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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Iraq Shiite blood stained


Iraq has become to be shaken by a wave of bombings that killed at least 107 dead and two hundred wounded. A total of 18 cities suffered explosions and shootings against positions of the security forces and government offices in a carnage unprecedented in the last two years.The violence, coinciding with the escalation of conflict in neighboring Syria, fears both Iraqi politicians and analysts that Al Qaeda tries to exploit the pull to restart the sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shiites, and lost ground in the war effort that preceded the withdrawal of U.S. troops last year. The largest number of victims occurred in Taji, a town about twenty miles north of Baghdad, where explosive devices exploded six, including a car bomb in a residential area. When police arrived, they reached seventh full blast, as the detective story picked up by news agencies. At least 14 of the 42 dead were officers and a dozen of the fifty wounded. In the capital, 21 people were killed and 73 injured when two separate car bombs explode in a government building in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, and the mostly Shiite neighborhood also Huseiniyah. There were also attacks in Mosul, Kirkuk (up five car bombs), Khan Bani Saad, Udhaim, Tuz Khurmato, Smarra, Dujail and Diwaniya. In Diyala province, several checkpoints were attacked clean shot. These attacks, and on Sunday left 20 dead and 80 wounded in three cities south of Baghdad, kill the two weeks of relative calm that preceded the start of Ramadan on Saturday. Although last night no one had claimed responsibility, the goals and execution are the usual Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda. And last weekend, the leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq announced a plan to resume their former strongholds in the west. "We are beginning a new phase of our struggle for a transaction have called Breaking the Walls, and we remind you that your priority is to free Muslim prisoners," said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a recording broadcast on Saturday on several jihadist websites. In his first public statement since being elected head of the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda in May 2010, Al Baghdadi called on tribal leaders to send men to fight alongside him. "Al Qaeda is trying to send a message that is still strong and can choose when and where to attack," said after the attacks Hakim al Zamili, member of the security and defense of the Iraqi parliament, was quoted as saying Associated Press. deputy belonging to the Shiite majority, expressed concern about the inability of Iraqi security forces to prevent attacks and expressed his fear that the terrorist group has infiltrated these bodies.  Previous offensives failed Al Qaeda plunge Iraq into civil war largely because the political and religious leaders were able to restrain the Shiite militias and prevent retaliation, unlike what happened between 2006 and 2008. However, the government led by Shiites supported by the Kurds, fears that the rebel advance Syrian (mainly Sunni) can incite the Iraqi Sunni community, which has been taken down from the ruling coalition due to differences in the distribution of power.As the minority Alawite in Syria, Sunnis in Iraq were the backbone of Saddam Hussein. In fact, Iraq denounced the proposal that the foreign ministers of the Arab League did yesterday to President Bashar al-Assad to abandon the country in exchange for shelter for himself and his family. "That is the sole responsibility of the Syrian people and the rest should not interfere," said Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the Baghdad government, quoted by Reuters. In the earlier days, the authorities asked to return home to tens of thousands of Iraqis who remained in Syria, where they took refuge in violence after the U.S. invasion. They also announced they would not allow passage of Syrian refugees, a move that eventually reconsidered.

The most serious attacks of 2012


January 5 . - A wave of attacks kills nearly 60 Shiite worshipers in different parts of Iraq. The bloodiest attack, 36 killed, was aimed at a group of pilgrims heading to Karbala Shia shrine.
February 23 . - New series of attacks caused 41 deaths in different parts of Iraq. The terrorist network Al Qaeda claimed authorship.
March 20 . - New Wave of bombings kills at least 42 dead in different parts of Iraq, coinciding with the ninth anniversary of the invasion.
April 9 . - At least 42 killed in a series of attacks, mostly against security services in different areas of Iraq.
June 13 . - New series of attacks claiming the lives of 67 people, mostly Shiite pilgrims.
July 22 . - Nearly 30 killed in multiple attacks in several Iraqi cities, two of them into markets in southern Baghdad.
July 23 . - At least 71 dead and nearly 300 injured in several car bombs and explosive devices in Baghdad and other towns north of the capital.

Three days after the massacre Suspected gunman cinema for the first time in court


The suspected gunman of Aurora has been silent on his first appearance in court. The 24-year-old who allegedly killed in a "Batman" movie premiere twelve people threatens the death penalty. James Holmes was at the hearing in Centennial on Monday to speak his public defender. The charges will be filed next Monday, according to Judge William Sylvester. Holmes would remain in custody and must not have contact with witnesses and victims. The prosecution examined to seek the death penalty. This may be imposed in the State of Colorado in particularly severe actions. Holmes is on Friday killed 12 people in Aurora near Denver and have violated 58th. The public was given the alleged gunman in the massacre, the first time to face all the major American television networks reported live from the courtroom.Holmes appeared with his hair dyed bright red and orange to burgundy red jail clothes. He was listless and drowsy and apparently had great difficulty keeping their eyes open and head straight. When getting up his public defender had to support him. He is, according to the Attorney Carol Chambers in solitary confinement. Chambers said after the hearing, it could take up to one year, until the process would be opened. There is a tremendous amount of evidence that would be considered the same as in every other case. Is also not excluded the application of the death penalty. Whether it come to depended on the consent of the victims' families. It was a decision that "affecting many years on it." The death penalty must be requested within 60 days after the indictment. It is imposed in the state are extremely rare.

Obama visit to the victims of the massacre of the Colorado Film


US President Barack Obama yesterday visited the town of Aurora, Colorado, to meet with the wounded and the families of the 12 people who died in the killing of a film that was projected in The Dark Knight: The Legend Reborn , last Friday morning. In the last hours have emerged new details of the life and personality of James Holmes, 24 , arrested at the scene of the crime and who is not cooperating with police.A shooting club, for example, we recently refused access on the grounds that his application and his conduct were strange. After meeting with the wounded at the Medical Center of the University of Colorado, Obama addressed the press to explain how he had shared with them "hugs and some tears" and how it was transmitted, on condition of U.S. president, the support of the entire nation. "I'm here more as a father and husband as head of state," he said. "Today there is much talk of the supposed murderer, but be assured that tomorrow will be remembered only the good people who were victims," ​​he told the citizens of Aurora, gathered for a vigil to honor victims of the massacre. The President recalled the story of two victims in the shooting, Allie Young, 19, whom a bullet hit him in the neck, and her friend Stephanie Davis, 21, who put his fingers into the wound to stop the bleeding, while with his free hand called the police with the phone. "Young as they represent the best of this country," he said. Obama was scheduled to fly on Sunday to the U.S. west coast to participate in various campaign events, but decided to alter his plans and divert the presidential plane to Colorado to meet with victims and relatives of the deceased. "These tragic events have altered the tone and the background of the campaign, " he said aboard Air Force One Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki. To go to Aurora, the president canceled a rally in Portland, scheduled for Tuesday. The president has also decided not to deliver its electoral advertisements in the next 48 hours. Asked if Obama had planned to talk about gun ownership in connection with the slaughter on Friday, another spokesman, Jay Carney, said Obama is in favor of "not allowing weapons falling into the hands of those who should not have them ". In Aurora, the president also has met with the governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, and the police chief who coordinated the arrest of Holmes and the search of his house, Dan Oates. On Saturday, with the help of the FBI, Aurora police managed to disable more than 80 explosive devices with which Holmes had plagued her apartment, ready to explode if someone opened the door. On June 25,the suspect asked to enroll in the gun club Lead Valley Range of the town of Byers, Colorado. According to AP, the owner, Glenn Rotkovich, the application and the OGM Holmes seemed "suspicious" and "strange", so he decided to deny access.

Storms in China: half a million evacuees


95 dead half a million evacuees and more than six million affected. It is the balance of the storm lashing various parts of China for four days. The torrential rains also affected the capital, Beijing (as not happened for six decades) and the neighboring province of Hebei, where rescuers are still working to find the missing and care for those affected by inunciones once refer the rains. "I've lost everything," says one man. "I have nothing, no food, no water, no where to be." The area of ​​northern China are not accustomed to heavy rainfall, more frequent in the south. In all seventeen of the 30 administrative divisions of China have suffered damage to infrastructure and telecommunications, some thirty thousand houses have collapsed and have been damaged twice.

Iraq orders the opening of its borders to refugees Syrian


Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered border officials of your country that allow the entry of Syrian refugees, as reported by Reuters General Issam Jassim, led by Waleed Al fornterizo step. Jassem from Al Waleed said, in the south, that the measure applies to all border crossings with Syria. "The order came 30 minutes ago," he explained. Al-Waleed is one of the three major crossings of the border, located 560 kilometers west of Baghdad. It is up to the Syrian government forces and has been the main crossing point for Iraqis fleeing violence in Syria, especially since Damascus. Syrian rebels have announced they already control the movement of Albu Kamal Qaim, commercial crossing point, located in the north of the Syrian-Iraqi border. However, it was closed by the Iraqi army for fear of a spillover of violence. Moreover, the crossing of Rabia, near the Iraqi city of Mosul (north), was briefly held by the rebels, but now under the command of the Syrian government forces. There is another crossing in Iraqi Kurdistan near the Turkish border. Thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled their country after the U.S. invasion have returned because of violence in Syria, but they face conflicts on religious grounds in their country. At least 89 people were killed Monday in separate attacks against Muslim targets Shiites, mostly.

Series of attacks more than 100 people died in attacks in Iraq


Iraq on Monday have been coated with an apparently coordinated series of attacks. At least 107 people were killed according to the authorities of the afternoon in bombings and attacks in more than a dozen cities. The aim was primarily the security forces. In the capital, Baghdad, bombs exploded in the Shiite district including Sadr City. At least 15 soldiers were killed when gunmen in the early morning attacked a military base about 90 kilometers north of the capital. It was the bloodiest day in Iraq for more than two years. First, no one confessed to the attacks. In the Iraqi security forces were suspected radical Islamists as the perpetrator. The leader of the Iraqi arm of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had announced a few days ago a new offensive. "Al Qaeda tries to send out the message that there is still strong and able to choose times and locations for attacks," said the Shiite parliamentarian Hakim al Samili. The inability to collect intelligence about terrorist plans or to stop them, have shown how the government is helpless when it proposed to protect the people, said al Samili, which belongs to the security and defense committee. Observers suspect that Al Qaeda wants to exacerbate the tensions between the ethnic groups to destabilize the country. The UN special envoy for Iraq, Martin Kobler, sees the country falling apart, despite the series of attacks. But there were "centrifugal tendencies", and it is not impossible that Sunni provinces declared autonomy for Kurdistan, after the example, he said in Berlin on Monday. Kobler criticized that will remain difficult security situation of the local actors continue to be used for "grave political struggle" along ethnic and religious lines. The violence in Iraq had declined in comparison to the bloody years 2006 and 2007, but has increased in recent months.

Afghanistan: Mullah arrested for rape


An Afghan priest was arrested and allegedly raped a girl in northern Afghanistan on the second day of Ramadan, officials said today as the security services. The mullah, who according to the announcement by the Interior Ministry is maoulavi Sagent Ahmad, was arrested Saturday after the townspeople Aimpak in Samangan province, was caught with 10 year girl. Police said that the girl was treated at a hospital, while the Afghan Independent Human Rights (AIHRC) called the incident "awesome." "Mullah used to go home for the girl to teach about Islam. Mullah raping the girl after evening prayers Saturday, "said a local police officer who wanted to remain anonymous. The AIHRC noted that he has noticed a sharp increase in violence against women in the last four months. So far this year recorded nearly 1,000 cases of violence against women, and last year recorded throughout the year about 1,300. Nearly 60 women have been killed in Afghanistan over the past four months. Moreover Saturday a father shot and killed two teenage daughters, 15 and 16 years in Naant Ali's Helmand province because they had left the house with a boy, as announced by the local police commander Omar Tzane Chakmal. "The girls had gone from home four days ago with a boy who worked as an interpreter for foreign soldiers in Helmand. The police found them Saturday and brought back to their families, "noted Chakmal, adding that the boy managed to escape. Then their father killed their saying that this "crime of honor". On Tuesday, the commander of an Afghan prison was sentenced to 16 years in prison three years ago because he had raped a teenager in eastern Logar province.

26 year old British woman was made to look like the Britney Spears!

The Cody Hayes was determined to do everything to make the dream he had since childhood, ie look like his idol, the Britney Spears. She therefore , 77,183 euros for gender reassignment surgery for breast plastic and dozens of other interventions in order to get closer to fantasy. It all started when at age 12 years, the young, then Cody and now, Kara, she appeared in a dance to school wearing a red overalls form similar to that of the singer in video clip of the song "Oops I didn't again». When she turned 15, the Near-diagnosed and medically-that now suffers from discomfort racial identity. So, his parents, unable to reverse the situation, allowed him to begin taking female hormones, to dress as a woman and changed her name to Kara. Nevertheless, Cody did not feel complete yet. With the coming of age, made ​​a painful sex change operation and changed some features of his face to resemble the idol.The "psychosis" (or it) was so great that even when the famous singer shaved her head ... the Kara followed. Having now spent over 77,110 euros for surgery, the 26chroni today, Kara Hayes, managed to look like quite the Britney ... so that even the paparazzi began to confuse, in the photographing her every move.

Record revenues for the new "Batman"

The movie "The Dark Knight Rises" a hero Batman, which embodies again the Christian Bale, was able to record collections made ​​in the American box office for movie does not present the technology 3D. In "The Dark Knight Rises", which is the last film of the trilogy of Christopher Nolan, has revenues of $ 160 million in U.S. box office its first weekend of viewing. These recoveries are the best "open" a film that is not 3D, and the third best debut film in the U.S. and Canada. The two 3D movies with the best box office debuts in the U.S. and Canada are "The Avengers "(207 million dollars) and" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 "(169 million U.S. dollars). The new record wins the film "The Dark Knight Rises" is a phenomenon the world of cinema, given the tragedy in Denver that marked the coming of the movies. In the second position of the U.S. box office, behind "The Dark Knight Rises", is the film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", while in third place in "The Amazing Spider-Man". No4 in the box office dropped the film "Ted" while the top 5 completes the animated film "Brave".