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Friday, March 29, 2013

Okacha substitute Abou Zeid as leader of AQIM

Okacha is a right-handed Droukdel. They spent time together during 12 years in the northern region, before joining Okacha South. "
Algiers (Reuters)-residents of Algeria Djamel Abdelhamid Abou Zeid Okacha succeeded as the leader of Al Qaida linked Group AQIM in the Sahara, Algerian Ennahar reported TV, Sunday.

Abou Zeid was killed in army raid in northern Mali several of Chad last week, Reuters reported.

Okacha, who is also known as Yahia Abu El Hamam, joined AQIM in northern Mali in 2004, said one security source who knows the AQIM told Reuters.

"He was there at the time of the attack on a military barracks in Mauritania in 2005, and he also witnessed the murder of an American citizen in 2009," the source said, pointing out the u.s. aid worker Christopher Leggett.

Okacha (34) has a close relationship with the leader of AQIM Abdelmalek Droukdel because they are members of the Group Algiers, pointing at the militants who was born in the capital city of Algeria.

"Okacha is a right-handed Droukdel. They spent time together during 12 years in the northern region, before joining Okacha South, "said the security source told Reuters.

The priority is reset Okacha AQIM after the Group lost two of their main leader, Abou Zeid, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the source said.

Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.

The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.

France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.

The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.

Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.

Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.

Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)



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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Turkey supported the call leader of PKK

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The time has come for the army to move to steer beyond the border (Turkey)
Ankara (Reuters)-Turkey's Government supports the shout Kurdishtan Workers Party leader (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, to end fighting

"Abdullah Ocalan's call was a" positive step "," said Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday (21/3).

Erdogan, who was visiting the Netherlands, told reporters that "it is important to practice" in the field.

As soon as peace protests took place, the atmosphere in Turkey and the region will change, said the Prime Minister of Turkey.

If there are no more armed activities of members of the PKK, Turkey security forces will not conduct military operations, Erdogan said, as reported by Xinhua.

On Thursday morning, armed members of the organization called for Ocalan to leave the region, thereby encouraging Turkey's hope for the end of a three-decade insurgency of the Kurdish organization.

"The time has come for the army to move to steer beyond the border (Turkey)," said Ocalan, who is imprisoned, in the letter read by a member of Parliament from pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Pervin Buldan and Sureyya Onder Sirry during the Newroz spring festival in the city of Diyarbakir--the majority of the inhabitants are Kurds.

The PKK, which is inserted into the list of the terrorist organization by Turkey and several other countries, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to establish the State of ethnic groups in South-Eastern Turkey. Since then, as many as 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the group.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Former ETA leader France law of 20 years in prison

Paris (Reuters)-a former military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, known as "Txeroki" or "Cherokee" was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in France, on Wednesday, on charges of kidnapping and bomb-making.

Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, Miguel de was arrested in 2008 in the area of the Pyrenees mountains near the border with Spain and linked to the abduction of Spayol couples and a child in that area in the previous year, Reuters reports.

At the time, he was the most sought-after people in Spain for his role in the 2006 bomb attacks against Madrid airport that killed two people.

The Court declared the defendants guilty of France has about 500 kilograms of explosives as well as kidnapping the couple and their son were Spain, who was four years old.

Nine other defendants in the trial were sentenced to between eight and 20 years in prison.

Last month, the former leader of ETA's military expressed "regret" over the fall victim in the violence of the guerrilla group when they tried to set up an independent State in the territories of France and Spain.

Convey remorse that Txeroki as he appeared with nine other members of ETA suspects in courts of Paris.

A court in Spain 2011 convicting in absentia sentence of 375 years in prison Txeroki as 20 assassination attempt.

ETA, listed as a terrorist organization by the u.s. and the European Union, accused of being responsible for the deaths of more than 800 people over four decades of armed struggle to establish an independent State in the Basque region of Northern Spain and southern France.

On October 20, the armed separatist group, declares "permanent cessation of activity is right" after bomb attacks and shootings for more than 40 years.

The Declaration of the end of the separatist groups it highlights great lengths last in Western Europe who was accused of being responsible for the death of hundreds of people.

Madrid refused to conduct a dialogue with the group, and stressed that they must disperse themselves unilaterally without strings attached.

Spain and France are working closely to quell ETA, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people in their 42 years of guerrilla war to establish an independent State in the Basque areas of Northern Spain and southwestern France.

ETA, which some time ago commemorating half a century of their birth, was formed on July 31, 1959 by a group of left-wing nationalist students opposed to the right-wing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, which suppressed the Basque language.

Security forces estimate that the separatist group was weakened as a result of the arrest of the leaders of their high and has long been relatively inactive. (M014)



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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The UN Envoy-the Arab League discussed the crisis with Syria opposition leader

The U.N. Envoy for Syria-Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi. (tvm.com)

During that meeting, they reaffirmed support for the idea of the dialogue from the opposition.
Cairo (Reuters)-a U.N. Envoy for Syria-Arab League Lakhdar Brahimi, Thursday (10/2), met with leaders of coalition of Syria in exile Moaz al-Khatib in Cairo, where they discussed plans for the next stage of the Coalition, said Egypt's official news agency, MENA.

The meeting dealt with the efforts of al-Khatib not long ago for a dialogue with the Government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, who is the Minister of his outline Omran Al-Zoubi said in a response on Friday that the Government is ready for dialogue with the opposition without preconditions.

During that meeting, they reaffirmed support for the idea of the dialogue from the opposition. Such meetings between the Secretary-General of the Brahimi Arab League Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo, according to the Xinhua report--monitored Reuters, in Jakarta on Monday morning.

Syria conflict has become a major topic in high-level meeting of the organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was recently held in Egypt's capital, Cairo. On the side of the Conference, the President of Egypt Mohamed Moursi, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President of Turkey Abdullah Gul held a closed meeting on Wednesday about the matter.

A statement concluding a two-day OIC Summit supports the idea of the Quartet--Egypt, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia--to realize "true dialogue" between Syria and the opposition coalition Government in exile in order to put an end to a conflict that is raging now.

"We all agree on an increase in efforts to end the tragedy of the people of Syria," said the President of Egypt in a speech unveiling the Moursi. He reaffirmed support for the unity of the people and the territory of Syria.

The high-level meeting endorsed talks Brahimi at the regional level as well as internationally in order to resolve the crisis and its efforts to bring about peace in mediating negotiations between Syria's Government and the opposition.

While a senior officer of the u.s. military Sunday, said that during a discussion with the Government of President Barack Obama on how to help resolve the crisis in Syria, he gave support to the idea of arming Syria guerrillas but no specific plans have ever considered.

General Martin Dempsey, the leader of the Joint Chiefs of staff, said he thinks arming guerrillas might help end the crisis more quickly and avoid ambruknya all government agencies--which could make Syria so failed State.

"The failed State is defined by the ambruknya all of the institution," said Dempsey as reported United Kingdom, Reuters news agency. "In doing so, conceptually we think of a way to prevent that from happening. Conceptually, I agree. There is now very much a hassle that we haven't been able to accomplish. "

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Prosecutor of the ICC issued restraining order for the Mali leader guerrillas

Illustration-Touareg Guerrillas. (allafrica.com)

... The MNLA leader Bilal Ag Acherif, founder Iyad Ag Ghaly Ansar Dine, MUJAO leader Ould Cherif Attaher, who is also known as Cherif Tahar Ould and Alghabasse Ag Intalla.
Bamako (Reuters)-the Prosecutor of Mali on Friday said they had issued an international arrest warrant for the guerrilla group leaders who seized the northern part of the country and is now a target of military intervention led by France.

"The alleged Crimes to them, among others, terrorism, war crimes, penghasutan, crimes against State security and territorial integrity through war, the use of weapons illegally, looting and destruction of society, crime, race religion and international drug trafficking," they said in a statement read on government television.

The warrants target the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA), a group of Mali's plunging into chaos in January 2012 when launched a rebellion to establish an independent State for the Tuareg, the people of North Africa, which were traditionally nomads and have long complained of being marginalized by the
South. So reported the AFP-Afp, monitored here on Saturday.

They also target Al Qaeda groups in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the movement for unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and Ansar (defender of the faith) Dine, who hijacked the guerrillas to seize control of the MNLA North before arriving troops led France.

The list includes the MNLA leader Bilal Ag Acherif, founder Iyad Ag Ghaly Ansar Dine, MUJAO leader Ould Cherif Attaher, who is also known as Cherif Tahar Ould and Alghabasse Ag Intalla, a descendant of a prominent Tuareg family recently broke up with Ansar Dine to form the splinter group the Islamic movement of Azawad (MIA).

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Sacked ANC youth leader appeals

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23 January 2012 Last updated at 11:56 GMT Former Youth wing leader Julius Malema of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) takes part on October 27, 2011 in a demonstration to demand jobs and a greater share of South Africa's riches in Johannesburg on October 27, 2011. Julius Malema is a hugely divisive figure in South Africa after a series of controversial statements South Africa's suspended youth leader Julius Malema has appealed against the ruling party's decision to sack him.

He was suspended from the African National Congress (ANC) for five years for sowing division in the party.

Mr Malema's lawyers claim that the decision did not follow proper ANC procedure and want it overturned.

Once a close ally of President Jacob Zuma, Mr Malema is now accusing him of ignoring poor South Africans who voted him into power 2009.

Mr Malema's appeal before the party's Disciplinary Appeals Panel is largely based on the claim that the committee did not give him the opportunity to argue in mitigation of sentence at the end of the disciplinary process.

The ANC suspended him in November 2011 after he was found guilty of three of the charges against him - including bringing the party into disrepute by calling for regime change in democratic Botswana - a position which contravenes party and government policy.

Mr Malema, who once said he would kill for President Zuma is in a bitter contest to unseat him as head of the ANC and wants to replace him with deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg.

The ANC leader automatically becomes the party's candidate - and therefore strong favourite - in the country's presidential elections in 2014.



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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Greeks in talks over new leader

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8 November 2011 Last updated at 12:38 GMT Greek newspaper. Nov 7 2011 Greek politicians are under international pressure to resolve their differences Greece's political leaders are still locked in debate over the formation of a unity government they hope can save the country from imminent bankruptcy.

PM George Papandreou is to stand down once the government is formed but his replacement has not yet been named.

The new leadership will be tasked with ratifying a vital EU bailout package.

Greece is under huge international pressure to resolve its political crisis, in order to calm the global markets and protect the eurozone.

An agreement on an interim leader had been expected on Monday but by Tuesday morning, there was still no announcement from the negotiations between Mr Papandreou and opposition leader Antonis Samaras, of the New Democracy party.

An emergency cabinet session chaired by Mr Papandreou on Tuesday ended still without an announcement.

"Today is the last chance for the two main parties," daily newspaper Nea wrote in an editorial on Tuesday.

"They have to come up with a government strong enough to take the country out of the moving sand of political impasse that leaves us defenceless, at the mercy of the crisis. Time is up."

"A national unity government, right now," the daily newspaper Ethnos wrote on its front page, adding: "The country and the society cannot endure any more."

Greece must approve the EU bailout if it is to avoid going bankrupt by the end of the year. But the deal demands stringent austerity measures and spending cuts which have proved hugely unpopular with many Greeks.

Continue reading the main story image of Mark Lowen Mark Lowen BBC News, Athens

The waiting game continues in Greece as the name of the next prime minister remains unknown.

Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, is the front runner. He helped Greece move from drachma to euro, a process he would hope will not have to be reversed as the debt crisis worsens.

And though the political turmoil is not over, MPs have broadly welcomed the coalition deal. The new government will be faced with a deeply disillusioned population and a crisis which threatens the whole eurozone.

The concern is that Greece's long-term financial prospects remain bleak. But this country is taking things day-by-day for now. It is too hard, perhaps too dangerous, to peer too far into the future.

Mr Papandreou agreed to stand down on Sunday, after days of upheaval caused by his call - now revoked - for a referendum on accepting the bailout.

Since then, he had been trying to build a national unity government to replace his Pasok party administration. However, Mr Samaras was refusing to negotiate unless his rival resigned.

The first steps in forming the new government were finally announced after late-night talks on Sunday between the two men, hosted by President Karolos Papoulias.

A Greek government spokesman said a new administration would be sworn in and a confidence vote held within a week, if all went well.

Greece's new political roadmap envisages elections being held - possibly on 19 February - once the new government has approved an EU bailout package.

Government figures spent Monday locked in discussions on the framework of the interim authority and their roles within it.

Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), is widely seen as the frontrunner to become interim prime minister, while Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos - for a time considered to be a candidate - is expected to remain at the finance ministry.

The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says it is believed Mr Papademos expressed doubts that an interim administration could be effective until proposed elections in February.

It appears he wants to stay in power longer if chosen, he adds.

Our correspondent says there will be immense pressure on whoever takes over, while European leaders will be hoping that person will work with them in trying to contain the country's debt crisis and prevent it from spreading further across the eurozone.

Eurozone finance ministers held talks in Brussels on Monday, adding to the pressure on Greece to find an early solution to the political deadlock.

Mr Venizelos also attended the talks, telling reporters that the move towards a unity government was "proof of our commitment and of our national capacity to implement the programme and to reconstruct our country".

Views of the Greek people: "When there's an uprising, then things will change"

But eurozone finance ministers have asked for written assurances from Mr Papandreou and Mr Samaras that they are committed to passing the rescue package.

Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker said he was "quite confident that now the situation in Greece is developing in the right direction" but that it "should have been done months ago".

The EU says no more of the funds which have been promised to Greece will be released until the new bailout deal has been approved.

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The hard-fought bailout deal for Greece agreed by the EU last month gives the government 130bn euros (£111bn; $178bn) and imposes a 50% write-off on private holders of Greek debts, in return for deeply unpopular austerity measures.

But Mr Papandreou faced the wrath of fellow EU leaders when he announced that he would put the deal to the people of Greece in a referendum

Continue reading the main story Tuesday: Details of unity government and name of prime minister expected to be announcedWithin a week: Coalition sworn in and confidence vote held; the new coalition must win parliamentary approval for the EU bailout plan before calling early electionsMid-December: Greece would receive next tranche of bail-out money19 February: Possible date for early electionThe idea was dropped days later, but not without sparking a deeper financial crisis and triggering the political crisis which led to the confidence vote last Friday.

Mr Papandreou narrowly won that vote, but had been under continuing pressure to resign amid chaos over the debt crisis.

The possibility of Greece leaving the euro has also been raised by EU leaders, if Athens fails to resolve its political and financial problems.

There are fears that the crisis could spread to bigger eurozone countries like Italy.



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Saturday, October 29, 2011

SA opposition elects black leader

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27 October 2011 Last updated at 13:40 GMT Lindiwe Mazibuko Ms Mazibuko hopes to appeal to black youth South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has elected its first black parliamentary leader.

DA spokeswoman Lindiwe Mazibuko, 31, beat incumbent Athol Trollip, a white man, in the race for the job.

Analysts say her election shows the DA is trying to shed its image as a mainly-white party in a country where black people constitute the majority.

South Africa remains heavily polarised along racial lines, nearly 17 years after white minority rule ended.

Ms Mazibuko won the election with the backing of DA national leader Helen Zille, a white woman.

'Window-dressing'

She faced tough competition from Mr Trollip, a white political heavyweight who speaks several African languages and was seen in the party as a safe pair of hands, the BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg reports.

But the DA elected Ms Mazibuko because it knows it has to change its image if it is to meet its goal of unseating the governing African National Congress (ANC) party and forming a coalition government within a decade, our correspondent says.

The DA's critics dismiss Ms Mazibuko's election as window-dressing and say the party remains white-dominated.

Ms Mazibuko rejects the allegation.

She says that as a young black person, she has greater resonance with the youth who make up the vast majority of South Africa's unemployed.

The DA obtained 24% of the vote in the 2009 parliamentary elections.

Whites make up about 10% of South Africa's population.

The ANC has ruled South Africa since 1994, after spearheading a decades-long campaign to end apartheid.



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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Goodbyes begin for civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

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A horse drawn buggy carries the casket of the late reverend Fred Shuttlesworth while his widow Sephira walks along side down 29th Avenue from the historical Bethel Baptist church to begin ''legacy and memorial celebration'' of his life a in the Collegeville Community located in Birmingham, Alabama, October 22, 2011. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry

1 of 3. A horse drawn buggy carries the casket of the late reverend Fred Shuttlesworth while his widow Sephira walks along side down 29th Avenue from the historical Bethel Baptist church to begin ''legacy and memorial celebration'' of his life a in the Collegeville Community located in Birmingham, Alabama, October 22, 2011.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala | Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:34pm EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - Three days of public goodbyes for civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth began on Saturday at the Birmingham, Alabama church where his fiery sermons once inspired others to join the fight against segregation.

Shuttlesworth, who endured beatings, survived a bombing and was described by Martin Luther King Jr. as "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South," died on October 5 at age 89.

Spectators gathered early on Saturday outside the historic Bethel Baptist Church where Shuttlesworth served as pastor from 1953 to 1961, surviving the Christmas Day 1956 bombing of the parsonage.

An honor guard of police and firemen carried his casket from the church and loaded it onto an artillery wagon drawn by a white horse. Friends, family and dignitaries then lined up behind the wagon for a procession to the new Bethel sanctuary a block away.

"There are two things a great general deserves as he takes his last ride," said Washington Booker III, 62. "One is honor, and the other is dignity. The artillery carriage is an old symbol of both."

Booker, who said he was arrested as a teenager for marching against segregation, wore overalls for the procession to symbolize the humble working people who changed history.

Inside the new Bethel sanctuary, more than 250 people gathered for a private funeral. A public service was scheduled for Monday.

The mood was somber as the congregation listened to speakers describe the man they considered a hero in their city and beyond. Only the occasional laugh, applause or "Amen" broke through the quiet.

HOME WAS BOMBED

Julius Clark, a parishioner who had lived next door to Shuttlesworth, recalled when the pastor's home was bombed with 16 sticks of dynamite.

"I was blown out of my bed. I thought my pastor was dead. If he had not come out, there would have been blood on 29th Avenue. People came there angry," Clark said.

Shuttlesworth later was beaten by a mob with baseball bats, chains and brass knuckles as he tried to enroll his children in an all-white school, and was hospitalized after being sprayed by fire hoses during a demonstration against segregation.

Less widely known than King, with whom he helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Shuttlesworth often prodded his more contemplative counterpart to take action.

"He was sometimes slow in doing things. Too slow for me," Shuttlesworth said of King in an interview at age 85. "He'd meditate on things a lot and agonize over them. I think if things need doing, be about them."

U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Detroit, a lawyer who represented many of the protesters during the civil rights era, said: "Everyone has the impression it was one unified movement, but there were many strong-willed people with different opinions."

Shuttlesworth "was a spirit and a leader like no other," Conyers said. "He was the incredible force."

Birmingham Mayor William Bell said he would never have been able to grow up to become mayor without Shuttlesworth.

The deceased minister will lie in repose at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Sunday. That evening, a memorial service will be held at the 16th Street Baptist Church, where a Ku Klux Klan bombing killed four little girls in 1963. The public is invited to attend both events.

Shuttlesworth will be buried on Monday following a final public service.

(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Cynthia Johnston)



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Saturday, October 15, 2011

House Leader Tells Off-Color China Joke

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Who hasn't told a Charlie Chan broken English joke once or twice? But when a leading House member tells one in public, it can get quite a reaction.

That happened Wednesday night at Mt. Vernon where House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers was receiving an award from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States for "his extraordinary service to and leadership of his state and country."

The folksy Kentucky lawmaker opened with a tale about how people pronounce the home city of the Kentucky Derby, Louisville. "There's a lot of debate on how you pronounce, how locals pronounce the biggest city in Kentucky. Some say Louie-ville. Some say Louis-ville, some say Loy-ville, some say Loueee-ville," he said. [Read about a Congressional bill aimed at making China raise the value of its currency.]

Well one different version, Rogers told the crowd, came years ago from a Chinese ambassador to the United States who spoke broken English. As Rogers tells it, he had just visited China and when he returned he had dinner with the unnamed ambassador. During dinner, and in his broken English, the ambassador tried to impress staffers on how much he knew about the United States and Kentucky. [Read how the debt downgrade affected U.S.-China relations.]

"He had been to the Kentucky Derby and he said, 'you know, the Kentucky Derby, this and that, is located in a city and you need to know how to pronounce the name of.' He said, 'it's not Rouee-ville, it's Roo-i-ville."

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Imprisoned polygamists sect Leader Jeffs seeks new trial Texas

Published September 07, 2011| Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY - imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs filed a motion in writing to hand seeking a new trial in Texas after that he was convicted he and sentenced to imprisonment to life imprisonment on charges of sexual assault child.

Jeffs, who heads the base Utah fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, says that his religious freedoms have been raped by the courts - an argument, he also tried to do everything by defending himself during his trial.

"The constitutional protection for religious faith and the freedom of practice is not of full protection in the previous trial... is legal ground to decide in favour of the defendant allowed a new trial...". "the Chief religious 55, wrote in his motion.

Written on lined notebook paper in uneven calligraphy of Jeffs, a page request was dated August 23, about two weeks after a jury found guilty of sexually assaulting two girls between the ages of 12 and 15 FLDS, that he married in religious ceremonies.

Schleicher County Court Clerk Peggy Williams, said that a representative Jeffs filed the motion on Friday at the Palace of justice, Eldorado, Texas.

Lauren Bean, Deputy Director of communication for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, said the Office expected the jury decision to condemn Jeffs withstand any legal challenge.

"Just as each criminal attempts sentenced to overturn their convictions by pursuing the calls they are offered under Texas law, Warren Jeffs will have the opportunity to appeal," Bean said in a statement e-mailed to the Associated Press. "But a new trial is simply not warranted in this case."

Jeffs filing also seeks a rehearing on the Suppression of the evidence of a raid of 2008 on the FLDS ranch Zion desire in the Eldorado. Churches and family documents gathered in the raid are the basis for the case against Jeffs and other men of sect.

An appeal by Michael Emack, the first of men sect would be pursued by the authorities in Texas, has been confirmed by 3rd District Court of appeals the State last month. Emack, who is serving a seven year sentence for assaulting a 16-year-old daughter, argued that the raid was unconstitutional. A panel of three judges in Austin said authorities had sufficient grounds for probable cause.

Jeffs had taken place in the prison of Huntsville, Texas, immediately after his trial, but ill after days of fasting. He was taken to a hospital and said that in the coma medically induced before moved to Galveston.

Spokesman for the Department of Criminal Justice of the Texas Jason Clark said Jeffs remains in a hospital in Galveston prison and was listed in stable condition. Details were not provided.

Jeffs are not eligible for parole until he is 100.



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