Headless bodies found, Jersey City man, Yusuf Ibrahim, arrested
Cops say Ibrahim shot, beheaded and buried the 2 men, roommates, behind a home in Buena Vista, New Jersey. He buried their severed heads and hands at a different location.
Yusuf Ibrahim had been driving a Mercedes Benz owned by one of the dead men.
Police say they've nabbed a New Jersey man who fatally shot two men before beheading them, chopping off their hands and burying their remains in the woods of south Jersey.
Cops arrested Yusuf Ibrahim, 28, of Jersey City on Sunday after detectives found the bodies of the two men, aged 25 and 27, behind a home in Buena Vista Township, according to a press release. Their severed heads and hands were discovered at a separate burial site.
Muslim Brotherhood's El Erian: 'Egypt will not prosecute cleric'
Egypt's ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, will not prosecute a cleric for issuing fatwas against liberal politicians in the country, one of its leaders has confirmed.
Some had feared Egypt could follow Tunisia, where a prominent secular politician was assassinated last week.
Speaking to the BBC's Aleem Maqbool, the vice president of the party's political wing, Essam El Erian, also responded to calls from opposition protestors for the president to step down, after accusations he betrayed the country following the revolution.
CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that set off deadly riots last year, but the ruling can be appealed and, based on precedent, may not be enforced.
Judge Hassouna Tawfiq described the video as “offensive to Islam” and to the Prophet Muhammad. The first protests against the film erupted in Cairo last September, before spreading to more than 20 countries, leaving more than 50 people dead.
The 14-minute video, said to be a trailer for a movie called “Innocence of Muslims,” portrays Muhammad as a religious fraud, a womanizer and a pedophile. It was produced in the United States by an Egyptian-born Christian who is now a United States citizen.
A spokeswoman for YouTube’s parent company, Google, said in a statement that Google had “received nothing from the judge or government related to this matter.”
Egypt promises to protects liberals' homes after death threat
A man reads a local newspaper, displaying a picture of assassinated prominent Tunisian opposition politician Chokri Belaid, at a kiosk in Tunis February 7, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi
By Alexander Dziadosz
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police deployed security at the homes of prominent liberal opponents of the government on Thursday after a hardline cleric called for their deaths and a secular politician was gunned down in Tunisia.
The killing on Wednesday of Chokri Belaid, an outspoken critic of Tunisia's Islamist-led government, sent tremors through Egypt.
In both countries where "Arab Spring" uprisings swept away veteran authoritarian rulers, two years of political turmoil have exposed divisions between Islamists and their secular opponents.
On the same day, Egyptian liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, sounded the alarm over a hardline cleric's call for his death.
The cleric, Mahmoud Shaaban, appeared on a religious television channel and said leaders of Egypt's main opposition coalition would get a death sentence under sharia (Islamic law).
Egypt protester who died of wounds was tortured - security sources
Relatives of activists Mohamed al-Gendi and Amr Saad, both of whom opposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, pray in front of their coffins during their funeral at Omar Makram mosque in Cairo February 4, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
By Marwa Awad
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian activist who died on Monday was beaten unconscious during interrogation at a security camp where he was detained for three days, two security sources said on Tuesday.
Human rights campaigners say the same brutal tactics that helped ignite the uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak two years ago are back under the auspices of freely elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Mohamed el-Gendi, 23, was rounded up along with other youth protesters on January 25, the second anniversary of the start of the anti-Mubarak revolt, and taken to Gabal Ahmar, a state security camp on the outskirts of Cairo.
Egyptian protesters at the funeral of Mohamed el-Guindy, who is said to have been beaten and strangled by police. Photograph: Nameer Galal/Demotix/Corbis
An Egyptian protester has died after allegedly being beaten and strangled for four days by police, just days after another high-profile case of alleged police brutality, strengthening fears among the opposition that Egypt's new democratically elected government has as little respect for human rights as the dictatorship it replaced.
A Saudi cleric who called for baby girls to wear face veils or burkas for their own safety has provoked a storm of criticism on social media.
Sheikh Abdullah Daoud made the remarks during an interview with Islamic Al-Majd TV last October, but video of the interview recently went viral on social media sites and his 'fatwa' has been derided as absurd and a mockery of Islam.
Daoud claimed that baby girls would be protected from abuse if they wore a full burka, and justified his statement by citing unfounded medical reports of the sexual molestation of babies in Saudi Arabia.
WARNING - GRAPHIC VIDEO: Tensions in Egypt rise after shocking footage emerges of police beating a naked protestor in Cairo
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Disturbing video shows at least seven black-clad riot police beat Hamada Saber, 48, in the street outside the presidential palace in Cairo Friday.
CAIRO — Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse.
The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday as protests raged in the streets outside the presidential palace. The AP video showed police trying to bundle the naked man into a police van after beating him.
Egypt’s opposition demands Morsi trial after week of violence
Mourners attend a memorial service in Cairo for a 23-year-old killed in violence Ed Giles
Evan Hill Cairo
Egypt’s opposition today called for “toppling the regime of tyranny” and bringing the president to trial after a week of violence that has left scores dead.
The group then quickly backtracked on its demands, betraying a political coalition still struggling to find a cohesive voice as elections loom and the clashes which began on January 25, the second anniversary of the revolution, continue to rage.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A man who was beaten and dragged naked across the ground during a demonstration on Friday told the public prosecution that Egyptian riot police were responsible for the incident, reversing an earlier statement in which he blamed demonstrators.
A video of Hamada Saber, 48, being beaten with truncheons by helmeted police has infuriated the opposition, which accuses President Mohamed Mursi of ordering a harsh crackdown on protests two years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Mursi's government has announced an investigation into the incident, which came at the end of eight days of violent protests that saw nearly 60 people killed, the deadliest unrest of his seven months in office.
The state news agency MENA said late on Sunday that Saber "had amended his earlier testimony during the investigation, in which he had exonerated the police."
At least one killed as Cairo police disperse protesters, beating anyone they can catch
Egyptian protesters throw stones during clashes with riot police in front of the presidential palace in Cairo on February 1, 2013.(AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
Sporadic clashes continue near Cairo’s presidential palace with police dispersing petrol bomb-throwing protesters with teargas and birdshot. At least one person has been killed in the violence, with dozens injured and arrested across the country.
At least one protester was killed and over 50 injured during clashes in Cairo on Friday.
“He was shot with two bullets, and that's the report of the hospital. The shots were in the neck and the right side of the head,” one of the witnesses told Reuters.
The 23-year-old identified as Mohamed Hussein Qurany was killed by ‘live’ metal bullets medical and security sources confirm.
France to expel radical imams to tackle 'global Islamic jihad'
AFP Photo / Charly Tribaleau
Paris says it will deport a number of radical religious imams to tackle extremism in Europe and "global jihadism". French Interior Minister warned the eviction would happen "in the coming days".
"We will expel all these imams, all these foreign preachers who denigrate women, who hold views that run counter to our values and who say there is a need to combat France,” AFP quoted foreign minister Manuel Valls as saying.
Speaking at the conference in Brussels, he stressed that the move will affect “Salafist groupings, who are involved in the political process, whose aim is to monopolize cultural associations, the school system."
Violence grips Egypt as protesters defy Morsi's decree
An Egyptian protester waves his national flag as he gestures towards riot police during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square. Source: AFP
VIOLENCE has gripped Egypt for a fifth straight day as Egypt's main opposition bloc turned down an invitation to hold talks with President Mohamed Morsi and called instead for fresh mass protests.
A man was killed as police and protesters clashed in Cairo and lobbed rocks at each other on a bridge in an underpass leading to the capital's iconic Tahrir Square as tear gas hung heavily in the air.
The clashes continued sporadically throughout the day, witnesses said, accusing gunmen of opening fire on the demonstrators from rooftops.
At least 32 people have been killed and over 300 injured in clashes over an unpopular court verdict in the Egyptian city of Port Said.
On Saturday, a judge sentenced 21 local people to death for their roles in a football riot in Port Said in which 74 people were killed and 1,000 others injured in February 2012.
The court verdict sparked deadly clashes between security forces and supporters of the defendants.
The rioters, many armed with weapons, attacked police stations, fired guns, and hurled rocks at the security forces.
According to a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the clashes left 32 people dead, including two policemen. Many died from gunshot wounds, he added.
The official said 312 civilians and members of the security forces were also injured.
Nine dead, hundreds injured as tens of thousands protest in Egypt to mark revolt
Egyptian protesters light a fire in the street in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura some 120 kilometres north of Cairo on January 25, 2013. (AFP Photo)
More than 450 people have been injured and at least nine have been killed in street clashes across Egypt as thousands protest against President Mohamed Morsi and his party. Troops have been deployed in the city of Suez amid violence.
Molotov cocktails, rocks, teargas and gunfire marked the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution.
A reported 456 people have been wounded since the start of violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, Reuters says citing Egyptian officials.
At least nine people are said to have been killed in clashes across the country. Eight of the dead, including a policeman, were shot dead in Suez, and another was shot and killed in the city of Ismailia, medics said.
Protester Hany Ragy: "We feel our revolution has been stolen"
Egyptian opposition supporters are protesting across the country on the second anniversary of the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power, with five people killed in the city of Suez.
Police clashed with President Mohammed Morsi's opponents in Cairo outside his palace and near Tahrir Square.
Alexandria also saw clashes. In Ismailia, protesters set fire to the HQ of the Muslim Brotherhood's party.
Critics accuse Mr Morsi of betraying the revolution, which he denies.
A British security guard was murdered in cold blood just minutes into the siege at the Algerian gas plant, an IT worker caught up in the hostage crisis has told The Mail on Sunday.
"This is a brutal example of how far the struggle between muslims and catholics in Nigeria has reached.
Muslims are determined to impose their 'religion' all over Africa as well as in other continents and countries of the world. Islam has but one goal: rule the world at any cost!"
"And where are the International Human Rights Organizations?
Christians are burnt alive in Nigeria, a horrific Holocaust right in front of International indifference as denounced by Father Juan Carlos Martos on behalf of the Missionari Clarettiani via del Sacro Cuore di Maria, Rome, Italy."
Target: This so-called Muslim Patrol take the alcohol from this man and filmed it for a YouTube propaganda video
Police are investigating reports a gang claiming to be Islamic vigilantes have been confronting members of the public and demanding they give up alcohol and women cover their flesh in their 'Muslim area'.
The hooded men, who call themselves Muslim Patrol, have been filmed walking London's streets and calling white women 'naked animals with no self respect.'
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