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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Armed militia took control of Libya Tripoli airport

With machine guns and armored vehicles a Libyan militia took control of the international airport in Tripoli on Monday, forcing flights to be diverted to the military airport of the capital, said a security official. The official said the militia, called al-Awfea Brigade, the city of Tarhouna, 80 km southeast of Tripoli, demanded the release of one of their leaders, who claimed to have gone last night. "The situation is very tense at the airport and tanks are surrounding the buildings. Not permitted entry to anyone inside the building," said the official, who declined to be identified. An airport customs official said the flights were canceled and the aircraft would enter the country were diverted to the airport Metiga in downtown Tripoli. The spokesman of the current government's National Transitional Council, Mohammed al-Harizy, said the militia chief Colonel Abu al-Hebeishi Elija was kidnapped by unknown armed rebels, while traveling between Tarhouna and Tripoli on Sunday evening. Tarhouna was widely seen as favored by Muammar Gaddafi , who was killed in October by rebels who overthrew his government. His dominant tribe, also called Tarhouna, held many positions in the Armed Forces of Gaddafi. The city's residents are viewed with suspicion by former rebels. Tribal rivalries swept Libya since Qaddafi deposition. Much of the fighting put militias who fought against Gaddafi those who have remained loyal to the regime. Tarhouna The group was engaged in sporadic clashes with other militias in cities like Misrata and Tripoli. The airport attack came just two weeks before the date of the country's first general elections since 1969, when Gadhafi seized control of power in a military coup. On June 19, the Libyans are called upon to elect 200 members of the Assembly to oversee a new constitution and form a government. Officials of the electoral commission and the government recently gave contradictory statements about the possibility of elections being postponed, given the fragile security situation in Tripoli and in many other cities. Also there were calls to boycott the election in the east, where the uprising began against Gaddafi.Many residents of the eastern claim greater representation in parliament.

Porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta "The many faces of worrying Canadian murderer"


Luka Rocco Magnotta that is Canadian suspected of having a dismembered body in Montreal and wanted by Interpol ? As the investigation progresses, the many facets of a personality troubling emerge: prostitution, necrophilia porn movies, change of identity. Originally from Peterborough, Ontario, Luka Rocco Magnotta is also known by the pseudonyms Eric Clinton Newman - a name he had used until 2006 - and Vladimir Romanov, according to Montreal police. According to information from Interpol , the alleged murderer, aged 29, is a white male of 1.78 m, with black hair and blue eyes. Presented as a bisexual actor in pornographic films, the young man would practice also, according to Canadian media, prostitution, while he himself would have said necrophiliac and cannibal on a blog. Several websites report that considered mentally retarded, he looked in the past to advertise by posting YouTube videos in which he killed the cats, by suffocating in a plastic bag. On his official website where he pours into long written paranoid and insane, Magnotta also surfs on his image blurred by saying: "It's not because you read it it's true."


A method to "turn the page of his old life"

The young man has developed a six-step method to disappear and start a new life incognito. In a note dated 2009 on the website of "Digital Diary", it believes that this "can not do it overnight," and to "a minimum of four months. The acts heroic necessary to turn the page of his former life. " "Be absolutely sure of yourself before you start," he wrote. His comments suggest a long-standing fascination for identity changes and flight. Internet rumors have also lent him an affair with a woman, Carla Homolka, who was sentenced for participation in the rape and murder of two teenage girls and his sister. A relationship that Luka Rocco Magnotta was denied in 2007. The same year, the boy had applied to the reality TV show COVERguy Toronto, according to the website of La Presse . Without success, it is not muscular enough for this emission modeling.


It should be "proud of what he did"

The young man, who rented an apartment in Montreal for about four months, have recently emptied, including taking his books and clothes, before disappearing a few days ago, said a neighbor, Mike Gauthier. The few residents of the building who knew him describe him as someone effeminate, quiet and remote, but sometimes enjoyable. "He was really lonely, and perhaps even antisocial, to the limit. Every time I said hello, there was not even a nod. Like I was talking to the wall ", told theAFP Peyette Richard, another neighbor of the suspect. And it continued: "He was still half dressed, he always had a little wig on his head and sunglasses, when he went out. Looks like he was trying to go unnoticed. It was a very strange person. " While the young man has severed all contact with his family for several years, the home of her sister, Melissa Newman, which also saw their grandmother, was visited by police in Peterborough at the request of investigators from the Police Service City of Montreal. Pessimistic, the psychiatrist Gilles Chamberland, Hospital of the Sacred Heart in Montreal, evokes a risk of recurrence, Luka Rocco Magnotta to be in his "proud of what he did."

Berlin, arrested the "porno-killers"








The arrest came almost by accident a man recognized him as I sat at a table in an Internet cafe in Berlin, read articles about him: the arrival of the German police Luka Magnotta , now dubbed the " porno -killer ", did not resist and was led away in handcuffs left. The Canadian authorities and Interpol were searching for him for days , since the courtyard of a building in Montreal had been found a bag containing a human torso : the macabre discovery was followed two parcels , one in each hand and one foot in the same body sent to the headquarters of some parties in Ottawa. The police investigation had brought to him, in Luka Rocco Magnotta, hard 29 year old actor with a particular fondness for movies of extreme violence in the past the young man was videotaped with an ice pick and a knife, and killed then dismembered a Chinese student with whom he had probably had an affair. Despite the fact that the killer had his face covered by a hood, the Canadian police had managed to find some items related to Magnotta and her apartment. The next step was a search that uncovered blood stains in the bedroom and other remains of the corpse, badly hidden. The arrest warrant was issued immediately, and a few hours later came the request forassistance of Interpol . The traces of the leading killers in Paris , where the young would have had very little care to remain anonymous, perhaps eager to remain under the spotlight: spotted in various parts of the French capital, sometimes in the company of a tall man , Magnotta - also known by the names of Eric Newman and Vladimnir Romanov - had left Paris to go, according to police, towards Romania , or toward Germany . And in the German capital has ended his escape: enter into a "cyber café" in the neighborhood of Neukölln to read his "deeds", has been recognized by the owner , who immediately called the police. Upon arrival of the agents, Magnotta has candidly admitted: " I am the man you seek . " The "porn-killer" is accused of premeditated murder and outrage of a corpse, and authorities expect that the outcome of the analysis of fingerprints to incriminate him.

A suicide bomber kills 22 people in Baghdad


On Monday the headquarters of a Shiite foundation in Baghdad was the target of a suicide attack against a backdrop of religious and political tensions. A suicide car bomber destroyed, Monday, the headquarters of a Shiite religious foundation in Baghdad, killing at least 22 dead and reviving fears of new sectarian tensions in a country plunged into a severe political crisis. This review is the heaviest for a single attack in Baghdad since the explosion of a car bomb on January 27 near a hospital, which had 31 deaths. The attack, which also wounded about sixty, has referred the administration in charge of managing Iraq's Shiite religious sites, about 11 am in the Bab al-Muazzam in central Baghdad. Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, parliament speaker and the Sunni Osama al-Noujaifi, condemned the attack and called for calm. The building was "totally destroyed", told the vice-director of the Foundation, Sheikh Sami al-Massoudi, stressing that "martyrs are buried under the ruins."


A conflict between Sunnis and Shiites

The institution referred was in conflict with the Sunni equivalent, over control of the Shiite shrine in Samarra Al-Askari, a predominantly Sunni city located 110 km north of Baghdad. This mausoleum was the target of a bombing on 22 February 2006, which triggered a sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites that has killed tens of thousands of deaths in subsequent years. The Shiites are the majority in Iraq. Monday's attack " occurred after the (Shiite Foundation) has made ​​the registration of the mausoleum five days ago, and we received many threats. Some media have created tensions on this matter , "said Sheikh Massoudi. This procedure is " legal and constitutional, and we are within our rights because he is a Shiite site , "he added. We do not blame anybody, but we call on Iraqis to bury the quarrel, because there is a plan to launch a civil war "faith-based. A spokesman for the Sunni Foundation, Faris al-Mehdaoui condemned the attack, described as " criminal and cowardly fanatic , "and the action of those who" want to return the country to years of violence . " He said that shortly after the attack, two shells had fallen on the seat of his institution in Baghdad. An official at the Interior Ministry said it was an explosion caused by a bomb. There were no casualties. At the scene of the attack, dozens of ambulances and rescue workers were busy to evacuate and search the rubble, while relatives gathered nearby. Mohamed, owner of a restaurant opposite the target site, crying, vilifying the political class: " Come see the homes that were destroyed on the heads of children " It was a 4X4 white, he (the bomber) was going too fast and struck the door of the foundation and exploded. Suddenly I saw two of my employees dead before me , "he added, shirtless and covered in blood with visible stitches on his wounds. Maliki and Allawi are competing to run the government and we are the victims , "he said in allusion to the prime minister and his rival Iyad Allawi.

Political crisis

Iraq is mired in six months in a severe political crisis between Nouri al-Maliki several Sunni and Kurdish leaders who criticize his authoritarianism. The tone has hardened in recent weeks and the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and the secular Iraqiya bloc, which includes Osama al-Noujaifi, called these days Nouri al-Maliki to resign. As the country continues to face serious security problems and poverty, the action of political institutions seems virtually paralyzed since December.

Pakistan accused of "illegal" attacks by U.S. drone

At least 16 people died today in the U.S. drone missiles in two separate actions in the north-western Pakistani province of North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan. According to a report by the private television channel Dawn , one of the devices destroyed a hideout of the Taliban in the area of Mir Ali, while another destroyed a vehicle that moved through the vicinity. These were the fourth and fifth run attacks by drones Americans in the last three days against suspected Taliban and objectives al Qaeda in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. A special division of the CIA in charge of the program of the drones Pakistan granted a truce for six weeks from 26 November, when NATO planes massacred 24 of its soldiers in border with Afghanistan in an incident that still has strained bilateral relations. But on January 11 returned to the attack were 10 attacks in the last two weeks and 22 in the course of this year, with a total jump of 151 insurgents dead and dozens wounded Washington says. Significantly, this escalation started shortly after the NATO Summit in Chicago (20 and 21 May), where contrary to expectations by the United States and the Atlantic alliance, announced that Pakistan would not reopen supply routes to troops occupiers Afghanistan have been blocked since the fateful day on November 26. Senior U.S. officials have indicated that Washington has pledged to suspend operations of drones on the South Asian nation and on the contrary, always suggested that it reserved the right to attack those who threatened. Although the supposed goals of the drones are the Taliban active in Pakistan-Afghan border, often innocent victims of their missiles, which creates a natural feeling in the population antiestadunidense. According to international analysts, such incidents undermine the possibilities of reconciliation between both countries, also because the U.S. refuses to make a public apology for the deaths of Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has dismissed as "illegal" attacks by U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles on Pakistani soil and has alleged that these actions represent a violation of the sovereignty of the Asian country. In the past three days, several attacks in the border area with Afghanistan have killed 27 people, according to sources from the intelligence services of Pakistan. Islamabad had already condemned in the past such campaigns because, as the Pakistani government, fed anti-Washington sentiment and can cause civilian casualties. The Pakistani government blocked the supply routes to Afghanistan after a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on. These corridors are key to the plan of withdrawal of troops on Afghan soil, due in 2014.