[chottala.com] BREAKING NEWS: Wife of BDR Chief Caught with 6 Crore Taka at Airport

Wife of BDR Chief Major General Shakil Ahmed is caught with foreign
currencies worth 6 crore Taka at Zia International Airport while
leaving the country. Customs officers on duty at the airport doubted
that she had been carrying something illegal with her and after
checking her luggage they found foreign currencies of value 6 crore
Bangladehi Taka. They immediately informed RAB Headquarter about this
and RAB officers instructed them not to disclose the news to anybody
until further instruction. After hearing the news Army Chief General
Moinuddin went there himself and ceased the money and carried both the
lady and money with him from the airport.

Customs officers are instructed not to leak out the news to newspapers
but everybody knows that it is not possible to keep such a big news
secret anywhere in the world. In fact, this is the case for all the
corruption made by senior army officials who are planning to leave
Bangladesh as well as others who already left Bangladesh.

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[chottala.com] Olmert: Cede Jerusalem, keep Israel

Olmert: Cede Jerusalem, keep Israel

 

Outgoing Premier Ehud Olmert says Israel's existence depends on returning East Jerusalem (al-Quds) and other territories to Palestinians.

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Outgoing Premier Ehud Olmert says Israel's existence depends on returning East Jerusalem (al-Quds) and other territories to Palestinians.

"If we are determined to maintain a Jewish and democratic Israel, we must concede parts of the homeland we have prayed for and dreamt of for generations, as well as Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and return to the State of Israel in 1967 with amendments," Olmert said at a ceremony held on Monday to commemorate slain Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin.

"The decision must be made now. The moment of truth is here. There is no escape. It can be missed. If, God forbid, we stall, we will lose the support for the two-state idea. There is no need to elaborate on the alternative," he was quoted by the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot as saying.

Olmert had earlier said that the dream of Greater Israel -a homeland for the Jewish people from the Nile to Euphrates- which inspired the founding fathers of Zionism, was already dead.

His remarks, however, are expected to spark anger among right wing parties. The Shas Party and other right wing factions had earlier refused to join a Kadima-led coalition in protest at the party's policy of negotiating the future of Jerusalem (al-Quds). Prime Minister designate Tzipi Livini failed to form a cabinet within the legal deadline following the move.

Israel captured and annexed East Jerusalem in the 1967Six Day War. The United Nations and other international bodies, however, condemned the move.

The issue of Jerusalem and the territories Israel annexed in the Middle East wars, has been among the thorny issues of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

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Comments   David from Canada 10/11/2008 07:16:08 PM  IP Read em and weep This should help the fanatics for israel catch up to speed. mr_tull from Israel 10/11/2008 09:03:00 PM  IP Why weep, David? This is time for optimism The Israeli prime minister who was once a staunch supporter of the settlements has finally opened his eyes to reality. This is good news. Israel is, however begrudgingly, starting to face reality and acknowledging its limits. The question is, whether Israel will find a partner on the other side. I hope you agree it is high time for peace. David J.E.W. from Canada 10/11/2008 09:33:22 PM  IP I Agree - This IS Good News - Israeli Ex Tree Mist Hard Liners Must Be Made To See Reality David does not see that in order for peace to be negotiated, there MUST be both give and take. Not just a desire to take. The Ex Tree Mist Palestinian Hard Liners Him As and other groups must be enfolded into a singular Palestinian government who will be willing to negotiate for a peace that means a side by side two state solution. I also wonder if and when the Palestinians will begin to take an approach that cements them as a singular governing entity and one that is both willing and able (Charter) to negotiate for a true and sustainable peace. Israel has proven that they can make and keep a peace. They have made and kept decades long peace plans with both Jordan and Egypt. The Palestinians so far have proven that they can not even keep a peace with themselves, let alone make a peace with Israel. Do you not see the conundrum David? Or is your view of peace the ex tree mist one calls for the complete dissolution of Israel? »   LATEST HEADLINES  Palestine Olmert: Cede Jerusalem, keep Israel Baghdad blasts kill 28, wound 48 EC Mobilizes €1.5 Million in Support of Vulnerable Palest ... Torture against Palestinians in Israeli Prisons Escalates  Iraq 'No to violation of Iraq's sovereignty' Baghdad blasts kill 28, wound 48 Baghdad blasts kill 25, wound 48  Iran Obama--fresh face for war on Iran Barak keeps Iran war on table MK: Beware of Black in White House! How do Arabs view Obama's choice for chief of staff? Barack Obama appointed Jewish congressman Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff. http://www.aljazeera.com/

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[chottala.com] Blueprints for Nazi's Auschwitz death camp found in Germany

Blueprints for Auschwitz camp found in Germany

By Erik Kirschbaum Erik Kirschbaum – 2 hrs 32 mins ago

Reuters – Architect's drawings of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz are pictured in an office of Germany's Bild …

BERLIN (Reuters) – The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany's Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.

The daily printed three architect's drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained. One has an 11.66 meter by 11.20 meter room marked "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) that was part of a "delousing facility."

No one from the federal government's archives was immediately available for comment on the authenticity or importance of the documents.

The plans, published ahead of the 70th anniversary of the "Kristallnacht" or the Nazi pogrom that was a harbinger of the Holocaust, also include a crematorium and a "L. Keller" -- an abbreviation for "Leichenkeller" or corpse cellar.

A drawing of the building for Auschwitz's main gate was also found in the documents that Bild said were believed to have been discovered when a Berlin flat was cleaned out.

The mass-circulation newspaper quoted Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, head of the federal archives office in Berlin, as saying the blueprints offered "authentic evidence of the systematically planned genocide of European Jews."

There were mass killings of about one million Jews before the Nazi's "Final Solution" was formulated in late 1941. The decision to kill Europe's 11 million Jews was made at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942.

A copy of the minutes, known as the "Wannsee Protocol," is one of the most important documents from the war.

The newly found Auschwitz blueprints are dated October 23 1941 and could offer historians earlier evidence of Nazi plans to kill Jews on a mass scale, Bild said.

"These documents reveal that everyone who had even anything remotely to do with the planning and construction of the concentration camp must have know that people were to be gassed to death in assembly-line fashion," Bild wrote.

"The documents refute once and for all claims by those who deny the Holocaust even took place," it added.

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland was the largest -- at least 1.1 million Jews were killed there.

Auschwitz I was set up in May 1940 in an old Polish army barracks. The first victims were gassed in September 1941. Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, opened in October 1941. Four large gas chambers were added to the camp in January 1942.

(Editing by Janet Lawrence)

 

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[chottala.com] Cancer genome breakthrough: Completely sequenced for the first time

Complete cancer genome sequenced for the first time Nov. 6, 2008 For the first time, a complete cancer genome, and incidentally a complete female genome, has been decoded, scientists report online Nov. 5 in Nature. In a study made possible by faster, cheaper and more sensitive methods for sequencing DNA, the researchers pinpoint eight new genes that may cause a cell to turn cancerous. These acute myeloid leukemia cells are from the bone marrow of the female patient whose complete genome was sequenced in the first decoding of a complete cancer genome. The genetic study implicated eight genes not previously associated with this form of cancer. Credit: Timothy Ley "Since cancer is a disease of the genome, this newfound ability to determine the complete DNA sequence of a cancer cell is enormously powerful," comments Francis Collins, a geneticist and former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., a group that raced to sequence the first entire human genome. "We need to know the genetic rules of cancer," says coauthor Timothy Ley of Washington University in St. Louis. Ley and colleagues read each of the 3 billion building blocks of DNA from tumor cells in a woman with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, a highly malignant form of blood and bone marrow cancer. Then the team compared the long string of code with one taken from noncancerous skin cells from the same woman. This new sequencing technology, called massively parallel sequencing, makes it possible to compare the normal DNA sequence to the cancerous DNA sequence in the same patient. That, in turn, allows researchers to find individual DNA bases—the needles in a haystack of 3 billion pieces of straw—that had mutated in the cancerous cells. Kevin Shannon, director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of California, San Francisco, studies the genes that may lead to leukemia and calls this work "a major achievement," one that is "remarkable for its rigor and precision." None of the researchers knew what to expect for the number of mutated genes in the cancerous cells. "We were flying blind," says Ley. But after rigorously pruning the data to keep only the most significant mutations, the researchers identified 10 mutations, eight of which were in genes never before implicated in AML. Of these eight new mutations, none were found to be mutated in tumors from other, smaller-scale studies, suggesting that individual AML cases are distinct. It may be that the disease is so specific doctors will need to sequence each individual with AML to determine the best course of treatment, says coauthor Elaine Mardis, also of Washington University. At the same time, because those earlier studies did not sequence the entire genome, and because this new study had a sample size of only one patient, it is too early to tell if AML has different kinds of mutations in different patients. So, equally possible is that common mutations in similar groups of genes may contribute to AML. Discovery of these gene networks could allow doctors to use these common pathways of disease to treat patients similarly. "It's fun to speculate," Maris says, "but we just don't know." Understanding the genetic basis of cancer could lead to highly personalized treatments, says Mardis. "Right now, they're all treated the same way they were 25 years ago," she says of AML patients. It would be nice, Mardis says, if doctors could tell their patients, "Here's what we know about your disease, and here are your best treatment options." Although scientists read every base pair in the patient's genome, they only analyzed mutations in the DNA sequences that produce proteins, an estimated meager 1 to 2 percent of the human genome. To find mutations in other regions called intergenic DNA will require intensive statistical analyses. "We haven't finished the job," says Ley. Because this study was designed to find genes that were mutated in a cancer genome, researchers omitted the DNA sequences from the sex chromosomes, the Xs and Ys, when making comparisons. Little is known about the differences between a male and a female genome. The research team currently has funding to support more cancer genome sequences in the next few years. "What we need are thousands of genomes from each cancer," says Ley. "We've already started a second patient, and are nearly finished, but our hopes are to do more." SOURCE: Science News R&D Daily Advantage Business Media Rockaway, NJ, 07866

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