Motorcycle Clubs: Bandidos; Nomads; & Pagans

***  Jury selection continues from a pool of 2,000 in a London, Ontario court in the murder trial against six men accused for the April 2006 mass slaying of eight Bandidos motorcycle club members and associates:

This is the biggest mass murder in modern Ontario history and the biggest known biker mass murder in the world. The eight victims were all connected to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club Worldwide. The size of the jury pool is roughly the size of the Bandidos club, and more than six times the size of downtown Shedden, the hamlet a half-hour's drive west of here, where the bodies of eight men were found shot to death in vehicles abandoned on a muddy farmer's field on April 8, 2006. The Bandidos are the world's second biggest outlaw motorcycle club, behind only the Hells Angels.

Among the executed was the motorcycle club's Canadian president John Muscedere.  The six defendants also are reputed members and associates of the Bandidos, and law enforcement attributes the motive for the slayings as an internal cleansing.

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***  Police in Warwick, Australia raided the clubhouse of the Bandidos motorcycle club and arrested two people, including "Darrell Vincent Cross, believed to be the local branch's ringleader."

***  A member of the Pagans motorcycle club shot himself in the face after a standoff with police in Phoenixville, PA.

***  Three members of the Nomads motorcycle club were shot in the legs by masked gunmen -- presumably from a rival gang -- at their clubhouse in Sydney, Australia.