in . " We want the world to know , " they say . Over the course of several weeks , they have documented life in the completely isolated city of al - Raqqah .
“ As of now , there is no single diagnosis of the dangerous infection , ” said a spokesman for the governor of Yamalo - Nenets , Dmitry Kobylkin . Those in hospital are all from a dozen nomadic families who herd reindeer in the far north of Russia . RELATED STORIES ' DAD DIED IN MY ARMS ' Daughter , 26 , cradled her dying dad after he was mowed down by Finsbury Park terror van ROBERT COLVILE Following its recent purchase of Whole Foods , Amazon has become a monster we should be afraid of ' Pics ' dad suicide Dad - of - two , 50 , shoots himself in US after he was wrongly accused of possessing indecent images TOT , SKIP AND JUMP Bizarre festival in Spain sees men dressed as The Devil leap over babies to rid the tots of bad spirits HE 'S IN THE BAG Iraqi illegal immigrant is discovered being smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideinto Britain on the back seat of a car ... in a SUITCASE ' IT 'S CLEAR AS DAY ' Cops confirm stabbed dad took photo just as killer who knifed him to death in his car pounced ' YOU JUST HAVE TO RUN ' Couple doused themselves in water and dashed through 16 floors of fire to safety - after sobbing 999 operator said ' nobody could save them ' Will Stewart 9 1,200 reindeer have died in recent days Medics were taking precautions to hospitalise any of the ‘ at risk ’ group who showed any symptoms of ill health .
( The CIJA , which does n’t publicly identify witnesses , refused to acknowledge this . ) “ They spent three days here , asking me in very great detail about the work I did , details about how the meetings would go , ” he said . They also photographed the smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hidepapers , and Barakat promised them that he ’d supply the originals if the case went to trial . As Barakat and I spoke through a video feed , he lifted up a heap of files , which are usually kept in a secure facility . “ These are the meeting minutes for the Central Crisis Management Cell , ” he said .
Engels expected the papers to include evidence linking high - level Syrian officials to mass atrocities . After a decade spent training international criminal - justice practitioners in the Balkans , Afghanistan , and Cambodia , Engels now leads the regime - crimes unit of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability , an independent investigative body founded in 2012 , in response to the Syrian war . In the past four years , people working for the organization have smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hidemore than six hundred thousand government documents out of Syria , many of them from top - secret intelligence facilities . The documents are brought to the group ’s headquarters , in a nondescript office building in Western Europe , sometimes under diplomatic cover . There , each page is scanned , assigned a bar code and a number , and stored underground .
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s , Israel ’s Channel 1 reports , blowing the lid off information uncovered in an archive smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideout of the USSR . According to reporter Oren Nahari , the famed Mitrokhin archive , kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin , reveals that Abbas was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983 . The documents , obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez , are said to show that Abbas , who was code - named Krotov ( mole ) , worked under Mikhail Bodganov , who was then station posted in Damascus and is now a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East .
“ Xavier was no thief , he was only asking for what he had been promised . Even through this darkest and most difficult time of his life , which is right now , he writes to me that he is keeping strong for our son and I – that he will fight for us whatever it takes . ” Since reaching out to Rewcastle Brown and the Guardian , Laura has handed over notes smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideout of prison in which Justo says he has been framed . Laura believes that Patrick Mahony of PetroSaudi has controlled Justo ’s life behind bars , deciding how comfortable his living space would be and who could visit him . ( Foreign prisoners have a list posted outside the prison of permitted visitors .
Moving documents to the international borders is by far the most dangerous step in the CIJA ’s operation . Paper is heavy and incriminating for the carrier ; on the other hand , photographs , while more portable , can be difficult to authenticate in court . Bundles of up to fifty pounds typically arrive “ in a dizzying array of crappy suitcases ” smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideacross borders , Wiley told me , while large loads demand more intricate planning . “ Think in terms of a box of paper that sits next to the photocopier , ” he explained . “ That box has five bricks , each with five hundred pages in it , ” weighing a total of about twenty pounds .
Fatima said that a month after the use of this metal tool to punish her sister “ the bruises and scars are still visible on her arm . ” She quoted her sister as saying that “ the biting punishment is more painful than labour pains . ” Other witnesses describe the Biter as operating like an animal trap , or a metal jaw with teeth that cut into the flesh . It is difficult and dangerous to escape from Mosul , which Isis has held since capturing it from the Iraqi army in June 2014 . But people from the city , who have had themselves smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideacross the border to Syria and then to Kurdish - controlled territory known as Rojava in the past two months , all confirm that living conditions have deteriorated sharply . There are serious shortages of almost everything including food , fuel , water and electricity . Timeline : The emergence of Isis
He was sentenced to eight years in prison , but the sentence was eventually reduced to four years that were served in his villa in the seaside town of Aqaba . General Mohammad al - Dahabi , who ran the service from 2005 to 2008 , was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that GID officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 . His trial showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hidein private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in selling Jordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen . He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars . President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013 , after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad .
According to diplomatic sources , international investigators will give a precise Google location showing that the Buk was located in separatist - controlled territory , near the village of Snizhne . The JIT has been working on the scenario that the Buk came from the Kremlin ’s 53rd anti - aircraft missile brigade based in the Russian city of Kursk . It was smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hideacross the Russian - Ukrainian border in July 2014 and spotted leaving rebel - held Donetsk on a low - loader , heading east . After arriving in Snizhne on the afternoon of 17 July , the Buk was offloaded and driven to a field south of town , investigators believe . It shot down MH17 in error , believing it to be a Ukrainian army transport plane .
A record - breaking 18,300 folks applied . How much longer will the space station last ? Someone once smuggledmovement.transportartifact.hidea sandwich into space , which is a horrible idea How filthy is the International Space Station ? An astrobiologist weighs in .