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June 6, 2008
ICE removes 83 individuals from United States, more than half criminals, to Nigeria and Albania
Crimes included cocaine possession, sexual assault on children, and counterfeiting
BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 77 Nigerian nationals to Lagos, Nigeria, and six Albanian nationals to Tirana, Albania, on June 4, 2008. The majority of those removed had criminal histories and convictions in the United States, including sex crimes, felony drug possession and trafficking, fraud, and assault with a deadly weapon.
The flight, contracted by the Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Flight Operations Unit, carried a total of 83 individuals ordered removed from the United States by immigration courts. Those removed had been held at various detention facilities around the country, and were staged at the Batavia, N.Y., Federal Detention Facility shortly before the flight, which departed from Niagara Falls International Airport.
“The mission of the ICE Office of Detention and Removal is to protect national security and public safety by removing foreign nationals with criminal records from the country,” said Charles Mule, acting Field Office Director for ICE detention and removal operations in Buffalo. “ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of criminal aliens who victimize innocent people, and as a result, our communities are safer and more secure.”
In fiscal year 2007, ICE removed more than 284,000 aliens from the country including over 41,000 who returned voluntarily to their country of nationality, a record for the agency. More than 93,000 had criminal histories. All of the individuals removed were provided due process through U.S. criminal and immigration courts and ICE worked closely with the foreign governments to make the return to their home countries possible.
ICE manages alien transportation and repatriation flights using government-leased and chartered aircraft. Among those removed on yesterday’s flight were:
A Nigerian man convicted of sexual assault of a child and robbery. In addition, he has convictions for multiple misdemeanor offenses.
An Albanian national who is a multiple drug offender. He was convicted of possession with intent to sell a controlled substance and has a conviction for conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
A Nigerian man convicted of fraud and conspiracy. Total losses incurred by his victims totaled nearly $1 million.
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I hope they lock this guy up and throw away the key. (Re Utah.)
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Japan - 7 killed, 11 injured in stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s Akihabara
Kyodo News (excerpt) ^ | June 8, 2008
Posted on June 8, 2008 3:30:27 AM PDT by HAL9000
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TOKYO, June 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH RISE IN DEATH TOLL)
Seven people died and 11 others were injured after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and then stabbed people Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo’s busy Akihabara district, a popular electronics area and a magnet for comic and animation fans.
Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, and seized a survival knife he was carrying. He admitted to stabbing all the people with the knife from around 12:30 p.m., the police said. The truck was rented in Shizuoka Prefecture.
“I came to Akihabara to kill people,” investigative sources quoted Kato as telling the police. “I am tired of the world. Anyone was OK. I came alone.”
According to the police and hospital officials, six of the seven who died were males and aged 19, 20, 29, 33, 47 and 74. The other was a 21-year-old female.
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“Food Poisoning Tied to Tomatoes Spreads”
AP via NY Times ^ | June 8, 2008 | Anon
Posted on June 8, 2008 3:49:11 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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“Iran commits to 7 refineries in bid to end exports”
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Posted on June 8, 2008 3:45:34 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
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Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for Qassam barrage
Published: 06.08.08, 13:53 / Israel News
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, has claimed responsibility for the firing of several Qassam rockets towards the Eshkol Regional Council.
Shrapnel from one of the rockets lightly wounded a Thai foreign laborer. (Ali Waked)
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Man lightly wounded by Qassam rocket
Published: 06.08.08, 13:52 / Israel News
A Thai foreign laborer was lightly wounded by shrapnel after a Qassam rocket crashed into a field in the Eshkol Regional Council a short while ago.
Paramedics evacuated the man to the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba for treatment. (Yonat Atlas)
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4 Qassams land in Eshkol Regional Council, no injuries
Published: 06.08.08, 13:20 / Israel News
Four Qassam rockets fired from northern Gaza landed in the Eshkol Regional Council a short while ago.
No injuries or damage reported. (Yonat Atlas)
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Press Release A080608a-062
June 8, 2008
Coalition forces capture Basrah-based Special Groups criminal in Baghdad
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured a suspected Basrah-based Special Groups criminal and his associate late Saturday night during operations in the Rusafa district of Baghdad.
Acting on intelligence from captured Special Groups members, Coalition forces raided the hideout of the suspected Special Groups criminal, where he and his associate were captured without incident.
The wanted man is alleged to be a commander of an assassination squad in Basrah, an arms dealer with connections to Iran, and a document counterfeiter. This last offense was reportedly done in his role as one of a handful of Special Groups criminals who arranges transportation of criminals into Iran for training, and back into Iraq.
“Captured Special Groups members are providing actionable intelligence that Iraqi Security and Coalition forces are using to defeat these criminals,” said U.S. Army Capt. Charles Calio, MNF-I spokesperson. “By removing Special Groups criminals’ resources and those who supply them, they can no longer target innocent Iraqis.”
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Press Release A080608b-206
June 8, 2008
Alleged bombing boss and subordinate captured in Mosul
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq leader and a man believed to lead a bombing cell under his direction during operations in Mosul Sunday.
Information from an operation May 26 led Coalition forces to three locations in Mosul where they found the two wanted men and detained four additional suspected terrorists. The alleged AQI leader reportedly oversees all bombing operations in east Mosul, while his suspected subordinate is a wiring expert who orders and controls bombing attacks in the area. Two women were injured during the operations when Coalition forces breached the door of a target building. Both women were treated on site by Coalition medics, and transported to a local hospital by Iraqi emergency services.
“This effort to target AQI leadership continues to increase the peace for the people of Mosul,” said Maj. John Hall, MNF-I spokesman.
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June 8, 2008
“Pakistan’s ambassador to Norway: new Muhammad cartoon a ‘terrorist act’”
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“Finnish blogger gets 2 years, 7 months in prison for insulting Islam”
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “What has made some people, including me, suspicious, is the fact that he managed to include the charge of ethnic and religious hatred in the trial. Last time anybody was convicted of insulting religious feelings (blasphemy) in Finland was during the 1960’s. Artist Harro Koskinen’s painting Sikamessias (Pig Messiah) was considered to be blapshemous and the artist was force to pay a fine for the offence. The successful conviction of Lehto for inciting religious hatred may lead to prosecution of other bloggers publishing material deemed offensive to muslims.
As far as I know this was the first time anybody was convicted for insulting muslim religious feelings in Finland. Lehto was convicted for displaying rude images of islamic prophet Muhammad and Allah having sexual intercourse with a pig. The pictures were not created by Lehto or his associate but they had found them from another website and included them in their blog.
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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Persecution follows Somali Christians to their refuge in Kenya
By Tom Osanjo
Special to ASSIST News Service
NAIROBI, KENYA (ANS) — A while back, a group made up of acquaintances ransacked Abdi Razak’s (not real name) house in a Nairobi suburb destroyed household property and beat up his wife and children, breaking the arm of his then 11 year old son in the process.
The 44 year old father of three’s crime? He had decided to abandon the Islamic faith and embrace Christianity. And it is the lot of many of the Somalis who have become Christians as hostile family and friends subject them to intense persecution.
During our interview at a church compound in the Eastleigh Suburb of Nairobi, Abdi and his colleague Hassan (not real name) share tales of harassment that has followed them from their motherland of Somalia into the safe haven they ran to in Kenya.
Kenya, long considered a refuge for many from the war torn Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region bore the brunt of refugees from Somalia when that country collapsed. The refugees find it easy to adapt because of shared kinship with Kenyan Somalis who occupy a whole province in the north eastern part of the country.
However, they count their troubles minor compared to the other converts who are still in Somalia. There discrimination, public humiliation and even death is the lot of those who choose to become Christians at the expense of the widely accepted Islam.
“From the time the government of Somalia collapsed in 1991 up to this year, we know of at least 34 people who have been killed because of their faith. The figures could be much higher because we are only talking about those known to us,” Hassan says.
He cites the latest incident in April when two Britons of Somali extraction were killed by Somali militants in a school he was running in the war torn country. According to news wire reports, the 70-year-old man and 32-year-old woman were killed alongside two Kenyan teachers in the town of Belet Weyne, near the Ethiopian border. The bodies of the four victims, who are said to have been shot in the head, were discovered at the Hakab Private English School in the town. A resident in Belet Weyne claimed the attackers were from the group Al Shabab.
Al Shabab is an armed militant Islamist group that the US put on its list of foreign terrorist organizations in February, for what Washington says is links to al Qaeda. It is leading an insurgency against the Somali interim government and its Ethiopian military allies in the capital Mogadishu.
The press reports quoted Abdul-qadir Anshur Ali, nephew of the dead British man and a teacher at the same school saying: “(My uncle) came to the region to help its people learn something and now he is dead for no reason,” said His uncle was married to a British woman and had two sons in Birmingham, he said.
Abdi and Hassan concur with the sentiments saying that despite the good work that the deceased was engaged in, his days were numbered because he was a Christian and the locals believed that the school was a fertile recruitment drive for new converts.
In 1991, the dictatorship of Siad Barre fell and Somalia has been a free fall ever since with warlords partitioning huge swathes of land for themselves where they run the show collecting illegal taxes, enforcing security and generally ordering the killings of rival militia.
Several attempts have been made, backed by the goodwill of the international community, to have some semblance of order prevail but to no avail. In 2000, Abdiqasim Salad Hassan was selected to lead the Transitional National Government (TNG). Four years later Abdullahi Yusuf was elected president.
But this did not go down well with all Somalis and in May 2006 the hitherto unknown Islamic Courts Union (ICU) started a serious fight with the other warlords, the TNG as well as their Ethiopian backers in a jihad aimed at introducing Sharia Law in Somalia. However, the superior military prowess of the Ethiopians carried the day and the ICU was vanquished.
Although chased out of town, the ICU still has some sympathizers and these are the people who have taken to harassing Christians. “After a meeting in Mogadishu in 2004, a section of radical sheikhs declared that they would hunt down converts even to other countries where they had fled. He reminded the supporters of their religious duty of killing those who abandoned Islam,” Abdi says.
Pastor Simeon Mbevi of the Mavuno (Harvest) Church in Nairobi is one of the Kenyan church leaders who work closely with the Somali Christians and he believes that Christians all over the world should pray that TNG remains in power in that country because under it Christians are a bit better off.
“Whatever your political affiliation in Somalia, please let us pray that TNG stays in power because if the ICU prevails the situation will be worse for the few believers there,” he recently told a prayer meeting in Nairobi. He has been to Somalia more than once to pray for that country.
The two refugees Abdi and Hassan agree stressing that because of the fear of attacks and threat to lives, it was not easy to know the exact number of believers in Somalia. “Most people practice their faith underground and you cannot talk much because you never know who will report you where and some even continue attending Friday prayers in the mosques so as not to raise suspicion,” Hassan says.
Being in Kenya has eased things somewhat because here they are able to meet with fellow Somali Christians for worship and fellowship. Right now there are three venues open to them including the offices of a mission organization. The two estimate the total number of Somali believers from their country at about 30 while the figures for Kenyan Somalis could be higher.
Hassan says that the rule of law in Kenya has acted as a safety net to some extent although intense non physical harassment continues to be the order of the day. Cold stares in the streets, abuses hurled their way and at times being denied social inclusion in activities are the price they have to pay for their faith.
“My children cannot play with other Somali children because we are considered infidels. Many are the times when my wife’s relatives have come to forcibly take her away but she has held on. Back at home I was never included in inheriting from my late father while my mother considers me dead,” Abdi says.
Pastor Alex Njukia is an old Somalia hand in his secular work with an international development agency and he gives the context of the consequences of being ostracized by clan members.
“The clan plays a critical role in the lives of Somalis because whenever you have an issue to solve you run to the clan. They are in charge of weddings, funerals, raising money for hospital and almost any other matter. To be cast out by the clan means you are as good as dead and this is particularly true when you are a refugee in another country,” he says.
Both Hassan and Abdi have resigned to the reality that they will live in foreign lands for the rest of their lives because going back to Somalia even if the security situation improved, would be a death sentence.
Abdi, a trained caterer in Somali gourmet, is forced to live on hand outs from well wishers because no self respecting Somali hotel owner would hire a ‘non-believer’ to cook for the guests. This way of life, he says, is very unpredictable because he has four mouths to feed.
Hassan also relies more on remittances from relatives living in the West but to supplement his income he has a part time job as a Somali language tutor for missionaries and others interested in it.
They can’t hold formal jobs because as refugees the Kenyan government cannot give them work permits and although they are not stating it, their lot would improve greatly if they could get asylum or citizenship in a more developed country.
“I have lost my family, my inheritance and my identity with my people. But I have gained one of the most valuable things in this life and the life to come, that is the Lord Jesus Christ,” Abdi declares.
Tom Osanjo is a writer with the Information Services Section of UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Judge’s ban on the use of the word ‘rape’ at trial reflects trend
Kansas City Star ^ | 6/8/07 | Tony Rizzo
Posted on June 8, 2008 5:05:44 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
It’s the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her.
She was raped.
But a judge prohibited her from uttering the word “rape” in front of a jury. The term “sexual assault” also was taboo, and Bowen could not refer to herself as a victim or use the word “assailant” to describe the man who allegedly raped her.
The defendant’s presumption of innocence and right to a fair trial trumps Bowen’s right of free speech, said the Lincoln, Neb., judge who issued the order.
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“Unspeakable horrors as trial opens in torture and rape of Columbia student”
NY Daily News ^ | June 6, 2008 | Barbara Ross and Corky Siemaszko
Posted on June 7, 2008 10:17:07 AM PDT by ruination
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Columbia journalism student will tell jurors on Friday how a sadist turned her Manhattan apartment into a “torture chamber” where she was raped, disfigured and nearly blinded.
“He ordered her to stab out her eyes,” Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty said Thursday as she opened the trial of 31-year-old Robert Williams with a horrific account of the alleged assault on April 13, 2007.
Standing naked in the bathtub with her lips glued and taped shut, her hands and ankles bound, the 23-year-old victim “couldn’t do it,” Prunty said.
“The next thing she heard was the kettle whistling,” the prosecutor said. “She will never be able to stand that sound again.”
Prunty’s description of how Williams allegedly poured the boiling water on his victim stunned the packed Manhattan courtroom into silence and caused a veteran sketch artist to flee in tears.
The testimony that followed was even more gruesome.
“He chose a butcher knife and slowly began to slice into her face and eyelids, carving and disfiguring her face,” Prunty said.
“In her despair, she told him to just kill her, but he was just getting started.”
The 19-hour assault ended only after she blacked out - finally overcome by the overdose of painkillers she was forced to swallow - and he lost interest.
“Then he could no longer feel power over another human being,” Prunty said.
Williams is charged with 71 criminal counts, including attempted murder, arson, rape and sodomy. He faces life in prison.
Shackled and with his hands encased in protective mitts, Williams stared straight ahead as Prunty spent an hour describing the victim’s agony.
The former Bloods gang member tried to cover up the crime by wrapping the victim in a futon and torching her Hamilton Heights apartment, police said.
Prunty said the woman was too smart - and too tough - to die. She used the flames to melt the computer cables binding her to a futon frame. She also remembered everything, even faking blindness so she could “memorize distinguishing features,” Prunty said.
“She described this man to a T,” she said.
The ordeal left the student with a scarred face, severe burns and liver damage from the pills.
She was not in the courtroom Thursday. Her parents were - and they refused to cry in public.”
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Prosecutor Details Rape That Lasted 19 Hours
New York Times ^ | 6/6/08 | John Eligon
Posted on June 6, 2008 4:27:09 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
The time crept by so slowly and painfully that the 23-year-old Columbia University journalism student had decided it was time to end her life.
Over many torturous hours, she had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex, a prosecutor told a jury on Thursday. The accused, Robert A. Williams, 31, had doused the woman’s face and body with boiling water and bleach, forced her to swallow handfuls of pills and to chase them with beer, sealed her mouth with glue, and bound her wrists and legs with shoelaces, cords and duct tape, said the prosecutor, Ann P. Prunty. And now, Ms. Prunty said, he was asking the woman to gouge out her own eyes with a pair of scissors.
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