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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden death of an infant under one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene and review of the clinical history. SIDS is one of the leading causes of infant mortality and occurs from the first month, until the first year of life for newborns and infants.
The aim of this review was to identify and examine risk factors responsible for causing the sudden infant death and to propose certain measures in order to protect newborns and infants from sudden death. The potential factors that contribute to the occurrence of SIDS include inadequate prenatal care, low birth weight (<2499gr), premature infants, intrauterine growth delay, short interval between pregnancies and maternal substance use (tobacco, alcohol, opiates). Moreover, factors related to infant's sleep environment such as the prone or side sleeping position and thick coverlet increase the risk of sudden death in infants. Also, the combination of risk factors such as that of prone sleeping position and soft bed mattress are linked to a 20-fold increased risk of death. Finally, polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT), viral respiratory infections, long Q-T (responsible for the presence of fatal arrhythmia) are related to the SIDS.
Literature review indicates that each individual risk factor contributes to the appearance of SIDS and the establishment of certain protective measures for parents and health professionals has reduced its prevalence. But the precise identification of the SIDS causes and how these contribute to the occurrence of sudden death in neonates and infants, remains a challenge for health professionals.
Willinger et al., (1991) first described the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), as "the sudden death of an infant under one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene and review of the clinical history"1. SIDS appears in newborns and infants, without any indication that their life is in danger2.
The annual incidence rate of SIDS in '80s was 1.53% per 1000 live births in the USA, while in 2004 it decreased to 0.51%3. Deaths due to SIDS, in the general population amounted to 2200 per year4. Moreover, SIDS is classified by the Center of Disease Control (CDC) as the third leading cause of overall infant mortality in the USA5.
SIDS occurs between the first month and before the first year of an infant's life. Infants aged 2-4 months endanger greater risk of SIDS, while most deaths occur in infants during the sixth month of their life6.
The differential diagnosis of SIDS in neonates and infants includes asphyxiation or drowning, heart disease (arrhythmia), electrolyte disturbances or dehydration, poisoning, trauma, infections (pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis) and congenital metabolic disorders7.
Few researchers proposed the specification of diagnostic criteria for sudden death in neonates. Beckwith B. (2003), proposed three categories related to SIDS, which classified the neonate or infant in the relevant category. The first category includes infants aged from three weeks to eight months, without the previous appearance of SIDS in the family environment, infants without evidence of abuse, trauma or accident and neonates with a significant degree of anxiety in the thymus, adrenal glands or other organs. The second category consists of infants who exhibit the criteria of the above category, except those that are >1 year old, who have history of sudden death in the family environment and inflammatory disorders. Finally, the last category concerns cases of deaths of infants, which made an autopsy after their death1.
According to the literature review, the possible risk factors that contribute to the incidence of SIDS are demographic, relevant to the pregnancy and the birth, the sleep environment, genetic, infective and cardiovascular.
Low socioeconomic status, maternal young age, low maternal education and single marital status, are associated with the occurrence of SIDS1. Infants who did not live with their father were 50% higher sensitive in sudden death, unlike those who grew up with their father8. Also, several studies have reported that male infants present 30-50% more chances to die from sudden death9,10.
Pregnancy related factors (mothers with inadequate prenatal care11, intrauterine growth retardation, short intervals during pregnancies, second pregnancy or after) are connected with increased incidence of SIDS. The sudden death of a second child in a family comes 80-90% natural. Also, birth related factors such as premature 10 and low birth weight infants (infants that were borned at 1000-1499 gr are threatened 4 times higher to die from SIDS and those borned at 1500-2499 gr are threatened 3 times more respectively)12,13.
Substances abuse like tobacco, drugs and alcohol, in pregnancy period, are correlated with SIDS. Tobacco use in pregnancy affects the intrauterine fetal development. During an antismoking campaign, infants borned by mothers who smoke during pregnancy, have 3 times more risk to appear SIDS before the campaign14. The avoidance of smoking during pregnancy estimated that could have reduce SIDS cases by almost 21%.15 The effect of passive smoking was higher in infants <10 weeks and seems to doubles the possibility of SIDS16. Whereas, a home environment free of tobacco use, reduces the chances of SIDS6.
The chances of sudden death increased by 2-5 times in neonates whose mother have used drugs (opiates)17,18, 6-8 times in cases of maternal alcohol use (particularly the first 3 months of pregnancy), 2-8 times when mothers had drunk alcohol in the last 24 hours before the neonate death19. Infant's siblings with fetal alcohol syndrome reported 10 times more chances of sudden death20.
The environment of sleep concerns the infant's sleep position, the bed's quality, the sharing of the bed and the occurrence of smoking during infant's sleep.
Newborns vulnerable to sudden death are those who change position during sleep and remain in prone position21. The SIDS risk was 37 times higher at infants who changed position during sleep compare to those who remained in this position throughout the whole sleep duration22,23. Infants who sleep in lateral position provoke twice the risk of sudden death, in contrast to those sleeping in supine position24. Instantly, many parents and health professionals may notice that supine sleeping position impairs neonatal respiratory system and increases the risk of gastro-esophageal reflux25.
Soft, old pillows and sleeping mats from polystyrene have been shown to increase by 2-3 times the risk of sudden death9,17,25. Also, heavy comforters covering the baby's head, implicate to be associated with sudden death26,27. When the newborn's body temperature increases, due to increased room temperature, fever, sweating or excessive clothing the chances of SIDS is increased16. While combinations of risk factors such as the prone position and soft layer or increased body temperature and sleep in prone position, are associated with the risk of sudden death, 2 and 6 times, respectively28,29.
Also, infant's sharing bed with parents or siblings (twins) has been implicated with a high risk of SIDS30. Babies under <13 weeks who sleep with their parents are in greater risk13.
Polymorphism serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT) was observed at infants who developed sudden death. This gene is affected by the functions of the autonomic nervous system31.
Viral respiratory infections are mainly responsible for the occurrence of sudden death. Mild degree of respiratory viral infection was observed by investigators in cases of sudden death infants up to 80%32.
Toxins produced from bacteria like s.aureus and e.coli, pose a particular risk to the life of infant. The toxins of such bacteria are absorbed by mucosal surfaces, or indicate an upcoming bacteremia, affecting principally the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, creating "channels" in cell membranes, which disrupts the smooth ions33.
Long Q-T syndrome is associated with changes in the Na+/K+ pump. Abnormalities shown in ion heart channels, are related to the sudden death and hence the baby is at risk of potentially fatal arrythmia34. According to American Academy of Pediatrics, rare genetic disorders are result to mutations of the cardiac tissue, like fatal loss of cardiac function35.
Although the causes of SIDS are not precisely identified, it seems that the above factors have positive effects in sudden death. American Academy of Pediatrics has already established protective measures to decrease the incidence of SIDS. These measures are:
Concluding, the SIDS seems to be a multifunctional syndrome, without a clear etiologic mechanism. For this reason, exploring the way each risk factor contributes to the occurrence of sudden death in newborns and the establishment of certain protective measures for parents and health professionals, still remain a challenge.
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This light, fat-free dressing brings a taste of the tropics to your salads. It's also a terrific complement to chicken, duck or shrimp and can be used as a marinade, as well.
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Theater News
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Teller-Directed Tempest Announces Casting
The reimagined Shakespearean play will open the theater's 2015-16 season.
Debbie Harry, Gilbert Gottfried, and More Toast Penn & Teller's Magical New Broadway Show
A who's who of stars came out to welcome the legendary illusionists back to the New York stage.
Penn & Teller on Broadway
The master magicians are back to give New York City another look at their mix of trickery and comedy.
Penn & Teller Celebrate Their Latest Broadway Opening
The magicians take the stage tonight at the Marquis Theatre.
Flashback Friday: Things Got "Tricky" for Penn & Teller in This 1986 Run-D.M.C. Video
The illustrious illusionists had a trick up their sleeves.
Penn & Teller Receive Magical Sardi's Caricatures
The master illusionists are preparing for a return to Broadway this summer.
Penn & Teller's Broadway "Adventure"
In the midst of an open-ended run in Sin City, the eponymous magician duo heads back to the land that launched their careers.
Master Magicians Penn & Teller Prepare for Broadway
The pair took to the stage at 54 Below to preview their upcoming New York engagement.
Teller's The Tempest Set for Chicago Shakespeare Theater Season
The magician directs the production with playwright Aaron Posner.
Magicians Penn & Teller Will Take On Broadway
The pair will return to their New York stage roots for a limited engagement.


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Recent AstroTurf News
July 28, 2015
Belle Vernon Area High School Gets GOLD AstroTurf Field
Belle Vernon, PA– The new AstroTurf field at Belle Vernon Area High School will be unmistakable. The field will be gold.
The existing AstroPlay surface by AstroTurf was originally installed in 2001. Its 14 year lifespan is due to a nylon RootZone® and excellent maintenance on the part of the school district. This time around, Belle Vernon Area has decided to amp up their field selection for the Leopards.
"Our field lasted nearly twice as long as the original warranty, so the decision to buy from AstroTurf again was an easy one. But this time, we really wanted to think outside the box and to show our school pride. The Board of School Directors and I are so very proud of our District, we wanted to honor the Leopard tradition with a color that stands out," said Superintendent Dr. John Wilkinson.
June 23, 2015
New Novi Athletic Projects Well Underway
Novi High School has always been an attractive place for hosting athletic events.
And with another series of 2015 projects already set into motion, this latest makeover puts the district far ahead of the curve.
"We hosted 19 different Michigan High School Athletic Association sports tournament," Novi athletic director Brian Gordon said. "We host a lot of stuff and they come here for a reason, but we're also meeting the needs of our teams and the community."
After a new $800,000 synthetic football stadium turf field was installed last year, work is underway on several other athletic-related projects in the district as a result of a $70.9 million bond proposal that was overwhelming passed in May 2014 by Novi Community School District voters.
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Tristram Hunt: History is Where the Great Battles of Public Life are Now Being Foughttags: Guardian (UK), history, Niall Ferguson, Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt is Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He is the author of The English Civil War: At First Hand and the critically acclaimed Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. A regular history broadcaster, he has authored numerous radio and television series for the BBC and Channel 4. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The bullish Harvard historian Niall Ferguson cut an unfamiliar, almost meek figure last week. As reports of his ugly suggestion that John Maynard Keynes's homosexuality had made the great economist indifferent to the prospects of future generations surged across the blogosphere, Ferguson wisely went for a mea culpa.
So, in a cringeing piece for Harvard University's student magazine, the professor, who usually so enjoys confronting political correctness, denied he was homophobic or, indeed, racist and antisemitic for good measure.
Of course, Ferguson is none of those things. He is a brilliant financial historian, albeit with a debilitating weakness for the bon mot. But Ferguson is also part of a worryingly conservative consensus when it comes to framing our national past.
For whether it is David Starkey on Question Time, in a frenzy of misogyny and self-righteousness, denouncing Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams for being well-connected, metropolitan members of the Labour movement, or the reactionary Dominic Sandbrook using the Daily Mail to condemn with Orwellian menace any critical interpretation of Mrs Thatcher's legacy, the historical right has Britain in its grip....
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One letter was received by Gavin Weighthead, general manager of Hotel Jen in Penang, Malaysia, the second by Ambika Menon, director of Art of Living and the International Association for Human Values (Malaysia), and the third by Ee Mei, a senior AOL faculty.
In one letter, which has a picture of a man being beheaded, ISIS said Sri Sri and others can expect similar treatment if they step into Malaysia or any other Muslim country.
The organization would destroy all venues where AOL and IAHV are conducting their activities. Thousands would die, it added.
Despite the threat, a yoga programme for more than 10,000 people was conducted by AOL in Penang on Saturday morning. Sri Sri addressed about 70,000 people at the Batu Kawan Stadium in the evening, the AOL spokesperson said.
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Talking about threats to Afghanistan, the US report said, "The border region of Afghan istan and Pakistan is an undergoverned area which hosts terrorist cells active in both countries. The government of Afghanistan has struggled to assert control over this remote terrain where the population is largely detached from national institutions. Afghanistan generally cooperates with US counterterrorism efforts.Since President (Ashraf) Ghani's election, he has actively pursued cross-border security cooperation with the government of Pakistan, including the prospect of joint operations to reduce safe havens on both sides of the border."
The US report also raised concern over proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Afghanistan. "The potential for WMD trafficking and proliferation remained a concern in Afghanistan because of its porous borders and the presence of terrorist groups," it said.
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All six gunmen who detonated explosives and fired rockets at the parliament complex were reported killed by Afghan security forces.
PM Narendra Modi described the attack as despicable and cowardly . "The attack on he Afghanistan parliament is a despicable and cowardly act.There is no place for such at acks in a democracy ," Modi weeted. "My prayers are with hose injured. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Afghanistan in this hour," he said in another tweet.
According to reports, all MPs were safely evacuated af er the attack, which came as he Afghan president's nominee for the post of defence min ster was to be introduced in parliament. Afghanistan has not had a confirmed defence minister since the Ashraf Ghani government took over in September last year. The fact that the attack took place late morning, around 10.30am, suggested that the insurgents were looking at a high-value target.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility . "We have launched an attack on parliament as there was an important gathering to introduce the country's defence minister," he said while the attack was still on.
Reuters quoted Afghan police spokesperson Ebadullah Karimi as saying that the attack started with a Taliban fighter detonating a car loaded with explosives outside the parliament gates. How the driver managed to evade several security checkpoints is being investigated by Afghan authorities.He said all lawmakers were safe. TV pictures showed the speaker sitting calmly and legislators leaving the building, engulfed in dust and smoke, without panicking.
The attack comes close on the heels of Taliban's takeover of two important districts, Chardara and Dasht-e-Archi, in Kunduz province, raising questions about the ability of Afghan forces to handle militants. Last month, car bombs were used to attack the ministry of justice, and insurgents stormed two guesthouses.
A senior Indian official said the attack was "part of the growing trend of violence across Afghanistan, which had picked up in the summer". On a daily basis, "report is coming in of Taliban progress," he said. "Ever since Nato troops pulled out and the US reduced its air strikes, there has been a steady rise in violence levels."
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DHAKA – A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.
Police said Ananta Bijoy Das was murdered in broad daylight as he headed to work at a local bank in the city of Sylhet, an attack that fellow writers said highlighted a culture of impunity.
Kamrul Hasan, commissioner of Sylhet police, said a group of around four masked men had attacked Das with machetes at around 8.30am on a busy street in Bangladesh's fifth largest city.
"They chased him down the street and first attacked his head with their machetes and then attacked him all over his body," Hasan told AFP.
After the attackers fled into the crowds, Das was rushed to hospital but declared dead on arrival, police and medics said.
Police commissioner Hasan would not comment on the motive for the attack but fellow writers said Das had been on a hit-list drawn up by militants who were behind the recent killing of blogger Avijit Roy.
Imran Sarker, head of a Bangladeshi bloggers' association, confirmed to AFP that Das was an atheist who regularly blogged for Mukto-Mona.
The website used to be moderated by Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US citizen who was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.
"We condemn this heinous killing. It once again confirms our fear that there is a culture of impunity in Bangladesh. Anyone can now get away with killing a progressive free thinker," Sarker said.
Police chief Hasan said they were investigating an announcement by an unknown group that Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) was behind the killing.
AQIS has already claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on Roy on February 26 in which his wife was badly injured. An Islamist has been arrested over his murder.
A group called Ansar Al-Islam said on Twitter that AQIS was responsible for Das's murder and warned of more to come.
Debasish Debu, a friend of Das, said the 33-year-old banker was an editor of a quarterly magazine called Jukti (Logic) and headed the Sylhet-based Science and Rationalist Council. "In recent months he received threats from Islamist extremists for his writings. He was on their hit-list," Debu told AFP from Sylhet.
"He was hacked on the head repeatedly, the same way Roy was attacked by the assailants," Debu added.
According to the Mukto-Mona site, Das won the publication's annual Rationalist Award in 2006 for his "deep and courageous interest in spreading secular and humanist ideals and messages".
While most of Das's output for Mukto-Mona focused on science and evolution, he wrote a number of blogs that criticised some aspects of Islam and also of Hinduism.
He also wrote a poem eulogising the famed Bangladeshi secular writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled to Europe in 1994 after protests by Islamists and now lives in India.
In comments on Facebook posted early Tuesday, Das slammed the local member of parliament from the ruling Awami League party for criticising one of the country's top secular and science fiction writers.
The murder came less than two months after 27-year-old atheist blogger Washiqur Rahman was hacked to death in Dhaka in March. Two madrassa students have been arrested over that attack.
Bangladesh is an officially secular country but more than 90 percent of its 160 million population are Muslims.
The country has seen a rise in attacks by religious extremists in recent years. Supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, which is banned from standing in elections, have been accused of being behind a spate of firebombings since the beginning of the year aimed at toppling the government.
Since 2013, at least five bloggers have been attacked by Islamists after another hardline group, Hefazat-e-Islam, publicly sought the execution of atheists who organised mass protests against the rise of political Islam.
Hefazat, led by Islamic seminary teachers, also staged a massive counter protest against the bloggers in May 2013 that unleashed violence, leaving nearly 50 people dead.
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President Barack Obama, Hersh suggests, milked the episode for domestic political gains, including a second term re-election, after reneging on US promises to Pakistan about when and how the raid would be revealed to the world.
Hersh has based much of his account on one principal source -an unnamed and retired senior US intelligence official -and a couple of tenuous corroborative sources in a piece that has set political Washington alight. Government officials and critics often dismiss his style of journalism quoting anonymous sources to make outlandish claims, but editors who publish his work have said in the past they are aware the names of his sources and have no rea son to doubt his work.
Hersh told TOI in an interview that the LRB had vigorously fact-checked his story and was satisfied with it. "Are you kidding? Of course, people are going to be sceptical.This goes against the established narrative," he said, insisting that all great stories begin with one source and the people he spoke to were intelligence insiders who know the facts of the case closely.
According to Hersh, the story of the bin Laden raid began with the August 2010 walk-in of a senior Pakistani intelligence officer, who offered to the CIA station chief at the US embassy in Islamabad, Jonathan Banks, bin Laden's location in return for reward money . Sceptical Americans flew in a polygraph team to check his claims (he passed the test) before cornering Pasha (during a visit to Washington) and Kayani. Hersh and his source put a protective spin on Pakistani patronage of terrorism by rationalizing their hosting of the man who killed 3,000 Americans, maintaining that -"if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United Stateswithout a quid pro quo". The quid pro quo in this case involved continued US military aid to Pakistan, "a good percentage of which was anti-terrorism funding that finances personal security , such as bullet-proof limousines and security guards and housing for the ISI leadership", but also personal bribing, "under-the-table personal `incentives' that were financed by off-the-books Pentagon contingency funds".The US also promised Pakistan `a freer hand' in Afghanistan as it began its military draw-down there.
Consequent to this secret deal, the Pakistani generals gave the US bin Laden's precise coordinates -right down to the location of his room in the Abbottabad bungalow -and also ensured he was left with no protection. ISI guards protecting bin Laden were asked to leave as soon as they heard US choppers, and electricity to the area was cut off.They also made sure Pakistan's army and air defence command would not track or engage with the US helicopters used on the mission.
According to the Hersh's American sources, the raid was virtual walk-in and walkout and the Navy Seals virtually shot dead an unarmed, invalid man. Hersh also claims there was no burial at sea with Islamic rites for bin Laden on the USS Carl Vinson, as the US later claimed; the old man had been shot to pieces during the raid and his body parts were tossed over the Hindu Kush by the raiding party as they returned to Afghanistan.
The story claims that Obama decided to immediately go public with the raid in part because of the botch-up with the stalled helicopter that had to be destroyed, making it hard to keep the raid a secret. But he also had political motives. "The killing of bin Laden was political theatre designed to burnish Obama's military credentials.It's irresistible to a politician.Bin Laden became a working asset," Hersh quotes one of his sources as saying.
Hersh's piece also maintains the US actually sold Shakil Afridi, a CIA asset, down the drain, asking Pakistanis to nab him while rooting for Amir Aziz, a doctor and a major in the Pakistani army who was instrumental in getting bin Laden's DNA sample that conclusively proved his identity . Amir was also rewarded from the $25 million bounty .
The ISI, the story claims, initially got onto bin Laden, who had lived undetected from 2001 to 2006 with some of his wives and children in the Hindu Kush mountains, by paying some of the local tribal people to betray him. Hersh's account also maintains the Saudis were fully aware of Pakistan's protective custody of bin Laden and in fact they paid Pakistanis to keep him under wraps because of their ties to al-Qaida.
White House dismisses claims
The White House on Monday dismissed as "baseless" Seymour Hersh's controversial report alleging President Barack Obama's administration lied about the circumstances surrounding the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden. "There are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to fact check each one," White House National Security spokesman Ned Price told CNN. Former CIA deputy director Michael Morrell too dismissed the report in an interview. "I started reading the article last night, I got a third of the way through and I stopped, because every sentence I was reading was wrong," the CNN quoted him as telling CBS' Charlie Rose. "The source that Hersh talked to has no idea what he's talking about." He maintained the Pakistanis had no idea about the operation, and "were furious with us" for moving forward without giving them a heads up. AGENCIES
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The head of ISIS was seriously wounded during an airstrike in western Iraq, according to an overseas report.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi suffered life-threatening injuries during the attack, which was coordinated by the US-led coalition back in March, according to the Guardian.
A three-car convoy was targeted during the strike, but officials thought they were taking out a few low-level leaders of ISIS. They were unaware al-Baghdadi was in one of the vehicles, which were traveling between the villages of Umm al-Rous and al-Qaraan, a source in Iraq told the Guardian.
"Yes, he was wounded in al-Baaj near the village of Umm al-Rous on March 18 with a group that was with him," said Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi official who advises Baghdad on ISIS.
The Pentagon has denied the report.
Al-Baghdadi is no longer in control of day-to-day operations, the Guardian reports.
After he was seriously injured, top ISIS militants believed the Islamic State head was on the brink of death. They urgently met and made plans to name a new leader, the source said.
Al-Baghdadi eventually managed to make a slow recovery, but never took back control of the terrorist organization.
Two officials — a Western diplomat and an Iraqi adviser — have confirmed that the airstrike took place March 18, according to the Guardian.
Al-Baghdadi is believed to have been spending much of his time in al-Baaj, which is around 200 miles west of the ISIS stronghold of Mosul.
"He chose this area because he knew from the war that the Americans did not have much cover there," a source close to al-Baghdadi said.
As for plans for a successor, the Islamic State would likely pluck someone out of their highly structured leadership system and quickly put him in charge in order to continue ground operations, according to the International Business Times.
"ISIS has likely prepared for Baghdadi's succession," said Lauren Squires of the Institute for the Study of War. "ISIS has undergone changes in their structure during different phases of the group's evolution. They are forward leaning and thinking. It would be shortsighted to think that planning a successor is not only part of their logistical plan, but their ideological plan, too."
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ISIS, the world understands, is a violent jihadist group driven by twisted religious devotion and its dream of radical Islamist conquest. ISIS's own members understand the group that way. But what if they're wrong? What if ISIS is not a spontaneous religious movement, but rather was constructed by a shadowy group of secular military leaders to fulfill their secret agenda?
Explosive new documents uncovered by Der Spiegel's Christoph Reuter, published on Saturday, reveal that there is a dark secret at the heart of ISIS. It was not radical Islamists who conceived and created ISIS, they suggest, but rather a small group of senior Iraqi officers in Saddam Hussein's brutal police state. Their plan appears to have been to use ISIS to reconquer Iraq. For them, jihadism was simply a means to the end of retaking the country they had lost, a counterattack to the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled them from power.
Der Spiegel says it uncovered the documents from a house in Syria that was used by a former Iraqi military intelligence official who, before he was killed in a 2014 firefight, went by the name Haji Bakr. The documents show the blueprint for the creation of the Islamic State, written before the group became what it is today and executed to detail. While we have known for some time that former officers in Saddam's military were working with ISIS — they shared a Sunni background and a hatred of the new American-installed government — these documents suggest the officers were far more involved in planning and launching the Islamic State than previously thought.
As Der Spiegel's stunning investigation found, ISIS was organized in much the same way as Saddam's police state. Haji Bakr's goal was to use the chaos and extremism of the Syrian war to build up this new group in Syria, giving it a beachhead from which it could invade and conquer much of Iraq. Once there, it would set up an intricate and Orwellian system of control in the mold of Saddam's Iraq.
ISIS, in other words, would replace one totalitarianism with another. Though Saddam's Iraq had been Sunni and secular and ISIS's Iraq would be Sunni and Islamist, this same group of former Saddam officials would remain at the top. For Haji Bakr and the other officers working with him, the group's apocalyptic jihadism would simply be a vehicle for their return to power.
Here is Der Spiegel's Christoph Reuter:
There is a simple reason why there is no mention in Bakr's writings of prophecies relating to the establishment of an Islamic State allegedly ordained by God: He believed that fanatical religious convictions alone were not enough to achieve victory. But he did believe that the faith of others could be exploited.
In 2010, Bakr and a small group of former Iraqi intelligence officers made Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the emir and later "caliph," the official leader of the Islamic State. They reasoned that Baghdadi, an educated cleric, would give the group a religious face.
[Haji] Bakr was "a nationalist, not an Islamist," says Iraqi journalist Hisham al-Hashimi.
Bakr's journey from serving in a violently secular regime to helping found a violently Islamist group began in 2003, after the US-led invasion of Iraq. One of America's first decisions on taking Iraq — a terrible mistake that has haunted the region ever since — was to disband Iraq's enormous army, leaving its officers and soldiers with no income. Haji Bakr was left "bitter and unemployed," a source who knew him told Der Spiegel, as were many officers like him.
This speaks to a terrible irony of the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. The war was premised in part on the assertion that Saddam's regime was linked to anti-American jihadist terrorists. This was a falsehood. But the invasion made this falsehood true — and in more terrible fashion than we ever imagined possible.
Haji Bakr, desperate after 2003 to defeat the Americans and the new Shia-majority government, fought alongside Sunni extremists in Iraq. Later, he began constructing ISIS. As Der Spiegel's investigation found, he was able to use his knowledge of running an oppressive security state to build up ISIS into more than just another jihadist group.
Bakr had something else that proved essential: deep contacts with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's military and intelligence services. This allowed him to arrange the unofficial alliance of convenience between ISIS and Assad, as the two tacitly tolerate one another in Syria and fight their mutual enemies there.
As Der Spiegel's Reuter writes, there are unmistakable parallels in the architectures of ISIS and of Saddam's Iraq. "The two systems ultimately shared a conviction that control over the masses should lie in the hands of a small elite that should not be answerable to anyone," he writes. "The secret of [ISIS's] success lies in the combination of opposites, the fanatical beliefs of one group and the strategic calculations of the other."
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Shaikh had a mechanical engineering degree from Kalsekar College in Panvel, where Majeed and the last of the four, Aman Tandel, were student s. Tanki was an HSC dropout.Shaikh and Majeed's fathers are doctors, Tandel's father works in a reputed company in Mumbai and Tanki's dad is a businessman. The four left for Iraq with pilgrims in May last year and did not return.Later, it became clear that they had been indoctrinated and had joined the ISIS.
News of Tanki's death first came recently as a message sent to his family from an unknown number.Shaikh has now confirmed the death. During its probe, the NIA found that Majeed was the first to be radicalized over social networking sites and came in contact with Shaikh during a religious programme.
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The Islamic State has made a powerful enemy on the web: Anonymous.
The hacktivist group has released a list of over 1,000 social media accounts, email addresses, and recruitment sites used by the Islamic State to recruit new members, all of which have been "exposed and destroyed."
#OPISIS, the name of Anonymous' anti-ISIS campaign, has been around for a while, but intensified after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. Back in June, Anonymous told Forbesabout its plan to target countries that have been accused of funding ISIS:
"We plan on sending a straightforward message to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and all other countries that evidently supply ISIS for their own gain."
Anonymous' war against ISIS hits the terrorist organization right where it hurts: On social media.
ISIS didn't rise to prominence because it had the most guns. It rose to prominence because of its social media strategy, a campaign that began when it took Mosul and captured the world's attention.
This is a terrorist group that thrives on its public image. It has its tendrils in Twitter, where it has an audience that disseminates messages establishing their brutality and omnipresence.
This image of an alleged ISIS member in front of the White House is not only meant to create fear, but also to inspire would-be followers into joining. The message is clear: ISIS is everywhere. ISIS is powerful. ISIS is infiltrating the United States.
The heart of ISIS' power is in its social media campaign. Which is exactly why we need Anonymous.
Describing themselves as Muslims, Christians, Jews, and people from all walks of life, Anonymous is the antithesis of ISIS, and they have proven to be most effective at dismantling ISIS' social media wing.
How ironic that they were once called "cyber terrorists."
Anonymous reminds everyone that ISIS does not represent Islam, and reminds ISIS that there is no safe place for them on the Internet:
"Remember, the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State (IS) are not Muslims. ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you. From now on, no safe place for you online."
John Paul Brammer is a Contributing Editor at BNR. His writing on LGBT and Latino issues has appeared in The Advocate and Huffington Post. Find him on Twitter @jpbrammer
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'Bipolar' Boston bomb hoaxer weeps in court as he is ordered to stand trial for leaving a rice cooker filled with confetti at the finish line on anniversary of attack
- Kevin 'Kayvon' Edson, 25, was found mentally competent to stand trial and his bail was lowered to $50,000
- Suspect must wear GPS device, go to counseling and stay on his medication
- Edson, a former art student, was arrested April 15 after leaving backpack with a rice cooker at Boston Marathon finish line
- The stunt happened when the area was under heavy scrutiny because it was the one-year anniversary of rice cooker bombings that killed three
- Edson's mother told police that her 25-year-old son is bipolar
- He was wearing blue and yellow face paint when he was arrested and told police 'It's symbolism, come on. The performance got the best of me'
The man charged with planting a backpack with a rice cooker near the Boston Marathon finish line on the anniversary of the bombing wept in court Wednesday as he was found mentally competent to stand trial.
Kevin Edson, 25, a student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital in April after being charged with multiple counts, including possession of a hoax device, threatening to commit a crime and disturbance of the peace.
A Boston Municipal Court judge found Edson competent to stand trial and ordered his bail cut in half to $50,000 after hearing from both sides.
Brought to tears: Kevin Edson, 25, cries during a hearing as he stands beside his attorney, Shannon Lopez, left, in Municipal Court Wednesday, May 7
Emotional hearing: A Boston Municipal Court judge found a tearful Edson competent to stand trial and ordered his bail cut in half to $50,000
Edson also must wear a GPS tracking device, attend counseling and stay on medication. He is due back in court June 3.
His mother, Joie Edson, said he has been battling a bipolar disorder for years. She would not comment after the court appearance.
Kevin Edson wept several times during the hearing, raising his cuffed hands to wipe away tears. His friends and family also sobbed.
Authorities say Edson was spotted by passers-by on Boylston Street near the marathon finish line April 15, a week before this year's race; he was walking barefoot in the rain and wearing a backpack, a black veil and makeup.
Authorities say two unattended backpacks were near the finish line, one of which was Edson's and the other was a misplaced bag from the media.
When police approached him and asked what was inside the bag, he replied a rice cooker. No explosives were found and no one was injured.
Edson's attorney, Shannon Lopez (left), said her client does not present any danger to himself or others, and he is willing to continue treatment
Edson's attorney, Shannon Lopez, said Wednesday that her inbox was flooded with emails in support of the Wakefield resident and that multiple doctors say her client is not a danger to himself or others.
She said he also has followed doctors' advice and is willing to continue treatment.
Edson previously had been sent to Bridgewater State Hospital and ordered held on $100,000 bail on charges of threatening battery, possession of a hoax explosive device, threats to commit a crime, disturbing the peace, disturbing a public assembly and disorderly conduct.
According to a police report read aloud in court last month, after Edson was read his rights, he told an officer: 'I knew what I was doing, it was conceived in my head. It's symbolism, come on. The performance got the best of me.'
Color coordination: 'Kayvon' Edson's face was painted yellow and blue, the traditional colors of the marathon, when he was arrested Tuesday night after dropping off a backpack with a rice cooker filled with confetti at the finish line on the one-year anniversary of the bombings
Edson's arrest occurred hours after ceremonies to mark last year's Boston Marathon bombings, in which two pressure cooker bombs hidden in backpacks exploded, killing three people near the finish line and injuring more than 260 others.
Edson, with addresses in Boston and Wakefield, was stopped April 15 after passersby told an officer they saw him yelling, walking barefoot down the middle of a street, veiled in black, in pouring rain.
His face was painted yellow and blue, the traditional colors of the marathon, police said.
The street was open to pedestrians at the time, and police said his presence was not a security breach.
Man behind the stunt: Edson told police that he 'got caught up in the performance' when he went through with the bomb scare
Mental problems: Edson's mother said that the former art school student, seen in court April 16, has bipolar disorder
The backpack was destroyed in a controlled explosion by police, who later determined that the contents were not explosive.
Parsons, The New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology, both in New York City, confirmed that Edson had taken classes at their schools but never graduated.
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design posted a statement on its website saying that an undergraduate student had been arrested by police and the school was cooperating with authorities, but it did not mention Edson by name.
The stunt : Witnesses spotted the first bag being dropped off by a barefoot man- later identified as Edson- dressed in all black with a black veil who was 'acting strangely' and yelling 'Boston Strong!'
What remained: A member of the bomb squad inspects the bag after a controlled detonation at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Tuesday, April 15, 2014
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Fox Host Todd Starnes Outraged That Indian-American Nina Davuluri Won Miss America
The Miss America pageant is not known for being especially thoughtful (the first question asked in the interview segment this year was about twerking, the second question about sexting, the third about Syria).
The judges seem unusually prescient this year though, with their decision to award the title to Miss New York, 24-year-old Nina Davuluri.
But New York-based Fox News & Commentary radio host Todd Starnes isn't pleased with the pick.
Davuluri's family immigrated to Fayetteville, New York, from India 30 years ago, and she played up her differences from the traditional idea of Miss America while campaigning for the title. She performed a Bollywood Fusion style dance for the talent portion. In her a video bio, she said, "Miss America has always been the girl next door, but Miss America is evolving and she is not going to look the same."
And, as Miss New York, she made diversity appreciation her main issue. "Diversity is a rich and endless source of experience, language, custom and tradition that enhances our nation and makes us unique. However, we fall behind due to a lack of understanding the diversity that exists in our country--an issue that persists at the local, state, and national levels," she said.
That might sound kind of vague and a maybe even a little corny at first, but after the torrent of hateful comments that appeared on Twitter after her win last night, it looks like Americans could use a lesson in diversity appreciation now more than ever.
See Also: Meet Miss'd America 2012
Maybe Todd Starnes can be first in line for that lesson. The Fox radio host is pissed that Davuluri beat out Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail.
Miss Kansas, a gun-toting, deer-hunting, military veteran was America's choice - but not the liberal Miss America judges' choice.— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 16, 2013
The liberal Miss America judges won't say this - but Miss Kansas lost because she actually represented American values. #missamerica— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 16, 2013
Miss Politically Correct America #missamerica— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 16, 2013
After the jump: Starnes also linked to two articles accusing Davuluri of calling the then-reigning Miss America Mallory Hagan "fat as fuck."
Meet your New Miss America http://t.co/LdkPnOPwOV— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 16, 2013
New Miss America calls herself "Miss Diversity." http://t.co/i42vvWxWvF— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) September 16, 2013
A rep for the Miss America pageant, by the way, has denied there is any truth to those the allegations about Davuluri, saying "The situation was investigated fully back in July and there is no validity to the story whatsoever."
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Publication Date : 13-08-2014
Antitrust investigations have spread to other industries, sources disclose
More than 1,000 Chinese and overseas companies in the auto industry, including manufacturers, suppliers and dealers, are involved in anti-monopoly investigations, according to an official at China's top economic planning body.
Antitrust investigations already announced in the auto and telecommunications sectors have spread to other industries, say sources close to the probes.
For example, a large number of cement and medical companies are also involved in the investigations, according to sources.
Besides recent high-profile cases, antitrust investigations into domestic companies are also underway and a monopoly case involving a state-owned company will be disclosed soon, an official at the National Development and Reform Commission, who declined to be identified, told China Daily.
The latest auto company involved is US manufacturer General Motors, which said on Tuesday its passenger vehicle joint venture in China was contacted by the commission after at least seven foreign carmakers cut prices amid the antitrust investigations.
BMW, Volkswagen's Audi, Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover, Fiat's Chrysler, and Toyota and Honda have all announced price cuts for vehicles or spare parts in July and early August.
FAW-Volkswagen's Audi division may face a fine of 1.8 billion yuan ($292 million) for operating a monopoly, The Economic Observer reported on its website on Tuesday, quoting an unnamed Audi dealer.
The report said the punishment is equivalent to 1 per cent of the company's sales in 2013, which is the minimum level as the Anti-Monopoly Law states that violators can be fined between 1 and 10 per cent of their sales revenue for the previous year. China Daily could not independently confirm the report.
Recent high-profile antitrust cases have sparked rising concerns over China's monopoly efforts, with some foreign businesses complaining that they are being targeted unfairly.
The commission official said the investigations, some of which began in 2011, are not aimed at any specific type of industry or a specific country.
"Investigations in many industries started with domestic companies and then spread to foreign companies," he said.
He said investigations into state-owned or domestically owned private enterprises are also underway and a monopoly case involving a stated-owned company will be disclosed soon.
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(Since the chat, the movie has confidently established itself as the high- class hit of the season, with a gross of $5 million and rising.) He has just flown in from Stratford-on-Avon, where he starred in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. This fall he begins work on a new big-studio production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, coproduced by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he will play the doctor opposite Robert De Niro as the creature; he will also direct. Branagh is pale with soft flesh, rich pale-honey hair, negligible lips, and the fair skin of his native Belfast (his family moved to the London suburb of Reading when he was 9), and he lounges with grace and stage presence. "I, as a director, have chosen to employ Emma," he explains, "not because she's my missus, but because she really is a very fine actress and someone who combines great wit and intelligence with a capacity to convey very strong emotion. And you don't often find that combination. 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Because of her back flare-up, she is missing the New York premiere of Much Ado; instead, she celebrates with telephone reports from New York. Having just completed filming James Ivory's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, due out in November (once again playing opposite her Howards End costar, Anthony Hopkins), she is off to Ireland to shoot In the Name of the Father, about an IRA bombing, working with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan, the director of My Left Foot. This is all very lovely, but it is not like working with her husband. "We have a shorthand, which is nice," she says. "Although I probably give Ken more trouble. And he's very patient. He'll say, 'You can't do that!' and I do it and it's 'Oh, all right.' There's no game-playing. It's an easy process, really." Ken met Em in 1986 on the set of Fortunes of War, a BBC miniseries aired here on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. 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Product OverviewDiscusses the history and philosophy of Wing Chun, a Chinese form of kung fu, and offers principles, techniques, and practical applications for self-defense *Author: Chun, Ip/ Tse, Michael *Subtitle: Traditional Chinese Kung Fu for Self-Defense and Health *Publication Date: 1998/08/01 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 7.75 *Height: 9.50
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