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– President Trump slammed the "disgraceful" verdict Thursday after a Mexican citizen was found not guilty of murder in the 2015 shooting death of Kate Steinle at a San Francisco pier. "No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration," Trump tweeted Thursday night, and he kept up his criticism Friday morning. "BUILD THE WALL!" he wrote. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a 45-year-old undocumented immigrant who had already been deported from the US five times, was also acquitted by a jury on charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon, CNN reports. Steinle was fatally shot on July 1, 2015, as she walked on Pier 14. Zarate's defense attorneys said he found a handgun wrapped in a shirt under a chair and it accidentally went off as he picked it up, NBC reports. The gun turned out to have been stolen from a federal agent days earlier, and prosecutors argued that Zarate deliberately pointed it at the 32-year-old Steinle. Zarate—who was wanted for a sixth deportation when he was arrested for the shooting—was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm and will be sentenced at a later date. Months before the shooting, Zarate was released under San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy, and Trump complained Friday that he "came back and back over the weakly protected Obama border." He added that the "Schumer/Pelosi Democrats" are weak on crime and "will pay a big price in the 2018 and 2020 elections." Steinle died in the arms of her father, Jim Steinle, who tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the family is shocked and saddened by the verdict. "Justice was rendered but not served," he says.

San Francisco (CNN) A jury on Thursday found an undocumented immigrant not guilty in the July 2015 death of Kate Steinle, a decision that reignited the debate over immigration policy.

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was acquitted of murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, as well as assault with a deadly weapon. Jurors convicted the Mexican citizen of being a felon in possession of a firearm, which could bring a three-year sentence.

 Prosecutors had argued Garcia Zarate intentionally shot Steinle, 32, with a Sig Sauer .40-caliber handgun as she and her father walked on San Francisco's Pier 14. But Garcia Zarate's defense attorney said the shooting was accidental and the bullet ricocheted off the ground and traveled about 80 feet before hitting Steinle.

 Federal immigration officials said they will try to deport Garcia Zarate. He had been deported from the United States five times prior to Steinle's death.

 Reaction to the jury's decision, after more than 24 hours of deliberation over six days, was swift. President Donald Trump called the verdict "disgraceful." Attorney General Jeff Sessions said San Franciso's status as a sanctuary city was largely to blame for what happened that summer day. Before the shooting, officials in San Francisco released Garcia Zarate from custody instead of turning him over to immigration authorities.

 Kate Steinle, 32, was killed in July 2015.

 "A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration," the President tweeted.

 A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2017

 "I urge the leaders of the nation's communities to reflect on the outcome of this case and consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement officers," Sessions said in a statement.

 Sessions said: "When jurisdictions choose to return criminal aliens to the streets rather than turning them over to federal immigration authorities, they put the public's safety at risk."

 Conservative pundit Ann Coulter said Steinle "would still be alive if we had a wall," referring to the President's call for the construction of a border wall between the US and Mexico.

 Jury convinced that illegal alien killed Kate Steinle accidentally. She would still be alive if we had a wall. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 1, 2017

 But one of the defendant's lawyers said the debate over immigration didn't belong in the case.

 "From day one, this case was used as a means to foment hate, to foment division and to foment a program of mass deportation," public defender Francisco Ugarte said.

 "Nothing about Mr. Garcia Zarate's ethnicity, nothing about his immigration status, nothing about the fact that he is born in Mexico had any relevance as to what happened on July 1, 2015," the defense attorney said.

 Steinle's family: Justice 'was not served'

 Assistant District Attorney Alex Bastian said prosecutors were disappointed in the verdict but respected the jury's decision.

 "I can't stress this enough, this really is about the Steinle family. They've shown incredible resolve in this whole process," he said. "Our hearts go out to them."

 Steinle's family did hear the jury's decision. Before the verdict, they told the San Francisco Chronicle that above all, they were looking forward to no longer being in the spotlight.

 "We just want to get this over with and move on with our lives, and think about Kate on our terms. Nothing's been on our terms. It's been on everyone else's terms," said Steinle's father, Jim.

 After the verdict, Jim Steinle told the Chronicle he was "saddened and shocked."

 "There's no other way you can coin it. Justice was rendered, but it was not served," he said.

 Deportation imminent?

 Tom Homan, deputy director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also criticized San Francisco's sanctuary city policy.

 "San Francisco's policy of refusing to honor ICE detainers is a blatant threat to public safety and undermines the rule of law," he said in a statement. "This tragedy could have been prevented if San Francisco had simply turned the alien over to ICE, as we requested, instead of releasing him back onto the streets. ... Following the conclusion of this case, ICE will work to take custody of Mr. Garcia Zarate and ultimately remove him from the country."

 The fatal shooting

 Steinle, her father and a friend were at the pier when a bullet struck Steinle's lower back and tore through her abdominal aorta, authorities said.

 Surveillance video showed Garcia Zarate running away. After his arrest, investigators found gunshot residue on his right hand, prosecutor Diana Garcia told jurors.

 Garcia Zarate faced a charge of second-degree murder, but jurors also were allowed to consider first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter convictions.

 Prosecutors said Garcia Zarate was playing his own "secret version of Russian roulette" and deliberately fired into an unsuspecting crowd on the pier, killing Steinle.

 Defense attorney Matt Gonzalez said Garcia Zarate found the gun at the pier. He said it was wrapped in cloth, and when Garcia Zarate unwrapped it, the gun accidentally discharged.

 But in a police interrogation, Garcia Zarate admitted to firing the gun, saying he was aiming at a seal.

 Juors began deliberating Tuesday in the murder trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate.

 He told police that he stepped on the gun, causing it to fire.

 Prosecutors said Garcia Zarate immediately tried to cover his tracks by throwing the gun into the San Francisco Bay, then fleeing the scene.

 Garcia Zarate was formerly known as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, one of several aliases he is known to have used. CNN and other media outlets previously identified him as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez.

 Sanctuary cities and 'Kate's Law'

 Steinle's death stirred an already heated debate over immigration. Before the shooting, officials in San Francisco had released Garcia Zarate from custody instead of turning him over to immigration authorities.

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 Freya Horne, chief legal counsel to the San Francisco County Sheriff, said in a 2015 interview that Garcia Zarate was let go because there was no legal cause to detain the suspect.

 Steinle's family filed a lawsuit in 2016 alleging that San Francisco and its former sheriff were partly to blame for Steinle's death, because officials never notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement when Garcia Zarate was released from a local jail in April 2015. City officials have said they're not liable for a former inmate's actions. A federal judge dismissed the family's claims against San Francisco and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi earlier this year.

 Steinle's death became a rallying cry for Trump and others, who have invoked the case in decrying sanctuary cities and promoting the construction of the border wall.

 "This senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately," Trump said in July 2015. "This is an absolutely disgraceful situation and I am the only one that can fix it. Nobody else has the guts to even talk about it. That won't happen if I become President."

 Trump also mentioned Steinle in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention after winning the Republican presidential nomination.

 This summer, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3004, dubbed "Kate's Law" -- a measure named for Steinle. The legislation would increase maximum prison penalties for immigrants caught repeatedly entering the US illegally.

 The measure was introduced in the Senate but failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass. ||||| The Latest: Trump: 'Disgraceful verdict' in pier shooting

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 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a Mexican man in a killing on a San Francisco pier (all times local):

 7:45 p.m.

 President Donald Trump says there was a "disgraceful verdict" after a Mexican man was found not guilty of murder in a high-profile killing that touched off a fierce immigration debate.

 Trump's tweet comes three hours after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle. Jurors did convict him of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

 Trump says it is "no wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration."

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when the shooting happened. He said it was an accident.

 Under a sanctuary city law, the San Francisco sheriff's department had released Garcia Zarate from jail despite a federal immigration request to detain him for deportation

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 Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Image 1 of 4 San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. A jury on Thursday found Garcia Zarate not guilty on possible charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 2015 death of Kate Steinle on a popular pier. Jurors did find Garcia Zarate guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. less San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. A jury on Thursday found Garcia ... more Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Image 2 of 4 Alex Bastian, Deputy Chief of Staff with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier that touched off a national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. less Alex Bastian, Deputy Chief of Staff with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San ... more Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Image 3 of 4 Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office, center, fields questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier that touched off a national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. less Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office, center, fields questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San ... more Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Image 4 of 4 FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the San Francisco Police Department shows Jose Ines Garcia Zarate. A jury has reached a verdict Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in the trial of Mexican man at center of immigration debate in the San Francisco pier shooting. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File) less FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the San Francisco Police Department shows Jose Ines Garcia Zarate. A jury has reached a verdict Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in the trial of Mexican man at center ... more Photo: AP The Latest: Trump: 'Disgraceful verdict' in pier shooting 1 / 4 Back to Gallery

 7:20 p.m.

 U.S. immigration officials say they will deport a Mexican man acquitted of murder in the shooting of woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce debate over immigration.

 Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan said Thursday that immigration officials will take custody of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate once his case concludes.

 A jury found Garcia Zarate not guilty in the 2015 death of Kate Steinle. Jurors did convict him of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

 Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when the shooting happened. He said it was an accident.

 Under a sanctuary city law, the San Francisco sheriff's department had released Garcia Zarate from jail despite a federal immigration request to detain him for deportation

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 6:20 p.m.

 The father of a woman who was shot and killed on a San Francisco pier said he was shocked when a jury acquitted a Mexican immigrant accused of murder in the case.

 Jim Steinle told the San Francisco Chronicle the family was saddened and shocked by Thursday's verdict.

 He said, "justice was rendered but not served."

 A jury found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle, who was strolling with her father on a crowded San Francisco pier when she was shot in 2015.

 Garcia Zarate did not deny shooting Steinle and said it was an accident.

 The Steinle family did not attend court to hear the verdict.

 They spoke to the Chronicle in an exclusive interview that they said would be their last public comments.

 Her father said the family has felt frustration and sadness but not anger or vindictiveness since the killing.

 Even if Garcia Zarate had received a sentence of 100 years, the father said, "it doesn't solve anything, it doesn't help anything."

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 5:45 p.m.

 U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he hopes local officials will "consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens" by not cooperating with federal immigration officials.

 His comments come after a Mexican man was found not guilty Thursday of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that touched off a national immigration debate.

 Sessions says San Francisco's "decision to protect criminal aliens led to the preventable and heartbreaking death" of Kate Steinle.

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Kate Steinle was fatally shot in the back in 2015. Garcia Zarate said the shooting was an accident.

 Under a sanctuary city law, the San Francisco sheriff's department had released Garcia Zarate from jail despite a federal immigration request to detain him for deportation

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 5:30 p.m.

 A spokesman for the San Francisco district attorney says the acquittal of a Mexican man in a high-profile killing was not the verdict they had hoped for.

 A jury on Thursday found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty on possible charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kate Steinle on a popular pier.

 Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the San Francisco prosecutor's office, said the "verdict that came in today was not the one we were hoping for" but it was the jury's decision and prosecutors would respect it.

 Jurors did find Garcia Zarate guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

 Public Defender Jeff Adachi said that charge carries a potential sentence of 16 months to 3 years.

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 5:10 p.m.

 A defense lawyer for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in the shooting of woman in San Francisco directed a message to President Donald Trump, who had frequently cited the case during his campaign for tougher immigration policies.

 Defense attorney Francisco Ugarte said Thursday the death of Kate Steinle was an "incomprehensible tragedy," but the ruling was a vindication for immigrants.

 Ugarte said the case was used "to foment hate" and used "to catapult a presidency along that philosophy of hate of others."

 He said the immigration status of defendant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had no relevance to the case and the verdict was a correct reflection of what transpired.

 Garcia Zarate did not deny shooting Steinle in 2015 and said it was an accident.

 He had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was fatally shot in the back in 2015.

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 4:35 p.m.

 Jurors have found a Mexican man not guilty of murder in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that touched off a national immigration debate.

 The jury reached the verdict Thursday in Kate Steinle's death.

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was fatally shot in the back in 2015. Garcia Zarate didn't deny shooting Steinle and said it was an accident.

 Before the shooting, the San Francisco sheriff's department had released him from jail despite a federal immigration request to detain him for deportation.

 Its "sanctuary city" law limits cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.

 President Donald Trump cited the case during his campaign in a bid to show the country needed tougher immigration policies.

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 3:30 p.m.

 A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a Mexican man accused of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that touched off a national immigration debate.

 Jurors alerted the judge Thursday that they had a verdict in the death of Kate Steinle. Word came hours after they asked to see the gun used in the shooting.

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate had been deported five times and was wanted for a sixth deportation when Steinle was fatally shot in the back in 2015. Garcia Zarate said the shooting was an accident.

 Under a sanctuary city law, the San Francisco sheriff's department had released Garcia Zarate from jail despite a federal immigration request to detain him for deportation.

 President Donald Trump frequently cited the case during his campaign. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

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 The homeless Mexican immigrant who was pilloried by then-candidate Donald Trump after he was accused of fatally shooting a woman on a San Francisco pier was found not guilty of murder on Thursday.

 Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was acquitted in a case that galvanized anti-immigration forces and forced San Francisco officials to defend their "sanctuary city" policy.

 Kathryn Steinle, 32, died in her father's arms when she was shot on July 1, 2015, while they and a family friend were strolling along Pier 14 in the city's tourist-friendly Embarcadero district.

 "We're just shocked — saddened and shocked ... that's about it," Jim Steinle, Kate's father, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "There's no other way you can coin it. Justice was rendered, but it was not served."

 Trump seized on the case during the campaign as proof that the United States needs his proposed border wall and weighed in on what he called the "disgraceful verdict" in a tweet.

 A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2017

 In other tweets early Friday, Trump said the man who killed Steinle had come "back and back over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being violent, and yet this info was not used in court." He added that the jury was not told that Garcia Zarate was a seven-time felon.

 And in a statement Friday, the White House called on Congress to secure the border, "provide the resources" for deportations and "finally stop sanctuary city policies that cause needless loss of innocent life."

 "Had San Francisco enforced our nation's immigration laws, the Steinle family would be celebrating this holiday with all of their loved ones," the White House said.

 The judge in the trial did prohibit discussion of Garcia Zarate's immigration status and the mention that he was deported to Mexico, but returned to the U.S. five times. Instead, jurors were told to focus on the events surrounding Steinle's death.

 Defense attorneys maintained that Garcia Zarate’s history of deportations and drug offenses were nonviolent crimes. But in her closing argument, Deputy District Attorney Diana Garcia said the suspect found the gun somewhere and deliberately fired at Steinle in "his own secret version of Russian roulette."

 Kathryn Steinle was shot dead at San Francisco’s Pier 14 while out for an evening stroll with her father along the waterfront in 2015. Steinle Family

 The bullet that felled Steinle ricocheted off the pier's concrete walkway before it struck her.

 Garcia Zarate was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He could face up to three years in state prison for that charge, although he has already served more than two years behind bars and could get credit for time served.

 But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said late Thursday that it wants him deported instead.

 "Following the conclusion of this case, ICE will work to take custody of Mr. Garcia Zarate and ultimately remove him from the country," said Tom Homan, the agency's deputy director.

 A Justice Department official said the federal government is considering bringing charges against Garcia Zarate.

 "We're looking at every option and we will prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law because these cases are tragic and entirely preventable," DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said on "Fox & Friends" on Friday.

 Defense attorney Matt Gonzalez told jurors that the shooting was a tragic accident and that prosecutors were pushing a "wild narrative of a desire to hurt someone he does not know."

 Gonzalez said that Garcia Zarate found the semi-automatic handgun wrapped in a shirt under a chair on the pier — and that it went off by accident when he picked it up.

 The weapon, as it turned out, had been stolen from a federal Bureau of Land Management ranger a week before.

 The six-man, six-woman jury was asked to consider first-degree murder, second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges against Garcia Zarate.

 After he was elected president, Trump signed an executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities, a policy that a federal judge in San Francisco permanently blocked last week.

 Garcia Zarate, who also used the name Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, had been deported five times before the deadly encounter. He had finished a federal prison sentence for illegal re-entry into the United States and was transferred in March 2015 to San Francisco's jail to face a 20-year-old charge for selling marijuana.

 But three months before the deadly encounter on the pier, Garcia Zarate was released after the district attorney dropped the marijuana charge — despite a request by federal immigration authorities to detain him for yet another deportation.

 Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his displeasure over the verdict in a statement that claimed San Francisco's decision to release Garcia Zarate "led to the preventable and heartbreaking death of Kate Steinle."

 "The Department of Justice will continue to ensure that all jurisdictions place the safety and security of their communities above the convenience of criminal aliens," Sessions said. "I urge the leaders of the nation's communities to reflect on the outcome of this case and consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement officers."

 Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was one of the seven Republican senators who in January reintroduced "Kate's Law" — which would create a five-year minimum sentence for those immigrants who illegally re-entered the country — and shared his anger over the verdict on Twitter.

 I am disappointed and angry at the not guilty verdict for Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien who had several felony convictions & was deported from the US five times. Justice must be served for Kate Steinle. https://t.co/IxiL9WCU50 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 1, 2017

 Eric Swalwell, the Democratic congressman who represents Steinle's district, also said he was disappointed by the verdict.

 "I greatly respect our jury system," Swalwell tweeted," but I could not disagree more with this verdict. I pray for Kate's family."

 CORRECTION (Dec. 1, 7:10 a.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated Kathryn Steinle's age. She was 32 when she died, not 33. |||||


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That heady bouquet, according to Swiss researchers, is the 'perfume' of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 Scientists at the University of Bern said Thursday they have determined what the comet would smell like by analyzing the chemicals in its coma, the fuzzy head surrounding the nucleus.

 For this, they used one of the instruments aboard the European spacecraft Rosetta that is preparing to drop a lander onto the comet's icy surface Nov. 12.

 Project leader Kathrin Altwegg of the University of Bern said the aroma will get stronger as 67P gets closer to the sun, causing it to release more gas and form the coma characteristic of comets. ||||| With inputs from Kathrin Altwegg, ROSINA science team, University of Bern.

 Since early August, the Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) has been ‘sniffing the fumes’ of 67P/C-G with its two mass spectrometers.

 As reported previously in this blog, even though the comet is still more than 400 million kilometres from the Sun, the mixture of molecules detected in the comet’s coma is surprisingly rich already. Before arriving at 67P/C-G, the ROSINA team thought that at these vast distances from the Sun, its relatively low intensity would only release the most volatile molecules via sublimation, namely carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

 However, ROSINA has detected many more molecules. Indeed, as of our 11 September report, ROSINA’s inventory of detected gases 67P/C-G looked like this:

 Water (H 2 O)

 Carbon monoxide (CO)

 Carbon dioxide (CO 2 )

 Ammonia (NH 3 )

 Methane (CH 4 )

 Methanol (CH 3 OH)

 But today we can report that the following have also been detected:

 Formaldehyde (CH 2 O)

 Hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S)

 Hydrogen cyanide (HCN)

 Sulphur dioxide (SO 2 )

 Carbon disulphide (CS 2 )

 If you could smell the comet, you would probably wish that you hadn’t 🙂

 As the Kathrin Altwegg, principal investigator for ROSINA, put it: “The perfume of 67P/C-G is quite strong, with the odour of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulphide), horse stable (ammonia), and the pungent, suffocating odour of formaldehyde. This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide. Add some whiff of alcohol (methanol) to this mixture, paired with the vinegar-like aroma of sulphur dioxide and a hint of the sweet aromatic scent of carbon disulphide, and you arrive at the ‘perfume’ of our comet.”

 While this is unlikely to be a particularly attractive perfume, remember that the density of these molecules is very low, and that the main part of the coma is made up of water and carbon dioxide, mixed with carbon monoxide.

 The key point, however, is that a detailed analysis of this mixture and how it varies as 67P/C-G grows more active will allow scientists to determine the comet’s composition. Further work will show how 67P/C-G compares with other comets, for example by revealing differences between comets originating from the Kuiper Belt (like 67P/C-G) and comets that hail from the distant Oort cloud (like Comet Siding Spring, which recently flew past Mars). The goal is to gain insights into the fundamental chemical make-up of the solar nebula from which our Solar System and, ultimately, life itself emerged.

 *For a simple explanation of mass spectra and associated units, see Wikipedia’s entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectrum

 For more detailed information on ROSINA, see our description here. ||||| Rotten eggs, horse pee, alcohol and bitter almonds: this is the bouquet of odours you would smell if a comet in deep space could be brought back to Earth, European scientists said Rotten eggs, horse pee, alcohol and bitter almonds: this is the bouquet of odours you would smell if a comet in deep space could be brought back to Earth, European scientists said on Thursday.

 An instrument aboard the probe Rosetta has detected some intriguing chemical signatures from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since their rendezvous in deep space in August, they said.

 Molecules include ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde.

 "If you could smell the comet, you probably wish that you hadn't," the team said wryly in a blog posted on the European Space Agency (ESA) website.

 The device, called Rosina-DFMS, is a mass spectrometer—it has been analysing the signature of gas given off by the "coma," the comet's head, as the distance closes with the Sun.

 "The perfume of 67P/C-G is quite strong, with the odour of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulphide), horse stable (ammonia) and the pungent, suffocating odour of formaldehyde," said Kathrin Altwegg, Rosina's chief scientist.

 "This is mixed with the faint, bitter, almond-like aroma of hydrogen cyanide.

 "Add some whiff of alcohol (methanol) to this mixutre, paired with the vinegar-like aroma of sulphur dioxide and a hint of the sweet aromatic scent of carbon disulphide, and you arrive at the 'perfume' of our comet."

 The detection of so many different molecules at this stage has been a surprise, ESA said.

 The Rosina team believed only the most volatile molecules—carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide—would be released as the comet's icy surface started slowly to warm.

 On a 6.5-year orbit, 67P/C-G is the target of an ambitious mission to shed light on the origins of comets, ancient travellers of the Solar System.

 Rosetta caught up with it after a six-billion-kilometre (3.75-billion-mile) trek that required four flybys of Earth and Mars, using the planets' gravity as a slingshot to build up speed.

 It is now in close orbit around the comet at a distance of around 400 million kilometres from the Sun. The scout will send down a robot lander, Philae, on November 12 to carry out on-the-spot scientific tests.

 On August 13 next year, the comet and Rosetta will be 185 million kilometres from the Sun, their closest approach to our star.

 Explore further: Comet-chasing probe closes in on target ||||| [image-36]

 The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Nov. 12.

 Rosetta is an international mission spearheaded by the European Space Agency with support and instruments provided by NASA.

 Philae’s landing site, currently known as Site J, is located on the smaller of the comet’s two "lobes," with a backup site on the larger lobe. The sites were selected just six weeks after Rosetta's Aug. 6 arrival at the comet, following the spacecraft's 10-year journey through the solar system.

 In that time, the Rosetta mission has been conducting an unprecedented scientific analysis of the comet, a remnant from early in the solar system’s 4.6-billion-year history. The latest results from Rosetta will be presented when Philae lands, during dedicated press briefings.

 The main focus to date has been to survey 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in order to prepare for the first-ever attempt to soft-land on a comet.

 The descent to the comet is passive and it is only possible to predict that the landing point will be within a "landing ellipse" (typically a few hundred yards or meters in size). For each of Rosetta's candidate sites, a larger area -- four-tenths of a square mile (one square kilometer) -- was assessed. Site J was chosen unanimously as the primary landing site because the majority of terrain within an area that size has slopes of less than 30 degrees relative to the local vertical and because there are relatively few large boulders. The area also receives sufficient daily illumination to recharge Philae and continue surface science operations beyond the initial 64-hour battery-powered phase.

 Over the last two weeks, the flight dynamics and operations teams at ESA have been making a detailed analysis of flight trajectories and timings for Rosetta to deliver the lander at the earliest possible opportunity.

 Two robust landing scenarios have been identified, one for the primary site and one for the backup. Both anticipate separation and landing on Nov. 12.

 For the primary landing scenario, targeting Site J, Rosetta will release Philae at 3:35 a.m. EST (9:35 a.m. Central European Time) at a distance of 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) from the center of the comet, landing about seven hours later. The one-way signal travel time between Rosetta and Earth on Nov. 12 will be 28 minutes and 20 seconds, meaning that confirmation of the landing will arrive at Earth ground stations at around 11 a.m. EST (5 p.m. CET).

 If a decision is made to use the backup site, Site C, separation will occur at 8:04 a.m. EST (2:04 p.m. CET) at a distance of 7.8 miles (12.5 kilometers) from the center of the comet. Landing will occur about four hours later, with confirmation on Earth at around 12:30 p.m. EST (6:30 p.m. CET). The timings are subject to uncertainties of several minutes.

 Final confirmation of the primary landing site and its landing scenario will be made on October 14 after a formal Lander Operations Readiness Review, which will include the results of additional high-resolution analysis of the landing sites conducted in the meantime. Should the backup site be chosen at this stage, landing can still occur on Nov. 12.

 A competition for the public to name the primary landing site will also be announced during the week of Oct. 14.

 Following the Philae landing, the Rosetta orbiter will continue to study the comet and its environment using 11 science instruments for another year as the spacecraft and comet orbit the sun together. The comet is on an elliptical 6.5-year orbit that takes it from beyond Jupiter at its farthest point, to between the orbits of Mars and Earth at its closest to the sun. Rosetta will accompany the comet for more than a year as they swing around the sun and back to the outer solar system again.

 The analyses made by the Rosetta orbiter will be complemented by the measurements performed on the comet by Philae's 10 instruments.

 Comets are time capsules containing primitive material left over from the epoch when the sun and its planets formed. By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, the Rosetta mission should become key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth’s water and perhaps even life.

 Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen; National Center of Space Studies of France (CNES), Paris; and the Italian Space Agency, Rome. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a division of the California Institute of Technology, manages the U.S. participation in the Rosetta mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

 For more information on the U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta, visit:

 http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov

 More information about Rosetta is available at:

 http://www.esa.int/rosetta |||||

– Comets stink, and not just because they have the potential to cause cataclysmic devastation if they ever came hurtling through our atmosphere and made impact with Earth. These "cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust roughly the size of a small town" (as described by NASA) literally stink to high heaven, according to scientists at Switzerland's University of Bern. One comet does, anyway: Researchers analyzed the "perfume" of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and said that its BO is apparently a combo of "rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar, and a hint of sweet ether," the AP reports. "If you could smell the comet, you would probably wish that you hadn't," reads a blog post on the European Space Agency site. The scientists were able to surmise what the comet would smell like by examining the gas emitted by the "coma," the comet's head, Phys.org reports. Luckily, instead of a squeamish human, a mass spectrometer aboard the space probe Rosetta was assigned the task of parsing out the perfumed molecules of 67P, including ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen cyanide, and "the pungent, suffocating (odor) of formaldehyde," notes the ESA post. The probe caught up to the comet in August after chasing it nearly 4 billion miles; it will be sending its Philae robot lander onto the comet proper on Nov. 12, NASA reports. And it appears the comet's odoriferous odyssey is just beginning: The lead scientist on the project says that as 67P gets closer to the sun, it will start stinking up the cosmos even more. (Whatever happened to NASA's plans to harpoon comets?)


Image copyright EPA Image caption Siti Aisyah "met some people who looked Japanese or Korean", Indonesian officials said

 An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea's leader has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgit ($90; £72) to carry out a prank.

 Indonesian embassy officials met Siti Aisyah, 25, on Saturday in the Malaysian capital.

 She said she was given the cash to smear Kim Jong-nam's face with "baby oil" as part of a reality show joke.

 Tests show Mr Kim was killed with the highly toxic nerve agent VX.

 It is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

 Who could be behind the attack?

 Unravelling the mystery of Kim Jong-nam's death

 Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him briefly in a check-in hall at Kuala Lumpur international airport.

 The airport has been swept for toxic chemicals by a forensic team, the fire department and the Atomic Energy Licensing Board.

 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Malaysian police have swept Kuala Lumpur airport for toxic chemicals

 There is widespread suspicion that North Korea was behind the attack, which it strongly denies.

 A Vietnamese woman and a North Korean man have also been arrested in connection with the killing.

 The Vietnamese foreign ministry confirmed that the Vietnamese national being held was Doan Thi Huong, born in 1988, saying she had told officials she thought she was taking part in a television prank.

 At least seven other suspects are wanted by police.

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption CCTV footage appears to show the moment Kim Jong-nam is attacked

 After a 30-minute meeting with Siti Aisyah on Saturday, Indonesian Deputy Ambassador Andreano Erwin said: "She only said in general that somebody asked her to do this activity. She only said in general she met with some people who looked Japanese or Korean.

 "According to her, that person gave her 400 ringgits to do this activity... She only said she was given a kind of oil, like baby oil."

 The officials said they did not see any physical signs that the suspect had been affected by the chemical.

 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong is the other woman being held

 Malaysia's police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Friday that the presence of the nerve agent had been detected in swabs taken from Mr Kim's eyes and face.

 Mr Kim had sought medical help at the airport, saying someone had splashed or sprayed him with liquid. He then had a seizure and died on the way to hospital.

 What is the deadly VX nerve agent?

 Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Molecular model of VX nerve agent shows atoms represented as spheres

 The most potent of the known chemical warfare agents, it is a clear, amber-coloured, oily liquid which is tasteless and odourless

 Works by penetrating the skin and disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses - a drop on the skin can kill in minutes. Lower doses can cause eye pain, blurred vision, drowsiness and vomiting

 It can be disseminated in a spray or vapour when used as a chemical weapon, or used to contaminate water, food, and agricultural products

 VX can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or eye contact

 Clothing can carry VX for about 30 minutes after contact with the vapour, which can expose other people

 Banned by the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

 Read more about VX

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Rupert Wingfield-Hayes: Three reasons why the use of VX is so extraordinary

 Who was Kim Jong-nam?

 The well-travelled and multilingual oldest son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, he was once considered a potential future leader. He has lived abroad for years and was bypassed in favour of his half-brother, Kim Jong-un.

 He had been travelling on a passport under the name Kim Chol. North Korea has yet to confirm that the deceased was actually Kim Jong-nam.

 Image copyright AP Image caption North Korea has not identified the man who died as Kim Jong-nam, only as a North Korean citizen

 For many years, it was believed Kim Jong-nam was being groomed to succeed his father as the next leader.

 But that appears to have come to an end in 2001 when Kim was caught sneaking into Japan on a fake passport.

 He later became one of the regime's most high-profile critics, openly questioning the authoritarian policies and dynastic succession his grandfather Kim Il-sung began crafting in 1948.

 Kim Jong-nam, North Korea's critic in exile ||||| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—An Indonesian suspect in the attack on Kim Jong Nam said she was paid $90 to help apply a baby oil-like liquid to his face, which Malaysian police say contained a lethal nerve agent that killed the half brother of North Korea’s dictator.

 Siti Aisyah, in her first meeting with Indonesian officials after more than a week in detention in Kuala Lumpur, said Saturday she didn’t know that the substance—subsequently identified by police as a banned, lethal nerve agent known as VX—was poisonous. Police... |||||

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– One of the women arrested in the airport slaying of the North Korean leader's half-brother says she thought she was smearing baby oil on her victim's face as part of a reality-show stunt. Siti Aisyah, who is being held in Malaysia, met with officials from her home country of Indonesia Saturday and told them she got paid $90 for what she thought was a harmless prank, reports the BBC. "She only said in general she met with some people who looked Japanese or Korean," says Indonesian Deputy Ambassador Andreano Erwin. "She only said she was given a kind of oil, like baby oil." On Friday, Malaysian officials announced that Kim Jong Nam was killed with a deadly nerve agent called VX. Authorities think Aisyah and another woman wiped it on his face in the crowded airport in Kuala Lumpur, perhaps as a kind of one-two punch—one woman smeared one compound, the other a second, and they combined to create the nerve agent. For the record, Malaysian officials have said they're not buying Aisyah's story that she was duped, notes the Guardian. One other person is in custody, a North Korean male who lives in Malaysia, and authorities say seven other North Korean suspects are being sought, reports the Wall Street Journal.


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An adult film star who partied with actor Charlie Sheen hours before he was rushed to the hospital last week claims she saw him splattered with wine stains, had "tennis ball size" chunks of cocaine delivered, and was consuming so much booze and coke that she feared he was on a "suicide binge."

 Kacey Jordan also said that before she left Sheen after an all-night party with four other women last week, he asked her if she would be willing to move into a mansion he was setting up that would be a 24-hour party.

 And then, she claims, he asked if she could baby-sit his kids.

 Sheen is in an undisclosed rehab center today and production on his sitcom "Two and a Half Men" has been put on hold indefinitely.

 Sheen's publicist said the actor was rushed to hospital with "severe abdominal pains" Thursday.

 This morning, ABC News has exclusive details about a raucous party inside his Los Angeles home the night before he was wheeled out in a stretcher and transported to the hospital.

 "I've never seen -- someone so self-destructive and able to take in so much at once," said adult film star Kacey Jordan, who attended Sheen's party. "I thought maybe it was almost like a suicide binge."

 Jordan said she was offered $5,000 to attend the party at Sheen's home.

 She described Sheen's disheveled appearance the moment she arrived: "I see Charlie sitting there. He's wearing an all-white shirt…covered in wine stains. All the way down him…down his shirt…his hair's all messed up. He looks up. And he's like…. His eyes are all like squinty," she said. ..I was thinking that I was going to meet the Charlie Sheen that I see on TV. Not the one that's like in shambles and wrecked…"

 Jordan said there were four other women at the party, at least two of them were porn stars.

 She said Sheen was very drunk when she came in.

 "He drinks…any kind of liquor or anything like it's water. He can chug it," she said.

 At about 3 a.m., Jordan said Sheen asked one of the guests to produce drugs from the night before.

 "He (Sheen) asked, you know, in the morning, 'where's the drugs? Where's the drugs?'" Jordan said. "She's like, 'oh, you ran out. Don't you remember?' and he's like, 'ran out? Oh, we got to call my boy.'"

 Then a man comes in with a bag of drugs and dumps tennis ball-sized cocaine on the table, Jordan said.

 "It's like I thought I was like living…it's like Scarface, you know? I was like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe it.'"

 Jordan said throughout the night Sheen used a pipe and repeatedly smoked chunks of cocaine, hitting up his pipe every two minutes.

 "Light-- all I hear was light, light, light," she said.

 "He said he only smokes. He never does lines."

 Bizarre Party Details and Requests

 In another bizarre detail, Jordan said Sheen offered her a deal to join several other porn stars and move into a newly rented mansion with him.

 She said his real estate agent was sitting nearby with a signed rental agreement, with monthly rent at $250,000.

 "He's like, 'you can have anything you want. Anything you want, you name it, it'll be done within an hour,'" she said.

 Jordan claimed that Sheen offered her a car and just wanted to set up a house with a constant party.

 "He just wants to have fun…he's just like, 'I'm done. I'm done,'" she said.

 Jordan also claimed that Sheen asked if she could babysit his children at that mansion.

 "He's like, 'Can you babysit? I need a girl I can rely on to babysit, you know?'" she said.

 At the end of the night, Jordan says when she asked to be paid her fee and Sheen wrote her a check for $30,000.

 The website TMZ obtained copy of the check Sheen allegedly issued to Jordan.

 The check was made out to "cash" and Jordan said the bank called Sheen to verify it.

 Jordan said when she left Sheen's home, he was naked in his bed and still smoking cocaine from the pipe, hours before he was rushed to the hospital.

 "I'm thinking like…'Am I… is this going to be the last time I'm going to see him?'" she said. "I mean, like, 'I felt like something bad was going to happen.'"

 Sheen Gets Help

 Just three months earlier Sheen made headlines over what authorities described as an "alcohol-fueled rampage" with adult film star Capri Anderson at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Sheen's representatives released this statement to ABC News about the latest incident:

 "Charlie is currently seeking the medical attention that he needs and has the full support of his legal team, his agents, and his employers at CBS. It is a shame that during this time, while Mr. Sheen has sought treatment on his own, opportunistic women are trying to take advantage of his celebrity status."

 Jordan didn't ask to be paid for the interview or for the use of her photo.

 She said she was never worried about her safety nor did she fear Charlie Sheen.

 She has no plans to file any criminal complaint or any plans to file civil action.

 She said she's glad he's sought rehab. ||||| Porn Star Babysitter? Denise Bars Charlie From Alone Time With Kids

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 "Denise has had enough," the family source tells me. "All this time she has been trying to protect Charlie in the eyes of his daughters, limiting the information they know about his partying ways, but now she knows it's the girls that need protecting, not Charlie." Porn star Kacey Jordan's shocking claim on 'Good Morning America' that she was asked by Charlie Sheen to babysit his kids has pushed the actor's ex-wife over the edge. Sources with knowledge of the situation tell me Denise Richards has effectively barred Charlie from being alone with daughters Sam and Lola until he completes his ( stay-at-home ) rehab."Denise has had enough," the family source tells me. "All this time she has been trying to protect Charlie in the eyes of his daughters, limiting the information they know about his partying ways, but now she knows it's the girls that need protecting, not Charlie."

 Kacey Jordan's outrageous confession comes after she spent an epic, drug-fueled marathon with Charlie that landed him in the hospital and now in some sort of home rehab. On 'GMA,' she claimed Charlie approached her to babysit his kids. "He's like ... 'I need a girl I can rely on to babysit,'" she said.Naturally, Denise was not amused."If you caught GMA today..FYI.. No 'adult film star' will be babysitting our kids!" Denise tweeted hours after the interview aired. She then added, "I think my kids will be proud how I have handled everything."PopEater was the fist to report that Denise has turned down many lucrative TV offers to tell her side of the story, and although she plans to remain silent, her actions are going to speak louder than words."This is enough. [He] will never be alone with his daughters again," a member of Denise's inner circle tells me after hearing about the porn star's comments. "If losing his two daughters doesn't make him want to man up then nothing will."Denise has been a dedicated mom, as well as a friend and ex-wife to Charlie through hardships, but I'm told she's ready to play tough love after hearing he would entrust a porn star with caring for their children."She genuinely loves Charlie and will always be there for him," her friend adds. "The only thing in the world that means more to her than Charlie is her daughters. And he just crossed that line."Go get him Denise. |||||
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– Just how far Charlie Sheen veered off the rails before his hospitalization last week has been revealed by yet another porn star pal, who talks of seeing cocaine chunks the size of tennis balls at the star's last bender. "I've never seen someone so self-destructive and able to take in so much at once," says Kacey Jordan, who attended Sheen's party at his LA home. "It was almost like a suicide binge." Sheen asked her to move in to a mansion he planned to turn into a "24-hour party"—then asked if she would babysit his kids, Jordan tells ABC News. "He drinks any kind of liquor or anything like it's water. He can chug it," says Jordan. Sheen also repeatedly smoked chunks of cocaine, lighting up his pipe every few minutes, she adds. When an assistant finally told him he was out of drugs he told her: "'We got to call my boy.' Then a man comes in with a bag of drugs and dumps tennis ball-sized cocaine on the table," Jordan recalls, describing Sheen as "wrecked and in shambles." His TV series Two and a Half Men is on hold. (Click to read what Denise Richards thinks about a porn star babysitting her kids.)


– Federal agents discovered two more major drug tunnels between California and Mexico this week, reports USA Today. Each began under a warehouse in Tijuana and ended under another in San Diego. The discovery holds a lesson for cartels: If you're going to spend millions building these things, you might want to invest in better fronts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents found the first one after noting that the US warehouse had nothing but cheap toys inside, as if it were an exporter, the same front used in a tunnel found last year, reports the Union-Tribune. The discovery of the first tunnel led to the discovery of the second one in a nearby warehouse in the same industrial park. Authorities arrested a 73-year-old woman in Chula Vista, California, suspected of supervising the smuggling operations, reports the LA Times. The tunnels were 600 to 700 yards long and were equipped with lighting and rail systems, with one notably more sophisticated than the other. Unlike previous discoveries—these are the sixth and seventh tunnels found between Tijuana and San Diego since 2010—no drugs were found during the raids.

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The "super tunnels" were the sixth and seventh found between Tijuana and San Diego since 2010.

 This image shows an agent examining one of two tunnels discovered April 1, 2014 in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial park. The first tunnel, stretching about 600 yards, was discovered on Tuesday. Authorities say it was equipped with lighting, a crude rail system and wooden trusses. The other tunnel was discovered Thursday. It’s described as stretching more than 700 yards and more sophisticated, with an electric rail system and ventilation equipment. (Photo: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) via AP)

 Two more suspected drug-smuggling tunnels linking warehouses in Tijuana and San Diego have been uncovered by U.S. and Mexican authorities, and a 73-year-old California woman is accused of being the logistics manager for one passageway.

 No drugs or other contraband were found in the so-called super tunnels, which featured lights, rails, wooden supports and ventilation, or in warehouses on either side of the border, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday.

 The passages, which U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said cost millions of dollars to build, were the sixth and seventh super tunnels found between Tijuana and San Diego since 2010.

 STORY: Major drug-smuggling tunnel found between San Diego, Tijuana

 The first tunnel found this week was found Tuesday in an industrial park in the Otay Mesa section of San Diego. About 600 yards long and 70 feet underground, it was detected under the cement floor of a warehouse containing children's toys and TVs.

 Wednesday, the San Diego Tunnel Task Force arrested Glennys Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen from Chula Vista, a San Diego suburb. She is accused of overseeing logistics and faces federal charges of conspiring with others to maintain a drug-involved premises.

 The second, more sophisticated passage was unearthed Thursday in Otay Mesa by Mexican investigators following leads from their U.S. counterparts. Stretching about 700 yards long, it contained a multi-tiered electric rail system, said ICE, which did not indicate the contents of the second warehouse or the warehouses in Tijuana.

 "While technology certainly plays a part in our ongoing efforts, ultimately these investigations often owe more to the powers of observation and old fashioned detective work – and that was exactly what happened here," said said Derek Benner, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego.

 In November 2010, border agents uncovered an 1,800-foot-long drug-smuggling super tunnel connecting Tijuana with the same industrial park in San Diego. More than 20 tons of marijuana were seized in the Otay Mesa warehouse; Mexican soldiers confiscated five tons at the other end.

 Since 2006, more than 80 cross-border tunnels in various stages of construction have been found, mostly in California and Arizona.

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 Just as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Diego shut the door on their latest drug-smuggling tunnel case, another one opened up.

 On Wednesday, ICE officials arrested a 73-year-old Chula Vista woman on suspicion of overseeing the operation of an underground tunnel leading under the border to an Otay Mesa industrial park in San Diego.

 On Thursday, they found a second tunnel, which is one longer and more sophisticated than the first.

 The busts “eliminated a multi-million dollar drug smuggling venture and have reduced it to nothing more than a colossal waste of money on the part of the drug cartels," said William Sherman, the Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego special agent in charge, in a statement.

 "Our goal is to not only shut these tunnels down before they become operational, but to ensure that the cartels backing these elaborate smuggling operations are investigated and prosecuted."

 The two tunnel discovered this week mark the sixth and seven cross-border passages that authorities have located in the last four years. Officials have found more than 80 tunnels from California to Arizona since 2006.

 But the quantity of drugs – if any – that were successfully channeled through the tunnels found this week is unknown, authorities said. According to the federal complaint against Glennys Rodriguez of Chula Vista – who is accused of supervising the pathways - the warehouse where the first tunnel was found was purchased last May.

 In their announcement, authorities described the elaborate passage smugglers had carved under the border:

 The first tunnel was approximately 600 yards long, secured with wooden trusses and equipped with lighting and a crude rail system. Its exit on the U.S. side was 70-feet below ground and had a pulley system for hoisting packages to the surface.

 Children’s toys were found strewn in the warehouse where the tunnel lead, officials said.

 Agents have found similar settings outside other tunnels they’ve uncovered. They say operators hire people to occasionally drop by the property to make it appear to be a normal business to neighbors, according to court documents.

 The second tunnel was discovered by Mexican authorities on Thursday. Authorities found that the second tunnel exited just around the corner from the first and was noticeably more advanced.

 The second tunnel was about 700 yards long, had ventilation and a multi-tiered electrical rail system.

 So far, Rodriguez is the only person facing charges, but her criminal complaint names several other people who authorities believe are related to the tunnels, including a man who authorities said has been caught constructing cross-border tunnels before.

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A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

 "What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

 "Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.

 Paul interjected to offer an explanation for how this was, more-or-less, the root choice of a free society. He added that communities and non-government institutions can fill the void that the public sector is currently playing.

 "We never turned anybody away from the hospital," he said of his volunteer work for churches and his career as a doctor. "We have given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves, assume responsibility for ourselves ... that's the reason the cost is so high." ||||| TAMPA, FL -- The morning after a sometimes-rocky appearance in front of a Tea Party debate audience, Gov. Rick Perry said he was "taken aback" by cheers from some crowd members on a hypothetical question of whether a young man who decides not to buy health insurance should be refused care if he develops a life-threatening illness and be left to die.

 "I was a bit taken aback by that myself," Perry told NBC News and the Miami Herald after appearing at a breakfast fundraiser in Tampa.

 "We're the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives."

 Perry distinguished from that the issue of "justice," reiterating his strong support and "respect" for the death penalty on a state-by-state basis. "But the Republican party ought to be about life and protecting, particularly, innocent life," he added.

 Perry also responded to the crowd's negative reaction to his support for allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, saying his campaign has "the right message" on opportunities for children who were brought to the United States illegally "by no fault of their own."

 "This issue is about education, it's not about immigration," he said.

 "These kids showed up in our state by no fault of their own, some 2-3 years of age. And they've been in our schools, they've done their work, they've prepared themselves good, they want to be contributing members of society. So it would be I think the wrong message to say somehow or another that you can't go to our colleges, or we've going to punish you because of the sound of your last name."

 "When people really think about it, I think they'll understand what we did in Texas was the right thing for Texas," he said.

 Last night's debate also featured shots at Perry from both Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum on the issue of Gardasil, a vaccine that Perry mandated to be given to 12-year-old girls to prevent HPV - a disease linked to cervical cancer.

 Bachmann said on NBC's TODAY Show this morning that she was approached by a woman after the debate whose daughter had suffered mental retardation as a result of getting the vaccine.

 Perry dismissed that idea as similar to debunked theories linking vaccinations to autism.

 "You heard the same arguments about giving our children protections from some of the childhood diseases, and they were, autism was part of that. Now we've subsequently found out that was generated and not true."

 "I would suggest to you that this issue about Gardasil and making it available was about saving people's lives," he added. |||||
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– Count Rick Perry among those "taken aback" at the reaction of some in the crowd during a debate question about health insurance last night. (A handful shouted "Yeah!" and cheered to a hypothetical question about whether someone who forgoes insurance should be allowed to die. See the video here.) Asked about it today, the Texas governor replied, "I was a bit taken aback by that myself," reports NBC News. "We're the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives." He made clear, however, to draw a distinction with the death penalty, which he supports as a matter of "justice," he said. "But the Republican party ought to be about life and protecting, particularly, innocent life," he added.


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When Bruno the chocolate lab was rescued from an abandoned well in the Estevan area after almost a month without food, his story got international attention.

 As he headed home this week, he still looked thin and wore a cast on one paw, but after 22 days recovering at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine, the improvement in his condition was obvious.

 His owners, John and Cindy Billesberger, had been waiting for that moment.

 “After seeing what he looked like when we brought him in and seeing the looks on the vets’ faces, every day — every moment — that he lived was another obstacle that (was) overcome,” Cindy said.

 Bruno went missing on Sept. 17 from the family’s farm near Hitchcock, southeast of Regina. Their efforts to find him turned up nothing until Oct. 14, when John took their other two dogs for a walk and one of them stood over the abandoned well, refusing to move. Bruno was lying in the mud three metres below, injured and near death from starvation.

 The family initially brought the seven-year-old retriever to the Prairie Animal Health Centre in Estevan, but after a few days of good news and promising test results, Bruno experienced “refeeding syndrome,” a condition experienced by animals that have not consumed food for a prolonged time. It can result in the body not functioning properly and lead to death.

 That’s when they brought him to Saskatoon.

 Wagging his tail and playing with a squeaky toy on Thursday, Bruno seemed to be doing well, but Cindy said he’s still not 100 per cent.

 “That’s hard to see, because he was quite hefty before,” she said. “Not unnaturally hefty, but he had a little extra padding.”

 To address the refeeding syndrome, veterinarians in Saskatoon slowly increased the amount of food he was consuming, supplementing his intake of essential electrolytes, phosphorous, magnesium and potassium. Back at home, he will now remain on a special diet and continue physiotherapy.

 The veterinary college’s canine rehabilitation team also used cold laser therapy on his damaged paws and hindquarters. The treatment stimulates cells, encourages healing and helps with pain.

 Cindy said the attention Bruno’s rescue has attracted is “unbelievable.” His story appeared in newspapers across North America and in the U.K. and Russia. She said she’s grateful for the staff at the veterinary college.

 “Bruno would have never survived,” she said, noting the couple’s other dogs, Esme and Luna, have been depressed without him.

 Douglas Freeman, the college’s dean, said staff worked hard to ensure Bruno was treated properly. His chances of survival would have been slim to none if his rescue had come any later, Freeman said.

 “He literally was skin and bones. I didn’t see him when he presented, but it’s really remarkable and it speaks to the care he got from the local veterinarians.

 “When it was time to refer him, they knew to refer him to a team here that includes nutritionists, medicine people, rehab people and our surgeons.”

 Freeman said that Bruno was a good patient, joking that he didn’t once complain about the hospital food. His case will now be documented so other veterinary professionals can use similar lines of treatment for future cases.

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 Twitter.com/MorganM_SP ||||| A chocolate Labrador retriever who spent 27 days trapped in a well in southern Saskatchewan is heading home.

 The seven-year-old dog, Bruno, was released from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon on Thursday after nearly 22 days in the college’s Veterinary Medical Centre.

 “We’re so excited,” said Bruno’s owner, Cindy Billesberger, in a media release.

 The dog, who was missing for nearly a month, was found Oct. 14 trapped in a well near the Billisberger’s Estevan-area farm.

 He had lost half his body weight and was barely alive, and spent several days in the care of the family’s local veterinary clinic, Prairie Animal Health Centre, before Billesberger brought the dog to Saskatoon.

 “You’ve got such a feeling of helplessness when you pull an animal out like that, and they’re suffering and there’s nothing you can do. There was no way we could take care of him,” Billesberger said.

 Bruno, because he had spent so much time sitting in water and had attempted to claw his way out of the well, was suffering from wounds and sores on his paws when he was brought in to the veterinary centre at the University of Saskatchewan campus. He was also diagnosed with a condition known as refeeding syndrome, which occurs when an animal that hasn’t eaten for a long time is suddenly given food.

 “When he came in, he was barely walking. He was miserable. The only time he would look at us is when we had food,” said Dr. Alison Khoo, a small animal internal medicine resident.

 “Now he’s like a different dog. He loves going outside. He’s still very food-motivated, but he’s got a lot of energy back and he’s starting to show more of his personality.”

 The dog was monitored 24 hours a day by clinicians in the veterinary centre’s intensive care unit. His paws were treated with cold laser therapy, and his electrolyte levels, which were affected because of refeeding syndrome, were constantly monitored and supplemented intravenously.

 “We could do this because we have 24-hour technical support,” said Dr. Sue Taylor, an internal medicine specialist and professor who oversaw Bruno’s case alongside Khoo.

 The veterinarians, alongside Dr. Tammy Owens who assisted in treating Bruno’s refeeding syndrome, plan to publish a case report documenting the dog’s recovery.

 “I don’t think many dogs would have survived this,” said Khoo. “To continue to see him improve has been so rewarding.” ||||| Bruno, a dog that survived 27 days stuck in an abandoned well, is on the mend and returning home after some intensive treatment at the veterinary college in Saskatoon.

 The seven-year-old Labrador retriever was found curled up at the bottom of a three-metre deep well in the Estevan area Oct. 14 almost a month after owners John and Cindy Billesberger noted he was missing. They, along with family and friends, had spent weeks scouring their farm property and roadside ditches trying to find Bruno.

 He's got his personality back. - John Billesberger

 John Billesberger finally located him after noticing his other dogs were lingering at a spot thick with tall grasses. When he pushed aside the grass, he discovered the old well and his dog.

 "He was pretty rough looking there," Billesberger said Thursday. He took the dog to the vet in Estevan — about 200 kilometres southeast of Regina — where they started treatment for severe malnutrition and dehydration, as well as injuries from his trying to get out of the well, which Billesberger estimated was roughly a metre wide.

 John and Cindy Billesberger are taking Bruno home after treatment in Saskatoon. The dog was stuck in a well for 27 days. (CBC)

 It was estimated the dog lost about 18 kilograms — from his regular weight of just over 40 — during the ordeal. Initially, Bruno was in dire condition and the dog's survival was in question.

 "Every day he got better," Billesberger said.

 The gradual recovery hit a setback after five days, leading to a referral for more specialized, intensive care in Saskatoon.

 Bruno, a seven-year-old Labrador retriever, will continue recovering at home. The dog's diet will be closely monitored while undergoing physiotherapy. (CBC)

 "They were definitely Bruno's heroes," Cindy Billesberger said of the veterinarians and staff in Estevan and Saskatoon. "We're so grateful."

 "He's got his personality back," John Billesberger noted as Bruno wagged his tail happily before the car ride home.

 "I can't wait for him to get back," Cindy Billesberger said, adding their other dogs have been missing Bruno. "I think he'll thrive more when he's at the farm, and around his friends, and in the fresh air and with us. He'll be happy."

 After 27 days without food, Bruno received initial treatment at a veterinary clinic in Estevan and more intensive care in Saskatoon. The dog was found at the bottom of a three-metre deep well. (Cindy Billesberger/Submitted to CBC)

 Bruno will need to gradually return to a full diet, she said. He also has some physiotherapy routines and more visits to the vets to check on his paws.

 A case study for vets

 Douglas Freeman, dean of the veterinary medicine college at the University of Saskatchewan, said Bruno's remarkable recovery will be written up as a case study.

 "It's been a very interesting case," Freeman said. "He still has lot of work to recover ... there'll be continued care at home."

 He added Bruno got along well.

 "I'm told he was a great patient," he said. "He never complained once about hospital food." |||||

– After 27 days starving and injured at the bottom of a well and another three weeks in the hospital, a 7-year-old Labrador retriever finally went home. When Bruno disappeared, his owners, John and Cindy Billesberger, searched their little corner of Canada for weeks, CBC reports. On Oct. 14, the Billesbergers' two other dogs refused to move away from an old well hiding in some grass during a walk, according to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Ten feet below, Bruno was sitting in the mud. "He was pretty rough looking," John tells CBC. Bruno was dehydrated and had lost nearly half his body weight. CTV News reports he had severely injured his paws trying to escape. “You’ve got such a feeling of helplessness when you pull an animal out like that, and they’re suffering, and there’s nothing you can do," Cindy says. Over the coming weeks, vets nursed Bruno back to health, monitoring him 24 hours a day. He almost didn't make it. “I don’t think many dogs would have survived this,” Dr. Alison Khoo says. “To continue to see him improve has been so rewarding.” Bruno's recovery will become a case file to help vets save other dogs in the future. Bruno, who still has a cast on one paw, went home Thursday and will continue to require a special diet and physical therapy. But that's not dampening his family's enthusiasm one bit. "He'll be happy," says Cindy. (Fire officials think this dog died a hero.)


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– This generation's wanna-be Mata Hari appears in all her blazing hotness in Russian Maxim in what officials hope might be a morale-booster for their spooks. "Anna Chapman has done more to excite Russian patriotism than the Russian soccer team," the mag sniggers about the nearly-total-boob-baring shot of the pistol-packing spy deported from New York. The bodacious former spy has fast become the poster babe of the seductive spy operation the Russians wish they had, Reuters notes. Though loudly hailed by the Kremlin and Russian press, the years-long spy operation in the US including Chapman and nine compatriots is widely considered an embarrassing flop.

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 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian spy Anna Chapman posed in the Russian version of Maxim magazine in the most provocative photographs yet to appear of the secret agent who was deported from the United States in July.

 A photograph on www.maximonline.ru shows red-haired Chapman dressed in nylon and lace and posing with a handgun.

 "Anna Chapman has done more to excite Russian patriotism than the Russian soccer team," wrote Maxim.

 Nine other spies were deported from the United States with her.

 The Kremlin has seized on the Cold War aspects of the case to try to boost the prestige of its intelligence services and avert what has widely been seen as a major disgrace for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), a successor to the KGB.

 Although celebrated by the Kremlin and Russian media, the Russian spy ring was reported to have failed to secure any major intelligence before their arrests in the United States.

 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the group of spies the country's highest state honors on Monday.

 The photographs and an interview with Chapman will be in the next issue of Maxim, which has included Chapman in its list of Russia's 100 sexiest women.

 The 10 Russians, accused of being sleeper agents, were swapped with four imprisoned Russians who were accused of having traded secrets with the West.

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