Attackers Strike Sect Mosques in Pakistan

Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. At least 80 people were killed and dozens wounded.

The strikes - the deadliest against the Ahmadi community - highlight the threat to minority religious groups by the same militants who have repeatedly attacked Pakistan's US-allied government and threatened to destabilise the nuclear-armed nation.

The tactics echoed those militants have used against government, foreign and security targets in Pakistan, but they had never before been directed against a religious minority.

Two teams of heavily armed attackers - seven men in total - staged the raids minutes apart, seizing hostages and apparently planning to fight to the death. Three died when they detonated their suicide vests. Two were captured.

"It was like a war going on around me. The cries I heard sent chills down my spine," said Luqman Ahmad, a survivor.

Shiite Muslims have borne the brunt of individual suicide bombings and targeted killings for years in Sunni-majority Pakistan, though Christians and Ahmadis have also faced violence. The long-standing sectarian violence in the country has been exacerbated by the rise of the Sunni extremist Taliban and al-Qaida movements.

Pakistan's Geo TV channel said the Punjab province branch of the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility, however repeated attempts by The Associated Press to reach the group were not successful. The Pakistani Taliban are believed to have played a role in the failed car bomb attempt in New York City's Times Square earlier this month.

Ahmadis are reviled as heretics by mainstream Muslims for their belief that their sect's founder was a savior foretold by the Quran, Islam's holy book. The group has experienced years of state-sanctioned discrimination and occasional attacks by radical Sunni Muslims in Pakistan, but never before in such a large-scale, sophisticated fashion.

The attacks took place in the Model Town and Garhi Shahu neighborhoods of Lahore.

Maoist rebels suspected in India train derailment killing at least 71

SARDIHA (PASCHIM MEDINIPUR DISTRICT):A goods train rammed 13 derailed coaches of the 2012 UP Howrah-Kurla Gyaneshwari Express between the Khemashuli and Sardiha stations in West Bengal in the small hours of Friday, killing 79 persons and injuring nearly 150 people.

Both Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the site, and the West Bengal government suspected the involvement of Maoists, though they differed on how the incident was staged.

While Ms. Banerjee said that left-wing extremists had triggered an explosion on the track, resulting in the derailment, Director-General of Police Bhupinder Singh said that the rebels had removed pandrol clips and fishplates from both up and down lines leading to the accident.

Mr. Singh told The Hinduthat the death toll could rise as several bodies were still trapped in the wreckage — mainly in coaches S3, S4, S5, S6 and S7 that have been badly mangled and crushed.

According to eyewitness accounts, the accident occurred around 1.30 a.m. when most of the passengers were fast asleep.

“The train stopped with a jolt and within a few seconds our coach started tilting towards the down line. It stayed like that for some minutes before we heard a loud bang and everyone and everything tumbled on one another,” an injured Sheikh Moniruddin, an embroidery artist travelling in the most-affected S4, said.

Railway officials present at the site said the goods train, which was proceeding at high speed on the up line, rammed the derailed coaches of the Jnaneswari Express before its driver could raise an alarm.

Due to the impact of the collision, the goods train engine jumped the track and ploughed into the field – completely crushing S3, S4, S5 and S6 coaches in the process.

The assistant driver of the goods train died on the spot and the driver was critically injured. The driver of the passenger train has filed an FIR that he had heard the sound of an explosion before the derailment.

After assessing the situation, Ms. Banerjee said: “It was a calculated attack on the railways since it is the lifeline of the nation. I have requested the Union Home Minister to investigate the matter and book the culprits.”

She announced an ex gratia of Rs. 5 lakh and railway jobs to the relatives of the dead and Rs. 1 lakh to the injured.

Five Ministers of the State government, highly placed officials of the State police, the South Eastern Railway and the State's Criminal Investigation Department visited the spot.

Picasso, Matisse artworks stolen from Paris museum

Paris, France (CNN)  -- Five paintings, including a Matisse and a Picasso, were stolen overnight from a Paris museum, the Paris mayor's office said Thursday.

The paintings were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art and included works by Georges Braque, Ferdinand Leger and Amedeo Modigliani, French police said.

The artworks are worth a total of just less than 100 million euros ($123.7 million), said Christophe Girard, an aide to the mayor of Paris. The city runs the museum.

But the prosecutor's office estimated the value of the lost works at 500 million euros ($617 million.)

The mayor's office, the museum and the police all refused to tell CNN which paintings were stolen.

But French media named them as "Le Pigeon aux Petits Pois" (Pigeon with peas) by Picasso, "La Pastorale" (The Pastoral) by Matisse, "L'Olivier pr232;s de l'Estaque" (Olive Tree near the Estaque) by Braque, "La femme 224; l'233;ventail" (Woman with Fan) by Modigliani, and "Nature morte aux chandeliers" (Still Life with Candlesticks) by Leger.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said he was "particularly saddened and shocked by this theft which is an intolerable affront to the universal cultural heritage of Paris."

Girard said security systems at the museum had been disabled.

"There are three people in the museum at all times," he said, but they saw nothing, which he said was evidence of tampering with the security systems.

"We must absolutely leave the police to find out how the security system was disabled and how these important paintings were stolen," he said on BFM TV, a CNN affiliate.

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Whitehall Boy, 8, Saves Sister From Abduction Attempt

MYRTLE BEACH, SC. --
Police in Myrtle Beach, S.C., credit the quick actions of a caring brother for saving a young girl from an attempted abduction.

Police are looking for the man who tried to abduct a 4-year-old girl vacationing from Pittsburgh.

The girl’s mother, Erin Kuhns, of Whitehall, told Channel 4 Action News that on Friday, she was walking near the beach with her three children when her daughter, Josie, ran off.

Kuhns said she then told her son, Nathan, to run after the child. When the 8-year-old boy caught up with his sister, Nathan said he saw a man trying to drag the girl into his car.

"I screamed because of the fact someone was trying to pull her in the car and I went down there and beat the crap out of this guy," Nathan said of the rescue.

According to Erin Kuhns, the boy was able to wrestle his sister away from the would-be abductor.

“[Nathan] said, 'Mommy, I just kicked and I punched and I hit, and I just kept doing it,'” Kuhns told Channel 4 Action News’ Shannon Perrine Sunday. “[The man] kept grabbing her, and he kept pulling her and kept trying to put her back in the car.”

Nathan Kuhns was able to provide DNA evidence to police, because he scratched the man so severely.

Neither child was injured in the attempted abduction.

Myrtle Beach police have not made any arrests.

The family has since returned home from their vacation.

A Toronto woman is suing Rogers Wireless Inc. for ruining her marriage.

Gabrielle Nagy, who subscribed to Rogers wireless services, requested her billing be addressed to her family home under her maiden name. When her husband ordered additional services — internet and cable television — from Rogers in June 2007, Rogers bundled Nagy’s billing with her husband’s.

Ms. Nagy’s husband realized his wife’s infidelity when he saw hours-long conversations with a particular phone number and confronted Nagy. The two are now separated.

Ms. Nagy is suing Rogers for $600,000, citing negligence and breach of contract.

“The defendant breached the said duty of reasonable care by acting in a manner below the standard of conduct expected from the defendant […],” says Nagy’s statement of claim.

In documents filed on behalf of the defence, Rogers states “The marriage break-up apparently resulted from the fact the plaintiff was having an extramarital affair” and Rogers “is not responsiblefor the plaintiff’s affair or its consequences.”

The plaintiff is no longer a Rogers client.



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Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida. REUTERS


NASA has revealed compelling evidence of life on Mars. NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity missions have disclosed signs of sulphates on Mars, which evidently means there could be water on the Red Plant and consequently life.

While previous missions have also suggested the presence of water on Mars, NASA says the recent evidence is more concrete. Boffins are especially excited over the discovery of gypsum - a sulphate found in fossils in the Mediterranean.

Jack Farmer, researcher at the Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, was "optimistic" there was - or had been - life on Mars. "One, thanks to Opportunity and the rovers and orbital imaging it is clear that there are literally vast areas of Mars that are carpeted with various sorts of sulphates, including gypsum," the Sun quoted Bill Schopf, researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles, as saying.

Schopf went on: "Two, it turns out on earth there just hasn''t been hardly any work done at all to show whether gypsum ever includes within it preserved evidence of former life.

An image by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Gullies at the Edge of Hale Crater (ESP_014153_1430) on Mars recorded during the month of April through early August 2009. REUTERS

"The age doesn''t matter. We just didn''t know that fossils and organic matter and things like that were well preserved within gypsum. "So, three, it turns out that now we have made that first step we are going to find out how widespread it is in other sulphate deposits on earth.

"And those lines of evidence will then give us a way to justify going to Mars and looking at gypsum because it looks as though based on these findings that is going to turn out to be a really excellent place to find evidence of ancient life, regardless of age, if in fact it is there."

According to Dr Steve Squyres, of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, a sample of Mars rock would help establish the presence of life on the planet. He believes the presence of Methane in the Martian atmosphere hinted at the possibility of life.


NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this forward view of its arm and surroundings on the rover's 2,052nd Martian day October 11, 2009 in this photograph recently released by NASA. REUTERS

Squyres said: "Methane is a molecule that should go away very quickly. We need to send a mission to find out if the source is biological. "We also need to send a mission to return samples from Mars. That would enable scientists to find out whether Mars might ever have harboured life.

He added: "If we are ever going to show if there was ever life on Mars, I think we''re going to have to study samples back on Earth."

Icy asteroid may offer clues to source of Earth''s water

Scientists analysing ice molecules on an asteroid believe it may be a ''living fossil'' with clues to origin of Earth's oceans. Researchers at the University of Central Florida discovered a thin layer of water ice and organic molecules on the surface of 24 Themis, the largest member of the Themis asteroid family orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.

An artist's conception shows what NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed, vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. REUTERS

Lead author and UCF Physics Professor HumbertoCampins said: "What we''ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water." According to some theories, asteroids brought water to Earth after the planet formed dry.

Scientists say the salts and water that have been found in some meteorites support this view. Using NASA''s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, Campins and his team of researchers measured the intensity of the reflected sunlight as 24 Themis rotated.

Differences in intensity at different wavelengths helped researchers determine the makeup of the asteroid''s surface.Researchers were surprised to find ice and carbon-based compounds evenly distributed on 24 Themis.

This image released by NASA January 21, 2010, from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock called "Marquette Island" that was examined from mid-November 2009 until mid-January 2010. REUTERS

The discovery of ice is unexpected because surface ice should be short lived on asteroids, which are expected to be too warm for ice to survive for long. The distance between this asteroid and the sun is about three times greater than between Earth and the sun.

While scientists will continue testing various hypotheses to explain the presence of ice, the most promising possibility perhaps is that 24 Themis might have preserved the ice in its subsoil, just below the surface, as a kind of "living fossil" or remnant of an early solar system that was generally considered to have disappeared long ago. The findings will appear in the journal Nature.

10. Attila The Hun



Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453.  He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea.  In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity.  An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army.  Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night.


9. Maximilien Robespierre


Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without a trial.  In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-revolutionary period in which mass executions were carried out.  The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last month.  Among people who were condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.


In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was guillotined without a trial in 1794.


8. Ruhollah Khomeini



Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989.  In that time he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups.  Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:

“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s order and God’s call to prayer.”

In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities. Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of 30,000 political activists.


After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.


7. Idi Amin Dada




Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000.  On August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan citizens (most of them held British passports). This was later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers.  Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.


6. Leopold II of Belgium


Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909.  With financial support from the government, Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese.  The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. The area of land privately owned by the King was an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the Force Publique.  Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.


5. Pol Pot


Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975.   During his time in power Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois enemies” for murder.  The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields.  The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.


4. Vlad Ţepeş


Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476.  Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker’s popular Dracula novel.  In Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice.  His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock.  Wikipedia has an article that describes, in great details, the methods of Vlad’s cruelty.  The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive.  There are claims that on some occasions ten thousand people were impaled in 1460 alone.


3. Ivan IV of Russia



Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar.  In 1570, Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son.  In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental) death.


2. Adolf Hitler



Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945.  By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust.  On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.


1. Josef Stalin



Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.  Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part of Stalin’s government.  Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million.  The famine was caused by direct political and administrative decisions.  In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state.  In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.


Bonus: Emperor Hirohito of Japan


Hirohito was the Emporer of Japan from 1926 to 1989.  In 1937, Japanese troops committed the war crime that is now known as the Rape of Nanking (the then Capital of China, now known as Nanjing). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.  During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.  A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread.  The death toll is generally considered to be between 150,000 and 300,000.

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Bringing up the issue of human rights:


In the spirit of past Olympic games: “Stop the world record for executions”



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Kevin Poulsen




Kevin  Poulsen popularly known as Dark Dunte in hacking circles is one of the most expert hackers in the world; Kevin Poulsen ‘s expertise lied in ;hacking phone lines, he got recognition as expert hacker after hacking Los Angeles radio’s KIIS-FM phone lines.

Kevin Poulson was very brave hacker, even FBI was not safe from his hacking, he hacked FBI database and federal wiretap information, after these incidents FBI started tracking Kevin,he got five years sentence for his crimes.



Kevin Mitnick



Kevin Mitnick, currently a computer security author and consultant, was once “the most wanted criminal in United States”; Kevin Mitnick started his hacking career by hacking Los Angeles bus card system, then after this he hacked phone networks, business secrets and even national defense warning system.

Kevin Mitnick was arrested, convicted and he got 8 years imprisonment punishment, some years ago two Hollywood movies” Take down” and “Freedom Downtime” were made on the hacking heroics of Kevin Mitnick.


Robert Morris



Robert Morris was first person in the United States, who was charged under 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; he created a very fatal internet virus, which according to an estimate destroyed 6000 computers; Morris was sentenced three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and  $10,500 fine.

Morris is now a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His focus is computer network architecture.


Adrian Lamo



Adrian Lamo,currently a notable public speaker and award winning journalist was once a expert hacker, who used to hack large corporations such as New York Times,Microsoft,Yahoo,Bank of America and Cingular.

Adrian has to pay $ 65000 for incursion into intranet of New York Times,he was also sentenced 6 months confinement and 2 years probation.




Jonathan James




“I was just having fun and looking around and enjoyed the challenge”, this is what renowned young hacker, Jonathan James Aka Comrade said upon his arrest by the police.

Jonathan James was very high profile hacker, his victims were very important organizations like Defense Threat Reduction Agency, NASA etc;Jonathan hacked computer passwords and user names of Defense Threat Reduction Agency by which he was able to check secret emails of this organization, James also hacked NASA computers and stole software valued at over $1.7 million , they had to shut down its entire computer system costing taxpayers $41,000.

Jonathan  James died in very strange circumstances, On May 18, 2008, Jonathan James was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His suicide was apparently motivated by the belief that he would be prosecuted for crimes he had not committed, by crime he was referring to TJX store chain’s massive computer intrusion that compromised the personal and credit information of millions of customers.