COP on Bike patrol ( Not sure if those bikes were made for stairs )

BAGHDAD ( 50 People Have Now Died in Iraq Bombings -245 were wounded )

BAGHDAD – Some 50 people lost their lives Saturday and another 245 were wounded in a series of car-bomb attacks that shook Baghdad and other cities in Iraq, police officials said.

The deadliest attack occurred in downtown Tuz Khormato, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of the Iraqi capital, where 11 people died and 60 were injured by the explosion of a car driven into a crowd by a suspected suicide bomber.

The second attack was perpetrated by two vehicles loaded with explosives that blew up consecutively in the Shaab district near a market on the east side of Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding another 20.

The explosions also destroyed several stores and cars, the officials said.

At the same time, five people lost their lives and another 15 suffered injuries when a car bomb exploded in the Khazimiyah area with its Shi’ite majority on Baghdad’s north side, while five civilians were killed and another 13 wounded in a similar attack in the Baiyaa area in the southwestern part de la capital.

The same sources said a vehicle loaded with explosives blew up in the Abu Dashir area in south Baghdad, causing the deaths of three people and wounding 13.

In the Baghdad Al Yedida sector, three civilians died and another 12 were injured in the same kind of attack.

In the Amil district, also in the southwest of the Iraqi capital, two civilians lost their lives and another 14 were wounded in a car-bomb explosion.

The sources also reported two people killed and another nine hurt by a similar attack in the Zafaraniyah sector of south Baghdad.

Four people lost their lives and another 67 were injured by two car bombs in the Shi’ite majority city of Naseriyah, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of Baghdad.

Elsewhere, one person died and four were wounded by another car bome in the city of Kirkuk, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.

In the city of Karbala, five people died and another 11 were injured by the explosion of a car bomb, while in Babel, a similar attack left four dead and seven wounded.

The attacks came one after another despite the large-scale deployment of security forces during the current Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslims’ sacred month of Ramadan.

Mexico ( Seven Bodies Found in Northwestern Mexico - The men were tortured )

CULIACAN, Mexico – The bodies of seven men who appear to have been tortured and were killed execution-style were found in a field in Jahuara II, a town in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said.

The victims – two of whom were bound and a third was handcuffed – were shot numerous times, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

The bodies had tire tracks on them, leading investigators to conclude that the killers drove over the bodies, the AG’s office said.

The unidentified bodies were taken to the coroner’s office and autopsies will be conducted, the AG’s office said.

Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in Jahuara II, which is outside the city of El Fuerte, on Aug. 2, and five other bodies were found by police in the town on June 17.

Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman.

The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by officials as the Pacific cartel, is the oldest drug cartel in Mexico and Guzman, considered extremely violent, is one of the most-wanted criminals in Mexico and the United States, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has offered a reward of $5 million for him.

The rival Los Zetas cartel has been trying to grab control of some areas in the state from the Sinaloa organization, which is also battling the Beltran Leyva gang.

5 -Hour Energy ( When the day just seems to be dragging by )

New face cream ( Just one thin coat is all you need )

Iran ( Three Christian Prisoners and Some Political Prisoners Write Letter to Obama )

Saturday, 10 August 2013   

A group of 55 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience wrote an open letter to Obama. Among signatories of the letter were three Christian prisoners as well.

Mohabat News - More than 50 former and current political prisoners in Iran have written to Barack Obama calling for an end to the "crippling sanctions" and international isolation suffered by the country. They urge the US president to see the government of Hassan Rohani as "the last chance" for a breakthrough in the deadlock with the west.

The letter, whose signatories include prominent officials of the former reformist government of Mohammad Khatami and journalists, said the main victim of the "heavy and unprecedented" sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear programme had been the Iranian people. Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of conservative former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whose last-minute support helped Mr Rohani secure the victory, is among the signatories.

"All the Iranian nation, including the families of political prisoners, especially low income people, are suffering under runaway inflation and [the] shortage of medicine and basic staples. Sanctions have now turned into a mass punishment of the Iranian nation," it said.

Foreign sanctions and intolerable pressure on the public and the incumbent government would "enhance extremism and weaken the shaky sapling of democracy" in Iran, it added.

The letter, posted on opposition websites on Thursday, said the June presidential poll that led to the election of Mr Rohani – Iran's former nuclear negotiator, who has pledged to walk the path of "detente" with the world – must be seen as an opportunity to restore constructive interaction between Tehran and Washington.

"It's time for both [Iran and the west] to turn the pages of history and open a new chapter in approach toward each other," the letter read. "We think the tenure of this government may be the last chance for reaching a reasonable and acceptable solution by both parties," it warned. "The time is ripe for replacement of sanctions by a solution agreed by both sides . . . in which no side feels a loser."

those who signed the letter*

There are three Christian prisoners among those who singed the letter. They are "Farshid Fathi" and "Alireza Seyyedian", both sentenced to six years in prison, and "Mostafa Bordbar", sentenced to 10 years in prison

SURPRISE Az ( Missing 14 yr old girl and 11 yr old boy - Since Thursday ? )

SURPRISE, AZ - Maricopa County Sheriff's Office authorities are looking for two Arizona kids who have run away from their homes in the west Valley.



MCSO said 14-year-old Serenity Escobedo ran away from her Waddell, Ariz. home on Thursday, August 8. She is believed to be with her friend, 11-year-old Christian Brown.
Authorities believe they are together in the Surprise and Waddell areas.
Escobedo is described as 5-foot, 112 pounds, light brown hair and brown eyes.
Brown is described as 5-foot-2, 125 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes. He has been reported as a runaway from his home in Surprise.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office at 602-876-1011. Callers are asked to provide the report #: 13-151753 to the call representative.
The Surprise Police Department can also be contacted at 623-222-4000 referencing report number 13-0802831.


Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_west_valley/surprise/serenity-escobedo-christian-brown-teens-missing-in-surprise-waddell-area-police-say#ixzz2bgiteGIk