Israeli forces kill 2 more Palestinians

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli forces killed two young Palestinians on Sunday, hours after the military announced that a teen shot on Saturday also died.

The latest deaths bring to four the number of Palestinian youths killed by Israeli forces this weekend.

Israeli and Palestinian sources disagreed about the circumstances of the fatal shootings Sunday.

Israeli military officials said troops fatally shot the two after they tried to stab an Israel Defense Forces soldier who was on routine patrol southeast of Nablus, military officials said. The Israeli military was working to get more details, they said.

But Palestinian sources said the two were innocent farm workers.

The head of the Palestinian medical relief services for the district of Nablus, Dr. Ghassan Hamadan, said the two Palestinians were both shot in the back. One had four gunshot wounds in the back and one in the shoulder, he said.

The two victims were aged 18 and 20, according to Palestinian medical sources. Red Crescent officials had earlier estimated they were between the ages of 14 and 16.

An IDF spokeswoman said the incidents are linked to increased violent demonstrations in the West Bank by "an extreme group which tries to infiltrate violence and inflame the situation."

"We are not looking to hurt innocent people," the spokeswoman said. "We continue with our measures to improve the Palestinian life -- great amounts of money was invested in paving new roads; since 2007 over 180 roadblocks have been removed in the West Bank -- all this process continues without relation to the current situation.

"(But) We are a law abiding country and cannot ignore such violent demonstrations. We reduce the number of roadblocks and still encounter attempts to stab soldiers."

Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to sabotage "any possibility for peace."

Netanyahu "wants to kill any hope for peace... He is an enemy of all people, including Palestinians and Israelis, and he is behaving like a prime minister of settlers, of land thieves, not a prime minister of a government."

Palestinian Prime Minster Salam Fayyad "strongly condemned" what he called "the Israeli military escalation."

In the earlier incident, Ousayab Qadous, 19, was shot in the head Saturday during a rally in the West Bank, officials said. He was one of two teens fatally shot by Israeli forces. A 16-year-old Palestinian boy died earlier Saturday.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights accused the soldiers of intentionally firing at the two "from close range," killing them "in cold blood."

Israeli forces admitted there was a riot Saturday, but denied shooting at the crowd in Iraq-Burin, southwest of Nablus.

Rejecting Palestinian reports, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said there was no live fire, only rubber bullets.

"IDF soldiers arrived at the scene in order to prevent a further clash, and were attacked by dozens of Palestinians who violently hurled rocks as a force," the spokesman said.

"Soldiers responded with riot-dispersal means, which include the use of rubber bullets, in accordance with procedures, and identified hitting two Palestinians. One was evacuated by the Red Crescent and one evacuated himself from the area."

A Palestinian activist group said Qadous was shot after a crowd of Palestinians protested limitations to their land access beneath the Jewish-only settlement of Har Brakha.

The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, which said it had activists at the scene, described Israelis firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators as they returned to their village -- sparking clashes.

The IDF spokesman said, "The riot dispersal methods used are similar to the ones used all over the world, there is no Israeli invention here -- mainly tear gas and rubber bullets.

"There could be a case in which IDF soldiers feel an immediate life threat and then have to use live ammunition, but as far as I know no such weapons were used during the demonstrations. The Saturday event is still under investigation."

At one point, shots were fired at a small group of young men, some of whom were throwing stones, the activists said.

But the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said the two victims were shot hours after the rioting calmed down, as they got off a minibus. The group called the shootings a war crime.

Meanwhile, the IDF announced Monday that the Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike overnight Sunday on what the IDF described as a weapons-smuggling tunnel in the Rafah border area of the southern Gaza Strip.

The strike was in response to the firing of several rockets launched from the Gaza Strip in recent days, the IDF said in a statement.

"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and will continue to operate firmly against anyone who uses terror against it," the statement said. "The Israel Defense Forces holds Hamas as solely responsible for maintaining peace and quiet in the Gaza Strip."

Four more arrested in Juarez house party massacre

The Mexican military has arrested four more people connected to the killings of 15 people at a January house party in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, bringing the total to seven suspects arrested and one killed, according to documents from the Mexican attorney general's office obtained by CNN.

Last Sunday the Mexican military, in connection with federal police, arrested Heriberto Martinez, a self-proclaimed member of the Aztecas, a Juarez street gang that acts as the Juarez cartel's enforcers in the city. State prosecutors say Martinez committed at least four killings and acted as a lookout during the house party massacre in Villas de Salvarcar, a southern suburb of Juarez, in the early morning hours of January 31.

The house party slayings of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime, has sparked outrage across the country. The slayings are thought by officials to be the result of bad intelligence by the cartel and by the gang that carried out the killings.

Another one of the four arrested recently was Luis Alberto Camacho Ramos, alias "El Shoker" or "El Flaco," who according to documents obtained by CNN confessed to participating in the house party killings. Ramos, along with admitted drug cartel member Jesus Bustos Renteria, was arrested in the beginning of March, according to the documents.

The documents obtained Saturday, forwarded exclusively to CNN by Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, show that at least one of the four men recently arrested -- Alfredo Arias, alias "Arnold" -- was signaled out during testimony by Aldo Favio Hernandez Lozano, alias "El 18." Lozano was a municipal police officer arrested last month who state prosecutors say was a hit man in the January killings. During testimony, Lozano said it was Arias who originally called him to order the house party hit. Arias also supplied the weapons for the killings, Lozano said during testimony.

Arias had been sought in connection with a different killing. Six people, including 26-year-old U.S. Air Force Airman David Booher, died in a November 2009 shooting carried out at a strip club in Juarez, Mayor Reyes said.

In a press release last week by the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office, Arias was identified as the gunmen in the strip club shooting through surveillance video taken at the club.

Still photos included in the documents obtained by CNN show a man who resembles Arias, wearing a hat and hooded sweatshirt, removing a gun from his waist band and opening fire shortly after entering the club.

Arias was caught on March 16, while driving his son in the colony of Plutarco Elias Calles. In his possession, according to officials, were dozens of rounds of ammunition and at least 3 guns, including an assault rifle commonly known in Mexico as "un cuerno de chivo" or "goat's horn" because of the gun's banana shaped clip. It is the weapon of choice for drug cartel members in Juarez.

According to the press release, Arias was also the apparent leader of the drug cell "Los Linces," and it was that cell that ordered the killing on January 31 in southern Juarez.

Another man identified as the mastermind behind the killings -- Adrian Ramirez Armendariz, alias "El Rama" -- was killed by the Mexican military days after the house party killings.

Arias "was at one time in U.S. custody, but was later deported to Juarez," Reyes said. "It really underscores the fact that many of the criminals we have in Juarez were illegal aliens in the U.S. that have been deported from the U.S. into Juarez."

Reyes said in recent years as many as 100,000 Mexican nationals living illegally in the United States have been deported to Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.

"We did a study of the killings during an isolated period recently and cross-referenced to the date we have of deportation. We found that 10 percent of those killed in previous months from the time we made this study actually had been deported within the last two years from the U.S. to Juarez."

CNN could not immediately authenticate whether or not Arias was at one time in U.S. custody.

On Sunday, Reyes told CNN he was looking forward to meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she visits Mexico this week. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also is scheduled to visit Mexico this week.

The announcement of the arrests comes on the same weekend a funeral was held in El Paso for two of the three people associated with the U.S. consulate in Juarez who were killed last week after they left a social gathering.
Reyes said last week that authorities believe those slayings were carried out by the Barrio Azteca drug gang. No motive has been revealed, and no arrests have been made.

About 200 U.S. federal, state and local authorities interviewed more than 100 Barrio Azteca members and associates in El Paso and southern New Mexico on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Blackburn 1-1 Chelsea

Chelsea suffered a stumble in the title race to round off a week of bitter disappointment for Carlo Ancelotti's side.

A match that seemed there for the taking after Didier Drogba's early goal somehow drifted out of Chelsea's grasp.

El Hadji Diouf headed a superb equaliser as Blackburn put in such a powerful second-half performance that keeper Jason Brown was barely tested.

For Chelsea, whose record in their past nine matches is now four wins, four defeats and one draw, this was hardly a display of title-winning credentials and they are now four points behind Manchester United and two behind Arsenal, though with a game in hand.

This was underlined by the fact that the clear man of the match was none other than Rovers' 18-year-old central defender Phil Jones, making his league debut and up against Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.

Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce had gambled on him in the absence of Ryan Nelsen and Gael Givet.

That gamble may have seen rash as Drogba carved out an early chance for himself, dinking a neat curling shot just wide of the post despite being surrounded by a posse of defenders.

That was just a foretaste of what was to come as the Ivory Coast striker opened the scoring in the sixth minute with an almost effortless simplicity.

Anelka burst down the right, cut inside Jones and laid the ball back for Drogba to wrong-foot the entire Rovers defence and keeper Jason Brown with a neat left-footed finish back into the opposite corner.

Kalou threatened to further emphasise Chelsea's early dominance with a header from a corner that flew over the crossbar but from then on it was downhill for the visitors.

David Dunn won a free-kick in Morten Gamst Pedersen range after being halted by an agricultural challenge by Alex, but although the Norwegian was on target Chelsea keeper Ross Turnbull turned his effort behind.

Pedersen had another sight of goal but was wildly off-target with his volley, while Jones drew the loudest cheers from the Rovers fans so far with a series of crunching - but legal - challenges as Blackburn did their best to out-power the visitors.

Florent Malouda let fly from 20 yards out with a stinging drive but Brown managed to parry the shot, if somewhat unconvincingly.

Ancelotti was then forced to make a change just before the break with Branislav Ivanovic, who appeared to have been stood on unintentionally by El Hadji Diouf, limped off to be replaced by Zhirkov.

Blackburn, as if scenting that Chelsea may have missed a trick by scoring just a single goal in the first half, upped the tempo in the second.

Zhirkov's first involvement for Chelsea, right at the start of the second half was to head off the line after Chris Samba had beaten the flapping Turnbull to Pedersen's long throw.

Pedersen was then left cursing again when given space to shoot from 25 yards out but missing the target by some margin.

Frank Lampard, who had been having a quiet game by his standards, was much closer with a rising effort from the same range that was a whisker away from the top right-hand corner.

The suspicion that Chelsea had seemed over-confident in settling for a 1-0 win had been growing the longer the second half went on, and in the 70th minute Diouf made them pay.

The Senegal international hung in the air above Ferreira to meet Michel Salgado's cross with a superb header down into the corner.

Chelsea, stung in action, became more direct themselves and Alex struck a piledriver from a 30-yard free-kick over the bar.

With time running down, Drogba was denied a fine winner by a good block, then Jones crowned a magnificent debut with an intercepting header to keep out John Terry.

Rovers celebrated as though they had won the Premier League. Chelsea looked as though they had just lost it.

Manchester United 2-1 Liverpool

Manchester United went back to the Premier League summit, trampling on Liverpool's top-four hopes in the process.

Park Ji-sung headed home the winner after an hour, securing the spoils after Wayne Rooney's 33rd goal of the season had controversially levelled Fernando Torres' fifth-minute opener.

Although victory was not achieved without a nervy ending, during which Torres spurned a glorious chance to equalise, the result kept United's noses in front of Arsenal and Chelsea.

For Liverpool though, fight was not enough.

When they scored four times in the corresponding fixture last season, it appeared to open the door to that championship Holy Grail.

Not only has that been proved fool's gold, a 10th defeat of the season leaves them requiring slip-ups from Tottenham and others just to finish in a Champions League spot. What Rafael Benitez claimed before Christmas was a guaranteed fourth-place finish could hardly be further away.

Sir Alex Ferguson once claimed that a game of tiddlywinks between what the majority still believe to be England's biggest clubs could trigger the deepest of passions.

Certainly there was no sense of inferiority from the visitors despite their present status, and with good reason.

It was the Merseysiders who had won the last three meetings - each of which featured the dismissal of Nemanja Vidic, who it seems in Torres has found someone he simply cannot handle.

Such is the mystique surrounding that duel there was an audible gasp the first time Torres ran at the Serbian. Like so much of the opening period's final half-hour, it petered out disappointingly. The spark had been ignited long before that, although Torres was the one who flicked the switch.

By his very demeanour, Torres gave the impression of being a man on a mission.

Five minutes into the contest, he seized on the loose ball after Michael Carrick had lost possession, sending Steven Gerrard away at top speed with an inspired backheel.

As Gerrard found Dirk Kuyt to his right, Torres continued his own run, United's defence never set properly to ensure the Spaniard remained under their control.

By the time Kuyt dug out his cross, Torres was on his own.

Park's wayward effort from a similar position later on proved the goal was anything but the routine effort it looked to be as the Spanish star guided the ball out of Edwin van der Sar's reach.

Quite apart from falling behind against such fierce rivals, an increasingly enthralling title race demanded a United comeback.

For Liverpool, the equaliser came far too quickly. The controversy was immediate too.

Benitez argued Javier Mascherano's attempt to haul back Antonio Valencia was outside the box, which, indeed, was where the infringement began. Ferguson countered the combative midfielder had prevented a clear goalscoring opportunity.

The managers - no friends these two - continued their finger-jabbing row long after Wayne Rooney had tucked home the rebound from a spot-kick awarded by Howard Webb and saved by Pepe Reina.

That was it for the goal threat until the hour mark arrived.

During his long career, Gary Neville has gone on plenty of unselfish runs down the right wing, knowing David Beckham or, more latterly, Cristiano Ronaldo were never going to give him the ball.

Darren Fletcher is not quite of that attacking calibre but Neville must have sensed his run was purely to provide space for the Scot.

So it proved. As Neville flew past on the overlap, Emiliano Insua edged to his right. In an instant, Fletcher had exploited the gap and curled over a cross.

As Rooney and Jamie Carragher tussled and tugged, Park arrived behind them, launching himself at the ball like a guided missile and powering the diving header into the corner of Reina's goal.

Rooney had one more chance before the end, which he fired wide.

Torres was on the end of a far better one when Steven Gerrard drilled over a low cross near the end.

For once against United, the Spaniard miscued and Yossi Benayoun headed the loose ball straight at Edwin van der Sar.

United could celebrate, Neville and Ferguson doing the cheerleading.

Liverpool's money men are staring at a big black hole marked Champions League, Benitez is failing on his guarantees.

"Valencia dived to win penalty"

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez felt Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia dived to win an equalising penalty.

Liverpool went on to lose 2-1 at Old Trafford

However, the Reds boss did not think Sir Alex Ferguson's pre-match suggestion that Liverpool benefited from many decisions other sides did not had a bearing on referee Howard Webb's handling of the game.

Striker Fernando Torres gave the visitors the ideal start when he headed in Dirk Kuyt's cross six yards out in the fifth minute.

However, referee Webb's controversially awarded a penalty five minutes later when Valencia went down under Javier Mascherano's challenge despite initial contact being outside the area.

Wayne Rooney converted the rebound after Jose Reina had brilliantly saved his spot-kick but it was not until midway through the second half when Park Ji-sung scored the winner from a diving header.

In the last minute Torres had a chance to equalise from 10 yards but ballooned his strike into the air and Yossi Benayoun headed tamely into goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar's arms.

"We gave away the penalty too early - but there are doubts about the penalty," said Benitez.

"When you see the replay it is suspicious how he went to the ground."

Asked whether he thought Valencia had dived Benitez said: "From the replay I think so.

"It is not clear but the way he fell down.....is strange.

"It made a big difference. We were playing well and had confidence and then one situation changed everything."

Benitez was involved with a heated touchline exchange with Ferguson after Rooney's goal, with his United counterpart suggesting Mascherano should have been sent off.

However, the Spaniard did not believe Webb had been influenced by Ferguson's comments prior to the game.

"Some decisions in the past have not been the best for us but I consider Howard Webb a good referee," he added.

"The referees are professional. We know the influence of Sir Alex in everything but he is a good referee.

"Jamie Carragher was coming inside so he was in the middle of the action (and therefore Mascherano should not have been red-carded)."

Of their touchline exchange Benitez said: "When you have different opinions you have to express them. He has his own opinion about everything."

Zidane sure of Real passage

Zinedine Zidane is convinced Real Madrid can overturn a one-goal deficit against Lyon in the second-leg of their Champions League clash.

The former Real Madrid legend feels Real can repeat their performance in the 2002 Champions League final, they can overcome the French team.

According to Marca, Zidaneis still proud of his goal against Bayern Munich at the Bernabeu: " (It) nearly brought the entire stadium down. If we have a night like that one, Real Madrid will be able to do great things.

"I am convinced that they are going to come back," added the French legend.

Real Madrid will take on Lyon on Wednesday 1-0 down as they attempt to seal their passage to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, a feat they have not accomplished since 2004.

Arsenal vs Porto Team News

Team news for the second leg of the round-of-16 Champions League match between Arsenal and Porto.

Arsenal will be without captain Cesc Fabregas because of a hamstring problem for the Champions League clash with Porto at Emirates Stadium.

Cameroon international Alex Song is available as his two-match suspension does not apply in Europe, while veteran centre-back Sol Campbell has recovered from a groin problem.

Andrey Arshavin and Abou Diaby could both feature after coming off the bench against Burnley, while Mexican Carlos Vela could return to the squad after international duty.

William Gallas (calf) is still sidelined, while Aaron Ramsey (broken leg), Robin van Persie (ankle) and Johan Djourou (knee) are long-term absentees.

Team:

Arsenal (from): Almunia, Clichy, Vermaelen, Campbell, Eboue, Denilson, Nasri, Song, Walcott, Arshavin, Bendtner, Fabianski, Sagna, Diaby, Eduardo, Traore, Eastmond, Silvestre, Vela.

1 killed, 2 hurt in shooting at Ohio State

(CNN) -- Three Ohio State University employees were shot, one of them fatally, in an attack early Tuesday on campus, university police said.

The alleged shooter was in custody, said Ohio State University Police Chief Paul Denton.

No students were involved in the shooting, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. ET at the McCracken Power Plant building on West 17th Avenue near Ohio Stadium, Denton said.

The two wounded victims were taken to a hospital; one was in critical condition, he added.

Denton did not release the motive for the shooting or the names of anyone involved.

Ohio State's Web site said the shooting took place at a university maintenance building. The location has been secured, and some traffic restrictions remained in place Tuesday morning, but "the university continues normal operations," the school said. "Classes will be held and normal work schedules are in effect."

E-mail alerts were sent to students warning them about the shooting, the university said.

The shooting comes after the university issued e-mail alerts last week about two alleged sexual assaults and an attempted assault on campus, Ohio State's student newspaper reported.

The student newspaper, The Lantern, published an article Sunday saying that students were questioning the effectiveness of such e-mail alerts after three serious crimes last week.

Students are allowed to choose if they want to receive the e-mail alerts. On the campus of 50,000-plus students, a little more than 2,600 people receive the e-mails, police told the student paper.

A university committee was scheduled to meet this week to determine if changes needed to be made to the notification system, The Lantern reported.

Injured Fabregas: I wanted to play

Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas says he wanted to play through the pain barrier against Porto.

The Spaniard sustained a hamstring injury against Burnley last Saturday and has been ruled out of Tuesday's Champions League last-16 second-leg clash against Jesualdo Ferreira's side.

Arsenal trail the Portuguese 2-1 from the first leg but will be without their inspirational captain at the Emirates.

Fabregas said in The Sun: "I wanted to play but the doctors recommended I rest and avoid any risk.

"I am sad to miss out because Porto is important to us. I will suffer far more than usual, having to watch from the side."

Scans have revealed that there is no major damage and there is a chance Fabregas could make his comeback against Hull this weekend.