>>"The duty officer confirmed that the man later suffered a heart attack and died while in police custody, but the officer refused to elaborate."

Looks like old habits die hard at 2 Dzerzhinsky Square. Nothing like a good, old-fashioned torture-murder to inspire public confidence in the justice system. Maybe the FSB/KGB's "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" turned up information that might foil another terrorist attack. That would make everything ok, right?

Aren't our new "friends" wonderful?

The Dr. Seuss link is inane doggerel. An insult to the great man.

My solution to Iran is much cheaper and better. Air drop hundreds of thousands of Uzis and ammo over all the population centers. End of the mullahs and their bully boys within 48 hours, guaranteed.

A-hem. Everyone should know that it really was Colt's Birthday on Monday. Happy Birthday Colt!

Brian H. Well, I thought it was funny. :)
In the words of the immortal bard himself,

'From near to far, from here to there,
funny things are everywhere!'

Happy birthday to you, Colt!

The news from Nigeria is very interesting. I would say that the jihadist tide amounts to more than 200 harebrained madrassa students.

It is strange how little is known about the fundamentalist movement there. The last thing they did (the supreme council of the Sharia, headed by a disgruntled presidential candidate) was to campaign against the children being vaccinated against polio arguing that the vaccine was part of a western plot to make Muslim girls sterile. (I’m not kidding)

Polio, which was on the verge of being eradicated has spread from Northern Nigeria to 11 sub-Saharan countries…

More about that in these links:
Conspiracy Theories And Religious Extremism Keep Polio Alive in Africa

Nigerian parents still refusing polio vaccine

More links here:
Social Capital News Server – Polio Nigeria

To the story belongs that the president of the Sharia Council is a doctor…

It's me again...

After posting here, I was checking out links at the Social Capital News Server and found that the campaign against the vaccine has spread from Nigeria to Northern India –where if I’m not mistaken there is big proportion of Muslims. This is from Medical News Today:

Polio vaccine resistance in Eastern India, infertility fears
22 Sep 2004

Some people living in the slums of Gaya in the eastern state of Bihar, India, have refused to allow health workers to orally vaccinate their children against polio out of fear that the drops contain substances that could harm the children's fertility, the AP/Washington Times reports.

The people refusing the vaccines are distrustful of the government and believe that the vaccines are part of government efforts to control population growth, according to the AP/Times (AP/Washington Times, 9/18).

UNICEF health workers have recruited counselors to try to handle the concerns, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Qadir, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/9).

The northern Nigerian state of Kano earlier this year stopped its polio immunizations out of fear that the vaccines were part of a U.S.-sponsored plan to spread HIV and infertility among Muslims. However, the state in July agreed to end its boycott of the vaccines after tests showed that the immunizations were free of HIV and would not cause infertility.

Nigeria previously had eradicated the disease, but state and city bans on polio vaccines led to the disease's re-emergence (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 7/21).

World Health Organization experts say that a single case of polio could lead to an outbreak of the disease and cause a setback to the organization's campaign to eliminate polio worldwide by 2005 (Qadir, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/19).

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13821

Thank you :-)

T. J. Madison
>>"The duty officer confirmed that the man later suffered
>>a heart attack and died while in police custody, but
>>the officer refused to elaborate."
He was beaten to death - this is the from Russian media, for example Izvestia. It is a known fact, that is; the article is a bit behind. Moreover, his own wife and two former colleagues were shown the body and did not recognize him, so this may be a different person from what's purported. An investigation is started too.

>>Looks like old habits die hard at 2 Dzerzhinsky Square.
Oh no, this is no "old habits", this is new habits. All humanitarian considerations aside, in the olden days an important arrestee in KGB's hands would not die like that; they were much more competent. It's not in their interests to have him dead.