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[blaseblasphemener]

Something on the lighter side from all the rancor of the last few weeks:

http://duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/Top_15_Strangest_Coincidences_3/

Note the Kennedy/Lincoln parallel, and the writer of the Titan (Titanic).

Interesting stuff.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Coincidences are fun and sometimes give that 'ooooooh' feeling. The most interesting discussion of coincidences I've come across is in James Frazer's "The Golden Bough". He contends that in societies that interpret the world through magical thinking that coincidences and accidents don't happen. Everything is 'explainable' through powers controlling everything.

[igotthisguitar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

[igotthisguitar]

OSAMA BIN LONDON

British Terror Training Camps 1:50
Five men on trial accused of running terror training camps in Britain. CNN's Paula Newton reports.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/26/newton.uk.terror.training.cnn

[JMO]

[mindmetoo]

Every two years, you experience about a million distinct events. Something that has a one in a million chance of happening, is going to happen to you once every couple years. A one in a hundred million event is going to happen 3 times in America. The lottery number 1 2 3 4 5 6 is just as likely to come up as 4 11 16 24 31 46. Once I was thinking I hadn't seen my friend Julia in a while. Shortly thereafter I was contemplating coincidence. And then I ran into my friend Julia. If you compare horroscope sun signs to traffic accident records for whole nations, you will find one sign has statistically higher accident rates. (Oddly, the "danger" sign changes from nation to nation.)

[canuckistan]

I met the same the same person in Mtl, California, and Denver within a span of 3 weeks and we had no knowledge of each others' travel plans. Pretty "wow" coincidences.......so why can't I win the Powerball!!?

[igotthisguitar]

British Police Investigate After 'Dead' Man Turns Up Alive
Sat Nov 3, 5:46 AM

LONDON - British police are investigating after a woman oversaw the cremation of a body she believed was her son - who turned up alive the next day.

The mixup began when a man's body was discovered in Manchester, on Oct. 12. He was identified as Thomas Dennison, 39, by a care worker who knew him.

Officials contacted Dennison's mother, Gina Partington, 58, who identified the dead man as her son. The body was released to the family and a funeral was held Tuesday.

The next day, Dennison was discovered alive in Nottingham, 130 kilometres away.

Partington said the resemblance between the dead man and her son was remarkable. She told the Manchester Evening News "I held his hand and kissed his head. I stayed with him for about 40 minutes and would have sworn he was my son."

Police said they believed they knew the identity of the dead man, who had been living on the streets, and were trying to contact his relatives in Ireland.

[igotthisguitar]

British Terrorist Suspect "Escapes" In Pakistan
Sat Dec 15, 5:50 PM ET

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A British man "suspected" of plotting to blow up US-bound trans-Atlantic airliners has escaped from police custody in Pakistan, officials said early Sunday.

"Rashid Rauf escaped from police custody and we are making every possible effort to re-arrest him," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP.



Rauf was arrested in central Pakistan in August 2006 and had been behind bars since then.

The twenty-five-year-old was brought before a judge at a court in Islamabad for an extradition hearing when he escaped Saturday afternoon.

The police chief of Islamabad, Shahid Nadeem Baluch, told AFP early Sunday: "The hunt is on to track him down. We have conducted some raids but so far there hasn't been any breakthrough."

The British government had requested Pakistan extradite Rauf to London where he is wanted by police in connection with the murder of his uncle in 2002.

Rauf's lawyer Hashmat Habib told AFP that his client had disappeared from police custody under "mysterious circumstances."

"Police took my client from Adiala jail Saturday afternoon for a court appearance in nearby Islamabad and now they say he's escaped.

"It comes at a time when the British government is trying to extradite him. And it all looks very suspicious to me," Habib said early Sunday.

Islamabad police said they are questioning several policemen who were deployed on guard duty to look after Rauf.

Local police said he was brought to the court from the nearby city of Rawalpindi, where the jail is located, and disappeared at around 2:30pm-3:00pm (0930-1000 GMT).

His lawyer was not with him at the time of his disappearance, the lawyer said.

A senior Islamabad police official told AFP on condition of anonymity that prison authorities did not inform them in detail about who Rauf was and only a handful of police officers were deployed for his security.

The senior police officer said: "Soon after the court proceeding as police were escorting him to a prison van he broke free from the handcuffs and ran away."

Pakistan's arrest of British national Rauf in 2006 sparked a worldwide security alert and 24 people were detained in Britain in a major swoop.

A day after his arrest a massive security alert was clamped on London's Heathrow Airport with mass cancellations of flights for several days over fears of a terrorist attack.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan last December dropped terrorism charges against him relating to the conspiracy to detonate liquid explosives on jets flying from London to the United States.

Its order was suspended when the Punjab government lodged an appeal.

Rauf had then faced charges including impersonation, carrying a fake identity card and fake documents, which he denied.

Rauf had been in custody under the Security of Pakistan Act when he made his escape, but all charges related to terrorism had been dropped, according to a senior official.

Now on the run, Rauf has dual British-Pakistani citizenship and left Britain shortly after his maternal uncle, Mohammed Saeed, 54, was stabbed to death in Birmingham, west central England, in April 2002.

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