Hotel Maid in Strauss-Khan rape case, speaks out

The maid, Nafissatou Diallo (left) talks to ABC News, Robin Roberts (right)

This is not Maid in Manhattan, but real story of a New York Hotel Maid accusing former International Monetary Fund, IMF Chief, Dominique Strauss Khan of raping her in a New York hotel room.

The New York hotel maid known as Nafissatou Diallo, 32 a mother of a 15 year old daughter. Nafissatou is from Guinea and fled to the United States after alleging that 2 Guinean soilders raped her in her native country.

She gave her side of her story about the alleged rape by Strauss Khan in a special interview by ABC News and gave permission for her name to be mentioned.

Nafissatou said in an interview published on Newsweek's website on Sunday, 24th July 2011 that Strauss Khan appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her when she entered his room.

Diallo said she saw Strauss-Kahn appear naked in front of her when she opened the door to his suite. He was like "a crazy man to me," she said.

"You're beautiful," she reported Strauss-Kahn as saying, and said he attacked her despite her protestations.

Nafissatou then shocked the world with allegations that Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom of his luxury suite on May 14, 2011 and forced her to perform oral sex.



The Sofitel Hotel in New York where the Maid from Guinea works

"I want justice. I want him to go to jail," she said in excerpts from the television interview released on Sunday, 24th July 2011.

"I want him to know that there is some places you cannot use your money, you cannot use your power when you do something like this," Nafissatou Diallo said.



Strauss-Kahn, 62, has repeatedly denied all the charges against him. In a statement on Sunday, 24th July 2011, his lawyers called the interview a last-ditch effort by the maid and her lawyers to extract money from the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

She is "the first accuser in history to conduct a media campaign to persuade a prosecutor to pursue charges against a person from whom she wants money," Strauss Khan lawyers Benjamin Brafman and William Taylor said.

"Her lawyers and public relations consultants have orchestrated an unprecedented number of media events and rallies to bring pressure on the prosecutors in this case after she had to admit her extraordinary efforts to mislead them."

Nafissatou's credibility was thrown into question when Manhattan prosecutors revealed that she told authorities numerous lies, including fabricating a story about being gang-raped in Guinea in order to gain U.S. asylum.

She also changed details of her story about what happened following the purported assault.

Nafissatou said her husband in Guinea died of an illness but did not provide further details.

Roughly two years after being raped by two soldiers in Conakry, the Guinean capital, she fled with her daughter, now 15, to the United States in 2003, where she said she has few close friends.

After arriving from Guinea in 2003, Diallo, who is illiterate, told Newsweek she spent years braiding hair before working at a bodega in New York City's Bronx borough.

As a maid at the Sofitel hotel, she received USD $25 an hour plus tips.

Following the alleged attack, Diallo spent weeks in protective custody, holed up in a hotel with her daughter.

Well then, we will just wait and see.

Remembring 9/11 - The 2,977 victims and The falling man

The haunting images of the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks by Al Qaeda in America, are still very fresh in our minds, even after almost 9 years.

Images of 2 jet planes plunging into the World Trade Centre Twin Towers in New York, could not be forgotten by us, for years to come.

These disasters were caused by mentally deranged satan in human beings forms - the likes of the Egyptian lunatic - Mohammed Atta and others, following blindly what Osama bin Laden ordered them, in the belief that they will enter straight into heaven after commiting those horrific acts.

The truth is that all of Mohammed Atta friends and himself were being sent straight to hell for killing innocent human beings, for no religion in the world condone such brutal acts against humanity.

The 4 attacks on both twin towers, the Pentagon and the fourth aircraft that crashed off Pennsylvania after the passengers fought back with the satanic terrorists, killed altogether 2,997 victims including the 19 insane hijackers.














The gripping image of The Falling Man

Apart from the thousands of images of the World Trade Centre Twin Towers on fire and the subsequent buildings collapse, another unforgettable images are that of The Falling Man.

Theologian Mark D. Thompson of Moore Theological College says that "perhaps the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not found in art, or literature, or even popular music. It is found in a single photograph - and that photograph is that of the Falling Man.

The Falling Man is one of 2,997 victims of the Sept 11, 2001 attack.

The man apparently fell down from the twin towers that once stood at 110 storeys or 1,500 feet tall.

Infact, at least 200 people jumped to their deaths from the burning towers, landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below.

The victims had no hope, they cannot be rescued and the fire was fast spreading, so they resorted to jump fatally.

Initially, the Falling Man was identified by The Globe and Mail reporter Peter Cheney as Norberto Hernandez, but when the family looked at the whole series of pictures, it was clear that it was not Hernandez.

Three other families claimed that he was their relative, but after careful analysis of the photo this was disproved.

Then, 5 years after the attacks, the Falling Man was said to be Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old employee of the Windows on the World restaurant.

Briley was a sound engineer who lived in Mount Vernon, New York and worked in the North Tower.

The image of the Falling Man was identified by chef Michael Lomonaco as The Falling Man.

However people, families and relatives of those victims who fall to their death at the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, 2001 attacks, were still skeptical.

Till today, the true identity of The Falling Man has never been officially confirmed.

when was the last time a world leader banged the table at the United Nations General Assembly??

At the 1960 United Nations General Assembly or UNGA, historical and legendary figures were all present in New York... and it was at the height of the Cold War!!!

Just name them - President Soekarno of Indonesia, Fidel Castro of Cuba, a young King Hussein of Jordan and of course Nikita Khruschev aka The Crusher of the Soviet Union.

During the assembly, Khruschev shocked everybody at the UNGA when he banged the table repeatedly with his fists (Iron Fists!!!!!)

At that moment, British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan was delivering his speech.

That was recorded as one of the top 10 moments in the history of the United Nations General Assembly!!!

Maybe Mr Khruschev was offended by Macmillan remarks or maybe it was the effect of Vodka!!!!!

The footage can be seen below at 01.11 :

Scary Welcome for French Tourists in New York City

After a long haul trans Atlantic flight or a 15 hours non stop flight, the least thing you want to happen to you on arrival is a car chase with the local police.

Well that happened exactly to 5 French tourists upon arrival in New York.

Five French tourists got a harrowing start to their New York visit: a wild police chase.


– Ester-Ethy Mamane, left, and her mother Claudie Mamane speak to reporters during a during a news conference …

As they looked for a ride at the Air France terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday morning, the visitors were lured to a van that was not licensed to provide taxi service, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman John Kelly said.

Plainclothes police recognized the man who enticed the tourists, Ian McFarland, as a repeat offender previously arrested for corralling passengers into unlicensed cars.

A Port Authority officer reached inside the van to try and grab the keys, but the driver, Khaalif Preacher, sped off with the tourists inside, knocking the officer to the ground, Kelly said.

Port Authority police sped after the van, which snaked through residential streets and traveled about seven miles through two boroughs before it crashed through a gate at a U.S. Postal Service facility in the East New York section of Brooklyn.

The tourists said they screamed and prayed during the chase.

"I was scared," Paris resident Esther-Ethy Mamane, 26, said.

Mamane and her mother, Claudie, traveled to New York to attend a religious seminar.

She said she tried to keep the other passengers inside the van calm during the chaos.

Preacher and McFarland jumped out while the van was still moving.

Mamane said there was smoke and the rear doors wouldn't open from the inside, so she jumped out the front as the van rolled and ran around to open the doors.

Mamane's mother tried to jump from the van, fell and the vehicle rolled over her arm. She was treated at a hospital and released. Mamane and the other passengers, a woman and her parents, were not injured.

Meanwhile, police chased the two suspects on foot and arrested them. They were awaiting arraignment Wednesday on charges of second-degree assault, second-degree assault on an officer, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and unlawful solicitation of ground transportation services, the Queens district attorney's office said. It wasn't clear whether they had attorneys.

The New York Post apologised for racial slur on Barack Obama

Barely a month after creating history as America's first non white President, Barack Obama find himself victim of racial slur by one of America's most influential newspapers....!!!!!!



At first glance, the main editorial cartoon in today's New York Post seemed like just another lurid reference to the story that the tabloid had been covering with breathless abandon for two days running - the shooting by Connecticut police on Monday of a pet chimpanzee that viciously attacked his owner's friend.

But the caption cast the cartoon in a more sinister light. "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," it read, prompting accusations that the Post was peddling a longstanding racist slur by portraying president Barack Obama, who signed the bill into law yesterday, as an ape.


However The New York Post has apologised.....!!!!

The New York Post has apologised for a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police, following two days of protest.

The drawing by the long-time Post cartoonist Sean Delonas, published on Wednesday, showed a dead chimp and two police officers, one with a smoking gun. The caption read: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

The newspaper posted an editorial on its website last night saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but "to those who were offended by the image, we apologise".

The piece was posted hours after 200 picketers, chanting "Boycott the Post! Shut it down!", marched in front of the paper's office, saying the cartoon echoed racist stereotypes of black people as monkeys.

hmmm....I wonder what cartoon will appear next??? will it be a man escorted by secret services agents, entering the White House, but renamed "the Black House"....??????????