Would you like meet the mastermind behind the plot to kill and castrate Justin Bieber? Because he will terrify any of the Bieber haters who joked about last year's arrest of the team involved in the assassination attempt.
Everyone is anxious about the "white paper" that finally begins to detail the Obama administration's opinons on targeted assassination, but what seems to have even more people worried on the morning after — and less than 48 hours from John Brennan's confirmation hearing — is what's missing from that argument.
Unless you want to get the crap kicked out of you by every member of his crew. And, as one unlucky would-be assassin found out Saturday, the leader of Bulgaria's Turkish party rolls deep. Oh, did we mention the whole thing was caught on tape?
Mark Staake and his nephew were arrested on November 20 in a murder-for-hire plot. Nearly a month later, we've found out that murder-for-hire involved Justin Bieber and ... castration?
Israeli intelligence says there is evidence that Syrian rebels poisoned several top officials in the Syrian government, including the brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad.
Essam Ahmed Eid is a former poker dealer at Las Vegas' Bellagio casino and as the Los Angeles Times found out, was actually very close to completing his mid-life career change as a hitman thanks to his lucrative 'hitmanforhire.net' website.
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