Police to review Rolling Stones’ guitarist’s death

Police are set to review (note they didn’t say reopen) the “cold case” of Stones guitarist Brian Jones’s death after “the emergence of new evidence.”

In 1969, Jones was deemed to have died “by misadventure” when his body was found at the bottom of a private swimming pool on a farm/estate in East Sussex, U.K.

Click here for NME article.

H/T: Rhetorican.com for the excellent heads up as always

How Khalid Sheikh Mohammed became an asset…

The Washington Post article details how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave “terrorist tutorials” to intelligence officers and even occasionally used a blackboard and scolded any officers with poor note-taking abilities.

Hijackers threatened to blow up Russian-crewed ship

Reuters reports on this new development in the hijacking of the Maltese-registered, Russian-crewed cargo ship off the coast of France.

H/T: Rhetorican.com for the excellent tips as always…

43 indicted on drug trafficking charges in U.S. & Mexico

…including some leaders of prominent drug cartels including Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada-Garcia and Arturo Beltran-Leyva, high level members of the Sinaloa organization. The DOJ, ICE, and DEA filed charges in New York and Chicago today, August 20, 2009.

Click here for Washington Post story

The Hurt Locker…

…was OUTstanding. I just saw it and can’t wait to see it again.  Now one of the great war films not really about war at all. Off topic, I know. Go see it!

Surrounded.

Surrounded.

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