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Monday, December 21, 2015
Sunday, December 20, 2015
59 Missing in China Landslide
BEIJING – Fifty-nine people are missing in a landslide that struck an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.Xinhua had previously reported 41 people missing in the landslide that buried 33 residential and industrial buildings in the Liuxi industrial park, later revising those figures downward to 27, but then upping the total to 59. Three other people were slightly injured.
At least 900 local residents were evacuated, the news agency said.
The landslide was followed by a gas pipeline explosion that scattered debris over some 100,000 square meters (about 25 acres), Xinhua said.
“I saw a bunch of red earth and mud moving toward the (buildings),” one of the industrial park employees told Xinhua.
Another eyewitness told the local daily Shenzhen Evening News that he saw the van his father was driving buried by the earth and mud and no sign has been found of either the vehicle or his father.
More than 1,500 emergency workers are participating in rescue operations, looking for survivors among the debris, with the help of some 100 fire trucks, 4 drones and 13 search dogs, although they are being hampered by rain, mud and poor night visibility.
Emergency officials said that possible signs of life had been detected in three spots underneath the debris.
Among the buildings buried in the tragedy were two dormitories for workers at the industrial park, the state-run CCTV television network reported.
Ren Jiguang, the assistant director of the Shenzhen public safety office, told CCTV that most of the evacuated people had been transferred to safe areas.
The Beijing Youth Daily newspaper quoted a local resident who said that the landslide was caused by construction activity and that the earth that gave way had been accumulating at the site over the past two years.
Shenzhen is a prosperous industrial city with four border crossing points providing access to neighboring Hong Kong.
Israel Kills Top Hezbollah Member in Syria Airstrike
BEIRUT – The Israeli air force killed Samir Qantar, an important member of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, considered by many Lebanese to be a “symbol of the anti-Israel resistance.”The death of the 53-year-old Qantar, who was held in Israeli prisons for almost 30 years and in September had been placed on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorists, occurred on Saturday night and was announced Sunday in a communique by Hezbollah, which said that “aircraft of the Zionist enemy at 10:15 p.m. bombarded a residential building in ... Damascus and killed a fighter, the dean of the Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, as well as several Syrian civilians.”
Qantar’s brother Basel also confirmed his death.
Al Manar television, run by Hezbollah, showed the ruins of the building hit in the Israeli airstrike by four missiles, which completely destroyed it.
A few hours after Qantar’s death became known, three rockets were fired from the southern part of Lebanon near Tyre into northern Israel, according to both countries’ militaries. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which injured nobody.
In response, Israeli army aircraft entered Lebanese airspace and carried out several very low flights and simulated attacks in the area from where the rockets were fired.
Meanwhile, the leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, announced that he will give a speech on Monday in which presumably he will discuss Qantar’s death, and the Syrian Parliament met and condemned Qantar’s killing, calling the attack a “terrorist crime.”
Qantar, a member of Lebanon’s Druze community and sentenced to life in prison in Israel in 1979 for participating in the murder of an Israeli police officer and two civilians, was held for almost 30 years – the longest of any Lebanese citizen in Israeli jails – until he was exchanged in a 2008 prisoner swap between Hezbollah and Israel.
Israeli military affairs experts are interpreting the airstrike as a message to Hezbollah and Tehran – which is allied with Hezbollah and the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad – not to open a new armed front on the Golan Heights.
Forced marriage of under 15-year-old girls on rise in Iran
Forced marriages of girls 15 years old or even younger have become commonplace in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, south-eastern Iran, according to a report published on the website of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ).
Studies show that underage marriages take place in single parent families or families where the parents are illiterate, drug addicts or psychologically disturbed as well as in families that are struggling with a low income.
In Baluchistan, many girls below the age of 15 are forced into marriage, the report said.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Russia’s upper parliament house freezes contacts with Turkish parliament — MP
MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Russia’s Federation Council upper parliament house has frozen contacts with the Turkish parliament following the incident with Turkey’s downing a Russian warplane in Syria, Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Federation Council’s international committee, said on Friday.
"Our contacts with colleagues in the Turkish parliament, which have been very active until now, has been frozen," he told journalists.
He said the upper house had taken this decision and "sees no point in unfreezing such contacts as long as the Turkish lawmakers are unthinkingly and dogmatically upholding the position taken by the Turkish president." "There is no sense in dialogue in such case," he saud.
Kosachev confirmed that Russian lawmakers had "no contacts" with their Turkish counterparts.
Moreover, Kosachev said he did not even knew his new counterpart, who had taken charge of the Turkish parliament’s international committee after the parliamentary elections in Turkey. "I knew the previous chairman, but I refused to speak with him when he made attempts to contact me," he said.
Earlier, the Russian State Duma lower parliament house said it was suspending contacts with the Turkish parliament. "In the foreseeable future, top officials of the State Duma see no possibility for contacts at the higher parliamentary level between the State Duma and Turkey’s parliament," Alexei Pushkov, the chairman of the State Duma international committee, said on December 7.
The Russian Su-24M all-weather bomber was on anti-terrorism mission in Syria on November 24, when it was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet. Ankara claimed it downed the Russian warplane after it had violated Turkey’s airspace, while the Russian defense ministry says the bomber was in the airspace over Syria at the time of the attack. Both pilots of the downed warplane ejected safely after they were hit by an air-to-air missile, but the commander was killed in a militants’ gunfire from the ground as he was parachuting.
Two Russia’s Mi-8 helicopters were engaged in the pilots’ search and rescue operation, which reportedly lasted for some 12 hours. One of the helicopters dispatched for the rescue mission came under fire and was subsequently forced to an emergency landing after sustaining damages. One Russian contract serviceman, a marine, was killed during the emergency landing. The rest of the servicemen on board of the helicopter were safely evacuated. The downed Mi-8 helicopter was later destroyed by mortar fire from the territory under control of the militants.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Iran, the Islamic State, and the Perversion of Islam
By Maryam Rajavi
Source: WorldPolicy
It seems that for all our progress in social and human development, with each new generation radical factions emerge, shaking the world with their ability to convince ordinary people to commit unspeakable atrocities.
We reflect on recent attacks in San Bernardino, carried out by invoking God and religion, with the same bewilderment that confounded us amid the many senseless cruelties of the 21st century. We struggle to understand how such wanton violence could be conceived by human minds and spread like wildfire. And, of course, we set ourselves to right it, asking how we can combat this most current version of extremism and prevent new forms from plaguing the world.
The breed of extremism that we face today is a lethal cocktail of medieval barbarism and modern-day fascism. It is a worldview that shuns political tolerance, promotes misogyny, and, of course, glorifies violence. This specific brand pursues the implementation of Sharia and its draconian punishments. It has never had any connections to Islam, and there is clearly no place in the modern world for such a worldview.
However, it is a worldview with contemporary precedent. Ever since Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Tehran championed itself as a successful model, which fundamentalists could follow in order to gain stature, power, and sovereign legitimacy. This presents a tantalizing message to Sunni extremists like the Islamic State– why can they not create their own “Islamic” State when Shiite fundamentalists have already done so?
While the conceptual origins of this extremist ideology took shape in the early years of Islam, it only turned into a formidable global force when fundamentalism gripped Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution.
The regime that replaced the Shah—who was also detestable and undemocratic—began exporting Islamic fundamentalism on an unprecedented scale almost overnight. High-profile hostage-takings, bombings, suicide attacks, and assassinations became the norm as the mullahs in Tehran began building their own version of a theocratic state.
In these early stages, Shiite terrorist factions, including militias in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and others were directly formed by the Iranian regime. Without such state sponsorship from Tehran, their clout and influence would have quickly evaporated and they would have vanished. The vicious ideology and proliferative model grew increasingly lethal as its proponents gained access to veritable troves of military, diplomatic, political, and propaganda resources within the sovereign state borders of Iran.
So began the first modern-day “caliphate”—years before al-Qaida’s first attack burned in Yemen, and a full three decades prior to the rise of the Islamic State.
Many assume that Sunni fundamentalism is a unique phenomenon, entirely separate from the dogmas espoused by the Shiite mullahs in Tehran, but the differences are ancillary. In fact, Sunni fundamentalists have found tremendous strength under the political and spiritual umbrella of the Iranian theocracy. Both share the same ideological building blocks: the establishment of a religious state, which implements Sharia by force.
There is considerable evidence that the regime in Tehran has armed and financed Sunni extremists at various times and locations. Not only is Iran a long-standing sponsor of Hamas, but also as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said recently, “ISIS was created by Assad releasing 1,500 prisoners from jail, and Maliki releasing 1,000 people in Iraq who were put together as a force of terror.” Tehran is the known puppet-master of both.
In recent years, the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Sunnis in Iraq and Syria at the hands of the Iranian regime and its proxies has provided a wellspring of sociopolitical sustenance for the Islamic State. Iran is propping this extremist hydra up on all sides, and finding new and creative ways to reinvigorate the beast as our security and intelligence missions stride in its wake. If Iran is one of the linchpins that legitimize the global Islamic extremist threat, what is to be done?
History tells us that nothing is more dangerous for fundamentalism and extremism than democratic and moderate ideals. This has been made clear in Iran, where the regime’s suppressive tactics find their chief targets are the moderate Muslim factions, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
To meet with true success, the current military campaigns and intelligence operations in the region must be complemented by the promotion of an interpretation of genuine Islam that is both democratic and tolerant. Only through a nuanced but unambiguously affirmative strategy that provides lasting moral and physical support to the people of Iran and the region in their quest for freedom and moderate leadership will we escape the echoes of history’s darkest narratives.
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Maryam Rajavi is the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which seeks the establishment of a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear Iran.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
ISIS News
Let's not forget the beheading of children and crucifying youths in their genocidal war against Christians, Yazidis, and whomever else is standing in the way .
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Suspected Pedophile Behind Bars after Thief steals his phone
SANTIAGO – A man identified only as T.P. has been ordered held without bail after a thief who stole his cellphone and found child pornography on the device reported the discovery, Chilean authorities said Thursday.
Prosecutors charged T.P. with sexual abuse of minors and possession of child pornography.
The theft occurred last week in Santiago’s Renca district.
The thief, a 30-year-old man, discovered the porn, including images of child rape, and decided to deliver the phone’s memory card to an organization that works with at-risk children.
“I know that you work with children and I want to give you this card. I stole it, but when I reviewed it I saw that it contained child pornography,” the thief told the organization, according to a report in Las Ultimas Noticias newspaper.
The organization reported the case to police, which led to the detention of T.P. once investigators verified that he was the individual appearing in the videos.
The suspect had 410 photographs and videos with sexual content, some of them including his partner’s 8-year-old daughter.
Mexico -Australian Surfers found dead in van .
CULIACAN, Mexico – The burned bodies found inside a van in Navolato, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, three weeks ago are those of Australians Dean Lucas and Adam Russell Coleman, officials said Tuesday.
DNA tests done by Australian authorities confirmed the victims’ identities, Sinaloa Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera told reporters.
“The only thing I can tell you is that, yes, it is those persons. What we’re waiting for are the official results,” Higuera said.
The bodies will be released once the official results are received by state authorities, a process that could be concluded next week, the AG said.
Lucas and Coleman, both 33, disappeared on Nov. 20 while driving to Guadalajara, the capital of the western state of Jalisco, where Andrea Gomez, the girlfriend of one of the victims, lives.
The surfers were traveling in a 1992 van and used a ferry to cross the Sea of Cortes from La Paz, a city in Baja California Sur state, to Topolobampo, a city in Sinaloa.
The Australians drove all afternoon after making the crossing and were last seen at a convenience store, where an employee told them the best route to Mazatlan, a resort city in Sinaloa.
The route taken by the Australians goes through the city of Navolato, where the burned bodies of two unidentified people were found inside a charred vehicle on Nov. 21.
The Sinaloa AG’s office said on Dec. 4 that three suspects had been arrested in connection with the murders and two others were being sought.
The suspects under arrest, identified as Julio Cesar Gonzalez Muñiz, Martin Rogelio Muñiz Ponce and Sergio Simon Benitez Gonzalez, have prior criminal records on drug and vehicle theft charges.
The men were arrested in the same area where the killings were committed, prosecutors said, adding that the Australians were murdered during a robbery attempt.
Investigators are still looking for the other two suspects in the case, Higuera said.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Iran-Foad Khanjani Released From Prison
HRANA News Agency – Foad Khanjani, a former student of industrial management at Isfahan University who was expelled because of his Bahai beliefs, has been released at the end of his four-year sentence.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), he was arrested in Tehran on March 2, 2010, and taken to the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence, released and rearrested, and arrested for the third time on April 27, 2010, when he was sent to Evin Prison.
His arrests followed the widespread unrest in Iran following the announcement of national election results. Authorities initially tried to claim that Bahais had a hand in stirring up the protests. His sister Leva Khanjani, another student excluded from education for being a Bahai, was also arrested after the election unrest, along with her husband Babak Mobasher. She was arrested on January 3, 2010, and sentenced to two years in prison. She was released on June 24, 2014.
Mr. Khanjani was released on bail on May 8, pending his trial which was conducted on December 11, 2010. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison, by Judge Maqiseh, and this sentence was confirmed in the review court by Judge Mouhed.
His lawyer attempted to appeal this sentence to the Supreme Court, but the lawyer was confronted with threats from the Ministry of Intelligence. Mr. Khanjani began his sentence in Evin Prison on January 17, 2012, but on August 5 of that year he was transferred to Raja’i Shahr prison. From late September that year he was in need of urgent hospital treatment for a cyst in the abdomen, which was denied until early November. On March 2, 2013, he was denied family visits for refusing to wear prison uniform.
Foad Khanjani’s father, Ala’eddin Khanjani, known as Niki, was also arrested following the election protests, and again in August 2014, apparently because he was running an optician’s shop, and such businesses had been added — unannounced — to the list of sectors in which Bahais are forbidden to work. He was summoned to appear at Bench 5 of the court at Evin Prison in Tehran on August 10, 2015. Bench 5 has specialised in the persecution of Bahais. So far as I know, his sentence has not yet been announced.
Niki Khanjani’s father Jamalledin Khanjani is one of the seven ‘Yaran’ (Bahai national facilitators) who are now in the eighth year of 10-year sentences for their services to the Bahai community.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Syria- A battalion of 50 female Christian fighters has been formed
A new unit of Christian female fighters has been formed in Syria to protect the Syrian Christians from the Islamic State.
The “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” is based in the Hasekeh province, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and currently has around 50 fighters.
The first recruits graduated the training program in August.
Kurdish forces have long fielded women in frontline combat roles as well.
There are many different Christian communities in Syria and Iraq belonging to different sects and nationalities. Some are Assyrians, descendants of the Assyrian people who once ruled the Middle East from their capital of Nineveh.
Other Christian factions in Syria include Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Chaldeans, Armenians and Maronites.
One 36-year old mother of two explained.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
SWEDEN - Woman raped and killed next to Sheraton hotel
A 34 year old from Somalia was arrested for savagely attacking a woman next to the parking garage of a Sheraton hotel in Sweden.
The woman died while being raped. Police say the perpetrator continued to rape the woman’s corpse well after she had died. The Somalian was apprehended by police while still in the act of raping the murdered woman.
Sweden and Norway are in the middle of a massive epidemic of violent rapes. Crime statistics show that rapes in both countries are overwhelmingly perpetrated by Muslim immigrants.
2013 figures were given in a recent report by Swedish Public Radio. In the first seven months of 2013, over 1,000 Swedish women reported being raped by Muslim immigrants. Over 300 of those were under the age of 15. The number of rapes is up 16% compared to 2012 numbers.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
More Than 300 Whales Found Dead in South Chile
SANTIAGO – Police in Chile are investigating the shocking discovery of 300 dead whales in the Gulf of Penas, in the extreme south of Chile, by a group of scientists.According to the Diario Aysen portal on Tuesday, the scientists reported the matter to the National Fisheries Service, or Sernapesca, which then passed on the information to attorney Pedro Poblete Viejo, who immediately ordered an inquiry into the causes of the death of the large number of whales.
The whales were found on Nov. 17 by the scientists, but the information was only recently passed on to the Chilean authorities.
In a similar incident in May, nearly 300 dead whales were beached in the same region in Chile.
Jorge Acevedo, an expert on cetaceans at the Cequa Foundation said several types of whales can be found in the Gulf of Penas and Puerto Natales region.
“There are stranding sites where skeleton parts can still be found,” Acevedo said.
Teachers in Mexico Swap Police Hostages for Jailed Comrades
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico – Members of Mexico’s militant CNTE teachers union persuaded authorities to release six comrades arrested earlier in a swap for five police officers captured during a subsequent protest, union officials told EFE.The CNTE has mobilized across Mexico against a new policy of teacher evaluations.
Authorities here in the southern state of Chiapas conducted evaluations this week, spurring major demonstrations in and around Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital.
Early Tuesday, more than 3,000 CNTE members and supporters gathered to block an intersection in Ocozocoautla, near Tuxtla Gutierrez.
Before 8 a.m., CNTE member David Gemayel Ruiz Estudillo died in a confrontation between the teachers and security forces, run over by a vehicle in circumstances that remain unclear.
Five other people were injured and six teachers were arrested.
Anger over Gemayel’s death swelled the turnout for a CNTE march on Wednesday in the state capital.
“This event brings us grief, courage and the signal that they want to impose the education reform in Chiapas through blood and fire,” CNTE member Pedro Gomez told EFE. “So the position of the movement will not cease demands that those responsible for this homicide be punished.”
Protesters set out from the east side of Tuxtla carrying a coffin meant to symbolize Gemayel and chanting slogans against the state and federal governments.
En route to the state house, the crowd clashed with a contingent of 350 police and the two sides traded volleys of rocks and tear gas for an hour until the protesters captured one of the cops.
At that point, senior Chiapas officials agreed to meet with CNTE representatives to negotiate a prisoner exchange, but the disturbances continued and four more police officers fell into the hands of the crowd.
The marchers then displayed the hostages, along with the officers’ guns and riot gear, in Tuxtla’s main square to increase the pressure on authorities.
Within hours, the state Attorney General’s Office approved the release of the jailed teachers in exchange for the five police.
State officials said that despite the protests, more than 73 percent of the Chiapas teachers subject to the evaluations took part in the tests.
The teacher evaluations are part of a sweeping education overhaul enacted in 2013 by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto over the strenuous opposition of the CNTE and grassroots organizations.
Many teachers say the education “reform” seeks to make them scapegoats for the failings of Mexico’s chronically underfunded schools.
Sweden News - Singer in rap video raped and killed....
Elin Krantz, once a beautiful blond woman, young and full of life, is now dead in the ground and six months decomposed.
Supposedly, she was a member of the "We Like Diversity" Facebook page, called herself "multicultural" and a supporter of Third-world immigration into Sweden, the country of her birth. Maybe in those last few moments of life, she changed her mind about a few things, as if it made any difference. On that day, Elin and her african immigrant killer were riding the same tram to the Hisingen neighbourhood in Sweden.
Shortly thereafter Krantz was found raped and murdered in a wooded area not far from the tram stop. Her 23-year-old African "refugee" (who supposedly once lived in the US) killer was arrested shortly after the killing. He was charged with murder and aggravated rape. According to the prosecutors, the attack was one of "extreme ruthlessness".
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
U.S. Government to Open 3 New Centers to House Migrant Children
WASHINGTON – U.S. officials said Monday that the government will open three new centers to house undocumented migrant children who cross the country’s southern border alone with an eye toward dealing with the increase in those arrivals in recent months.
Officials with the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security told EFE that the opening of the centers, two in Texas and at least one more in California, is scheduled for this month.
The total capacity of the Texas centers will be 1,000 migrants, while the one in California will house 400, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Normally, the number of undocumented immigrants coming to the United States across the southern border increases in summer and then falls off, but this year authorities are seeing that the high levels of entries during the summer months has remained relatively high during the subsequent months.
In October, at least 4,973 unaccompanied children crossed the border with Mexico, a 97 percent increase compared with the same month last year, according to Customs and Border Protection figures.
In November, the crossings totaled 5,622, up 115 percent from that month in the previous year.
In response to the increase in detentions of minors crossing the border alone, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement has begun a process of “expanding” its capacity to temporarily house those children, DHS spokeswoman Marsha L. Catron said in a statement sent to EFE.
In accord with that program, the office has increased the number of beds available for migrants in November from 7,900 to 8,400 and has asked for help in providing an additional 5,000 beds within the next 30 days, if necessary.
Authorities in fiscal 2015, which ended Sept. 30, detained 39,970 unaccompanied minors along the border with Mexico, 42 percent fewer than during the preceding fiscal year, according to CBP.
During fiscal 2014, an unprecedented immigration crisis broke out on the southwestern border with the number of unaccompanied minors trying to cross into the United States doubling to at least 68,541.
Most of the children came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
President Barack Obama closed the immigrant detention centers in 2009, shortly after taking office, but he decided to reopen them after the 2014 crisis.
Despite criticism, the government has maintained its intention to keep the centers operating, although along the lines of the reform announced in June by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to reduce the time that immigrant families remain in those facilities.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The real shadow over Syria is cast by the mullahs of Iran
By Christopher Booker
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
In all the coverage given to unravelling who is for or against whom in the unspeakable shambles of Syria, one key bit of the jigsaw too often gets forgotten. We know Russia is pro-Assad but anti-Isil and other assorted Syrian rebels. Turkey is anti-Assad and Isil, but also Russia and the Kurds. The Kurds are anti-Assad, Isil and Turkey. The US-led coalition is anti-Isil but pro the Kurds, Turkey and the other Syrian rebels.
The other crucial player too easily overlooked, however, is that major power in the region without whose military support Assad would long ago have vanished: the dictatorship run by the Shia mullahs in Tehran. Ever since his country fell apart, Assad’s main support has been the Quds Force, the extra-territorial arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. For years it has been fomenting terror across the Middle East, from Lebanon to Afghanistan and not least in Iraq, where its backing for Shia militias posed the most deadly threat to US and British forces throughout their post-2003 occupation.
At the forefront of the fighting since Assad’s army crumbled has been the Quds Force, led by some of its most senior officers, along with 25,000 of the Hizbollah allies they support in Lebanon and paid mercenaries from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Their main target, as in the ongoing battle for Aleppo, has not been Isil but those other Syrian rebels.
But in recent months, as we learn from the well-informed National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the main group working in and outside Iran to replace the tyranny in Tehran with a secular, democratic government, the Quds Force in Syria has taken a very serious hit. Many of its senior officers, including its commander, Brigadier-General Hossein Hamedani, have been killed – and even the Force’s overall commander, Qassem Suleiman, has reportedly been injured.
The NCRI is adamant that Syria cannot return to peace until Assad is ousted. The Western allies claim that this can only be done by the “Free Syrian Army”. But they have to equivocate over the “Free Syrians’” chief enemy, Iran, because they were so bucked by the recent pledge of Iran’s “moderate” President Rouhani that his country would no longer pursue its plans to build nuclear weapons: a deal by which the NCRI (which first alerted the West to Iran’s nuclear plans in 2002) claims the West was hoodwinked. Nor can we afford to risk further conflict with Assad’s other main ally, Russia. So we continue just to bomb Isil, while the Syrian people continue to endure the most terrifying and dangerous tragedy of our time.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
NCRI -Iran regime’s secret committee to deceive IAEA on PMD Probe revealed
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) network inside Iran has obtained reliable information that a top-secret committee is in charge of drafting the answers to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of Tehran’s nuclear program, according to the revelations made by Iranian opposition in a conference in Washington on Wednesday.
Top officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) comprise the committee’s key members, said Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the U.S. representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
According to the revelations, the officials have been tasked with drafting the responses to IAEA’s PMD inquiries working to cover up the military dimensions, thus resolving and terminating the PMD dispute by forging suitable scenarios for non-military usage of the program, which would seem plausible to the IAEA, and to falsely convince the international community that Iran has never been after the nuclear bomb.
This committee prepared the PMD answers delivered to the IAEA on August 15, 2015.
Among the foremost issues related to the PMD question are the explosive detonators called EBW (Exploding Bridge Wire) detonator, which is an integral part of a program to develop an implosion type nuclear device.
In its September 2014 report, IAEA stated that Iran has offered “information and explanations to the Agency on Iran’s work after 2007 related to the application of EBW detonators in the oil and gas industry which was not inconsistent with specialized industry practices.”
Tehran forged documents and exchanged communication between the Oil Ministry and the Defense Ministry to prove that the EBWs were produced and used by the oil industry.
But according to an exhaustive investigation by the Iranian Resistance involving dozens of sources, the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC), which is responsible for all oil and gas drilling, has not received even one of EBW detonators that had been produced by the Ministry of Defense. This renders the regime’s claims utterly false.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
16 Die in Riot at Guatemalan Prison
GUATEMALA CITY – At least 16 inmates died in a riot at the Canada prison farm on Guatemala’s southwestern Pacific coast, authorities said Monday.Penitentiary system spokesman Rudy Esquivel told reporters that up to now the deaths of 16 prisoners have been confirmed.
Esquivel said that in the early hours, security forces regained control of the prison, located 59 kilometers (37 miles) south of the capital, in Escuintla province.
The rioting broke out Sunday afternoon and the possibility that some of the victims were prison guards has been dismissed.
Security forces did not enter the facility Sunday night because of the danger it represented, not only for them but also for the inmates, Deputy Security Minister Elmer Sosa told reporters outside the prison.
Up to now authorities have taken 12 bodies to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, or Inacif, in Escuintla, while several police units remain posted outside the prison.
Family members of the inmates have also gathered at the scene and are waiting to hear a report on exactly what is happening.
Guatemala’s penitentiary system has responsibility for operating 22 prisons, in which some 4,000 guards keep watch on more than 19,000 inmates.
Eight People Found with Throats Slit in Southern Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico – The bodies of eight people were found with their throats slit inside a vehicle in the violence-racked southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, local authorities told EFE, noting that a threatening message was found at the crime scene.The bodies of the males aged 17-20 were found Friday afternoon inside a gray Honda SUV with a Mexico City license plate in Cosolapa, a rural municipality located in northern Oaxaca.
A “narco-message” was found alongside the victims with a threat directed at the Los Zetas drug cartel.
Agents with Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office arrived at the scene to remove the bodies of the slain individuals, who are believed to have been residents of a highland area of the neighboring state of Veracruz.
Three Arrested for Murder of Venezuelan Opposition Leader
CARACAS – Three men have been arrested in connection with last week’s murder of opposition leader Luis Manuel Diaz following a campaign rally in the central state of Guarico, the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office said Monday.William Mendez Quiaro, 28, Jose Enrique Abad, 25, and Ronald Ender Hernandez, 22, were detained Monday morning.
The suspects were to be arraigned “in the coming hours” on charges they were involved with the Nov. 25 shooting death of Diaz after a political event in Altagracia de Orituco, the AG Office said.
Diaz was among several speakers at the rally to drum up support for opposition candidates in the Dec. 6 legislative elections.
Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, was also present.
Diaz’s murder spurred strong reactions both inside Venezuela and abroad, with Amnesty International, the Organization of American States and the Union of South American Nations calling for a peaceful political process in the Andean nation.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Tucson Az - Robbery suspect and Chihuahua ( wanted )
Tucson police are searching for a man who brought his Chihuahua with him to rob a bank.
Police said the man approached a Chase Bank teller in a Fry's grocery store at about 10 a.m. Friday and placed a shopping basket containing a white Chihuahua puppy on the counter.
The man demanded money from two bank tellers and received an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing with his dog, according to Sgt. Pete Dugan, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Dugan said the robber did not display a weapon and no one was injured.
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