Libya ( Two british women raped by Libyan soldiers )

British women raped by Libyan soldiers

At least two British women have been raped by Libyan soldiers in the eastern city of Benghazi, officials confirmed on Friday.

A Benghazi residentsaid the perpetrators came from an armed group which forms part of the Libyan armed forces Photo: Getty Images

By Ruth Sherlock

7:30PM GMT 29 Mar 2013

The female British activists, two of whom are sisters, were taking part in an aid convoy bound for Gaza that intended to try to break the Israeli blockade.

Libyan deputy prime minister Awad al-Barassi, who visited the women in the hospital, said the victims were travelling with two male companions when they were kidnapped on Tuesday on their way to the Benghazi airport after deciding to return to Britain.

"Sadly [the perpetrators] belong to army, but they don't reflect the ethics of Libya army," Mr al-Barassi said in an interview with the national Libya al-Hurra television channel.

"I visited the rape victims. They are in a very bad psychological state. They were raped in front of others, in front of their father. This is a heinous crime," he added.

The 10-vehicle convoy had been carrying medical supplies and was named the "Mavi Marmara" in honour of a ship involved in a 2010 deadly flotilla incident, according to Huseyin Oruc of IHH, a Turkish humanitarian relief organisation.

He said the women, who are British of Pakistani origin, were attacked and robbed, and that their abductors included a taxi driver and a group of men in military uniforms.
A resident in the city of Benghazi told The Daily Telegraph that the perpetrators of the crime came from an armed group calling themselves "The First Unit", which forms part of the Libyan armed forces.
Less than two years on from the civil war, the government is struggling to bring militia groups under its control. Many have been incorporated into the country's new armed forces, but discipline is scant.
IHH mediated the release of the kidnapped women and men after they were contacted by the convoy's organisers and to help. By Friday three of the perpetrators were believed to have been caught and imprisoned.
The father and his daughters were scheduled to return to Britain.

DENVER ( Shots fired at pot smokers rally - Puff Puff ) Its a special high

DENVER (AP) — Gunfire erupted at a Denver park Saturday, injuring two people and sending tens of thousands gathered for an annual pot celebration fleeing the area, police said.
A crowd of marijuana smokers expected to swell to 80,000 had gathered at the park to mark the counterculture holiday known as 4/20 on the first celebration since Colorado and Washington made pot legal for recreational use. The shooting happened at about 5 p.m. and shortly after pot smokers shared hugs and joints in a mass 4:20 p.m. smoke-out.

Police spokesman Sonny Jackson confirmed two people had been shot and both were taken to a hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life-threating. The gunshots quickly dispelled the festive atmosphere, with police swarming the scene.
Witnesses said they heard three or more shots and crime tape was around the pavilion where the celebration was being held.
Aerial footage showed the massive crowd frantically running from the park.
A sizable police force on motorcycles and horses had been watching the celebration. But officers didn't arrest people for smoking in public, which is still illegal.
Ian Bay, who was skateboarding through Civic Center Park when shots erupted, said he was listening to music on his headphones when he looked to his right and saw a swarm of hundreds of people running at him.
"I sort of panicked. I thought I was going through an anxiety thing because so many people were coming after me," he said.
Before the shooting, reggae music filled the air, and so did the smell of marijuana, as celebrants gathered by mid-morning in the park just beside the state Capitol.
Authorities generally look the other way at public pot smoking here on April 20. Police said this week before the event that they were focused on crowd security in light of attacks that killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
"We're aware of the events in Boston," said Denver police spokesman Aaron Kafer, who declined to give specifics about security measures being taken. "Our message to the public is that, if you see something, say something."
Nationwide, group smoke-outs were planned Saturday from New York to San Francisco. The origins of the number "420" as a code for pot are murky, but the drug's users have for decades marked the date 4/20 as a day to use pot together.
Colorado and Washington are still waiting for a federal response to the votes and are working on setting up commercial pot sales, which are still limited to people with certain medical conditions. In the meantime, pot users are free to share and use the drug in small amounts.
A citizen advocacy group that opposes marijuana legalization, Smart Colorado, warned in a statement that public 4/20 celebrations "send a clear message to the rest of the nation and the world about what Colorado looks like."
"Does the behavior of the participants in these events reflect well on our state?" asked the head of Smart Colorado, Henny Lasley.
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LAREDO TX ( Illegal Immigrant Convicted of Assault of a Federal Agent )

Illegal Alien Convicted of Assault of a Federal Agent

LAREDO, TX – Jose Alberto Izquierdo-Gonzalez, 26, an undocumented Mexican alien living in Laredo, has pleaded guilty to using a motor vehicle to assault a Border Patrol agent and to smuggling aliens, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced.

According to court records and testimony presented this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker, Izquierdo was seen loading persons onto his Ford F-250 truck on January 8, 2013, near the Rancho Viejo Subdivision in Laredo. Agents observed the truck speed away from the riverbanks after the agents’ vehicles approached. After a short pursuit through a residential area which included the truck traveling on residential sidewalks and knocking down a stop sign, Izquierdo eventually lost control and stopped facing the agents’ vehicles.

With persons still in the bed of the pickup truck, Izquierdo rammed the Border Patrol vehicles, injuring one of the agents. He then sped away until he lost control again and crashed into a nearby ditch. Miraculously, the persons in the truck bed managed to remain in the truck but were treated for injuries. Izquierdo was apprehended almost immediately by the agents after abandoning his truck and the passengers. Two passengers were identified as aliens illegally in the United States who said they had paid smugglers to get a ride from Izquierdo.

At the hearing, Izquierdo denied knowing there were persons in the bed of his truck, claiming he had just picked up his girlfriend and one other person and was giving them a ride.

Izquierdo will remain in custody pending his sentencing to be set at a later date. At that time, he faces up to 20 years for using a dangerous weapon, a Ford F-250 in this case, to assault a federal officer. For smuggling an alien illegally in the United States, he also faces a maximum 10-year term of federal imprisonment. Both crimes also carry up to a possible $250,000 fine.

The matter was investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of Border Patrol, Laredo Police Department, and the Webb County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant United States Attorney Homero Ramirez prosecuted the case.

New York Subway ( A fight over religious beliefs - A Jewish man and muslims ) See video -Ugly

On a New York City subway train, Stephan Stowe, 17, and a group of eight friends approached a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke aboard a subway train. “Assalamu Alaikum,” Stowe said to the man, using a common greeting among Muslims.

The man ignored Stowe, and he became combative. “You think you’re better than me?” the teen allegedly said. “We are cousins.” “No we’re not,” The man shot back, and told Stowe to leave him alone. The suspect then started hurling ethnic slurs and called the man disrespectful, according to court papers.

 

 

“I’m going to kill you right now,” Stowe said, according to cops and court records. He then swore at the man, according to cops and court records, and in an apparent reference to the Holocaust added, “They should have killed all of you.”

The man managed to grab his phone back from Stowe and ran to alert the conductor and at the next stop police were waiting for him. But Stowe would not go quietly, which is what initiated the chaos that can be seen in the video below.

      

New Delhi ( Policeman slaps woman in face - Protesting rape of 5 yr old girl ) See Video

 

The statement is vastly inappropriate and insufficient for the gravity of the charges against the police.

The alleged rapist was arrested from Bihar late last night.

For three days, the child was kept locked up and assaulted by a neighbour in a basement just below her home. She was found on Wednesday evening not by the police but by other residents of the building. (Read: Delhi incensed, protests over five-year-old rape and police response)

The police today said though it had combed public parks in the neighbourhood, it did not think to search for the child in homes near her own because the family said it did not have any suspects.

 

 

This afternoon, while preparations were being made to move her from an East Delhi hospital to AIIMS, protestors shouted slogans and encircled politicians who met the family at Swami Dayanand Hospital.

A senior officer was filmed slapping a young woman demonstrator. (Watch | Read) He has been suspended.

Mexico ( Director of Piedras Negras Prison -Executed -Shot to death )

Director of Piedras Negras Prison Executed

Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis

Borderland Beat

Wednesday night, Jose Antonio Castillo Juarez, director of the Piedras Negras Social Reinsertion Center (CERESO in Spanish), was killed . Authorities confirmed that armed men intercepted him while he was driving.

According to the information given by the Attorney General of Justice of the State, an investigation has begun for the homicide of Castillo Juarez, an engineer, with no previous experience working in the penitentiary system, yet his task was to direct C-4 in this border city.

The murder occurred around 7:47 pm on state road 2, km 3, said the attorney general, when the director of CERESO was travelling aboard a Tsuru vehicle with license plates of Coahuila, when he was intercepted by the armed men.

The vehicle of the penitentiary director received multiple gun shots and at the time of the discovery it was found upside-down with the tires facing up. Personnel of expert services removed from the crime scene several bullet shells from assault rifles known as the goat horn.

Although Engineer Castillo Juarez activated, through the radio, a Code red situation that alerted the safety forces of this border town, at the time of trying to locate him through the same system , he did not respond to the radio operator of emergency system.

It was minutes later that the agents of the Investigation Police found his body inside the demolished and bullet ridden vehicle. His body was transferred to Forensic Medical Service for the autopsy required by state law.

Boston Police ( MIT officer Executed by Boston bomber brothers )

Sean Collier, then a civilian at the Somerville Police Department, where he worked in information technology for five years, had dreamed of becoming a police officer. So he left last year to become a patrol officer at MIT, but his name still floated to the top of the list for consideration as a cop in Somerville.
When his former colleagues there heard that he had been killed in a shootout Thursday night with the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, they were "devastated."
"All the girls and dispatchers can't stop crying," Lt. William Rymill of the Somerville Police said. "It's a real shock to us. He was not liked, he was loved.
"We have lost a member of the family," he added.
Collier, 26, was found in his car at about 10:20 p.m. Thursday night at the corner of Vassar Street and Main Street in Cambridge, on the MIT campus, authorities said. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, where he was pronounced dead.