Chinese Muslims Held at Guantanamo Aren’t Considered Enemy Combatants

A federal judge is considering whether to order a group of detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay released into the United States, in what would instantly become a landmark legal decision in the years-long battle over the rights of terrorism suspects there.

The men, a small band of Chinese Muslims who have been held for nearly seven years, are no longer considered enemy combatants by the U.S. government, but they are caught in a well-documented diplomatic bind. Unlike other captives, they cannot be sent to their home country because Beijing considers them terrorists, and they might be tortured. The government released five of the detainees, known as Uighurs (pronounced “WEE-gurz”), to Albania in 2006, but no other country wants to risk offending China by accepting the others.

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Raffella Fico: Her family insist that despite her good looks and sexy image, she remains a virgin

Showgirl and men’s magazine model Raffella Fico, 20, told an Italian magazine: “I can’t wait to see who’s going to pull out the money to have me.”

Miss Fico, who appeared in the Italian version of Big Brother earlier this year, said she would use the cash to buy a house in Rome and pay for acting classes.

“I don’t know what it’s like to have sex,” she told the magazine, Chi, adding that if the man who bought her virginity was ugly then she would quickly get over it.

“If I don’t like him I’ll just have a glass of wine and forget about it,” said the aspiring actress from Naples – hometown of screen siren Sophia Loren.

Her family insisted that despite her good looks and sexy image, she remained a virgin.

“She’s never had a boyfriend. I swear on my mother’s grave. She’s a devout Catholic and prays to Padre Pio every night,” her brother told the magazine.

She is the not the first woman to auction her virginity for a large sum. An 18-year-old US student in San Diego, Natalie Dylan, recently told the Howard Stern show she would have sex for the first time for $1 million to pay her college fees.

In 2005 a Peruvian model, also 18, put herself up for sale to help pay her family’s medical bills but ended up having second thoughts and turning down $1.5 million.

telegraph.co.uk

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The EOS 5D Mark II boasts a new 21MP CMOS sensor, and new features including full 1080p HD movie recording for only: US: $ 2,699,

Beta sample images captured by a pre-production EOS 5D Mark II. Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet created these photos during the shooting of the independent short video, REVERIE. All images are in-camera JPEGs with no post-production except for the inclusion of the artist’s watermark.

Click on each thumbnail to view the full-resolution original (image will open in a new window):

Lens: EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Exposure: 1/25 sec @ f/2.0 ISO: 1600	Lens: TS-E 45mm f/2.8 Exposure: 1/20 sec @ f/2.8 ISO: 1600	Lens: EF 400mm f/2.8L IS Exposure: 1/250 sec @ f/3.2 ISO: 3200
Lens: EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II Exposure: 1/20 sec @ f/2.8 ISO: 2000	Lens: EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Exposure: 1/15 sec @ f/2.8 ISO: 1600	Lens: EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM Exposure: 1/60 sec @ f/2.0 ISO: 1600
Lens: EF 50mm f/1.2L II Exposure: 1/50 sec @ f/2.0 ISO: 1600	Lens: EF 200mm f/1.8L Exposure: 1/80 sec @ f/2.0 ISO: 1600	Lens: EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro Exposure: 1/13 sec @ f/2.8 ISO: 1600

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It seems as though we were never planning on leaving Iraq.

this post is a little old but i thought it deserved posting.

“Fortress America,” the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, is the largest, most expensive in the world, and one that few taxpayers have ever seen. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.

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On the exact anniversary of the day in 1995 in which Simpson was cleared of killing his ex-wife and another man, he was found guilty of robbery and kidnapping in a bizarre Las Vegas crime.

Standing in the courtroom in ‘Sin City’, Simpson winced briefly but visibly as Judge Jackie Glass denied him bail and ordered him sent to the cells to await his sentencing date. Dressed in a sharp, dark blue suit, he seemed to nod but remained calm. The same could not said of his sister, Carmelita Durio. She broke down in tears and collapsed to the floor of the court. Paramedics treated her as Simpson was led away.

It was a remarkable end to a strange trial that saw Simpson accused of robbing two sports memorabilia salesmen at gunpoint. They were hawking items from Simpson’s own life and he claimed he was just getting his stuff back. That was not enough for the jury, who took 13 hours to reach their verdict, which was delivered in dramatic late-night scenes. ‘The verdict was not a shock. We knew it going in. There was a lot of baggage,’ said defence lawyer Yale Galanter, who is now planning an appeal.

guardian.co.uk

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three witnesses call saw green

Three observers who say they were at the Chatsworth Metrolink station before last month’s deadly train crash have asserted in interviews that a final, crucial railroad signal was green as the commuter line’s engineer headed toward the collision point.

Experts say it is common for investigators to get sharply differing witnesses’ accounts during inquiries into catastrophic accidents. But the three witnesses were insistent.

“I saw the light was green. Everything seemed all right,” said Chris Watson, 20, the station security guard. Watson said he was standing midway down the platform on Sept. 12 as Metrolink 111 pulled out of the station

latimes.com

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