Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun has staged his kidnapping

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"Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun Beheaded,
Terrorists Claim"

"Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun Beheaded,
Terrorists Claim" 07/04/2004 03:35 PM

""In a video broadcast by Aljazeera on
Sunday, the Islamic Retaliation
Movement/Armed Resistance Wing said US
marine Hassoun Wassef Ali would be
beheaded if detainees in US-led
occupation prisons were not freed.""

""In a video broadcast by Aljazeera on
Sunday, the Islamic Retaliation
Movement/Armed Resistance Wing said US
marine Hassoun Wassef Ali would be
beheaded if detainees in US-led
occupation prisons were not freed."" 06/28/2004 02:58 PM

U.S. Marine Hassoun Debriefed in Germany

U.S. Marine Hassoun Debriefed in Germany 07/10/2004 12:44 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 10 2004 4:31PM GMT

Marine Hassoun Set to Return to U.S.
from Germany (Reuters)

Marine Hassoun Set to Return to U.S.
from Germany (Reuters) 07/14/2004 01:55 PM
Reuters - A Lebanese-born U.S. Marine who resurfaced last week in Beirut after disappearing under mysterious circumstances in Iraq said on Wednesday he was in "good health and spirits" as he left a U.S. hospital in Germany before a scheduled return to the United States.

U.S. Marine Hassoun Debriefed in Germany
(Reuters)

U.S. Marine Hassoun Debriefed in Germany
(Reuters) 07/10/2004 10:46 AM
Reuters - A Lebanese-born U.S. marine who resurfaced this week after going missing in Iraq was in good health and being debriefed at a U.S. military hospital in Germany, a medical center spokeswoman said Saturday.

U.S. Marine Hassoun Could Return Home
Wednesday (Reuters)

U.S. Marine Hassoun Could Return Home
Wednesday (Reuters) 07/11/2004 06:24 AM
Reuters - A Lebanese-born U.S. marine who resurfaced after going missing in Iraq could be back in the United States by Wednesday after debriefing at a U.S. military hospital in Germany, a hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Marine Hassoun Returns to U.S. to Face
Questioning (Reuters)

Marine Hassoun Returns to U.S. to Face
Questioning (Reuters) 07/15/2004 04:57 PM
Reuters - A U.S. Marine, who turned up last week in Beirut after going missing three weeks earlier in Iraq, returned to the United States from Germany on Thursday to face questions about his mysterious disappearance.

Marine Hassoun Denies He Deserted in
Iraq (Reuters)

Marine Hassoun Denies He Deserted in
Iraq (Reuters) 07/19/2004 04:54 PM
Reuters - In his first public explanation of his disappearance in Iraq a month ago, a U.S. Marine said on Monday he was captured and held against his will and did not desert the military.

Alice in Wonderland staged by Japanese
cosplayers

Alice in Wonderland staged by Japanese
cosplayers 08/09/2004 06:28 PM
These Japanese cosplayers have staged and photographed an elaborate series of outdoor set-pieces from Alice in Wonderland. Their stylised costumes are quite grim and sinister in a Dave McKean sort of way. Link (via Waxy)

Sharon to Put Staged Gaza Pullout to
Cabinet Vote

Sharon to Put Staged Gaza Pullout to
Cabinet Vote 05/23/2004 04:32 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 23 2004 7:56PM GMT

Open-source fight staged on 'wrong
battleground'

Open-source fight staged on 'wrong
battleground' 11/13/2003 05:24 AM
ZDNet UK Nov 13 2003 4:42AM ET

Staged Event-Driven Architecture for
Internet Services (pdf)

Staged Event-Driven Architecture for
Internet Services (pdf) 09/18/2002 08:23 AM
As a more concrete example, Figure 1 shows the load on the U.S. Geological Survey Pasadena Field Office Web site after a large earthquake hit Southern California in October 1999. The load on the site increased almost 3 orders of magnitude over a period of just 10 minutes, causing the Web server’s network link to saturate and its disk log to fill up [142]. Note that this figure shows only the number of requests that were successfully logged by the server; due to the overload, it is likely that an even larger number of requests were present but not recorded. During the load spike, the system administrator who was responsible for the Web site was unable to login to the system remotely to clear up the disk log, and had to physically reboot the machine in order to regain control.

The most common approach to dealing with heavy load is to overprovision resources. In the case of a Web site, the administrators simply buy enough Web server machines to handle the peak load that the site could experience, and load balance across them. However, overprovisioning is infeasible when the ratio of peak to average load is very high; it is not practical to purchase 100 or 1000 times the number of machines needed to support the average load case. -- Matt Walsh "zeldman.bebe"

'Pig-Ball' Soccer Match Staged in Russia
(AP)

'Pig-Ball' Soccer Match Staged in Russia
(AP) 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
AP - In this game, everyone stinks and hogging the ball is to be expected. Ten squealing, wriggling piglets pushed (and licked) a soccer ball around a small caged pen Sunday in what organizers said was Russia's first-ever "pig-ball" championships.

Sharon to Put Staged Gaza Pullout to
Cabinet Vote (Reuters)

Sharon to Put Staged Gaza Pullout to
Cabinet Vote (Reuters) 05/23/2004 01:46 PM
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Sunday he would put a staged plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip to a vote of the Israeli cabinet by the end of the month, a senior official told Reuters.

Life-size Candyland game staged by
Nebraska college students

Life-size Candyland game staged by
Nebraska college students 02/05/2005 09:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: 75+ students at Hastings College in Nebraska are building a life-sized version of the Candyland game (pictured here: three students posing as the "Gloppy Chocolate Swamp") next week. This looks like a very ambitious project, and the site claims the inspiration came from "a philosophy paper about Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge." Link (Thanks, Chris!)

Kidnapping Entrepreneurs in Iraq

Kidnapping Entrepreneurs in Iraq 03/28/2005 08:09 AM
NYT.  The kidnapping business in Iraq.  Scattered anecdotal evidence suggests that the epidemic of kidnapping, especially of children, is a force like no other in driving from Iraq the educated professionals who are critically needed for the rebuilding of the country. As stoic as Iraqis often are about the perils they face in their daily lives, kidnapping contributes to the national sense of instability and fuels mutual distrust - particularly because many kidnappings rely on people close to the target who pass information on net worth, daily habits and other matters of interest to hostage takers.

Technology makes it easier:

A profusion of mobile phones and SIM cards - memory chips for the phones - sold throughout Iraq from small and often unregistered shops made tracing calls from sophisticated kidnappers all but impossible, Colonel Faisel said. And he said that for all their help, American military and intelligence officials in Iraq had been slow to share surveillance technology that could aid the Iraqis in nailing the callers.

A highly decentralized business:

At least three different groups of kidnapping entrepreneurs became involved in his case, he said, the one that kidnapped him, another that guarded the container, and a third that tortured him periodically with steel-bristled brushes. The third group bargained with the first group to "purchase" him.

N.J. Woman Charged With Kidnapping

N.J. Woman Charged With Kidnapping 12/25/2003 02:02 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 0:38AM ET

Federal Charge Possible in N.D.
Kidnapping (AP)

Federal Charge Possible in N.D.
Kidnapping (AP) 04/18/2004 09:50 AM
AP - The man charged with kidnapping University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin could face a federal murder charge after the woman's body was apparently discovered in a ravine near his hometown.

Federal charge possible in N.D.
kidnapping

Federal charge possible in N.D.
kidnapping 04/18/2004 12:23 PM

Three Teens Accused of Kidnapping Boy,
15 (AP)

Three Teens Accused of Kidnapping Boy,
15 (AP) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
AP - Three teenagers kidnapped a 15-year-old and ordered his father to drop off a $50 ransom at a Taco Bell restaurant, authorities said. The father called police instead, and the teens were arrested.

Iraqi PM rejects kidnapping deal

Iraqi PM rejects kidnapping deal 07/24/2004 09:31 AM
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi tells Egypt not to bow to kidnappers who seized an Egyptian diplomat.

Japanese Man Sues Over Iraq Kidnapping
(AP)

Japanese Man Sues Over Iraq Kidnapping
(AP) 06/09/2004 05:51 AM
AP - A Japanese activist who was briefly held captive in Iraq has sued his own government, saying its decision to send troops to the region angered his kidnappers and was to blame for his ordeal.

Japanese Man Sues Gov't for Kidnapping
(AP)

Japanese Man Sues Gov't for Kidnapping
(AP) 06/09/2004 02:54 AM
AP - A Japanese activist who was briefly held captive in Iraq has sued his own government, saying its decision to send troops to the region angered his kidnappers and was to blame for his ordeal.

Two Egyptians Seized in Baghdad
Kidnapping

Two Egyptians Seized in Baghdad
Kidnapping 09/24/2004 03:45 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 24 2004 7:59AM GMT

Baghdad kidnapping crisis deepens

Baghdad kidnapping crisis deepens 09/24/2004 07:20 AM
Two Egyptians are seized in Baghdad as fears mount in the UK and Italy over their kidnapped nationals.

Two Egyptians Seized in Baghdad
Kidnapping (Reuters)

Two Egyptians Seized in Baghdad
Kidnapping (Reuters) 09/24/2004 03:55 AM
Reuters - Gunmen kidnapped two Egyptians during the night in Baghdad, police said on Friday, as relatives of a seized Briton, whose two colleagues have been beheaded, waited for news on his fate.

Militants Use Kidnapping as Their Most
Powerful Weapon in Iraq

Militants Use Kidnapping as Their Most
Powerful Weapon in Iraq 07/25/2004 02:24 PM
Two Pakistanis working for a Kuwaiti-based company were believed to have been kidnapped today.

Two Egyptians Seized in Latest Baghdad
Kidnapping

Two Egyptians Seized in Latest Baghdad
Kidnapping 09/24/2004 07:14 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 24 2004 11:18AM GMT

Man convicted of kidnapping 90 years ago
cleared by DNA evidence

Man convicted of kidnapping 90 years ago
cleared by DNA evidence 05/05/2004 05:30 AM
National Post May 5 2004 9:05AM GMT

Italian Priest Accused of Kidnapping
Prostitutes (Reuters)

Italian Priest Accused of Kidnapping
Prostitutes (Reuters) 03/17/2005 03:16 AM
Reuters - His defenders in the Catholic Church call it tough love. His critics call it kidnapping.

US troops kidnapping family members of
Ba'athists and locking them in Abu
Ghraib

US troops kidnapping family members of
Ba'athists and locking them in Abu
Ghraib 05/26/2004 09:11 AM
This is a heart-rending account of an Iraqi woman whose father was a low-ranking Ba'athist. US troops came to bring him in for questioning, but he was out of the country, getting prostate surgery, so they kidnapped her husband, took him to Abu Ghraib, and declared him to have "intelligence value." The prison guards -- whom the Red Cross have documented as torturing others with "intelligence value" -- tell her that she can have her husband back if she produces her father. I read this and I ask myself: how can the US ever convince the Iraqi people of their goodwill sufficiently to abide under a US-declared "democratic ruler?" How will the US ever get out of Iraq and what kind of hollowed-out, failed state will it leave in its wake? Link (via Electrolite)

Iraqi Kidnapping Tale Combines Perilous
Mix of Fact and Rumor

Iraqi Kidnapping Tale Combines Perilous
Mix of Fact and Rumor 04/17/2005 09:20 PM
The three Iraqi Army battalions sent to the town of Madaen found no armed Sunni mobs and no cowering Shiite victims.

Marine Bot

Marine Bot 08/09/2004 01:31 PM
Marine Bot 0.81 Released

Muzzling a Marine

Muzzling a Marine 06/04/2004 03:39 PM
The Pentagon orders the military spokesman featured in the acclaimed documentary "Control Room" not to talk -- and now he plans to walk.

Marine Aquarium OS X 2.0

Marine Aquarium OS X 2.0 08/04/2004 10:32 PM
You’ve seen aquarium programs before, but you’ve never seen anything like this!

"The Cigar Marine "

"The Cigar Marine " 05/19/2004 03:02 AM

When Marine recruiters go way beyond the
call

When Marine recruiters go way beyond the
call 06/17/2005 04:32 PM
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting that United States military recruiters have found a new way of recruiting new soldiers.

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert (AP)

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert (AP) 07/19/2004 03:10 PM
AP - Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on duty in Iraq, insisted on Monday that he was captured by enemy forces.

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert 07/19/2004 03:23 PM
Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Iraq, said today that he was not a deserter.
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