Daily Rotten Archives January 5, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Al Qaeda cunt bomber thwarted Daily Record | Submitted by: Notorious K "A British Airways flight to America was cancelled at the last minute yesterday because a female al-Qaeda operative planned to blow up the jet over the US capital. FBI agents learned she planned to smuggle the bomb on board inside her body and detonate the device as the Boeing 777 flew into Washington... A senior Scotland Yard source said the would-be bomber planned to hide up to 12 oz of plastic explosive in her vagina. The source added: 'Smuggling a bomb on to a plane by this method is one of our worst nightmares. If you do not have specific information about the suspect, it would be impossible to carry out an intimate body search of every female passenger.'" Read article... Drastic head lice remedy causes tragedy Oakland Tribune | Submitted by: Burgermeister Meisterburger "[Koran Akindele Jenkin] had picked up head lice in his thick, black shoulder-length dreads during a backyard campout with a group of friends... Bent over the sink, Nzinga covered her son's eyes and face with a towel and soaked the hair in gas... somehow the pilot light on the stove flared, sending enough of a spark to set Koran's head ablaze... He was burned over 23 percent of his body and spent two weeks at Doctor's Hospital in Pinole and two months at Shriner's Hospital For Children in Sacramento. He underwent eight surgeries, including many skin grafts. His right hand, which sustained fourth-degree burns, was so badly damaged doctors had to amputate all his fingers." Read article... Nigerian rebels attempt to impose Taliban II BBC | Submitted by: FaceInTheSea "An insurrection by Islamic militants in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Yobe has been ended by the police and army, say local officials. However the BBC's Mato Adamu in Yobe says that clashes are continuing in some areas. State Governor Bukar Ibrahim said many 'Taleban-oriented radicals' seeking an Islamic state had been killed... The uprising began early last week when militants attacked police stations in a number of towns, burned buildings and stole large quantities of weapons. At one state building they occupied, the militants pulled down the Nigerian flag and raised that of Afghanistan." Read article... How the Secret Service protects Bush from public dissent San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anyone other than Bush in '04 "When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up 'free speech zones' or 'protest zones,' where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event... When Bush visited [St. Louis] on Jan. 22, 150 people carrying signs were shunted far away from the main action and effectively quarantined. Denise Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri commented, 'No one could see them from the street. In addition, the media were not allowed to talk to them. The police would not allow any media inside the protest area and wouldn't allow any of the protesters out of the protest zone to talk to the media.'" [Cowardly and indefensible.] Read article... Another reason for separating church and state CNN | Submitted by: skirt chaser "Authorities in Malaysia's conservative Terengganu state plan to ban non-Muslim women wearing mini-skirts or figure-hugging dresses to work as part of a drive against indecency, state officials said on Monday. Muslim women will have to wear head scarves and loose dresses to office, they said, adding employers risked losing their business licenses and face fines if the staff flouted the rules. 'The general policy is that non-Muslim women should dress decently,' said Hadi Awang, chief minister of the northeastern state and leader of the hard-line Islamic party PAS... 'The PAS government will not tolerate females, including those from different religions, wearing such clothes during working hours,' one state official said." Read article... Ugandan rebels still stealing children Independent | Submitted by: Goyra "Martha Fambi, 15, paused for breath under a line of giant mahogany trees. 'We are afraid to sleep at home,' she said tightening her two-year-old sister on to her back. 'The rebels come at night looking for children. They want to abduct us.' She excused herself and slipped back into the rushing human stream. These children are northern Uganda's 'night commuters,' the unwilling prey of one of Africa's strangest yet most tragic wars. They cannot sleep at home for fear of abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel movement with a ghastly recruitment technique." Read article... Jesus plows car into church KSDK-TV 5 St. Louis | Submitted by: Channing Derry "Twelve-hundred people were forced to evacuate a local church after a man crashed a car into the lobby. The man first tried to give a package to the pastor, then the St. Louis County Bomb and Arson Squad was called. Police say the a 29-year-old man drove his car through the front doors of the Life Christian Center, an evangelical Christian church on Gravois west of Interstate 270... Ushers, along with Associate Pastor Mike Shepard, escorted the man out of church services and it appeared he was prepared to leave the property... 'The man got in the car, two of our ushers kind of backed off, to give him some room to be able to drive off, because he got into his car, but instead of driving off, he drove through the front door.'" Read article... Donut scam artist sent to prison Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: ringo "Robert Ligon, a 68-year-old health-food executive, is scheduled to begin serving 15 months in a federal prison Tuesday. His crime: willfully mislabeling doughnuts as low-fat. Exhibit A: The label on his company's 'carob coated' doughnut said it had three grams of fat and 135 calories. But an analysis by the Food and Drug Administration showed that the doughnut, glazed with chocolate, contained a sinfully indulgent 18 grams of fat and 530 calories... Ligon bought full-fat doughnuts from Cloverhill Bakery, a Chicago company, and repackaged them as diet doughnuts. It was a lucrative operation: Mr. Ligon would buy doughnuts for 25 cents to 33 cents each and then resell the mislabeled versions for a dollar each." Read article... Microsoft forgets to register fake domain Money | Submitted by: Deviation "Game developer/publisher Ubisoft and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft are both feeling the sting of that lesson these days as the failure to purchase a URL prominently displayed in one of the Xbox's flagship titles this holiday season has turned the game into an inadvertent advertisement for a Web site featuring hard core pornography. Rainbow Six 3 is the latest in UbiSoft's popular series... About two-thirds of the way through the game, there's a level set in a garage with posters adorning the wall. The URL at the bottom of each of those posters links to a Web site featuring graphic images, hundreds of links to XXX pictures and the welcome message 'Welcome to Interracialporno!'" Read article... Woman rapes sleeping man Aftonbladet | Submitted by: Dusik "The 30-year-old man was tired and lay down on the sofa to sleep. He woke up one hour later to realise the 22-year-old woman was having sex with him... The woman was encouraged by her 40-year-old male friend who was also in the apartment. The man is thought to have given her the idea to perform sexual acts and he even filmed or photographed the misconduct." Article in Norwegian. Read article... Boy unites with Piggly Wiggly claw machine Sheboygan Press | Submitted by: MadTown Bobo "There were some tense moments Saturday afternoon at the Washington Square Piggly Wiggly when a 7-year-old boy climbed inside a stuffed-animal grabber machine and remained there for an hour... The boy tried to get out but couldn’t, because the flap on the chute only moves in one direction. Instead of breaking into the machine, the fire department called a locksmith. While waiting for the locksmith, the fire department moved the machine to the back of the store away from the view of customers. 'It became a viewing circus,' [Sheboygan FD Shift Commander Mark Zittel] said." Read article... Bush administration helping employers cut overtime pay msnbc.msn.com | Submitted by: optional "The Labor Department is giving employers tips on how to avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible under new rules expected to be finalized early this year... Among the options for employers: cut workers' hourly wages and add the overtime to equal the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible. The department says it is merely listing well-known choices available to employers, even under current law. 'We're not saying anybody should do any of this,' said Labor Department spokesman Ed Frank." [Nah, you're just circulating a how-to manual (you lying douchebag).] Read article... Torturing foreigners OK if conducted by another country San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: BeauCoup "Arar denied any connection to terrorists. He was not accused of any crimes, but U.S. agents wanted him questioned further by someone whose methods might be more persuasive than theirs. So, they put Arar on a private plane and flew him to Washington, D.C. There, a new team, presumably from the CIA, took over and delivered him, by way of Jordan, to Syrian interrogators... The Justice Department wanted him to be questioned by Syrian military intelligence, whose interrogation methods our government has repeatedly condemned... As one intelligence official explained: 'We don't kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the shit out of them.'" Read article...