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Edgar Valdez Villarreal, is a former Texas high school football player who allegedly jumped into the world of Mexican drug cartels and gradually rose through the ranks was arrested Tuesday and he became the third suspected drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months.
–The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance
Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged U.S. taxpayers on Sunday to stop paying for outside security contractors in Afghanistan that he said were in contact with “Mafia-like groups” and possibly with insurgents.
Karzai, who last week decreed that foreign security contractors must disband in the next four months, said on ABC’s “This Week” program that these workers are obstructing the development of Afghan police and security forces.
Israel on Saturday denounced Iran’s fueling up of its first nuclear power plant as “totally unacceptable” and called for more international pressure to force Tehran to cease any uranium enrichment.
Israel, widely assumed to be the only Middle East country to have nuclear weapons, has said a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to its existence, raising concerns Israel could attack Iran’s nuclear sites.
Here is some of the top stories following President Obama as he navigates his first year in office
President Obama plans to appoint Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, a close adviser and retired general to be his special envoy to Sudan as the administration ratchets up pressure against the government in Khartoum….
In an exclusive interview with CNN International, actor George Clooney discussed the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and reflected on his recent visit to the Darfur/Chad border, giving his take on what needs to be done about the crisis there.
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