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Monday, March 17, 2014

SLAIN SOLDIER; Commanding Officer pays tribute to

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Monday, March 10, 2014

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Two Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Including 3-Year-Old Girl, and Israeli Soldier Killed, in Attacks

December 24, 2013


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Including A Child, Two Killed By Israeli Shells In Gaza

Tuesday December 24, 2013 17:44 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies

Medical sources said that Hala Ahmad Al-Boheiry, 3 years old, was killed by an Israeli missile in central Gaza, and four were wounded in the shelling, one of them in a critical condition.

The sources added that Hala’s mother, her brothers Bilal, 3, and Mohammad, 6, were injured when the army bombarded a house near a chicken farm east of the Al-Maghazy refugee camp, in central Gaza.

Furthermore, a young man was also killed when the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into Beit Lahiya town, in northern Gaza. Another Palestinian was moderately in the attack, the Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported.

Dr. Ahmad Al-Bohairy, spokesperson of the Ministry Of Health In Gaza, has reported that an 18-year-old young man was shot in the leg, and was moved to a local hospital.

Furthermore, several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Tuesday at noon, a Palestinian area, close to the Nahal Oz military base, and another area east of the Shuja’iya area, and opened fire at open areas; no injuries were reported.

Israeli Military Engineer Killed Near Gaza Border

Tuesday December 24, 2013 17:37 by IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli sources said the engineer is employed by the Israeli Defense Ministry, and that the shot that killed him came from Gaza.

Israeli daily Haaretz has reported the no Palestinian armed group claimed responsibility for the attack that killed the engineer, near the Nahal Oz settlement. The engineer is from Rahat, south of the country, a town mainly inhabited by Bedouin Palestinian Arabs.

The Israeli army said it appears a sharpshooter carried out the attack and fled the scene, and that no clashes took place following the shooting.

The military engineer was moved to the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Al-Saba’a (Be’er Sheva), where he died of his serious wounds.

Baby girl killed in series of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

[ 24/12/2013 - 03:58 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)–

Israeli warplanes launched on Tuesday afternoon several air raids on different areas in the Gaza Strip killing a baby girl and wounding several others.

Three-year-old Hala Abu Sbaikha was killed while her mother and sister were injured in the ongoing aerial raids, medical sources said.

Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the health ministry spokesman in Gaza, told the PIC reporter that the air raids so far killed a three-year-old baby girl and wounded seven others.

According to earlier statistics, four citizens were injured by the Israeli shelling on east of Maghazi in central Gaza, while another citizen was seriously wounded after being shot by Israeli gunfire north of the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza and was transferred to Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli airstrikes had reportedly hit two bases of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in Khan Younis and Bureij, while the IOF artillery targeted citizens in the neighborhood of Shaja’ia east of Gaza City.

The attacks came hours after the death of an Israeli soldier who was shot in the heart by a Palestinian sniper near the border area east of Gaza.

Palestinian sources said that a Palestinian sniper on Tuesday afternoon opened fire at an Israeli soldier near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied Palestinian land.

They added that after the shooting, the occupation troops and military vehicles were deployed in the area and launched a search.

Meanwhile, local sources said that IOF warplanes bombed a deserted land west of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip.

They said that the IOF artillery shelled citizens’ lands east of Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and areas east of Gaza City.

Gaza Gov’t: Israel’s aggression on Gaza proves its confusion

[ 24/12/2013 - 05:22 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)–

Palestinian government in Gaza Strip said that the Israeli occupation’s airstrikes on the enclave Tuesday evening prove its weakness and confusion, holding the occupation full responsibility for consequences of its aggression.

In a brief statement, the government’s spokesman Ihab al-Ghussain held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for its continued crimes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, calling on the international community to bridle the IOA and to prosecute it for its crimes and aggressions against the unarmed Palestinian people.

The Palestinian government stressed the Palestinian resistance’s readiness to defend the people of Gaza in face of any aggression, and praised the media’s role in covering the events.

Israeli warplanes launched on Tuesday afternoon several air raids on different areas in the Gaza Strip killing a baby girl and wounding several others.

Seven Palestinians kidnapped in IOF campaign in Nablus

[ 24/12/2013 - 03:14 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)–

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday evening kidnapped seven Palestinians in Nablus city.

Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) reporter in the city that the IOF raided several homes and kidnapped five Palestinian citizens.

According to the reporter, sounds of explosions and gunfire were heard in different neighborhoods of the city during the Israeli campaign.

Meanwhile, IOF soldiers tightened their security measures last night at checkpoints around Nablus and kidnapped two young men. The IOF also intercepted Palestinian vehicles and searched them at Za’atara checkpoint, especially those travelling from Nablus to Ramallah.

In a separate incident, the IOF placed notices on some walls in Al-Aroub refugee camp threatening to take action against specified fathers if they did not stop their sons’ activities against the occupation.

The wall warnings were sealed by the Israeli army and contained pictures and names of nine Palestinian parents whose sons were accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli settlers.

Israeli police assault al-Aqsa Mosque guard

[ 24/12/2013 - 03:10 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)–

Israeli police forces assaulted Monday night one of Al-Aqsa Mosque guards in Jerusalem as part of their brutal assaults and attacks against Jerusalemites.

Eyewitnesses confirmed that Israeli police have provoked al-Aqsa Mosque guard Murad Hamad, who was on his duty at the Mosque, before attacking and beating him severely.

They added, however, that his colleagues intervened and managed to prevent the police from arresting him.

Following the attack, large numbers of worshipers gathered inside and outside al-Aqsa Mosque.

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

U.S. Soldier Accused Of Murder In Deaths Of Deaf Iraqi Boys

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A U.S. Army sergeant who in 2007 allegedly shot and killed two unarmed deaf Iraqi boys who had no known ties to the insurgents then battling American forces, has now been charged with two counts of premeditated murder.

The story of what Sgt. 1st Class Michael Barbera allegedly did was spelled out in detail last December by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. An online version of the newspaper’s 8-page report is posted here. It began its package of stories this way:

“AS SADAH, Iraq — Shortly before noon on March 6, 2007, Small Kill Team leader Michael Barbera rose from his squad’s position in high grass in a palm grove here and shot two teenage cattle herders.

“A short time later, the Army staff sergeant ordered his soldiers to kill a third teenager walking toward them.

“Barbera would report to his superiors that the three dead boys were insurgents operating out of this farming village about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad.

“In reality, Ahmad Khalid al-Timmimi, 15, his brother, Abbas, and their cousin, Muhamed Khaleel Kareem al-Galyani, both 14, were unarmed deaf mutes with no known ties to the insurgency. Their slayings angered most members of Barbera’s squad — decorated combat veterans who reported the killings to Army investigators in Fort Bragg, N.C.”

It was those other members of the squad who took their concerns to Army officials, and later to the Tribune-Review after Army brass initially overruled a recommendation from investigators that Barbera be charged. The soldiers were not only upset by what had happened, but were also convinced that 10 of their comrades were subsequently killed by suicide bombers who were retaliating for the boys’ deaths.

On Friday, officials at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state announced that Barbera has been charged. The next step, according to The Associated Press, “is an Article 32 investigation which decides if he should be court martialed. No date has been scheduled for the Article 32.”

The Tribune-Review notes that:

“When Barbera’s Article 32 hearing is convened, it will be the latest high-profile military criminal case at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

“In the past three years, prosecutors there have won convictions against a string of accused war criminals, including Robert Bales, who murdered 16 Afghan villagers; John Russell, who shot to death five soldiers at a mental health clinic in Iraq; and Calvin Gibbs, the leader of another small-kill team in Afghanistan that murdered innocent Afghans and covered up the rampage.”

Related post from the Poynter Institute: “How an award-winning investigative reporter tracked killings in Iraq.”

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

US Soldier Watches Helplessly as His Pregnant Wife is Stabbed During Home Invasion that Interrupted Their Video Chat

A soldier deployed overseas was video chatting with his pregnant wife, who was one week from her due date, when something unforeseen occurred. No, it was her water breaking or labor pains. Instead, his pregnant wife literally labored for her life and the life of her unborn child after a burglar started stabbing her in real time.

KFOX14 reported that Corey Moss, a 19-year-old Fort Bliss soldier, went to the Pooles’ residence to talk to Rachel Poole about money he owed her husband, who is stationed in southwest Asia. However, after realizing that she wasn’t home, he didn’t simply leave. Instead, he broke into the house and waited for her.

Army Pvt Pele Poole with his wife, has spent the past nine months serving in southwest Asia

Upon returning home, unaware that an intruder was lying in wait, Rachel began video chatting with her husband Justin.

That’s when the knife-wielding Moss lunged from behind and stabbed her multiple times in her body and face.

All the while, the horrified husband, who was thousands of miles away, was helplessly listening to the brutal assault.

Joy and sorrow: Mr Poole (top right) wrote that their unborn baby girl (bottom right) is doing fine, but his wife (left) had lost an eye

According to the affidavit, Rachel immediately recognized Moss and cleverly yelled his name several times during the attack so that her husband could identify him.

It worked.

Following the attack, Moss fled to Fort Bliss military base. He was unaware that Justin Poole had called in advance and alerted them to the crime. Additionally, Rachel called the local police and gave them his name.

As a result, he was detained by the military police. The knife was also recovered.

Cory Bernard Moss, 19, allegedly admitted to the knife attack, which was reportedly sparked by a money dispute

EL Paso Police said that he admitted to the offense and was charged with criminal attempted capital murder. I’m no lawyer, but I think he should’ve been charged with two counts of attempted capital murder.

Fortunately, in spite of Rachel needing surgery for her wounds and fractures, the unborn baby girl, who the couple plans to name Isabella, is in good condition.

On his Facebook page, Justin vented, “I promised to give my life for this freedom not the other way around. I failed her but never again.”

Let’s hope the justice system doesn’t “fail” this family and this perp receives what he deserves.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Off Duty Soldier Armed With Handgun Saves 100 Lives During Mall Siege

Another pro-gun story you won’t see covered by the US corporate media

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 24, 2013

Here’s a positive story about guns that you’re not likely to see the US corporate media pay much attention to – an off-duty SAS soldier armed with just a handgun saved 100 lives during the terrorist siege on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya.

The soldier was having a coffee with friends inside the mall when the attack began. His gun tucked inside his waistband, the soldier returned to the building at least a dozen times to rescue hostages.

“He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside,” a friend told the Daily Mail, labeling the soldier a “hero”.

British SAS forces regularly train and work in Kenya. The man’s identity cannot be revealed for security reasons, although he was pictured escorting panicked hostages out of the building.

Don’t expect to see a story like this covered by the mainstream US media, which habitually shies away from examples that illustrate how firearms are routinely used for defensive purposes.

Two cases earlier this year which highlighted this important factor received virtually zero national attention.

Back in March we reported on the story of a Texas boy who watched his sister and mother being raped during a home invasion by two men who later abandoned a plan to murder the three victims because the boy was able to grab a handgun and send the two individuals fleeing.

In May, a homeowner in Sharpstown, Houston was assaulted by three robbers who broke into his house and shut him in a closet – unaware that the closet was where he kept his guns. The man exited the closet armed and the robbers fled the scene.

According to a 1993 National Self- Defense Survey conducted by Gary Kleck, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Americans use guns to defend themselves against a confrontation with a criminal up to 2.5 million times a year. This means that every day in America some 6,800 people use guns to protect themselves.

Scholars Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett have documented how “a great number of tragedies — murders, rapes, assaults, robberies — have been thwarted by self-defense gun uses.”

However, only a fraction of those cases ever make the local news and barely any at all make the national news.

In addition, Americans erroneously believe that violent gun crime is on the increase despite a 49% drop in gun homicides since 1993.

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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Palestinian "abducts and kills" Israeli soldier in West Bank – security service

Published time: September 21, 2013 13:59

An Israeli soldier has been kidnapped and killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank, reports Israel’s Shin Bet security agency.

A resident of the Palestinian city of Qalqilya, in the West Bank, allegedly lured an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldier to the scene of the murder, killed him and then hid the dead body in a well, reports the Jerusalem Post (JP). The incident happened on Friday, but the announcement from security forces came on Saturday.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

US-led soldier dies in E Afghanistan

A foreign soldier serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has died of non-combat related injuries in the troubled eastern Afghanistan, the western military alliance says.

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Soldier sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting

In this courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Hasan, center, sits before the judge, U.S. Army Col. Tara Osborn, at the Lawrence William Judicial Center during the sentencing phase of his trial, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. The jury found Hasan unanimously guilty on the 13 charges of premeditated murder in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, and he is eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

In this courtroom sketch, prosecutors Col. Mike Mulligan, left, makes his closing arguments at the Lawrence William Judicial Center during the sentencing phase for Maj. Nidal Hasan, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. The jury found Hasan unanimously guilty on the 13 charges of premeditated murder in the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, and he is eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)

A man is checked at a security point to enter the Lawrence William Judicial Center as the sentencing phase for Maj. Nidal Hasan continues, Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was found unanimously guilty on the 13 charges of premeditated murder and is eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

An armed guard stands in front of the fortified Lawrence William Judicial Center as the sentencing phase for Maj. Nidal Hasan continues, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was found unanimously guilty on the 13 charges of premeditated murder and is eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A driver gets the thumbs up at a security checkpoint to enter the Lawrence William Judicial Center as the sentencing phase for Maj. Nidal Hasan continues, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was found unanimously guilty on the 13 charges of premeditated murder and is eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) â€” A military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, handing the Army psychiatrist the ultimate punishment after a trial in which he seemed to be courting martyrdom by making almost no effort to defend himself.

The rare military death sentence came nearly four years after the attack that stunned even an Army hardened by more than a decade of constant war. Hasan walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted “Allahu akbar” â€” Arabic for “God is great!” â€” and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed.

Hasan, who said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression, had no visible reaction when the sentence was announced, staring first at the jury forewoman and then at the judge. Some victims’ relatives were in the courtroom but none showed any reaction, which the judge had warned against.

The American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent acted as his own attorney and never denied his actions at the huge Texas Army post. In opening statements, he told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had “switched sides.”

The same jurors who convicted Hasan last week deliberated the sentence for about two hours. They needed to agree unanimously on the death penalty. The only alternative was life in prison without parole.

Kathy Platoni, an Army reservist who still struggles with images of Capt. John Gaffaney bleeding to death at her feet, said she was not opposed to the punishment.

Hasan wanted “to be a martyr and so many of the (victims’) families had spoken to the issue of not giving him what he wants because this is his own personal holy war,” said Platoni, who watched most of the trial from inside the courtroom.

“But on the other hand â€” this is from the bottom of my heart â€” he doesn’t deserve to live,” she said. “I don’t know how long it takes for a death sentence to be carried out, but the world will be a better place without him.”

Hasan could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century. But because the military justice system requires a lengthy appeals process, years or even decades could pass before he is put to death.

He was expected to be taken on the next available flight to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

In his final plea for a death sentence, the lead prosecutor assured jurors that Hasan would “never be a martyr” despite his attempt to tie the attack to religion.

“He is a criminal. He is a cold-blooded murderer,” Col. Mike Mulligan said. “This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage.”

Since the attack, the federal government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deny justice to the families of the dead and the survivors who had believed they were safe behind the gates of Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin.

And for just as long, Hasan seemed content to go to the death chamber for his beliefs. He fired his own attorneys to represent himself, barely mounted a defense during the three-week trial and made almost no effort to have his life spared.

Mulligan reminded the jury that Hasan was a trained doctor yet opened fire on defenseless comrades. Hasan “only dealt death,” the prosecutor said, so the only appropriate sentence was death.

Hasan was never allowed to argue in front of the jury that the shooting was necessary to protect Islamic and Taliban leaders. But during the trial, he leaked documents to journalists that revealed he told military mental health workers in 2010 that he could “still be a martyr” if executed by the government.

When Hasan began shooting, soldiers were standing in long lines to receive immunizations and doctors’ clearance. Many of the soldiers were preparing to deploy, while others had recently returned home.

All but one of the dead were soldiers, including a pregnant private who curled on the floor and pleaded for her unborn child’s life. It was the deadliest shooting ever at a U.S. military installation. More than 30 other people were wounded.

The attack ended when authorities shot Hasan in the back. He is now paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair.

The military called nearly 90 witnesses at the trial and more during the sentencing phase. But Hasan rested his case without calling a single person to testify and made no closing argument. Even with his life at stake during the sentencing phase, he made no attempt to question witnesses and gave no final statement to jurors.

Hasan’s civil attorney, John Galligan, said Wednesday that Hasan received an unfair trial. Galligan said he was disappointed in the sentence and was confident it would be reversed on appeal.

Death sentences are unusual in the military, which has just five other prisoners on death row. Of 16 death sentences handed down by military juries in the last 30 years, 11 have been overturned, according to an academic study and court records. No American soldier has been executed since 1961.

Eduardo Caraveo, whose father was killed in the rampage, said he cared more about Hasan being convicted than about the sentencing. But he would have preferred to see Hasan receive a life sentence.

“I didn’t want him getting any satisfaction, so him getting killed by the government just gives him what he wanted …. to be a martyr,” said Caraveo, who lives in Tucson, Ariz. “My main thing is him being held accountable for his action. That’s really all I ever wanted.”

Authorities said Hasan spent weeks planning the Nov. 5, 2009, attack, including buying a handgun and videotaping a sales clerk showing him how to change the magazine.

He later plunked down $ 10 at a gun range outside Austin and asked for pointers on how to reload with speed and precision. An instructor said he told Hasan to practice while watching television or sitting on his couch with the lights off.

When the time came, Hasan stuffed paper towels in the pockets of his cargo pants to muffle the rattling of extra ammunition and avoid arousing suspicion. Soldiers testified that Hasan’s rapid reloading made it all but impossible to stop him. Investigators recovered 146 shell casings in the medical building and dozens more outside, where Hasan shot at the backs of soldiers fleeing toward the parking lot.

In court, Hasan never played the role of an angry extremist. He didn’t get agitated or raise his voice. He addressed the judge as “ma’am” and occasionally whispered “thank you” when prosecutors, in accordance with the rules of evidence, handed Hasan red pill bottles that rattled with bullet fragments removed from those who were shot.

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Associated Press writers Will Weissert at Fort Hood and Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.

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