Myanmar minorities suffer abuses despite reforms (AP)

Afghan Taliban 'have loya jirga security plan'

Afghan Government rejects the claim, saying "false" are documents Taliban attempt to intimidate participants in conversations

The Afghan Taliban say they have acquired security plans for the next national meeting, a request that the government has dismissed as a ploy to intimidate participants.

The Taliban boasted on its website that it had obtained maps and documents to enable them to launch precision attacks on traditional Afghan Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly, to be held this month in the capital. The petition alleged that he obtained the security plans insurgents embedded within the government.

Previously, the Taliban has warned that his fighters should focus on each person involved in the jirga, which was held to discuss the future of the United States in Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement and reconciliation efforts with the Taliban.

a copy of the message to the Taliban was released Sunday night by SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. organization that monitors extremist websites.

Afghan officials have strongly rejected the request. "It is not our plan," said a spokesman for the intelligence service, Latifullah Mashal on Monday. "The plan that we have developed - and we have seen - is 100% different from that which was sent to the media."

He said the Afghan security forces have arrested insurgents trying to infiltrate the capital and import explosives. "The security plan that we have developed has been very successful so far are based on a kind of psy-ops," said Mashal. "They send messages to warn people not to take part and they send fake project safety plans for the media."

• Loya
• last, in June 2010, the Taliban fired rockets and gunfire interrupted the opening speech of President Hamid Karzai.

Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests fired at the tent now 1,500 dignitaries, lawmakers and civil society activists, triggering a battle with security forces that killed at least two militants. Three civilians, but no delegates, were wounded.

In addition, the U.S. military said a man captured during an operation in eastern Afghanistan nearly three weeks died in police custody.
Central Command said the detainee had been receiving medical care since he was taken Oct. 25 in Kunar province. No details on their injuries or illnesses. He was detained in a detention center in Bagram, north of Kabul airport nearby.

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Republican candidate hit by third allegation of harassing women

Herman Cain, who led the polls for the presidential nomination, accused of "inappropriate behavior" towards former employee

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has suffered another setback Wednesday when a third woman complained about his alleged behavior towards female staff.

The indictment follows a new full day in which Cain, trying to move forward with a program of planned campaign as usual, showed signs of stress , closer to losing his cool with reporters chasing pack.

Although the latest opinion poll is 30%, well ahead of his nearest rival, Mitt Romney, 23%, in the battle for the presidential nomination of the party, was taken primarily front row had developed. There is no evidence yet whether support for him began to flow.

But the incessant drip of revelations about alleged sexual harassment and failure to maintain a single version of events completely stopped campaign. He had hoped to spend three days in the Washington DC area to get his message on jobs, health and other issues.

however, was harassed by journalists Politico reported Sunday on complaints of two women on their behavior while working at the National Restaurant Association, where he was a Managing Director in late 1990. Apparently reached financial settlements in exchange for signing confidentiality agreements.

A third employee said the former Associated Press on Wednesday that he had also examined a complaint of what she described as aggressive behavior and suspected adverse reactions. The employee, who requested anonymity, saying he feared reprisals, said that Cain had invited him to his apartment outside of business hours.

The issue is unlikely to die quickly. A lawyer for one of the first two women, Joel Bennett, was to confer with his client on the night of Wednesday to discuss the submission of a request from the Restaurant Association to release her promise of silence. Bennett said his client did not agree with Cain story.

• The woman may not be willing to give up their status and direct anonymous Bennett not follow. But if you do, Cain will face a dilemma.
will be under pressure to agree to raise the partnership agreement that forces women to remain silent. So far he has refused to say whether he is ready to do so.

After a campaign event in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday, a major militant generally become reporters, telling them not to bother asking about the sexual allegations. When a reporter shouted a question, Cain said: "What did I say Sorry Sorry?"..

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Campaign reports show disparity among GOP (AP)

Iranian lashed 74 times for 'insult' to Ahmadinejad

Peyman Aref is whipped activist

hours before the release of a year in prison "unprecedented" punishment

An Iranian student activist has been lashed 74 times for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Peyman Aref

, a political science student at Tehran University, was sentenced in March 2010 to a year in prison after being convicted of propaganda against the regime of speaking to foreign media.

Aref, who was arrested following the disputed presidential elections in Iran in 2009, was also sentenced to 74 lashes for writing an "insulting" letter to Ahmadinejad and given the lifetime ban from exercising journalism or membership of a political party.

his sentence ended Sunday, but a few hours before his departure from Evin prison in Tehran, Aref was told the lashing would be carried out.

A masked prison guard carried out the lashing in presence of Aref woman and Iranian judiciary officials. News referral came just weeks after Somayeh Tohidlou, Iranian blogger and activist, former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, was sentenced to a "symbolic" lashing for the same crime.

Unlike Tohidlou symbolic punishment - designed to humiliate rather than harm - Aref was indeed whipped. Pictures taken after his release show his bloodied back covered in injuries.

• "tie people sentenced to various charges, called alcohol is common in Iran but political activists are often plagued by accusations that ambiguous desecrating Islam or prophets," an Iranian journalist based in Tehran who asked not to be identified. "Aref for insulting Ahmadinejad tie is shocking and unprecedented."

In a letter to the president during his election campaign in 2009, Aref attacked Ahmadinejad for his crackdown against students who were politically active in college and was forbidden to continue their studies.

College students and the students who had criticized the government were given to three "penalty points", according to the potential threat was said. Aref was one of the "favorites" of three graduate students who are not allowed to continue their studies. About 150 were crushed.

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Samsung to Ship Galaxy Note II in Time for Holiday Shopping Season

Samsung plans to launch its Galaxy Note II mid-November, with five major companies, the mobile phone manufacturer announced today. Pricing and availability details depends on each airline announced on their free time, but on the positive side, if you had the Galaxy Note II on your radar, you can go ahead and put it on my list hours vacation, if you are a AT & T

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Filmmaker Using BitTorrent & TopSpin To Distribute Free Copies Of Older Movie To Promote New Skateboarding Documentary

Skater and filmmaker (often focusing on their skate movies) Stacy Peralta is launching its latest documentary skateboard Bones Brigade: An Autobiography , about the Bones Brigade skate crew - Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill and Tommy Guerrero - who helped assemble Peralta in the first place. Instead of taking the traditional route with the film (as it has done several times, even with the pad acclaimed documentary

Dogtown and Z-Boys

) Peralta decided to go directly to the fans. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year when he got a little attention and a lot of opportunities to go with the traditional distribution partners, but Peralta decided it was time to take control and noted that ethics Supplies direct-to-fan is similar to how evolved skateboarding in the early days:

As skaters, as people who have lived abroad, have always had to sneak into the fence or the back door, have always had to create our own ground that "I decided to put this ethic to the release of" Bones Brigade:. Autobiography "We reject all deals conventional distribution when we left the party in favor of doing it ourselves.

Part of this is that the DIY approach to promote the new movie Peralta was associated with BitTorrent and TopSpin to help distribute digital direct-to-fan and promotion. Via BitTorrent, users can download a 'package Bones Brigade ", including many extras, then use a function TopSpin (either on the web or directly in the client uTorrent), if you send your e-mail, you can download a copy of the movie totally free skate classic

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, which was published 25 years ago, and included members of the Bones Brigade. therefore the combined effort of Animal Chin Bones Brigade documentary is "Full Circle" situation.

is great to see more filmmakers really understand both directly to the fan, but also realize that things are not as bad BitTorrent automatically, but they have their place in a marketing campaign. In this case, it is interesting to see Peralta using a combination of different tools to create a comprehensive and integrated campaign not only commercialize the new film, but also to spread the old film (the first time it is officially available in digital format). Oh, and if you want to download Research Chin animals

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