Air Force uses mobile operations center for B-2 bomber for first time

Aug. 31 (UPI) – The U. S. Air Force Global Strike Command has set up its first overseas mobile operations center for B-2 stealth bomber missions, the branch announced Monday.

The center was established by the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron of Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., for the first time on Aug. 20 during a deployment to Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, which is on a British archipelago in the Indian Ocean where a squadron of B-2 bombers was deployed earlier this month.

The mission planning and monitoring facility enables the 393rd EBS to plot actions on any airfield in the world available to the B-2, which officials say will offer greater flexibility for mission deployment.

"This is the future of bomber mission planning," Lt. Col. Christopher Conant, Bomber Task Force commander, said in a statement. "Our objective out here is to create an ability to move a B-2 unit to any location in the world and generate combat sorties, as the Air Force Global Strike 2020 Strategic Plan outlines."

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2020/08/31/Air-Force-uses-mobile-operations-center-for-B-2-bomber-for-first-time/3921598890349/

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KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Monday it had detained Paul Rusesabagina - the man who was hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about the country’s 1994 genocide - on terrorism charges and paraded him in front of media in handcuffs.

Rusesabagina was played by Don Cheadle in the Oscar-nominated film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ which told the story of how he used his job as a hotel manager and his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter.

On Monday, two police officers brought the 66-year-old to the headquarters of Rwanda Investigations Bureau and let media film him and take photographs.

Rusesabagina, who wore a facemask, did not speak. He has in the past said he is the victim of a smear campaign in Rwanda.

“Rusesabagina is suspected of being a founder or a leader or sponsor or member of violent armed extremist terror outfits … operating out of various places in the region and abroad,” the bureau’s spokesman, Thierry Murangira, told journalists.

He said Rusesabagina would face several charges including “terrorism, financing terrorism … arson, kidnap and murder.”

He did not say how or where Rusesabagina was arrested.

Rusesabagina moved abroad after the genocide and won worldwide acclaim, receiving the United States’ highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2005.

But back home, he has sparked outrage with warnings of another genocide, this time by Tutsis against Hutus. He has drawn criticism from some genocide survivors and president Paul Kagame who accused him of exploiting the genocide for commercial gain.

In 2010, the prosecutor general told Reuters authorities had evidence Rusesabagina had funded terrorist groups, though no charges were brought.

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>>10484383

Rwanda arrests 'Hotel Rwanda' hero on terrorism charges

forgot the headline

Richard Morris: body found in search for diplomat in Hampshire

Police searching for diplomat who went missing in May have found a body.

Richard Morris set off jogging from his home in Bentley, near Farnham, at 10.30am on 6 May and was last seen running in Islington Road in nearby Alton.

Hampshire police said on Monday that a body had been found in nearby Alice Holt Forest and the death was not being treated as suspicious.

The force said: “Formal identification has not yet taken place, but the 52-year-old’s family have been notified. They are being supported by specialist officers. A file will be prepared for the coroner.”

Morris was Britain’s ambassador to Nepal between 2015 and November 2019 and accompanied the Duke of Sussex during his tour of the country in 2016. Before that he was head of the Pacific department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and he held senior diplomatic posts including in Australia and Mexico.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/31/richard-morris-body-found-in-search-for-diplomat-in-hampshire

Bags of stolen mail found in DWI suspect's car, HCSO says

HOUSTON — A Harris County deputy made a surprising discovery when he pulled over a drunk driving suspect in Katy Saturday night.

The suspect’s car was full of stolen mail, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputy Parella spotted the mail while questioning the driver at the Metro Park and Ride near I-10 and the Grand Parkway.

Parella said he found a couple of bags of undelivered mail and a trunk full of mostly junk mail.

The mail was turned over to the United States Postal Service. U.S. Postal Service in inspectors are investigating the case.

Along with a DWI charge, the suspect will likely face federal charges.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/stolen-mail-houston-dwi/285-d323df8d-892a-4e7c-8a75-5d7aea688e6b

>>10484513

I like this POTUS better…

>>10484558

Exactly

Eglin sure is busy today

On Screen: 34

>>10484708

My opinion is this was motive, not sure about Nepal pedo connection

Richard Morris (diplomat) He was due to become the next British High Commissioner to Fiji in July 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Morris_(diplomat)

High Commissioners to the Republic of Fiji

2016–present: Melanie Hopkins, also to Kiribati, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu