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Habari tulizozipata sasa hivi kuwa bwana Shabani Hilika Ametutoka, Inalilah.
Mnikulu Zanzibar afariki dunia
MNIKULU katika Ikulu ya Zanzibar, Shaaban Ahmada Hilika, amefariki dunia leo katika hospitali ya Mnazimmoja alikokuwa amelazwa kwa matibabu.
Hilika anatarajiwa kuzikwa kesho katika kijiji cha Mfenesini  baada ya Sala ya Adhuhuri, na mwili wa marehemu utaondokea Amani  nyumbani kwao, baada ya kuagwa na kusaliwa..
Hilika amekuwa Mnikulu katika Ikulu ya Zanzibar tokea uongozi wa Aawamu ya Sita ya Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar chini ya Dk.Amani Abeid Karume na kuteuliwa tena kushika nafasi hiyo na Rais wa Awamu ya Saba wa Zanzibar, Dk.Ali Mohamed Shein.
Mungu ailaze mahali pema roho ya marehemu, Amin.

 mke wa Osama bin Laden umebainisha kwamba kiongozi huyo wa al Qaeda alitumia muda wake mwingi baada ya mashambulizi ya 9/11 si mafichoni katika mapango lakini waliishi katika miji ya Pakistan, ambako alihamia  na pia kuzaa baadhii ya watoto wake.

kusoma zaidi bonyeza link hii
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/wife-bin-laden-hid-pakistan-decade/story?id=16037497#.T3Xta-WHs_h

 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a Neighborhood Watch captain inside his own gated Sanford, Florida community where he was living with his father, stepmother and little brother.




 I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on...in fact, that is what I wore yesterday...I still will never look suspicious. No matter how much the hoodie covers my face or how baggie my jeans are, I will never look out of place to you.  I will never watch a taxi cab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse tightly against their body as they walk by me.  I won't have to worry about a police car following me for two miles, so they can "run my plates."  I will never have to pay before I eat. And I certainly will never get "stopped and frisked."  I will never look suspicious to you, because of one thing and one thing only.  The color of my skin.  I am white.
 I was born white.  It was the card I was dealt.  No choice in the matter.  Just the card handed out by the dealer. I have lived my whole life privileged. Privileged to be born without a glass ceiling. Privileged to grow up in the richest country in the world.  Privileged to never look suspicious.  I have no guilt for the color of my skin or the privilege that I have.  Remember, it was just the next card that came out of the deck.  But, I have choices.  I got choices on how I play the hand I was dealt.  I got a lot of options.  The ball is in my court.
 So, today I decided to hit the ball.  Making a choice.  A choice to stand up for Trayvon Martin. 17 years old. black. innocent. murdered with a bag of skittles and a bottle of ice tea in his hands. "Suspicious." that is what the guy who killed him said he looked like cause he had on a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers.  But, remember I had on that same outfit yesterday.  And yes my Air Force Ones were "brand-new" clean.  After all, I was raised in hip-hop...part of our dress code.  I digress.  Back to Trayvon and the gated community in Sanford, Florida, where he was visiting his father.
 I got a lot of emails about Trayvon.  I have read a lot of articles.  I have seen a lot of television segments.  The message is consistent.  Most of the commentators, writers, op-ed pages agree.  Something went wrong.  Trayvon was murdered.  Racially profiled. Race. America's elephant that never seems to leave the room. But, the part that doesn't sit well with me is that all of the messengers of this message are all black too.  I mean, it was only two weeks ago when almost every white person I knew was tweeting about stopping a brutal African warlord from killing more innocent children.  And they even took thirty minutes out of their busy schedules to watch a movie about dude.  They bought t-shirts.  Some bracelets. Even tweeted at Rihanna to take a stance.  But, a 17 year old American kid is followed and then ultimately killed by a neighborhood vigilante who happens to be carrying a semi-automatic weapon and my white friends are quiet.  Eerily quiet. Not even a trending topic for the young man.
 We've heard the 911 calls. We seen the 13 year old witness.  We've read the letter from the alleged killer's father.  We listened to the anger of the family's attorney.  We've felt the pain of Trayvon's mother.  For heaven's sake, for 24 hours he was a deceased John Doe at the hospital because even the police couldn't believe that maybe he LIVES in the community.   There are still some facts to figure out. There are still some questions to be answered.  But, let's be clear.  Let's be very, very clear. Before the neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, started following him against the better judgement of the 911 dispatcher.  Before any altercation.  Before any self-defense claim.  Before Travyon's cries for help were heard on the 911 tapes.  Before the bullet hit him dead in the chest.  Before all of this.  He was suspicious.  He was suspicious. suspicious. And you know, like I know, it wasn't because of the hoodie or the jeans or the sneakers.  Cause I had on that same outfit yesterday and no one called 911 saying I was just wandering around their neighborhood.  It was because of one thing and one thing only.  Trayvon is black.
 So I've made the choice today to tell my white friends that the rights I take for granted are only valid if I fight to give those same rights to others.  The taxi cab. The purse. The meal. The police car. The police. These are all things I've taken for granted.
 So, I fight for Trayvon Martin.  I fight for Amadou Diallo.  I fight for Rodney King.  I fight for every young black man who looks "suspicious" to someone who thinks they have the right to take away their freedom to walk through their own neighborhood.  I fight against my own stereotypes and my own suspicions. I fight for people whose ancestors built this country, literally, and who are still treated like second class citizens.  Being quiet is not an option, for we have been too quiet for too long.
-Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik is the Editor-In-Chief of GlobalGrind.com and the political director to Russell Simmons. Prior to this, Michael was an award-winning filmmaker. Follow him on twitter @MichaelSkolnik

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DETAILS: Trayvon Martin's Last Moments Revealed
DETAILS: Witnesses Heard Trayvon Martin Scream For Help Before He Was Killed

   A first year aeronautical engineering student from the Kannur district in Kerala died in a private hospital in Bangalore of injuries sustained after allegedly being ragged by his seniors.
The boy, a student of Chikkabellapur Shahib Engineering College, died at the hospital last night after battling burn injuries for eight days, family sources said.
Ajmal was admitted to Victoria hospital on March 22 with 60 per cent burn injuries.


His relatives alleged that Ajmal had suffered burn injuries due to ragging and that he had been constantly harassed by his seniors ever since he joined the college six months back.
Family sources said Karnataka police are probing the cause of burn injuries, but suspected it was caused due to ragging.

Hyderabad: Communal violence broke out in Sangareddy town of Andhra Pradesh, forcing the police to clamp indefinite curfew. Twenty people were injured and several shops were set afire in the large scale violence late on Thursday night in Sangareddy town of Medak district, about 70 km from here.


The violence broke out on Thursday night when a youth allegedly posted on Facebook a provocative photograph of a place of worship. Even as a group of people was staging a protest outside police station demanding his arrest, a mob started attacks on shops and vehicles at Old Bus Stand.



The police on Friday said the situation was peaceful but tense. A police officer said patrolling has been intensified in the sensitive areas and the curfew was continuing as a precautionary measure.

The rampaging mob set afire 40 shops, two four-wheelers and four auto rickshaws. It also looted several other shops and small road-side kiosks. A police vehicle was also torched. The looting and attacks continued till 1 a.m. Locals alleged that the police remained mute spectator.

As many as 20 people including few policemen were also injured in the stone pelting by two groups. Police had called additional forces from other parts of the district. As a precautionary measure, security had been tightened in other towns and districts.

New Delhi: Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, resulting in critical injuries to her, on Friday moved a Delhi court for bail.


Kazmi's bail plea, filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, is to come up for hearing on Saturday.
Court sources said Kazmi has sought bail on the ground that the police had told the court earlier, at the time he was sent to the judicial custody, that the probe vis-a-vis him has been completed.


He has said due to completion of the probe against him, he had been sent to judicial custody on March 24 mid-way his tenure for the police custody till March 27.
Kazmi had earlier alleged that police was harassing him in custody to pressurise him to "confess a crime he never committed" and that "foreign agencies like Mossad were also interrogating him."

The court had then asked the Special Cell not to permit other investigating agencies to interrogate him but had imposed no bar from sharing information with other agencies.

Kazmi, who claims to have been writing for an Iranian publication, was picked up by the Special Cell of Delhi Police after the probe showed he had been in touch with a suspect who is believed to have stuck the magnetic bomb on Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car on February 13.

Yehoshua and an Indian driver of the Embassy vehicle were among the four people injured in the blast.