Mexico Juarez ( Lieutenant for " El Chapo " Killed in Chihuahua )

Published at 3:48 pm EST, August 12, 2013

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Photo: Gabino Salas Valenciano, known as "El Ingeniero"

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Gabino Salas Valenciano, known as “El Ingeniero” (the engineer), was a lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel. He had been linked too much of the violence that has engulfed the Juárez region.
In control of the smuggling routes in the Valley of Juárez for Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel , he was killed in a shootout on Thursday, Chihuahua officials said Friday.
Juárez police sources told the Norte newspaper that Salas was allegedly directly involved in the recent attacks on Juárez police, which were in retaliation for attempts to capture him.
The Sinaloa cartel led by reputed kingpin Guzman is believed to have seized control of the valley southeast of Juárez during the war with the Juárez drug cartel.
Salas was wanted in El Paso by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on multiple charges, including drug conspiracy, smuggling of cocaine and marijuana, kidnapping and murder.

CHANDLER Az ( A Guadalupe man released from jail steals police ambulance and drives it home )

CHANDLER, AZ - A Guadalupe man walked out of an Arizona police station Sunday morning and allegedly decided to steal an ambulance and drive home.
Joe Favazzo, spokesman for the Chandler Police Department, said 33-year-old Cesar Garcia was arrested Sunday morning for having an open container at a store near north Alma School Road and Warner Road.


He was released with a citation for the misdemeanor crime.
According to police, Garcia then hopped into a parked ambulance and drove it to his home in Guadalupe.
The suspect originally told police he would walk home. The ambulance was located by the Tempe Police Department a short time later.
Information as to why the ambulance was at the Chandler Police Department was not immediately available. No other details were released.


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Iran News ( 6 women to be Executed - 2 women killed husbands in self-defense )

9 July 2013

Letter by a number of death row prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison to the head of the judiciary

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – A group of prisoners at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj wrote a letter to Ayatollah Larjani, head of the Ministry of Justice. The letter, which was provided to CHRR, is below.

With respect and regards

We decided to write you a letter hundreds of times to tell you of our grievances and the hardships we endure, but we knew that the letters would never reach your hands. Therefore a group of us prisoners out of desperation feel obligated to send you our message through the news media.

Mr. Larijani,

For years during our incarceration we have been witness to our dearest friends being executed. We have spent Wednesday nights in tears and prayers. Last week Behjat Kermzadeh and Sogand Jahani were transferred from the women’s ward at Rajai Shahar for execution. By the grace of god and your orders a moratorium was issued and the executions did not take place. The stay of execution was granted to Behjat in prison but Sogand was taken to at the gallows and witnessed six men being executed. Now our 23-year-old Sogand looks like she is 40 years old – she aged 20 years overnight.

Honorable Mr. Larijani,

Informed sources say that this coming Wednesday, 6 female prisoners will be taken to the gallows and one of them is the 28 year old Sahar Mehabadi. Because they could not afford lawyers, she and Sogand Jahani were assigned public defenders who did not prepare or present adequate representation in court.

Honorable Mr. Larijani,

If you conduct a review of these cases you will see that these two women killed their spouses in self-defense without pre meditation. We desperately plead with your Excellency to grant a stay of execution for these two women.

The worried in waiting, Raheleh Zokayi and a group of death row prisoners

PGA Tour ( The Gallery putting on a show - is it getting out of control ) ?

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.