SYRIA ( Israeli Jet flew over Chemical plant in Damascus- And Bombed it )

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A ccording to unconfirmed reports by the Free Syrian Army and others, Israeli jets flew over Damascus on Saturday morning, circled Assad's palace, and then bombed a chemical plant .
If it really happened, the strike could be a both risky and prudent move for Israel.
One analyst recently advocated a "one-off" strike as the most measured response to Syrian chemical weapon use :


"The most proportional response (to limited chemical weapons use) would be a strike on the units responsible, whether artillery or airfields," said Jeffrey White, a former senior official at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency and a Middle East expert who is now a defense fellow at the Washington Institute For Near East Policy told Reuters.
" It would demonstrate to Assad that there is a cost to using these weapons - the problem so far is that there's been no cost to the regime from their actions."
One-off strikes are among the most viable ways to intervene in Syria, with the U.S. and allies wary of getting too deeply involved. They may also serve as a way to rein in Assad without deposing him and risking the chaos that follows.
Israel also has defensive reasons for bombing Syria.
Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence who directs the Institute for National Security Studies, told Washington Post there are four types of weapons whose transfer to militant groups would not be tolerated: advanced air defense systems, ballistic missiles, sophisticated shore-to-sea missiles, and chemical weapons.
Israel has decided that stopping the spread of these weapons is worth conducting targeted strikes, and the risk of starting a war.
But there is a gamble with this aggressive strategy.
The last time Israel bombed Syria — in January when its planes supposedly bombed a weapons convoy and a military research center without even entering Syrian air space — Russia and various antagonistic Middle Eastern states immediately condemned the action . Syria delivered a letter to the United Nations declaring its right to self-defense. Iran promised there would be "grave consequences."
Another strike, this time supposedly in Syrian air space and attacking Syrian infrastructure, would represent a significant escalation.
It would also confirm that we have entered "a new and more volatile phase in the regional repercussions of Syria's civil war," as described by Washington Post's Joel Greenberg and Babak Dehghanpisheh after the January attack.
Finally, there's the question of whether the U.S. was involved at some level of the supposed Israeli air strike.
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Fox News Sunday that while the U.S. and Israel "can't discuss details, we are working out ways we can address this threat" — indicating that the U.S. may have been involved if there really was an attack.

FLORIDA ( Two Pakistani men arrested for plotting bombing attacks on New York)

FLORIDA: Pakistani Muslims, Sheheryar Alam Qazi, 30, and his brother, Raees Alam Qazi, were arrested for acquiring materials and plotting bombing attacks on NYC, similar to the ones in Boston.

 

Japan ( Woman dies after heavy -set police officer sits on her )

Woman dies after heavy-set police officer sits on her

CrimeApr. 26, 2013 - 06:00AM JST( 60 )

OSAKA —

Police reported this week that in Sakai City, Osaka, last November a woman in her 40s died from a case of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a condition that occurs when oxygen is cut off from the brain.
A possible cause of the HIE is suspected to have been the 100-kilogram police officer who had sat on the woman’s back like one would on a pony.
According to police, at about 7 a.m. on Nov 9, Sakai Ward police received a 110 (Japan’s emergency number) call from a family complaining of a “disorderly woman.”
The officer in question, who reportedly weighed 100 kgs with all of his equipment on, rushed to the scene with a group of fellow officers.
Sure enough, they found an out of control woman screaming and throwing things in front of her home. The officers attempted to subdue the woman for 20 minutes when finally they got her one the ground face down and held her arms and legs.
The large policeman assisted by sitting on the woman’s back. Soon after, she lost consciousness as a result of HIE. She was then taken to hospital where she died five days later.
Following the regular procedure, charges of “professional negligence resulting in the death of a suspect” were filed with prosecutors. An investigation is underway to determine whether the police used excessive force in this incident.
In defense of the accused police officer, there were no reports regarding his height or body fat percentage. We also don’t know if this woman was taking any medication or narcotics that could induce an HIE attack

MEXICO ( Cartel violence - woman gets her head removed - 30 minute drive from Arizona) Sick

Execution Videos: Zetas Decapitate Woman- Aliados Executes CJNG Member

Sunday, April 28, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis

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I will not post the  video ( 30 minute drive from the Arizona Border ) Human Rights ?

The woman in the picture gets her head removed ( This is sick)

Two execution videos are making the rounds of narco blogs. In one sicarios from Los Aliados of Guadalajara claims to be cleaning up Jalisco and sends a message to anyone entertaining the thought of helping CJNG. The man is alive hanging upside down as his executioners begin decapitating him. Dismemberment completes the grisly act.

England ( Two guests were found dead in Hotel pool - Down Hall Country House Hotel )

By Tom Whitehead

12:29PM BST 28 Apr 2013

The bodies of the pair were discovered on Saturday evening at the four star Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hertfordshire.

Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating the deaths, which are currently being treated as “unexplained”.

The two guests, from the London area, were found shortly before at 7.35pm in the unsupervised swimming pool.

^{A Police Community Support Officer outside the gates of Down Hall Country House Hotel (Martin Rose/Eastnews.co.uk)}

Hotel staff and paramedics tried to revive them but in vain and both were declared dead at the scene.

Police and hotel management declined to say where any one else was believed to be in the pool at the time.
The hotel, in Hatfield Heath, near Bishop’s Stortford, describes itself as “one of England’s most established country house hotels”.
It is housed in a 781-year old Italianate mansion set in 110 acres of woods and parklands.
Double rooms cost around £149 a night
A spokesman for the hotel declined to comment on the incident and post mortem examinations in to the cause of the deaths will be held tomorrow.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "Detectives are investigating the deaths of two guests at a hotel at Hatfield Heath.
"Officers were called to Down Hall Country House Hotel in Matching Road at about 7.35pm on Saturday April 27 following reports that a man and a woman had been found under water in the hotel's swimming pool.
"Hotel staff and ambulance crews tried in vain to revive the man and woman but both were later pronounced dead at the scene.
"Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating and are treating the deaths as unexplained at this stage.
"The man who was in his 30s and the woman, who was in her 20s, are believed to be from the London area.”

BRAZIL ( 5 Cops arrested for the Murder of a Journalist and photographer )

Five Brazilian Police Arrested in Journalists’ Deaths

BRASILIA – Five Brazilian police officers were arrested for their suspected role in the murders of journalist Rodrigo Neto de Faria and press photographer Walgney Carvalho, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo said Saturday.

The five officers are members of the Civil Police in the region known as Vale do Aço in the central part of Minas Gerais state, and are suspected of belonging to militia groups that operate in the area, the newspaper said.

Rodrigo Neto, who worked for the Vale do Aço newspaper, was slain by unknown persons on March 9 at the door of his home, and at the time was specifically working on an investigative report about the activities of those militias.

Carvalho, from the same newspaper, was shot dead on April 14 at a restaurant.

Minas Gerais Police Chief Cylton Brandao declined to make any comment on the police who have been arrested.

According to Brandao, the investigation into the case requires a strict “confidentiality,” though he said that everything points to the prompt capture of the suspects for both murders, which according to local media are closely related.

The press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders, known by the French initials RSF, has slammed the murders and demanded that Brazilian authorities investigate the possible involvement of police in these cases.

After Carvalho’s death, RSF released a communique in which it also noted that the photographer was the fourth journalism professional murdered in Brazil to date in 2013.

Mexico City ( 11 Dead 65 Injured in Mexico Prison Fight ) San Luis Potosi

11 Dead, 65 Injured in Mexico Prison Fight
The inmates used knives and other sharp objects, as well as rocks and pieces of concrete slabs, in the fight, Mexican authorities said

MEXICO CITY – At least 11 inmates died and 65 were injured early Saturday in a fight at a prison in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, authorities said.

The melee broke out at around 4:15 a.m. and involved two rival gangs inside the La Pila prison, the state Attorney General’s Office said.

The inmates used knives and other sharp objects, as well as rocks and pieces of concrete slabs, in the fight.

State authorities told reporters that the disturbance should not be characterized as a riot but rather a fight among inmates, adding that nine of the victims died inside the prison and the other two perished while receiving medical care.

The battle erupted after the inmates broke the padlocks on their cells, the state’s social rehabilitation director, Concepcion Tovar, said, adding that the two rival gangs had previously traded accusations about robberies and other perceived wrongs.

The prison guards were unable to control the melee and required the assistance of the police and the military, who managed to restore order about three hours after the fight began.