A total of nine people have been kidnapped in Colombia by victims of pyramid schemes trying to recoup their losses. Kidnappings rose in Colombia in the second half of 2008, as the pyramids collapsed.
Colombia’s second largest guerrilla army, the National Liberation Army (ELN), asked the rival Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to end hostilities between the two groups.
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe named armed forces chief Gen. Freddy Padilla as his new defense minister. Padilla was named by rights groups as a likely overseer of army-paramilitary collaboration.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at a ceremony marking the annexation of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War that the city would “forever” remain Israel’s capital.
The Bolivian Senate announced an impeachment trial for Chief Justice Dr. Eddy Walter Fernández over his refusal to hear a genocide case against ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
Venezuelan soldiers raided a property belonging to Guillermo Zuloaga, president of the opposition Globovisión network, amid a confrontation between the station and President Hugo Chávez.
An Argentine district attorney requested an international arrest warrant for a Colombian suspected of plotting the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Nearly a week after dozens of inmates walked out of a prison in Zacatecas, the central Mexican state’s top security official, Public Security Secretary Alejandro Rojas Chalico, resigned.
Police used tear gas as some 1,500 Muslims took to the streets of Athens in a protest prompted by reports that a police officer tore up a copy of the Koran while checking an immigrant’s ID papers.
Settlers immediately began rebuilding a small Jewish outpost in the West Bank hours after Israeli forces “dismantled” it in an evident gesture to President Obama.
Former vice president Dick Cheney defended the national security policies of the Bush administration in a speech before the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
The (disabled) Stinger missile in the supposed Bronx terror plot of course originated with the FBI infiltrator. We wonder how much more of the plot originated with the FBI infiltrator.
