Mexico ( 9 Bodies Found Executed in Michoacan - Cartel wars )

 9 Bodies Found Executed in Michoacan

Published at 11:27 am EST, August 20, 2013

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Bodies of nine people gagged, handcuffed, blindfolded and with the coup de grace, were located the early hours on the side of the road North Division-Punta de Agua.  Reportedly the bodies were dumped by the Knights Templar, ” Mireles said the killings have occurred between 9:30 and 10:00 pm yesterday, because at that time were seen about 30 trucks around the North Division to La Ruana, and on the the stretch Iron Bridge around 01:30 in the morning when it was reported that the bodies were found. . . indicated that the victims are unidentified as yet.
At a distance of approximately 20 meters from the original bodies bodies heading toward Punta de Agua ,three more bodies were found at the edge of the road. At that point, the military authorities and the Regional Deputy found a piece of cardboard in which the alleged killers wrote the following message:
” Continue to support the Templars “. Later, in the same direction, a distance of about 15 meters, three more bodies were stacked, It is reported that all the victims were blindfolded and had gunshot wounds to the head, (coup de grace), so that once were carried out necessary steps were taken to the Forensic Medical Service for expert studies Apatzingán of Law Regarding the message that was located next to the bodies,
Distancing the local community groups from the violence, Mireles said ” we do not kill anyone and never would leave a message to anyone. We rarely never leave the municipalities. We are people simply defending our families”. We are well prepared, he said, and organized so that the cartels cannot penetrate. Regarding the bodies, he said, they do not even belong to their communities and that one of them was identified as Carlos, a driver of the van that passes between Pizandaro and Catherine. He reiterated that their struggle is not against the government but against the cartels.

World NEWS ( UFO controversy: US military plane vertical landing frightens local residents )

     

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A US Marine Corps test pilot made the first nighttime vertical landing of an F-35B aboard the USS WASP last week. When seen through a night vision lens, the F-35B looked just like what you might expect of a Hollywood-style UFO. (VIDEO)

This successful test is just one of many stepping stones on the way to actual deployment, but it's an awesome glimpse into the future, even without the crazy night-vision effects.

 

Lockheed Martin officials said Lt. Col. Russell Clift performed the maneuver Aug. 14 during Ship Suitability Sea Trials, also known as Developmental Test Phase Two.

The tests were performed on the Marine variant of the F-35, which will also be used by the United Kingdom and Italy.

The two F-35Bs participating in the trials have completed 40 short takeoffs and 41 vertical landings. Lockheed said at the end of the operations the Navy and Marine Corps will have enough data to begin the process of incorporating the aircraft into shipboard operations.

Lockheed said it expects the F-35Bs to reach initial operating capability in 2015.

The government expects to spend about a trillion dollars on the F-35 program in general over the next 50 years.

West bank ( Palestinian killed in West Bank shootout- see story )

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A Palestinian has been killed in a shoot-out with Israeli troops on a raid to arrest a militant in the northern West Bank, the Israeli military says.

The military said soldiers were attacked as they went to detain the suspect in the city of Jenin.

Two Palestinians and two soldiers were wounded in the confrontation, the military said.

Afterwards, locals held angry protests against Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Reuters news agency said.

Israel and the Palestinians resumed peace talks earlier this month after a three-year hiatus.

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Mexico ( Teachers Stage Violent Protest at Mexican Congress - They clash with police )

 
MEXICO CITY – A group of teachers opposed to educational reforms clashed with police and engaged in acts of vandalism at the seat of Congress in Mexico City, leaving about a dozen educators and officers injured, officials said Tuesday.

The incident occurred Monday night at the San Lazaro Palace.

The teachers should “change their attitude and work for dialogue to reach an understanding, harmony and agreements,” the lower house of Congress said in a statement.

The clashes started just after 9:00 p.m. Monday when some of the approximately 2,000 CNTE teachers union members who had gathered outside the building slipped inside, a Federal District Public Safety Secretariat spokesman told Efe.

“There was aggression” on the part of the teachers, the police spokesman said.

Several protesters made it to the basement parking garage, where they vandalized vehicles and fought with the Federal Police officers responsible for security inside the building.

“Blows were exchanged with the security detail,” the police spokesman said, adding that officers posted outside the building prevented other demonstrators from entering.

The lower house’s Education Committee is debating legal changes that would open the way for implementation of the constitutional reforms promulgated on Feb. 25.

Lawmakers approved changes to the General Professional Teaching Service Law, the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education Law and reforms of the General Education Law.

The education agenda will be taken up by the special session of the Chamber of Deputies that begins Wednesday and runs until Friday. EFE

EGYPT ( Journalist killed, Turkish outlet raided - at a military check point )

 

Checkpoints like the one above have been set up all over Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

New York, August 20, 2013--Egyptian security forces killed a journalist and wounded another at a military checkpoint late Monday. Authorities also raided a Turkish news agency and arrested its bureau chief, the reports said.

Security forces shot at a vehicle carrying two journalists near a military checkpoint in the city of Damanhur in Beheira governorate on Monday evening, according to news reports and the surviving journalist. Tamer Abdel Raouf, Beheira bureau chief for the state paper Al-Ahram, was killed and Hamid al-Barbary, Beheira bureau chief for the state newspaper Al-Gomhuria, was wounded in the attack. The journalists had just left a meeting with the new governor of Beheira, al-Barbary said.
Al-Barbary told CPJ that as they approached the checkpoint with Abdel Raouf driving, soldiers gestured to them, telling them to leave the area, so Abdel Raouf turned the car around. The soldiers then opened fire on the car, al-Barbary said, and Abdel Raouf was hit in the head. The car swerved and hit a light pole.
An army spokesman issued a statement late Monday that said the car had "raised suspicion by driving at high speed during curfew hours near a military checkpoint without reacting to calls to stop or to warning gunshots in the air." The statement said the soldiers thought the car was trying to escape from the checkpoint.
Al-Barbary disputed the statement, saying, "There were no warning gunshots or even any calls for us to stop" after the car turned around.
Al-Barbary told CPJ that the shooting happened after 6 p.m. but before the curfew, which begins at 7 p.m. In its statement, the army said the attack occurred during curfew hours.
The curfew was imposed by authorities on Wednesday after security forces dispersed two sit-ins supportive of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, igniting a week of violence that has left nearly 1,000 people dead. Journalists are officially exempt from the curfew.
The military said it has opened an investigation into today's incident, reports said.
"Egyptian authorities should conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the killing of Tamer Abdel Raouf," said CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Coordinator Sherif Mansour. "Tragically, the number of journalist deaths in Egypt has mounted quickly, and hopes for democratic rule in Egypt have faded just as fast."
Some news reports have characterized the death as accidental, citing journalists' permission to be out after curfew. The shooting came after armed militants killed at least 25 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai city of Rafah by news reports said.
Egyptian authorities early today raided the Turkish news agency Ihlas and arrested Tahir Osman Hamde, its Cairo bureau chief who is a Dutch citizen, according to news reports. The agency was using a hotel room as an office. The reports said that the agency's broadcast equipment was also confiscated.
Ihlas' foreign desk chief, Muharrem Serhen, told The Associated Press that Hamde has "the necessary permits" to work in Egypt. Authorities have not yet disclosed any charges against him.
The Egyptian prosecutor's office ordered a 15-day extension in the detention of Metin Turan, a journalist for the Turkish public broadcaster TRT, who was arrested on Saturday, news reports said. The extension came despite a statement by Turkish Deputy Prime Miniser
The Turkish government has been extremely critical of the interim government in Egypt since Morsi's ouster. Turkish journalists have been subject to obstruction, detentions, and assaults. In a nationally televised speech today, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of plotting Morsi's overthrow, news reports said.
"The raid on Ihlas is only the latest example of the Egyptian government cracking down on local and international media for political reasons," said CPJ's Mansour.

• For more data and analysis, visit CPJ's Egypt page.

Tehran ( Public flogging and execution of 3 Sex Offenders in the local Neighborhood )

Three Young Prisoners Were Hanged Publicly at Three Different Spots of Karaj (West of Tehran) Today Sunday 18 August 2013 [English] [فارسى]   Iran Human Rights, August 18: Three prisoners were hanged publicly in Karaj (west of Tehran) today Sunday August 18. According to the official Iranian news agency IRNA three young men identified as Meraj T., Ali A. and Milad P. (ages 20-24 years) were hanged at three different spots of the city today. The prisoners were convicted of theft, kidnapping and rape and were sentenced to prison, flogging and execution said the report.

Iran ( Government ready to start arresting women for being " badly veiled " )

NCRI - The Iranian regime's security forces have told women they face arrest for being 'badly veiled' while on recreational boats this summer.
The warning is a sign that there will be no relaxing of the strict dress codes for women under new president of the Iranian regime, Hassan Rouhani's rule.

The Deputy Commander of Iranian regime's border police Ahmad Garavand told the state-run ISNA news agency on August 18: "If sea patrol agents observe badly dressed women, they will hand them over to law enforcement agents.
"We are watching recreational vessels and will deal with offenders. To do this, we have ski-jets available to observe the recreational vessels.
"We deal with badly dressed women in recreational boats in the same way we deal with them in cars."
Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Ahmadi Moqaddam had previously told the state-run Mehr news agency: "The time has not come for women to put aside their veils. There has been no change in the status of the women’s hijab as Rouhani takes office."
And Colonel Massoud Zahedian, chief of the Moral Security police, reminded women there were now 27 institutions within the regime monitoring and controlling how women wear the hijab in public.