Three Somali men who gang-raped a white 16-year-old girl in the bathroom of a hotel where they went to celebrate Eid have been jailed for 30 years.
Muhyadeen Osman, Bilal Ahmed and Mowled Yussuf, all now 20, were just teenagers when they attacked the girl at the Victoria Park Hotel in Manchester, regarding her as ‘easy prey’, the court heard.
The group, then all aged 17, had spent the previous night in the hotel with a number of other men as part of Eid celebrations when one of their friends, who had met the girl on BlackBerry Messenger, brought her round saying she should ‘meet his boys.’
In the run up to the assault the group moved from room to room looking for unlocked doors to hide from a porter.
They eventually got into a bedroom where Yussuf was first to force the girl to perform a sex act on him in the bathroom.
Despite her repeatedly telling the group that she didn’t want to have intercourse, she was forced to perform a sex act on Ahmed before he raped her.
Osman then joined in after he had been ‘hanging around’ outside the door. He then moved her to the bed and raped her himself.
2. VIDEO: Ceiling collapses on Palestinians during funeral for Hamas tunnel diggers
(Genesis 12:3?)
Problems appear to be coming in spades for the Islamist group Hamas and its followers in the Gaza Strip.
During a mass funeral for seven Hamas operatives who died after the tunnel in which they were digging collapsed due to the heavy rains that pounded the region earlier this week, a number of Palestinians required medical treatment when the ceiling of a kiosk in Gaza City collapsed under the weight of a number of people who were standing on the rooftop.
More footage of the funeral and additional collapses
3. Taliban Control of Afghanistan Highest Since U.S. Invasion
America’s 14-year project to defeat the Taliban and build a stable Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of failure, according to a sobering report Friday by a government watchdog.
The Taliban controls more of the country than at any time since U.S. troops invaded in 2001, notes the quarterly report to Congress by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The fragile economy is worsening. One of the few bright spots of the troubled reconstruction effort — getting more girls in school — has been tainted by allegations of fraud.
“The lack of security has made it almost impossible for many U.S. and even some Afghan officials to get out to manage and inspect U.S.-funded reconstruction projects,” wrote John Sopko, the inspector general.
(Should be interesting to watch most networks blame that on Bush)
4. U.S. Marine Banned From Daughter’s School For Questioning Homework On Islam – The Kelly File
Swedish police have dealt with 5,000 incidents involving migrants since October as they revealed they are concerned the problems are getting worse. Above, migrants wait to board a boat in Canakkale, Turkey which they hope will take them to Lesbos, Greece, on Friday
Dan Eliasson, police commissioner, told SvD an increasing number of officers were needed to deal with the problems.
6. I have no idea what this fight was about but Ukraine politics seem a lot more visceral than Canadian. Mind you we just had an election.
7. British and US intelligence ‘hacked into Israeli drones’
British and US intelligence hacked Israeli drones’ video feeds, allowing them to watch in real time as Israel bombed Gaza and spied on Syria, according to documents leaked by American whistleblower Edward Snowden.
GCHQ and its US counterpart, the NSA, also monitored the drone footage in the hope of getting an early warning if Israel was attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
An Israeli soldier with a drone during a military operation to search for three missing Israeli teenagers in 2014 Photo: EPA
The revelations, reported by The Intercept, are the latest in a series of examples of how the US and Israel profess friendship in public but also spy intensively on each other.
(Because thats how the Obama admin treats its friends. One suspects it is a lot more honest with its enemies)
8. Canada rejects U.S. security concerns over Syrian refugees
Canada rejected Wednesday U.S. security concerns over its fast-tracked resettlement of thousands of Syrian refugees, as the Senate in Washington prepares to hold a hearing on the repercussions for America.
“We have put in place layers of security activity to ensure that our refugee initiative with respect to Syria can be successful,” Canadian public safety minister Ralph Goodale told parliament.
“The program is working well and indeed it will resolve in something that Canadians can be very, very proud of,” he added in response to questions about why the Ottawa government declined an invitation to appear before the US Senate hearing.
Thank you M., Maria J., Wrath of Khan, ACT For Canada, and many more. The following video is probably not very good but on the plus side, its very short. I just felt I had to do it.
I think this space will be used for articles on the Clinton Email scandal, white house complicity, all of which seem tantamount to evidence that the US is just another tin-pot dictatorship now without rule of law and with presidential politicization of critical aspects of state.
Clinton emails between Obama and Clinton on privy server withheld by presidential decree
Official: Some Clinton emails ‘too damaging’ to release
White House meat puppet deflects like Cassius Clay
Bill Clinton clearly writes her denials
“I did not send or receive sex with that girl”
No matter how self-assured and confident Hillary looks throughout this, it has got to be tearing her guts out to have all these horrifying skeletons moaning and screaming in her closet. And even if these emails don’t get her, there’s still the Benghazi affair waiting to sink her submarine, with Bob Woodward silently stalking her and refusing to go away. At sixty-eight years old her body will not be able to withstand this kind of stress and she will likely be falling ill and getting the hell out of the way soon – before the humorless Special Agents of the FBI finally come for her.
Those humorless agents, by the way, are in the process of further ruining General Petraeus for the most miniscule infraction of the rules on top secret documents, and they’re not getting any funnier with time. The General is only guilty of technical infractions while Hillary could have revealed real spy stuff to real enemy agencies. If I were her, I’d fake a stroke or a severe myocardial infarction and just ride off into the sunset before my luck finally ran out. Maybe North Korea…
Chris Christie – State Dept Confirms Hillary Clinton Looked Us In The Eye And Lied
Yes we are now a dictatorship, we will have to wait and see if Obama is President for life before we are officially a Third World dictatorship.
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1. 30 years those guys will be in prison teaching other inmates about butt sex and Islam. What happened to the concept of prisons to get people on the right course and so when their out they can fit into society?
It’s only been recent history where rape is no longer a capital offense.
If these three are 17, I am the Queen of Sheba. What a joke.
The idea of prison getting people on the right track only came about when the left started getting control, studies have shown that all types of prisons have the save rate of rehabilitation and of recidivism. When I was filling in credit hours so the VA would pay for my degree I took a criminology class, the first thing the Professor said was that you can’t rehabilitate someone who doesn’t want to change. Most people in the pens don’t want to change.
If that school in the US is teaching world history, not religion, then in the case of Islam it would be more informative to teach about the concept of jihad, not the five pillars (which sound so nice & touchy feely).
#2. VIDEO: Ceiling collapses on Palestinians during funeral for Hamas tunnel diggers
Damn the Arab states for the crime they have committed against these poor uneducated desert rats they have chosen to call the “Palestinians”. Damn them for using real human beings as actors in a constantly-running piece of agitprop theatre that features their non-stop suffering as its central theme. Those people in Gaza are like dogs who’ve been chained up and then poked with sticks until they go insane with frustration and rage. And who knows what they really think. If they step out of character for one second, someone might notice and the guys in the masks will be by for a midnight visit…
It’s tough for the little Israelis to sleep, those in the south, listening to sounds of tunneling again. Their parents say stress symptoms flare-up. Whether they hear anything or not, they’re having trouble. Maybe the kids talk to each other too much, make each other more anxious.
We should’ve evacuated them sooner last time. You go by what’s recommended, manage disruptions as best you can, but kids are all different. There’s no instruction manual so you know you’re getting it right.