Munich Shooter: 18-year-old German-Iranian
Posted: July 22, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Terrorism | Tags: Germany, Jihadism, Mass Shooting, Massacre, Munich, Olympia mall, The Washington Post 1 CommentMUNICH — A gunman carried out a shooting rampage Friday in a busy shopping area of Munich, killing at least nine people and wounding several others in an act of “suspected terrorism” before he committed suicide, police said early Saturday.
The rampage prompted authorities to lock down the southern German city and launch a massive manhunt for suspected perpetrators. Police later determined that the attack at Munich’s Olympia shopping complex was apparently carried out by a lone gunman and that he committed suicide about half a mile away.
There were no immediate details about the victims of what a police spokesman said “looks like a terrorist attack.” The Associated Press quoted Munich police spokesman Peter Beck as saying 10 people were killed in total, including the shooter.
In the absence of information about the identities of the dead and injured, about 50 family members of various ethnic backgrounds gathered at a Munich sports hall early Saturday to await official word on the fate of missing loved ones.
Much of the city was placed on lockdown as police conducted their manhunt. Despite initial reports of multiple attack sites, police could not confirm attacks in any other locations besides the shopping area.
Officials did not immediately specify how the attack unfolded or describe the full scope of the bloodshed at the Olympia mall.
But a senior security official told The Washington Post that four people were killed inside a McDonald’s restaurant and one was fatally shot outside. The official said another victim died at a hospital.
The initial investigation was pointing “in all directions,” police spokesman Marcus de Gloria Martins told reporters in Munich.
German officials said investigators were looking into the possibility that the attack might have been motivated by anti-immigrant sentiments, as well as the prospect that Islamist extremism was behind it. Language against foreigners can be heard on a recording from the scene of the shooting, but it was not immediately clear who was speaking. A German television station said a witness told a colleague that the shooter shouted “Bloody foreigners!” at the scene of the McDonald’s attack. There was no immediate confirmation of that account.
German news media reported that police found a body, possibly that of the McDonald’s shooter, about a half mile from the scene and were checking a backpack for explosives.
Hours after the attack, Martins said police were still assuming that “up to three perpetrators” were involved. “We’re definitely not assuming that it’s more than three, but it might also be that it’s fewer than that,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Three officers Killed, Three Injured in Baton Rouge Shooting
Posted: July 17, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Terrorism, U.S. News | Tags: Baton Rouge, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Cop Killers, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, Jim Pasco, John Bel Edwards, Louisiana, Louisiana State Police, Mass Shooting, Massacre, Police Leave a commentIn May, Governor Edwards signed a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ bill into law, making Louisiana the first state in the country where police officers, firefighters and other first responders are a protected class under hate-crime law.
Multiple officers in Baton Rouge were shot Sunday, July 17. The city’s Mayor told NBC three of them have died. Police warned local residents to stay away from the scene as they searched the area for the shooter. (Reuters)
Three police officers were killed and at least three others injured in a shooting Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.
“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing. Rest assured, every resource available to the state of Louisiana will be used to ensure the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
— Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
Authorities said that one suspect has been killed, and the sheriff’s office said that they believe two other potential suspects may be at large. While the injured officers were taken to nearby hospitals, people who lived in the vicinity were ordered to hunker down and stay indoors.
Details about the shooting remained unclear by Sunday afternoon, and police did not immediately say whether they believe the officers were targeted or if they were injured during a law enforcement action. The shooting happened in a region still on edge after police fatally shot a man there, sparking heated protests that prompted a heavy law enforcement response that some have questioned as unnecessarily forceful.
Officers from the Baton Rouge police force as well as deputies from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office were involved in the shooting, authorities said, though they did not specify the agencies of the officers who were killed. Multiple officers from both agencies were injured in the shooting and brought to hospitals, police said.
[Read the full story here, at The Washington Post]
“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) said in a statement. “Rest assured, every resource available to the state of Louisiana will be used to ensure the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
Edwards planned to speak more about the shooting at a news conference later Sunday, his office said.
[In May, Louisiana became the first state to make it a hate crime to target police]
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden said he had spoken to officials from the White House, who offered to assist in any way possible.
“It’s touched, basically, people all across the country,” he told WAFB in a telephone interview just after noon. “The phones have not stopped ringing.”
Holden could not confirm reports from various media outlets that as many as seven officers had been wounded.
“When a police officer is shot or assaulted, it makes every single citizen in the country a little less safe. When police officers have to worry about citizens committing unprovoked acts of violence against them it makes it more difficult for them to interact with citizens and that is a key factor in law enforcement.”
— Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police
“In the word community is the word unity,” Holden said. “If this is not a defining moment for us, to bridge the divide and come out with a unified voice, than I don’t know what is.”
In a statement, Baton Rouge said that its police force and other local, state and federal authorities were “actively investigating the circumstances surrounding this morning’s shooting.” Officials also said that the roads around the shooting area remained closed as of 2 p.m. local time.
Agents for the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene in Baton Rouge responding to the shooting, according to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.
“No other state includes police officers as a protected class under hate-crime laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But at least 37 states — including Louisiana — have enhanced penalties for assaulting police officers.”
A spokesman for the FBI in New Orleans said he was “unsure” whether the officers were targeted specifically, or whether something else might have sparked the incident. He declined to comment further.
But the shooting deaths came during a particularly deadly year for law enforcement, and not long after a gunman who said he was enraged by police killings targeted police in Dallas. Read the rest of this entry »
#SanBernardino Suspect Motive Revealed
Posted: December 2, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Climate change, Environmmentalism, Jihadism, Massacre, media, Motive, murder, news, San Bernardino Massacre, Shooting, Syed Farook 1 Comment[Cartoon] Jihadist Pop Quiz
Posted: March 22, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Religion, War Room | Tags: Cartoon, Islamism, Jihadist, Massacre, Terrorist Leave a comment[PHOTOS] Striking Images of People Across France Observing a Minute of Silence Today
Posted: January 8, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Agence France-Presse, Belgium, Celsius, Charlie Hebdo, Climate, François Hollande, France, Germany, Massacre, Météo-France, Paris, Photography, Twitter Leave a commentMashable.com #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/51Kc7VPncx
FRANCE: Charlie Hebdo Attack: Manhunt Turns Up Photo I.D. of Suspect, Left in Car
Posted: January 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, Religion, War Room | Tags: #CharlieHebdo, BBC, Cartoon, Charlie Hebdo, France, Islamism, Jihadism, Jihadist, Manhunt, Massacre, Paris, Said Kouachi, Twitter 1 CommentCharlie Hebdo attack: Manhunt – BBC News
Hong Kong Supporters of Charlie Hedbo Held Silent Protest Outside the Foreign Correspondents Club in Central Today
Posted: January 8, 2015 Filed under: Asia, Breaking News, China, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Hong Kong, Islamism, JE SUIS CHARLIE, Jihadism, Massacre, Paris, Paris Shooting, South China Morning Post Leave a commentPARIS ATTACK: UK Front Pages Dominated by the 1/7/15 Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Posted: January 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, Religion, War Room | Tags: Cartoonists, Cartoons, Charlie Hebdo, France, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Islamism, Jihadism, London, Massacre, media, Newspapers, Paris, satire, UK Leave a commentNew York Post Front Page for Wednesday, January 8, 2015: ‘Cartoon Massacre’
Posted: January 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere | Tags: Cartoons, Islamist, Jihadism, Massacre, media, murder, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspaper, Tabloid 1 CommentParis: Charlie Hebdo Massacre Suspect in Police Custody: One Down, Two To Go
Posted: January 7, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Religion, War Room | Tags: Cartoonists, Charlie Hebdo, Islamists, Jihadists, Massacre, murder, Paris, satire, Wall Street Journal Leave a commentWSJ.
WEAPONIZED: Cartoonist Francisco J. Olea (Chile) for #CharlieHebdo
Posted: January 7, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Comics, Global, Religion, War Room | Tags: #CharlieHebdo, Cartoonists, Civil Rights, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Islamism, JE SUIS CHARLIE, Jihadism, Liberty, Massacre, Paris 2 CommentsCartoonist Francisco J. Olea (Chile) for #CharlieHebdopic.twitter.com/rzmJyP7lxI
— Gilles Klein (@GillesKLEIN) January 7, 2015
Tweet the actual covers instead of the mere #JeSuisCharlie. They are, after all, what the bullies can’t handle. pic.twitter.com/7Hxv7EKaG9
— Landon Ross (@LandonRoss) January 7, 2015
NY Daily News Nov 19 2014: ‘BUTCHERED’
Posted: November 18, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Mediasphere, Religion, War Room | Tags: homicide, Islam, Jerusalem, Jihad, Massacre, New York City, New York Daily News, Palestinian, Slaughter, Synagogue, Terror, Terrorists Leave a commentThe New York Daily News has placed the Jerusalem massacre on it’s front page early this morning