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FBI Identifies Executioner in IS Videos

WASHINGTON – FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that bureau analysts think they have identified the man who appears as the executioner in Islamic State videos of the beheadings of two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped in Syria.

The FBI will withhold the suspect’s name for the time being, Comey said.

The executioner, dubbed “Jihad John,” is seen in the videos of the decapitations of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines.

“John” is heard speaking English with what is thought to be a London accent.

U.K. media have been reporting that London’s intelligence services were focusing on a 24-year-old British citizen named Abdel Majed Abdel Bari as the likely IS executioner.

The suspect was only 6 years old when his father, Adel Abdel Bari, was arrested for involvement in al Qaeda’s 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Abdel Bari made several rap music videos under the handle “L Jinny,” some featuring lyrics that mentioned his father.

The aspiring hip-hop artist then disappeared before resurfacing with a Twitter post accompanied by a photo of himself with a severed human head.

TUCSON ( Border Patrol Agent Accused of Assaulting Migrant Teen )

TUCSON, Arizona – A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been formally accused of assaulting a 15-year-old migrant detained in southern Arizona, authorities said Friday.

“The Border Patrol agent was sent by the court to our offices yesterday for us to take his photo and fingerprints,” Tony Estrada, sheriff of Santa Cruz County, told Efe Friday, adding that he hadn’t heard of a case of an immigrant being attacked like this for “a long time.”

The agent, identified as Aldo Arteaga, 35, must appear in court on charges of aggravated assault as a result of the Jan. 30 incident at the Border Patrol facility in Nogales, Arizona.

The investigation and accusation of Arteaga have been handled by the Border Patrol’s Office of Internal Affairs, for which reason Estrada said he had no knowledge of exactly what had happened.

Local media have said that the teen is a Mexican citizen, though Efe tried unsuccessfully to confirm his nationality with several consulates of that nation in Arizona.

The charges brought against the federal agent come at a time when the Border Patrol faces a series of accusations of turning a blind eye to the reported deaths and abuses of undocumented immigrants at the hands of its agents on the Mexican border.

Mexico ( Four Killed by Police, Gunmen in Southern Mexico )

MEXICO CITY – At least four people died of gunshot wounds in separate incidents in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, two in a clash involving student teachers and police in Iguala and two others when armed assailants opened fire on a bus on the outskirts of that city, authorities told Efe on Saturday.

In the first incident, police shot and killed two members of a group of student teachers from the training school in Ayotzinapa who had seized a bus and were forcibly removed from the vehicle, sources with the Guerrero state Attorney General’s Office said.

The student teachers later confirmed that figure in a press conference.

The second incident occurred outside Iguala on the highway linking that city with the state capital of Chilpancingo when an unknown armed group blocked the road and opened fire on a bus carrying members of a third-division soccer team, the state AG’s office said.

A 15-year-old boy and the driver of the vehicle were killed in that attack.

Local media, citing unofficial information, reported that a total of eight people were killed in the two incidents: three student teachers, three soccer players, the driver, and a woman who was riding in her vehicle at the time of the attack.

Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero denounced Friday night’s violence and pledged to bring the “full weight of the law” on those responsible for the deaths.

Mexico ( "Head " found on street ) Drug wars

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Los Reyes La Paz, Estado de México.- This morning members of the Ministry of Public Safety (SSC).

They reported finding a human head in streets of the town of Los Reyes La Paz, Estado de México.Esta the second end is left on the streets in less than a week in this area of the State of Mexico.  's head corresponds to a subject approximately 30 years, which was abandoned between lasavenidas Pantitlán and Texcoco, in the El Barco, beside which a threatening message was found.

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Nine IS Jihadists Arrested in Joint Spanish-Moroccan Police Operation

MADRID/RABAT – Nine suspected members of a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic State, or IS, have been arrested Friday in an undergoing joint operation by Spanish and Moroccan police in the north African Spanish city of Melilla and the neighboring Moroccan town of Nador.

Among those arrested, one of them a Spaniard and the other eight Moroccans, is the chief of the cell, the Spanish Interior Ministry reported.

In Rabat, sources close to the operation told Efe the head of the dismantled cell is from Melilla and is the brother of a former member of the Spanish army who has also been linked to jihadism and whose whereabouts are unknown.

The detainee had traveled on several occasions to Mali and other places and was in charge of recruiting followers, especially in the area of Nador, in the northeast of Morocco.

During the raid Spanish and Moroccan police seized a large amount of documents which are being carefully studied, the sources said.

Another joint operation by Spanish and Moroccan police last March led to the arrest of seven jihadists living in Spain and Morocco, who were under the leadership of a Spaniard identified as Mustapha Maya Amaya, also based in Melilla.

In January this year Morocco arrested 20 people and dismantled another cell active in the north of the country headed by a Spanish-Moroccan citizen who had served in Spain’s military and was based in Nador to recruit sympathizers of jihadism

US Federal Court Threatens Argentina with $50,000 a Day Fine for Contempt

NEW YORK -- A U.S. judge has ordered a hearing for Monday on a potential order finding Argentina in contempt of court and fining the country $50,000 a day for disobeying the court's orders. The amount would

NML Capital, Aurelius Capital Management LP and other holders of defaulted Argentine bonds who are owed $1.8 billion dollars have prepared a draft order for U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa, giving Argentina until Monday to potentially avoid the sanctions in a "Motion to Show Cause." Argentina published full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal announcing plans to drop Bank of New York Mellon Corp. as trustee for its restructured debt and the new law was promulgated in its Official Bulletin Wednesday (see below) while the holdouts also took out full-page ads calling on Argentina to follow the court's orders and pay its debts. 

“Argentina has blatantly and repeatedly violated the court’s orders, making abundantly clear that it has no respect for those orders, the court or the U.S. judicial system,” the holders of the defaulted bonds said in a filing today in Manhattan federal court (see below).

Griesa set a hearing on the matter for September 29, after clerks revealed that he was already occupied with another Argentina matter (payments to be made by Citibank in Argentina) on Friday afternoon when the hearing was originally scheduled.

The judge previously threatened Argentina with sanctions for violating orders. In August, NML asked Griesa to find the nation in contempt of court after government officials announced a plan to swap Argentina’s restructured debt for bonds paid locally, to avoid the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. Griesa denied that request, saying a contempt ruling wouldn’t help the parties negotiate a resolution to their stalemate.

The US Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that Argentina can’t make payments on its restructured debt unless it also pays the NML-led group for its bonds and the US Supreme Court found no fault in the decision and declined to hear Argentina's objections.

Argentina defaulted on its performing debt July 30 after not paying the holdout creditors, and Bank of New York Mellon, complying with Griesa’s orders, was unable to pass to bondholders a $539 million interest payment.

Meanwhile, the Argentine government opened today the Nación Fideicomiso account at the Central Bank of Argentina, saying it was evidence of the country’s "good faith and its willingness and ability to pay in equitable conditions."

The objective was to allow for the payment of the interest on the bonds issued in the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps by removing the Bank of New York Mellon as payment agent.