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Monday, April 7, 2014
BAGHDAD ( Gunmen kidnapped and killed 6 men )
BAGHDAD: Gunmen near Iraq’s capital kidnapped and later shot to death six men, the deadliest of a series of attacks Sunday that killed at least 15 people across the country, authorities said.
The gunmen broke into the homes at dawn Sunday in the town of Latifiyah, a mainly Sunni town 30 km south of Baghdad, a police officer said.
Authorities later found the bodies, all with gunshot wounds to the head, in remote, rural farmland near the capital, the officer said.
No one immediately claimed the slayings and the motive behind the killing was unclear.
Shiite militiamen could be seeking revenge for the ongoing Sunni insurgent attacks against Shiite neighborhoods.
Militants with Al-Qaeda’s local branch targets Sunnis in attacks as well or it also could be a personal vendetta.
Meanwhile Sunday, a suicide bomber rammed a fuel tanker into a police headquarters in the northern city of Tikrit, killing three police officers and wounding 13, another police officer said. Tikrit is 130 km north of Baghdad.
Syria ( 13 rebels died when their bomb went off to soon )
DAMASCUS: At least 13 rebels died in a blast in the city of Homs in central Syria on Sunday as they primed a car bomb for an attack, an NGO said.
In the capital, meanwhile, two people were killed when mortar fire struck the Damascus Opera House.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 rebels were killed in the besieged Old City of Homs when a car bomb exploded.
“The death toll is likely to rise because there are dozens of people missing and body parts in the area of the blast,” the Britain-based group said.
In the capital, SANA said two people were killed in mortar fire by rebel fighters. The attack damaged the Opera House.
Mortar fire also wounded three people in the Abbasids neighborhood of northeast Damascus, SANA said.
Meanwhile, a man was killed and 10 other Syrian refugees were arrested when a riot broke out in a desert camp of northern Jordan, a security chief said Sunday.
“Unknown assailants shot and killed a 25-year-old Syrian man during the riots on Saturday” at Zaatari refugee camp, Brig. Gen. Waddah Hmud said.
“Police did not use weapons against the refugee,” said Hmud, who heads a department in charge of Syrian refugee affairs, told reporters at the sprawling camp.
Another security official named the man as Khalid Nemri.
Witnesses in the camp, which is home to more than 100,000 refugees, told AFP on Saturday that a woman was killed in a clash with Jordanian police.
“Police arrested 10 Syrian rioters for their role in the riots,” Hmud said, adding that 29 policemen were injured in the violence.
Jordanian officials said the riot broke out after the detention of a group of refugees who had left the camp “illegally.” Three refugees were injured. “Around 5,000 Syrians took part in the riots. Anti-riot police had to fire tear gas to disperse them,” Hmud said.
Since opening two years ago, Zaatari which lies near the border with Syria has been the scene of several protests, mainly over poor living conditions. Jordan is home to more than 500,000 Syrian refugees.
In the capital, meanwhile, two people were killed when mortar fire struck the Damascus Opera House.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 rebels were killed in the besieged Old City of Homs when a car bomb exploded.
“The death toll is likely to rise because there are dozens of people missing and body parts in the area of the blast,” the Britain-based group said.
In the capital, SANA said two people were killed in mortar fire by rebel fighters. The attack damaged the Opera House.
Mortar fire also wounded three people in the Abbasids neighborhood of northeast Damascus, SANA said.
Meanwhile, a man was killed and 10 other Syrian refugees were arrested when a riot broke out in a desert camp of northern Jordan, a security chief said Sunday.
“Unknown assailants shot and killed a 25-year-old Syrian man during the riots on Saturday” at Zaatari refugee camp, Brig. Gen. Waddah Hmud said.
“Police did not use weapons against the refugee,” said Hmud, who heads a department in charge of Syrian refugee affairs, told reporters at the sprawling camp.
Another security official named the man as Khalid Nemri.
Witnesses in the camp, which is home to more than 100,000 refugees, told AFP on Saturday that a woman was killed in a clash with Jordanian police.
“Police arrested 10 Syrian rioters for their role in the riots,” Hmud said, adding that 29 policemen were injured in the violence.
Jordanian officials said the riot broke out after the detention of a group of refugees who had left the camp “illegally.” Three refugees were injured. “Around 5,000 Syrians took part in the riots. Anti-riot police had to fire tear gas to disperse them,” Hmud said.
Since opening two years ago, Zaatari which lies near the border with Syria has been the scene of several protests, mainly over poor living conditions. Jordan is home to more than 500,000 Syrian refugees.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Bolivar state ( Students forced to eat "rotten food " during protest )
"They were about to throw me out of the armored car"
Students arrested in Bolívar state (south) declared in court about ill-treatment suffered at the hands of the National Guard
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The National Guard has been singled out as major human rights abuser (Handout photo)
JUAN FRANCISCO ALONSO | EL UNIVERSAL
Saturday April 05, 2014 12:00 AM
The news that a group of young students arrested on March 17 by the National Guard in Puerto Ordaz (Bolívar state) was allegedly force-fed foul-smelling substances as they were held inside armored riot control vehicles, has caused a huge stir in the public opinion and set the alarm bells ringing in the judiciary.
This is suggested in extracts from the case records drawn up by the preliminary proceedings court during the hearing for arraignment of the six students, one of them an underage girl. They were all charged with fomenting unrest. El Universal had access to those records.
During the hearing, prosecutors Jairo Chacón and Eurenis López requested the judge, Eduardo Fernández, to order endoscopy procedures be performed on the detainees to assess the allegations.
At the face-to-face interview in the presence of the judge, each was asked whether they were force-fed any "excrementitious substance" by their incarcerators.
Four of them denied it, but a young man identified as Joaquín Pérez Valdez, a student at Puerto Ordaz-based Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), said: "They fed me rotten food; it was foul-smelling." The underage girl (whose name was omitted) declared that an officer holding a can "containing a brownish substance" said to her, ‘Since you are so fancy, try some sardine.' "He tried to force it down my mouth, but it came down my nose (...). I tried to spit out as much of it as I could (...). It smelled like sardine at first, but after I spitted it out it smelled like rotten garbage", she stated.
This is suggested in extracts from the case records drawn up by the preliminary proceedings court during the hearing for arraignment of the six students, one of them an underage girl. They were all charged with fomenting unrest. El Universal had access to those records.
During the hearing, prosecutors Jairo Chacón and Eurenis López requested the judge, Eduardo Fernández, to order endoscopy procedures be performed on the detainees to assess the allegations.
At the face-to-face interview in the presence of the judge, each was asked whether they were force-fed any "excrementitious substance" by their incarcerators.
Four of them denied it, but a young man identified as Joaquín Pérez Valdez, a student at Puerto Ordaz-based Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), said: "They fed me rotten food; it was foul-smelling." The underage girl (whose name was omitted) declared that an officer holding a can "containing a brownish substance" said to her, ‘Since you are so fancy, try some sardine.' "He tried to force it down my mouth, but it came down my nose (...). I tried to spit out as much of it as I could (...). It smelled like sardine at first, but after I spitted it out it smelled like rotten garbage", she stated.
D.C News missing money ( The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion ) haha
The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.
The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.
The alert, originally sent on March 20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds “could expose the department to substantial financial losses.”
The report centered on State Department contracts worth “more than $6 billion in which contract files were incomplete or could not be located at all,” according to the alert.
“The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the alert states.
The situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report concluded.
The State Department’s inability to properly file its paperwork is causing most of the losses, according to the report.
The IG “found repeated examples of poor contract file administration” over the years, the report said.
Contracts related to the U.S. war in Iraq, for instance, could not be produced in 33 out of 115 instances, according to the report.
“A recent OIG audit of the closeout process for contracts supporting the U.S. Mission in Iraq revealed that contracting officials were unable to provide 33 of 115 contract files requested in accordance with the audit sampling plan,” the report states.
The value of the 33 “missing files” totaled $2.1 billion, according to the report.
Additionally, 48 of the 82 contract files that were produced “did not contain all of the documentation required by” internal regulations, according to the report.
The 48 “incomplete files” were worth another $2.1 billion, according to the report.
A further audit of the department’s Bureau of African Affairs found that administrators “were unable to provide complete contract administration files for any of the eight contracts that were reviewed.”
These contracts were worth $34.8 million.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/state-dept-misplaced-6b-under-hillary-clinton-ig-r/#ixzz2y8Cmd3ya
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Saturday, April 5, 2014
Venezuela ( Female student attacked by men in "photo" ) Pointing gun at students ?
Armed gangs lead violent attack at the Central University of Venezuela
On Thursday, a students' march from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) intended to arrive to the Economic Vice presidency office in La Campiña, Caracas, to protest against shortage and economic crisis. State security forces prevented demonstrators from getting out of the university campus. In addition, armed gangs attacked the university and the students
Man pointing gun " at students' " ?
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