Archive for the crime Category
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Aug 17th, 2010
Del Walters Says it’s about More than Diamonds
EbonyJet-
Look for the question. What question? In the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, I am waiting for someone to ask the question that thousands of Liberians have been waiting to be asked. How did Taylor wind up in Liberia to terrorize the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
April 29th 2020
Washingtontimes- Nigeria has risen to the top tier of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, according to an annual report to be released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The independent bipartisan governmental agency, whose report details abuse in 28 nations, singled out Nigeria for not punishing religiously motivated violence, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 11, 2010
BBC- A Finnish court has sentenced a Rwandan preacher to life in jail for his participation in Rwanda’s genocide.
Francois Bazaramba, 59, moved in 2003 to the Nordic country, which allows prosecutions for crimes against humanity wherever they are committed.
The court said he had intended to “destroy in whole or part the Rwandan Tutsis [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 02, 2010
NewsRescue- We are all used to religious terrorism. Thanks to names like Osama Bin Ladin, Or American Al Qaeda. The world is highly sensitized to religious extremist terrorism and fanaticism. But what we all missed is a greater menace and terrorism in our midst. A more dangerous and illusive organization, that has killed [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 4, 2010
Aljazeera- A joint report into the handling of the H1N1 outbreak has found that some scientists who advised governments to stockpile drugs, had previously been on the payroll of big drug companies.
The scientists were working for the World Health Organisation, whose decision to name the flu a “pandemic” is also coming under scrutiny from [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza.
Up to 16 people were killed and more than 30 people injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said.
The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.
Footage from the flotilla’s [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 24, 2010
If a British would have said this about Israelis, it would have been an uproar and huge wave of protests accusing the British diplomat of being an anti-Semitic racist nazi but if a Jew says it, no one cares, it’s ok. Not to mention that the British diplomat would also be forced to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 10 2010
NewsRescue- Contrary to what many might think, there is a sure and easy solution to the repeated riots that usually erupt in the North-central part of Nigeria.
These riots, usually supported by religious differences are actually centrally hemmed on resource, land and social deplorable existing conditions. The root cause of the characteristic deadly problem [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
02/16/2010
Syracuse.com- Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Dubai police appealed for an international manhunt today after releasing names and photos of an alleged 11-member European hit squad accused of stalking and killing a Hamas commander last month in a plot that mixed cold precision with spy caper disguises such as fake beards and wigs.
The case - [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
January 23rd, 2009
Guardian- WITH the intensity of criticisms within the US government circles and outside, the Americans may soon review the inclusion of Nigeria on its terror watch list of countries of interest, according to a senior White House official.
Speaking at the US Foreign Press Centre in Washington DC on Friday afternoon, White House National [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
December 30th, 2009
NewsRescue- From the Nigerian kid who recently set his pants on fire trying to detonate a bomb aboard the Detroit headed Delta airliner, to the riots in Iran, the Somalian Pirate captured at sea and brought to the US for justice{MSNBC, April 21 2009}.
Through the five United States citizens captured last week in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
December 28th 2009 {Updated Dec 30}
NewsRescue- As seen in the CNN report below, the father of the attempted Delta airline bomber, Umar Mutallab warned the US embassy in Nigeria and several other US security forces of his sons radicalization and intent to commit terrorist atrocities.
Related: Newsrescue- 911 Building 7 BBC report of fall, before it [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
December 14, 2009
The Observer- Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 28, 2009
Tribune- A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger state, has been reportedly strangled to death by her male colleague . Nigerian Tribune learned that the deceased and her assailant were both from the South Eastern part of the country.
During the on-going service year, according to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 28th 2009
The United Nations has warned Washington about indiscriminate use of drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it may be breaking humanitarian law.
The UN rights investigator said the United States has done nothing to demonstrate that its not randomly killing civilians in violation of international law through the use of drones.
“My concern [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 22, 2009
(CNN) — Organized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid.
Federal agents arrest two suspects last week in Los Angeles on charges of Medicare fraud.
Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it’s safer and potentially more profitable to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 18,2009
NewsRescue- A group known to be sponsored and supported by the United States, as seen in the ABC video clip below, and from other links, has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide, terror attack on the Iranian elite Revolutionary guards that occurred on Sunday.
See: NewsRescue- Jundullah terrorist group allegedly supported by USA claims Iran [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 16, 2009
PressTv- The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution, endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, despite efforts by Israeli leaders to block the motion.
On Friday, 25 member-states of the council voted for the resolution, six voted against and 11 abstained. The “draft resolution … is therefore adopted,” UNHRC President [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 7, 2009; Update: October 28,2009
NewsRescue- A major headline in many Nigerian daily’s has been the very sad story of an alleged gang-rape that resulted in the death of a Nigerian youth corper serving in Borno State in Northern Nigeria.
Unsubstantiated, inciting news report
This tale was reported by a new Nigerian newspaper, Next, and in their [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 4, 2009
NewsRescue- The United States Pittsburgh security forces violently cracked down on peaceful protesters at the September 24-25th 2009, G20 summit in Pittsburgh, USA.
A lady student demonstrator in the University campus is heard in the video crying:
“help officer, Sir, stop! Please I am bleeding“.
Student protesters were severely beaten and hundreds injured, and over 200 [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The video shows how journalists duly accredited by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to observe the controversial rerun of Ekiti State gubernatorial election were assaulted, beaten, bitten and maltreated by Ekiti state officials. The journalists had discovered paid agents who engaged in multiple thumb-printing of ballot papers on the eve of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 28, 2009
(CNN) — French authorities expressed solidarity with Roman Polanski’s family Monday after authorities arrested the filmmaker on a 1970s sexual-offense charge involving a 13-year-old girl.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he hoped authorities would respect Polanski’s rights “and that the affair (will) come to a favorable resolution,” the Foreign Ministry said in [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 20th, 2009
HuffingtonPost- Thursday night’s Inside Edition featured startling footage of a woman literally being dragged out of Chelsea hotspot Marquee before being raped at her assailant’s apartment.
In the video, Luis Zambrano grabs the unidentified 23-year-old woman after she drunkenly passes out and attempts to carry her off through a sea of people. At [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September, 17, 2009
Earlier: NewsRescue- Largest class action ever brought before the British courts- Toxic waste dumping in Abidjan
Aljazeera- Trafigura, an international oil company, could be close to offering compensation to 31,000 people who said they became ill from toxic waste dumped in the west African nation Ivory Coast, the company’s officials have said.
Trafigura, along with Leigh Day [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — A United Nations report issued Tuesday says both Israel and the Palestinians committed actions amounting to war crimes during Israel’s military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18.
Although the U.N. investigation found that Palestinian militants also committed war crimes, the overwhelming majority of the criticism in a summary of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 12th, 2009
NewsRescue- Well if indeed he burned newspapers and locked up reporters, we at NewsRescue wish to see how he will again stretch his ‘power’ to burn down internet media bodies like ours that WILL report this news story and WILL keep it on the net-waves for as long as internet remains a tool [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 13th, 2009
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Part of Mohammed Salahuddin’s leg was removed below the knee after it was badly damaged after the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 2nd, 2009; NewsRescue
by Abeeb Mobolaji
Firstly, let me thank the Almighty for being here, alive and able to tell my story after my near death experience yesterday on the streets of Accra, capital of Ghana. Had I died, this tale may very likely have been told very differently.
I am a Nigerian and also a Ghanaian [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
September 9th, 2009
PressTv- New reports have surfaced on the arrest of yet another Jewish organ trading gang in the United States involved in the abduction of Algerian children.
Dr. Mustafa Khayatti, the head of the Algerian National Committee for the Development of Health Research, revealed on Sunday that the New York city police have arrested members [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Update; September 6, 2009
NewsRescue- Ok, let’s analyze this-
In my country, when people, be they gangsters, the mob, rogues or armed robbers, steal something. The risk and recompense is a road and/or copter chase by the security forces and apprehension or a shoot-out in attempt to apprehend or kill.
In Afghanistan, when you steal, the risk or [...]