MURDER Suspects (WANTED) For killing Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators offered up to $1 million on Monday for information about a U.S. border agent's 2010 death, the same case that is fueling an election-year firestorm between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans.

Republicans highlighted the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry as they investigated Operation Fast and Furious, a since-abandoned program that targeted the flow of illegal guns across the U.S.-Mexico border to drug cartels.

Two guns found at the scene of Terry's death in Arizona were among those that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives attempted to track as part of the botched gun-control operation.

The reward of up to $1 million is for information leading to the arrests of four of the men who are not in custody.
The five men charged with first-degree murder are Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, Ivan Soto-Barraza, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes and Lionel Portillo-Meza. They face other charges including assault on a federal officer.

A sixth defendant, Rito Osorio-Arellanes, pleaded guilty in February to a single count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, court records say.

POLICE ambushed ( 7 Cops KILLED) Mexico SINALOA (GANGSTER PARADISE)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Mexico's western state of Sinaloa on Monday, sparking a shoot-out in which seven officers and four assailants were killed, officials said.

The convoy of two police vehicles was attacked as it drove from the coastal city of Los Mochis into the town of El Fuerte, said an officer in the El Fuerte police department.
Seven officers and four attackers were killed, he said. Officials did not know the motive of the attack, which bore the hallmarks of assaults carried out by drug cartels.

GLADIATOR SCHOOL

The Pacific state of Sinaloa is home to Mexico's oldest and wealthiest trafficking organization, the Sinaloa cartel, led by Mexico's most-wanted man - Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
The state has been a center of drug-related violence as the cartel battles rivals for control of billion-dollar narcotics trafficking routes to the United States.
There were other reports of violence elsewhere in Mexico on Monday.
In the northern city of Torreon, seven mutilated bodies were found along with notes typical of drug traffickers, said officials from attorney general's office for the state of Coahuila.
In the western state of Michoacan, police dug up six bodies in two separate pits, according to government-owned news agency Notimex.

More than 55,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since outgoing President Felipe Calderon launched an army-led offensive against the cartels in 2006.

MANHUNT (FOR KILLERS) of Afghan Woman (Executed for cheating)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, July 7, 2012. (AP/P …

A manhunt is under way in Afghanistan for a group of men who publicly executed a woman accused of adultery.

The video of the execution—which showed men cheering after the woman was killed—sparked immediate outrage. It's unclear when the execution in the village of Qimchok in the Parwan province near Kabul took place. Afghan authorities said the men were Taliban militants; a spokesman for the Taliban denied responsibility for the killing.

At least nine shots were fired by one of the men with an AK-47 at close range, the three-minute video showed.

"Murdering a woman who did not even have a voice for defending herself is a sign of cowardice, and such a crime is unforgivable in Islam and the country's laws," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a statement, vowing to bring the killers to justice

TALIBAN (SHOOT Kill Woman) For Cheating See Video

TALIBAN EXECUTE WOMAN FOR CHEATING!

TEXAS Highway Patrol (GUN BOATS) TO Fight (Drug CARTEL)

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The Texas Department of Public Safety is unveiling a powerful new tool to fight drug dealers and human smugglers.

A new fleet of patrol boats is poised to join the battle along the Rio Grande and international lakes.

"This is what you call the bad boat. And indeed it is," said Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

McCraw and other DPS officials were on hand at Decker Lake in east Travis County on Thursday to show off the first of six “shallow water interceptors”. Each vessel costs approximately $580,000 fully equipped. The funding comes from the Texas Legislature and federal grants.

The 34-foot long boats feature armored glass and armored hulls, along with 900-horsepower engines. The vessels sport 4 machine gun turrets and state of the art night vision cameras.

"It is fully capable of taking whatever threats they'll encounter. And there will be a full spectrum of threats, because we will be using this as an interdiction tool. The cartels continue to exploit, move ton quantities of drugs or humans across that river and those waterways. We need to be able to interdict those," said McCraw.

AMERICAN photojournalist (MISSING) MEXICO (Covering CARTEL STORY)

A 30-year-old American photojournalist has become the latest reporter to go missing while covering Mexico's drug war, after he left his hotel room in the violent drug cartel stronghold of Nuevo Laredo to take pictures of a shooting and never returned.

The Mexican newspaper where Zane Alejandro Plemmons Rosales had been working disclosed Friday that the San Antonio resident had gone missing in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, the headquarters of the Zetas drug cartel, on the night of May 21. "[He] found himself at his hotel and, upon hearing gunshots, left for the street in order to cover the news," said the Mazatlan-based paper, El Debate. "Since then his whereabouts are unknown."
Plemmons' sister, Lizanne Sanchez, told a San Antonio television station that when she contacted his hotel, she was told that two masked, armed men had entered the hotel at 3 a.m., demanded his room keys from the receptionist, and removed all of this belongings. Sanchez said his bank accounts have not been touched.
Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for the press, according to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. "Since 2000, 80 journalists have been killed in Mexico -- eight so far this year -- and 17 journalists remain missing," said Summer Harlow of the Knight Center.

UTAH West Jordan (Police search for KILLER) Victim 6 yr old girl

Sierra Lynn Newbold. Family photo.

There are no leads as of yet in the death of 6-year-old Sierra Lynn Newbold, whose body was discovered Tuesday morning in a West Jordan, Utah, canal. She was found a half hour after being reported missing. West Jordan Police Chief Doug Dia­mond said that when Sierra’s mother called to report her missing, her husband had already left for work, and the family’s two other children were still home.
Sierra’s death has been ruled a homicide, and an autopsy revealed evidence that she was sexually assaulted. In order to protect the investigation, police are not releasing many facts of the case, including how long Sierra was dead before she was found. Also not released are the images recorded by a surveillance camera outside the Newbold house. The Newbold family has been cooperating throughout the investigation, police say.
During a press conference, Diamond said that there is no reason to panic but that ”there’s obviously a predator out there. Unfortunately, we have people out there who are monsters.” He advised families to lock their doors and watch children who are outside.
Makeshift memorials have been erected in Sierra’s neighborhood and at the school she was due to start attending in September.