NCRI - The Yemeni Defense Ministry said Thursday it has seized another Iranian vessel smuggling weapons into a Yemen near the Bab el- Mandeb Strait off the Red Sea coasts.
"The vessel, Jihan, was seized along with the Yemeni fishing boat by the Yemeni Navy and was moved to the Aden port for inspection," the ministry said in a statement on its website. Yemen had said it captured an Iranian boat, Jihan 1, in last January, pointing out that the vessel included surface-to-air missiles used to shoot down civilian and military aircraft, C4 military-grade explosives, 122-millimeter shells, rocket-propelled grenades and bomb-making equipment, including electronic circuits, remote triggers and other hand-held explosives.
Iran Human Rights, March 6: Two prisoners were hanged publicly in North-western Iran.
Two prisoners were hange publicly in the Torkmanchai area of Mianeh (northwestern Iran) reported the state run Iranian news agency Mehr. The prisoners who were identifie as "A. R." and "S. N." were convicted of murdering a man in 2011, said the report. The public executions took place on March 2.
TUCSON - It's a desert mystery that has baffled Tucsonans and historians for nearly nine decades.
In 1924, Tucsonan Charles Manier was traveling with his family to Picture Rocks, when he discovered what is now known as "The Silverbell Artifacts", along Silverbell Road.
The collection includes more than 30 lead crosses and swords. To this day, nobody knows where they came from. "Some people say the Romans lived here, others say they're from the lost tribe of Israel, all sorts of theories," says Julia Arriola, Curator of the Arizona History Museum.
Arriola recently decided to pull the artifacts out of the vault, after the History Channel's "America Unearthed" aired a documentary about the artifacts. "I think people are just fascinated by buried treasure," Arriola says.
Many of the artifacts have Latin words written all over them. "Some of the professors who looked at them found out the text was actually lifted right from textbooks," Arriola says.
She says one other strange characteristic about the artifacts is that they were embedded in caliche, which is a type of cement. "So whoever did it went through a lot of work," Arriola says.
The questions have led many to believe the collection is one big archaeological hoax. Arriola says we may never know. "I invite anyone to come in, have a look, do some research and find out for yourself," Arriola says.
"The Silverbell Artifacts" will be on display at the Arizona History Museum at 949 E. 2nd Street for the next few months.
To check out the History Channel documentary head to: www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed/videos
The video is titled "America Unearthed: The Desert Cross".
Sheriff: 2 Pinal County cheerleaders post 'hit list' online
Posted: Mar 06, 2013 9:59 AM PST Updated: Mar 06, 2013 10:09 AM PST
FLORENCE, AZ (CBS5) - Two Pinal County cheerleaders are under investigation by the sheriff's office after a "hit list" they created was posted online.
The cheerleaders, an eighth-grade student at Walker Butte K-8 school and a sophomore at Poston Butte High School, placed the list on the social media site Instagram with an icon of a pistol next to the words "hit list."
A Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman said the girls told deputies they created the list to name people they didn't like, but didn't intend on harming any of them. The list contained names of students and a teacher, the spokesman said.
The Florence Unified School District was notified about the list by a parent of one of the students on the list. The district then notified the sheriff's office about 6 a.m. Wednesday, the spokesman said.
Deputies were continuing their investigation to determine whether to submit the case to the Pinal County Attorney's Office for charges of threatening and intimidating, the spokesman said.
There was no word on whether the girls were still at their respective schools Wednesday.
"With recent school shootings across the country, all possible threats of violence at schools are taken seriously by law enforcement," Sheriff Paul Babeu said. "Parents are encouraged to talk with their children and explain the seriousness of making such threats whether they are meant as a joke or not."
No other information was immediately available.
Residents of Afghan city protest executions in Iran
NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen have hanged four Afghan prisoners on Monday (March 4) in Vakil Abad Prison in northeastern city of Mashhad in Iran.
Dozens of Afghan prisoners have been executed in the previous months in Iran.
400 other Afghan prisoners are under death penalty and awaiting their execution. Last week, Hundreds of angry residents in the western province of Herat blocked the Herat city’s highway to protest against the execution of Afghans in Iran.
The protesters also called on the Iranian regime to hand over the dead bodies of the Afghans to their families and urged the Afghan government to follow the issue of execution of Afghan citizens in Iran.
Barack Obama 'has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US
soil'
President Barack Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone strike to
kill US citizens on American soil, his attorney general has said.
Eric Holder, left, testifies
before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Code Pink demonstrator Medea Benjamin
protests against the use of drone strikesPhoto: Getty
Images
Eric Holder argued that using lethal military force against an American in
his home country would be legal and justified in an "extraordinary circumstance"
comparable to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"The president could conceivably have no choice but to authorise the military
to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland," Mr Holder said.
His statement was described as "more than frightening" by Senator Rand Paul,
a Republican from Kentucky, who had demanded to know the Obama administration's
position on the subject.
"It is an affront the constitutional due process rights of all Americans,"
said Mr Paul, a 50-year-old favourite of the anti-government Tea Party movement,
who is expected to run for president in 2016.
Mr Holder wrote to Mr Paul after the senator threatened to block the
appointment of John Brennan as the director of the CIA unless he received
answers to a series of questions on its activities.
A Chinese man who allegedly strangled an infant after stealing a car with
the child inside has handed himself in to police in the north-eastern province
of Jilin in a case that has shocked the nation.
Zhou handed himself in to police
on Tuesday and made a full confessionPhoto: Rex
Features
By Harry Alsop and agencies
5:13PM GMT 06 Mar 2013
Zhou Xijun, 48, has confessed to stealing an SUV in Changchun city on Monday,
which had been left with the engine running and the doors unlocked. The father,
Xu Jialin, had wanted to keep the baby warm whilst he ran into the shop where he
worked, according to the South China Morning Post.
According to a police statement, Zhou “discovered a baby in the back seat of
the stolen car, stopped at the side of the road before strangling the baby to
death and burying it in the snow.”
Changchun police said they had sent the entire force, more than 3,500
officers, on a manhunt for the suspect and the missing baby. Local media
reported that thousands of residents and taxi drivers joined in the search after
hearing the news.
Police found the car abandoned near a school 40 kilometres outside the city
but with no sign of the child.
The baby’s father told Xinhua: “Early Wednesday morning, my wife and I
identified the body of our son.”
Chinese media have reported that the baby’s mother had to receive treatment
in hospital after learning of the death of her son, with at least one report
claiming she suffered a heart attack.
Zhou handed himself in to police on Tuesday and made a full confession,
although witnesses have claimed that the man they saw was much younger, leading
to rumours that Zhou is covering for someone else.
The case has sparked considerable outrage online in China, which had a murder
rate of 1.0 per 100,000 people in 2010, according to the United Nations, among
the lowest in the world.
Wang, a taxi driver who joined the hunt for the baby, told China News: “I
cried when I heard about the killing on the radio.”
“I would never have imagined that what people most feared would actually
happen... the killer should be severely punished," wrote one user of Sina Weibo,
China’s equivalent of Twitter.
“Killing him would not be enough,” said another.
Users of the site also posted photos of candle-lit vigils being held in
Changchun on Tuesday.
A fierce debate has begun in China on whether the parents should be punished
for negligence.
"What happens when you take away the child from negligent parents in China?”
one user commented. “Do we have foster homes to send them to like in the US? Or
do you want to fine the parents who are often poverty-stricken?”
“Defending [such parents] is akin to murdering more babies,” argued another.
Further anger was triggered after photos of a list of government guidelines
for media coverage of the case emerged on Weibo.
The list, which was swiftly deleted, called for the media to avoid criticism
of the police or sky-net, the city’s surveillance grid, whilst limiting reports
to no more than half a page of a newspaper.
“Isn’t this like murdering the baby for a second time?” asked several users.
NCRI - The Yemeni Defense Ministry said Thursday it has seized another Iranian vessel smuggling weapons into a Yemen near the Bab el- Mandeb Strait off the Red Sea coasts.
