Bangkok: 16 dead, foreigners injured in protests

Sixteen people were killed following violent clashes between troops and anti-government protesters in Thailand’s capital city, Bangkok.
Three foreigners were among the more than 125 people injured, emergency services have said. A French news channel has said one of its cameramen, Nelson Rand of Canada, was gravely wounded while covering the unrest. The other injured foreigners were from Burma and Poland. The country’s defence minister said that the military operation was aimed at pressuring the leaders of the Red Shirts to return to negotiations. He said troops sealed off all routes leading to the Red Shirts rally site at the Ratchaprasong intersection, in the retail heart of Bangkok, and cleared protesters from another area of the city. Thailand’s fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra called on the countrys government to pull back troops and restart negotiations with his Red Shirt supporters. Police fired tear gas at protesters as troops advanced on the Red Shirts’ main camp. Dozens of Red Shirts set up the checkpoint in an attempt to stop soldiers from approaching their main camp in central Bangkok. The shooting coincided with a government effort to seal off the protest site by cutting power and blocking roads. As part of the operation the army warned it would deploy snipers. The fresh violence came after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shelved plans to hold early elections in November because the protesters refused to disperse.

Kathy Gloddy,Michael Oher Football Player

Kathy Gloddy,Michael Oher Football Player: The ABC News magazine 20/20 will bring national eyes to the November 1971 unsolved murder of Kathy Lynn Gloddy , the 13-year-old girl who was beaten, raped, hit over the head, and run over by a car at least four times and left on a logging road. Kathy Lynn’s family has never given up the hope that those responsible for the brutal murder of their youngest sister would be brought to justice

Kathy Gloddy,Michael Oher Football Player:The ABC News magazine 20/20 will bring national eyes to the November 1971 unsolved murder of Kathy Lynn Gloddy, the 13-year-old girl who was beaten, raped, hit over the head, and run over by a car at least four times and left on a logging road.

Kathy Lynn’s family has never given up the hope that those responsible for the brutal murder of their youngest sister would be brought to justice.

“We are excited that 20/20 has chosen to take on Kathy’s case,” remarked Janet Gloddy Young, one of Kathy’s three sisters. “We are hoping through continued media exposure and through the creation of the Kathy Lynn Gloddy Reward Fund we will be able to find some answers and peace for our family.

News crews spent some time in Franklin filming the area off Webster Road where Kathy Lynn’s body was found and taping the candlelight and daisy vigil family and friends held for Kathy Lynn this past summer.

In addition, retired Massachusetts Police Chief and Detective Thomas Shamshak has been helping the family not only with their search for justice but with their efforts to create and fund the first-ever cold-case unit in the state.

After the Gloddy sisters spent months testifying in both the state Senate and the N.H. House of Representatives, Gov. John D. Lynch signed the New Hampshire Cold Case unit into law in the Governor and Council’s room with the family invited as special guests.

The murder investigation has taken a number of twists and turns recently, most notably when elderly Florida resident Ernest Dukette went into a police department and said he believed he was with Kathy Lynn when she died but could not remember if he had raped her.

Although Dukette later recanted his statements, saying he was ill and confused from various medications he was taking, New Hampshire authorities reopened the case and exhumed Kathy Lynn’s body in hopes modern DNA mapping techniques could be used to either confirm or deny his statements.

Dukette died in August at Old Town, Fla., and never spoke another public word about Kathy Lynn and what he may have known about her murder.

Kathy Lynn’s brother, Roger, now living in Colorado, has said Dukette had a reputation for drinking and being rough with women.

While Dukette took his secrets to the grave with him, Senior Assistant State Attorney Will Delker said the case would continue to be open and his investigators had reason to believe that more than one person was involved in Kathy Lynn’s murder.

The last night of Kathy Lynn’s life, the young athlete, poet, and conservationist took her German Shepherd out for a walk and stopped by a variety store for ice cream and a can of potato sticks — her favorites. She never made it back to her home. more info

Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum,Lunatic Asylum

Ghost adventures live and Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum . On this Halloween festival there could have been no better television show to celebrate the occasion that the Ghost Adventure on Travel Channel. The Ghost Adventure guys go to long abandoned houses, churches, factories and similar places to hunt down ghosts.I am sure they and other similar shows will shut shops if they ever come in contact with a Ghost

Ghost adventures live and Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. On this Halloween festival there could have been no better television show to celebrate the occasion that the Ghost Adventure on Travel Channel. The Ghost Adventure guys go to long abandoned houses, churches, factories and similar places to hunt down ghosts.I am sure they and other similar shows will shut shops if they ever come in contact with a Ghost. The drama is enacted because there aint no ghosts around. But till they appear really or take over our screens, the drama must continue.

Ghost Adventures is a one-hour weekly American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 17, 2008, on the Travel Channel.

The program features ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, who investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The show is based on a 2006 documentary film.

The Sci-Fi Channel presented 4Reel Productions’ Ghost Adventures: The Documentary Film in 2006. The documentary centers on Bagans, Groff, and Goodwin’s investigation into alleged paranormal activity in Virginia City, Nevada.

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: The first thing that strikes most visitors to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is its massive size. Constructed between 1858 and 1881, the main structure is 1,296 feet long, consists of 4 floors, 9 acres of floor space, 921 windows and 906 doors. The asylum is considered the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America and the second-largest in the world after the Kremlin.

Located in central West Virginia, the asylum appears to be nestled in the great green Appalachian Mountains, its imposing facade just across the West Fork River serving as the backdrop for the small town of Weston.

Karachi Police Arrests 40 Foreign Suspects

KARACHI: At least 40 more suspected foreigners including 31 Afghans have been arrested during a raid in the Orangi town area of Karachi, DawnNews reported. Sources say no weapons have been recovered in the raids and the suspects will be charged under the Foreigners Act for not producing valid documents pertaining to their stay in Pakistan. The suspects deny any militant links and further investigations are underway

KARACHI: At least 40 more suspected foreigners including 31 Afghans have been arrested during a raid in the Orangi town area of Karachi, DawnNews reported.

Sources say no weapons have been recovered in the raids and the suspects will be charged under the Foreigners Act for not producing valid documents pertaining to their stay in Pakistan.

The suspects deny any militant links and further investigations are underway.

The number of arrests in Karachi since Thursday has risen to 108.

Earlier, 62 foreigners were arrested from various seminaries in the city during police raids.

Senior police officials have told DawnNews that so far a total of 59 Afghan nationals and 3 Tajik nationals have been arrested from various areas of the metropolis.

US Drone Strike in Bajaur, 14 killed

KHAR, Pakistan: US Drone Strike in Bajaur, 14 killed, Fourteen people were killed in U.S. drone attack Damadolla in the area of the Bajaur tribal region on Saturday, sources said.

According to sources in political administration of the guided missile Damadolla in the area near the home of Taliban leader Moulvi Faqeer that killed 14 people. The death toll may increase.

Some foreigners were also among the dead, the sources said.

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US Drone Strike in Bajaur, 14 killed was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm.