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From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all.
Today we that another major money man was busted for sexual assault in a Manhattan hotel, while a pervert is sexually assaulting old people on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Better Than Fiction
Character: Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar
Plot Line: What is with these rich dudes assaulting maids? Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, the former chairman of one of Egypt’s major banks, has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on similar allegations.
Police say Omar was arrested at the Pierre Hotel on Monday morning. The 74-year-old businessman is accused of sexually abusing the maid and holding her against her will inside his hotel room.
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Shame On You
Who: Sexual Assaulter
Where: New York City
What Happened: Police are combing the posh Upper East Side of Manhattan in search of a brazen rapist who dragged an 85-year-old woman into a stairwell in broad daylight and sexually assaulted her, police said.
The suspect, described by the NYPD as a light-skinned Hispanic man, 25-30 years old, grabbed the woman at 5:40 a.m. Monday as she took her morning walk near 81st and Madison Ave., just a block from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Hero of the Day
Who: Monju Begum
What: Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that neighbour Mozammel Haq Mazi forced his way into her shanty and started assaulting her.The incident took place in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.
She said she fought back and cut off his penis and brought it to our police station in a polythene bag to prove that Mr. Mazi tried to rape her.
Mr. Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital.
“We will arrest him once his condition gets better,” police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC.
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Inside the Capitol
Where: Jefferson Memorial
Who: Flash Mob
What Happened: An epic flash mob was stopped by the U.S. Park Police who arrested five people on Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial. Their offense? Dancing.
The dancers were protesting an appeals court ruling handed down last week that the national monuments are places for reflection and contemplation ― and that dancing distracted from such an experience.
In 2008, Mary Brooke Oberwetter and a group of friends went to the Jefferson to commemorate the president’s 265th birthday by dancing silently, while listening to music on headphones. Park Police ordered the revelers to disperse and arrested them when they did not.
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GlobalGrind’s Global Mind
Where: Libya
What Happened: Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, the visiting South African president said Monday after meeting the Libyan ruler, but he listed familiar Gaddafi conditions that have scuttled previous cease-fire efforts.
The South African president. Jacob Zuma, said Gaddafi is ready to accept an African Union initiative for a cease-fire that would stop all hostilities, including NATO airstrikes in support of rebel forces. “He is ready to implement the road map,” Zuma said.
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Take It in the Ring
Contenders: Roger Ailes vs. The Gays
Match: Many revealing details have been coming out of Fox News’ Chairman Roger Ailes in the past couple of weeks and here’s another one according to Rolling Stone magazine. “Rupert Murdoch installed Ailes in the corner office on Fox’s second floor at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The location made Ailes queasy: It was close to the street, and he lived in fear that gay activists would try to attack him in retaliation over his hostility to gay rights. (In 1989, Ailes had broken up a protest of a Rudy Giuliani speech by gay activists, grabbing demonstrator by the throat and shoving him out the door.)
Barricading himself behind a massive mahogany desk, Ailes insisted on having “bombproof glass” installed in the windows – even going so far as to personally inspect samples of high-tech plexiglass, as though he were picking out new carpet. Looking down on the street below, he expressed his fears to Cooper, the editor he had tasked with up-armoring his office. ‘They’ll be down there protesting,’ Ailes said. ‘Those gays.'”
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This Day In History
Year: 2005
What: W. Mark Felt’s family ends 30 years of speculation, identifying Felt, the former FBI assistant director, as “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal.
