Brazil ( Football star denied cutting up girlfriend and feeding her to dog ) Homicide

Brazil's World Cup probable accused of murdering girlfriend

Brazilian football star Bruno Fernandes de Souza has admitted he knew of his ex-girlfriend's murder, who was cut up and fed to dogs, but denied having any involvement in the killing.

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Brazilian football star Bruno Fernandes de Souza has admitted he knew of his ex-girlfriend's murder, who was cut up and fed to dogs, but denied having any involvement in the killing.

De Souza is on trial for allegedly ordering the gruesome murder of ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio to avoid paying her child support, according to reports in the the New York Daily News.

Souza told jurors that he learned about Samudio's death from his cousin, who had witnessed the killing, the paper said. (Also see: Story in pics)

Prosecutors said De Souza fathered a son with the 25-year old Samudio and then ordered goons to kill her to avoid paying child support.

The soccer star insisted he was not the one who ordered the slaying, but said that he felt guilty for her death, and his testimony was a dramatic reversal of earlier statements in which Souza said he didn't know what happened to the brunette stunner, who disappeared in June 2010 after claiming Souza fathered her baby.

The 25-year-old model was lured to a Rio de Janiero hotel on June 4 thinking she was going to take a DNA test to prove the married Flamengo football club star was the father of her son, born in February 2010, prosecutors said..

Samudio was kidnapped and taken to the star's vacation pad in the city of Belo Horizonte, more than 200 miles away, where she was strangled and dismembered by a gang of Souza's pals, authorities said.

According to media reports, Bruno Fernandes was tipped to play in the next World Cup.

Yemen ( Yemen seizes another Iranian regime shipment of weapons today )

Yemen seizes another Iranian regime’s shipment of weapons

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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 News ( 2 prisoners were Hanged Publicly in Iran ) Convicted of murder

Two Prisoners Were Hanged Publicly in Iran Wednesday 6 March 2013 [English] [فارسى]   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.

Arizona Tucson ( The lost tribe of Israel - or what is it ? ) Found in 1924

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".

ARIZONA ( 2 Cheerleaders post ' Hit list ' online ) Instagram wild wild west

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.

Iran News ( 4 Afghans executed on monday - Afghans protest and want the bodies of the dead )

Iran: Four Afghan prisoners hanged

 

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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.

U.S Drones used on citizens ( We want to see the memo's on Drones )

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 strikes Photo: Getty Images

By Jon Swaine, Washington

6:52PM GMT 06 Mar 2013

 

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.