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CIA Officer Investigated for Rape

WASHINGTON - A CIA officer in Africa is under investigation for two separate instances in which he was accused of rape, ac cording to court documents and a government official.


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Panetta: CIA Should Fire Official Accused of Rape
ABC News - 2 hours ago
By BRIAN ROSS The CIA should have immediately fired its Algerian station chief station chief in Algiers after two women came forward to accuse him of rape, President Obama's nominee to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, told Congress at his confirmation ...
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Court papers filed in federal court in Washington by a State Department investigator show two Algerian women came forward separately to say they had been sexually assaulted by the man while at his home in Algiers, where he was stationed.

The court documents do not identify him as a CIA employee, but a congressional official familiar with the case said Wednesday he worked for the agency in Algiers until he was recalled in the wake of the investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28901776/?ocid=MSNToolbar120

2/05/09

CIA nominee decries waterboarding

US President Barack Obama's nominee to head the CIA, Leon Panetta, has condemned the interrogation technique "waterboarding" as "torture".

But he made it clear that agents who had carried out waterboarding in the past should not be prosecuted if they believed they were following the law.

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2/04/09

Ministers face torture pressure

UK ministers must answer allegations that Britain was complicit in torture, a senior Conservative MP has said.

David Davis said a High Court ruling on Wednesday alleged that Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held in the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, had been tortured.

The judges also said the US threatened to withdraw intelligence help from the UK if details were released.

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Probe finds Army charity is hoarding millions

Military's biggest charity is stockpiling cash, rather than using it for aid ...allows superiors to squeeze soldiers for contributions; forces struggling soldiers to repay loans — sometimes delaying transfers and promotions;.... 

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29331853/

US army suicides hit record high

 

The rate of suicides among soldiers in the US army has risen to a record level for the second year in a row.

US soldiers in Iraq
About a quarter of the deaths occurred in Iraq

The army said there were 128 confirmed suicides in 2008, with a further 15 deaths still under investigation.

About 35% of the suicides were of soldiers who had never been deployed, while 30% were soldiers who were on active service - three quarters of them on their first tour of duty.

Another 35% took place after deployment, mostly more than a year after the soldier had returned home.

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US Can Ship Afghan Aid Through Russia, Kremlin Says
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW - Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said Friday that Russia had fast-tracked approval of a plan to allow the United States military to ship nonlethal equipment across Russian territory to Afghanistan.
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Kyrgyzstan 'to shut key US base'

Kyrgyzstan's president has said his government is closing a key US air base on its territory.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev made the announcement in Moscow, where he was promised more than $2bn (£1.4bn) in aid by Russia.

Despite this officials in Washington said the US was still hoping to continue using the Manas base.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7868586.stm

Colombia's Farc free ex-governor

Mr Jara (R) greets his son and wife at Villavicencio airport
Mr Jara (R) called it a "miracle" to be reunited with family after seven years

Colombian Farc rebels have released a politician held hostage for more than seven years, the Red Cross has said.

Former provincial governor Alan Jara was hugged by his weeping wife and son as he stepped off a helicopter in the town of Villavicencio, east of Bogota.

Speaking later at a press conference, Mr Jara accused Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe of having "done nothing" to achieve the freeing of hostages.

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2/05/09

 Rescue boosts Uribe's standing

The successful rescue of 15 hostages from the clutches of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) has had a massive political impact, nationally and internationally. "We are at the end of the end of the Farc," said Admiral Guillermo Barrera, the head of the Colombian Navy.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7489173.stm

U.K. sets plan for nuclear weapons-free world

The blueprint comes amid concerns that Iran will produce a bomb

LONDON - Britain sets out a six-point plan on Wednesday for a nuclear-free world, at a time when global powers fear Iran will produce a bomb and Barack Obama's inauguration has renewed interest in disarmament.

The British document calls for watertight measures to stop terrorists or emerging states getting atomic weapons, deeper cuts in U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals and the activation of a global nuclear test ban treaty.

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Lubbock Drug Busts & The case of Timothy Cole

BUST #1  update: Grand Jury IndictmentsAggravated assault:  John P. Valdez, 27, 2314 15th St.
There was a drug bust today @ 2314-15th. St. Neighbors say the mother of two children was arrested along with three others. It was reported a large amount of what was thought to be drugs, perhaps pot, was removed from the house but was covered up with a blanket so as to hide the contents. Photos of hooded raid .   Police  returned this late afternoon to the house.  LPD has not released any information at the time of this story's date line. 
  The government has had an on going investigation with aireal surveillance for months over Lubbock and it is believed this may be the mopping up stage of that on going program; which also may include the military.  For more about the on going drug war from Mexico.   http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/87909  
In the above link the DOD stated that Mexico as a failed state will require U.S. military intervention: also see in my blogs: " VACATION MEXICO." ...............GANDALF 
  
 
          1/20/09
  Lubbock Drug  Bust #2
 ARRESTED MEN HAD GUN, DRUGS, $58,000
Two men were arrested Wednesday after Lubbock Police discovered around nearly $58,000 in cash, a gun and drugs in the floorboard of the suspects' car.
Robert Austin Artmann, 45, and Eddie Dean Ware, 59, both face multiple drug charges and illegal possession of a firearm charges after the items were found during a traffic stop in the 2600 block of Auburn Street, according to a police report.
The men were pulled over around 3:30 p.m. after they failed to yield at a stop sign, said police Lt. Neal Barron
 
  UPDATED: 07/20/09 I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT THIS BUST BECAUSE ALL THE BILLS CONFISCATED WERE CRISP NEW $!00.00 DOLLAR BILLS.  DRUG DEALS ARE NOT DONE WITH NEW UN-CIRCULATED TRACEABLE MONEY.  GANDALF MORE...
MONEY STOLEN
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - A traffic stop made on the streets of Lubbock back in January will cost someone almost $58000.  Dane Church, is doing business as Pronto Check Cashing, has come forward saying that the money was stolen.  Church claims it is "a portion of the money stolen from the Pronto Check Cashing services business and therefore his property."
 
 
         1/23/09
  Lubbock Drug Bust #3 
 Members of a drug trafficking ring that spans from South Texas to the panhandle are behind bars. Jimmy Cordova and Ambrosio Garcia Jr. are charged with possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of cocaine. NewsChannel 11's Julia Bruck reports. This comes after officers made a reverse sale at a Slaton Highway Hotel. "Normally the officers purchase narcotics, in these occurrences we sold narcotics to these individuals," Lubbock County Sheriff David Gutierrez said.
source kcbd
The Sheriff's Office worked with DEA and other law enforcement agencies in Kingsville and Amarillo in what Lubbock County Sheriff David Gutierrez called a reverse sting operation as part of a six-week investigation.  source: the Lubbock AJ
 
 
 

Mexico police chief stands down

The chief of police in Mexico's most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, has stepped down amid ongoing threats.

 

Heavily armed soldiers near the Texan border remove bodies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7882653.stm

Gun battles between suspected drug gang members and troops have left 21 dead in northern Mexico, police say.

The violence started when gunmen drove into Villa Ahumada, a farming town in Chihuahua state.

They dragged several people - including police officers - out of their homes and killed at least six.

Troops then arrived as the scene and 15 people, including one soldier, died in shootouts. Drug-related violence kills thousands every year in Mexico.

In a separate incident on Monday, armed men forced their way into a prison in the northern city of Torreon, and killed three inmates.

The dead men were being held for kidnapping and murder, and were transferred to the prison less than two hours before the incident.

The gunmen also released nine other inmates from the prison before they escaped.

Some 40,000 soldiers and police have been deployed since December 2006 against Mexico's drug cartels.

Corrupt U.S. dealers arm Mexican drug cartels
**  TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED MEXICO ARMAS  ** Tom ...
** TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED MEXICO ARMAS ** Tom Mangan, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, holds an AK-47 style rifle in the evidence locker at the local ATF offices Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 in Phoenix. The AK-47 rifle with folding stock is a favorite weapon with the Mexican drug cartel members because of its ease of use and ability to be hidden in jackets.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Mexico man 'dissolved 300 bodies'

 

A man arrested by Mexican police says he disposed of 300 bodies for a drugs gang over the past decade by dissolving them in chemicals. Over 700 people died in the US border city last year in an ongoing drugs war. The Mexican army says it believes Mr Meza's claims are true. The 300 corpses were said to belong to murdered rivals of Mexican drug kingpin Teodoro Garcia Simental, who is battling for control over drug trafficking routes through Tijuana, after defecting from the powerful Arellano Felix cartel. Mexico's drug violence has surged and grown more gruesome in recent years, particularly in the northern border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

Also on Friday, two human heads were found inside coolers near police stations in the central Guanajuato state, officials said Drug-related violence claimed 5,700 lives across Mexico last year, more than double the number of victims in 2007.

 "This evil is the cost of prohibition in of itself, as history has always shown."  Gandalf's Staff

Can anyone tell me why the people involved in this case still have their jobs, still living off our tax dollars? Why have they not been fired but instead hold positions of power? Citizens of Lubbock, you need to wake up.
 
Timothy Cole returns to court

By Elliott Blackburn | Avalanche-Journal

Friday, February 06, 2009
Story last updated at 2/6/2009 - 1:28 am


HARRY CABLUCK / Ap

Water is poured for Michelle Mallin during her testimony during a court hearing Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, in Austin, Texas. The hearing is being held in the case of Timothy Cole, who died in prison while serving 25 years for a rape that new DNA evidence shows he didn't commit. Mallin, the former Texas Tech student who was victimized, has come forth publicly to help clear Cole's name. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

AUSTIN - Lubbock police and prosecutors ignored clear warnings that they pursued the wrong suspect more than 20 years ago in a rape case that ultimately led to an innocent man's death, attorneys seeking the convict's exoneration told an Austin judge on Thursday.

The case of Timothy Cole, sentenced in 1986 to 25 years in prison by a Lubbock jury for a rape he did not commit, returned to court hundreds of miles from where it began. His family, and the woman who for decades believed Cole had raped her, testified in his defense to attorneys Jeff Blackburn and Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project as they described problems with Cole's emergence as a suspect, supporting evidence and the county's handling of his case after conviction.

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WHOLESALE MURDER IN GAZA

source france24 and Heresy
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LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD TO HELL 
 BREAKING NEWS: 08/16/09 GAZA REBEL LEADER DIES IN SHOOTOUT

Violations of Humanitarian Law

April 23, 2009 | Casey Quinlan

On April 15 at 7:15 p.m. in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium, American senior military analyst with Human Rights Watch, Mark Garlasco, prepared himself for what would become a heated and emotional discussion concerning the war in Gaza. Garlasco, who has worked for the Pentagon’s Damage Assessment team in Kosovo and spent seven years as a senior intelligence analyst covering Iraq, chronicled the three weeks he spent in Gaza. Read more

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  When you see the START date of this Blog and the time of my production "LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD TO HELL" AND COMPARE IT TO THE BREAKING NEWS UPDATE, NOW AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, YOU WILL SEE THAT EVERYTHING I TOLD YOU THEN HAS NOW BEEN CONFIRMED. MUCH TO MY GREAT SORROW. Israel CONFESS YOUR SINS OR WE SHALL NOT WALK AMONG YOU....GANDALF

 1/28/09

U.S. envoy pushes for stronger Gaza truce

Mitchell calls for end to weapons smuggling, blockaded borders

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28887926/?ocid=MSNToolbar120

  Israel, Hamas hold fire for now in Gaza
Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel ceased fire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after declaring victory in its three-week offensive but Hamas guerrillas said the war that has cost 1200 Palestinian lives would go on.
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Obama team faces trial by fire in Israel-Hamas conflict
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
An Arab girl and her mother pass Israeli riot police in East Jerusalem. Hamas had called for a day of wrath over the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
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Gaza building apparently hit by phosphorus: UN

Reuters - ‎26 minutes ago‎
By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A warehouse in a UN compound in Gaza that came under Israeli fire on Thursday was apparently hit by white-phosphorus shells, UN humanitarian affairs chief John Holmes said.
Israel Is Committing War Crimes
Wall Street Journal - 59 minutes ago
By GEORGE E. BISHARAT Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes.
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Truce Efforts Intensify as Israel Shells Gaza School
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By Peter Hirschberg and Saud Abu Ramadan Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Mounting casualties among Palestinian civilians and its own troops are increasing pressure on Israel as an offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip aimed at stopping rocket fire on towns ...
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 Let the little children come to me and dont prevent them.  For such is the Kingdom of Heaven   Mathew 19:14
I remember Jesus telling us ".....If you give so  much as a glass of water to these little ones.......(for you to do so, it shall be noted in Heaven.  Gandalf)....but low unto you if you should ever bring harm to any of them...(for this too shall be noted in heaven and it shall not pass. Gandalf)

Father in Heaven please give me strenght for my heart is breaking.  Gaza the road to hell. http://cid-bd838dd923c11aa0.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/GAZA%20THE%20ROAD%20TO%20HELL/010609%20TUE.mp3   produced byGandalf's Staff,  with contributions from Heresy and France 24. 

Lebanon Fires Rockets into Israel’s North
New York Times - 54 minutes ago
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