December 17, 2005
Some 30 dog heads were found discarded in a moat near Tokyo's main detention center, police said Friday....The severed heads were mostly decomposed and some of them were skeletal, the police official said. The shape and size of the heads suggested they were of adult dogs, he said, adding that investigators believed no human heads were included....
Late Friday, an 82-year-old man who runs a neighborhood meat shop admitted to dumping the dog heads into the moat, and police are questioning him, public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News agency said.
The man, whose name was not released, told police that he imported the dogs - frozen and already separated into heads and bodies - from China to sell as food, Kyodo said. All the torsos had been sold, and as there was little interest in the heads, the butcher said he dumped them in the moat, hoping they would be eaten by the fish.
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Hussain Kamal confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the al Qaeda in Iraq leader who has a $25 million bounty on his head -- was in custody at some point last year, but he wouldn't provide further details.â€
"More than a year ago the Iraqi police in Falluja captured Zarqawi but released him after three or four hours because they did not recognise him," Hussein Kamal told Reuters.â€
http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/zarqawi_caught_released_again.htm
Ooopsie!
Posted by: In-sturgeon at December 17, 2005 06:42 PM (KzOsW)
http://www.cnn .com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/15/zarqawi.captured/index.html
(Take Out Spaces)
Posted by: In-sturgeon at December 17, 2005 06:46 PM (KzOsW)
You can get a job at Al-Reuters or Al-Jeezera, you have shown you have the ability to recycle old news, and report it as new.
That story linking was more a job for "the wayback machine."
The Jawa Report commented on it months ago.
It isn't a surprise that no one recognizes him, the media have been circling a picure of him in a goatee and a beanie, for over three years now, despite him looking completely different in recent pictures, and his actual passport photo.
Posted by: dave at December 17, 2005 07:25 PM (CcXvt)
You can get a job at McDonalds.
“Kamal originally told reporters the story in January but its repetition in a television interview prompted new questions.â€
Reuters | December 16, 2005
Posted by: In-sturgeon at December 17, 2005 08:11 PM (KzOsW)
Posted by: greyrooster at December 17, 2005 08:32 PM (TBvsM)
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at December 17, 2005 09:03 PM (JQjhA)
Al -in-sturgeon-Jeezera here is about to tell us another breaking news story:
"First Man walks on the moon"
Posted by: dave at December 17, 2005 09:14 PM (CcXvt)
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Posted by: Oyster at December 18, 2005 08:00 AM (YudAC)
I've read that if it's prepared properly, some of the toxin remains in the fish, and it makes your tongue numb.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 18, 2005 12:19 PM (CJBEv)
Fugu, especially females, harbor a bacteria in their ovaries that produce tetrodotoxin (TTX).
It's a symbiotic relationship between the fish, also commonly known as blowfish, and the bacteria.
TTX acts on voltage-gated sodium channels that control the initiation of an action potential (the nervous impulse carried by the ions Na+ and K+). TTX specifically inhibits the inactivation stage of sodium channel gating, causing a continuous action potential and a persistent nervous impulse that fails to reset.
Therefore, too much TTX causes paralysis and death by asphyxiation.
But, just the right amount leads to a feeling of numbness and euphoria.
Japanese chefs must be specially licensed to prepare fugu. It is a time honored tradition and a chef who causes the death of a patron is expected to commit Seppuku Harikari.
Posted by: in-sturgeon at December 18, 2005 03:03 PM (KzOsW)
Posted by: In-sturgeon at December 18, 2005 03:06 PM (KzOsW)
Loved the bit about the ions (Na+ & K+)
Do you know what a Bronx Cheer is?
Posted by: hondo at December 18, 2005 04:13 PM (3aakz)
Is it something that clammy-skinned Yankees do in the Bronx?
Posted by: In-sturgeon at December 18, 2005 07:28 PM (KzOsW)
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