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Campaign Needs Tweaking? John McCain’s Fundraiser Arrested for Meth Lab © Flickr/ Marc Nozell POLITICS

April 27, 2016 By administrator

1038735485Is the beleaguered US Senator’s reelection bid taking a page from the hit series Breaking Bad in a desperate attempt to appeal to young voters?

On Tuesday, 34-year-old Emily Pitha was arrested for narcotics distribution and manufacturing when Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies found an active meth lab and illicit drugs during a search of her north-central Phoenix home.

Pitha, a former staffer for retired Arizona Republican US Senator Jon Kyl, was serving as the chief fundraiser for Arizona Republican Senator John McCain’s 2016 reelection bid at the time of her arrest. The McCain campaign immediately released a statement saying Pitha was “immediately terminated upon our learning of her alleged involvement in narcotics distribution”

The sheriff’s office spokesperson said that they were alerted to criminal activity at the residence after a package was identified in transit from the Netherlands carrying over 250 grams of MDMA, street name ecstasy, a popular and illegal psychoactive drug. Pitha’s boyfriend, 36-year-old Christopher Hustrulid, signed for the package when it was delivered Tuesday afternoon, right before a search warrant was served.

At the residence, officers found LSD, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and counterfeit money along with an operating meth lab. Pitha and Hustrulid also face child-endangerment charges for exposing two children in the home to the drugs.

Detective Doug Matteson said that the two children, ages 5 and 10, “had easy access to all of (the) drugs and materials, even the bomb-making materials that were located in the back with the meth lab.” Methamphetamine production involves volatile elements also used in manufacturing explosives.

The news comes as McCain finds himself in the most competitive reelection campaign of his career. In the Republican Primary, the embattled US Senator faces an insurgent challenge from Tea Party Republican state senator Kelli Ward who has successfully tapped into the anti-establishment narrative of the 2016 election cycle.

In the potential general election match-up, polling shows McCain is tied with Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick at 45-45 with ten percent of voters remaining undecided.

McCain has represented Arizona as a US Senator for 29 years, first assuming office in January 1987. Prior to his career in politics, he suffered harrowing torture as a prisoner of war between 1967 to 1973, in the notorious Hanoi Hilton torture camp in Vietnam. 

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160427/1038735844/john-mccain-meth-scandal-republican.html#ixzz474Dld2S3

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, fundraiser, John McCain’s, Lab, Meth

Turkey detains 101 for alleged links to cleric Gulen

April 18, 2016 By administrator

1151cdecc-f6ec-4699-96bc-1791a716209eTurkey has detained scores of people for their alleged link to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen whom the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regards as an opponent.

Police said on Monday that 101 people have been detained so far in an ongoing operation in nine provinces, which has primarily been focused on Istanbul, Anadolu News Agency reported.

Prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 140 people under investigation centering on financial support for Gulen’s group.

Ankara has accused the cleric of heading a criminal group, what it calls the Fethullahist Terror Organization/Parallel State Structure (FeTO/PDY).

Gulen fled to the United States in 1999 after former secular authorities laid charges against him. Turkey has asked the US to extradite him but Washington has shown little interest in doing so.

Erdogan claims Gulen has built a network of supporters in Turkey’s police, media and judiciary and is conspiring to oust his government. Gulen denies the allegations.

As part of a crackdown on Gulen’s followers, police forces launched a raid on opposition media outlets linked to the cleric late last year.

Officers also arrested hundreds of people, believed to be sympathizers of Gulen, many of whom members of the police and the judiciary. Most recently, police shut down Zaman newspaper over ties with the cleric.

Erdogan’s government has been under fire for clamping down on journalists and sentencing them to long prison terms. Dozens of journalists are currently imprisoned in the country.

Erdogan and Gulen were allies until police and prosecutors, seen as sympathetic to the latter, opened a corruption investigation into Erdogan’s inner circle in 2013.

The investigation led to the resignation of the ministers of economy, interior, and urbanization. Gulen is also viewed to be behind the leaks that led to the probe.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, Gulen, Turkey

Brussels attack: 10 suspects arrested in 3 countries

March 25, 2016 By administrator

brussels.thumbTen more suspects have been arrested in three European countries as police step up efforts to prevent further attacks after the Brussels bombings.

Seven were detained in Brussels, two reportedly in Germany and one in Paris, BBC News reports.

An investigation is continuing into Tuesday’s bomb attacks, which killed 31 people in Brussels and have been linked to November’s Paris attacks.

At least two explosions were reported in the Schaerbeek suburb of Brussels as a police operation continues.

Media reports said a man had been “neutralised” during the operation, and an area near Meiser square was sealed off by heavily armed police and military vehicles.

Schaerbeek is one of the districts where arrests were carried out on Thursday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting Brussels, said that so-called Islamic State (IS) would be destroyed.

Standing alongside Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, he expressed condolences for the victims and solidarity with Belgium, declaring “Je suis Bruxellois”.

The Western alliance would continue its fight to destroy IS, Mr Kerry said.

“We will not be intimidated. We will not be deterred.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, attack, brussels, suspect

French Citizen Arrested in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Terror Attack

March 24, 2016 By administrator

In the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has announced the arrest of an individual in the “advanced stages” of a terror plot.

The arrest came after a police raid in Argenteuil, in the northern outskirts of Paris. The French national’s apprehension led authorities to conduct raids which they believe foiled the plot.

Cazeneuve said there were no links “at this stage” between this plot and the attacks in Paris and Brussels.

https://twitter.com/manseydoll/status/713121206749302788

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, attack, French Citizen, Planning, terror

Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab arrested in US

March 21, 2016 By administrator

1200x-1Report Pro-Erdogan SABAH: Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab has been arrested on U.S. charges on allegations that he and others engaged in hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions for the Iranian government or other entities as part of a scheme to evade sanctions against the country.

Zarrab, 33, was arrested in Miami on Saturday, March 19, on charges contained in a federal indictment in Manhattan against him and two Iranian citizens, Kamelia Jamshidy, 29, and Hossein Najafzadeh, 65, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. Zarrab was presented to court early on Monday, while Jamshidy and Najafzadeh remain at large.

Zarrab, Jamshidy and Najafzadeh are being accused of engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of transactions on behalf of the government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by U.S. sanctions, laundering the proceeds of those illegal transactions and defrauding several financial institutions by concealing the true nature of these transactions.

Several companies based in Turkey are also being accused in the indictment of facilitating the transactions.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, Iran, Turkey, us. Reza Zarrab

Terrorist State of Turkey: Three academics arrested on charges of terror propaganda

March 16, 2016 By administrator

ttt.thumbAn Istanbul court arrested three Turkish academics late March 15 for “making terrorist propaganda” when they read out a joint petition signed by more than 1,000 colleagues calling for an end to clashes between security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in January, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. 

The arrest of academics Esra Mungan, Muzaffer Kaya and Kıvanç Ersoy came after the three were detained for holding a press conference on March 10 at the Education and Science Workers’ Union’s (EĞİTİM-Sen) 6th Office in Istanbul, where they read out a declaration entitled “We won’t be part of this crime.”

The court’s verdict said the declaration was in support of the PKK and showed similarities to earlier remarks made by Bese Hozat, a PKK figure.

The academics denied the charges, with Kaya and Ersoy saying they had not heard of Hozat before.

Mungan is an academic at Boğaziçi University’s psychology department and Kaya lectures at Nişantaşı Univeristy. Ersoy lectures at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

The probe into the petition was opened after 1,128 academics from 89 different universities – including foreign scholars like Noam Chomsky, David Harvey and Immanuel Wallerstein – signed a declaration titled “We won’t be part of this crime.” Universities and prosecutor’s offices across the country subsequently opened probes into many of the 1,128 Turkish and foreign academics and intellectuals who fall within the Turkish state’s jurisdiction, arguing that the petition exceeded the limits of academic freedom. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and government officials have repeatedly criticized the academics who signed the petition, accusing them of supporting the PKK.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: academics, arrested, French police have arrested two people, Turkey

LIBERTY SQUARE Armenian activists arrested New

January 28, 2016 By administrator

arton121472-480x270Seven people were arrested in Liberty Square in Yerevan yesterday morning. The police dismantled a small tent camp that had been planted by an alliance of the radical opposition that seeks to overthrow the government of Armenia.

All these individuals were released a few hours later.

Small groups of members and sympathizers New Armenia remained in the square around the clock since the group began a campaign of anti-government protests in early December. The sit-in not sanctioned by city authorities continued even after the campaign fizzled due to the low participation in the protests.

In a statement, the Armenian police said the police confiscated one tent, table, heaters and other objects in Liberty Square protesters because drinking alcohol and thus disrupted the public order. The statement said one of those detained was searched by law enforcement authorities for theft while another, a minor wife, was questioned by police officers Tuesday on suspicion of theft.

“It was clear that the site around the clock has been turned into an area that has attracted individuals with anti-social inclinations”, the statement added.

New Armenia was quick to condemn the police action as a “provocation” of the government. One of its leaders, Andrias Ghukasian said that only three of those detained are activists of Armenia News. The other four are “provocateurs” government, which were sent to Liberty Square by police, he said.

“Their goal was to dismantle the tent and confiscate objects that have allowed citizens to continue the sit-in at night,” Ghukasian told journalists. He warned that the opposition movement will plant a new tent on the square if the police refused to return confiscated items.

Thursday, January 28, 2016,
Claire © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Activists, Armenian, arrested

TURKEY Sedat Laçiner denier arrested in Turkey

December 29, 2015 By administrator

arton120369-480x250Sedat Laciner former rector of the Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University was arrested Saturday in the province of Canakkale northwest of Turkey as part of an investigation into an armed organization to overthrow the government reported police sources .

According to sources, the police launched an operation in different locations in the province early in the morning and arrested Sedat Laciner and many other businessmen.

The suspects are alleged to be part of a conspiracy of a “parallel state” Fethullah Gulen led by an Islamic preacher in the US who runs a network of schools and commercial enterprises in Turkey and in the world.

Sedat Laçiner led ISRO – USAK or in Turkish – which is nothing but a nationalist think-tank and has published extensively in the publication of the organization the “Journal of Turkish Weekly” that reject Armenian genocide claims, which he described as “so-called genocide.”

Tuesday, December 29, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, Sedat Laçiner, Turkey

Morocco arrests two Turkish ISIL Terrorist suspects,

November 29, 2015 By administrator

n_91821_1Moroccan police have arrested three people on suspicion of hacking telecommunications equipment, including two Turkish nationals who are suspected of having ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Reuters has reported, amid fresh police raids targeting ISIL suspects in Turkey.

Authorities in Morocco said in a statement on Nov. 27 that they uncovered a series of terrorist cells used by ISIL in recent months, including three since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks. The latest group of terrorist cells had been active in the eastern city of Oujda, they added.

“The two Turkish nationals were involved in hacking telephone communications of a Moroccan operator, using developed technical equipment,” the statement said.

The investigation showed that the two Turks were ISIL supporters, with one of them having stayed in a camp in Syria’s Hama province, where he was trained in handling weapons and took part in battles against the Syrian army, it added.

The statement said the two Turks had contacts with operational leaders of ISIL as they were seeking logistical support, adding that the two were the latest foreign nationals, including Europeans Morocco arrested on terrorism charges.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, ISIL, Morocco, Turkish

Terrorist State of Turkey arrested teen for ‘insulting’ dictator Erdogan

October 22, 2015 By administrator

193072A Turkish teenager has been arrested by police forces for allegedly “insulting” the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports say.

The Cihan News Agency said on Thursday that the teenager identified as U. E. was detained outside an Internet Café on Wednesday night.

The 15-year-old is expected to be brought before court later in the day, which will determine whether he will be charged or fined.

Details regarding the accusations brought against him have not been released.

It is illegal to insult the country’s president under Turkish law, and those found guilty of doing so are at risk of facing up to four years in prison. The law has led to the arrest and prosecution of a number of journalists, activists, intellectuals, students and even celebrities.

Last month, a 16-year-old Turkish youth was handed a suspended 11-month jail sentence for calling Erdogan a thief during a student protest last December.

Earlier, Bülent Keneş, the editor-in-chief of the Turkish English-language newspaper Today’s Zaman, was handed down a suspended jail term of 21 months by a court in the capital, Ankara, for insulting Erdogan in a message posted on Twitter.

Tolga Tanış, a US-based journalist, was also detained in June over suspicions that he insulted Erdogan in a book he had authored.

Rights groups and free speech advocates have criticized the government for suing people over expressing their opinions, describing it as a means of aggressive muzzling of dissent in Turkey.

Erdogan, a former premier who ascended to presidency last year, has faced growing popular dissatisfaction over what critics say is his growing autocratic manner.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: arrested, Erdogan, Teen, Turkey

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