Is Headly Cia Agent ?????

India fears Headley is CIA agent gone rogue

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
NEW DELHI: After being denied access to interrogate American national David Coleman Headley with regards to the Mumbai attacks by US authorities, Indian intelligence sources now suspect that the alleged terrorist could be a CIA agent turned rogue.
Indian officials have been cross with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for not sharing information about Headley’s trip to India last March.
The FBI confirmed that Headley was already under surveillance when the Mumbai attacks took place.
The charges against him say he helped plot and execute the attacks.
In a debate in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) parliamentarian Brinda Karat raised the issue of why Indian officials had been denied access to Headley after his arrest.
A team of Indian officials who travelled to Chicago were not allowed to question Headley. The US has since said that it was "too premature" to discuss Headley's possible extradition to India.
Indian officials said that was an odd response, given that Headley stands charged of plotting India's worst terror attacks.
"Why have Indian investigators been denied access to Headley when the US was given access to Ajmal Kasab (the lone Pakistani gunman captured alive during the Nov 26-29, 2008, Mumbai attacks)," Brinda asked.
"Was this because this would expose the Frankenstein underbelly of the US intelligence agencies," she said.
Home Secretary GK Pillai said the National Investigating Agency (NIA), would continue its efforts to seek access to Hedley for interrogation and his extradition.

but on the other hand cia denies this fact
here is the report on what  Cia officials said:--

America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Wednesday strongly refuted media reports that Pakistan-born U.S. national David Coleman Headley ailias Dawood Gilani, charged with scouting targets for last November's Mumbai terror attack, was its agent at any point of time.

Spokesperson for the agency Marie E Harf told Indian news agency PTI, when specifically asked about Headley and his links with CIA, that he cannot comment on an ongoing investigation, but "any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong."

The CIA's denial came after a report in an American newspaper revealed that Hedley was a drug smuggler and later worked as an undercover agent for the CIA.

It has also been reported that Headley had successfully infiltrated the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT). He also reportedly tipped off the U.S. of an impending sea-borne LeT attack on Mumbai well ahead of 26/11.

Headley now languishing in a Chicago jail was arrested by the FBI on October 3 when he was planning to go to Pakistan via Philadelphia.

Indian officials are peeved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for not sharing information about Headley's trip to India last March. The FBI confirmed that Headley was already under surveillance when the Mumbai attacks took place.

Raj Thackeray gets fresh death threat

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has received a fresh death threat, this time in the form of a letter, from the Sarvodaya Samaj in Bihar. Written and signed by Ashok Kumar Singh, who claims to be the founder president of the Samaj, the letter states that ‘five revolutionaries of the Samaj have decided that one of them will kill Thackeray before December 25.

Taking the threat seriously, the police have heightened Thackeray’s security. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone V, Milind Bharambe, confirmed that Thackeray had received the letter.

“The letter was sent to Thackeray’s residence. It states that Thackeray will be killed before December 25,” he said.

Asked about the letter at a press conference, Thackeray dismissed it saying that he received several such threats earlier. A Marathi newspaper on Tuesday published the alleged contents of the letter.

The letter written in Hindi states: “Five revolutionaries of the Sarvidaya Samaj have taken a decision in the name of our motherland that one among us will kill you in the same way you and your men have persecuted the Hindi speaking population in Mumbai. A few days ago, MLA Abu Azmi was thrashed in the Assembly because he wanted to take his oath in Hindi. We can tolerate everything but not insult to Hindi. Hence, you will be killed before December 25, 2009 .”

ACP Madhukar Sankhe, said, “We have not registered any case in this regard as Thackeray has briefed us about the letter. He has also handed over the letter to us and we have already started the interrogation. The possibility of the letter being a hoax is also not ruled out.”

Fox News says holy river Ganges 'sounds like a disease'

Hindus are protesting against the Fox News channel for remarks that river Ganges (whom Hindus consider holy) 'sounds like a disease'.

Channel's Glenn Beck, talking about India in December nine segment titled 'This is the best America has to offer?' of his opinion show 'The One Thing', said: 'One big river they have there, that sounds like a disease. Come on it does. I mean if somebody said, I am sorry, you have a really bad case of Ganges.'

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Ganges was sacred to one billion Hindus worldwide and such remarks were very hurtful to the devotees. Besides apparently denigrating the religion, it was belittling the entire community.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged Fox and its owner News Corporation to be more sensitive when handling faith related subjects, as television was a forceful medium. He asked News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and Glenn Beck to issue a statement on this matter.


baba ramdev's views:--
Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev condemned the comment and criticized the TV channel for calling Becks a ‘senior reporter’. “People like him should come down to the Kumbh Mela which is being organized next month and take a dip in the Ganga to clean their sins,” he told Zee News.

But there has been no apology from the TV host or the channel. Beck had earlier courted controversy when he had made a racist remark against President Barack Obama. The channel later said it was Beck’s personal opinion.

here is a video of that reporter








sources:--zee news (india)

Accepting Nobel prize, Obama acknowledges controversy

By MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers


President Barack Obama cautiously accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday in Oslo, acknowledging "the considerable controversy" over his award because he's accomplished little on the world stage in less than a year on the job and has just called for sending 30,000 to 35,000 more U.S. troops to war in Afghanistan.

Given the stature of some past winners, and the ordeals faced by humanitarian leaders who've never won, Obama said that "I cannot argue with those who find these men and women, some known, some obscure to all but those they help, to be far more deserving of this honor than I."

In his acceptance speech at Oslo City Hall on a daylong stop that's irked some Norwegians because of its brevity, the president wove themes of optimism and realism. He spoke at once of the inevitability of some war and his belief in a "North Star" of faith in human progress.

Obama hit on perhaps the central reason for the Nobel committee's decision when he emphasized his belief that the United States must rely more on multilateralism to handle evolving conflicts. European frustration with former President George W. Bush's unilateral approach, especially toward Iraq, has helped to fuel their investment in Obama as an alternative.

In turn, the president called on other nations to step up their commitments to U.N. peacekeeping efforts, nuclear disarmament and imposing serious sanctions on regimes that pose a threat to world stability.

"It is also incumbent upon all of us to insist that nations like Iran and North Korea do not game the system," he said. "Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war."

"I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war," Obama said. "There is no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time."

Nobel committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, in remarks before Obama's, defended the choice, saying the prize should be an "instrument for peace rather than stamp of approval" and that "peace must be built again and again."

Obama used his remarks to praise civil demonstrators in Zimbabwe and Iran and in Myanmar, where he singled out pro-democracy figure Aung Sang Suu Kyi by name.

While embracing the nonviolent messages of Martin Luther King Jr., who also won the Nobel prize, and Mohandas Gandhi, who did not, the president said that "as head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone."

"Evil does exist in the world," Obama said. "A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism. It is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man and the limits of reason."

Obama becomes the third sitting U.S. president, after Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, to win the peace prize.

President Jimmy Carter won the prize two decades after his presidency. Former Vice President Al Gore's Nobel came after the end of the Clinton administration.

In studying past acceptance speeches, Obama and his speechwriting team also pored over the words of nonpresidential winners, including George Marshall, the former secretary of defense and secretary of state and the first career soldier to win the Nobel for his initiative to rebuild Europe after World War II.

Obama arrived in Norway shortly after 8 a.m. local time Thursday, or 2 a.m. EST, the sky dusky and flecked with snow and sleet.

Accompanied by his wife and an official entourage, the president went by motorcade to the Nobel Institute for the ceremonial signing of the guest book. The motorcade passed clusters of onlookers, including children with flags, and protesters with a banner that read, "Obama, you won it now earn it."

Then he was off to a bilateral meeting with Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, at which Stoltenberg announced that his country was raising its financial commitment to fund the Afghan army and police to $110 million through 2014.

"I only wish that my family could stay longer in this wonderful country, but I still have a lot of work to do back in Washington, D.C., before the year is done," Obama said.

The leaders took just two questions, one from each press corps.

Obama told U.S. reporters, in response to a question about whether July 2011 really was a firm date to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, "I've been unambiguous about this, so there should not be a debate. Starting in July 2011 we will begin that transition, that transfer of responsibility."

He said the pace and tactics would be conditions-based and that the drawdown would not be sharp, "but July 2011 will signal a shift in our mission."

A Norwegian reporter asked what Obama would do to counter criticism that his Nobel prize was premature.

The president said his foreign policy goal "is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award" but "to advance America's interests, to strengthen our economy at home and to make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world. ...

"If I'm successful in those tasks, then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that's not really my concern. And if I'm not successful, then all the praise and the awards in the world won't disguise that fact."

At the Slottet Royal Palace of Norway, the Obamas met with King Harald V, Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit.

The queen confessed wishing that she were taller to first lady Michelle Obama, who's 5 feet 11, and when the queen asked whether the Obamas were accustomed to the crowd of news crews following them, President Obama's answer was, "Unfortunately."

Is it safe to eat genetically modified foods?now controvery on food also

The EU will ensure there are no genetically modified foods in Europe that pose a danger to the consumer.

Today genetically modified foods have to be EU approved before they can be sold in Europe.

In order for a genetically modified food to be approved it must go through a Food Risk Assessment. The following points are considered amongst others:

* Is there a difference between the genetically modified food and the non-genetically modified equivalent? A comparison of fat, proteins, vitamins and toxins are made (amongst others).
* Can new substances or quantities of materials in the genetically modified foods affect consumers? Are the nutritional values altered? Can the foods become toxic or cause allergic reactions?
* In some cases, trial feeding of research animals is carried out.

It's difficult to know what the future holds or to predict the possible long-term consequences of eating genetically modified produce.


In 1994, the first genetically modified crop - a tomato came on the market in the USA. Since then there have been many more. Eating genetically modified food has become quite common. People have only been eating genetically modified food for a relatively short period. So there may be long-term effects which we simply don't know about yet.

Americans have eaten genetically modified foods for the longest period. Today they eat genetically modified food produce every day. It's estimated that around 65% of the products available in American supermarkets contain some amount of genetically modified ingredients.

Surveys in the USA have shown that many Americans have a relaxed approach to genetic modification. They reason that it must be safe because they've eaten it for years without getting sick.

Miley Cyrus Bikini Cleavage Jogging Photos Controvery Scandal

Miley Cyrus went for a jog with her hottie 21 year-old underwear model boyfriend Justin Gaston. Justin is way too dangerously hot and tempting for 16 year-old tween role model Miley Cyrus. Look at his sixpack!! That's why Miley is wearing her skimpy push-up tight t-shirt and cut off shorts. Read more about Miley and Justin's half-naked run.

Miley is complaining about her latest half-naked scandal after everyone on the internet is buzzing over her bikini jogging cleavage. Our theory is that Miley is a pretty girl who has a ridiculously hot boyfriend. What is better revenge against her ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas than upping her push-up bra cleavage during a weekend jog with her current gorgeous boyfriend when Nick's Jonas Brother 3D movie opens? Miley told Ryan Seacrest on KIIS FM that she didn't see the big deal about the paparazzi pics. Listen to Miley talk about the jogging pics at the 6:13 minute mark.

Miley Cyrus caused controvery this week when photos emerged of her running down the street in a low-cut shirt that revealed some skin and her bikini top, next to her shirtless boyfriend Justin Gaston. But the 16-year-old pop star said she doesn't get why everyone was making such a big deal about the pics.

"I don't get the big whoop, but whatever," she said Monday on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS FM radio show. "I guess it's just, I'm not allowed to jog any more. I don't get why people are allowed to take pictures and make them something they're not, but I guess that's just how their job works and how they'll make the most money. What they don't know is that I had an 8-year-old little sister traveling behind me, which all she wanted that day was to have a car wash."

Cyrus further explained that she was showing so much skin because she was wearing her mom's baggy T-shirt, which slipped down revealing the bikini top that she wore while washing boyfriend Justin Gaston's "really hideous truck." "So, 'Oh, my goodness, Miley Cyrus wears a two-piece!' " she said. "Kill me! I'm wearing a two-piece, along with an 8-year-old."

Miley also shared with Seacrest that she's got a favorite pastime other than washing cars: toilet-papering her neighbors' houses with a friend, who happens to be fellow Disney star Demi Lovato. "We were really bored, 'cause we were watching the life story of the Kardashians. ... And then we got really bored and watched the life story of Mario Lopez," she joked about the impetus behind pulling the prank on a house that happened to belong to one of Seacrest's friends. She said she and Lovato thought one of their friends lived there.

"We walked to my house and got rolls of toilet paper. So, we took it all, and we started rolling and we got ketchup, mustard," she said, elaborating on their impromptu decorations. "Your friend came and said 'hi' to us and said we were doing a good job."

Former Minister M Satyanarayana Rao starts another controversy

The former minister M Satyanarayana Rao has kicked off another controversy. He is known to be a man of outspoken, in an informal chat with media in the Assembly lobby said that he was told by the Prime Minister, Man Mohan Singh that the Chief Minister is opposed to the Telangana State that created a furor.

He further added that he actively participated in the Telangana agitation the 60s went on saying any Chief Minister from Rayalaseema region depends solely on the support of the party MLAs from the region. The former minister who added ad if he had been in the position, he too would have done the same.

The remarks made by M Satyanarayana Rao crated a flutter in the Congress circles and advised the Chief Minister to change his mindset. TSR floor leader in the Assembly G Vijaya Rama Rao said it is time for the Congress from the Telangana region to decide whether they support the cause of the Telangana. He commented that the Dr.YS Rajasekhara Reddy should not forget the fact that he became Chief Minister only with the support of the people of Telangana Regio

Cult & Controversy: the story of Asaram ashram

For the phenomenally influential religious guru, Asaram Bapu, his 37-year-long spiritual career had never been a cakewalk and the four mysterious deaths in his ashramss here and in Madhya Pradesh and the public ire he has been courting are only the latest that he hopes to shrug off.

His spiritual domain is spread across 300 ashrams throughout India, as also in the US, with lakhs of his followers and admirers flooding his commune with funds. Sixty-seven-year-old Bapu has even delivered a speech at the parliament of world religions.

Few controversies connected with his ashrams have invited media attention the way the deaths of four children in his two ashrams — in Ahmedabad and Chhindwara — did in just one month. His ashram, in both the cases, is facing serious problems, with investigators finally getting down to grilling inmates of the ashrams in connection with the deaths.

Asaram Bapu may not have had to look back ever since he set up his first kutia or hutment in Motera village here in 1971, but the path had all along been strewn with scandals.

Sindh-born Asaram, who had migrated to Ahmedabad with his parents during Partition, is facing about dozen-odd cases at different places — all of them pertaining to alleged land grabbing by his Sant Asaram Bapu Trust. One of the villagers in Motera, Ashok Thakore, has moved the court to get back five acres of his family’s land allegedly grabbed by the ashram. According to Thakore, the land is situated adjoining the ashram and was used for erecting tents on the Guru Purnima day. Permission to this effect was given by his father to the ashram. After his father’s death, the ashram grabbed it by saying that Thakore’s father had ‘gifted’ it to the ashram. However, the ashram has not been able to substantiate its claim with proofs.

In another case, Anil Vyas, a farmer from Jehangirpura village near Surat, where the ashram is facing several allegations of land grabbing, is fighting a prolonged battle for recovery of his 34,400 square metres of prime land from the ashram. According to Vyas, despite the fact that the ashram’s claim over the land was challenged in the court, the state Government regularised the unauthorised encroachment on January 24, 1997. However, the Gujarat High Court on December 8, 2006, held the regularisation illegal and decreed in favour of the farmer. The Ashram then appealed to the Division Bench against the order.

A Delhi-based widow, Sudarshan Kumari, is also fighting a legal battle against Asaram Bapu whose Trust, she alleges, had fraudulently got some papers signed by her. The paper later turned out to be a ‘gift deed’ to the ashram. The documents say that she has gifted the ground floor of her house in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, to the ashram. According to her complaint, on July 6, 2000, on the pretext of taking her to Asaram satsang, she was taken to the office of Sub Registrar in Janakpuri, New Delhi. One of the inmates of the ashram, identified as Mani Kaka, hypnotised her and made her sign a number of documents, without allowing her to go through the content. The other person who signed the papers there, according to her, was Narayan Swamy, son of Asaram Bapu. She came to know about the gift deed when officials from the Municipal Committee of Delhi came to confirm it.

The ashram authorities at Rajokri village, near Gurgaon, have allegedly forged documents pertaining to the registration of the ashram. Bhagwani Devi, a resident of Rajokri, has also approached the Delhi High Court levelling allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Rajokri ashram.

Even Government agencies have levelled allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Trust. A few months ago, the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts (BSBRT) had served a notice to the Trust’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, asking it to vacate a land belonging to BSBRT, worth Rs 80 crore. And in April 2007, a retired judge of the Patna High Court had filed a criminal complaint in Kadamkuan police station, Patna, alleging grabbing of his land by Asaram Bapu and others.

In Ratlam, Asaram’s Trust had to vacate a piece of land after a prolonged litigation. In January 2007, power theft amounting to Rs 4.7 lakh was detected from his Rajkot ashram.

Despite all these cases and allegations, Asaram Bapu’s popularity is on the rise — particularly among the ruling party politicians in the state. “It is due to the clout of Asaram that no criminal case was registered against any of his ashram-members nor was anyone from the ashram arrested after the two boys of his gurukuls died under mysterious circumstances,” said a rebel BJP leader, requesting anonymity.

The popularity of Asaram can be gauged from the fact that his photographs can be spotted in every government office across the state and even state transport corporation’s buses display his photos and messages.

When the Gujarat Government in 2005 decided to rejuvenate the Saraswati river by filling long tracts of land considered to be the vestiges of the mythical river at Sidhpur town in Mehsana district, Asaram Bapu was the chief guest at the launch of the project. Though there are other religious leaders in the state, inviting him to such a high-profile programme as the chief guest explains the popularity of the man among the ruling party.

Again, when the state Government temporarily launched Vande Gujarat TV channel, telecasting its developmental achievements on the eve of December 2007 Assembly polls, the channel regularly carried footages of Asaram Bapu.

This explains the clout of Asaram Bapu whose religious movement has taken the shape of a cult, having followers in every section of the society. With his influence growing, there are many politicians, including Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, visiting his ashram regularly.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani is also believed to be one of the regular visitors to the ashram. The Ashram manager in Ahmedabad, Arvind Patel, is a senior BJP functionary.

Telangana Controversy starts in Prajarajyam party.

controversial tiger woods

Jamie Jungers, one of the women at the center of the Tiger Woods controversy, appeared this morning on the “Today Show” in an effort to “clear the air,” because she claims that of what’s been reported, it’s “99 percent not true.”

OK, so then what is true?

Jungers recalled how, at a charity event in Las Vegas in 2005, one of Woods’ people came up to her and said, “Tiger Woods would like to meet you.”

After an evening of drinking and more drinking, they spent the night in his hotel room. She said she “absolutely” thought it was a one-night stand, but received a call from him the next day. The disgraced golf star rang Jungers to give her his number, and told her, “save it as a different name, in case she loses the phone.

Jungers claims they instantly had a “connection,” and though she knew he was married to Elin Nordegren, she continued the relationship because “I had a crush on Tiger for years.”

Over the course of Woods’ one and a half affair, Jungers said it became more of an “actual relationship – boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.”

She even recalled how she spent the night in Woods’ L.A. home. After flying her out to L.A., Woods himself picked her up at the airport, and they went back to his place. But the pick-up at LAX wasn’t the only public display. She said they went out to restaurants on several occasions, and that he didn’t try to hide the relationship.

Jungers told Meredith Veiera on the “Today Show” that she never even received a birthday card from Woods. “I got nothing out of this relationship but a broken heart.”

Although she never told him when they were together, Jungers said she loved Woods.

But it all came to an end when she was in financial straits and asked the multimillionaire, “Can you help me out,” and he replied, “I can’t.”

Jungers said she told Woods, “That shows how much I mean to you – I can’t do this anymore.”

As for allegations made late last evening by a madam named Michelle Braun that Jungers used to work for her, Jungers vehemently denied that she has “ever been an escort, never will be an escort.”

Despite everything that’s gone down with Woods and the revelations of multiple mistresses, Jungers still declared, “There will always be a place in my heart for Tiger.”