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Russian fishermen demand an investigation into killer Nesski's 19 lake deaths in three years Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1293955/Russian-fishermen-demand-investigation-killer-Nesski.html#ixzz0tVJEag00
Russian fishermen are demanding a probe into a creature resembling the Loch Ness monster in a remote Siberian lake.
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Locals say that 'Nesski' has devoured anglers who have been pulled into the murky waters of Lake Chany from their boats.
Those claiming to have glimpsed the creature say it resembles the classic long-necked image of Scotland's fabled monster. It has also been called 'snake-like', while other accounts suggest a large fin and huge tail.
The latest mysterious death of a 59-year-old man last week has fuelled demands for a proper probe into what lurks beneath the surface of Chany, one of Russia's largest freshwater lakes.
'I was with my friend... some 300 yards from the shore,' said 60-year-old Vladimir Golishev. ''He hooked something huge on his bait, and he stood up in the boat to reel it in.
'But it pulled with such force that he overturned the boat. I was in shock - I had never seen anything like it in my life.
'I pulled off my clothes and swam for the shore, not daring hope I would make it.'
He said his friend was pulled under the surface, a description in common with earlier incidents.
'He didn't make it - and they have found no remains.'
Three years ago 32-year-old Mikhail Doronin - a special services soldier - was lost.
'The lake was calm, but suddenly the boat was rocking, and it capsized,' said his 80-year-old grandmother Nina, who has lived beside the lake all her life.
'Something of an awesome scale lives in the lake, but I have never seen it,' said her husband, Vladimir, 81.
Official figures say 19 people have drowned in the lake in the past three years and in most cases their remains were never found. Locals say the true figures are higher.
Some bodies that have been washed up had been eaten by a creature with large teeth, they claim.
'It is time to find out the truth,' said Golishev.
Unlike deep Loch Ness, Lake Chany is no than 23 feet in depth. Frozen in winter, it is warm and popular with swimmers in summer. It is known to contain large carp.
The lake is 57 miles in length by 55 miles in width. A relic of the Ice Age, accounts of monsters in its waters were first made public in Soviet times.
Dark Side of America's Soul
By Selim Djem
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Ottoman Royalty Aims to Conquer America with his New Novel
Houston, TX, February, 2010 -- His Imperial Highness Prince Selim Djem, Ottoman royalty and great-great grandson of Emperor Abdulmejid, is proud to announce the release of his novel. The Dark Side of the Soul, in America. After a successful launch in the U.K. this fall, Prince Selim is embarking on a campaign to introduce his beautifully-written novel to an American audience.
The story line is completely unique. Two souls fall in love and then are separated by the angel Gabriel, who casts them to earth. Embodied in human form but robbed of their memory, they seek each other through the ages, never aware of the nature of their obsessive quest. It is a story filled with dichotomies; an exploration of the dual sides of human nature, good and evil, dark and light, attraction and repulsion, heaven and hell, as well as examining altruism and destruction within oneself and mankind. It is a story s o exquisitely written, it's impossible to stop reading it. Prince Selim describes beauty rarely experienced by readers and, at the same time, explores man's excesses and unchecked destructiveness in horrific detail. In the end though, the novel is a completely original love story - a story about longing that leaves readers deeply affected.
What makes the novel even more intriguing is the fact that it is written by Ottoman royalty. Prince Selim's perspective is utterly unique.
“My father, His Imperial Highness Prince Burhaneddin Djem, spent the first four years of his life in his father's palace in Istanbul. He clearly remembers the day the soldiers, following Mustapha Kemal's orders, came into the palace and told his father, His Imperial Highness Prince Ibrahim Tevfik, that his family, their entourage and he had three days to pack their belongings and leave the Ottoman Empire. From then on, the members of the Ottoman Family found themselves lost and dispersed around the world.
This perspective is echoed in his novel. Prince Selim is both an impartial narrator and an integral part of the lead characters. In this way, readers are drawn in, keenly feeling the characters experiences and impressed by deeper questions about the nature of humanity and man's place in the universe.
About the Prince Selim Djem
His Imperial Highness Prince Selim Djem is a member of Ottoman royalty. The Ottomans were a ruling dynasty for more than 700 years, with an empire that encompassed territory stretching from North Africa to the Balkans, over Eritrea, the Near East, most of the Middle-East as well as all the countries along the Black Sea. Prince Selim attended the Universit é de Genève, where he studied numerous subjects ranging from Biochemistry to Psychology. After teaching on the university level, he became a professional reporter, interviewing celebrities like Woody Allen, Kim Basinger, David Bowie, Tim Burton, George Clooney, Kevin Costner, Courtney Love, Sharon Stone, and Robin Williams, to name a few.
US Turns Its Focus On Yemen
Yemen Extremist Masterminded Mutallab's Attempt on Detroit
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U.S. General David Petraeus met with Yemen's president Saturday, as US turns its focus to the country where the mastermind of the failed Detroit Delta attack originated in efforts to stop al-Quaeda militants. Sources say Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, discussed the security situation in Yemen with President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemeni officials said Saturday that extra security forces have been deployed to eastern provinces where al-Qaida militants operate. On Friday, a Somali Islamic extremist insurgent group al-Shabab said it was sending fighters to Yemen to help al-Qaida there. Yemen said it will not tolerate foreign terrorists on its soil.
In the meantime, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour a leading extremist figure has called on Muslims everywhere to join the fight. It is clear that the Somalian Yemen axis is now the rising hot bed for extremist militants and the US authorities are taking notice. The Yemeni government has tried its best to combat the growing threat of the extremist in the Arabian Peninsula boardering with Somali and the US is steping up their assistance to the Yemeni forces.
Anwar Al-Aulagi Group of Al Quaeda Yemen Recruited Abdulmutallab
US Agencies Did Not Connect The Dots
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Reports from Yemen intelligence intercepts as early as August 2009, when Abdulmutallab arrived in that country, contained plans as well as information about planning by the al-Qaeda branch in Yemen led by Al-Aulagi the radical cleric that somehow connected the unnamed Nigerian. However, all the government agencies, the CIA, the National Security Agency -- in charge of electronic intercepts -- and the State Department and the National Counterterrorism Center, established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did not connect the dots.
No agency checked to find out whether Abdulmutallab had a valid visa to enter the United States following the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria meeting with Abdulmutallabs father last month to express concerns about his sons disappearance and associations in Yemen. Furthermore, electronic intercepts from Yemen indicated that an unnamed Nigerian was being groomed for an al-Qaeda mission, and other communications spoke of plans for a terrorist attack during Christmas, none of this information was flagged in a way that would have linked it to the US Embassy meetings with Abdulmutallabs father in Nigeria. Yemeni American cleric Anwar Al-Aulagi has been named a key figure in grooming Abdulmutallab, and his group in Yemen are most responsible for the attack. President Obama is suppose to get the detailed report on Thursday.
See States Most Americans Are Moving Out From and See Their Destination
There No Point Moving When You Cant Find Job
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Number resident loser is California, with nearly 100,000 more residents leaving than moving in. Newyork lost a quarter million, more people left the state than moved in. Second is New York and remains the decade's biggest loser: The state a total of 1,686,583 residents, more than anywhere else. With unemployment rate of 14.7%, not only is Michigan third highest in the nation for net migration losses, it also has this dubious distinction: 0.88% of the Great Lakes State's nearly 10 million residents left last year, the highest ratio in the nation. Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, Maine and Rhode Island are other states topping the list of states with residents moving out.
Destination number one is Texas.
In the year ended July 1, Texas added more people than any other state, and Wyoming had the highest growth rate in the nation. Nevada, the population has risen 32.27% since the 2000 Census, more than any other state,followed by North Carolina. Wyoming boasted the fastest growth rate for the 12-month period.
We Will Not Rest Until All Yemen Plotters Are Brought To Justice - Obama
Speaking On Al-Quaeda Claiming of Responsibility For Foiled Delta Flight Attempt
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Mr Obama speaking after it emerged a wing of al-Qaeda had claimed the plot for the Delta flight to Detroit. The US president said only the "quick and heroic actions" of passengers and crew had averted disaster. The 23-year-old accused, who is being held at a prison in the US state of Michigan, was restrained while allegedly trying to detonate a high-explosive device sewn in to his underwear. We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, dismantle and defeat violent extremists, President Barack Obama vowed today.
Mr Abdulmutallab is charged with attempting to blow up the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 from Amsterdam, which had nearly 300 people on board, as it made its final descent to Detroit. Mr. Obama said there are others just like him in Yemen who needs to face justice, otherwise they will strike again. There are training more al-Qaeda young men in that country planning to bring down US planes, and we must not rest till they are brought to justice. Mr Obama, speaking at a military base in Hawaii where he has been on holiday with his family, said: "We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable." Mr Obama said the people of America would not give in to fear, but added that its citizens should be vigilant.
Terrorist Umar Mutallab is Name Sake of Ailing Nigerian President
The Country is Locked in a Political Impasse Over His Absence
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President Umar Yar'Adua the sick leader of the country that produced terrorist Umar Abdulmutallab who goes by the same name, has shown no sign of his return from a Saudi Arabian hospital, where he has been for more than one month. Senior opposition politician in Nigeria has begun legal action to try to force the country's sick president to step down on health grounds. President Umar Yar'Adua has been seriously ill in hospital in Saudi Arabia for a month suffering from Churg Strauss Syndrome, an auto immune disease that attacks the blood vessels of major organ like kidney, spleen and the limbs. There is no suprise that Umar Mutallab was able to come from Yemen into Nigeria and on to Amsterdam and Detroit. The debate about the global nature of the world's economy and how certain societies can not be allowed to dwindle in the hands of certain elements were first highlighted by Iraq, then Afghanistan, Pakistan and now a differnt picture is emerging in subsaharan Africa. The question in the west is do you wait and intervene early or should we be wise and monitor these matters well from the outset.
In the meantime, Farouk Adamu Aliyu of the All Nigeria People's Party a leading opposition party in Nigeria, that controls many of the northern states of the country, the sahel part of the country the ailing president hails from and suspected terrorist Umar Mutallab; has asked the Nigerian federal high court to rule whether the president has the capacity to govern. Medical Sources available to TTimes World Report, says President Yar'Adua is suffering from acute pericarditis a complication of the systemic vasculitis associated with Churg Strauss. At this stage, the process is usually difficult. You can not replace the knidney because the problem is systemic, it attacks even the replacing kidney and many organs of the body. The President's condition is poor, normally Pericarditis is a late complication and often a sign of advance progression.
Expert US trained Neprologist from a Washington DC Area hospital have reviewed the current medical history and concluded the President is most likely poorly responsive at this time. Reliable medical reports from Saudia Arabia at this time from undisclosed sources indicates the Nigerian leader though responding to treatment is faced with a massive auto immune disorder that is not expected to heal. Treatment is only palliative and supportive. The President is expected to remain in the Saudian Arabian hospital for quite a while, any attempt to remove him will result in serious decline in his condition. The current complication is a condition of an inflammation of the lining of the heart termed "pericarditis". This itself could be from dirrect invasion of the disease process itself or complication from the multiple long standing dialysis from a failing Kidney or possibly a complication from multiple drug treatments the president have been getting for many months. In any case, pericarditis in Churg Strauss Syndrome is a sign of advance disease and very difficult to reserve at this stage.
Mr Yar'Adua has not formally handed over power and as a result Nigeria is locked in a political impasse.
TTimes World Medical Report would take interview and comments at editor@transatlantictimes.com We are available for interview and our staff Physician experts are also available for comments of this report.
President Obama Order Full Review of US Fly List and Air Security Measures
Need To Avoid Mutallab's Flaw
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Us President Barrack Obama orders a complete review of US No Fly List and air security review after jet bomb attempt by Mr Abdulmutallab the son of a wealthy Nigerian family. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president wanted to know how a man carrying dangerous substance PETN had managed to board a flight in Amsterdam. The system of watch-lists would also be examined after it emerged the man was listed and known to officials.
A US record for 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was created last month. Mr Gibbs told ABC News that the review would examine, firstly, the system of watch-lists used by government agencies, which includes three lists which become progressively shorter as risk increases. The lists include a watch-list, with some 550,000 names on it, a "selectee" list with 18,000 people within the higher-risk category, and a "no-fly" list with 4,000 names of people who are not permitted to board planes. Mr Mutallab was placed on the lowest-risk list by US authorities in November 2009, after his father alerted authorities about the behaviour of his son. "The president has asked that a review be undertaken to ensure that any information gets to where it needs to go, to the people making the decisions.
The president wants to review some of these procedures and see if they need to be updated," he said. Mr Gibbs said "air detection capabilities" would also be examined as part of the review. "The president has asked the Department of Homeland Security to answer the - quite frankly - the very real question about how somebody with something as dangerous as PETN could have gotten onto a plane in Amsterdam." PETN, or pentaerythritol, is the same material used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid who tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001. Abdulmutallab's route originally began in Yemen, from where he travelled to Ethiopia, then to Ghana and finally Nigeria. According to Nigeria's information minister, Mr Abdulmutallab had arrived and flown out of Nigeria in the space of a single day. "The man in question has been living outside the country for a while," said Dora Akunyili. "He sneaked into Nigeria on the 24th of December and left the same day." Nigerian authorities have pledged to co-operate fully with the US investigation.
Attacker May Have Acted Alone - FBI
He Claims He Has Ties To Al-Qaeda in Yemen
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 2009 -- The lone Nigerian passenger who attempted to set off an explosive device on a Delta international flight might have acted alone, said a Federal Bureau of Investigation official on Saturday. The official said the man identified as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, has been "talking a lot" to FBI investigators. He claimed that he has ties with al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that took responsibilities with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and obtained the explosive device and instruction from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. However, on the initial investigation this man investigators believe was most likely acting alone and did not have any formal connections to any terrorist groups.
According to the source, Abdulmutallab departed from Lagos, Nigeria, aboard a KLM flight and took the Delta/Northwest Flight 253, with 278 passengers and 11 crew members on board, at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he did not go through the secondary screening check. With minutes from landing in Michigan around noon on Friday, Abdulmutallab ignited the small explosive device tied to his leg, but caused nothing but some smoke and fire on his own lap. Mr. Mutallab is currently in custody and treated for the second and third-degree burns. The White House has ordered to step up the security checks on the domestic and international flights and the Department of Homeland Security also posted a notice on its website, saying there would be "additional screening measures put into places to ensure the safety of the traveling public on domestic and international flights." Britain security and intelligence authorities have joined in the investigation since Abdulmutallab was confirmed a former student in the University College of London's mechanical engineering department. A prominent Nigerian banker Mr. Mutallab in Lagos, Nigeria told media that his son might be the suspect who attempted to bomb the Delta/Northwest flight and he would cooperate with Nigerian security officials in the investigation.
Tiger Wood's Wife Plan To Divorce is Sure
Wedding Rings Not Seen With Nordegren
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This Christmas holidays may bring a final curtain in the marriage of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, reliable sources close to the golfer's wife tells says "She plans to leave the Tiger." "She's made up her mind. There's nothing to think about: he's never going to change,".
Photos circulated this week, showing Nordegren, 29, pumping gas into her vehicle near the couple's home in Windermere, Fla., last Saturday, also captured the Swedish-born former nanny and mother of two (Sam, 2, and Charlie, 10 months), not wearing her wedding ring.
While the missing band "meant nothing," insists a source, however meeting with high-profile Florida divorce attorneys that are currently working on renegotiating the premarital agreements are well underway. Numerous citing by reports of workers moving large items including works of art out of the couple's home in Windermere, Fla., with Nordegren giving instructions, all points further to the validity of current sources.
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