Mr. Hayee, who also goes by the name of Asadullah, was identified as a weapons and explosives expert for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Lashkar is Pakistan’s most notorious sectarian militant outfit, and has returned to prominence this year after it claimed responsibility for two devastating bombings in the western city of Quetta that killed about 200 Shiites, mostly from the ethnic Hazara minority. [...] Mr. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Karachi and beheaded the next month. His killing sent shock waves throughout the world and shed a light on the growing nexus of Al Qaeda and Pakistani militant groups.
Mr. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Karachi and beheaded the next month. His killing sent shock waves throughout the world and shed a light on the growing nexus of Al Qaeda and Pakistani militant groups.
“Senator Cruz does not oppose the substance of the MS resolution, and he never did," his spokesman said. "Unfortunately, the sponsors of this resolution circulated their request for unanimous consent less than 48 hours before they wanted it passed. A member of Sen. Cruz's staff--who herself suffers from MS--asked for time to review the language, and to perhaps suggest revisions to the language, as is typical. It appears that Senate Democratic staff, instead of working to ensure unanimous consent, instead decided to leak this story to try to malign Senator Cruz.”
While we're at it: CNN repeatedly referred to the victim as "drunk" or "drunken," rather than the more accurate "out cold." The defense of Steubenville [law enforcement] has conveniently omitted its complete disinterest in the illegal use, procurement, or provision of alcoholic beverages, as well as a goddam crowd's disinterest in the girl's parlous physical condition; threatened prosecution of either might have loosened some tongues. I was also amused by the recurring theme that Steubenville's "tough economic times" encouraged people to rally 'round the hopeful symbol of high school football. Y'know, they're riding out the downturn pretty well in Carmel, Indiana, which didn't seem to stop them from treating forceable sodomy by object on a basketball team bus as just a right of passage, and no one else's bidness. Essentially.
According to the first-ever comprehensive count of the true toll of the combined wars, the estimate the administration used to sell the invasion in 2003 was about 100 times too low.
According to a new pilot study conducted by Dr. Alice Good of the University of Portsmouth, the vast majority of Facebook users use the social network to lift their spirits when they’re feeling down by navigating their old photos and wall posts in which they’ve interacted with family and friends—a “self-soothing” coping mechanism somewhat akin to flipping through a photo album or watching old home videos.
By examining the frequency of extreme storm surges in the past, previous research has shown that there was an increasing tendency for storm hurricane surges when the climate was warmer. But how much worse will it get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, will there be as a result of global warming? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute show that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency if the climate becomes two degrees Celcius warmer.