UPDATE...
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/05/006270print.html
May 21, 2005
Italian hostage 'not well' but alive -- and captors demand Islamic law provisions as condition for release
"Italian hostage 'not well' but alive," from UPI, with Jeffrey Imm:
Kabul, Afghanistan, May. 21 (UPI) -- An Italian relief worker taken hostage in Kabul is alive, but unwell, her alleged captor said during a phone call, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday.
Clementina Contini, kidnapped Monday in the Afghan capital, "is not well and has an infection in one eye," according to a caller who identified himself as Temor Shah.
In a series of at least five ultimatums phoned in to a French news organization and all postponed before the deadline, Contini's kidnapper demanded Afghanistan ban the sale of alcoholic drinks, cancel a TV program considered offensive by Islamic fundamentalists, and improve the condition of the madrassas, or Islamic religious schools.
Posted at May 21, 2005 03:48 PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1407913/posts
KVOA TV Tucson AZ ^ | May 20, 2005, 08:14 PM | Lupita Murillo
Posted on 05/21/2005 6:47:08 PM PDT by axes_of_weezles
"The U.S.-Mexico border is becoming more violent."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The feds have been alerted through a memo to law enforcement throughout the southwest, telling them that Mexican commandos are now working for drug cartels.
You'll be shocked to learn where the commandos were trained.
The memo from the Justice Department warns that Mexican commandos were trained by U.S. forces, but switched sides. They are now using their deadly skills to work for the drug cartels.
They were elite forces trained by the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, \Georgia to battle against the powerful drug cartels.
They're known as "los zetas," but a memo from the Justice Department to police agencies in the southwest warns that some of those commandos changed sides and are now working with drug smugglers.
Sheriff Tony Estrada says, "Things like that are a concern to us, especially trained here on the U.S. side. They've gotten pretty special training in reguards to areas they were supposed to specialize. Now, they are working with drug traffickers on the Mexican side."
Using the commando training, Los Zetas are known to be extremely violent and have been blamed for an outbreak of violence along the Mexican border."