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Allegations that Gonzalez Calderoni was compromised are not new. Federal officials themselves eventually accused the formerly coveted officer of corruption and murder. Gonzalez Calderoni fled to the United States, where he denied the charges and in turn accused the Mexican government of framing him because he had information about higher-level corruption. He was gunned down in Texas in 2003, in an as yet unsolved killing...
...Gallardo went on to describe being questioned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which asked him about the 1985 murder of its agent Enrique Camarena. The drug kingpin denied that he had any involvement in that slaying, which had created a furor in Washington and led to pressure to round up top traffickers. "I was taken to the DEA," recalled the capo. "I greeted them and they wanted to talk. I only answered that I had no involvement in the Camarena case and I said, 'You said a madman would...
...weeks of conflict, he was believed to be using thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields against the advance of the Sri Lankan military. At the time of his death, 250 core LTTE members stood with him. Few will mourn the end of a man who ruthlessly ordered the murder of his opponents, demanded absolute fealty and pioneered the use of suicide bombings...
Both assertions are highly suspect. Although the German people as a group were not guilty of mass murder, neither were they innocent dupes throughout the process. And the idea that Hitler killed 6 million Jews to get at Christianity approaches the perverse. When Jewish groups complained, Benedict devoted a general audience to condemning anti-Semitism--although he revisited neither his church's nor his homeland's role in the Holocaust...
...Mumbai Alleged Gunman Fights Back Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving suspected gunman involved in November's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, pleaded not guilty to all charges against him, including murder and waging war, in a Mumbai court on May 6. After failing to convince the court that he was under 18 and should be tried as a minor, Qasab admitted he was 21 but maintained his innocence, claiming he had been tortured into confessing. Two others accused of helping plan the attacks also pleaded not guilty. More than 160 people died in the assault, including nine suspected...