for missing signals that might have uncovered the Sept. 11 plot before the attacks.
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Subject: Pakistan Tribal Elders Shot Dead Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:27 am
Gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead eight pro-government tribal leaders in the troubled South Waziristan region on Afghanistan's border, officials say.
The tribesmen were killed in two separate attacks on Sunday night and early Monday, a security official said.
Three of the men died in Wana, the region's main town, while the others were shot dead at their homes :D in Shkai, a town north of Wana, he said.
South Waziristan is a known stronghold of Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.
The region has been at the centre of fighting between the army and the militants in recent months.
Gunmen stormed the office of Taleban commander Maulavi Nazir in Wana on Sunday night and killed three of his supporters and wounded four others, officials said.
They said five people were killed in the nearby Shkai area in another attack on the office of Commander Khanan, who is loyal to Mullah Nazir.
Officials say they suspect the attackers to be Uzbek militants, who are opposed to Mullah Nazir.
Although a Taleban commander, Mullah Nazir recently fought foreign militants with the backing of Pakistani government troops.
Reports from Wana say the attacks may be in retaliation for an incident last month in which a suspected Uzbek militant was trapped and killed by Commander Khanan's men in the neighbouring North West Frontier Province district.
Subject: Re: Celebrate Evildoers Unintended Contribution to ANCAP Values Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:58 am
We should throw a party for those fucks! If only there were more of them... especially in our neck of the woods... too busy licking the boot of their oppressors I suppose... want that shitty weekly paycheck... what price truth,honesty, decency and integrity, eh? Motherfuckers!
Subject: Judge resigns over graphic fantasy Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:13 am
Judge resigns over graphic fantasy
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Tennessee judge resigned last month after making a recording of fantasies so lurid that when the tape fell into the hands of the police and FBI, they thought they were listening to a torture session and believed it might be linked to a murder case.
Ultimately, investigators brought no charges against Circuit Judge John B. Hagler, and police said Wednesday he is not a suspect in any investigation.
But the sensational case has led to allegations of professional retaliation, interdepartmental intrigue and strategic news leaks.
The recording was investigated by authorities more than two years ago, but its existence did not come to light publicly until just a few weeks ago, and details on the contents are only now coming out, at a hearing that began Wednesday on whether police must release the tape.
During those two years, the judge remained on the bench, hearing mostly family court cases like divorces and child custody.
Among the mysteries: Why did he make such a recording? Why is it coming to light just now? And what, exactly, is on the tape?
The tape was briefly examined by Chattanooga police and the FBI in late 2005 after a secretary who had just been fired by Hagler turned it over, authorities said. She told them she found the recording of the judge's voice on a tape that also contained legal dictation.
"It sounded like someone being tortured," Chattanooga police Sgt. Alan Franks testified Wednesday, offering the first details of what is on the tape.
Franks said the recording was investigated in relation to a still-unsolved 1997 murder. He gave no other details on the murder case.
"The content was so shocking. I have been a police officer for 24 years," Franks said before his testimony was cut off by an objection.
Investigators ultimately concluded the recording consisted only of fantasies.
Two years later, the tape made its way to the prosecutor in Hagler's Tennessee district, District Attorney Steve Bebb. Then, last month, the Chattanooga Times Free Press learned about the recording from an unidentified source, and Hagler confirmed it and resigned.
Hagler said that he had done nothing wrong but that the recording had caused great embarrassment to friends, family and the courts. Franks, who is 65 and married, has been a circuit judge in Cleveland, Tenn., since 1990 and served three terms as president of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association.
"The description of it as containing `graphic fantasies' ... is an accurate and sufficient description and all any decent person would want to hear of it," the judge said in a statement.
Bebb, the district attorney, said he, too, concluded the recording was not connected to any crime, but what he heard led him to persuade Hagler, whom he describes as a longtime friend, to resign.
"This would disturb any human being who heard it," Bebb said.
The judge strongly suggested the leak was committed by someone with a grudge against him, perhaps someone he ruled against.
"In my opinion, the real story here, so strongly expressed by an alert and outraged public, is not about me or my sins, but about whether one of our essential public institutions, the judiciary, has been the victim of a retaliatory attack," Hagler said in his statement. He did not elaborate but alluded to a dispute within the local bar association.
The district attorney has disputed speculation the leak was related to the judge's recent ruling against a local sheriff's department's request for more funding.
Members of the local bar have asked federal prosecutors to investigate how the existence of the tape became public. Police said FBI agents are asking them questions about the leak.
The judge is fighting a request by the Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Associated Press and other news organizations that the tape be released. The hearing resumes on Thursday.
Hagler was relaxed and smiling at times during Wednesday's hearing. He said during a break that he had not heard the tape in the hands of police and could not be sure it was the one he recorded. "I hope it's my voice," he said.
Subject: Parasitical Bitch Loses Child Support Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:56 am
Sperm donor wins child support battle Mother can't renege on payment deal, Pa. Supreme Court rules
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a woman who promised a sperm donor he would not have to pay child support cannot renege on the deal.
The 3-2 decision overturns lower court rulings under which Joel L. McKiernan had been paying up to $1,500 a month to support twin boys born in August 1994 to Ivonne V. Ferguson, his former girlfriend and co-worker.
“Where a would-be donor cannot trust that he is safe from a future support action, he will be considerably less likely to provide his sperm to a friend or acquaintance who asks, significantly limiting a would-be mother’s reproductive prerogatives,” Justice Max Baer wrote in the majority opinion issued last week.
Arthur Caplan, chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said the decision runs counter to the pattern established by similar cases, where the interests of the progeny have generally been given great weight.
“It sounds like the Pennsylvania court is trying to push a little harder into the brave new world of sperm, egg and embryo donation as it’s evolving,” Caplan said.
McKiernan’s lawyer, John W. Purcell Jr., said Wednesday an adverse decision against his client would have jeopardized the entire system of sperm donation.
“That wouldn’t just include Pennsylvania, because we found out in the course of this trial that many doctors order their sperm for their artificial inseminations out of state,” he said.
Ferguson and McKiernan met while working together at Pennsylvania Blue Shield in Harrisburg and had a sexual relationship that waned before Ferguson persuaded him to donate sperm for her.
Courts found that the two agreed McKiernan would not have to pay child support and would not have visitation rights, but Ferguson later changed her mind and sued.
A county judge said it was in the twins’ best interests that McKiernan be required to support them. In addition to monthly payments, McKiernan also was ordered to come up with $66,000 in back support. The appeal reverses that order.
Elizabeth Hoffman, Ferguson’s lawyer, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment left at her office Wednesday.
Justice J. Michael Eakin, in a dissent, said a parent cannot bargain away a child’s right to support. “The children point and say, ’That is our father. He should support us,”’ Eakin wrote. “What are we to reply? ’No! He made a contract to conceive you through a clinic, so your father need not support you.’ I find this unreasonable at best.”
Subject: Suharto's health 'deteriorating' 
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