After Sarawakian, Now Bangladeshi ...........

[Maxus-MIFA9]

CNA reported : Gang of 5 arrested for robbing couriers

 

Police have arrested five Bangladeshi men, aged 27 to 32 years, for robbing two couriers of 500,000 ringgit last Thursday.

 

At about 2am on that day, two Malaysian couriers employed by moneychangers had planned to stay the night at Blk 50 Dorset Road before delivering their currencies to moneychangers the next morning.

 

When they entered the unit, they were ambushed by six men wearing ski masks, one of whom had a knife. The robbers then took off with a bag of cash containing 500,000 ringgit belonging to the victims.

 

When notified of the case, a police task force was deployed to investigate. Officers from the Police Intelligence Department and Special Investigation Section of CID were roped in to provide assistance.

 

One of the suspects was ambushed at Tessensohn Road on Wednesday (June 2) evening. Two other suspects were arrested at Blk 10 Gloucester Road the following day.

 

Cash amounting to S$53,000, believed to be part of the stolen money, was also recovered.

 

The fourth and fifth suspects were arrested on the same day at about 2.05am at Mackenzie Road and at 4.45pm at Rowell Road, respectively.

 

All five suspects will be charged in court on Friday with Gang Robbery with Deadly Weapons. The offence carries a jail term of not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years, and caning of not less than 12 strokes.

 

 

 

These Bangladeshi are much better and smarter than the Sarawakians....... $251,000/- (RM$500,000/-) against $400 & 3 handphones......

 

So another group of FT ..............

 

Only this incident, no injuries or death..........

Edited June 4, 2010 by Picnic06

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Which group(s) next ........

[Coupecabriolet]

nice job by all the foreign workers. (or talent, some might call them).

[LoverofCar]

  On 6/4/2010 at 4:54 AM, Picnic06 said:

Which group(s) next ........

 

 

Naturally.....the group from the dragon land...aka Ah Tiong

[Darthrevan]

  On 6/4/2010 at 9:34 AM, LoverofCar said:

Naturally.....the group from the dragon land...aka Ah Tiong

 

SG so unsafe!

[Stinky]

how come i didn't know! i live @ blk 49! gosh.

[2BDriver]

  On 6/4/2010 at 4:54 AM, Picnic06-Biante15 said:

Which group(s) next ........

Mishap still relevant with bangladesh by topic, they are now frequently hacking people's in their home country.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeXil3eXKMg[/media]

Bangladesh: US embassy worker and gay rights activist is hacked to death

The US State Department has expressed its outrage after two men – one of whom worked at the American embassy in Bangladesh and edited the country’s only LGBT magazine – were hacked to death in the capital Dhaka. 

 

The murders of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, a prominent gay rights activist, and of a friend, on Monday have sparked widespread condemnation. Suspected Islamist militants reportedly posed as couriers to get into an apartment where the brutal killings took place.

 

A third person was wounded.

 

The editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine has been ‘hacked to death’ in Dhaka.https://t.co/OJKhKo3qdH pic.twitter.com/bnBmixzUJd— Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) 25 avril 2016

 

Witnesses said the attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)” as they fled the scene.

 

Mannan previously worked at the US Embassy in Dhaka. 

 

US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat condemned the killings.

 

“We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind these murders,” she said.

 

“We are outraged,” said a spokesman for the US State Department.

 

“We are outraged.”@statedeptspox on murders of usembassydhaka employee & a fellow LGBTI activist in #Bangladesh. https://t.co/jH9hcjYY13— Department of State (StateDept) 25 avril 2016

 

It comes just days after a university professor was slain in similar fashion in Rajshahi in northwestern Bangladesh in an attack claimed by ISIL which accused him of encouraging atheism.

 

Amnesty International condemned the killings.

 

“The brutal killing today of an editor of an LGBTI publication and his friend, days after a university professor was hacked to death, underscores the appalling lack of protection being afforded to a range of peaceful activists in the country,” said Champa Patel, Amnesty International’s South Asia Director.

 

The government denies ISIL has a presence in Bangladesh, saying homegrown radicals are behind the bloodshed.

 

Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country, has seen a surge in deadly attacks against liberal and secular activists. 

 

Five secular bloggers and a publisher have been hacked to death in the country since February 2015.

 

Members of religious minorities have also been targeted.

[1fast1]

It's very sad, but I'm also very irritated by why officials and politicians insist on using this tired old cliche "senseless killing".

 

This killing was premeditated, and it obviously made sense to someone. Whether that coheres with civilised societal mores (it doesn't) is beside the point, but it's clearly not senseless. On the contrary, these terrorists were clearly sending out a dire warning to anyone who might dare to take up the reins of the cause after this poor chap, and that makes a whole lot of sense.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Turboflat4

[Still2016]

  On 4/26/2016 at 11:17 PM, Turboflat4 said:

It's very sad, but I'm also very irritated by why officials and politicians insist on using this tired old cliche "senseless killing".

 

This killing was premeditated, and it obviously made sense to someone. Whether that coheres with civilised societal mores (it doesn't) is beside the point, but it's clearly not senseless. On the contrary, these terrorists were clearly sending out a dire warning to anyone who might dare to take up the reins of the cause after this poor chap, and that makes a whole lot of sense.

 

 

Bro, senseless to us but make sense to them. Depending on our perspective and who is reporting.

 

In any case, we are the only species on this great earth who insist on killing ourselves and also killing others including the animals whom we are suppose to share space with. We take what that does not belong to us and make it ours and then fight over it.

 

Recently, I read an article on whether the dropping of Atomic bomb was necessary in the two cities in Japan. All my adult life I was biased against the Americans for doing the inhumane thing, not that it is right. However, I learnt from the article by historian that if not for the Atomic bomb dropping, there would be more deaths in the number of millions. The Japanese military would never surrender despite knowing their strength had diminished but their expansion still on the table. If the Americans were instead continue to bomb which they had been doing the many cities in Japan including a landing assault, they calculated at least a few millions in total (both sides) would have lost their lives. It was a very difficult decision to make for the US president of the day but he needed to choose between the two evil.

 

If you are interested I would go on but not bore you on Did America win or loose the Vietnam war?

 

 

However, in short, I think it is difficult in today's world, we are going to find out the truth. I remembered long ago when doing business with the Indonesian and it was one of those occasion. We had to buy a grandfather clock for our office and inscribed the Indonesian businessman's name and claiming a gift from him. He was invited to the gift giving ceremony as he was the guest and gift donor. Hence, the world we live in is very opaque. Read with an open mind.

[1fast1]

  On 4/26/2016 at 11:37 PM, Still2016 said:

Bro, senseless to us but make sense to them. Depending on our perspective and who is reporting.

What I'm saying is that it makes sense to me. Even though I totally despise the evil act, it's a fairly logical one - kill one to set an example for anyone who would dare follow. These are terrorists, terror is their aim. That's why I was disputing the use of the word "senseless". I suppose a truly senseless killing might be if an uncontrolled schizophrenic killed someone because of his delusions - that would make absolutely no sense to any rational person, even an evil one.

 

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In any case, we are the only species on this great earth who insist on killing ourselves and also killing others including the animals whom we are suppose to share space with. We take what that does not belong to us and make it ours and then fight over it.

Haha, yeah, I've heard this mentioned before. Unfortunately, it's not true. When it comes to killing members of other animal species for territory, that's very common throughout the animal kingdom. As for killing their own, chimps (which are our closest non-human relatives) have been well documented to do pretty much the same savage thing: http://phys.org/news/2010-06-chimpanzees.html

 

Humans are nothing special. For better or for worse. We are just primates with a relatively well-developed forebrain.

 

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Recently, I read an article on whether the dropping of Atomic bomb was necessary in the two cities in Japan. All my adult life I was biased against the Americans for doing the inhumane thing, not that it is right. However, I learnt from the article by historian that if not for the Atomic bomb dropping, there would be more deaths in the number of millions. The Japanese military would never surrender despite knowing their strength had diminished but their expansion still on the table. If the Americans were instead continue to bomb which they had been doing the many cities in Japan including a landing assault, they calculated at least a few millions in total (both sides) would have lost their lives. It was a very difficult decision to make for the US president of the day but he needed to choose between the two evil.

 

If you are interested I would go on but not bore you on Did America win or loose the Vietnam war?

 

 

However, in short, I think it is difficult in today's world, we are going to find out the truth. I remembered long ago when doing business with the Indonesian and it was one of those occasion. We had to buy a grandfather clock for our office and inscribed the Indonesian businessman's name and claiming a gift from him. He was invited to the gift giving ceremony as he was the guest and gift donor. Hence, the world we live in is very opaque. Read with an open mind.

Ah, but this is a bit of a digression. Maybe my own comment about "senselessness" was as well.

 

But just to give a quick answer, let me summarise what I believe about the atomic bombs. America had these immensely powerful, fearsome weapons that they'd just developed at astronomical cost, using the most brilliant intellects of the day. Other countries, including Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union had all started their own nuke programmes and were working feverishly toward their goal. But America got there first.

 

What were they going to do to "stake their claim"? A simple bloodless demonstration on an uninhabited atoll just wouldn't cut it, and detonating a live nuke on a sparsely populated area of Japan would simply have little impact and also "waste" a very expensive weapon to little military and propagandistic effect. They had to detonate the first nuke(s) on a highly populated target that could be legitimised as a military target. Vapourising people tends to get attention in a way that demolishing nature never can.

 

What about the choice of country? Was Germany ever a serious target? Sure, you can find historical records giving all sorts of strategic reasons not to target Germany, but I think the unspoken, unwritten reasons are more important. I believe a lot of it had to do with racism. It's the same reason that Japanese-Americans were shamefully interned whereas there was absolutely no internment of German-Americans (or Italian-Americans, for that matter). Since Germans were white and formed the bedrock of American society by that point, a German nuking would have been absolutely unpalatable to the white American population (which is the only one that counted back then - sadly that's largely true today as well). It was expected that the degree of empathy felt toward the Japanese victims of the nuking would've been far more blunted, and I guess they reckoned absolutely right.

 

So in the words of Gene Hackman's character in Red Tide (Captain Ramsey), they "drop(ped) that f**ker. Twice." On Japan. And I believe the main reason was as a simple demonstration to the world at large (mainly the Soviets at that point): "we have it, we're prepared to use it to kill real people, and it's every bit as powerful as you feared."

Edited April 27, 2016 by Turboflat4

[Still2016]

  On 4/27/2016 at 12:50 AM, Turboflat4 said:

What I'm saying is that it makes sense to me. Even though I totally despise the evil act, it's a fairly logical one - kill one to set an example for anyone who would dare follow. These are terrorists, terror is their aim. That's why I was disputing the use of the word "senseless". I suppose a truly senseless killing might be if an uncontrolled schizophrenic killed someone because of his delusions - that would make absolutely no sense to any rational person, even an evil one.

 

 

Haha, yeah, I've heard this mentioned before. Unfortunately, it's not true. When it comes to killing members of other animal species for territory, that's very common throughout the animal kingdom. As for killing their own, chimps (which are our closest non-human relatives) have been well documented to do pretty much the same savage thing: http://phys.org/news/2010-06-chimpanzees.html

 

Humans are nothing special. For better or for worse. We are just primates with a relatively well-developed forebrain.

 

 

Ah, but this is a bit of a digression. Maybe my own comment about "senselessness" was as well.

 

But just to give a quick answer, let me summarise what I believe about the atomic bombs. America had these immensely powerful, fearsome weapons that they'd just developed at astronomical cost, using the most brilliant intellects of the day. Other countries, including Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union had all started their own nuke programmes and were working feverishly toward their goal. But America got there first.

 

What were they going to do to "stake their claim"? A simple bloodless demonstration on an uninhabited atoll just wouldn't cut it, and detonating a live nuke on a sparsely populated area of Japan would simply have little impact and also "waste" a very expensive weapon to little military and propagandistic effect. They had to detonate the first nuke(s) on a highly populated target that could be legitimised as a military target. Vapourising people tends to get attention in a way that demolishing nature never can.

 

What about the choice of country? Was Germany ever a serious target? Sure, you can find historical records giving all sorts of strategic reasons not to target Germany, but I think the unspoken, unwritten reasons are more important. I believe a lot of it had to do with racism. It's the same reason that Japanese-Americans were shamefully interned whereas there was absolutely no internment of German-Americans (or Italian-Americans, for that matter). Since Germans were white and formed the bedrock of American society by that point, a German nuking would have been absolutely unpalatable to the white American population (which is the only one that counted back then - sadly that's largely true today as well). It was expected that the degree of empathy felt toward the Japanese victims of the nuking would've been far more blunted, and I guess they reckoned absolutely right.

 

So in the words of Gene Hackman's character in Red Tide (Captain Ramsey), they "drop(ped) that f**ker. Twice." On Japan. And I believe the main reason was as a simple demonstration to the world at large (mainly the Soviets at that point): "we have it, we're prepared to use it to kill real people, and it's every bit as powerful as you feared."

Great

 

see we agree to disagree and you knock me senseless

[Vratenza]

In the spirit of topic digression:

 

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A bikini is usually a women's abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top for the chest and panties cut below the navel.^[1][2] The basic design is simple: two triangles of fabric on top cover the woman's breasts and two triangles of fabric on the bottom cover the groin in front and thebuttocks in back.^[1] The size of a bikini bottom can range from full pelvic coverage to a revealing thong or G-string design.

 

On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.

 

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What were you thinking? A picture of a bikini model? You tiko pek!

 

Go here for your endless supply:

http://www.mycarforum.com/topic/2694161-nsfw-jasons-tiko-thread/

 

[Atonchia]

  On 4/26/2016 at 8:53 AM, 2BDriver said:

Mishap still relevant with bangladesh by topic, they are now frequently hacking people's in their home country.

Bangladesh: US embassy worker and gay rights activist is hacked to death

The US State Department has expressed its outrage after two men â one of whom worked at the American embassy in Bangladesh and edited the countryâs only LGBT magazine â were hacked to death in the capital Dhaka.

 

The murders of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, a prominent gay rights activist, and of a friend, on Monday have sparked widespread condemnation. Suspected Islamist militants reportedly posed as couriers to get into an apartment where the brutal killings took place.

 

A third person was wounded.

 

The editor of Bangladeshâs only LGBT magazine has been âhacked to deathâ in Dhaka.https://t.co/OJKhKo3qdH pic.twitter.com/bnBmixzUJdâ Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) 25 avril 2016

 

Witnesses said the attackers shouted âAllahu Akbar (God is greatest)â as they fled the scene.

 

Mannan previously worked at the US Embassy in Dhaka.

 

US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat condemned the killings.

 

âWe abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind these murders,â she said.

 

âWe are outraged,â said a spokesman for the US State Department.

 

âWe are outraged.â@statedeptspox on murders of usembassydhaka employee & a fellow LGBTI activist in #Bangladesh. https://t.co/jH9hcjYY13â Department of State (StateDept) 25 avril 2016

 

It comes just days after a university professor was slain in similar fashion in Rajshahi in northwestern Bangladesh in an attack claimed by ISIL which accused him of encouraging atheism.

 

Amnesty International condemned the killings.

 

âThe brutal killing today of an editor of an LGBTI publication and his friend, days after a university professor was hacked to death, underscores the appalling lack of protection being afforded to a range of peaceful activists in the country,â said Champa Patel, Amnesty Internationalâs South Asia Director.

 

The government denies ISIL has a presence in Bangladesh, saying homegrown radicals are behind the bloodshed.

 

Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country, has seen a surge in deadly attacks against liberal and secular activists.

 

Five secular bloggers and a publisher have been hacked to death in the country since February 2015.

 

Members of religious minorities have also been targeted.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/singapore/27-bangladeshi-nationals/2440886.html

 

They were sent back.