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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Senate passage of immigration bill on track
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Senate passage of historic immigration legislation offering citizenship to millions looks near-certain after the bill cleared a key hurdle with votes to spare.
A final vote in the Senate on Thursday or Friday would send the issue to the House, where conservative Republicans in the majority oppose citizenship for anyone living in the country illegally.
Some GOP lawmakers have appealed to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, not to permit any immigration legislation to come to a vote for fear that whatever its contents, it would open the door to an unpalatable compromise with the Senate. At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee is in the midst of approving a handful of measures related to immigration, action that ordinarily is a prelude to votes in the full House.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Tuesday that the Senate's advancement of stronger border security measures makes it "even more likely" that immigration reform will pass the House and become law. He said that the House won't take up the Senate bill but will do its own legislation, and added, "the majority of Republicans support the border security" as the keystone of immigration reform. He spoke on CBS' "This Morning."
"Now is the time to do it," President Barack Obama said Monday at the White House before meeting with nine business executives who support a change in immigration laws. "I hope that we can get the strongest possible vote out of the Senate so that we can then move to the House and get this done before the summer break" beginning in early August.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday she thinks it's important for the House to have its own bill and said, "Let's be optimistic about it."
Pelosi told CNN she thinks it has an excellent chance of passing there because GOP lawmakers are the party's poor showing with Hispanic voters in last year's presidential election "sends an eloquent message" to them.
Obama's prodding came several hours before the Senate voted 67-27 to advance the measure over a procedural hurdle. The tally was seven more than the 60 needed, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in voting yes.
"I think we're building momentum," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who worked with Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., on a $38 billion package of security improvements that helped bring Republicans on board by doubling the number of border patrol agents and calling for hundreds of miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico. Those changes brought border security spending in the bill to $46 billion.
"The bill has been improved dramatically tonight by this vote, there's no question," Corker said. "My sense is we're going to pass an immigration bill out of the United States Senate which will be no doubt historic and I think something that's very, very important to this nation."
Last-minute frustration was evident among opponents. In an unusual slap at members of his own party as well as Democrats, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said it appeared that lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle "very much want a fig leaf" on border security to justify a vote for immigration.
Senate officials said some changes were still possible to the bill before it leaves the Senate ? alterations that would swell the number of votes in favor.
At the same time, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who voted to advance the measure during the day, said he may yet end up opposing it unless he wins changes he is seeking.
Senate Democrats were unified on the vote.
Republicans were anything but on a bill that some party leaders say offers the GOP a chance to show a more welcoming face to Hispanic voters, but which tea party-aligned lawmakers assail as amnesty for those who have violated the law.
At its core, the Senate bill would create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.
The measure also would create a new program for temporary farm laborers to come into the country, and another for lower-skilled workers to emigrate permanently. At the same time, it calls for an expansion of an existing visa program for highly-skilled workers, a gesture to high-tech companies that rely heavily on foreigners.
In addition to border security, the measure phases in a mandatory program for employers to verify the legal status of potential workers, and calls for a separate program to track the comings and goings of foreigners at the nation's seaports and airports.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-passage-immigration-bill-track-072445504.html
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Exercise benefits patients with type 2 diabetes
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OAK BROOK, Ill. Moderate-intensity exercise reduces fat stored around the heart, in the liver and in the abdomen of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, even in the absence of any changes in diet, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin, a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into the cells, or when the cells resist the effects of insulin. The disease can lead to a wide range of complications, including damage to the eyes and kidneys and hardening of the arteries.
Exercise is recommended for people with diabetes, but its effects on different fat deposits in the body are unclear, according to the study's senior author, Hildo J. Lamb, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
"Based on previous studies, we noticed that different fat deposits in the body show a differential response to dietary or medical intervention," he said. "Metabolic and other effects of exercise are hard to investigate, because usually an exercise program is accompanied by changes in lifestyle and diet."
For the new study, Dr. Lamb and colleagues assessed the effects of exercise on organ-specific fat accumulation and cardiac function in type 2 diabetes patients, independent of any other lifestyle or dietary changes. The 12 patients, average age 46 years, underwent MRI examinations before and after six months of moderate-intensity exercise totaling between 3.5 and six hours per week and featuring two endurance and two resistance training sessions. The exercise cycle culminated with a 12-day trekking expedition.
MRI results showed that, although cardiac function was not affected, the exercise program led to a significant decrease in fat volume in the abdomen, liver and around the heart, all of which have been previously shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk.
"In the present study we observed that the second layer of fat around the heart, the peracardial fat, behaved similarly in response to exercise training as intra-abdominal, or visceral fat," Dr. Lamb said. "The fat content in the liver also decreased substantially after exercise."
Dr. Lamb noted that the exercise-induced fat reductions in the liver are of particular importance to people with type 2 diabetes, many of whom are overweight or obese.
"The liver plays a central role in regulating total body fat distribution," he said. "Therefore, reduction of liver fat content and visceral fat volume by physical exercise are very important to reverse the adverse effects of lipid accumulation elsewhere, such as the heart and arterial vessel wall."
The findings point to an important role for imaging in identifying appropriate treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, which the World Health Organization projects to be the seventh leading cause of death worldwide by 2030.
"In the future, we hope to be able to use advanced imaging techniques to predict in individual patients which therapeutic strategy is most effective: diet, medication, exercise, surgery or certain combinations," Dr. Lamb said.
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"Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Changes in Tissue-Specific Fat Distribution and Cardiac Function." Collaborating with Dr. Lamb were Jacqueline T. Jonker, M.D., Pieter de Mol, M.D., Suzanna T. de Vries, M.D., Ralph L.Widya, M.D., Sebastiaan Hammer, M.D., Ph.D., Linda D. van Schinkel, M.D., Rutger W. van der Meer, M.D., Ph.D., Rijk O.B. Gans, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D., Hermien E. Kan, Ph.D., Eelco J.P. de Koning, M.D., Ph.D., and Henk J.G. Bilo, M.D., Ph.D.
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Radiological Society of North America
OAK BROOK, Ill. Moderate-intensity exercise reduces fat stored around the heart, in the liver and in the abdomen of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, even in the absence of any changes in diet, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin, a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into the cells, or when the cells resist the effects of insulin. The disease can lead to a wide range of complications, including damage to the eyes and kidneys and hardening of the arteries.
Exercise is recommended for people with diabetes, but its effects on different fat deposits in the body are unclear, according to the study's senior author, Hildo J. Lamb, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
"Based on previous studies, we noticed that different fat deposits in the body show a differential response to dietary or medical intervention," he said. "Metabolic and other effects of exercise are hard to investigate, because usually an exercise program is accompanied by changes in lifestyle and diet."
For the new study, Dr. Lamb and colleagues assessed the effects of exercise on organ-specific fat accumulation and cardiac function in type 2 diabetes patients, independent of any other lifestyle or dietary changes. The 12 patients, average age 46 years, underwent MRI examinations before and after six months of moderate-intensity exercise totaling between 3.5 and six hours per week and featuring two endurance and two resistance training sessions. The exercise cycle culminated with a 12-day trekking expedition.
MRI results showed that, although cardiac function was not affected, the exercise program led to a significant decrease in fat volume in the abdomen, liver and around the heart, all of which have been previously shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk.
"In the present study we observed that the second layer of fat around the heart, the peracardial fat, behaved similarly in response to exercise training as intra-abdominal, or visceral fat," Dr. Lamb said. "The fat content in the liver also decreased substantially after exercise."
Dr. Lamb noted that the exercise-induced fat reductions in the liver are of particular importance to people with type 2 diabetes, many of whom are overweight or obese.
"The liver plays a central role in regulating total body fat distribution," he said. "Therefore, reduction of liver fat content and visceral fat volume by physical exercise are very important to reverse the adverse effects of lipid accumulation elsewhere, such as the heart and arterial vessel wall."
The findings point to an important role for imaging in identifying appropriate treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, which the World Health Organization projects to be the seventh leading cause of death worldwide by 2030.
"In the future, we hope to be able to use advanced imaging techniques to predict in individual patients which therapeutic strategy is most effective: diet, medication, exercise, surgery or certain combinations," Dr. Lamb said.
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"Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Changes in Tissue-Specific Fat Distribution and Cardiac Function." Collaborating with Dr. Lamb were Jacqueline T. Jonker, M.D., Pieter de Mol, M.D., Suzanna T. de Vries, M.D., Ralph L.Widya, M.D., Sebastiaan Hammer, M.D., Ph.D., Linda D. van Schinkel, M.D., Rutger W. van der Meer, M.D., Ph.D., Rijk O.B. Gans, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D., Hermien E. Kan, Ph.D., Eelco J.P. de Koning, M.D., Ph.D., and Henk J.G. Bilo, M.D., Ph.D.
Radiology is edited by Herbert Y. Kressel, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., and owned and published by the Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
RSNA is an association of more than 51,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists promoting excellence in patient care and health care delivery through education, research and technologic innovation. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Ill. (RSNA.org)
For patient-friendly information on MRI, visit RadiologyInfo.org.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Vast British spy op revealed in documents
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's spy agency GCHQ has tapped fiber-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the U.S. National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper said on Friday.
The paper, which has in recent weeks been publishing details of top-secret surveillance programs exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said on its website that Snowden had shown it documents about a project codenamed "Tempora."
Tempora has been running for about 18 months and allows GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fiber-optic cables for up to 30 days, the paper said.
The Guardian said Snowden had provided it with access to documents about GCHQ's alleged cable-tapping operation as part of his effort to expose "the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history."
For decades, the NSA and GCHQ have worked as close partners, sharing intelligence under an arrangement known as the UKUSA agreement. They also collaborate with eavesdropping agencies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand under an arrangement known as the "Five Eyes" alliance.
The latest Guardian story will likely put more pressure on British Prime Minister David Cameron's government to reassure the public about how data about them is collected and used.
Earlier this month, in response to questions about the secret U.S. data-monitoring program Prism, British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament that GCHQ always adhered to British law when processing data gained from eavesdropping.
He would not confirm or deny any details of UK-U.S. intelligence sharing, saying that to do so could help Britain's enemies.
"In line with long-standing practice we do not comment on intelligence matters," a GCHQ spokesman said on Friday.
NSA spokeswoman Judith Emmel rejected any suggestion the U.S. agency used the British to do things the NSA cannot do legally. Under U.S. law, the NSA must get authorization from a secret federal court to collect information either in bulk or on specific people.
"Any allegation that NSA relies on its foreign partners to circumvent U.S. law is absolutely false. NSA does not ask its foreign partners to undertake any intelligence activity that the U.S. government would be legally prohibited from undertaking itself," Emmel said.
INTERCEPT PROBES
The Tempora operation involves attaching intercept probes to transatlantic cables where they land on British shores from North America, the Guardian said.
That was done with the agreement of unnamed companies, which were forbidden from revealing warrants that compelled them to allow GCHQ access, it added.
Snowden made world headlines earlier this month when he provided details of NSA surveillance programs to the Guardian and the Washington Post.
In Washington, Snowden's disclosures have ignited a political storm over the balance between privacy rights and national security, but the NSA has defended the programs, saying they have disrupted possible attacks.
In the wake of Snowden's revelations, U.S. officials acknowledged that the NSA, with cooperation from internet and telephone companies, collected email on foreign intelligence suspects, including counterterrorism targets, as well as masses of raw data on calls made within the United States and overseas by subscribers to major telephone companies.
The content of messages of people in the United States - including U.S. citizens - sometimes are intercepted "incidentally," officials have said, but rules require such intercepts to be purged unless U.S. authorities get court authorization.
(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and Michael Holden in London and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Andrew Roche and Peter Cooney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-spy-agency-taps-cables-shares-nsa-guardian-181011320.html
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
The Math Behind Cicadas' Bizarre 17-Year Life Cycle
It makes sense that an animal might hid away in the ground while it's maturing, but 17 years is a long, seemingly random amount of time. But it's not like cicadas picked a number out of hate and were stuck with it. There's a something specific about that number, and numberphile is sussing it out.
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Looking for a 1x1 Roleplaying Partner!
Hello everyone! Once again I'm searching a long term roleplaying partner! If our interested send me a message!
Rules and Expectations: My rules are pretty simple, just be active in the roleplay and no one-liners please, I know sometimes roleplays start to die but just try to avoid them. I want at least a good solid paragraph, put some thought into your responses. No powerplaying please. I would love to have at least one reply a day, I know that sometimes people get busy and I understand that. If your going to be gone for a long period of time, please let me know so I'm not waiting for a reply. Also, if you feel like the roleplay isn't going somewhere please say something and we can try to fix it, start a new roleplay, or end the roleplay all together. I don't really have any limits,but if you do let me know. That's about it for the rules (:
I'm really looking for someone who will play a male character. I can double as a male for a side character but I feel more comfortable playing a female.
Genres:
********VampirexWerewolf, werewolfxhuman, vampirexhuman - I don't mean the Twilight vampires, I mean the real bloody, gory vampires.
I will do more, but at the moment this is really what I'm craving. If you have any question send me a message (:. Hope to hear from you guys!
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Oily fish off the menu for preventing more heart attacks - Boots WebMD
14th June 2013 - People who have had a heart attack may no longer be advised to eat oily fish to help prevent them having another attack.
The change is being made in updated draft guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the hundreds of thousands of adults in England and Wales who have survived a heart attack.
The guidelines were originally written in 2007, but NICE says recent improvements in care and treatment for people who have had heart attacks means that eating oily fish, or taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements, may only have a minimal effect in preventing further attacks or strokes.
Mediterranean diet
Patients would, however, be encouraged to eat a Mediterranean-style diet, including more bread, fruit, vegetables and fish. They should cut down on meat, and replace butter and cheese with products based on plant oils.
The new guidelines, which have been published for consultation, include changes in the treatments given immediately after a heart attack since the original guideline was published, particularly the use of stents rather than drugs as a means of widening blocked or narrowed coronary arteries.
The number of people having heart attacks and strokes has fallen over the past 30 years. Currently, around 103,000 people in the UK have heart attacks each year.
Professor Mark Baker, director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, says in a statement: "Despite the improvements in the number of people surviving a heart attack, heart disease remains the UK?s biggest killer, causing more than 80,000 deaths each year. It also causes on-going health problems for many thousands of others. People who have had a heart attack have a greatly increased risk of another.
"This updated draft guideline takes on board the latest evidence on the best ways to prevent further heart attacks or strokes in people who have already suffered a heart attack. Its aim is to provide the growing number of people who now survive a heart attack with the good quality, systematic care that is essential to improving long term outcomes and quality of life."
Rehabilitation
Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, says in a statement: "It's been six years since the last heart attack guidelines were published and treatment of heart attacks has changed substantially.
"Stents are now the preferred treatment option and all patients should be offered cardiac rehabilitation afterwards. It?s great news that NICE has recognised this and is updating the guidance in the light of new evidence.
"It?s one thing to save a life; it?s another thing giving patients a life worth saving. Only 44% of eligible patients currently receive cardiac rehabilitation, despite the evidence demonstrating it can reduce premature death.
"Interestingly, oily fish is no longer on the menu for those who have had a heart attack, but the benefits of a Mediterranean diet are helpfully emphasised in the guidance."
Dr Knapton adds: "It remains to be seen how quickly the NHS can implement any new guidelines."
Source: http://www.webmd.boots.com/heart-disease/news/20130614/oily-fish-heart-attacks
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Quotations of the day
"There are many actions that the United States can take to increase our humanitarian assistance to refugee populations and opposition groups short of injecting more weapons into the conflict." ? Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., expressing concerns about the Obama administration's plan to arm Syrian rebels in that country's civil war.
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"The bad guys are now changing their methods of operation. His disclosures are ultimately going to lead to us being less safe in America because bad guys will be able to figure out a way around some of the methods we use, and it's likely to cost lives down the road." ? Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., after disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of two secret NSA surveillance programs.
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"I never in my wildest dreams imagined we'd be dealing a year later with a very similar circumstance." ? El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa as the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns for a third day.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/quotations-day-070627283.html
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
WWDC 2013 Day 1
I lined up at 2am for the WWDC 2013 keynote. It was early, it was cold. But there were great people in line to talk with and the time passed surprisingly fast. Marc Gurman was there, as was Adam Bell, Grant Paul (chpwn), Marc Edwards, the Nickelfish crew, and many, many others. But that was just the beginning...!
Due to new security procedures -- bag checks -- they let us in earlier than in years before, but that just meant lining up inside after out. There were a couple of additional banners up, but covered in black cloth. Secrets!
We finally got in around 9:30pt, half an hour before the event was scheduled to begin, and I raced to get ready. Seth Clifford was handling the live blogging and I was taking photos. I was shooting with a Canon 5D Mark III and 70-200mm Sigma lens, which I'd accidentally dropped the night before. Luckily only the UV filter shattered and the camera worked fine. Unluckily, I lost my miniUSB cable so I could shoot tethered. That meant I had to shoot a series of pictures, swap cards, start importing in Aperture, export, drag into the Live Blog, and keep shooting with the other card. It was sub-optimal but it worked.
After the keynote the curtains were pulled on the new banners -- OS X Mavericks and the MacBooks, and new Mac Pros were available to be stared at.
I went to the State of the Union. That's the second keynote, and the on that's under NDA which means I can't talk about what was said there. (If you violate NDA's, you're not doing Apple, this business, or yourself any favors.) I can say there was some amazing, and some very candid things shown and discussed there.
Then it was time for the iMore + Debug + Iterate party. We wanted to podcast right after the event so we could bring you all our thoughts and feelings while they were still fresh. We also wanted to thank all the incredible guests we'd had on the shows for the past two years, and honor both our 2012 and 2013 iMore Hall of Fame winners, so we decided to throw a small party. Jessie Char from Pacific Helm was kind enough to handle all the heavy lifting for us. We had some great guests on as well, and we'll post both the video and audio soon.
After that I spent some time with some very, very smart people deconstruction all the events of the day, and pouring over iOS 7 by the pixel and bit. So much has changed, and so much seems unfinished, that I'm still working on collecting my thoughts.
But I'll have a full iOS 7 first impressions article for everyone very soon.
Thanks for reading all our coverage so far, and if there's anything else you'd like to see - or just see more of -- let me know right now!
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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Monday, June 3, 2013
No positive step has been taken to eradicate this ... - Kaieteur News
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Dear Editor,
I read with great interest the article that appeared in your newspaper on June 2, 2013 and I totally agree with the comments made by the author Gabriel Lall, and he should be commended for his excellent work. I have been making the same observation time and time again, but nothing significantly is being done by the government and to a lesser extent by the opposition forces to deal with the racial issue which is the root of most of the problems in the country.
Instead of the government putting machinery in place with competent and unbias personnel to tackle the problem in race relation, they seem to focus on placing incompetent party supporters in their positions. I agree with the comments made by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphal Trotman that ?our colonial predecessors effectively manipulated and used the issue of race and competition and rivalry to divide the Government. However, while we are not guilty of starting this rivalry, we are certainly to be condemned for continuing it?
So true, the PNC during its 28 years in administration has failed to address the burning problem and the PPPC in its 22 years is not doing better ? maybe totally ignoring the issue.
Perhaps from time to time comments have been made by leaders on both sides of the political divide about the conflict, but no positive step has been taken to eradicate this cancer in our society.
The country has recently celebrated its 47th anniversary of independence from colonial rule, but it seems as if we are still unable to solve our problems. What a shame.
The government should take the lead in this regard; inviting the opposition, the Council of Churches, all other religious organizations, the Chamber of Commerce, the trade unions, and other organizations to address the burning issue.
It might surprise some readers, the problem has spilled over in other Caribbean countries where a large number of?Guyanese live. I was asked a few years ago in one of the islands to intervene in a racial rivalry. It was very embarrassing, but it was solved to a certain extent.
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
McCain pictured with Syrian rebel kidnapper
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain was photographed during a trip to Syria with a man implicated in the kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims a year ago, a Lebanese newspaper said on Thursday.
McCain, a Republican, has been an outspoken advocate for U.S. military aid to the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and made a short, highly publicised trip to meet rebel commanders in Syria three days ago.
He has insisted that the United States could locate the "right people" to help among rebel ranks infiltrated with radicalised Islamists.
However, he may have crossed paths with men linked to a group notorious in the region for kidnapping the pilgrims, the Daily Star said.
The paper said that as well as McCain's photographs with rebel commanders, one image showed the face of Mohammad Nour - identified by two freed hostages as the chief spokesman and photographer for the Northern Storm brigade that kidnapped them.
The image demonstrates the difficulty of identifying who the West might want to deal with and could possibly further inflame the delicate sectarian balance in a conflict that is spilling over Lebanon's borders.
A spokesman for McCain said none of the people he met identified themselves as Nour and it had not been his intention to meet anyone of that name.
"A number of the Syrians who greeted Senator McCain upon his arrival in Syria asked to take pictures with him, and as always, the senator complied. If the individual photographed with Senator McCain is in fact Mohammad Nour, that is regrettable," spokesman Brian Rogers said.
"But it would be ludicrous to suggest that the senator in any way condones the kidnapping of Lebanese Shia pilgrims or has any communication with those responsible. Senator McCain condemns such heinous actions in the strongest possible terms."
The hostages were seized in northern Syria as they returned from a pilgrimage in Iran. Lebanese officials flew to Turkey on Thursday in the latest effort to secure the release of the remaining nine hostages.
McCain has denounced Democratic President Barack Obama for shying away from deeper involvement in the conflict. The uprising-turned-civil war has become increasingly bloody and has claimed more than 80,000 in over two years of conflict.
"The senator believes his visit to Syria was critical to supporting the many brave Syrians who are fighting for their lives and the freedom of their country against a brutal regime and its foreign allies that are massacring Syrian citizens on Syrian territory," the spokesman said.
(Reporting by Erika Solomon; Additional reporting by Alistair Bell; Editing by Alison Williams)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-senator-mccain-pictured-syrian-rebel-kidnapper-paper-172141362.html
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