Efroze officials knew toxicity of Isotab, says report
The report said that owners of Efroze Pharmaceuticals knew on 29th September, 2011 that Isotab’s Batch No. J93 was faulty however; the company reportedly expressed negligence and continued supply of toxic medicine.
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Efroze Pharma’s Plant Manger Shakeel Ahmad had told the management regarding problem in the medicine on October 4 but they did not noticed, the report said.
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It is revealed in the report that Efroze Pharma management did not send Batch No. J93 for laboratory test.
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There are used six chemical for the preparation of Isiotab and if anti-malarial Paramethane is included, the medicine become toxic, it is said.
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It is recommended, in the report, that high official should registered murder case against the owners of Efroze Pharama as deaths occurred due to contaminated medicines.
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Paramedical staff protests in Gujranwala
February 8, 2012 by Trend PK
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GUJRANWALA: Civil Hospital’s paramedical staff staged a protest for permanent job and increase in salaries here on Wednesday.
The staff protested from old emergency to DCO office.
They demanded permanent jobs and increase in their salaries. TrendPK
Rahul Gandhi takes on Mayawati in UP polls
February 8, 2012 by Trend PK
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AYODHYA: Millions of voters went to the polls on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh, the first stage of an election that tests support for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s troubled government ahead of a nationwide vote in two years.
The election in Uttar Pradesh, a state that would be the world’s fifth most populous nation if independent, could have a bearing on who next governs India. It is a closely fought four-way race pitting Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the elite Gandhi dynasty, against Dalit leader Mayawati and two other parties.
Gandhi has staked his political reputation on reviving the Congress party in a state it has not ruled for 22 years.
A good result could breathe new life into Prime Minister Singh’s second term, which has been plagued by corruption and splits in the ruling coalition.
The son, grandson and great-grandson of former prime ministers, Rahul Gandhi is considered likely to take over as prime minister from Singh, but the timing is not clear. He said this week that becoming prime minister did not interest him for now.
A poor showing in Uttar Pradesh would leave the Congress party weaker than ever as the country gears up for a 2014 general election. Congress now holds 22 of 403 seats in the local legislature and the most optimistic forecasts would give it about 80.
‘OTHERS DID NOTHING’
Known as the queen of the lower castes for her power and lavish lifestyle, Chief Minister Mayawati has been criticised for building statues of herself and spending millions of rupees on diamond jewellery.
But supporters say she drove out violent mafias and made the state safe for former untouchable castes and other downtrodden groups after decades of abuse.
Uttar Pradesh, with 200 million people, is an unruly state that stretches southeast from New Delhi, divided along its length by the Ganga. To avoid violence, voting is staggered over seven days. Results from a total of five state elections are to be announced on March 6.
Elections in Uttar Pradesh have traditionally been decided by voters’ affiliation to the caste or religion they were born into. This year is no exception, with parties promising government jobs for the mostly poor Muslim and lower caste populations.
“Mayawati helped the poor with education, and distributed bicycles to students,” said 65-year-old wooden shoemaker Khairun Nisa, wearing a black traditional Muslim head-to-toe cloak. “She didn’t do as much as we hoped, but she did something, other governments did nothing.”
“We should give her one more chance,” she said after casting her vote on a rainy day at a primary school in Ayodhya. Turnout was thin in the chilly morning but was expected to pick up later.
The destruction of the Babri mosque by hardline Hindus at Ayodhya in 1992 sparked religious riots that killed some 2,000 people and brought the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, to national prominence.
This time, religious tensions have cooled and parties are trying to woo voters with promises of welfare programmes, food subsidies and affirmative action for government jobs.
Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party — which currently enjoys a majority in the state assembly — is expected to take a battering as she loses the support of higher castes who voted for her last time but feel she failed to deliver economic development.
Both BJP and Congress are expected to pick up some of the votes she loses.
A scandal over funds for a health programme and linked to the murder of four senior doctors has hurt Mayawati, and a purge of corrupt officials this year was seen as coming too late.
Results are notoriously hard to predict in Uttar Pradesh — where millions live in distant villages without electricity or clean water — but several opinion polls suggest the Congress party could win enough to form a government with the leftist Samajwadi Party, which could emerge as the largest party.
The Samajwadi Party has a strong presence in the national parliament, and a tie-up could allow the Congress party to reduce the influence of another volatile ally — the Trinamool — that has prevented Singh’s government from passing major economic reforms. AGENCIES
Rights group raps impunity for Pakistan’s spies
January 31, 2012 by Trend PK
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ISLAMABAD: US-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday condemned the impunity of Pakistan’s intelligence services and again called on the government to punish the killers of a prominent local journalist.
A government commission set up to investigate the murder of Saleem Shahzad, who wrote about links between Al-Qaeda and rogue elements in the military, wrapped up its work this month, saying it had failed to find his killers.
Shahzad vanished days after US troops found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, and his body was later found.
The journalist told HRW he had been threatened by intelligence agents.
Brad Adams, Asia director at HRW, said the failure to get to the bottom of what happened “illustrates the ability of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan?s criminal justice system.”
The rights organisation urged the Pakistani government to “redouble efforts to find the killers of the journalist Saleem Shahzad, following the failure of the judicial inquiry commission to identify those responsible”.
Adams said ISI abuses “will only stop if it is subject to the rule of law, civilian oversight, and public accountability.
“It is the government?s duty to insist on such accountability and the military?s duty to submit to it. The ISI needs to stop acting as a state within a state,” he added.
Pakistan remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with at least 10 killed in 2011, according to HRW.
The ISI denies allegations that it was involved in Shahzad’s murder. AGENCIES
No objection to prison if court desires: PM Gilani
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In an interview with CNN Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday said that he has no objection to being sent to prison if the Supreme Court desires in contempt of court case.
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He said that Pakistan s former leader Pervez Musharraf will “certainly” be arrested if he returns to Pakistan.
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“In fact there had been murder charges against him, and there had even been some very grave charges against him, and the Supreme Court had already given a verdict against him,” Gilani told CNN from the Global Economic Forum in Davos.
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“Certainly when he ll come back, he has to face those charges and certainly be arrested,” he said.
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Musharraf announced plans to return from exile in late January and to run in upcoming elections, but his party said he was reassessing those plans when Pakistan s elected government warned that if he returned, he faced arrest.
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Pakistan s upper house of Parliament passed a non-binding resolution earlier this week demanding Musharraf be arrested and tried for treason for unconstitutional acts during his regime, Sen. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan said.
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The charges against Musharraf are in connection with the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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A UN report in 2010 accused Musharraf s government of failing to protect Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan from her own exile to run for office.
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Musharraf, who has been living in London and Dubai since resigning in 2008, has denied the allegations, arguing that Bhutto had police protection and took unnecessary risks, but a Pakistani court still issued a warrant for his arrest.
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Jacqueline opts out of Raaz 3
Jacqueline Fernandez seems to have become too big for her own boots. The actress, who got her first big hit in the former of Murder 2 (courtesy the Bhatts), has now decided to walk out of Bhatts’ forthcoming film Raaz 3. This has obviously irked the Bhatt brothers no end.
It may be recalled that Jacqueline was signed along with Emraan Hashmi and Bipasha Basu for Raaz 3 to be directed by Vikram Bhatt. Shooting of the film was scheduled to commence this month and Jacqueline began developing cold feet over some of the sexy outfits designer for her character. The actress felt that she wouldn’t be comfortable wearing the said costume and hence expressed her desire to opt out of the project. Needless to say, producers Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt are shocked over this sudden change of mind on Jackie’s part.
In the recent past, Jacqueline even walked out of film like Krrish 3 refusing to lip-lock with her co-star Hrithik Roshan. Meanwhile, the buzz is that the Bhatts have signed Esha Gupta as a replacement for Raaz 3.
Analysis – Iran war buys West time but raises tension
January 18, 2012 by Trend PK
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LONDON: A backseat passenger on a motorcycle weaving through the crush of Tehran’s morning traffic reaches out and places a small magnetic device on the door of a silver-grey Peugeot 405.
When the directional bomb explodes seconds later, blasting through the sedan’s door and instantly killing nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a 32-year-old father of one, the motorcycle has already vanished, accelerating into the ranks of the Iranian capital’s rush hour.
The proficiency of the latest assassination to deplete Iran’s community of atom specialists suggests that violent actions by one or more of Iran’s adversaries form an increasingly active – and public – element in a multifaceted international drive to impede Iran’s nuclear programme.
Some old espionage hands voice respect for the expert landing of clandestine, deniable blows against a programme the West suspects is aimed at acquiring a nuclear bomb capability and Iran says is for civilian purposes.
“Ten out of 10. They hit the target and nobody got caught,” former U.S. intelligence officer Robert Ayers told Reuters of the January 11 killing. “What makes these things so impressive is they gather a lot of information and do their ‘on the ground’ homework, which can take months.”
Sidney Alford, a British explosives expert, says the hit was technically “professional. It worked and it worked very well.”
But whoever the apparently adept perpetrators were, the attack appears to form part of a quickening series of sabotage and assassinations that is growing less covert by the month.
And the more visible the cloak-and-dagger campaign grows, some analysts argue, the more acute its affront to national prestige and sovereignty, and the deeper the siege mentality widely held to motivate Iran’s drive for nuclear prowess.
PRESSURE, OR REGIME CHANGE?
Ahmadi-Roshan was the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist killed in the past two years; another scientist survived an explosion that wounded him and his wife.
Iran says scientists have also been kidnapped, a computer virus attacked its nuclear equipment, and a massive explosion at a military base, which Iran called an accident, killed more than a dozen officers including the head of the Revolutionary Guards missile programme.
The campaign, coinciding with a toughening of economic sanctions, may strain any discreet diplomatic feelers between Tehran and Washington, some Western analysts say.
Iran is in defiant mood.
“If Israel thinks they can prevent our studies with four terrorist attacks, it’s a very weak way of thinking… Everybody will learn that they can’t stop us with such actions,” said Iran parliament speaker Ali Larijani the day after the killing.
Ali Vaez and Charles D. Ferguson of the Federation of American Scientists wrote that “such acts of terrorism” are unlikely to significantly delay or deter Tehran’s nuclear work.
“The resulting climate of insecurity feeds ammunition to hardliners in Tehran demanding reprisals.”
Ahmadi-Roshan’s killing happened less than two weeks after the Obama administration signed into law an unprecedented tightening of sanctions aimed at Iranian oil exports.
To some, the evident effectiveness of tougher sanctions in getting the attention of Tehran’s leaders might obviate at least for the moment any need for a resort to clandestine methods.
In response to a new U.S. law targeting Iranian oil income Tehran threatened to choke the West’s supply of Gulf oil if its exports are hit. Washington warned that the U.S. navy was ready to open fire to prevent any blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of the world’s seaborne traded oil passes.
“In this process of ever-accelerating sanctions, we have arrived at a point where sanctions begin to blur into actual warfare,” wrote Iran expert and former U.S. official Gary Sick.
“If the sanctions succeed in their purpose of cutting off nearly all oil exports from Iran, that is the equivalent of a blockade of Iran’s oil ports, an act of war.”
Meanwhile, spectacular mishaps in Iran’s nuclear programme or military facilities appear to be multiplying, in tandem with a series of espionage-related incidents that have raised the diplomatic temperature, including an Iranian court’s sentencing of an Iranian-American man to death for spying and the apparent malfunctioning and crash in eastern Iran of a U.S. drone.
INDIGNANT
The attacks are making some in the West uncomfortable.
Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1981-97 and a former Swedish foreign minister, told Reuters: “”When it comes to the murder… What is the effectiveness of it?
“I think people will be indignant, and in fact not only in Iran. I think people everywhere are indignant.”
The result of more frequent and public attacks could be increased tension, analysts say, raising risks of a clash between U.S. and Iranian forces in the Gulf or of a unilateral Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, either one of which might result in temporary closure of the strategic waterway.
Iranian officials remember well that before Israel’s 1981 air strike on a nuclear reactor in Iraq, there were similar acts of sabotage and assassination attributed largely to Israel.
John Cochrane, a defence specialist at London-based Exclusive Analysis, told Reuters that the killings in Iran could be seen as effective “in the narrow sense” that they sought an erosion in Iran’s nuclear expertise.
“But clearly the big risk is that the Iranians are quick to point the finger at Israel or the U.S., so there is no particular restraint on their (Iranian) side from carrying out some particular asymmetric attack which has the risk of producing a spiral of violence.”
“Israel is the key player. It is the state that sees itself as under existential threat and has the capacity, just, to exercise a strike option.”
Metsa Rahimi of Janusian security consultants in London said the killings had failed to deter Iran’s nuclear programme since “the Iranian regime’s will is made of stronger stuff and most (of its leaders) would probably say that the death of a few scientists will not be decisive in this game.”
“WAR-FATIGUED”
The day after the assassination, Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani reiterated on a visit to Turkey that Iran wanted to restart negotiations with six world powers to resolve the nuclear row. The last talks collapsed a year ago.
Western countries have so far refused Iran’s proposal for more talks, arguing that it is a waste of time because Tehran will not discuss halting its uranium enrichment.
Speculation has lingered about a possible divergence of views between the United States and Israel on tactics. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the January 11 killing by saying the United States had nothing to do with any “violent acts inside Iran” and condemning such actions.
U.S. Iran expert Sick wrote: “The U.S. government had made no such intervention in previous assassination cases. If the perpetrator was, as widely suspected, Israel, this was a serious warning not to interfere in U.S. diplomatic efforts.”
He wrote that while the Israeli government distrusted the diplomatic track, the Obama administration had looked hard at the potential effects of a war with Iran and “has decided that a return to the negotiating track is essential.”
Asked where the Iran standoff was heading, Blix replied: “For the moment the decibel level is fairly high. But it is clear to me that the Obama administration, that cannot allow itself to be described as soft and that says that ‘all options are on the table’… that the Obama administration does not want war and bombing. That is quite clear.”
“The American public is clearly somewhat war-fatigued.”
Israel and its main allies are on common ground on much when it comes to Iran. Israel, the United States and Britain have all made clear that they view covert operations as a sensible alternative to conventional military action.
Last year’s Stuxnet computer worm, which damaged computers used in industrial machinery, was widely believed to have been a U.S.-Israeli attack to cripple Iranian nuclear centrifuges.
KILLINGS “UNACCEPTABLE”
In a speech at Reuters London offices in 2010, John Sawers, overseas espionage chief of U.S. ally Britain, made an unusually forthright comment on the topic, saying that stopping nuclear proliferation could not be done just by conventional diplomacy.
“We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons. The longer international efforts delay Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons technology, the more time we create for a political solution to be found.”
But it is not clear that the United States and its European allies believe subversion acts involving violence are prudent.
One former senior European intelligence strategist told Reuters killings were “an unacceptable tactic.”
The scars of the Iraq war, which was launched on information about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programmes that turned out to be false, run very deep.
A 2011 RAND Corporation study led by former U.S. diplomat James Dobbins said that U.S. military options apart from conventional air strikes included “show-of-force operations in the Persian Gulf, cyberwarfare, and a broad-based air campaign against political and military targets.”
But Dobbins’s report argues that while covert action might slow the Iranian nuclear programme it is unlikely to stop it and might have “the unintended consequence of fortifying the regime’s resolve in continuing the nuclear program.”
Israel does not comment directly on covert operations but it is suspected by some of viewing more favourably than its allies covert actions that risk or seek to inflict bloodshed.
Israel says it has no option but to take seriously appeals by Iranian leaders for Israel’s demise, calls that have prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to liken them to the Nazis.
NOT SHEDDING TEARS
And to those who object to assassination on moral grounds, Israel’s supporters such as Louis Ren Beres, Professor of International Law at Purdue University, Indiana, say such targeted killings may be justified in self-defence.
“As long as Iran proudly announces its literally genocidal intentions toward Israel, while simultaneously and illegally developing nuclear weapons and infrastructures, Jerusalem has no reasonable choice but to protect itself with the best means available,” he wrote.
Any Israeli pre-emptive measures, he wrote, would perhaps involve “the targeted killing of selected enemy scientists or military figures and substantially expanded cyber-warfare.”
Israel’s intelligence minister Dan Meridor distanced himself from the January 11 killing, saying “I don’t know this subject.”
But at other times Israeli officials have sometimes reacted to news of the periodic mishaps in Iran’s nuclear programme by issuing denials or comments that have bordered on the laconic.
“I don’t know who settled the score with the Iranian scientist, but I am definitely not shedding any tears,” Israel’s military spokesman Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai said on his Facebook page.
In November, days after a mysterious explosion was reported near the city of Isfahan, Meridor himself told Israeli Army Radio: “There are countries who impose economic sanctions and there are countries who act in other ways in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat.”
Exclusive Analysis’s John Cochrane noted that while there was no evidence of Israeli involvement “the Israelis don’t seem to mind giving the impression that they may have been.”
“COVERT WAR BEING WAGED”
Some Middle East watchers such as former British diplomat Carne Ross thinks the one option that has not been tried seriously is simply talking to Iran about regional security.
Israeli concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme were understandable but the Iranians “have a covert war being waged against them…tension is mounting and conflict would be disastrous for everybody, so we have to examine alternatives.”
“If they feel threatened the one way to address this is to talk about it with them,” he said.
But other experts say the mistrust between Iran and Washington is so great that the prospects of contacts are poor.
Economic sanctions may be far more effective than any covert operation, some analysts say.
Prices of staples are soaring, the rial currency has plummeted and inflation is rising rapidly. Working class Iranians are under economic pressure. With the parliamentary elections in March, the first nationwide vote since 2009, the Iranian clerical establishment is worried that Iranians might stay away from the ballot boxes over economic dissatisfaction.
The last Iranian election was followed by eight months of violent protests. The authorities successfully put the uprising down through force, but since then the Arab Spring has shown the vulnerability of governments in the region to public anger fuelled by economic hardship.
Despite the mounting tension, Iranian leaders have to stick to the country’s nuclear course, because otherwise they will risk losing their core hardline supporters, also essential to secure a high turnout in the March vote, analysts say.
“Iranians have always managed to cope with sanctions, but now with talks about oil embargo the authorities feel cornered. That is why they have increased the volume of harsh rhetoric,” said Iranian analyst Khosro Karami.
“They will do anything to prevent street unrest, which will jeopardise the clerical establishment’s existence.” AGENCIES
Esha Gupta signed opposite Emraan Hashmi for Jannat 2
Prachi Desai and Paoli Dam’s loss is Miss India International winner 2007, Esha Gupta’s gain. Esha Gupta’s looks and sex appeal have helped her get the lead role in Vishesh Films Jannat 2, a sequel to the 2008 super hit film Jannat.
The role in question is that of Emraan Hashmi’s wife in Jannat 2 and the films director Kunal Deshmukh wanted someone bold and sensual for the role. Prachi Desai was signed on for the role but the makers of the film apparently re-considered their decision to cast Prachi in the lead role, on the pretext that she was not as sensual as her role demanded her to be and Prachi too was not comfortable with her character and they parted ways amicably.
Mahesh Bhatt then recommended the Bengali actress Paoli Dam as she had the body language and the willingness to go all out for the film and met the requirements of the narrative. But Kunal seemed to be adamant on casting Esha right from the time he saw her as he felt she was perfect for the role. After a lot of discussions, Kunal managed to convince Mahesh Bhatt and co-producers Fox Star Studios.
Jannat 2 also stars Randeep Hooda and newcomer Imran Zahid. The music will be composed by Pritam. Esha will start shooting for the film in Delhi from October 7.
Yemen: Drone kills Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaqi
September 30, 2011 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
The defence ministry in Sanaa said he was killed along with several other suspected Al-Qaeda operatives on Friday, and tribal sources said he died in a strike on two vehicles in Marib province, an Al-Qaeda stronghold in eastern Yemen.
Awlaqi was charged in November in Yemen for alleged ties with Al-Qaeda and incitement to kill foreigners.
Washington had linked the imam and son of a former Yemeni government minister to a shooting rampage in November 2009 at a US army base and to a botched Christmas Day attack that year on a US airliner.
A Yemeni court, under mounting US pressure to fight Al-Qaeda after a foiled air cargo bomb plot in late October last year, had ordered his arrest by any means for his alleged Al-Qaeda links.
“Mr Awlaqi is a problem,” US President Barack Obama s counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said in January, 2010. “He s clearly a part of Al-Qaeda in (the) Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). He s not just a cleric.”
Brennan directly accused Awlaqi of having links with Major Nidal Hasan who is suspected of shooting dead 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas, and who is set to face trial in a military court on March 5, 2012.
Awlaqi may also have had contact with Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up the Christmas Day plane, Brennan said.
Obama has accused AQAP of arming and training Abdulmutallab and said the group was also responsible for last October s parcel bomb plot, which originated in Yemen.
Two parcels addressed to Jewish institutions in Chicago and containing the explosive PETN hidden in ink toner cartridges were found to have been freighted from Sanaa on commercial airlines.
In July, 2010, Washington placed Awlaqi on its list of terrorism supporters, freezing his financial assets and banning any transactions with him.
In a video tape posted by AQAP on jihadist websites in May last year Awlaqi, who is in his late 30s, urged Muslims serving in the US army to follow Hasan s example and also defended Abdulmutallab.
Awlaqi, in a later Internet posting in November, went a step further and called for the murder of any US citizen. “Do not consult anyone in killing Americans,” he said, the US monitoring group SITE Intelligence reported.
“Killing the devil does not need any fatwa (religious edict),” he added. “It s either us or you,” Awlaqi said, addressing Americans in the video.
In May last year, the United States said it was actively hunting Awlaqi. “He has an agenda just like Al-Qaeda to strike targets in Yemen, throughout the world including here in the United States,” the White House spokesman said.
But an Awlaqi relative has insisted the imam “is not a fighter of Al-Qaeda.” “He is just a preacher,” he said.
Awlaqi comes from a well-off family. His father is a former minister of agriculture and was the president of the university of Sanaa.
He was born in the US state of New Mexico in 1971, attended school in Yemen and graduated from Colorado State University in civil engineering. He also holds a master s degree in education leadership from San Diego State University.
He made a name for himself delivering sermons in English in mosques across the United States, where he also worked for a charity association founded by Yemeni cleric Abdul Majeed al-Zendani, whom the US government has identified as a “global terrorist.”
Awlaqi met two of the bombers on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon building in the United States on September 11, 2001, according to the 9/11 Commission Report.
Awlaqi was arrested in Yemen in 2006 for his role in kidnapping the son of a rich Yemeni family and demanding ransom money “to finance Al-Qaeda,” Yemeni security sources said.
Two years later he was set free on condition that he report to police daily, but he fled to the eastern Shabwa region.
Awlaqi went to ground after an air raid on December 24, 2009 struck a meeting of Al-Qaeda leaders in Wadi Rafadh, in Shabwa province, killing 34.
In May this year, a Yemeni tribal source said Awlaqi narrowly escaped a US drone attack three days after American commandos killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
The strike in Shabwa was the first reported US targeting of other key figures in the terror network after a commando raid killed bin Laden inside Pakistan on May 2.
Awlaqi was married with five children.
Woman claims shes vampire
A woman accused of having lured a teenage boy to a house where a group beat him to death says that she is a vampire.
“I know this is going to be crazy, but I believe that I’m a vampire. Part of a vampire and part of a werewolf,” 18-year-old Stephanie Pistey said. Apparently, Pistey confirmed to police that the five people including herself involved in the July murder of Jacob Hendershot, 16, near the panhandle city, were members of a vampire cult.
Pistey, who was arrested last Monday on charges of having fooled the boy into coming to the house where he was murdered, said in an interview that “Jacob didn’t deserve to die” and that she did not know that the others were going to beat him to death. At first, police thought that Hendershot was killed because Pistey had accused him of rape, but now the motives for the murder are not clear.
She denied drinking Hendershot’s blood, but she said that she had drunk the blood of her boyfriend.


