A Texas family has their fearless little dog to thank for saving the lives of two young girls.
Martha Rodriguez says her granddaughters, Maya and Guadalupe Delarosa, and her dog were playing outside her rural Hueco Mountain range home, which is about an hour outside El Paso, TX.
Rodriguez said the girls were making mud pies when Maya heard a rattle and a hiss. When she looked up she realized she and her sister were frightening close to a two-foot-long rattle snake.
With the snake curled up and ready to strike, their grandmother’s dog, chihuahua-poodle mix named Psycho, jumped in between the girls and the snake and lunged at the snake. Rodriguez and her neighbors then ran out and killed the snake.
Though the girls were able to get away safely, Psycho was bit and found whimpering underneath Rodriguez’s car. The furry hero had been bit in the eye and was in pain.
During the 45-minute drive to the nearest animal clinic, Rodriguez said she was worried Psycho was not going to make it - but he did.
Though he will lose his left eye - surgery is planned for next week - Psycho luckily escaped brain injury.
Rodriguez says that although the pooch cannot see out of the damaged eye, he is already acting like his usually self, running around and barking.
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Iran ( Human rights activist in prison - Inmates heard him screaming while being interrogated ) Reza Akvanian
17 August 2013
Keywords : Political Prisoners
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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Reza Akvanian, writer and human rights activist who was accused of organizing protests, was detained across the parliament building on August 13 by security agents. He is held in Evin prison and under severe mental and physical pressure.
According to CHRR, Reza Akvanian was among a group who were staging a peaceful sit-in in front of the parliament building in protest of the controversial and offensive remarks that had been made by parliament member Mr. Bozorgvari. About 15 people were detained and transferred to Evin prison in a black van out of which all have been released besides Reza Akvanian and his cousin Taher Akvanian.
Some of the released protestors have shared that they could hear the screams and cries of Reza Akvanian during his interrogations and witnesses in the prison saw him with a bloodied nose.
Reza Akvanian is a writer for the blog “salhaye khoobe zendegi” (life’s good years) who was first detained on February 1, 2010 by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence. Judge Tahmasabi presiding over Branch 1 of the Yasuj Revolutionary Court handed Akvanian a one-year prison sentence and a 5-year suspended term on the charges of “insulting the leader and the president in blog content” and “association with outsiders by sharing news reports.”
Security agents detained this human rights activist again on Sunday March 24, 2013 at approximately 3am at his residence. The agents violently raided his home and after conducting a massive search they confiscated Akvanian’s personal items such as his laptop computer, external drive, scanner, printer, mobile phone, and his writings. Akvanian was held incommunicado for the first 2 weeks while detained and his family had no knowledge of his condition or whereabouts. When his family was finally able to see him, they reported visible signs of bruising from interrogations on his body. He was released 17 days later on a 100 million Toman bail from the Central Prison of the city of Yasuj on Wednesday, April 10
DUBAI ( An American al Qaeda militant has called for more attacks on the United States )
DUBAI (Reuters) - An American al Qaeda militant has called for more attacks on Western diplomats in the Arab world, praising the killers of the U.S. ambassador to Libya on September 11 last year, a U.S.-based monitoring group said on Sunday.
Western nations shut embassies across the Middle East and North Africa early this month, after a warning of a possible militant attack. Many have reopened, and Britain said its Yemen embassy would open on Sunday after being closed for 12 days.
Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a $1 million U.S. price on his head, appealed to wealthy Muslims to offer militants rewards to kill ambassadors in the region, citing bounty set for killing the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, Washington-based SITE monitoring group said.
"These prizes have a great effect in instilling fear in the hearts of our cowardly enemies," Gadahn said in the 39-minute video recording in Arabic posted on websites used by Islamist militants, according to SITE.
"They also encourage hesitant individuals to carry out important and great deeds in the path of Allah," he said, in an English transcript on SITE
Western nations shut embassies across the Middle East and North Africa early this month, after a warning of a possible militant attack. Many have reopened, and Britain said its Yemen embassy would open on Sunday after being closed for 12 days.
Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a $1 million U.S. price on his head, appealed to wealthy Muslims to offer militants rewards to kill ambassadors in the region, citing bounty set for killing the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, Washington-based SITE monitoring group said.
"These prizes have a great effect in instilling fear in the hearts of our cowardly enemies," Gadahn said in the 39-minute video recording in Arabic posted on websites used by Islamist militants, according to SITE.
"They also encourage hesitant individuals to carry out important and great deeds in the path of Allah," he said, in an English transcript on SITE
Texas ( Chihuahua saves two girls from snake attack - Loses eye )
Published at 5:13 pm EST, August 16, 2013
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