United Nations- Condemns Massacre in Kenya, Asks for Justice for Those Responsible

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of 36 workers in Kenya by the Al-Shabaab Somali terrorist group and demanded that those responsible be brought to justice.

In a statement issued Tuesday by his spokesperson, the secretary-general denounced the “horrific” terrorist attack and expressed his “deep condolences to the families of the deceased and to the people and the Government of Kenya.”

Ban also reiterated the U.N.’s “full support” in aiding Kenya’s efforts “to fight terrorism and to provide security to the population consistent with international law and Kenya’s human rights obligations.”

The attack that took place Tuesday in a quarry in northeastern Kenya claimed the lives of 36 people shot in the head reportedly for being non-Muslims.

It occurred just a few kilometers from the site where Al-Shabaab killed 28 people in similar attack 10 days ago.

In the latest attack a heavily armed group of men burst into the enclosure and tried to identify Muslim workers.

Those who did not profess to being Muslim were shot in the head and some were beheaded, police sources said.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack through the Somali radio station “Al Andalus” in which it said, “In another successful operation carried out by the mujahideen, close to 40 Kenyan crusaders were killed after a unit of the Saleh Nabhan brigade attacked them at midnight.”

The Islamist extremist group justified the attack as a response “to the Kenyan occupation of Muslim lands” and warned that “it is part of a series of planned attacks” in this country.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- American school teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi

This image made from video released by the Abu Dhabi police department on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, shows a veiled suspect in the stabbing of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom as seen on security camera footage in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

 

 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An American school teacher was stabbed to death in a public restroom at a mall by a suspect wearing the traditional black robe, full-face veil and gloves commonly worn by local women throughout the Arab Gulf region, local police said Tuesday.
A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. The statement said the American woman was 37 years old. Her name has not been made public.
The victim had 11-year-old twins who are now in the custody of police until their father, who is the victim's ex-husband, arrives from abroad.
Col. Rashid Borshid, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the attacker remains at large. He said police are investigating possible motives and the gender of the attacker.
He said a fight broke out between the victim and the attacker in the women's restroom just before the stabbing, which took place on the upscale Reem Island in Abu Dhabi.
"The Abu Dhabi Police will spare no effort in order to unveil this heinous crime and bring the culprit to justice," he was quoted as saying in the statement.
The U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates said they are aware of the incident that took place Dec. 1 and are in contact with Emirati authorities. The embassy said it stands ready to offer all possible consular services.
The UAE is a Western-allied, seven-state federation that includes the glitzy commercial hub of Dubai and the oil-rich capital of Abu Dhabi. It is home to a sizable Western population where foreigners outnumber Emirati citizens.
The UAE prides itself on being a safe haven in the turbulent Middle East. It is part of the U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Iran: Mullahs’ regime acknowledges 3000 women in Tehran sleep in streets

Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:46

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In a shocking statistics, Rahmatollah Hafezi, an official of Tehran Municipality, acknowledged that there are 3000 women who sleep in the streets just in Tehran alone. According to Reza Jahangiri, another official of Tehran’s municipality, the average age of these women has declined to 17-18 years. He stated that the reason for the increase in the number of women who sleep in the streets is due to the spread of addiction.

Hafezi, Chair of the Health and Environment Commission in the city council, announced on Friday, November 21, that the number of tramps in Tehran is 15000. This regime official acknowledged that the clerical regime has not provided any shelter for these wretched women. This is at a time when the cold season has caused harsher conditions for the poor and in the past two weeks people in 14 provinces are living in difficult conditions due to the heavy snow and rain fall (Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the terrorist Qods Force – November 21).

Meanwhile, Mostafa Fayzi, head of Inspection Organization of Tehran Municipality, confirmed that this municipality uses children to collect the trash. Regime’s News Network TV quoted mullahs’ regime census center that 1.7 million children are working in Iran.

Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance, expressed her abhorrence regarding the wretched condition of women who are victims of the mullahs’ tyranny and said: “This shocking statistics which in reality is far less than the actual numbers, is just a glimpse at the catastrophic condition that the evil rule of the mullahs has imposed on the Iranian people and in particular the defenseless women and children.”

The Iranian women and children have to live such a horrible life while just one of the foundations that belong to the regime’s supreme leader has plundered 95 billion dollars of Iranian peoples’ wealth and while in the power struggle among regime’s officials, greater dimensions of the plunder of the national wealth by various ruling factions is disclosed every day.

Ms. Chitsaz emphasized that as long as the criminal regime of the mullahs reigns in Iran, the cycle of livelihood of Iranians and the condition of women will spin on suppression, poverty and gloom. The sole solution for the emancipation of the Iranian people, especially women and children, from the misery caused by the mullahs is the overthrow of this anti-human regime. The struggle to attain this national aspiration is the foremost duty of every Iranian. This is a struggle where the free women of Iran are its vanguards and the 1000 women members of PMOI in Camp Liberty act as their guide.

Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 23, 2014

Iran: Grief-stricken family members of 8 executed prisoners

Iran: A dozen women stabbed and injured by Basij in southern city - (Updated)

 

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File photo: Iranian regime agent attacks anti-government protester with knife.

NCRI - A number of young Iranian women, including at least five university students, have been stabbed in their hips with knives in past few days in the southern city of Jahrom.

According to information received from a source in Jahrom, about a dozen women have been victim of the violent attacks.

The women were attacked by at least four men riding on motorcycles.

The local officials have acknowledged that at least six women have been injured in this wave of attacks and they include five university students.

Sources in the city said the university students have identified one attacker who is affiliated with the paramilitary Basij Force.

Mohamad Beheshtifar was identified through recorded footage from a security camera near where he attacked one victim.

Mohamad Beheshtifar’s father is IRGC Colonel Jalil Beheshtifar who heads the Basij force in Ghotbabad district in Jahrom County, south of the city of Jahrom.

This criminal act followed recent protests by 300 students in Jahrom University where students protested against the suppressive measures in the university.

The attacks on university students are also taking place as university students across Iran are expected to take part in the annual protest on the occasion of Student Day on December 7 – known locally as 16 Azar – to demand political freedom in Iran.

 The Iranian regime officials in the city were forced to arrest the man after his identity had been revealed.

The attacker has said he had been motivated to attack after one cleric has said “killing of a Bad-Hejab (improperly veiled women) is permissible” and he has done this to act to “prevent vice”.

Earlier this month the Iranian regime’s parliament approved a bill officially putting the members of the Basij paramilitary force in charge of enforcing dress code in Iran and harassing and repressing women and youth in public under the pretext of “Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”.

The law which passed with a majority institutionalized the work of members of the Basij paramilitaries that often patrol streets to enforce dress code and other behavior prescribed under the clerical regime’s misogynist laws.

The new law bolsters the work of the Basij members who often patrol streets and stop cars to interrogate couples about their relationships, to the resentment of many Iranians.

Acid attacks began after the Iranian regime’s parliament began reviewing bills empowering the Basij paramilitaries

Egyptian Jihadists Claim Killing of U.S. Citizen Last August in Sinai

CAIRO – A jihadist group in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula claimed responsibility on Monday for killing U.S. oil expert William Henderson last August and posted copies of the victim’s passport and identity documents on its Twitter account.

The group formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis changed its name to Sinai Province in November after its leaders swore loyalty to the Islamic State terror group that controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.

“We declare our responsibility for the death of U.S. oil expert William Henderson in the Western Desert,” reads a tweet on the Sinai Province account, without elaborating any further.

Henderson, 58, an employee of the U.S. Apache Corporation, was killed last Aug. 6 under circumstances that have never been clarified.

Local media had previously referred to the incident as a criminal act, while the Egyptian authorities did not comment on the matter.

The jihadist group’s priority is to target Egyptian security forces. The only attack claimed by the group against foreigners to date was an attack on a bus of South Korean tourists in February.

Three days ago, Sinai Province claimed responsibility of killing five Egyptian soldiers, including a colonel of the Armed Forces, in Cairo and in the Qalyubia governorate of the Nile Delta region.

IS has urged its affiliates to kill citizens of the countries that have joined the U.S.-led alliance to fight the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Five Burned Bodies Found in Southern Mexico

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Five burned bodies were found over the weekend in Chilapa de Alvarez, a town in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, police chief Job Encarnacion Cuenca said.

Police received a call around 8:40 p.m. Saturday that an SUV was on fire about three kilometers (1.8 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez, Cuenca told Efe.

Officers found five bodies that had been set on fire with straw in the vehicle, the police chief said.

The bodies may be those of five businessmen who disappeared last week, security officials said.

Last Thursday, police found the headless bodies of 11 young men on the road between Chilapa de Alvarez and Ayahualulco, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said.

The bodies were dumped in the road after a shootout Wednesday night between rival gangs, Guerrero AG’s office spokesmen told Efe.

The Los Rojos and Los Ardillos gangs have been fighting for control of the illegal drug trade and other criminal activities in a section of Guerrero.

Two clandestine graves containing 13 bodies were found nearly a month ago in Chilapa de Alvarez.

On Sept. 26, 43 students were detained by police in Iguala, a city in Guerrero, and handed over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which allegedly killed and burned them to cover their tracks.

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez has been linked to the disappearance of the 43 education students.

Abarca was arrested on organized crime, kidnapping and murder charges.

The politician and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, were arrested by the Federal Police on Nov. 4 in Mexico City.

Pineda is being held in preventive detention so prosecutors can gather more evidence in the case.

The couple fled from their house on Sept. 30, four days after Iguala municipal police officers opened fire on students from a rural teachers college.

Six people died, 25 were wounded and 43 students disappeared in the incident.

The search for the missing students has turned up numerous clandestine graves in the state.