2 Unprovoked Stabbings At Mall Linked - One Dead
March 31, 2008
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Two stabbings, one of them deadly, at a Phoenix-area shopping mall in the past two days are related, police said late Monday.
Officers arrived and located a man exiting the mall and holding a bloody knife, officers said.
Witnesses told reporters after the stabbing, the attacker calmly walked by them with the bloody knife still in his hand.
Mike Jorgenson, senior property manager at Fiesta Mall, said the incident only affected a small area of the mall. “Everyone’s going about their shopping,” he said.
“Investigators are confident that today’s investigation is related to yesterday’s incident at Macy’s,” said Mesa Police Chief George Gascon.
On Sunday afternoon, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in the neck and chest in a Macy’s store at the mall.
Police said the attacker grabbed the victim as he walked past and in an unprovoked attack stabbed him in the neck with a knife.
When the victim turned around and asked, “What are you doing, I don’t even know you,” the attacker stabbed him in the shoulder three times, police said.
The attacker followed the victim toward the cash register before leaving the store and taking off in a car, according to police.
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Jihad USA: Homegrown Terror
March 31, 2008
The Jawa Report is featuring all 4 parts of The Fox News documentary hosted by E.D. Hill about the threat of homegrown terrorists.
Six years after 9/11, are we again failing “to connect the dots” that point to a new kind of jihadist menace? This Fox News investigation exposes the homegrown Islamic terror threat: Muslim extremists radicalized in the U.S. and plotting against Americans. Read more
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North Korea Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike Against South Korea
March 31, 2008
An escalating war of words across the world’s last Cold War, nuclear-armed border spiraled dramatically yesterday when North Korea threatened to wreak total destruction on its neighbour to the south.
“Our military will not sit idle until warmongers launch a pre-emptive strike,” the official news agency in Pyongyang reported a senior military commander as saing, “everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced pre-emptive strike once begins.” Read more
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String of Freeway Shootings Continues In Southern California
March 31, 2008
Rescue crews responding to a wreck on a Los Angeles freeway found a driver fatally shot in the head early Sunday, while another driver was shot and wounded in a separate attack about 30 miles away, authorities said.
The shootings were the latest in a string of attacks on Southern California freeways that have alarmed motorists and authorities.
Investigators did not know what led to the fatal shooting on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley on Sunday. The wreck snarled traffic for several hours near Van Nuys.
“There’s absolutely no witnesses at this time, no information,” Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said.
The car crashed near a freeway onramp, so it was possible the victim was shot before entering the highway, Eisenman said.
The second shooting was in Long Beach, where the victim was able to drive himself off the freeway and phone for help on Saturday night, Officer Jackie Bezart said.
The man told officers another motorist shot at him as the result of road rage along the 710 Freeway, Bezart said. The man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators do not think the cases were related to three other shootings, two that were fatal, in the past several weeks on Southern California freeways.
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Drug Cartels Operate Training Camps Near Texas Border Just Inside Mexico
March 31, 2008
The ranch near this border community is isolated, desolate and laced by arroyos an ideal place, experts say, for training drug cartel assassins.
Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in at least six such locations in northern Tamaulipas and Nuevo León states, some within a few miles of the Texas border, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities and the printed testimony of five protected witnesses who were trained in the camps. Read more
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2 Detained Near Picatinny Weapons Arsenal - Charged With Unlawfully Taking Photos of Installation
March 31, 2008
UPDATE: The two men detained Sunday night near Picatinny Arsenal have been charged with unlawfully photographing the installation, authorities said.
Picatinny police spotted the two men outside the Picatinny gates Sunday afternoon and asked them to leave, according to Tonya Townsell, a Picatinny spokeswoman.
The two left, but were spotted a second time photographing the installation, so the officers called in back-up from local police departments, Townsell said. Read more
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Fitna Movie Removed From LiveLeak Website Amid Threats - Official Statement
March 28, 2008
Fitna, a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch parliament has been removed by LiveLeak following threats to their staff.. The movie offers Wilders views on Islam and the Qur’an. The film’s title comes from the Arabic word fitna which is used to describe “disagreement and division among people”, or a “test of faith in times of trial”. Read more
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Confronting the Threat of Homegrown Terror
March 28, 2008
Law enforcement officials and security experts are warning against the threat of homegrown terrorism as several cases involving alleged American jihadists enter the courts.
“The public is getting complacent,” New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tells FOX News. Kelly, who was the police commissioner during the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has developed a task force of counterterrorism officers trained to spot jihadists. Read more
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Police Investigate I-64 Sniper Shootings - Search Warrant Served - Arrests Made
March 27, 2008
UPDATE: A 19-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning in connection with a shooting spree along Interstate 64 and officers exchanged gunfire with a second, armed man who confronted them during the arrest at a farmhouse, Virginia State Police said.
Col. Steve Flaherty identified the suspect as Slade Allen Woodson of Afton, Va., and said the second man whom they shot was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. He didn’t know his condition.
Woodson was charged in a separate bank shooting that happened early Thursday morning, but police say more charges are possible.
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UPDATE: At least one person has been arrested in connection with a shooting spree along Interstate 64, a police source told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The news came shortly after a search warrant was served at a house in Crozet, Va., Friday in the case.
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UPDATE: A search warrant was served at a house in Crozet, Va., Friday in connection with a shooting spree along Interstate 64, state police said.
The warrant was executed at a rural residence called Yonder Hill Farm in Albemarle County and was related to the six-vehicle I-64 shootings early Thursday morning, said Virginia State Police Lt. Tim Hopwood. He was tight-lipped on further details. A press conference was planned for 10 a.m. EDT on Friday.
State and local police have also been investigating whether shots fired at a bank building and in a residential Virginia neighborhood could be tied to the I-64 shootings.
Police said shots were fired at a Dupont Community Credit Union in Waynesboro, Va., between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday — the same time police were getting reports of someone shooting at vehicles on I-64 between Waynesboro and Charlottesville.
Bullets struck a window and part of the bank building, as well as a van parked in the lot. No one was injured.
Surveillance video showed a light-colored 1970s AMC Gremlin with a dark horizontal stripe.
Police also got a call at 12:30 a.m. about shots fired in a Waynesboro neighborhood, and later discovered a bullet hole in a house along with a shell casing. A witness mentioned seeing a car that looked similar to the Gremlin.
Police confiscated the car late Thursday. They found it unoccupied at the Greene and Albemarle county line.
The spree had motorists and police on edge in a region where memories of the deadly Beltway snipers still haven’t faded.
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Original Story
A 20-mile stretch of Interstate 64 between Charlottesville and Waynesboro was closed overnight as Virginia State Police tried to find someone who was taking shots at vehicles on the interstate.
State police said at least four cars were struck by bullets along an 11-mile stretch of highway Wednesday night. I-64 was reopened Thursday morning. Read more
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Huge Underground Blast Kills L.A. Firefighter Injures Others - Los Angeles
March 26, 2008
An explosion rocked the Westchester area today, killing a Los Angeles firefighter and critically injuring another.
The firefighters were called to Sepulveda and La Tijera boulevards at 1:57 p.m. after a report of smoke from a possible fire. After they arrived, there was a larger explosion that sent several manhole covers flying, said Ron Myers, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. Read more
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