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India: a global hub for warship building
Broadsword December 14, 2009 Broadsword, defence planning, Defence Production, Indian Navy, region, shipbuilding, strategy,
The Project 17 frigate, INS Sahyadri, being fitted out at the Mazagon Dock, Mumbai
by Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 15th Dec 09
Strategic circles are abuzz with rumours that the United Kingdom will soon offer India one of the new-generation aircraft carriers that it is constructing, since they are turning out too expensive for the Royal Navy to afford. Interestingly, India will almost certainly turn down the offer.
The Royal Navy had planned to build two Carrier Vessels Future (CVFs): the 65,000 tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. With the budgeted price of US $6.4 billion (Rs 30,000 crores) for the pair now apparently the cost of each, building a third and selling it abroad is an option being considered to reduce the unit price. But, in contrast to this exorbitant price, the cost of India's 44,000 tonne Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), under construction at Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), is barely a third of the Queen Elizabeth. And the Indian Navy's next IAC, a 60,000 tonne behemoth like the Queen Elizabeth, will cost less than half its British counterpart.
In the gloomy framework of Indian defence production, warship building has emerged as a silver lining. The Kolkata class destroyers, being built at Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai, will cost the navy Rs 3800 crores each, one-third the global price for comparative warships. The INS Shivalik, now completing sea trials, is a world-class frigate built at Indian prices. Earlier this year, addressing an industries body, the Indian Navy's chief designer, Rear Admiral MK Badhwar, called for making India a global hub for building warships.
While his appeal might have been tinged with strategic motivation --- a larger warship industry would bring down unit prices, providing the navy with even more bang for the buck --- there is little doubt that shipbuilders would profit more from crafting warships than from slapping together merchant vessels. India has developed the capabilities, including, crucially, the design expertise, to produce world-class warships. But the defence shipyards do not have the capacity to meet even the Indian Navy's needs; playing the international warship market needs clear-sighted government intervention to synergise the working of public and private shipbuilders.
Building a merchant ship is a relatively cheap and simple process, from design to outfitting. Essentially it involves welding together a hull (often from imported steel) and then installing imported systems such as engines, radars, the steering, navigation and communications systems, and some specialist systems, e.g. for cargo handling. Imported components form the bulk of the cost, with little value addition within the shipyard. A commercial shipyard's business plan revolves around bulk manufacture, compensating for the small profit margins by churning out as many ships as possible.
Creating a warship is infinitely more complex, and expensive. The design process is critical, with complex software shaping the "stealthiest" possible ship, virtually undetectable to an enemy. Next, a host of sensors and weapons must be accommodated to deal with different threats: enemy ships, submarines, aircraft and incoming missiles. Harmonising their different frequencies, and canalising information and weapons control into a single command centre, involves weaving an elaborate electronic tapestry.
Actually building the warship is a labour-intensive task, which involves painstakingly duplicating key systems so that the vessel can sail and fight even with one side blown out by the enemy. More than 400 kilometres of wiring must be laid out inside, all of it marked and accessible to permit repair and maintenance. A modern frigate has 25 kilometres of pipelines, built from 10,000 separate pieces of piping.
All this generates many jobs. An army of skilled craftsmen, many more than in merchant shipbuilding, does most of this work manually, through an elaborate eco-system of 100-200 private firms feeding into each warship. And these numbers are growing as defence shipyards increasingly outsource, using their own employees only for core activities like hull fabrication; fitting propulsion equipment; and installing weapons systems and sensors.
In this manpower-intensive field, India enjoys obvious advantages over the European warship builders that rule the market. These advantages are far less pronounced in merchant shipbuilding, where Korean and Chinese shipyards are turbocharged by a combination of inexpensive labour, indirect subsidies, and unflinching government support.
What makes India a potential powerhouse in warship building is not so much its labour-cost advantage as a strong design capability that the navy has carefully nurtured since 1954, when the Directorate General of Naval Design first took shape. The importance of design capability has been amply illustrated in the bloated CVF programme. The UK, having wound up its naval design bureau, has already paid over a billion dollars to private companies to design the aircraft carrier. And with every minor redesign, not unusual while building a new warship, the design bill and the programme cost goes higher.
India has everything it takes to be a warship building superpower: the springboard of design expertise; cheap and skilled labour; and mounting experience in building successful warships. What it lacks is capacity, which the government can augment with the help of private shipyards. This will significantly augment private shipyard revenue, boost defence exports, and provide the government with another strategic tool for furthering its interests in the Indian Ocean region.
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Karupaswamy 14 December 2009 at 20:18
We cannot compete with china on products that are mass produced. Instead we should choose a one of a kind product product and carve a niche market for ourselves and warship shipbuilding is a good opportunity provided we capitalize on it.
Vishnu.Vyasan 14 December 2009 at 20:28
Ajai,
The second IAC will be of 60000 tons is confirmed news?
The design capability is critical, But what our Defense shipyards should learn is to deliver in time. By the time the defense yards complete the warship, the whole design would be become obsolete. This will make IN to make more changes to the following one's and more delays.
The only thing of hope is that, they are modernizing in a big way. May be this modular construction drive will cut the construction time of the future projects.
joydeep ghosh 14 December 2009 at 20:48
Ajai sir
all u said is good 2 ears
but first thing first
1. The last I heard IAC being built in Cochin is a 40000 DWT warship, u r saying its 44000, whos correct.
2. What abt the various kickback charges related to the scorpeone submarine deal, isnt it delaying the construction of these subs.
3. U r saying that we r putting several big pieces together to create a warship. bt to bring down the cost of warship its actually the small pieces that need to be made in India and purchased by IN.
consider the situation:
Few yrs ago, I heard that Flanges (dont remembr it sounded like that) required by IN were offered by Indian makers for Rs 3-Rs 5 a piece, but the IN went for bulgarian ones for Rs 1.06 lakhs each. (talk abt corruption n discouragement)
4. Why not employ people of other nationalities experienced in shipbuilding (russians/bulgarians/isrealis)
5. Is there a possibility of creating talent pool in warship design from IIT n Engg colleges.
6. Building a warship is one thing n maintaining a warship is another, remembr we lost just 1 ship in war but 2 ships in piece time. INS Sindhukirti is laying in the Vizag docks for the last 5 yrs n is expected to remain there 4r next 5 yrs. (talk abt wastage of resources n tax payers money)
7. India was to receive two Akula-2's but I hear we will get only one - the ex Nerpa as INS Chakra. will the 2nd one be made in India. Could you clarify?
The far-sightedness of naval planners matches the near-sightedness of our netas & babus.
Thankfully, they have been unable to damage this.
The army & the air force can well do to learn this. This will enable the Indian defense industry to meet their needs over the long-term. This will eliminate sagas like LCA & Arjun.
how good are we in building a nuclear Aircraft carrier?
Ajai Ji,
In some of your posts there will be truly filmy style dishum-dishum (your last post regarding french-kaveri tie-up), and some it seems have pin drop silence.
i suppose navy is as important as other services, or is it that people understand that navy having its own design beareu and highest indigenous content is considered highly mature for bloggers to comment ??
AK 15 December 2009 at 05:09
Shuklaji is on India Shining campaign!
Looking at the cost factor the CVF class carrier will be thrice as costlier at the IAC.But will IAC be at par with CVF.Will we build IAC as lethal as CVF.
If we buy CVF there will be two benefits:
1>. A strategic shift of Naval power balance in favor of India.China will take 30 years to even come closer to India.
2.> We can learn a lot of modern technologies with from this carrier and utilize the same for the future.
3.> A small warship like shivalik is still nowhere.keeping this into account I think IAC may come in 2015 or 2017.But CVF and Gorshkov can fill the GAP
The Disadvantage is the cost.
Mr. Shukla, you are far off course in regards to the difficulties in civilian shipbuilding. Civilian shipbuilding is neither a cheap nor simple process. You cannot simply separate civilian shipbuilding and military shipbuilding into two easily distinct separate categories when they are in fact two sides of the same coins. Skills and expertise derived from civilian shipbuilding go directly into military shipbuilding.
One of the major reasons why military shipbuilding in the U.S. and the U.K. are in arrears is because their civil ship building industries have been eviscerated by economic competition. Design expertise has been lost, skilled workers have been lost, institutional advantages are decaying. This leads towards ever more expensive and delayed military projects, and not to mention reworks due to shoddy construction.
India emerging as some sort of hub for global military ship building is a pure wish fulfilling fantasy. You cannot maintain an advanced military ship building industry without an equally productive commercial ship building industry. It is simply not possible, even for navies that order as many ships as the United States.
You claim that India has everything it takes to be a ship building "superpower", but in reality, it really has nothing. India has a labor cost advantage, but not in shipbuilding which requires it's own particular set of skills that need to be constantly maintained. Skilled workers do not grow on trees and they require a large civilian sector to keep them employed during the downtime between defense projects. I have seen some of the handiwork left by Indian welders, it is nothing to boast of. They cannot compare to the quality of South Korean or Chinese workers. Shipbuilding engineers require civilian projects to keep their skills up to date and to learn new best practices to keep themselves competitive.
You also claim that India's military shipbuilding can support hundreds of companies, but this is really laughable. There is not nearly enough money involved to support that many, and small firms simply do not have the skills or capacity to execute miliary ship integration. There is a reason in the U.S. and U.K. that shipbuilding is handled by the likes of Northrup Grumman and BAE and not say Babu's ship building limited. Speaking of which, India doesn't even have the technological base to build warships on it's own as almost all critical components are imported from abroad and require foreign specialists aboard for installation. Take for example the P-17 project, the issues that cropped up installation of the General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines, or during it's outfitting, there were many Russians aboard for the installation of the radar and weapon systems, both of which naturally were imported from Russian and this required skillsets that no Indian's possessed. Think also of why anyone would turn to India for military ship building when everyone is already desperate to prop up their own ship building sectors.
The P-17 project is a perfect example actually of the limitations of Indian ship building. It has been nine years since the hull was laid down and it has still not been commissioned (it was supposed to have been six months ago). Think about it, the P-17 frigate is a mature and some would say old-fashioned design using in-service equipment and nine years later, it is still not commissioned. Even the type 45 destroyers that the UK have commissioned were considered behind schedule and above cost, even though they included radical new capabilities, were ready in little more than half that time.
No, claiming that India will be some sort of military ship building powerhouse is like claiming that your average middle aged flabby uncleji can run a whole marathon. Technically, it is possible given the limits of human physiology, but he will never lose the weight and gain the stamina to do so and him boasting of being able to do so is just that, empty boasting.
AG 15 December 2009 at 19:51
The question is not capabiity as some users doubt. The basic problem lies in project management in our country which is pathetic. Having the opportunity to look at the defence operations as well as private sector in defence domain, I strongly feel we can be self sufficient atleast (hub - dream?). And with cos like L&T coming up with the largest shipyard, and looking at warship building, the day of "respectable" self reliance is not far. However, the shipyards will need to have a balance of commercial and defence shipbuilding order booking to make economic sense.
While some may criticise Ajay as a campaigner for India Shining, please note that it is lack of this national confidence that holds us back in our progress in all areas.
Shukla ji,I don't believe when IAC or Arihant will be inducted.6 billion will be cost to buy a new CVF which can host 40 to 50 aircraft compared to 3 billion for a refitted & OLD machine like Gorshkov which can just host 20 to 25 aircraft.So how is CVF costlier.We can't make diesel electric submarine which we need a lot but we are project we can make nuclear submarines.Can you ask the nuclear design bureau whether how good is Arihant when compared to Astute or Seawolf
Make commercial ship building tax free
Broadsword 16 December 2009 at 06:10
Joydeep:
On the one hand, the MoD is endeavouring to build indigenous capability; on the other, you are suggesting bringing in East European engineers!
Everyone knows that building a warship is one thing and maintaining it is another. So how does that affect India's warship building programme? Are you suggesting that we stop building and focus solely on maintaining warships?
There is certainly a possibility of maintaining a talent pool of designers. But for that you need to be training many more designers than India does.
Anonymous 22:12:
You say: "You cannot simply separate civilian shipbuilding and military shipbuilding into two easily distinct separate categories when they are in fact two sides of the same coins."
They should be. In India they never have been!
You say: "Skills and expertise derived from civilian shipbuilding go directly into military shipbuilding."
They should. In India they never have! If you have evidence that civil shipbuilding in India has fed into the military programme, I would be interested in seeing it.
You say, "You cannot maintain an advanced military ship building industry without an equally productive commercial ship building industry."
Do explain how you reach that conclusion plz.
You say, "Skilled workers do not grow on trees and they require a large civilian sector to keep them employed during the downtime between defense projects. I have seen some of the handiwork left by Indian welders, it is nothing to boast of."
You've been reading up on defence economics, sure, but you've clearly been reading western authors. In India, there is no downtime. Yards are building to capacity and need more workers.
And do tell me, which warship have you seen where the welding is "nothing to boast of?"
You say, "There is not nearly enough money involved to support that many, and small firms simply do not have the skills or capacity to execute miliary ship integration. There is a reason in the U.S. and U.K. that shipbuilding is handled by the likes of Northrup Grumman and BAE and not say Babu's ship building limited."
Why the hell do you keep citing the U.K. and U.S.? When I last looked, the tricolour was still flying over Mazagon Dock and GRSE.
Actually, I have a list of 200 companies, small, medium and large, which participate in shipbuilding in Indian defence shipyards. You can keep theorising as much as you like, but it's already happening!
You write: "Take for example the P-17 project, the issues that cropped up installation of the General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines, or during it's outfitting, there were many Russians aboard for the installation of the radar and weapon systems"
You've been reading my earlier articles!! You're arguing that, since Indian warships have some foreign weapons and sensors, they are not Indian, never mind that they were designed and built in Indian yards?
It's not worth rebutting such a juvenile argument.
You write, "It has been nine years since the hull was laid down and it has still not been commissioned (it was supposed to have been six months ago)."
Do one thing! Wherever you are posting from, I'm sure there is Google there?? Well look for the story of new Indian ship designs and delays you'll get your answer.
The INS Shivalik is not a middle-aged marm. It's a world-class battleship. But, I suppose, since you've never seen it, never been on it, never analysed its integrated capabilities and never really compared it with what else is on the market, you will keep dismissing it. There is little I can do in the face of such obduracy.
There is a Punjabi saying, "Kuchh bhi keh lo, meri murgi diyan teen tanga haigiyan". That translates into "You can say anything you like, my chicken has three legs". And that, my friend, is how you're arguing.
Vivek Goel 16 December 2009 at 11:58
It won't be a big surprise if our incompetent , foolishly selfish and shortsighted politicos let even his oppertunity pass by .
Any way I am wondering that our govt will be saying no to a brand new Aircraft carrier (AC) which might cost around 3 billion but is wasting it's time in bargaining for Russian decommissioned AC .
Even if India has paid some money to Russian why can't they scrap it and go fr a brand new one and book that money for losses or try and bargain to get mig29k for that money
I wonder with the current building capability and even if a major expansion is under taken will Indial be abe to make another AC any way before 2025.
And how is the feasibility of ramping up war ship building ablities ASAP and proposing to construct the ships for Britain. In case this is possible it can be very benifical for both the countries.
CVF will cost around $ 6 bn,not 3 bn.
that's a LOT of money !
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When they throw around that phrase "pioneer in the auto industry" you can hardly get more pioneering in design than Harley Earl, not only a giant in the industry in America but at 6'6" a giant of a man. America's car industry developed differently from that in Europe, England and Japan. We got hooked early on the three-year model change, what came to be called "Planned Obsolescence" and this book is about the genius that invented that.
Before Earl came along, engineers developed a car and little thought was given toward making attractive shapes. Designers were thought of as "sissies" and engineers commanded the look of the product.
This book is not only about Harley Earl but there's a good bit of Earl family history before you get to the auto business, such as how Earl's forbearers were actual pioneers in that they came to California from the East in a covered wagon, enduring attacks by wild Indians and the like.
Earl's first business was joining his father making custom wagons in the center of Hollywood, CA just as the movie business was born. When cars came along, he and his father would make custom cars for movie stars. Out in Detroit, they heard about him and a founder of GM, Alfred Sloan, came out, interviewed him and hired him to be GM's first director of styling, a position which did not previously exist in Detroit.
Earl liked airplanes so much, two of the three Firebrid gas turbine cars were more like planes than cars.
Of course, picking colors for cars, materials and body shapes seemed sort of "sissy" to many in the auto industry but when Earl's choices began to result in booming sales, the critics were quiet. The statistics in the book are astounding. GM quickly passed Ford because Henry Ford was still making Model T's and still offering them in one color: black. Once GM began to offer different colors and choices in interiors, they began to dominate the American auto industry, leaving Ford in the dust.
Harley Earl comes across as a real personality. He was said to be a real martinet in clothing choices, having hung out, in the early days, with Hollywood show biz folk like Douglas Fairbanks and Tom Mix, customers for his custom cars.
The author portrays Harley Earl as an autocratic purveyor of taste, and you wonder, must all famous names in design have an ego so big in order to succeed?
One example from the book that stands out is that GM's first styling chief – going back to 1927 – forbid any other designer from GM being mentioned in connection with styling, it was all Mr. Earl.
Still, you have to admit that Earl created car marketing as we know it in America with instituting styling changes every three years. Consumers couldn't wait to trade in their old car to get the latest styling and I admit I was one of them, gotta have the latest because the tail fin is six inches higher, right?
It is almost humorous in the book when the author tells of designers hating some of the changes, for instance thinking the '57 Chevy had needlessly high fins. Yet, looking back from 60 plus years later the '57 seems much more well styled than the '55 and '56 models.
Earl also brought the idea of making clay models of cars, an idea he had as a child playing with mud in the riverbed. When he got to Detroit, he had full size clays made and even painted so that the cars were so realistic you thought you could open the doors and sit inside.
Another idea the author credits Earl with is the dream car, building a one-off prototype that will predict a styling trend of the future, such as a tail fin or a completely disappearing top, and seeing what excites the public, then adjusting production plans to align with what the public went for at the unveiling of the concept car. He would create these dream cars, and unveil them in a traveling road show (with leggy showgirls) called Motoramas, held in cities around the country.
Then he would drive the show cars himself after their show career, such as the million dollar LeSabre. Sometimes he would even (egad!) give a show car away to a pal or one time to a show biz femme named Marie "The body" MacDonald (wonder what his wife thought of that gift…?).
Earl was inspired to add tailfins by a peak at a WWII fighter, like this the LeSabre.
It detracts a little from the legend when you read here of Earl's capriciousness, such as his penchant for firing people on the spot, usually because they questioned his judgement or dared to change a clay model without his approval. Maybe that's the sign of a good biographer – he or she lays out the facts for the readers to judge. The author never condemns Earl for his dominating ego and rage over anyone that contradicted him. That makes me wonder if more of the geniuses lauded in different fields had similar traits and that's why we remember them, not knowing they were hell to work for.
Knoedelseder depicts Earl as totally opposed to smaller cars, his objective the first few decades as longer, lower, wider. But you have to remember gasoline was under one dollar a gallon back then so you didn't mind that your car only got 12 mpg. When I published a previous review on this book, a former GM designer wrote how he was fired for, with another employee, suggesting a smaller car, with an aluminum engine. This was heresy to Earl, yet ironically in 1962 GM did just that: they came out with the Buick Special with an aluminum B8 small block.
It is interesting when he shows the gradual erosion of power by Earl when a subordinate, Chuck Jordan, found a storage yard of '57 Chryslers and realized Chrysler had gone big on fins. The way Knoedelseder describes it, while Earl was away in Europe, Jordan started a whole new trend in design, an alternate reality so to speak so that when Earl came back he was shown the regular designs and then the alternate ones and agreed to go more aggressively toward meeting the challenge from Chrysler. The '59 Caddy tail fins were the tallest on any American car, sort of the swan song of Earl's power.
The author does mention Earl went over to the European auto shows, and I remember seeing pictures of Earl and Mitchell at a major show, but doesn't mention that frequently Earl would buy a European car and spirit it over to Warren, Michigan to inspire the troops. For instance one story not told in this book was when Earl had a D-type racing Jaguar and they briefly considered putting it under the Corvette SS dream car body for its debut at Sebring. Instead they removed the body form a 300SL and copied the tubular space frame but the car lasted only 23 laps into the race.
The rest of the book shows him dwindling in power, but ironically he had chosen in Bill Mitchell a man who could imitate his every move, even sartorially. I knew Mitchell and it's amusing to read about Earl because Mitchell had many of the same mannerisms and penchants, such as driving the dream cars to work and back. (There is a book on Mitchell which I will try to obtain to review).
Earl with the prewar Y-job, his first modern dream car for GM.
Going back to the personalities, as I read to the end, I was still wondering if it is a necessity for big names in any field like Earl to be such a sonovabitch toward his subordinates, suppressing them so he seems ever more the genius. Memories of Steve Jobs of Apple Computers come to mind.
But the comparison I make between Jobs and Earl I think is valid because laptop computers would not look like they do if it weren't for Steve Jobs being so intent on the looks of his devices. There is one famous story where a subordinate worked on a hand held computer or phone for many months but when Jobs pushed his finger down on a key and it didn't have the right feel, he threw it against the wall. Despite his personality flaws, I say he advanced the desirability of laptops and desktop computers ten years ahead of where it would have been without him and his relentless badgering of employees.
So it was with Earl. He discovered the basis for consumer demand and milked it to the max. As an American I see looking back that we are still, in America, a society, tuned to wanting to see next year's models. Maybe if we as car buyers were more mature–we would wait to buy a new car only after new models showed technical advances (such as more autonomous modes leading to full autonomous driving ) but Harley got us hooked on tiny incremental design changes just as women for decades were slavishly devoted toward changing half their wardrobe if the clothing designers dictated hemlines were up or down a few inches.
The book has few pictures, hardly what you would expect for the price, not even a single color picture in a book describing how color was used to sell cars. But on the other hand, it's an all encompassing story, showing how the car market was created in America by building what people want. After, of course first educating them on what was possible.
Harley Earl was the bandleader of the styling bandwagon that continues powering much of the auto industry. I dare say that even the European and Asian automakers learned from him how to use frequent design changes, color changes and interior changes to sell cars. He was the bandleader, and though intellectually we like to tell ourselves that we are not held sway to a slight difference in hood length or fender shape, there are huge shifts in the car market based on such trivialities. We're all still swayed by the tunes that Harley wrote..
Earl's retirement home, back to Warren, MI too many times to fix the retractable top.


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find a novel purperting to be written by one gentleman and' edited by another, that we are forced to stop at the very title-page of thin-book and wonder What it means.
Of "Francesco Abati "we know nothing, and though we aee
not quite justified in claming him with Mrs. Harris and other unembodied spirits, and saying that "we don't believe there isn't no such person," still we are tempted to think that there is some- thing itt his position analogous to that of idr. jorkins (Of the firm of " Spenlow and Jorlsins "), and that he is admitted to partner- ship in order that the sins of the firm may be laid upon his invisible shoulders, whilst the senior partner comes out scath- less. Mr. Winwoode Reads has already faced criticism single- hauded,--a-can it be that the opinion of reviewers respetting Liberty Hall have caused him to take an esquire into the combat on the present occasion?' If so, We must admit that it is the only act of duplicity of which Mr. Winwoode Reade is guilty. The book is otherwise very outspoken—so outspoken as to render it worthy of a place beside the most candid French novel. In fact See Saw may be said to be a deadly-lively imita- tion of a French novel. Whether this be a merit or not is beside the question, and whether it is desirable that English novel-readers should have their taste trained to French cookery we do not stop to inquire. The book is entitled to be judged on its own merits. The plot is not very elaborate. The Marchese del Lorini, a young Florentine, very rich, very eccentric, and an amateur composer of much talent, falls in with a young contadina, whose father, it pauper and a scoundrel, has presented her to thellarchese ttnsitte pretence of consulting him about the cultivation of her flue take. The Marchese, charmed with her voice and talent, takes her up, causes her to be instructed, procures for her the opportunity of making a debut at a Florentine theatre, tmd finally accompanies her to London, where she becomes the prima donna of the season and the idol of the opera public. This pretty Platonic attachment soon becomes changed into a feeling of a different kind, and the in- teresting young pair begin to bill and coo in the true French novel fashion quite early in the book. Although he is a noble, and she is but a contadina, he overcomes that scruple, and one fine day he was on the point of making her his betrothed When there "was a Sound." This "Sound" turns out to be a dirge sung by a procession of mourners at a torchlight funeral. Both the lovers are so much affected by the " Sound " that the matter proceeds no further at that time. It is part of the business of novelists to invent varieties of the "slip between the cup and the lip." We may therefore regard this funeral as slip the first. Slip the 'second is caused by a certain Russian Baroness, who is living and travelling, fancy free, in the South of Europe, while her husband is soldiering in the North, and who is on exceedingly intimate terms with the Marchese. In your regular French novel this role is usually assigned to a Rus- sian baroness. Finding that the intimacy with " Maddalena " considerably modifies the feelings of the Marchese towards herself, the Baroness Sackoweky resolves to put a stop to the thing. Accordingly when they come to England the Baroness follows them, and then there is the old worn-out device, much resorted to in penny-number stories, of a demon in the human shape of a lady's-maid, who is suborned by the Baroness to get into Mesas- lenaa service by means of a forged character, act as spy and detective, intercept the lovers' letters, and make herself otherwise generally useful. By these means a quarrel is brought about between the Marchese and Maddalena, and this quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands at the end of the first volume.
Now it came to pass that when Maddalena was-in the zenith of her fame at Her Majesty's Theatre—about a year and. a half ago, according to the chronology of the book—one Mr. Richard Atkins, a retired merchant and a millionaire, was living with a maiden sister of evangelical views in Bedford Square. This gentleman having devoted all his former existence to business and none-of it to pleasure, becomes suddenly seized with a desire to see a little "life." Acting on the principle "Better late, than never," he determines to make up for lost time. Amongst other preparations for the campaign he picks an acquaintance with some men in a "fast" literary set, and the author thus secures an opportunity of describing rather smartly a certain phase of London Bohemianism with which he is evidently familiar :— "He hastened to the Craven, which was very full as usual on Saturday nights after 11 p.m. In one corner of the room sat a group of bearded Men discussing the prospects of the R. A. Exhibition, and exchanging • See-Saw. A Novel_ By Francesco Abati. Edited by W. Winwoode Reads. 4, London: Moron. 1885. anecdotes of the studio and the dealer's shop. Another group, with shaven faces, were criticizing the east of the Easter pieces, and °hiking their respective managers. Several others had paired off into &Items. There you might See A—, the ventriloquist, talking to B-5 writer the- writer of entertainments; 0—, the editor of a new comic paper, with 111—, a professional punster ; E—, a successful actor, who was about to take a theatre, had been button-holed by F—, a writer Of =played comedies. Alone, with a red face and a grey, pointed beard, 'a Mazzini hat upon his knees and a glass of gin-and-water in his hand, immersed in the meditative state of drunkenness, sat G—, writer of. epic poems for posterity and of prospectuses for tradesmen. His next neighbour was H—, a geologist who riuhappily believediiiinselfto bee *it, and opposite to hima respectable land agenkwho had an ex- traordinary mania for personating the lower animals. When requested he would buzz like a bee, crack a nut like a baboon, snort like a hippo- potamus, crow like a cock, trumpet like- an elephant, talk like a parrot bray like an ass, miltord like a cat, and hop about the room his hands hanging before him like a kangaroo. He went to the Craven to indulge in these vagaries, as the man of science went there to excrete his wit, OS the journalist went there to pick up ideas, as the actors went there to propitiate the critics, as the playwrights went there to Make interest with the actors, as the lawyers and doctors went there to gob clients, as the talkers went there to shine, and the listeners to say they had been shone upon. The Craven had been founded as a caravanserai for the few Bohemians who have not yet succumbed to death or to marriage ; but as these gentlemen seldom attended and never paid, its doors were enlarged, and a number of middle-aged men from the 'Temple and the City, and of boys from the Army and the War Office, were allowed to cross its sacred threshold. 'The club became genteel and dull; it moved into a respectable neighbourhood, where, in spite Of its degeneration, it speedily Intense a nuitaftoil. Se'veral absurd regulations were then made ; K—, was forbidden to howl after midnight; a whist-table was smuggled in, and seated round it four solemn faces east a gloom upon the spirits of the company. In ad- dition to this they laid down a carpet ; they forbade smoking at the dinner-table ; and, worst of all, they built a lavatory—the grave of Tiohemianism. The Craven therefore had neither the delicious freedom of a cider cellar nor the luxuries of a genuine dub. As for the company, it was much the same. Putting aside its numerous nobodies, who were regarded only as animated subscriptions, its set consisted for the most part of second-rate men, second-rate authors, second-rate artiste, second- tate actors, and one second-rate African traveller. They were good- natured follows enough, and were always ready to assist a brother artist in distress, but they would play at a kind of amateur theatricals, among themselves. Not content to converse like ordinary mortals; they would insist on sitting down together at a table with the deliberate intention of being fanny, and would spend hours in straining for bon snots, which aid not come--;-never opening their mouths to speak without a grin; perpetrating vile puns, and indulging in that sour, witless pleasantry which is almost peculiar to England, and -which is tidied appropriately chaff."
Mr. Atkins's sister being of a serious turn, is horrified, and
being of an acrimonious temperament, is aggressive. This is another old stock character brought on the stage to redeem the book in the eyes of people who either despise Dissenters or de- 13pise religion altogether. As a necessary part of his course of in- struction in the ways of the world, Mr. Atkins goes behind the scenes of the opera house, falls in love with Maddalena, makes her acquaintance, and asks her to marry him just at the unlucky moment when the second slip has taken place, and she is under the belief that the Marchese is a faithless traitor. Maddalena be- oorties Mrs. Richard Atkins, and goes down to live at a country house with her husband and his sister. As Mr. Atkins is subject to epileptic fits, as his sister cannot tolerate the tenets of the Boman Catholic faith—and Maddalena is of course a Catholic— and as the marriage has been, at least on the lady's side, one of pique, the trio Are for the present as happily circumstanced as the most enthusiastic novel-reader can desire.
Meanwhile the Baroness has resumed her swayover the Marchese,
and is generally leaffing a very free and easy life, until one evening (or it might be very early in the morning), when she is in the midst of a bacchanalian revel, the details of which are very minutely described, and has just let down her back hair, and the reader wonders what is going to come next, she is surprised by the appear- ance from behind the door of herhusband, whom she supposed to bein Russia, and so, after a vain intreaty for forgiveness, has her hair cut off, and is hurried off to Siberia from Paris in a carriage and pair.
The Marchese having thus lost both his charmers, and having Thither gambled Sway all his money, retires to the Black Forest, where he gives himself up to the cultivation of his art, and to the composition of an opera which is to throw the works of all former Composers into the shade..
Meanwhile, Maddalena, becoming tired of her life, determines to
run away, and accordingly makes off in the middle of the night, takes the mail train to London, and is brought back early next morning by a certain Dr. Charles Darlington, who comes on the scene when wanted, and who is represented as a physician in large practice in Harley Street. He finds time nevertheless to mix a good deal in very odd society, to act as a sort of private detective, and to be the guide, philosopher, and friend of handsome prima donnas. He takes Maddalena back to her husband's house just in time to find that gentleman has been found drowned in his bed-
room by falling with his head in the sponge bath during an. .epileptic seizure. Of coarse he has left all his money to Madda• lena, and hardly anything to his sister; a lees mood of justice would not satisfy the thorough-going novel-reader, and the sequel may be imagined. Maddalena goes abroad, seeks and finds the 'Marchese, makes love to him—he treats her eoldly, she ilies—he finds he cannot exist without her, the hide-and-seek game is reversed, and the end of the book leaves them happy.
In this book Mr. Winwoode Reads shows that he has mistaken his vocation. There are pages of description that evince much acute observation and ,graphic :power. Take, for instance, the following
Baden-Baden is a paradise, dad a description of it always, resembles a prospectus. It is certainly one of the most beautiful places in the world. Itnestles in a miniature valley, watered by the sparkling little OCON perfumed by meadows Which are alrhost gardens, shaded by graves and avenues of stately elms, and encircled by lofty forest000vered hills. Anywhere else these would be the cause of eternal rain.; but here, though they attract the clouds, the winds are ingeniously arranged to drive theta instantly away. Showers are frequent, storms are kV*, this cliatate Is-a' coal:Rh/It April. %Wire tdriret With a watering-trot and sprinkles the tsetse and flowers every day From all parts of the town there may be seen a large white building, with a portico in the style of the Renaissance, suppotted by eight yellow 'coltirress. It stands on the top of a gentlrsloping hill, laid out in grass- -plots and flower-beds, lined with shopa Which are searcelylarger than booths at a fair but which glitter with the wealth of the Boulevards, and which are stored with the treasures of local produce, sikch as the toys of Nuremberg, the cuckoo clocks of the Black Forest, and the 'woollen goods of Satony. On the front of the white building is printed in large letters the word 'Conversation.' You cross a broad gravel walk, where the world promenades, while music is played to them from a gold and green kiosque; you mount into the portico, and pass into the grand salon. It is of great size, and splendidly fitted up with mirrors, lustros, and magicians' galleries. The. floor is a dark and delicate parquetrie ; the walls are covered by Riguier in the Louis Quitters° style, with cupids, flowers, and arabeaques. Here the solitary traveller can lounge in luxury on red velvets or friends can cluster their chairs together and converse. For a short time you May be deluded- into the belief that the word on the walls outside is the true sign of the enter- tainment to be found within. But presently you hear a little ehink, chink, chink, and a low monotonous voice saying something which you cannot hear, but which seems to be always the same. You stroll up -and down the salon; you pass a door from -which a hot gaseous breath pours out upon you like a flame blast from a furnace ; you catch a glimpse of dark figures stooping over shaded lamps; you enter, and find yourself in one of the salles-de-jeu. You discover that in a corner of this paradise M. Beretzet keeps a hell."
Here and there one meets with a strain of cynical growling that is amusing, and gives proof of some power of originalthought, but contrasted with the weakness of the dialogue and the absurdity of the plot, it only serves to show that Mr. Winwoode Bowie is an essayist, and net a novelist. lie deludes himself by supposing that because he is a good scene-painter he is fitted for the post of stage 'manager as well. He earn set up the tame show, beat the drum, chaff the audience, and take the money; but he will do well in future to consider that his talent lies in that direction only, and does not fit him fin moving the puppets orspeaking their Lnuts.

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A: Can't you just display the images and then they can download them to their photo library? On an iphone you just hold down over an image and a sheet will popup asking the user if they want to save an image.

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A week in Brussels: Western Sahara, Thailand, EU trade budget
31/08/2018 by Iana Dreyer Views: 147
This week was largely dominated by the European Parliament's work on trade, the transatlantic trade rift and the deepening crisis of the WTO's Appellate Body.
This is what we wrote about this week:
The WTO Appellate Body crisis here and here
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Here's even more:
Western Sahara trade preferences up in air
This is going to be messy.
The EU agreed on a protocol to an association agreement in Morocco back in 2013 that was subsequently slapped down by the Court of Justice of the EU on the grounds that it de facto covered Western Saharan exports. The European External Action Service, in coordination with the services of Pierre Moscovici, commissioner in charge of customs policy, went on to renegotiate the deal with Morocco directly, and after trying to consult with local Western Saharan organisations. The parliament, which considered it has not been consulted in the renegotiation process, threatened to slap down the final exchange of letters between the EU and Morocco. The Council approved the deal in July, but now needs the backing of MEPs.
In the meantime, preferences granted to Western Sahara no longer apply. "Due to regard to the work of the parliament – we could have done this differently – the commission did not propose to apply the new arrangement provisionally," Moscovici told MEPs on Wednesday. "Products from Western Sahara no longer benefit from preferential tariffs."
Moscovici has called on the parliament to ratify this agreement as soon as possible to avoid hardship for the tens of thousands of inhabitants of the former Spanish colony occupied by Morocco affected by this change. "This clearly contradicts our desire to support the development of the territory," he said.
Moscovici's debate with MEPs revealed a high degree of scepticism. Among others, lawmakers criticized the fact that the EU held negotiations with Morocco and that oversight of the new deal was left to Rabat, which some believe cannot be trusted to properly label Western Saharan products.
Moscovici argued that the deal was largely a technical response to a legal challenge and urged the parliament to depoliticise a file that is complex and highly emotional. Patricia Lalonde, rapporteur on the file in the trade committee, concluded: "It will be difficult to disconnect the technical question from the geopolitical one."
A delegation of MEPs will travel to Western Sahara next week to make up their minds about the issue.
Thailand FTA push
The EU is mulling whether to revive free trade agreement negotiations with Thailand, following a request by member states in December to look into the matter. The Council suspended four-year negotiations in 2014 after a military coup there. The EU is keen to get going with the talks, but wants Thailand to hold free elections first. These have been postponed month after month, though there are signs that they might happen in early 2019.
MEP Franck Proust reported back to the trade committee about his July mission to Thailand. He said Thailand is "ignoring the EU as a whole and seeking to develop concrete ties with individual member states". Thailand also continues to attract European investors in the automotive, pharmaceutical and aerospace sectors. The main challenge for EU business is to ensure that the bloc's standards continue to be recognised. Chinese economic and strategic influence is rising significantly in Thailand, as elsewhere in the region.
Proust called on the EU to start exploratory talks with Thailand as soon as possible on how to reduce non-tariff barriers and to ensure that European standards continue to play a role in the Thai economy. The aim is to be ready the moment negotiations with Thailand can resume.
David Martin, rapporteur for ASEAN, said: "Thailand can potentially be a very important interlocutor for us. Politically we cannot start formal negotiations until elections have actually been held and until a government has been formed in Thailand. There is no reason not to have technical discussions with the Thai authorities on an informal basis."
A commission official said: "We are in a process of re-engagement with Thailand. We had a working group on trade and investment issues in July." He also said an 'intellectual property dialogue' meeting was scheduled with Thailand in September. Last month, the commission had "an initial exploratory discussion on the possibility to restart the FTA". Its assessment: "Quite some work still needs to be done before we will be able to take up those negotiations again. Also because EU trade policy has evolved quite a lot since the negotiations were put on hold."
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INTA appears to be the best friend of fiscal and gender conservatives….
On Wednesday, the trade committee adopted a one-page draft opinion on next year's EU budget. Maverick Eurosceptic British MEP William Dartmouth drew up the piece. INTA endorsed the short and pithy five points made in the opinion. Its key asks:
Allocate more funds for 'aid for trade' activities of the EU
Restructure the budget of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF)
Give greater support to small and medium-sized businesses
Allocate more resources to involve citizens in EU trade policy
Watch out for the Brexit-related loss of funds for trade policy
On money, the walk doesn't equal the talk at INTA. All amendments tabled by Alessia Mosca and Inmaculada Rodriguez Piñero (S&D) and Helmut Scholz (GUE/NL) making concrete proposals, including with monetary amounts, were slapped down. Such amendments included more money for the European Economic and Social Committee for trade advisory groups and greater inclusion of civil society groups. Gender equality isn't exactly a big hit with INTA members. Amendments by Mosca and Piñero aiming to introduce greater attention to gender in the rollout of trade policy by the EU were rejected, too.
Beyond next year's budget, INTA is also gearing up activities related to the next five-year financial framework for the EU, also known as the MFF. It wants to have a greater say. An amendment by Marietje Schaake to that end in this week's report reinforced the point.
Scholz is drafting a report on what the next MFF should look like on trade. Watch that space this autumn.
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It is high time we removed the aura of nebulous sanctification that surrounds Arab military establishments and curtailed their political role, which necessarily comes at the expense of their professional function as protectors of the sovereign state and its people.
The first priority is to re-shape perceptions and break the reverence in which the military is popularly held. Debate is urgently needed about its role in the state, about accountability for its huge budgets by democratically elected parliaments, and about shedding light on excessive and often unjustified arms deals, since those arms are often not used.
And when they are used, they are all too often directed against their own people. In many cases, they are merely used to secure political support for the ruling regime, or as a means of bragging, as is the case in the Gulf. There states compete with each other to buy sophisticated and expensive weaponry to display in their military salons in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
Ali Anouzla is a Moroccan author, journalist, director and editor-in-chief of lakome.com. He has founded and edited several Moroccan newspapers. In 2014 he received the "Leaders for Democracy" award from the American organization POMED (Project on Middle East Democracy)
What the tragic war in Yemen has revealed is that the armies of the UAE and Saudi Arabia have not been able to use these weapons effectively on the ground, enduring losses at the hands of ill-equipped militias that are barely fathomable, given their relative capabilities.
The pedestal needs to go
Without adjusting the political, societal and military balance of power, there can be no democratic transition towards a civil state. We need to restore the army to its traditional role as a professional force without the halo of national reverence and to reduce its legal room to manoeuvre in public outside the barracks. We also need to codify its constitutional role in the state and in society.
Many Arab states have suffered and continue to do so from military rule. Indeed, the military has led coups, sometimes against elected civilian governments, as happened in Egypt and Mauritania. In many cases, the military has morphed into oligarchies, as is now the situation in Algeria and Sudan. In these two countries, cabals of thieves, opportunists and corrupt businessmen have been able to enslave the people, plunder their wealth and steal their dreams.
It is time to shed much more light on the role of military institutions in the Arab world and to look again at their contribution in the light of current developments in the region. The military has emerged as a key player, controlling the fate of people who have suffered from their rule for many decades. And yet, people still see the army as their saviour and deliverer! That is the greatest calamity.
Ali Anouzla
Translated from the Arabic by Chris Somes-Charlton
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import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
import org.cagrid.gridgrouper.model.GroupIdentifier;
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In Review – Bloom issue #1 from Hero Tomorrow Comics.
Bloom issue #1.
Writer/Layouts/Colours and Letters – Ted Sikora.
Pencils/Inks and Layouts – Butch Mapa.
Inking – Chris Arieswendha.
Flatting – Anthony Cuizon.
Published by Hero Tomorrow Comics.
Full Colour – 40 pages story.
The Story – This story is set in 1969 and partly over the same weekend as Woodstock was happening elsewhere from the 15th August – 18th August. Ramsey is a comic book artist who pays the rent with a mechanics job at a local Cleveland garage. He's planning a new comic about a female villain who is covered in tattoos. His studio is adorned with sketches of demons and heroes and his often too straight-laced girlfriend doesn't totally understand his future plans.
Whilst at a gig he is entranced by a hippy free spirited and gorgeous woman called Regina. He approaches her and asks to draw her as the model for his upcoming comic. The two eventually meet up for the session and he photographs her as they hike deeper and deeper into the woods. What will happen? What will they discover? Is there a chemistry growing between them?
Art used for review purposes only.
The Review – This is the first issue in a wider series of comic books that I recently discovered on Kickstarter. I had a dig into the publisher's back catalogue and discovered that the Regina character in this issue is in fact a character in the longer running APAMA series. But don't worry, you don't need to have read the previous books to make sense of this new one.
This crowd-funder has a series of covers, some more successful than the others. The one featured at the head of this review by Bong Dazo (that's a helluva name to call a kid?) and Ted Sikora is the cover that caught my eye and had me clicking on the link but I would also recommend the faux sixties Romance Comics cover by Benito Gallego and Ted Sikora for its pure fun, and the fact that it has speech bubbles! There's also a 'Serpent Virgin Variant' which has some photo-realistic faces starring out at the reader? It's a little much but I'm guessing that these are the faces of some of the backers?
The story is especially evocative of the age it is set within. You can feel the atmosphere of emotional and spiritual freedom in the air. Ramsey is the everyman in many ways but also the talented artist looking to push the boundaries of his craft through a possibly magically erotic experimentation. I'm not certain where this story is going but I'm guessing that the intentions of the previously tethered artist will be his undoing? His vulnerability being that need to feel his work …at moments almost literally!
I found that the first issue lacked action and is honestly quite a slow burn. Once I settled into that rhythm it became less bothersome and the script takes it time over a period of some thirty odd pages to build up a rapport between Ramsey and Regina. I became ever more tense to the reasoning behind this as they explored further into the deep woods. It has a payoff which is both inevitable but also not what I was expecting after the somewhat dream inspired build up. This first issue also foreshadows like a MoFo as Regina changes costumes, adopts different emotionally resonant poses and sexually charges the environment she inhabits. Ramsey is her companion, suitor, and artist and she is his muse, actress and canvas. I came to the realisation that I shouldn't be so worried about rushing through the panels and breathe in the interactions. 'What's the rush?' I heard my inner hippy whisper.
The art is great and stands proud with a broad canvas of colours that highlight the hippy-dippy decade as well as the forest around and over their heads. Sikora and Mapa capture the cool beauty of Regina and gift her that coexistence of a 1969 hippy dancer and an out of time Romany Gipsy. She is 'Wild, Raw and Free' as she is described early in the comic throughout the pages and you sense that she is beyond the Lysergic times and more of a Priestess or a witch. Now that I know about her other appearances in this line of comics I fully expect a diabolical origin story to erupt in issue #2. Mappa steps up to the plate in the facial acting stakes as the writing requires the model to emote and that Ramsey needs to show elements of wide-eyed innocence. I would compare the style to perhaps an artist like Mike Norton in that it is solidly configured exhibiting ability to draw convincing people and surroundings but also packs in the cartooning character.
In retrospect now as I think back on my reading experience I would like to have read this as a single story, perhaps in a collection or as a graphic novel. It cuts off a little too bluntly with a moment that could only very loosely be described as a cliffhanger. But the journey to that point and the personality interplay made the page to page an enjoyable experience. I have signed up for the second issue of what is looking like a four issue mini-series and it is coming to Kickstarter very soon and would recommend it as a book to follow.
You can find the Kickstarter here and follow the new releases from Hero Tomorrow Comics at their website here.
Many thanks for reading.
Previous In Review – SLUDGY #1 by Rob Mirsky.
Next Podcast Review – 'Alone' by Chabouté.


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We worship the Three-eyed Lord who is fragrant and who nourishes and nurtures all beings. I heard that the Rig Veda describes how after death a man's eyes get merged in sun, breath in air, ashes in plants, but is this true?
The Aranyakas forest texts intend to serve as objects of meditation for ascetics who live in forests and deal with mysticism and symbolism.
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Tag: crystal city
FBI Busts Nearly All Top Officials in Crystal City, Texas As Part of Bribery Probe
By Steve Neavling
The FBI swooped into Crystal City, Texas, and arrested nearly all of the top city officials.
The Washington Post reports that five officials were arrested Thursday and accused of taking bribes and helping an illegal gambling operation.
The indictment led to the arrests of the city's mayor, mayor pro tempore, a current and former city council member and the city manager.
Also arrested the the alleged gambling operator, Ngoc Tri Nguyen, also known as "MR. T."
And that's not it for the embattled city. Another council member was arrested on human smuggling charges last month.
There's only one city official left – Councilman Joel Barajas, who suspected something criminal was going on.
"I knew some things were not being correctly taken care of," he said.
The indictment alleges town leadership "used their official positions to enrich themselves by soliciting and accepting payments and other things of value" from Nguyen and others.
Posted: February 8th, 2016 under News Story.
Tags: bribes, crystal city, FBI, Gambling, Texas
15 Tied to Texas Mexican Mafia Charged with Racketeering Conspiracy, Assault, and More
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They say things are bigger in Texas, and a recent Tex-Mex plate of indictments and potential sentences certainly are.
A group of members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been indicted with a buffet of charges that may net them decades in prison, the FBI announced in a press release on Tuesday.
The 9-count, 15-defendant indictment charges men from Uvalde and Crystal City, Texas, including:
Jorge Abel Ramirez (a/k/a "Hondo," a/k/a "Superdope"), age 32; Geronimo Torres (a/k/a "Jerry," a/k/a "G"), age 32; Benito Benavides (a/k/a "Benny"), age 48; Chris Gutierrez (a/k/a "Fire"), age 19; Albert Torres (a/k/a "Terrible"), age 41; Robert Marcus Castro (a/k/a "Tiny"), age 32; Eric Velasquez Solis (a/k/a "Kilo"), age 32; Mario Zavala, age 26; Rodolfo Villegas (a/k/a "Rudy"), age 31; Charles Martinez (a/k/a "Charlie"), age 29; Eliseo Sanchez, III, age 29; and Sebastian Cortinas (a/k/a "Seabass"), age 28.
Charges against the men, returned on the 12th of October and unsealed on Tuesday, cover a variety of crimes related to drugs and violence, including "attempted murder, retaliation against an informant, extortion, and distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine," according to the FBI. Three of the men–Ramirez, Gutierrez and Torres–have been charged with conspiring to attempt to kill an informant on November 22, 2010.
All defendants but Cortinas are in federal custody.
Tags: crystal city, FBI, RICO, San Anontio, Texas, Texas FBI, Texas Mexican Mafia, TMM
FBI Ended DC Subway Sting Before Suspect Could Flee U.S.
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WASHINGTON — The FBI decided to end its sting and arrest a Northern Virginia man now charged with plotting to blow up D.C. -area subway stations because it was concerned he was about to leave the country to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to a court document and law enforcement sources.
FBI agents arrested Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., on Wednesday on charges that he conspired with people he thought were al-Qaida operatives to blow up the Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House subway stations in Northern Virginia.
In some other cases involving stings, the FBI let the plot play out more. In Dallas, for example, FBI agents in 2009 actually provided fake explosives to Hosam Smadi, who drove a car bomb to a skyscraper downtown and tried detonating it.
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In this latest case, Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, met with undercover FBI agents and FBI operatives over the past several months and provided video and diagrams of subway stops and conducted surveillance, authorities said. He also advised when the best time was to kill the maximum people, but never came close to carrying out the plot, investigators said.
Read FBI affidavit
Posted: October 28th, 2010 under FBI, News Story.
Tags: al Qaeda, arlington national cemetery, ashburn va, ashburn virginia, crystal city, D.C., dc bomb plot, district of columbia, farooque ahmed, FBI, FBI Sting, islamic fundamentalism, mecca, metro bomb plot, metro station bomb plot, Northern Virginia, Pakistan, pentagon city, Virginia, Washington


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