Israeli troops kill boy, 14, in hunt for missing teens

HEBRON: Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Friday as they pressed a crackdown on Hamas in their search for three missing teenagers.
Troops also wounded two Palestinians in a refugee camp just outside Jerusalem, medical sources said, as clashes flared during the massive military operation in which forces have detained 330 Palestinians over the past week.
Israel accuses Hamas of kidnapping two 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old who went missing at a hitch-hiking stop in the West Bank, an allegation the group has dismissed.
But Israel seized on the opportunity to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Palestinian leadership, who formed a merged administration for the West Bank and Gaza Strip just this month for the first time in seven years.
Palestinian security and medical sources said 14-year-old Mohammed Dudin was shot in the chest in a clash that erupted after Israeli soldiers arrived to conduct arrests in the village of Dura, south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
Dudin was taken to the Alia hospital in Hebron, where he was later pronounced dead.
The army said villagers had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at troops on an arrest mission in Dura, and that soldiers had responded with live fire.
A spokeswoman told AFP the army was examining the reports of Dudin’s death. In Qalandia refugee camp just north of Jerusalem, troops shot and wounded two young Palestinians, medics said.
Mustafa Aslan, 20, was in critical condition at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem while Mohammed Shehada, 21, was being treated in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah — the head of the new unity government appointed on June 2 — attended the Friday prayers in Hebron, but the army prevented him from attending Dudin’s burial in Dura.
Hamas has lashed out at the Palestinian leadership for its decision to maintain security coordination with Israel despite the massive wave of searches and arrests.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki accused Israel of an “exaggerated” response, and questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that Hamas was behind the abduction. “He cannot keep blaming one side without showing evidence,” Malki told AFP.
“Three kids have disappeared, but in exchange for that the Israeli army has taken 300 Palestinians,” he said. “Their reaction went beyond logic.”
Malki added, however, that “if it comes to be known that Hamas is behind it (the kidnapping), then of course the unity government will be at risk.”
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said, meanwhile, that Israel’s “working assumption” was that “the abductees are alive, until proven otherwise.”
Israeli troops also carried out search and arrest operations overnight in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem, and in Arura, north of Ramallah, “detaining some 25 suspects and searching approximately 200 locations,” the army said.
Since the start of the operation last week, troops have “scanned about 1,150 locations in search for the abducted boys and for terror elements.”

Iran ( 80 Sunni prisoners on hunger strike in protest at imminent execution )

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HRANA News Agency – 80 Sunni prisoners of conscience in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj began a hunger strike yesterday in support of four Sunni prisoners who are in danger of imminent execution.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in a leaked message from the prison, the Sunni prisoners released the following statement:
“We, the Sunni prisoners of conscience in Rajai Shahr Prison, announce that the vast majority of us declare our own hunger strike from today, 16 June 2014, in support of our four brothers who are in Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison on the eve of their [scheduled] execution and in solidarity with their families’ protest. We will continue our strike until their executions are stopped and sentences revoked.”

Washington ( Obama Touts Capture of Suspect in Benghazi Attack )

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he authorized the operation in Libya to capture one of the men suspected in the deadly September 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and vowed that the prisoner “will now face the full weight of the American justice system.”

The apprehension of Ahmed Abu Khatallah “is a testament to the painstaking efforts of our military, law enforcement, and intelligence personnel,” the president said in a statement.

“With this operation, the United States has once again demonstrated that we will do whatever it takes to see that justice is done when people harm Americans,” Obama said.

The Pentagon said earlier Tuesday that a joint operation of military Special Forces and FBI agents captured Khatallah, reputed leader of the Islamic terrorist organization Ansar al-Shariah, in eastern Libya.

U.S. investigators suspect Khatallah led the Sept. 12, 2012, attack against the consulate in Benghazi.

Washington’s ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was killed in the strike along with a State Department security officer and two CIA contractors.

The president promised to keep working to bring the rest of the Benghazi attackers to justice.

“We will remain vigilant against all acts of terrorism, and we will continue to prioritize the protection of our service-members and civilians overseas,” he said.

Obama, who had been harshly criticized by the Republican opposition for making no headway in catching those guilty of the attack, said he had always made it a “priority to find and bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of four brave Americans.”

GENEVA ( U.N. Refugee Agency Says Iraq situation “Chaotic” )

GENEVA – The United Nations’ refugee agency on Friday described the situation in Iraq as “chaotic,” saying it has not been able to reach or help tens of thousands of people who are internally displaced and fears that number will increase as the conflict spreads.

“The situation is chaotic,” Adrian Edwards, the spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, said of the crisis in Iraq, where several conflicts are raging at the same time.

The United Nations continues to give a figure of 500,000 people internally displaced as a result of this month’s seizure of the northern city of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a jihadist group linked to Al Qaeda, and its allies.

Concurrently, humanitarian agencies must attend to another half-million people forcibly displaced by the conflict in the western province of Al-Anbar that predates ISIS’ uprising over the past two weeks.

Edwards said the UNHCR is “very concerned” because the fighting is causing more displacement, noting that humanitarian agencies are already overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who have fled and are unable to reach many others due to lack of security.

Neither the UNHCR, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs nor the International Organization for Migration can say how many of the internally displaced lack access to international aid, nor give their precise location, but they believe they number more than 100,000.

“The ongoing conflict and the extremely volatile environment is likely to limit humanitarian access to thousands of displaced people in areas controlled by armed groups,” Jacqueline Badcock, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, said in a statement Friday.

The OCHA’s spokesman, Jens Laerke, said that for the moment no talks have been held with ISIS leaders requesting access to the internally displaced.

The situation is complicated further because many of the displaced are constantly on the move.
An additional major concern is the threat of outbreaks of infectious diseases due to high temperatures and the lack of sanitation, hygiene and potable water in many of the areas where the displaced have taken refuge, Fadela Chaib, spokesperson for the World Health Organization, said.

Iraqi officials contend that ISIS is solely responsible for the offensive in the northern part of the country, but other Sunni militant groups opposed to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are backing the jihadist movement.

The rebels are holding Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, and trying to advance on Baghdad.

Tijuana Mexico ( 3 people executed and placed in cans full of acid )

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014 | 0 COMMENTS COMMENTS
During the early hours of Tuesday in separate incidents there were 3 people executed in the city of Tijuana, including two found inside cans.


In one case, apparently the victim was dissolved in acid and found him in the vicinity of the colony "Merida" of sub Los Pinos. Some "sources" indicated as responsible for these criminal acts to José Luis Mendoza Uriarte (a) "Guero Sweaters".

Around 10 in the morning, residents of the colony "Merida" made a call to the emergency number of the police to warn of the existence of an abandoned car in the area within which the dairy was found.

The officers who attended this appeal found that the unit had been reported stolen and that the passenger seat that container remains of a human being was.

Minutes later on the side road of the colony "Deer Heads" was located another body, this semi-calcined and in an advanced state of decomposition, but also within a bin.

In another case a corpse, of an individual or of about 35, who was inside a house located in the colony "Emperors". Initially it was said that the person was injured as a result of a quarrel, however, was found dead; learned that in the latter case the officers arrested the perpetrator.

Guero blame Sweaters

AFN sources consulted by police, who is considered "behind" these criminal acts is José Luis Mendoza Uriarte, alias "El Guero sweaters," cousin "The Crutches" Lopez Uriarte-Raydel, who was released from the last year .

Recalled that even in those days they ordered executions, but against those who "betrayed" when he was arrested in 2011. Researchers explained that currently, "El Guero Sweaters" is "eliminating" to steal the drug gives them to sale.

They also recalled that the cousin of "The Crutches" They kept their operation centers in the Villas of Baja California, Los Pinos and Sánchez Taboada colonies, so the "message" ball to the two executed located in the Pacific Industrial Park in recent days .

This last area, belongs to the delegation Sánchez Taboada, while the bodies found this very day, coincide with areas where Mendoza Uriarte "opera".

These versions also agree with the statements made this day the Secretary of State Public Security (SSPE), Daniel de la Rosa Anaya who said the criminal record rise that is due to "adjustments" led by "people liberated" by federal authority.


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Ecuador ( Ecuador to Take Legal Action Against Using Indian Blood for Research )

QUITO – The government of Ecuador is bent on taking action against an oil company and an American research center for the use of blood samples they tricked Amazon Indians into giving them and which they then allegedly used for scientific research.

So said Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in his usual Saturday broadcast, during which he demanded an inter-American and international regulation to stop this kind of genetic “piracy.”

“We’re studying a course of legal action to be taken in the coming weeks,” Correa said.

This, the president said, is an example of the “unjust international order” that punishes the piracy of intellectual property with prison, but does not prosecute what is done with genetic material obtained illegitimately from indigenous peoples.

Correa said that since the 1970s, U.S. researchers have obtained blood samples from Waorani Indians, an Amazon ethnicity, without their consent in order to perform scientific research.

At least, he said, 31 research papers were written between 1989 and 2012 based on such samples, obtained without the Indians’ consent nor the payment of royalties that would be essential for other kinds of commercial substances.

The president recalled that the National Science and Technology Secretariat prepared a report in 2012 on the case involving the Maxus Energy Corporation and the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, as well as scientists from Harvard University.

As to what the researchers were looking for, Correa said that “people of the jungle who have not been in frequent contact with western civilization... are immune to certain pathologies.”

BAGHDAD ( Iraqi Army Repels Militants’ Attack on City near Capital )

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi army on Tuesday repelled an attack by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters on Baquba, a city located just 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Baghdad, state media reported.

The operations command in Diyala province confirmed that army troops stopped the insurgents’ attack in three districts in Baquba, the provincial capital, Al Iraquiya television reported.

ISIS fighters attacked the police station in Al Mafraq, a neighborhood on the west side of Baquba, and killed 52 prisoners.

The “terrorists used mortars and grenades in their attack in an attempt to free the prisoners,” armed forces spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta told Al Iraquiya.

The mortar rounds and grenades, however, landed in the area where the prisoners were being kept, killing all of them, the military spokesman said.

Nine militants and two police officers died in the fighting that followed, officials said, adding that six officers were wounded.

Iraqi officials contend that ISIS is solely responsible for the offensive in the northern part of the country, but other Sunni groups opposed to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are backing the jihadist movement.

Nearly 20 insurgents died in the fierce fighting around Baquba, officials said.

The rebels are holding Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, and trying to advance on Baghdad.