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Trial in Oregon's alleged Christmas bomb plot to turn on 'entrapment'
At the trial for Mohamed Osman Mohamud in Portland, Ore. — which began with jury selection on Thursday — no one is expected to dispute these chilling facts: The Somali-born teen tried to set off an explosion that was meant to rip through a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the city center on Nov. 26, 2010.
|"Oregonians take tremendous
pride in being different,
independent. They have the
ability to question authority,"
said Sherlag. "They are willing to
say 'prove it'."
The deliberations will focus on how Mohamud came to that decisive moment, when he was arrested using what turned out to be a fake detonator for fake explosives, part of a federal sting operation.
The defense will argue "entrapment" — that the federal agents lured the teen, who was 18 when they first contacted him — into a violent plot that he would not have been inclined to pursue on his own. Legal experts say this is essentially a Hail Mary pass — a legal argument extremely hard to win — but some factors in this case, including the defendant's youth, could give the strategy a chance of success.
"The entrapment defense is that the person's independent will was overborn by the suggestion or manipulation of the government," said Kenneth Lerner, a criminal defense attorney and former federal public defender in Portland. "The government has to show that the person was willing to do it. That's the tension."
In many ways, Mohamud's case resembles others in which U.S. citizens or residents, apparently inspired by radical websites, have tried to carry out attacks, only to be arrested in a sting featuring undercover agents or informers posing as terrorists or their liaisons.
A 36-page government affidavit says the FBI agents' arranged a first meeting with Mohamud in July 2010, after he had suspicious email exchanges with a militant Islamist in northwest Pakistan. The document said the FBI believes Mohammad was trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to travel to the region to train for "violent jihad."
It says that when the undercover agent, posing as a contact with the militant and referred to as UCE1, asked what Mohamud was willing to do for "the cause," Mohamud chose violence:
"UCE1 told Mohamud that there were a number of ways that he could help, ranging from simply praying five times a day to becoming a martyr. MOHAMUD said that he wanted to become 'operational.' Asked to elaborate, MOHAMUD stated he thought of putting an explosion together but that he needed help doing so."
In a later meeting with two agents, Mohamud proposes the Christmas tree lighting ceremony as a target for an attack, according to the document.
"The undercover agent pointed out that there would be lots of children at such an event, to which MOHAMUD replied he was looking for a 'huge mass that will … be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.'"
And later still, he asserted that he wanted everyone to leave the ceremony "dead or wounded," according to the document.
The meetings culminated with Mohamud dialing a number into a cell phone that he believed would ignite a van full of explosives parked at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square as thousands of people gathered there.
The "car bomb" provided by agents was not operational, authorities reassured the public later.
Mohamud, now 21, was arrested and charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction, which carries a potential life sentence.
The defense is likely to stress Mohamud's lack of maturity when he was first approached by agents shortly after high school graduation.
Mixed picture
A recent profile of Mohamud by The Associated Press suggests he was not as single-minded that the person described in the affidavit.
He entered college at Oregon State University just months before the would-be attack, taking on pre-engineering classes. While he was exploring radical interpretations of his religion, Islam, and decrying the U.S. military presence in Muslim countries, he went to parties where he was said to enjoy drinking gin, socialized with a range of students, including a group of guys who played video games and the trading-card game "Magic: The Gathering," the AP report said, citing Mohamud's friends and acquaintances.
Mohamud is a naturalized U.S. citizen who came with his mother came to the country as a refugee when he was 5. His parents were reunited, but later divorced.
In pre-trial testimony, it emerged that Mohamud's father, Osman Barre, an engineer in Portland, reported his son to the FBI in August 2009, saying that he was afraid his son was being "brainwashed" by extremists.
The defense team, led by attorney Steve Sady, is expected to paint a picture of Mohamud as vulnerable to manipulation — not just by the actual terrorists but by the federal agents.
"Here's a kid who is at a time in life when things are a little mixed up. He's trying separate from his family and establish his own identity, perhaps to understand his religion, trying to understand Americas' role in the world and what they are doing in Muslim countries …," said Lerner, the former federal public defender.
"Mohamud was a very young, very impressionable kid… at the time the police approached him," said Steve Sherlag, a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in Portland. "I would explore and exploit that to the greatest extent possible."
Missing recording
The defense is also likely to highlight the fact that the FBI does not have an audio recording of the initial meeting between Mohamud and the FBI agent, because of reported technical difficulties. Subsequent meetings, in which Mohamud expressed his determination to kill people, were recorded.
The absence of that first recording could dent the prosecution's case that Mohamud was predisposed to commit a violent attack, says Sherlag.
"That is the crux of the entrapment case," he said, referring to that initial conversation. "It's very indicative of who he was when they government sting operation began. Who was he before the government started putting ideas in his mind?"
Talking to reporters shortly after Mohamud's arrest, Attorney General Eric Holder said he confident that an entrapment defense would not be successful in the case.
"There were… a number of opportunities that the subject in this matter, the defendant in this matter, was given to retreat, to take a different path," he said. "He chose at every step to continue."
Samuel Rascoff, assistant professor at New York University School of Law, says that the legal standard for proving coercion in a case like this is extremely strict, and rarely sticks, even when it involves young offenders.
"The law only favors those people who can successfully show that they were not predisposed to want to carry out such an attack and would never have done so without active official involvement," said Rascroff. "On the other hand, this is probably someone who in the absence of the FBI probably wouldn't have gotten to the point of blowing up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. But that does not constitute entrapment within the meaning of the law."
Ultimately, it comes down to the jury, which is now being selected. Some experts have suggested that the panel in Oregon may be more critical than average of FBI tactics and any missteps.
"Oregonians take tremendous pride in being different, independent. They have the ability to question authority," said Sherlag. "They are willing to say 'prove it'."
But even with a strong entrapment defense, a skeptical jury will be challenged to set aside the horrific plot that Mohamud imagined he was carrying out.
"The idea of blowing up the square packed with families the day after Thanksgiving during an event for Christmas — it is highly emotional," Sherlag said. "That is going to be very hard to defuse."
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Writing a more detailed version of this mock for the network I work for...
But here's how my draft is taking shape right now.
#1 Tampa Bay...
Got the invite, accepted it.
Gotta find the rest of the crackheads and get this going.
Hey Venom,
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Can it please be earlier, I can't do 2 yahoo drafts at the exact same time.
I'd prefer Tuesday to Monday, I have another draft on Monday with a lot of $$ on the line.
Jeremy Hill, RB, Cincy and I will keep him.
Are we doing a live draft or board draft? Need to know ASAP. Sorry I don't get much time to check in anymore..
so I haven't really kept up on all...
Wait, we don't need to keep 5? I'm very unclear on what's going on here.
Just give me Peterson, Manning and Lynch, if NOT retaining keepers helps us...
Peyton Manning, QB DEN
Adrian Peterson, RB MIN
Marshawn Lynch, RB SEA
DeSean Jackson, WR WSH
Dwayne Bowe, WR KC
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Marshawn Lynch on the block for a WR1 and a RB2
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'Yotes Notes: Sullivan hat trick leads Coyotes to first win of the season
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The Good:
The Coyotes finally got in the win column with a 5-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets Wednesday night at Jobing.com Arena. They got some scoring from newcomer Steve Sullivan, he recorded a hat trick with three goals on the night. Oliver Ekman-Larsson also got in on the action with two goals and an assist. The 'Yotes are now 1-2 on the season.
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Ground/Space Skillpoints... any Ballance here?
I'm just thinking...
this game is basically split into two major parts, Ground and Space.
So why is it that we can spent all the skillpoints we get freely into only one of them?
Most People will just hammer every point they get into Space and ignore Ground as long as possible (it's not like the Away Missions would be hard with bad skills and even if so, you can just respawn as often as you want without any penalty).
In the long run you may have one Char that is maxed out for Space and another that is maxed for Ground-PvP. (yeah sure if i would go through that Miranda hassle a third time because of Ground skills!?)
....uhmm ok i will probably never want to waste a Charslot on a Ground Char anyway.
Split those Skillpoints into proper Ground- and Space-Skilltrees (yes TREEs, not random Boxes, think Diablo 2!) and you will only need one charslot to have a decent Space AND Ground char.
I guess most people will not care about Ground PvP because we all care about our Ships most and Ground-PvP will suffer badly because of this... only to end up to be some casual shooting fest without any people realy specialising in it... and the few who against all odd's still specialise in Ground PvP will be bored to death by all the casual Space Captains without properly thought out Skills.
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June 7th, 2010 #1
Big Bad Wolfmans Gallery
Hi all, welcome to my gallery.
From Dec 2008 I decided to teach myself Art Foundation and encourage my dreams to develop of one day working as a Conceptual Illustrator in game and film production.
Until then, I`ll enjoy entertaining and hopefully inspire others with my personal work.
Hope you enjoy my gallery.
The New World
Spanish sailing ships venture down the watery avenues of Times Square, New York and discover The New World.
I wanted to create a matte painting depicting an alternative moment Christopher Columbus discovers The New World.
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June 10th, 2010 #2
i like it- its a cool image-
i do however think u should take an atmosphere pass on some of those buildings - at the moment everything seems a bit flat and on the same level.....just knock the buildings back a bit.........
in the distance and near the ships with a 12% opacity white pass with an airbrush in photoshop.
also there seems to be an issue with that right hand ship and the chevy building there..... just so many linear lines to close to each other...the atmosphere pass might clear it up a bit...but i might still change the angle slightly on that ship
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June 10th, 2010 #3
wow... that's amazing.... very cool
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June 11th, 2010 #4
Very nice. I like the sunlight hitting the tops of the buildings. Overall great atmosphere.
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Hey guys, sorry for taking sometime to reply...
Charles Ratteray: Hey man, thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I am starting to see some issues that I'm not 100% happy with. I was a little blind before to any problems, no doubt because I had worked on it for so long. Your suggestions I'll take onboard when I get around to making any reworkings.
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July 1st, 2010 #6
A Storm Rising
This is my entry for the IFX Monthly Challenge: A Storm Rising.
My idea for the challenge? The world awakens to a massive ring shaped UFO (ringworld) that completely encompasses our entire planet- First Contact on a global scale.
This is the moment when unmanned drones are launched for surveillance operations.
I wish I had more time to play with it, though thats the beauty of deadlines- submit what you've got and learn from it.
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Just under 2 weeks.
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July 1st, 2010 #7
^^This would make a great Air Force poster. It's not Science Fiction, it's what we do everyday. lol. Nice work.
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute...."-Kipling
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July 21st, 2010 #9
The Arena of Archduke Norkledder
My entry for s New Worlds challenge entitled "Arena".
I had this finished pretty quickly- 3-4 days or around 25 hours.
Textures/stock from cgtextures and Marcus Ranum aka mjranum-stock.
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wow !
lovin the vision on those last three...inspiring !
man the atmosphere on the last one with the buildings makes them them look and feel gigantic!
keep em comin
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Great visionary stuff.
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I'll keep you on watch, man. This is really good stuff---I suggest you flip the painting around a lot---dont know if you do that or not, but it helps me find areas that need more touching up that i wouldn't have noticed before. Keep going!
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August 26th, 2010 #16
Yeah, I flip my paintings around a lot more now than I ever did. Once I finish something though, I pretty much like to call it done. No paintings perfect and past paintings can serve in the same manner as sketchbooks do- they show progression (if one is honest with oneself to always grow as an artist that is).
I thought I recognised your work. I seen ur recent feature in Concept Ships. Good work dude
Thanks again mate!
August 31st, 2010 #17
I seem to be hooked on forum challenges at the moment. This one is from IFX's August Challenge, "From Ancient China".
Its not as completed as I'd hoped for, though I met the deadline thats the most important thing. I wanted to add TONS more little fishing boats in the foreground stretching right out into the distance.
I came up with the idea of setting the concept in our distant future where the Shanghai World Financial Center is all that is left "from Ancient China". Civilisation has continued to survive by building onto whats left of the skyscraper.
Around 25-30hrs.
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September 5th, 2010 #18
Pier 17
Created for CGChannels August Challenge, How to Tie a Tie.
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This really tested me. I loved this challenge and learned alot from participating in it. I had to incorporate at least one 3D element which meant I had to learn a 3D program from scratch. Google sketchup seemed like the obvious choice to begin with.
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October 15th, 2010 #20
In the Ancient World, Avernus was believed to be the entrance to the underworld.
This was name and design of the ship I gave my EVE Online entry (only I missed the f#cking deadline. Totally pissed at myself for that!! Schematics are a biatch though) Thought I'd share anyway.
Ship Description
The Avernus is a small warship (386m). Its fast and heavily armoured at the front with devestating firepower designed to punch through the most concentrated areas of enemy lines during initial fleet engagements. Its weakest to the rear where armour is sacrificed for overpowered engines.
The Avernus is designed to work in packs and isnt suited to one on one engagements.
I managed to finish this painting in 8 hours. Incredibly fast for me so I'm really happy with it from that point of view.
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You have some nice stuff dude. id like to see what you could do with a tropical theme/ plants, foliage
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October 31st, 2010 #23
Created for s New World challenge "Dr Frankensteins Lab", I was inspired by the Resident Evil games for my concept. I also wanted to show a families legacy as if generations of Dr Frankensteins had been working on perfecting the monster by using different technologies over time.
I used a technique inspired by James Clyne which he uses in pre-visualisation for films as concepts need to be churned out incredibly fast. He terms it photoshop kit bashing- mixing/cutting photographs and textures with a nice healthy dose of painting. You can see similar works in T4: Salvation, Avatar and Star Trek concept art books.
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November 1st, 2010 #24
Great stuff.
Only thing I would say is you've used mainly stock sci fi tropes: giant hanging ID4 spaceship buzzed by jets, a flooded NYC, Bladerunner skyscrapers, glowing data screens.
Id love to see how you handle the stranger stories science fiction generates.
I really like the junks outside the ancient arcology and the anachronistic galleons. If you like that vibe try Cordwainer Smith's strange deep future fiction. He wrote the CIA psych warfare manual and was the god son of Sun Yat Sen the "Founding Father of Republican China." His stories are infused with those influences.
Looking forward to your next upload.
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The King Slayer
The Ogres have plagued the Wastelands of E'nohpelet for centuries past,
but in recent times their lust for blood has grown greedy and their shadow
has cast upon from wide to far across lands that it never should.
They have a Champion it is said, of Slayer of Kings. His greed is mighter
than that of all the hordes of E'nohpelet. He gives honour to any newly
slain Kings head as a centre piece upon his chest where there it'll
rest and rot from flesh to bone. And as the blood from the Kings head
dries on his cauldron belly his fiery appetite roars once more and his
hordes are called upon to wage war and bring chaos, this time West where the
Kingdoms of Elves and Man lie.
Experimental personal piece done in photoshop. 40hrs+
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I was a woman on a mission when I set out on my Peruvian Amazon riverboat adventure with International Expeditions. Like most of my fellow passengers, visiting the Amazon was a bucket-list destination, one that promised to be a significant and momentous travel experience. My objective was to learn firsthand about this unique environment and its diverse wildlife, as well as about the people who inhabit its lush and verdant rainforests. I had another goal, though, which was to see an Anaconda snake. Odd, I admit, but for some reason, this creature has always held a curious allure for me, after having heard tales of its almost mythical proportions and surreptitious existence. In the wild, an Anaconda spends most of its time hanging out in rivers hunting for food. A solitary snake, it is somewhat shy and not easily seen due to being camouflaged in the swamps and bogs in which it thrives. The Amazon is the Anaconda's home and I knew this trip represented the best opportunity for me to finally come eye-to-eye with this storied reptile.Read more ...


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When the Lancaster opened its doors the phrase "boutique hotel" hadn't yet been invented — but that's more or less what it's always been. Back in the Emile Wolf days it was the sort of place you'd catch the likes of Grace Kelly or Noël Coward haunting its halls. Today, under the direction of the Spanish Hospes group, it's scarcely lost any of its glamour. In spite of a location just off the Champs-Elysées, the Lancaster is quiet, the way a classic hotel ought to be. Rooms are stocked with antiques, many of them collected by the original owner, and the marble bathrooms are decked out in a well-preserved Art Deco style.
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Room-service menu (food) could be better
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The hotel can't help the fact that the Champs Elysees is now quite horrible, I prefer to stay away from there next time.
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We stayed in junior suites facing Rue Berri; and absolutely loved the spacious rooms and fireplace in both living room and bedroom. We had plenty of space and two bathrooms which was great considering our children were staying with us. Our favorite part of staying at the Lancaster was the excellent and personal service we received specially from Jeremy !!
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These work great in theory, if they would only stay on, we bought the kitten size for Bogie but they just were too big for him and would not stay on.
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DRS Technologies Receives Three Top Defense Security Service Awards for Outstanding Industrial Security PR Newswire ARLINGTON, Va., June 26, 2013 ARLINGTON, Va., June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --DRS Technologies, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded the James S. Cogswell Award for Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121130/PH22008LOGO ) For 2013, the Defense Security Service (DSS) awarded three DRS facilities, including its corporate headquarters in Arlington, Va., that exemplify the eminent principles of industrial security and exceed U.S. Department of Defense requirements. This is the first time DRS Technologies has been recognized for this significant achievement. The James S. Cogswell Award was established in 1966 and is the most prestigious citation for a cleared facility that demonstrates security excellence and a proven history of substantial compliance by a cleared facility over multiple years. The award is historically earned by less than one percent of the nation's more than 13,000 eligible cleared defense contractor facilities. The three Cogswell Awards come on the heels of DRS recently receiving the highest U.S. honor for protecting classified information and technology when in April 2013 the company was presented with the Defense Security Service Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence. This is the first time a company operating under a Proxy Agreement has been given the Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence and the Cogswell Award in the same year. DSS Director Stanley L. Sims said DRS Technologies earned the three Cogswell Awards this year because of the company's commitment to setting and meeting high levels of security performance on a consistent basis. "Establishing and maintaining a security program that goes well beyond the minimum National Industrial Security Program requirements, while providing security leadership to its cleared facilities reflects DRS's superior commitment to sustaining secure and vigilant operations around the country," Sims said. This year, just 25 defense industry facilities from more than 13,000 around the United States, were recognized by DSS for the Cogswell Award. The DRS teams recognized by DSS for this award were the Corporate Security Team in Arlington, Va., the Network and Imaging Systems Team in West Melbourne, Fla. and the Network and Imaging Systems Team in Dallas, Texas. DRS President and CEO and former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary, William J. Lynn said maintaining secure industrial defense facilities is an essential responsibility for every company within the defense industry. "The men and women of the U.S. military rely on industry to ensure its facilities rival the stringent security levels of military installations in order to safeguard our uniformed personnel as they defend us around the world," Lynn said. Defense Security Service Industrial Security Field Operations personnel are responsible for evaluating defense contractors' compliance with establishing and maintaining a security program that far exceeds the basic National Industrial Security Program requirements. The Cogswell Award selection process is rigorous. Nominations only go to facilities that have a minimum two consecutive superior industrial security review ratings and show a sustained degree of excellence and innovation in their overall security program management, implementation and oversight. ABOUT DRS DRS Technologies is a leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide and is the 2013 recipient of the Defense Security Service Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence as well as three James S. Cogswell Awards for Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica SpA (FNC.MI), which employs approximately 70,000 people worldwide. For additional information please contact: Michael Mount Director, Public Affairs and Communications 571-447-4624 firstname.lastname@example.com SOURCE DRS Technologies Website: http://www.drs.com
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Commentator Sees Misplaced "Ethnocentrism" in Russia's Attitude to Serbia
Text of report by Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, often critical of the government, on 24 July
[Commentary by Boris Yunanov: "Russia's New Friends. Radovan Karadzic"]
Why did Moscow support two pariah leaders – Radovan Karadzic and Robert Mugabe? One is accused of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, and the other the United States is attempting to put on trial for savage reprisals against the opposition.
The following happened in Belgrade a few days ago: Serbian President Boris Tadic "surrendered" to the devious and vicious Hague tribunal prominent patriot and public figure and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who had successfully escaped corrupt European justice for a whole 13 years. It will not be long before the "traitor Tadic," like Zoran Djindjic before him, will face retribution. And then penitent Serbia will again turn to fraternal Russia…
Millions of compatriots believe this interpretation of Balkan events. This is what we were told by television commentator Konstantin Semin. But is he alone? For years the whole of Russian television told us that Milosevic was a national hero of Serbia, despite the fact that the majority of Serbs despised him and considered him to blame for all the troubles that befell the country in the Nineties. But what about today? Even totally liberal Russian media, citing "authoritative experts," are talking constantly about some kind of "definitive turn towards the West by Serbia,""a freezing of relations with the Kremlin," and "another 'loss for Russia,'" which has not even be able to win over the Serb Orthodox brothers with the strong energy power of South Stream.
What is going on? Contemporary Russian political culture has spawned pretentious and conceited ethnocentrism. All external events, even those that simply do not affect Russia in any way, are nevertheless seen in the fatal dualist context of confrontation between Russia and the West. Our man or not our man, our things or not our things, with us or not with us. Pro-Russian or anti- Russian. If you should dare to say that Washington or Brussels deserve praise, you are immediately categorized as an antagonist. Even if you have just abolished visas for Russian tourists as a sign of particular goodwill.
But we, naive as we are, think that other people do not notice this. Not so long ago a Serbian colleague described Gazprom officials looking over Serbian refineries. As if they were "already ours." Should we be surprised that the result is that people turn away from us.
Let us cut to the quick. Radovan Karadzic, former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was arrested on 18 July in Batajnica, a suburb of Belgrade, when boarding a bus. He was "grabbed" thoughtfully, kind of apologetically – the way that they "grab" those who for a long time they did not want to grab but now simply have to. Karadzic is not a criminal but a political player. None of the charges against Karadzic has been proved. It is said that he ordered killings. But his position prescribed that he had to give orders. He refused to surrender to the Hague Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and was in hiding for 13 years. But if he had surrendered promptly, like Biljan Plavcic, he would have been pardoned. Milosevic, who did not give himself up but was handed over, died in the Hague prison in mysterious circumstances after managing to write a letter saying that people wanted to kill him. The "unexplained death" of the ex- dictator seriously concerned only Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. She pushed for a detailed investigation. But she was soon removed from her post and sent to Argentina as Swiss ambassador. There were then rumours that there were now ethnic Albanians, now Muslim Bosnians among the Hague Tribunal guards. Although that should categorically not have been so. After Milosevic died some people were indeed dismissed – for "negligence."
In connection with Karadzic's arrest, the newspapers are talking about assistance from "a foreign intelligence service." But it is most likely that the operation was developed independently by the Serb special services, where, following the killing of Zoran Djindjic, there was a protracted and assiduous process of purging all actual and potential Milosevic supporters, and likewise all pan- Serb ideas. Serbia has not adopted lustration laws – everything has happened in accordance with the internal logic of the life of a country that does not see himself outside of Europe and the European Union. The Russian elite's hopes that, having dumped its ballast in the shape of Milosevic, Serbia would become "almost Eastern," are illusory to say the least. Current President Boris Tadic dreams of a "normal Serbia." The arrest of Karadzic is a logical step in this direction. But it is important for Serbia to confirm its adherence to European values specifically now, when the failed Irish referendum on the European Constitution has placed a question mark over the further expansion of the EU. Deep within the European Commission there is an opinion that is gradually growing that they will admit Croatia but then call a halt for the time being. Tadic's mega-task is to persuade Brussels to consider Serbia's application urgently, "as a package" with Croatia. Otherwise the political credo of this politician will crumble to dust. So Tadic has deliberately softened his nationalist outrage over Kosovo and, two weeks ago, ordered the Serbian ambassadors who had been recalled from European capitals to return to their posts.
…There is a fine Canadian documentary about how every year young people from all over the former Yugoslavia gather at a tourist resort near Sarajevo. They communicate in Serbo-Croat. They tell each other the memories of their parents and relations about the past war here and, at the end, they form a circle and, embracing, swear to each other to never again allow fratricide on their common soil. I tell you honestly, it is a moving scene. And one wants to forget as soon as possible about the Karadzics, Mladics, Milosevics, and all the rest who still rise to their defence.
Originally published by Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, in Russian 24 Jul 08.
(c) 2008 BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.


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I'll also vouch for the Max Prop; you should be able to find a lot of information on it and the Auto Prop by searching older posts here at Sailnet (I find doing a Google search with " site:www.sailnet.com/forums" appended works well --- eg.
MaxProp or Autoprop?
One thing I like about the Max Prop is that it's quite effective when backing the boat out of the slip (its blades reverse direction so it has a good bite on the water) and has significantly reduced prop walk compared to the same boat with fixed 2 or 3 blade props. This can be very helpful if there's a good crosswind at your slip or for other tricky situations. I've read that folding props are poor in this regard.
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