Mexican Mayor Arrested Along with Purported Guerreros Unidos Cartel Leader

MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal forces have arrested an alleged leader of the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel and the mayor of Cocula, a town in the southern state of Guerrero whose waste dump was allegedly used to incinerate the bodies of 43 trainee teachers last year, officials told EFE on Friday.

The police and military operation was carried out Thursday night, a government official said without indicating where. Local media said the arrests were made in Cuernavaca, capital of the central Mexican state of Morelos.

In addition to Adan Zenen Casarrubias, the suspected drug-gang leader, and Mayor Erick Ulises Ramirez, a member of the leftist opposition PRD party who took office on Sept. 30, authorities also detained Eloy Flores Cantu, who identified himself as a legal advisor to the PRD in the lower house of Congress, the official said.

The detainees had two firearms and a packet with white powder “with the characteristics of cocaine” in their possession, the official said.

Zenen Casarrubias is the brother of purported Guerreros Unidos leader Sidronio Casarrubias, who was arrested a year ago for his alleged role in the disappearances of the 43 students in September 2014.

The capture of Sidronio Casarrubias led authorities to discover the extent to which organized crime had infiltrated the city of Iguala’s municipal government, which received more than $150,000 a month from the cartel.

It also exposed the cartel’s control over the municipal police forces of Iguala and the neighboring town of Cocula.

Police attacked the trainee teachers from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a teachers training institution in Guerrero, on Sept. 26, 2014, after they had commandeered (the students’ peers say “borrowed”) buses in the nearby city of Iguala that they planned to use to travel to Mexico City for a protest.

Six people – including three students – were killed and 43 other students were abducted that night.

Federal authorities say the incident was the work of corrupt municipal cops acting on the orders of Iguala’s corrupt mayor.

The cops handed over the students to cartel gunmen, who killed the young people and burned their bodies to ashes at a garbage dump in Cocula, according to the official story.

But the parents of the missing students and their supporters reject that account, and last month a group of independent experts commissioned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a report that cited a series of irregularities in the investigation.

Among other things, the experts said in their report – released on Sept. 6 and based on six months of field work, interviews and a review of the government’s evidence and conclusions – that “no evidence exists to support the theory” that 43 bodies were incinerated at the dump on Sept. 27, 2014, the day after the students disappeared.

Indeed, the report said the evidence gathered at the site showed there was not enough fire to burn even one body, the report said.

The experts also corroborated news reports indicating that federal police had been monitoring the students since they left Ayotzinapa for Iguala and at the very least knew that they had come under armed attack yet did not intervene.

Iraq - Scenes of Oct 29, 2015 Camp Liberty missile attack -VIDEO

MEK - blames Iranian Government for attack that kills 20 members.

An Iranian dissident group said more than 20 of its members in Iraq were killed Thursday when a barrage of Iranian-made rockets slammed into a former U.S. military base near Baghdad, where the dissidents have been kept in a state of semi-captivity by Iraqi authorities for years.

While the casualty count could not be immediately verified, Iraqi police confirmed that at least 16 rockets had rained down on Camp Liberty, a facility the Iraqi government has used since 2012 to house more than 2,000 members of the Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK.

Maryam Rajavi strongly condemned the heavy missile attack this evening on Camp Liberty and declared: 

The government of Iraq and the United Nations who signed a Memorandum of Understanding and built a Temporary Transit Location (TTL) since 2011, are formally and legally accountable for this attack. In our view, however, as was the case in the six previous bloodbaths in Ashraf and Liberty, the Iranian regime’s agents in the government of Iraq are responsible for this attack and the United States and the United Nations are well aware of this fact.

Maryam Rajavi added: We had already warned about such an attack. Recently, too, 26 members of the US House of Representatives and 32 prominent political and military American personalities as well as 70 members of the French National Assembly warned the US, UN and the EU on their responsibility in this regard.

Iraq - Breaking News (Camp Liberty under heavy attack)

 Camp Liberty under heavy attack – No. 3

Urgent: Attack and very heavy missile barrage of Camp Liberty in Iraq

According to the latest information received from Camp Liberty, over 80 missiles of all types have been hit the camp that houses Iranian opposition members.

Craters as deep as 2 meters and 3.5 meter wide have been created in some impact areas.
The intensity of the explosions are to the extent that many housing units and their protective T-walls have been destroyed or fallen down.

Iran - 4 drug dealers and 2 rapists were Hanged In the Central Prison Of Karaj

Posted on: 23rd October, 2015

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HRANA News Agency – Six prisoners were hanged in the central prison of Karaj.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Bahman Karimizadeh, Akbar Shafiei, Farhad Dadashi, Nader Saifi and Kioomars and Hadi Mohammadi, were hanged on Monday October 12 in Karaj.

The first 4 prisoners were charged with drug related crimes and the rest with raping.

These prisoners were transferred to the solitary confinements on Saturday October 10.

MOSCOW - U.S Flexing muscle in the South China Sea

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/. Guided missile destroyer USS Lassen’s arrival in the South China Sea is another show of muscle by the "world policeman" and Washington’s clear message to its allies in the Asia-Pacific Region the "big brother" is ready to take care of their interests, polled experts have told TASS. The ship’s visit to the region was timed for US President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to the Philippines and Malaysia.

The USS Lassen on Monday started patrolling the 12-mile zone of artificial islands China has built in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said. Maritime reconnaissance planes P-8A and P3 will escort the destroyer. Washington earlier said it would frustrate Beijing’s attempts to declare the area around the artificial islands as its territorial waters. The Chinese foreign minister on Tuesday cautioned the United States against taking reckless steps and creating incidents out of nowhere. In turn, Tokyo said the Japanese government was in tight coordination with the US Administration in connection with the latter’s decision to dispatch the USS Lassen to the South China Sea.

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Chinese vice FM summons US ambassador over USS Lassen’s passage near disputed islands

Earlier, Beijing declared it would soon be through with earthmoving work at several reefs of the Spratly (Nansha) Archipelago. Some countries in the region, including Vietnam and the Philippines, have been asserting their own sovereignty over these territories. Also, they criticize China for pushing ahead with construction work, which, in their opinion, pursues the aim of creating military infrastructures there.

The deputy chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house of parliament), Andrei Klimov, likened the USS Lassen’s visit to the South China Sea to "playing with fire." "Russia objects in principle to any display of military initiatives in areas of high tensions, in particular, without consent from the specific country these initiatives are addressed to. This by no means helps ease the tensions, but sends them to new highs," Klimov told TASS.

"US sabre rattling near the borders of China - a permanent member of the UN Security Council - is likely to draw questions from another UN SC member, Russia. Nobody should feel free to make voyages there without an invitation," Klimov said.

The deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of US and Canada Studies, Viktor Kremenyuk, is somewhat ironic about the White House’s demarche. "A destroyer is not an aircraft carrier. The Pentagon might have dispatched to China’s shores some of its torpedo boats or a fishing ship just as easily. The issue isn’t worth a dime. It is not in the United States’ interests to foment the risk of an armed confrontation with its largest trading and economic partner. A war with China? Such a scenario is absolutely ruled out, in particular, in the wake of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s successful visit to Washington in September and the multi-billion contract signed," Kremenyuk told TASS.

He believes that by sending the USS Lassen to the 12-mile zone around the disputed islands Washington demonstrates support for its allies in the Asia-Pacific Region. "Washington makes it pretty clear to its allies in the Asia-Pacific Region that the White House is by no means flirting with China for the sake of beneficial cooperation and that it remains a firm safeguard of their interests. The US 7th Fleet, based in the Pacific and Indian oceans, will remain a guarantee of that," Kremenyuk said.

"Surely, China is not going to suspend its reclamation work at the controversial islands, whether some may like it or not. Beijing will thereby demonstrate its firmness and independent position. The United States is perfectly aware of that. There is no way of forcing Beijing to backtrack without triggering an internal political crisis in China, accusations against Xi he has surrendered to Washington and an upsurge in anti-American sentiment. The White House is by no means interested in all that," he said.

"The United States is deliberately pouring fuel onto the conflict in the South China Sea in accordance with the old-time crisis management theory. Washington is provoking China into a certain response. It would like to see in what way China might react. In the end the United States and China will sooner or later come to terms to defuse the crisis. After all, they will surely not dare put at risk a plethora of their trading and economic interests. That’s how the complex modern world is arranged. Rationalism prevails," Kremenyuk stated.

And the head of the Centre for International Security under the Russian Academy of Sciences, Aleksei Arbatov, believes that the US naval ship’s visit to the South China Sea is a warning gesture addressed to Beijing, expected to dissuade it from declaring a 12-mile zone around the artificial islands as a zone closed to free shipping.

"But a gesture will remain a gesture, as long as the ships' guns stay quiet. There still remains the possibility Beijing will send its naval force to the disputed area. Neither the United States nor China will go as far as full-scale military confrontation. After some muscle flexing they will turn away and leave for home," Arbatov said.

NCRI- Iran regime on track to execute more than 1000 people this year - UN

Iran's regime could be on track to execute more than 1,000 people this year, a U.N. investigator said on Monday.

U.N. special rapporteur on Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, suggested that human rights violators in Iran should be named and shamed and targeted with sanctions such as a travel ban.

Shaheed said "there have been rising executions" in Iran and that women are still treated as second-class citizens, Reuters reported.

Some 700 people have already been executed in Iran in 2015 and the regime is "possibly on track to exceed a 1,000 by the end of the year," Shaheed said. He has reported that at least 753 people were executed in Iran in 2014.

He also criticized Tehran for jailing some 40 journalists during the year for vague charges.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report in August that promises by the Iranian regime's President Hassan Rouhani of greater freedoms for the country have not resulted in any major improvements in human rights and freedom of expression.

Shaheed is due to brief a General Assembly human rights committee this week.