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WHEN CAPTAIN Gareth Tennant was patrolling with the Royal Marines in the Gulf of Aden in 2010, his team intercepted some Somali pirates on two skiffs. The pirates’ weapons were confiscated and the marines waited for clearance to release their prisoners. The plan was to tow the ne’er-do-wells back to Somali waters. But the pirates misread the troops’ intentions, and thought they were about to be abandoned at sea; a few jumped into the water while the rest attacked Mr Tennant’s team. For a brief period, there was chaos. Mr Tennant was unable to give any orders. But his team acted anyway. One boat rescued the Somalis who had jumped into the water; another came alongside to offer support in ending the fight. His team acted that way, Mr Tennant argues, because they were used to working with each other and they had war-gamed what might go wrong. In contrast, the pirates were suffering from fear, stress and fatigue, and acted on gut instinct. “If you haven’t gone through the decision-making process in advance, then gut instinct tends to kick in,” Mr Tennant says. Now Mr Tennant is back in civilian life, acting as
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Fast rise and fall of Kenosha Guard reflect spirit of armed...
KENOSHA (NEW YORK TIMES) - Tapping on his cellphone with a sense of purpose, Mr Kevin Mathewson, a former wedding photographer and one-time city alderman in Kenosha, Wisconsin, did not slow down to fix his typos as he dashed off an online appeal to his neighbours. It was time, he wrote on Facebook in late August, to "take up arms to defend out City tonight from the evil thugs". One day earlier, hundreds of residents had poured onto the streets of Kenosha to protest against the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake. Disturbed by the sight of buildings in flames when he drove downtown, Mr Mathewson decided it was time for people to arm themselves to protect their houses and businesses. To his surprise, some 4,000 people responded on Facebook. Within minutes, the Kenosha Guard had sprung to life. His call to arms - along with similar calls from others inside and outside the state - propelled civilians bearing military-style rifles onto the streets, where late that night a gunman scuffling with protesters shot three of them, two fatally. The Kenosha Guard then evaporated just as quickly as it arose. Long
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Two French women charged over 'racist' stabbing of veiled Muslim women
PARIS (AFP) - Two women accused of stabbing two other women wearing Muslim headscarves near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and trying to rip off their veils have been charged with assault and racist slurs, legal sources said on Thursday (Oct 22). The case comes amid heightened racial tensions following the Islamist killing last week of a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The women accused over the assault were drunk when they came across a group of Muslim women and children in the Champ de Mars park at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The Muslim family complained about the other women's dog, saying they felt threatened by it. In the ensuing row, one of the women with the dog pulled a knife and stabbed two of the veiled women, aged 19 and 40. The 40-year-old woman sustained six stab wounds and is being treated in hospital for a perforated lung. The younger victim was stabbed three times and was also treated in hospital but has since been discharged. Both victims claimed their attackers called them "dirty Arabs" and told them: "This is
'Lock up the Bidens,' Trump says at US presidential campaign rally...
MACON, GEORGIA (BLOOMBERG) - US President Donald Trump called on Friday night (Oct 16) for Joe Biden and his family to be jailed, escalating his attacks on his Democratic opponent over unsupported accusations as he struggles to reverse his deficit in the polls. "Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary," Trump declared at a rally in Macon, Georgia, stoking the crowd that chanted "lock him up" in favour of the Democratic candidate's imprisonment. "We've learned over the last couple of months: Joe Biden is a corrupt politician," Trump said to his supporters, "and the Biden family is a criminal enterprise." Trump frequently demanded that his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, be incarcerated over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. It was believed to be the first time he has ever used that sort of attack against the Bidens. The FBI declined in 2016 to recommend charges against Clinton for sending a small number of classified emails through a private server at her New York home. Trailing behind Biden in most opinion polls with the election less than three weeks away, Trump has zeroed in on a New York Post report
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