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Lord's Resistance Army and Uganda sign peace pact


Al-Jazeera
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:43 UTC
The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have signed the last in a series of pacts, paving the way for a final peace agreement.

Joseph Kony (LRA)
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LRA chief Joseph Kony with one of his
commanders Vincent Otti at Rikwamba

The latest signing follows months of on-and-off talks in the southern Sudanese city of Juba, where the rebels once had their bases.

Riek Machar, chief mediator, told the delegations after signing the texts: "You have finally signed the necessary agreements and protocols for the final agreement."

The texts provide for the disarmament and demobilisation of the LRA.
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SOTT Focus: Reading the numbers

Simon Davies
Sott.net
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:23 UTC
The UK government is desperately trying to rescue a large UK mortgage lender while the Federal Reserve is secretly funding US banks to keep them afloat. The collapse of the international banking system is imminent. For the elite it will be a bonanza while for the rest of us it spells a return to servitude in a feudal society.
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Into the mind of a psychopath: Sex offender fantasized about jail guards

Doug Schmidt
Windsor Star
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:25 UTC
While serving time for sexual assault, Jeffrey Bastien would sneak his cell door open a crack and fantasize about molesting female guards, a dangerous offender hearing heard Friday.
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BBC postpones teenage suicide drama


The Press Association
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:14 UTC
The BBC has postponed a drama about teenage suicide in the light of recent deaths in Bridgend.

Dis/Connected looks at the impact of the death of a teenage girl on her friends. No date has yet been set for when it will now be shown.

A total of 17 young people are thought to have taken their lives in the county of Bridgend in little more than a year. The most recent death, on Tuesday, was of 16-year-old Jenna Parry, who was found hanging near her home in Cefn Cribbwr.
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Father of Bridgend suicide teenager says death was linked

Richard Smith
Mirror
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:13 UTC
A grieving dad yesterday insisted there are links between at least three of the young Bridgend suicide victims.

Christopher Claypole's stepson David Dilling, 19, was the second of 17 from the town to have been found hanged in just over a year.
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Cult

Bridgend, suicide and the internet: the facts


Times Online
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:57 UTC
The tragic history of suicides in the town and the search for an explanation.

The town of Bridgend

The former mining town, population 39,000, has struggled to attract new industries. The claimant count in Bridgend is 9%, the second highest in Wales, with many on incapacity benefit. Historically, it has had a high suicide rate and, as a coastal town with high unemployment rates, a high rate of suicide among young males might be expected.
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U.S. issues notice on downing of satellite


CNN
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:23 UTC
The U.S. Navy likely will make its first attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Wednesday night. The U.S. government issued a formal notice warning ships and planes to stay clear of a large area of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii.
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Cult

Bridgend Suicides: Another young person's body found


BBC News
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:12 UTC
Another body of a young person has been found in the Bridgend area.

The girl was named locally as 16-year-old Jenna Parry, who was from the village of Cefn Cribwr, around five miles from Bridgend.

Her body was found early this morning in a woodland area by a man walking his dog across the village common.

The discovery came ahead of a briefing this afternoon by South Wales Police about the number of suspected suicides in the county over the past year.

The death in Cefn Cribwr is the 17th suspected suicide of a young person in the Bridgend county area.
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Cult

Bridgend, South Wales: Two cousins from 'suicide town' hang themselves within hours as death toll rises

Michael Seamark and Luke Salkeid
Daily Mail
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:44 UTC
The death toll in a small town hit by a spate of suicides rose to 16 yesterday when two young cousins were found hanged. They died hours apart, leaving the South Wales community of Bridgend reeling from the continuing string of tragedies.
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SOTT Focus: Burka Bombers: Spontaneously Exploding Iraqi Women

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:22 UTC


The evil 'Burka bombers of Baghdad', shown here with detonator.

Did you hear the one about the exploding Iraqi women?

Two women walk into two separate pet markets in Baghdad with a box of birds. They walk up to a vendor and say: "I hear you are enjoying something of a boom in birds these days, how much will you give me for these specimens?" Before the vendor can reply a large explosion destroys most of the stalls in both markets, killing one hundred people and maiming hundreds more. Later that day a report of the events appears in all of the world's newspapers...
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