BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Anna Loginova, Russia's most famous and glamorous female bodyguard, has been killed in Moscow while trying to defend her Porsche Cayenne from a hijacker, media reported.
Loginova, also a former model and the head of a private security firm, on Sunday tried to fight off the carjacker and clung to the door handle. She was killed after being dragged along the street at high speed as the car screeched away.
"She suffered serious injuries and died at the scene," said a police spokesman.
Loginova was a famous Russian model before venturing into the security business and had shot advertising campaigns for BMW, Chanel and other world-known brands.
She took lessons of Jiu-Jitsu martial art and mastered the sword handling. Afterwards, she opened her own security firm for women.
In a recent magazine interview, she insisted that she and her team of glamorous bodyguards gave better protection than the more traditional beefy male security men.
"I do think that a girl should be a girl, not a Terminator," she said. She posed semi-naked for a Moscow men's magazine to make it clear that she was feminine as well as good with a gun.
Allah Akbar
ReplyDeleteBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives Friday and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control, a top Iraqi government official said.
The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets on the holiest day of the week for Muslims, authorities said.
In both bombings, the attackers were mentally disabled women whose explosive belts were remotely detonated, Gen. Qasim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad's security plan, told state television.
An aide to Atta said that people referred to the bomber at central Baghdad's al-Ghazl market as the "crazy woman" and that the bomber at a second market had an unspecified birth disability. Watch how bombers target large crowds »
The nationalities and identities of the women have not been released.
U.S. military officials referred to the two attacks as suicide bombings, saying both women detonated the explosive devices. The U.S. attributed the attacks to al Qaeda in Iraq and made no reference to the mental conditions of the women.
"By targeting innocent Iraqis, they show their true demonic character," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, spokesman for the Multi-National Division-Baghdad.
"They care nothing for the Iraqi people; they want to subjugate them and forcefully create a greater Islamic sharia state," he said, referring to Islamic law.
One bomb blew up at al-Ghazl animal market around 10:30 a.m., killing 69 and wounding more than 140.
The second blast happened about a half-hour later in the New Baghdad neighborhood pet market, killing 29 people and wounding 67.
Al-Ghazl pet market is a popular destination where people buy and sell cats, dogs, monkeys and other animals. Attackers have struck the market on Fridays -- its busiest day -- several times in the last year or so.
A January 2007 bombing killed 15 and wounded 52 at the pet market, and 13 people died and 58 were wounded in a November attack.
The violence, the bloodiest series of attacks in the capital since August, broke a brief stretch of relative calm as attacks and deaths dropped at the time of the 2007 increase in U.S. troop strength known as the surge.
On Thursday, a parked car exploded in a predominantly Shiite district in the Iraqi capital, killing five civilians and wounding eight others, the Interior Ministry said.
The attack occurred after a string of roadside bombings that wounded 21 people, ministry said. In one, a bomb near the deputy minister of electricity's convoy wounded at least five people.
Also Thursday, a spokesman for the Polish military said Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of October.
October 31 will be the last day of the Polish presence in Iraq, Maj. Dariusz Kacperczyk said in Warsaw.
New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to bring troops home from Iraq, where the country has been one of the larger contingents apart from the United States and Britain.
About 900 Polish troops are in Iraq, with most in Diwaniya, some in Baghdad and others in the southern city of Kut. Twenty-two soldiers from Poland have died during the nearly 5-year war in Iraq.
The report provides no detail on the affiliation of the attackers even though their identity is known. The report provides no detail on affiliation of the victims even though their identity is known. We know nothing about who might be behind the attack and the motivation behind it. Suicide attacks don't happen out of thin air. The only thing to do with this garbage is to file it as just another CNN propaganda report.
ReplyDeletereferring to a comment from Ash on the abortion post:
ReplyDeleteAsh said:
"Death Penalty loving pro torture pro lifers."
Ash, you really amaze me. let me take your sentence apart:
Death penalty loving: Has is occurred to you that those who support the death penalty, do so as punishment for the most heinous of crimes. It is a preventive measure. That hardly means they love the death penalty. In fact society has proven a great reluctance to use it. That comment is sophistry.
Pro torture: In favor of torture for what purpose? If I carry a gun, it is not because I want to kill somebody. It is because I do not want somebody to kill me. I am by nature quite pacific, but I also have a high instinct to survive and am not afraid to kill to stop someone from killing me. If torture is necessary to save life, then it is a price that needs to be paid to prevent a worse price than will be paid by not using torture. Many cancer patients torture themselves with chemo and radiation to ensure their survival. It is painful, temporary and necessary, even if it leaves you with permanent damage.
pro life_ Can you not look at that picture and come to the conclusion that you would rather see that little girl alive and get her full measure of life?
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ReplyDeleteI don't find her that good looking, frankly.
ReplyDeleteThere is little evidence to suggest that the death penalty deters killings. In addition you have innocent folk who have been wrongly convicted. On the face of it it appears hypocritical to want to protect the life of the unborn yet urge the killing of others. In each case there is a cost - either to the mother through carrying the child to full term and society by housing the convicted killer.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is a poor argument to try to stipulate where life begins and picking a particular point is arbitrary. It is a life that is taken in an abortion. We also remove injured and sickly people from life support systems. We are ending a life by removing a person from the life support system, similarly we are ending a life by removing a fetus from it's life support system. As we defer the decision to remove an older person from life support to the family and medical personnel so too should we defer to the same people with the fetus and not leave it to the a broad case based governmental legislation.
Torture to protect. You have a tough argument to make to justify the efficacy of torture in gaining useful knowledge that protects. Man, especially when frightened, has done many a terrible unjustified thing trying to protect himself. Just because he is afraid does not make it right. I am surprise that you still believe the State should torture in order to extract information it deems useful, especially given your distrust of the federal government in other walks of life. You have no problem, I guess with the Iranians using torture, or the Syrians, or the Chinese, or anyone else for that matter? Just a reasonable response when a state wants to protect its subjects?
*whooooooooosh*
ReplyDeleteSHOCK THERAPY
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to, Cutler, she's deaad.
ReplyDelete...unless you're into...
(I had a Sr moment trying to remember
ReplyDelete"necrophilia")
Maybe I'll find a young chick that's hot for Alzheimer's patients and they'll name a condition after us.
ReplyDeleteHell of a lot more people killed by released killers than by accidental death penalty, Ash.
ReplyDelete...and the DETERENT EFFECT IS LOST
when punishment rather than being swift, is delayed for decades.
The Bush Presidency makes most forms of torture seem like a walk in the park for conservative patriots.
ReplyDeleteRehabilitates the Clintons.
ReplyDeletePrescription Drugs.
Illegal Invasion.
Bloated Socialist Govt.
Corrupt Cronyism.
Inept prosecution of war.
etc
etc
etc
Margaret, are you grieving
ReplyDeleteOver Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, líke the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow’s springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
–Gerard Manley Hopkins
"McCain will nominate his 95 years old mother for voice president"
ReplyDeletePeterBoston said...
ReplyDelete"The body count from Islamist murder is in the hundreds of thousands across the globe.
But not to worry.
The Democrat debate before the national primary says that no problem exists.
Neither Hilary nor Barack uttered a single word about Islamism.
It is not a foreign policy issue.
It is not a domestic issue.
It is not a moral issue.
It is not a philosophical issue.
Islamist murders do not exist."
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I wasn't prepared for the shit that would rain down if I mentioned this is all true for the present administration, so I remained silent other than to congratulate Peter on his list.
Fred said...
ReplyDelete"These things are becoming all-too-commonplace these days. Just another example of the "peace" coming from the religion of pieces. I'm almost afraid to say more about what I truly think, since our resident dhimmi "ash" will make his entrance and find some other way to fit my comments into his extensive reading of Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Needless to say, apparently I have no moral authority to speak about these matters. You see, I am opposed to "the religion of peace" and so any means to achieve my silence are justified on the grounds that I am an ugly Islamophobe lacking all intellectual subtlety."
Classic Fred!
I HAVE to attract some shit throwers tho, and vent:
ReplyDeleteEmployment of illegal slave labor is not a problem either, not for inner city Blacks, the job market as a whole, or the country.
Nor are the murders, rapes, drugs, and mayhem on the freeways that comes with the unrestrained invasion.
Nor the ruined schools, cheated students, closed hospitals...
I could go on.
Viva McCain-Kennedy!
Snipes beat the IRS. What a deal, he walks. People must be sick of the IRS is all I can figure, though his lawyer was arguing he was the victim of unscrupulous 'accountants'.
ReplyDeleteWhere was the trial?
ReplyDeleteJury nullification?
ReplyDeleteHope springs eternal:
ReplyDeleteI ain't giving up, Mitts far from perfect but far from being as bad as MacHillObama.
Romney's Conference Call-Hewitt
Read Geraghty's account.
Very interesting on many levels. The campaign is far from over. In fact, there's a turning underway. The prospect of an embarrassed MSM is a side-benefit to defending the Reagan agenda by supporting Romney.
I'm lookin' Doug, just saw athe headline.
ReplyDeleteTrial was in Ocala.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to be a story about the verdict yet--latest I could find--
ReplyDeleteOCALA, Fla. -- An Ocala jury has gone home without reaching a verdict in the tax evasion trial of Wesley Snipes.
Thursday was the second full day of deliberations for the jury consisting of five men and seven women. Deliberations will resume Friday morning.
Snipes and two co-defendants are accused of fraud and conspiracy. The government says the three conspired to illegally ask for millions of dollars in refunds of taxes they had already paid. In addition, Snipes is charged with failing to file federal returns for several years.
Snipes' lawyers have said he was the victim of bad financial advice and was sincere in the belief that he didn't have to pay the government anything. But at trial, the defense rested without calling a witness, claiming the government didn't meet its burden of proof in the case.
Hey, that AP Breaking News Quick Search produces results. Snipes verdict tory.
ReplyDeleteA week ago I visited my favorite professor from undergraduate. Had him for 3-4 classes and talked philosophy/politics/history with him, so he knew me well. I'd visited him before and everything had been alright. I was a little worried this time because I'd sent him letters and not gotten a response, he's 75.
ReplyDeleteHe was there at his house, but it was clear he longer remembered who I was. I found out that he'd recently had a stroke in the middle of class and then carried on as if nothing'd happened. Apparently it blew away what was left of his short-term (4-5 years) memory, however. Depressing event, altogether.
There is little evidence to suggest that the death penalty deters killings.
ReplyDeleteProbably less to prove it doesn't.
In addition you have innocent folk who have been wrongly convicted.
This is a good argument against.
On the face of it it appears hypocritical to want to protect the life of the unborn yet urge the killing of others. In each case there is a cost - either to the mother through carrying the child to full term and society by housing the convicted killer.
This is amazing, comparing incarceration to a pregnancy.
We also remove injured and sickly people from life support systems. We are ending a life by removing a person from the life support system, similarly we are ending a life by removing a fetus from it's life support system.
This doesn't even deserve comment, just notice.
Bobal,
ReplyDeletePregnancy/birth has it's cost ranging from loss of life of the mother to social condemnation - say a pregnant 14 year old in a conservative society.
One of Duece arguments was that with technology we can prolong a premature babies chances of living. That is life support. Similarly the uterus is a life support system for the fetus. Can you not see some parallels to the rationale used to allow the elderly, the sick, and the injured to be taken of life support and allowed to die? In our society we choose to allow death, even kill, for a variety of reasons. Allowing a fetus to die by denying it life support is not that different from allowing an older person from dieing by denying them life support.
Poland and USA Reach Deal On Missile Shield
ReplyDeletePregnancy/birth has it's cost ranging from loss of life of the mother to social condemnation - say a pregnant 14 year old in a conservative society.
ReplyDeleteGo see Juno which reflects our society today, she wasn't ostracized. Though there was an easier, simpler solution, she chose the harder road. Or, rather, what to many might seem the harder road, but to her was the easier, more natural. You're going to have to look hard for social condemnation of anything, these days.
is not that different from allowing an older person from dieing by denying them life support.
Progress has been made from an equivalence, to not that different.
sure they are different and not equivalent but they are not different in kind.
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ReplyDeleteBefore I forget,
ReplyDeleteA Zinger = IS = a Twinkie, with frosting on it.
That's what my daughter tells me.
Another way of looking at it is,
ReplyDeleteA Twinkie = IS = a Zinger, but without the frosting.
That's to say, they are different, and not equivalent, but they are not different in kind.
ReplyDelete"Allowing a fetus to die by denying it life support is not that different from allowing an older person from dieing by denying them life support."
ReplyDeleteThis sums up everything that Ash is in an argument. Fsck it. We don't need to explain something more to explain something more. Ash is now on my permanent ignore list.
elijah,
ReplyDeleteremoving the fetus from the mother is removing the fetus' life support.
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ReplyDeleteThis is cool:
ReplyDeleteDeuce is shuffling the lead post like banner ads!