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Woman Alive After Her Husband Accidentally Shoots Her In The Face With A Spear Gun
9 MayThere’s No Way This Person Survived, Right? – The Blaze
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A 28-year-old woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon, Brazilian officials said Wednesday.
The Rio de Janeiro State Health Department said in a statement that the woman’s husband was cleaning his spear gun when it went off, firing a harpoon that hit her cervical spine.
Elisangela Borborema Rosa was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery after Monday’s incident in the coastal city of Arraial do Cabo.
The statement quotes neurosurgeon Allan da Costa as saying that the harpoon came within 1 centimeter (less than half an inch) of killing the woman. He said he expects a full recovery.
A police officer in Arrial do Cabo said by telephone that officials are looking into the case.
“Everything indicates it was an accident, but we are investigating. We don’t think the husband tried to kill her,” said the officer, who cited department policy in declining to let her name be used.
“But once she fully recovers we will be able to question her and get a clearer picture of what happened.”
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Saudi Arabia ‘Warned The United States In Writing About Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev In 2012′
1 MayThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012, long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds, according to a senior Saudi government official with direct knowledge of the document.
The Saudi warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.
Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev’s plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.
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Was it preventable? A senior Saudi official says his country warned the U.S. about Tamerlane Tsarnaev in 2012, advising the federal government that he planned an attack on a major U.S. city
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Did she know? Janet Napolitano (R) sits atop the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that allegedly received a detailed letter from the Saudi kingdom about Tsarnaev (L) and three Pakistani jihadis
The Saudis’ warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. ‘It was very specific’ and warned that ‘something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,’ the Saudi official said during an extensive interview.
It ‘did name Tamerlan specifically,’ he added. The ‘government-to-government’ letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.
If true, the account will produce added pressure on the Homeland Security department and the White House to explain their collective inaction after similar warnings were offered about Tsarnaev by the Russian government.
A DHS official denied, however, that the agency received any such warning from Saudi intelligence about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
‘DHS has no knowledge of any communication from the Saudi government regarding information on the suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing prior to the attack,’ MailOnline learned from one Homeland Security official who declined to be named in this report.
The White House took a similar view. ‘We and other relevant U.S. government agencies have no record of such a letter being received,’ said Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the president’s National Security Council.
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As many as 4 million Muslims make pilgrimages annually to the Grand mosque in the city of Mecca. Tsarnaev sought to join them for an ‘Umrah’ journey, a trip that happens outside of the month reserved for the annual Hajj
The letter likely came to DHS via the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the agency tasked with protecting the Saudi kingdom’s homeland.
A Homeland Security official confirmed Tuesday evening on the condition of anonymity that the 2012 letter exists, saying he had heard of the Saudi communication before MailOnline inquired about it.
An aide to a Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee speculated Tuesday about why the Obama administration contradicted the knowledgeable Saudi official.
‘It is possible the Department of Homeland Security received the information from the Saudi government but never passed it on to the White House,’ the GOP staffer said. ‘Communication between DHS and the White House’s national security apparatus isn’t always what it should be.’
‘I can easily see it happening where one hand didn’t know what the other was doing because of a turf war.’
‘Just like the different agencies in the Boston JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] want credit for breaking the Tsarnaev case,’ the aide added, ‘they sometimes jealously guard the very intel they should be sharing the most freely. Sometimes it makes no sense at all.’
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Obama said Tuesday that an inter-agency review would leave no stone unturned in an effort to learn whether government agencies could have done more to prevent the Boston bombings
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mike McCaul plans to announce on Wednesday an investigative hearing to probe what U.S. intelligence knew prior to the Boston attacks, two senior Republican sources told MailOnline.
Separately, President Obama announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will launch a wide-ranging inquiry into the sharing of information among the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and other intelligence and law-enforcement agencies of the federal government.
‘We want to leave no stone unturned,’ the president said in a rare White House press conference.
The internal review will be led by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and several inspectors general.
‘This is not an investigation,’ Clapper’s spokesman Shawn Turner said in a prepared statement. ‘This is an independent review of information-sharing procedures. It is limited to the handling of information related to the suspects prior to the attack.’
It is not yet clear whether information from Saudi Arabia will be involved in Clapper’s inter-agency review.
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Eight-year-old Martin Richard was among the three people killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15
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Chaos: The bombing left thousands running for their lives and sent more than 200 to hospitals, including some whose limbs were torn off their bodies by the force of the blasts
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz appeared on CNN Tuesday afternoon, upbraiding the Obama administration for presuming that the federal government’s handling of intelligence prior to the Boston bombings was appropriate and effective.
‘As soon as the bombing happened we had officials, locally and from the feds, saying, “Oh, this was an isolated case, there was just one person involved.” We didn’t know that,’ Chaffetz said.
The ‘starting point’ for a federal investigation, he said, must be, ‘This is unacceptable, we will not stand for it, we will get to the bottom of it, and we will not rest until we figure it out.’
‘Mr. President,’ he said, addressing Obama, ‘the starting point should be an intolerance that this thing happened.’
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GOP momentum? House Homeland Security Committee chair Mike McCaul (L) plans to convene a hearing to investigate the government’s failure to prevent the Boston bombings. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R), who serves on that committee, said on CNN that an inquiry should not presume all is well
The high-ranking Saudi official whom MailOnlne interviewed at length provided a wealth of detail about the warning he says his government sent to the United States. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk publicly about foreign intelligence, or about Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic relationship with the United States.
He suggested that the Saudi Ministry of Interior sent the letter out of an abundance of caution in order to be helpful to the United States, even though its intelligence on Tsarnaev wasn’t yet fully developed.
‘With Saudi Arabia it’s always code red,’ he said. ‘There’s no code orange, or code yellow. Always red.’
The Saudi government, he added, alerted the U.S. in part because it believed American authorities should be inspecting packages that came to Tsarnaev in the mail in order to search for bomb-making components.
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Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz (L) met with President Obama in January. His counterpart in the Saudi foreign ministry, Prince Saud bin al-Faisal (R), had an unscheduled meeting with Obama in the Oval Office just two days after the Boston bombings
The written warning also allegedly named three Pakistanis who may be of interest to British authorities. The official declined to provide more details about the warning to the UK, but said the two governments received the same information.
The Ministry of Interior, he said, sent the letters in 2012, likely after Tsarnaev returned from Russia to the United States in July.
President Barack Obama’s published schedule indicates that he met in the Oval Office with Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi Interior minister, on January 14, 2013.
The Saudis denied Tsarnaev entry to the kingdom when he sought to travel to Mecca in December 2011 for a pilgrimage known as an Umrah – one that is undertaken during months that don’t fall within the regular Hajj period of the year.
That rejected application came one month before he traveled to Russia, where U.S. intelligence sources believe he acquired training enabling him to construct and detonate the bombs that he and his younger brother placed hear the Boston Marathon’s finish line.
The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in federal custody at a prison medical facility.
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Celebration turned to mourning on April 15 after Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar allegedly detonated two powerful bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 and injuring more than 200
The Saudi official speculated that Tsarnaev’s residence in the United States might have made it more difficult for him to gain entry into the kingdom.
‘U.S.-based Muslims who become radicalized and want to visit Mecca create an unusual problem,’ he said, compelling the Saudi government ‘to carefully examine applications.’
In the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met with Secretary of State John Kerry on April 16, and then had an unscheduled meeting with President Obama on April 17.
‘This is the DNA of the Saudi government,’ said the Saudi official, referring to officials in the royal court in Riyadh. ‘This is how they work. They sent the letter, but that wasn’t enough. They then sent the top guy to meet personally with the president.’
He dismissed the idea that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was likely trained by al Qaeda while he was outside the United States last year.
The Saudis’ Yemen-based sources, he explained, said militants referred to Tamerlan dismissively as ‘the volunteer.’
‘He was a gung-ho, self motivated jihadi who wasn’t tasked by a larger group,’ he said.
‘There is no reason for anyone in Afghanistan to have in his thinking a scenario like this,’ the official added, referring to pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon. ‘He took the initiative. That’s why they call him “the volunteer.”‘
‘The Boston thing is beneath them,’ he said of al Qaeda. ‘They don’t think like this. This is like a firecracker to them. They want something big.’
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Richard Reid (L) was apprehended after a failed attempt to blow up an airliner with bombs concealed in his shoes. The Saudi government provided specific intelligence about Reid to the U.S., and now it has been revealed that they wrote to the American government about Tamerlan Tsarnaev (R) in 2012
Tamerlan may have boasted about his plans online, the Saudi official said, offering an explanation for how Yemen-based sources first learned of him. Islamist militants have well-developed social networks that can enable news to migrate quickly across vast distances.
The Saudi government sometimes tracks such radicals by launching fake jihadi websites to attract extremists. The Ministry of Interior then tracks them electronically, often across the world, and shares information with governments it considers friendly, including the United States.
‘The Saudi Arabian government is doing everything it can to wipe out these people and treat America as a true friend,’ the official said.
The Saudi intelligence services have a long history of providing credible information to America and Great Britain about looming threats.
‘This is the fourth time the Saudi Arabian government has given the U.S. specific intel’ about a possible terror plot, the official said, citing prior warnings about Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who repeatedly tried to light a fuse in his shoe to bring down American Airlines flight 63 bound for Miami in December 2001.
He also cited the 300-gram ‘ink-cartridge bombs’ planted on two cargo planes headed for the United States from Yemen in October 2010. Those explosives were intercepted in Dubai, and at an East Midlands airport in Great Britain.
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The terror: A Boston firefighter carried an injured girl away from the scene after the Boston Marathon bombings. In all, Tsarnaev is believed to have killed three Americans, including an eight-year-old boy
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s namesake was a 15-century Central Asian warlord who referred to himself as ‘the sword of Islam.’ Sometimes spelled ‘Tamerlane’ in English, he was known for his cruelty.
When he conquered Baghdad, he reportedly made a pyramid of human skulls from unfortunate residents of that city.
Although still revered in Chechnya and throughout Central Asia, the original Tamerlane is sometimes vilified in modern-day Saudi textbooks.
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Indian Stuntman Dies Trying To Cross River On Zip-Wire Attached Only By His Hair
29 AprA stuntman died yesterday during a world record attempt as he tried to cross a river on a zip-wire attached only to his hair.
Sailendra Nath Roy, 50, was half way through the stunt when his ponytail became stuck in the wheeler of the rope and he was left hanging in mid-air for about 25 minutes.
Despite desperate attempts to free himself, it is believed Mr Roy then suffered a major cardiac arrest and died.
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Mr Roy, a West Bengal Police home guard, already held the Guinness world record for the farthest distance travelled on a zip wire using his hair.
About 1,000 people turned out to see him try and break the record over the Teesta River in Darjeeling, which is almost 10,000ft above sea level, when the freak accident happened.
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Mr Roy attempted to free himself after his ponytail became caught in the wheeler and then tried to continue the crossing using only his hands.
However, local media said he then suffered a massive cardiac arrest.
Rescuers brought him down from the Coronation Bridge about 45 minutes later.
He was taken to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
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Onlookers said spectators had initially failed to realise Mr Roy was in trouble because of the cheers coming from the crowd.
The stuntman had held several Guinness world records for pulling vehicles with his hair.
He attracted global attention last year when he dragged a 42-tonne train for 2.5metres.
In 2011, he travelled 270ft on a zip wire, which he was attached to by his hair.
Siliguri police commissioner K. Jairaman said Roy had not acquired the necessary permission for the stunt, adding that Roy was not on duty at the time of his death.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Aftermath: MIT Cop Killed, One Suspect Dead, Second In Custody (Videos / Pictures)
19 AprSuspect Number 2 Taken Into Custody – Daily Caller
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Update, 8:55 p.m. EST: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was taken into police custody this evening in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Update, 8:52 p.m. EST: “Great job,” says Boston police scanner.
Update, 8:48 p.m. EST: Police scanner corroborates that suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second suspect in Boston Marathon bombing, has been taken into custody.
Update, 8:47 p.m. EST: “Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info,” says Boston Police Twitter feed.
Update, 8:44 p.m. EST: Police scanner chatter continues to refer to ”suspect in custody,” but it is not clear if that is at 67 Franklin Street or Watertown High School. Permimeter around Franklin Street remains intact.
Update, 8:41 p.m. EST: Police scanner chatter says “suspect in custody.”
Update, 8:39 p.m. EST: Police scanner reporting an “abandoned black bag” within walking distance of the scene at Franklin Street.
Update, 8:38 p.m. EST: Police scanner chatter says there’s a “bearcat” on the scene. A Bearcat is a bomb disposal truck.
Update, 8:34 p.m. EST: New at The Daily Caller: Josh Peterson notices that former Obama administration official David Axelrod, who earlier this week speculated that the president was too polite to say the bomber was a Tea Party zealot, has been silent since the suspects have been named.
Update, 8:21 p.m. EST: There is a standoff of some kind on Franklin Street in Watertown. Explosions have been heard and the suspect is said to be surrounded and alive. It is not clear what the situation is. Police scanner chatter says the area of 67 Franklin Street has been secured. There is speculation that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is wearing explosives.
Update, 8:05 p.m. EST: Police scanner chatter says negotiator is on the scene.
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Update, 8:00 p.m. EST: Fox and CNN reporting that the suspect is injured. Not clear how this is known.
Update, 7:53 p.m. EST: Two explosions have been heard in vicinity of 67 Franklin Street. Some reports say “eight to ten explosions.”
Update, 7:47 p.m. EST: All newsnets are reporting that the suspect is alive and surrounded, possibly hiding in or under a boat in the backyard at 67 Franklin St. in Watertown.
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Update, 7:17 p.m. EST: Police are sending a robot into an address on Franklin Street in Waterton. Reports that a woman called in a report of bloody clothes that brought the cops to the address.
Update, 7:04 p.m. EST: Fox News and others are reporting “more than 20 shots” fired in Watertown. Police source says a suspect is down.
Update, 6:45 p.m. EST: Recent coverage of the Tsarnaev manhunt from The Daily Caller:
City of Boston gave ‘subsidy’ to bombing suspects’ radical mosque, by Patrick Howley
One bombing suspect loved pot and Obama, the other was married, by Robby Soave
New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects, by Christopher Bedford
Peter King on spread of radical Islam: ‘We can’t be politically correct’ [VIDEO], by Jeff Poor
Naming of suspects foils racialist, sociological agendas, by Tim Cavanaugh
Allen West: ‘We have domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America’ by Caroline May
Update, 6:21 p.m. EST: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at press conference says shelter-in-place order for Boston area has been lifted.
Update, 6:08 p.m. EST: In press conference, Col. Timothy Alben of the Massachusetts State Police says no leads in the pursuit of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “have been fruitful.” Says police have “no direct knowledge that [Tsarnaev] is here in the Boston area” but does not believe he has fled.
Update, 3:50 p.m. EST: Tonight’s Red Sox game, Bruins game and Big Apple Circus have all been cancelled as the city remains under government lockdown.
Update, 3:09 p.m. EST: A photo provided to The Daily Caller shows what appear to be Blackhawk helicopters on the lawn of UMass Dartmouth, the school attended by at-large bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The photo was taken this morning as the school was evacuated.
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Update, 2:35 p.m. EST: The conservative blog Potluck notes that the car that was allegedly hijacked by the Tsarnaev brothers last night is the proud home of a “Coexist” bumper-sticker.
Update, 1:58 p.m. EST: More relatives of the Tsarnaev brothers are now talking to authorities and the press. Maret Tsarnaev, their aunt, tells CNN that the boys came to the U.S. in April 2002. The FBI, meanwhile, is talking to their sister in northern New Jersey.
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Update, 1:50 p.m. EST: NBC’s Richard Engel says American authorities want to know whether the Islamic Jihad Union, an Al Qaeda offshoot, was involved in the Boston attacks.
Update, 12:46 p.m. EST: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says his country is not to blame for the Boston attacks. According to an article on a Russian news service translated for The Daily Caller by Cambridge resident Gene Barsukov, Kadyrov said that if the Tsarnaev brothers did commit the bombings, their views were formed in America, not Chechnya. He also said that he is tired of people blaming Chechens for everything, “even tsunami.”
Interestingly, Foreign Policy reports that one of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s favorite YouTube videos was one that called the Muslim Kadyrov an “apostate” for his pro-Russian views.
Update, 12:24 p.m. EST: NBC News reports that at-large Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is a naturalized American citizen. According to the news network, he became a citizen last year on September 11th.
Update, 11:56 a.m. EST: Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, described his nephews as “losers” Friday morning. Via TheDC’s Patrick Howley:
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“Being losers,” Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said in a press conference outside his Maryland home Friday when asked what motivated his nephews to carry out the bombings….“Anything having to do with religion, with Islam, is a fake,” Tsarni said, in regard to reports that his nephews’ Muslim religion may have influenced their terrorist attack. Tsarni said that his nephews never expressed any hatred toward America.
Update, 11:51 a.m. EST: Business Insider has put up a Google-translated statement from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov that was posted on Instagram this morning:
“The tragic events took place in Boston. The blast killed people. We have previously expressed their condolences to the people of the city and the people of America. Today, as reported by the media, while trying to arrest a Tsarnaea was killed. It would be logical if he was detained and investigated, found all the circumstances and the degree of his guilt. Apparently, the special services needed by all means to calm the result of society. Any attempt to make the connection between Chechnya and Tsarnaevymi if they are guilty, in vain. They grew up in the United States, their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of evil in America. From terrorism to fight the whole world. We know better than anyone else. We wish recovery to all the victims and share the feelings of sorrow Americans.”
Update, 11:47 a.m. EST: Foreign Policy has put together a useful guide to Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s favorite YouTube videos.
Update, 10:37 a.m. EST: TheDC’s Patrick Howley has put together all we currently know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect. He “was a student at Bunker Hill Community College and a Golden Gloves boxer who trained at Wai Kru mixed martial arts gym in Boston and competed in a national Golden Gloves competition.” He also described himself as a “very religious” Muslim. Read the full story here.
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Update, 10:20 a.m. EST: The now-deceased bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, apparently posted a video touting an Al Qaeda-linked “prophesy.” You can watch it here.
Update, 10:03 a.m. EST: Buzzfeed reports that high school classmates of at-large Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, are shocked by today’s news. The former classmates describe Dzokhar as a “sweet, sort of quiet” boy with a number of friends at the prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
Update, 9:37 a.m. EST: Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of both Boston Marathon bombing suspects, spoke with The Associated Press by telephone from the Russian city of Makhachkala on Friday: “My son is a true angel. … Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here.” Read the full AP story here.
Update, 9:14 a.m. EST: The Weekly Standard reports that wanted Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a city scholarship from Boston in 2011, and attended the same prestigious secondary school as actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Update, 9:07 a.m. EST: It appears Boston PD was relaying threats posted by this Twitter account. … It is possible but unconfirmed that someone impersonating Boston Marathon bombing “Suspect 2″ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev created the account on Twitter one hour ago, tricking Boston police …
Update, 9:03 a.m. EST: Offer relays harrowing news over police radio: “He is posting online, ‘I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU, AS YOU KILLED MY BROTHER,’” officer says. … 19-year-old Suspect 2 may try to avenge deceased brother, 26-year-old Suspect 1, who was killed earlier today in a shootout with police. … “SUSPECT IS POSTING ONLINE, HE’S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE BECAUSE YOU KILLED MY BROTHER,” officer says at 9:02 a.m. … Police also looking at home on Boyleston Street, where there is a report of a man with a hoodie on a laptop …
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Update, 8:50 a.m. EST: “Did anyone get a clear visual of him running into a home?” an officer asks on the scanner. There is no response. … Officer then says he saw suspect wearing hoodie OUTSIDE THE POLICE PERIMETER. … Air unit alerted. …
Update, 8:38 a.m. EST: Tactical team is in place at Willow Park. “We don’t need any more help here,” one officer said over the police radio at 8:38 a.m., before voicing concern that units are rushing into the Willow Park area haphazardly, and abandoning previously secured perimeters and locations. … “We need to move the media back,” one officer says. … Police report finding a “rocket” in a house basement near Willow Park. … Officer notices window curtains rustling. …
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Update, 8:33 a.m. EST: Foot pursuit at Willow Park. … Watertown PD is responding. … Police are on Dexter by Willow Park, #17, pursuing a suspect in a dark hoodie. … “All units use caution, there’s plainclothes officers in there also.” … “Some officers, stay on Dexter in case he doubles back. Somebody get back here! … Guys, get behind cover. Warning: Use caution on approach. Trigger was found on body at the morgue.” …
Update, 8:18 a.m. EST: “All officers, use extreme caution. Suspect may have suicide vest on,” officer says on Boston PD scanner. … “SUSPECT IS REPORTED TO BE WEARING SUICIDE VEST,” another officer says seconds later. … DECEASED “SUSPECT 1″ HAD TRIGGER ON HIS BODY FOR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE … The 19-year-old suspect at large was born in Kyrgyzstan, while his deceased older brother was born in Russia, authorities confirm. …
Update, 7:57 a.m. EST: A man named Tamerlan Tzarnaev recently described himself as “very religious” and did not like to take his shirt off around females, according to a social media post uploaded by a boxing blog. Tamerlan Tzarnaev was the real name of Boston Marathon “Suspect 1,” who is now deceased. The Daily Caller has not confirmed the Tzarnaev described and photographed by the boxing blog is in fact Suspect 1, and is working to verify that they are the same person.
“If he wins enough fights there, Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American,” the boxing blog post reads. “Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia.”
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Update, 7:54 a.m. EST: Police are going door to door looking for Suspect 2, according to the official Boston PD Twitter account:
#CommunityAlert: Door-to-door search 4 suspect in Watertown continues. Uniformed officers searching. Community consent critical.
- Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 19, 2013
Update, 7:34 a.m. EST: Police are being dispatched to the Moakley federal courthouse after reports that Suspect 2, the only living suspect, entered a cab and headed towards the courthouse. … The two Boston Marathon suspects are brothers, according to CNN. … NBC reports the older brother and deceased “Suspect 1″ was 26-year-old TAMERLAN TZARNAEV. …
This disturbing video was taken from the suspect’s social media page:
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Update, 7:16 a.m. EST: This photo of the 19-year-old “Suspect 2″ (real name Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev) who is currently terrorizing Boston is now circulating on social media. According to Russia Today, here is his social media profile. The profile identifies the man as Muslim, with his world view listed as “Islam.”
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Update, 7:15 a.m. EST: Suspect may be in a cab headed towards courthouse, officer reports on police scanner. No make or model available on the cab, officer reports. …
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Update, 7:00 a.m. EST: A pipe bomb has just been detonated near Commonwealth Avenue, according to a Boston police scanner. … EMTs have been requested to respond. … The AP has identified the two suspects as coming from the “Russian region near Chechnya.” … Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, is reportedly the remaining suspect. … “Russia’s North Caucasus region has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars in Chechnya,” AP reports. … (READ THE AP REPORT) … Successful controlled detonation reported by police …
Update, 6:37 a.m. EST: Five tactical police teams have just begun a house-by-house search to clear quadrants in Watertown, looking for Boston Marathon bombing “Suspect 2,” according to Boston PD. … Two men are still in handcuffs at the location of the cab mentioned in the 6:17 a.m. update below, and the bomb squad is on the scene. … Police are responding to #10 Fairfield, where a resident has reported that her shed door lock has been broken. …
Stunning picture surfaces on Twitter of military presence in Boston (look to far right, on the roof):
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Update, 6:27 a.m. EST: Police are still working to confirm location of second suspect. … Photographs of the suspect are being sent to officiers. … Boston University announces it is closed today. …
Update, 6:17 a.m. EST: “HE’S IN CUSTODY RIGHT NOW,” unit radios in on Boston PD radio apparently referring to Boston Marathon suspect 2. Suspect 2 apparently was in a cab with 2 other occupants in Watertown, according to the radio broadcasts. The Daily Caller is working to confirm. … “Boston Cab 375, occupied by one white male, one Middle Eastern male,” an officer radioed in at approximately 6:17 a.m.. “Sir, as of right now, they’re all on the deck outside the car. We haven’t checked the trunk yet.” “DON’T CHECK THE TRUNK, DON’T USE YOUR CELL,” commanding officer radios back. … Officers swarming scene. … ALL BOSTON BUSES AND SUBWAYS HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN. …
Update, 6:08 a.m. EST: It’s dawn in Boston, but police are complaining that fog is obscuring visibility. Bomb squad officials are going through cars on Laurel Street (pictured below). … Police are investigating a house with a wide open door at 20 Beachwood. The resident is “afraid to go in on his own,” according to police dispatcher. … A white male with a dark-colored bag has been spotted trying to catch a ride by flagging down random vehicles near Beacon Park and Mass Pike Road in Brighton. Officers are now approaching. … “Tac teams should be ready to receive their quadrants,” a dispatcher says, as officers prepare to begin systematic search. … To recap, one Boston Marathon bombing suspect is confirmed dead, and another (who was seen in a white baseball cap on the day of the bombings) is on the loose. … One MIT police officer is dead. …
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SWAT teams are also actively clearing Laurel Street, as of 6:05 a.m.:
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Update, 5:46 a.m. EST: Suspect ducked into the woods when police attempted to make contact, according to a police radio broadcast that just went out seconds ago. …
Update, 5:43 a.m. EST: Police have called in a negotiator. It is unclear whether the second suspect has been cornered or located. … According to NBC, police have confirmed both suspects have “international links” and have been in the country legally for approximately one year. … All subway lines/commuter rail/ T public transportation service has been suspended …
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Update, 5:26 a.m. EST: Police are now approaching a white male on a bike with a heavy backpack coming from Cambridge towards Boston.
Update, 5:05 a.m. EST: Officers dispatched to investigate “large Mack truck” near Harvard Business School. … Police chief warns residents not to open their doors. … Boston Marathon “Suspect 2″ on the loose, “Suspect 1″ dead, police confirm. … FBI believes both suspects lingered after remotely detonating Marathon bombs and watched the carnage from close by. … NBC is reporting the suspects may have overseas military training, and came to the country a year ago with the intent of committing acts of terror. … Middlesex district attorney says suspects killed MIT police officer, then stole car at gunpoint and released driver unharmed. During a chase with police, they reportedly tossed bombs from their car … MIT now reports campus is all clear. …
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Update, 5:00 a.m. EST: Three injured officers have been reported by EMS via radio at “Boston PD command post” at Arsenal mall. … “Multiple officers injured, Arsenal court.” … All canine units in Watertown have now been deployed. … Bomb units respond to 540 Memorial Dr., but find nothing dangerous. … One suspect still remains at large. … Heavily armored “BearCat” bomb neutralization truck moving now to Lauriet & Dexter. …
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Update, 4:39 a.m. EST: First suspect was reportedly dead on arrival at a local hospital, Mt. Auburn. Police just issued a radio warning to officers searching for the remaining suspect: “UNITS, USE CAUTION. WE’VE JUST RECEIVED INFORMATION THE PARTY MIGHT HAVE AN EXPLOSIVE OBJECT ON HIS PERSON.” … Another officer said on the radio at 4:33 a.m. that the first suspect may have died when a suicide vest or bomb he was carrying detonated when he was taken into custody. … “The person that is currently at large might have a device on his person if we come across him. … [that is] believed to be based on a device found on the first subject.” … FBI bomb technicians have been called to the scene. … “All tactical commanders” have just been called to the “state police command truck” for an immediate briefing …
Update, 4:28 a.m. EST: Boston police have released this photo of one of the suspects they are currently seeking. It was taken at a local convenience store tonight. … A suspicious package has been cleared at Fairfield & Oliver … “It wouldn’t hurt to have ‘em,” one officer on Dexter St. said at 4:25 a.m. when asked if he needs a 15-officer SWAT team currently idling at the Arsenal mall command post … At Fairfield & Dexter in Watertown, there is a four-door older brown or tan sedan that “the two suspects were seen going into and out of at some point during the evening,” an officer said on Boston PD radio at 4:27 a.m. … Officers are now securing that vehicle … At 475 Arsenal Court, a suspicious male has been seen carrying a backpack. Officers from Watertown PD are now responding to that location as well, and looking to talk with the witness who called it in at 4:28 a.m. …
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Update, 4:09 a.m. EST: A canine unit has been requested to head to Dexter & Fairfield and 89 Dexter St. “ASAP.” A police “tactical bear” bomb disposal unit and bomb technician have been requested to respond as well. Police continue to search houses and adjoining streets and backyards. .. TACTICAL SILENCE: “Units heading to 89 Dexter, do not use your radios,” one officer warned at 4:13 a.m., in an apparent effort to avoid tipping off the suspect who may be hiding there … Officers on Spruce St. are being told to “kill your headlights.” …
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Update, 3:41 a.m. EST: “We’re going to wait back and do a coordinated sweep when the light is with us,” one officer is saying on Boston police radio. Police are planning to search a contained perimeter for the remaining suspect shortly. A supervisor is now making the rounds to “make sure there’s no gaps” around the police’s perimeter. Multiple news websites are reporting pressure cooker devices have been found in Watertown. … At 100 Calcot Street, police are investigating why “motion sensor [alarms] are tripping.” … (VIEW A MAP OF KEY LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY TONIGHT’S EVENTS) …
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Update, 3:37 a.m. EST: Police are again now looking for a “Middle Eastern male” with a “charcoal gray hoodie,” according to Boston Police/EMS radio. They are reviewing store surveillance photographs from nearby stores. Twitter users and some reporters are speculating the suspect may be this missing Brown University student. The Daily Caller has been unable to confirm those reports. Sunil Tripathi, 22, went missing from the Ivy League school in March.
Update, 3:37 a.m. EST: A Twitter user has posted this photo, apparently showing a suspicious man with a backpack walking near Laurel Street:
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Update, 3:21 a.m. EST: Police have established a command post at the Arsenal mall. All officers who are not actively involved in maintaining a perimeter or crime scene have been ordered to report to the command post immediately. … Plainclothes officers, for the second time tonight, have been told to remain with uniformed officers. “Officers should be very careful of other officers,” one police official said at 3:20 a.m. over the radio. … “We want to make sure we’re not engaging each other. You should have something identifying you on. Stay with uniformed officers if you can.” Officers have been told they will be assigned a specialty once they reach the ad hoc command post at Arsenal mall.
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A local resident posted to Twitter a picture of bullets in his home, under the Twitter username “AKitz”:
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And another picture of the ongoing search on Laurel Street:
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Update, 3:14 a.m. EST: Newton PD dispatch is now saying “there is no foot pursuit.” None of the department’s officers are engaged in a foot pursuit any longer. Suspect remains at large.
Update, 3:12 a.m. EST: Local news station WHDH is reporting a suspect has died in a hospital from injuries. A Newton PD police officer is reporting a foot pursuit past Cypress & Dexter and 321 Arsenal St. near Charles River Road. The suspect “possibly matches the description” of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, an officer told dispatchers at 3:11 a.m. “I need an undeployed tactical team,” another replied. Canines have been deployed, and officers are forming a perimeter. Cruisers are lining up to prevent suspects from jumping into the nearby Charles River. “Only SWAT assets at this time,” one officer said over the radio at 3:06 a.m.
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Update, 2:46 a.m. EST: Officer: “Suspect could have an IED explosive device on him, use extreme caution in the area of Brighton, Watertown and Cambridge.” The suspect that is outstanding, according to an officer on Boston PD radio, “is the party in the white hat that was identified in the photos,” apparently referring to the Boston Marathon bomber in recently released FBI photos. He is currently dressed in a black hoodie and has curly hair, police are saying. A police robot has been deployed to search parked cars and suspicious items.
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Update, 2:43 a.m. EST: Police are now looking for a “white male,” who is “armed and dangerous” with an “assault rifle” and possibly “explosives.” … The Boston Globe is reporting an MIT police officer has died.
Update, 2:35 a.m. EST: Report of “pipe bombs in the roadway” goes out over radio. According to the Boston Globe, one suspected Boston Marathon bomber is in custody. (Pictured above, a picture from CNN appears to show a suspect surrendering at gunpoint. It is unclear whether he is a suspect in the Marathon bombing.) Officers are searching an immobile gold Nissan Maxima. Six shots have been reported near Aberdeen Avenue by witnesses.
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Update, 2:30 a.m. EST: A handgun magazine has been found by officers near 14 Hazel Street. Report of “possibly 15 shots fired” near Aberdeen and Mount Auburn just went out over the radio.
Update, 2:25 a.m. EST: 14 Hazel Street has been cleared. No suspects were inside, according to police radio.
Update, 2:16 a.m. EST: SWAT is involved in the raid on Hazel Street (pictured below, from Twitter user sethmnookin). Suspects are confirmed to “definitely” have “long guns” by two officers on police radio. A commanding officer is asking nearby officers to remain in “cover, not concealment,” because of the threat.
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Update, 2:15 a.m. EST: Police have established a perimeter around a multi-story house at 14 Hazel Street and are right now making entry. Dogs are involved in the search. MIT students who are scared by the night’s events are requesting police escorts, according to a dispatcher.
Watch amateur video of the shootout (WARNING: Graphic language):
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Update, 2:06 a.m. EST: Police, with helicopter support, are clearing a street “where a car is abandoned on.” They are reporting “very bad visibility” and are accompanied by “state police and the Fox Channel 4 helicopter.” Weather is “very soupy,” one officer says on the radio, adding that “we can’t be here very long.”
Update, 1:55 a.m. EST: Police radio suggests “code black” in effect at Auburn hospital.
Update, 1:50 a.m. EST: Police dispatcher says officers are looking for a “clean shaven Middle Eastern male,” wearing clothing with a “snowflake” logo of some kind. No further description was immediately passed to officers.
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Update, 1:40 a.m. EST: Police responded briefly to a report of shots fired at a local children’s hospital, but are confirming over their radios now that “no shots were fired” at the hospital. Police are also saying “we do not have a second suspect in custody,” according to the police scanner. They are actively looking now for a second suspect.
Update, 1:27 a.m. EST: An officer came over the radio saying it might be “mundane,” but ordered officers to keep the streets “clear” to ensure that squad cars can rapidly deploy.
Update, 1:20 a.m. EST: “We’ve got a second suspect in custody,” one officer says over the police radio. He then added: “We’re not sure it’s him.”
Update, 1: 14 a.m. EST: MIT police say one suspect is in custody, but another may be at large. Officers were told over the radio to turn off their cellphones for fear of detonating explosive devices nearby.
“CP – to all units in area – power down all cellphones for fear of explosion,” a commanding officer said over the radio. “Power down your cellphones from a safe distance.”
According to Fox News, a reporter was told to power down his phone if he “wants to live.”
Update, 1:00 a.m. EST: At least one heavily armed assailant with “grenades” and “explosives” and firing “automatic gunfire” is loose near MIT’s campus, according to police dispatchers and the school’s emergency website, and police say are looking for “dark-skinned” and “Middle Eastern” suspects. (Listen to the live feed here)
According to a live audio feed from MIT police, an officer has been shot in the arm and taken to the hospital. Suspects with grenades and explosives apparently stole the officer’s gun and a “state police SUV,” according to officials talking on the police radio, and may have stormed a nearby convenience store.
“They have explosives, [and] some type of grenade. Shots fired, shots fired. Loud explosion. Loud explosion – shots fired, shots fired,” one officer says.
Officers could be heard screaming on their radio for backup officers “with long guns” at 12:55 a.m. EST.
Multiple media outlets have reported that at least one police officer has died.
Hair-raising reports coming in from a Boston Police scanner indicate that a report of a second officer down” and ”definitely hand grenades and automatic gunfire.”
“Responding agencies are actively investigating the situation, which remains very fluid at this time,” campus police officials wrote at 12:28 a.m. “Police continue to sweep the campus. Stay indoors and remain inside until further notice.”
“We’re going to try to block them in in an alley,” one officer says on the radio at 11:34 p.m. “They’re both armed with firearms. They both paid cash at the shell station, then fled towards Harvard square. … Only one firearm was displayed.”
“[Suspects are] dark-skinned and one’s Middle Eastern,” another officer said over the radio. The Daily Caller has been unable to confirm the suspects’ ethnicities, and no other officers referenced a Middle Eastern suspect on the radio.
An earlier update on MIT’s website said gunshots had been fired.
“At 10:48 p.m. gunshots were reported near Building 32 (Stata) which is currently surrounded by responding agencies. The area is cordoned off. Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred. Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is underway. Updates will be provided at this site when more information becomes available.”
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The Great Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s First Female Prime Minister, Dies At The Age Of 87
8 AprMargaret Thatcher Dies After Stroke – Sky News
Britain’s first and only female prime minister Baroness Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.
Lady Thatcher’s children Mark and Carol said their mother, who suffered bouts of ill health in recent years, died peacefully on Monday morning.
Downing Street, which joined Buckingham Palace in flying its flags at half mast, said the politician would be given a full ceremonial funeral with honours at St Paul’s Cathedral.
Sky sources understand she died at the Ritz in central London where she had been staying since January following a minor operation.
It is believed her Belgravia home was not properly equipped for her recovery and she was invited to stay at the hotel by its owners, David and Frederick Barclay.
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Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes from around the world, calling the former Tory leader “a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton”.
He said: “As our first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn’t just lead our country, she saved our country, and I believe she’ll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister.
“Her legacy will be the fact she served her country so well, she saved our country and that she showed immense courage in doing so and people will be learning about what she did and her achievements in decades, probably centuries to come.”
Mr Cameron was in Spain at the start of a European tour to push for a more flexible EU when the news broke but immediately cut short his trip.
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It is understood that Lady Thatcher was consulted about details of the funeral arrangements and made clear that she did not want to lie in state.
The streets between Westminster and St Paul’s will be cleared for the procession, the date of which is yet to be decided. The route will be lined with members of Armed Forces.
US President Barack Obama said that America would “never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan” and that she had “with moral conviction” helped to shape history.
He said: “With the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend.
“As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered. As prime minister, she helped restore the confidence and pride that has always been the hallmark of Britain at its best.”
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Labour leader Ed Miliband, who was launching his local election campaign on Monday, cancelled the party’s operations as a mark of respect.
He said: “She will be remembered as a unique figure. She reshaped the politics of a whole generation.
“The Labour Party disagreed with much of what she did and she will always remain a controversial figure. But we can disagree and also greatly respect her political achievements and her personal strength.”
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said: “Margaret Thatcher was one of the defining figures in modern British politics.
“Whatever side of the political debate you stand on, no-one can deny that as prime minister she left a unique and lasting imprint on the country she served.”
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Buckingham Palace added: “The Queen was sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher. Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family.”
Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair called the ex-PM a “towering political figure” who exercised a huge influence over Britain and the world.
“Very few leaders get to change not only the political landscape of their country but of the world. Margaret was such a leader. Her global impact was vast,” he said.
He added: “As a person she was kind and generous spirited and was always immensely supportive to me as Prime Minister although we came from opposite sides of politics.
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“Even if you disagreed with her as I did on certain issues and occasionally strongly, you could not disrespect her character or her contribution to Britain’s national life. She will be sadly missed.”
Former Conservative prime minister Sir John Major described his predecessor as a “true force of nature” and a “political phenomenon”.
He said: “In government, the UK was turned around under – and in large measure because of – her leadership.
“Her reforms of the economy, trades union law, and her recovery of the Falkland Islands elevated her above normal politics, and may not have been achieved under any other leader.”
Lady Thatcher, who made history by becoming Britain’s first female prime minister in 1979, had become increasingly frail over the last decade.
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She suffered several small strokes in 2002 and was advised not to accept further public speaking engagements.
Her apparent fragility when she did appear in public, especially after the death of husband Denis in 2003, led to frequent bouts of speculation about her health.
But MPs and friends who saw her regularly said she remained alert and interested in politics and she was not known to have deteriorated notably recently.
The former leader was admitted to hospital shortly before Christmas where she underwent an operation to remove a growth from her bladder but was allowed to return home before the New Year.
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As prime minister from 1979 to 1990, she has been credited with transforming a nation in one decade and putting Britain back among the leading industrial nations of the world.
Loved and loathed in equal measure, she crushed the unions and privatised vast swathes of British industry as she led the Tories to three election victories.
She was nicknamed the Iron Lady by a Russian journalist in 1976 for her opposition to Soviet communism.
The moniker stuck and privately she was thought to enjoy it. It also became the title of the 2011 biopic for which Meryl Streep won an Oscar.
“To have given women and girls around the world reason to supplant fantasies of being princesses with a different dream: the real-life option of leading their nation; this was groundbreaking and admirable,” Streep said.
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Lady Thatcher was also memorably described by the then French president Francois Mitterrand with the back-handed compliment that she had the “eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe”.
But perhaps the defining moment of her career will be the decision to send a taskforce to the Falklands on April 2, 1982 after Argentina invaded.
Despite her toughness, few will forget the pictures of Lady Thatcher leaving Downing Street for the last time with her husband, Sir Denis – tears in her eyes.
A woman who believed in hard work, she was the daughter of grocer Alfred Roberts and gained a degree in Chemistry at Oxford University, where she became president of the university’s Conservative Association.
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Her first job was as a research chemist but in February 1951 she was adopted as Conservative candidate for Dartford and at a dinner that day she met the wealthy and divorced businessman, Denis Thatcher. They married later that year.
He supported her during her unsuccessful campaigns for the seat and during her studies to become a barrister. She qualified in 1953, the same year she gave birth to twins Mark and Carol.
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Gun Rights Supporter Sells Jim Carrey Photo On eBay So He Can Buy New Gun
27 MarHah! Gun Rights Supporter Sells Jim Carrey Photo On eBay So He Can Buy New Gun – Gateway Pundit
A gun rights supporter decided this week to sell his autographed photo of Jim Carrey so he can buy a new gun.
So far the bidding is up to $319 $830.
Here’s the description on the item:
I’m selling this Jim Carrey Autographed B&W 8X10 Photo (mint condition) in hopes that I sell it for enough to buy a GUN to protect my family.
I’m thinking of getting the Glock G30S .45 ACP Pistol which retails for $640 U.S. Hopefully I can get at least that much for the autographed photo. If it sells for more than I’ll get a laser sight for it and take some gun safety classes and get my “concealed carry” permit.
I lost all respect for Mr. Carrey after he released his “Cold Dead Hands” video mocking responsible gun owners and Charlton Heston.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment and my rights shall not be infringed! From MY cold dead hands Mr. Carrey!
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And spank u, Jim.
Media Blackout: No Coverage On Massive ‘March For Marriage’ In Washington DC
27 MarMedia Blackout: No Coverage On Massive ‘March For Marriage’ In Washington DC – Gateway Pundit
Once again the mainstream media proves itself to be nothing more than an extension of the DNC.
Major mainstream media outlets totally ignored the massive March for Marriage today in Washington DC.
It’s like it never happened.
Here are pictures from the March for Marriage today, via National Organization for Marriage website today:
There was also a rally at the end of the march.
Obviously, the march did not fit the media’s narrative on the subject.
Golfer Sergio Garcia Climbs Tree, Shoots Amazing, One-Handed, Backwards Shot Onto Fairway (Video)
25 MarNice Tree off! Golfer Sergio Garcia Climbs Tree To Hit Amazing One-Handed Shot – Daily Mail
It was the shot heard ’round the golf course.
PGA bad boy Sergio Garcia found himself branching out – literally – on the tenth hole of the Bay Hill golf course when his ball landed in a tree.
Instead of taking a drop, Garcia made like so many little kids during recess and climbed up the tree to take his shot, which had to be one-handed and backwards.
Careful up there: Sergio Garcia wowed the crowd at Bay Hill when he climbed a tree to take his second shot on the tenth hole which landed in a tree
Urban jungle gym: Garcia climbed up the tree with a shocking amount of agility
They don’t teach this at most golf lessons: Garcia takes the improbable one-handed, backwards shot
Garcia looked calm as could be as he carefully climbed up the tree and miraculously the golf ball didn’t budge.
The golfer took a number of positions, determining the best angle to try and hit the ball back onto the course.
He finally settled on one stance that required a one-handed grip of his club.
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After the ball landed back into the fairway the crowd roared and the commentators were stunned.
‘I think he even took some of the bark off.’
William McGirt, who Garcia was playing with, was equally flabbergasted. ‘He’s hugging the tree. And the ball comes flying out. ‘Are you kidding me?”
The show continued as Garcia actually jumped down from the tree much to the shock of nearly everyone watching
Who says golf is boring? It took Garcia a couple of positions to find the right one to make the incredible shot.
Play for the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational was suspended Sunday afternoon after heavy rain and strong winds
Playing on the fourth day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida, Garcia didn’t exactly salvage the round since he wound up with a double bogey, but he certainly wowed the spectators and the media.
Social media immediately lit up after Garcia’s incredible play with many marveling how he could even get the shot off.
Though Garcia looked remarkably agile and fit during the play, he did have to withdraw from the tournament just a few rounds later.
Not bad for a double bogey: many took to Twitter to marvel at Garcia’s miraculous one-handed, up-a-tree shot
In spite of the turbulent weather, the golf ball didn’t budge from its position in the tree
The defending champion, Tiger Woods, currently enjoys a three-shot lead going into resumed play Monday morning
According to ESPN, the nifty moves resulted in injuries to both his shoulder and Achilles tendon.
‘I wanted to continue and finish the round and the tournament, in spite of it not being the best of days. But the discomfort would have been more, and I decided not to continue to avoid hurting me more.’
Due to rain and gusty winds play at the Invitational was suspended Sunday afternoon and will resume Monday morning.
The reigning winner of the tournament, Tiger Woods, leads the entire clubhouse at twelve under par.
Democrat Lawmaker Took Pictures Of His Genitals And Put Them On A Female Coworker’s Computer
22 MarA state representative in Massachussetts is being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a government computer.
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The investigation is ongoing and the committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one behind the scandal.
He allegedly sent ‘lascivious photos of his privates’ to a computer at the State House, and an aide complained to the Ethics Committee to start the investigation.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo has not confirmed any accusations in the case except that he did say there was ‘sufficient cause’ for an investigation.
‘In order to protect the integrity of the Ethics Committee investigation, Speaker DeLeo will have no further comment on this matter,’ spokesman Seth Gitell said.
Local blogs and radio hosts have taken the case further, saying that it was definitely Fresolo who sent the salacious pictures.
Though he was curt and dismissive when a reporter from The Republican newspaper called him, he did not deny the claims.
‘I’m going to hang up now, but I want you to know I am not resigning,’ he said.
This is not his first scandal, as he has a history of violence towards his family members that has put him in trouble with social services.
In 2005 he reportedly physically abused his then-13-year-old daughter, and that came nearly a decade after he was arrested for beating his then-wife in 1996. She later dropped the charges.
Blogger Michele McPhee reports that he is now on paid administrative leave, which is allegedly angering his colleagues.
‘It’s bad enough that he pulled an Anthony Weiner and had pictures of his penis on State House computers, but then he tried to get his per diem pumped up. No one puts in for 220 days of commuting and with his commute that’s a lot of money,’ a state representative told her on the condition of anonymity.
Adding a dash of irony to the case, the accusations come on the same day that the state politicians underwent ethics training.
Why Does The Devil In ‘The Bible’ Look Exactly Like President Obama?
18 MarWhy Does The Devil In ‘The Bible’ Look Exactly Like President Obama? – Daily Mail
Sunday evening’s episode of the History Channel’s hit series ‘The Bible’ threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance to President Obama.
Twitter exploded into life during the airing of the latest edition of the Mark Burnett-produced series with most noting the striking similarities between the 44th President and the devil played by actor Mehdi Ouzaani.
The show has been a surprise hit in the ratings, with the religious mini-series attracting 13.1 million viewers on Wednesday – topping television leviathan American Idol’s 12.8 million viewers on Wednesday.
Right-wing commentator and radio-host Glenn Beck first pointed out the eerie similarity on Saturday, tweeting, ‘Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on History Channel looks exactly like That Guy?’
Others were simply struck by the clear physical match.
Twitter user @Leah Christie, tweeted, ‘Oh my word… watching The History Channel’s The Bible… does Satan look familiar to anyone else?’
The resemblance between Moroccan actor Mehdi Ouazzani (left) and President Obama left some viewers of ‘The Bible’ taking to Twitter to express their amazement
Right-wing radio host and commentator Glenn Beck was one of the first to point out the uncanny likeness of Mehdi Ouazzani to the 44th President of the United States
The popular religious show has become a surprise hit of the winter/spring schedule and viewers on Sunday night took to Twitter to express their shock at the similarities of the two men
While Matthew Gaudet commented, ‘Watching The Bible series on the History channel and noticed the guy playing the role of Satan, looks strikingly similar to Obama.’
The unfortunate incident bares comparison with HBO’s infamous inclusion of a fake George W. Bush head impaled onto a stick during the background of a Season 1 Game of Thrones episode.
When the incident went viral, the network announced it was pulling the offending episode – from its rotation, freezing shipments of DVD box sets and halting sales on iTunes until the embarrassing blunder had been fixed.
‘We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,’ HBO said in a statement.
Spiked: Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s surprise appearance on HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones, bares comparison to President Obama’s look-a-like on Sunday’s ‘The Bible’
Game of Thrones creators D.B Weiss and David Benioff faced massive criticism for using a prop of George W. Bush’s head in a scene from Season One of the hit show
‘We made this clear to the executive producers of the series, who apologized immediately for this careless mistake.
‘We condemn it in the strongest possible terms and have halted all future shipments of the DVDs, removed it from our digital platforms and will edit the scene for all future airings on any distribution domestic or international.’
HBO and the show’s creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, apologized for the incident.
Mr Benioff and Mr Weiss, who noted the appearance in the series’ DVD commentary, insist it wasn’t a political statement – just a prop.
It remains to be seen whether this particular presidential mishap will create a similar backlash against the wildly popular mini-series.
The Mark Burnett-produced program retells the stories from the scriptures in a scripted format, from Genesis through to Revelation, the last book of the New Testament.
The miniseries’ popularity is somewhat of a mystery. For one, the drama wasn’t a hit with television critics, receiving a mediocre score of 44 on the Metacritic site.
‘Blessed’: Producer Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey behind the scenes on The Bible where they believe ‘the hand of God’ was at work during filming
‘As a cable series, The Bible lacked the ready-made, large scale promotional platform and popular lead-in that can drive strong ratings for a new show on a major broadcast network, of the kind NBC was, for many years,’ writes a columnist in The Washington Times.
Indeed, Burnett told Entertainment Weekly that the series’ success seemed almost preordained while it was being made.
‘The hand of God was on this,’ he said in an interview before the show’s premiere. ‘The edit came together perfectly, the actors came together perfectly, it just comes to life.’
Mr Burnett, who is most famous for creating reality shows such as Survivor and produced The Bible along with his actress wife Roma Downey, described a number of ‘weird things’ which drew the attention of cast and crew during filming.
Tales: British-born producer Mark Burnett, left, who created the series along with his wife Ms Downey, right, revealed the extraordinary experiences of the crew during filming
In one scene, filmed during a still night on the edge of the desert, Jesus tells the priest Nicodemus, ‘The Holy Spirit is like the wind.’
According to Mr Burnett: ‘At that moment, a wind, like as if a 747 was taking off, blew his hair, almost blew the set over and sustained for 20 seconds across the desert.
‘Everyone just looked at everyone like, ‘What just happened?’
The Bible is airing on the History Channel in two-hour chunks on Sunday nights, and has been the surprise winner in its timeslot.
The series will air its finale on March 31, Easter Sunday.
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Don’t Harass A ‘Human Statue’ Street Performer Because You Might Get Punched In The Face (Video)
18 MarDon’t Harass A ‘Human Statue’ Street Performer Because You Might Get Punched In The Face – The Blaze
Some street performers take their jobs very seriously. For many in the trade, it is an art perfected over many years.
That might be why a “human statue” street performer, reportedly in Surfers Paradise, Australia, lost his cool when an annoying guy came up to him and began harassing him relentlessly. In the video posted on YouTube Friday, a man is seen flicking the performers ear, messing with his hat, giving him a wet willie and rubbing the front of his face – all while smiling.
That same guy then got decked in the face by the fed-up street performer. It was a devastating, clean right hook that caught the harasser completely off guard.
“Oh!” the crowd reacted.
Ouch. Watch the video below:
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78% Of MSNBC Viewers Responding To Poll Approve Of “Targeted Killing Of American Citizens”
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MSNBC Viewers- Obama State TV. What would they not approve of, if he said it was alright? Flaying people in the street?
Doug Giles Interviews Joseph Phillips, Father Of Student Whose Camera Was Taken By Leftist Teacher Over BB-Gun Picture
4 Mar
Yesterday (3/3/13) I was guest host on The Jason Mattera Show on WABC in NYC. Joseph Phillips from The Cosby Show was one of my guests. Check out what his son’s school did to this honor school student because of a picture of an AirSoft BB-Gun. Our schools have lost their frickin’ minds. Also, check out me and Steve Pauwels (of ClashDaily.com) yapping about how some churches are setting the next generation up to be steamrolled by bad people and policies.
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Here’s the letter Joseph sent to his son’s school:
Principal David Fehte
El Camino Real Charter
5440 Valley Circle Blvd.
Woodland Hills, CA. 91367Principal Fehte,
My name is Joseph C. Phillips. My son, Connor, is currently enrolled as a sophomore at El Camino Real Charter High School. I am writing you concerning a recent encounter my son had with one of his teachers, that is of grave concern to me.
Last Friday, February 22nd, James DeLarme confiscated a camera belonging to my son. Apparently, Mr. DeLarme was alarmed by a photo of a rifle he observed on my sons camera.
My son is involved in the hobby of air soft- war games played with BB guns. Air soft is not a new past time; far from it. Air soft is a recreational activity played nationwide by both boys and girls and men and women of all ages; there are stores all over the city and the internet dedicated to selling air soft equipment. My son worked, saved his money, and purchased a new air soft rifle. On Friday, Connor was showing his friends a photo of his new toy when Mr. DeLarme walked by, saw the photo and snatched the camera from my son’s hands. My son attempted to explain to Mr. DeLarme that the rifle was a bb gun used for playing air soft. It was at that time that Mr. DeLarme exclaimed that he didn’t know anything about that and the police would have to be called. It is my understanding that Mr. DeLarme left the room and shared the photo with another teacher, who was also “disturbed” by the photo, so disturbed apparently that they both felt the need to scroll through all of the photos on my son’s camera. After a time, Mr. Delarme returned the phone to my son, but not before he inquired about Connor’s mental state: “Do you have any animosity towards your classmates?” “Are you angry at anyone at school?” etc.
I am well aware of the sensitivity concerning guns, especially given recent events in Connecticut. However, I am also quite aware of Mr. DeLarme’s political opposition to guns-I believe his quote on the television was, “…Guns are to blame! We have to do away with guns!” It is my belief that in this instance politics trumped good sense and as a result my son’s privacy was violated, his property confiscated, he was needlessly embarrassed in front of his classmates, treated as a mental patient, (by someone unqualified to determine anyone’s mental state), and subsequently threatened with police involvement. In addition, neither my wife nor I was ever notified. I had to discover this during a conversation with my son.
Did I mention that this was a photograph of a rifle? There was absolutely nothing on that camera that would qualify as lewd, illegal, or immoral. NOTHING! As Mr. DeLarme surely knew and learned when he violated my son’s privacy by scrolling through the entire camera.
I am LIVID!
It may come as a shock to Mr. DeLarme, It may even be news to you, but my son is not the only boy in Woodland Hills with a BB gun. There are quite a few boys attending your school who not only own BB guns, but own real guns as well. (Some of them play air soft with my son!) Their fathers, mothers, and brothers also own guns and shoot regularly. Owning a gun is NOT a sign of mental illness. Owning a BB gun is NOT an indication of mental instability! Certainly, showing friends a photograph of a gun is NOT a warning sign that a student is a potential danger to his classmates! I object, in the strongest of terms, to my son being treated as a potential danger and to his being threatened with law enforcement. I further object to not being notified! If Mr. DeLarme truly believed my son presented a danger, both my wife and I should have been notified immediately!
What remains unclear is what other images does Mr. Delarme (and the teacher he consulted with) deem so “disturbing” that such an intervention is warranted. If my son had been showing friends a photograph of a marijuana plant, would Mr. DeLarme have snatched the camera from my son’s hands? What if my son had been flashing a photo of a bottle of Jack Daniels? Teen age drinking is illegal, owning a rifle is not. Something tells me that this teacher and his cohort would have kept stepping- that the only reason for DeLarme’s behavior was his distaste of guns (and apparently his objection to the second amendment).
Mr. Fehte, I suspect that you are old enough to recall a time when most boys owned BB guns; when a .22 rifle was a popular Christmas gift available for purchase at Kmart or the local sporting goods store; when high schools had rifle teams; when a pocket knife in a boys pocket was a sign that the boy was involved in the Boy Scouts. If you do not remember a more innocent, and dare I say, level-headed time, I certainly do. And trust me, I am not that old. Is this what the new world hath wrought? Teachers looking over students shoulders, peeking to make certain they are not sharing any objectionable images? Students threatened with police intervention for having a photo of a gun? Students embarrassed in front of their classmates because they are out of step with the political agenda of their instructor? Is this El Camino Real Charter High School at its finest? Should I expect the rest of my sons’ tenure at Elco to be similarly absurd? What about his brothers, who are also slated to attend Elco? Should I be worried that their dignity will also be subject to disrespect because they have a legal, but politically objectionable photo on their cameras?
It is my sincere hope that this matter is addressed, that my son receives the formal apology he did not receive on Friday, that parents are informed as to the protocol concerning police intervention, and that instructors at Elco are provided some guidance, so they do not over react, thus causing more harm than good.
I thank you for your time and attention to this matter and look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Joseph C. Phillips
Check Out The Incredible Paintings That Are Often Mistaken For Photographs
1 MarAt first glance, these fascinating images look like an incredibly detailed collection of photographs.
However, they are in fact stunning paintings by talented artist Craig Wylie.
Mr Wylie can spend up to three months grafting away on each of his masterpieces.
His portraits capture the tiniest details from his subject’s face, from the dimples in their cheeks to any wrinkles around the eyes.
Using just pencils, oil paints and charcoal, he creates his works of art on large canvasses – the largest he has done measured 6.5ft by 9.8ft.
Mr Wylie used his talents to paint a portrait of double gold Olympic medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.
The opportunity came about after the painter won the BP Portrait Prize – an annual portraiture competition held by the National Portrait Gallery – in 2008.
Mr Wylie, 39, who lives in London, said: ‘Kelly was pleased with my portrait of her.
‘Initially though, she was a little daunted by the size and level of detail of it, as anyone would be looking at an image that size of themselves.
‘I admit I’m not a great flatterer when it comes to portraits, but Dame Kelly did thank me for doing a good job.’
Mr Wylie tries to sell most of his works once he has completed them, he has previously sold one painting for as much as £30,000.
The skilled painter has been making large head-based portraits for the last six years and many of his subjects are friends.
He works from images on his laptop screen and he says the ability to zoom in to extreme close-ups of the images is crucial.
Working from a computer screen means he can access detail that would normally be available to the naked eye.
Mr Wylie was born in Zimbabwe and studied fine art in South Africa before he moved permanently to the UK in 1998.
The artist added: ‘I painted and drew and was exposed to all kinds of art from a young age.
‘My mother was an artist and she always had art materials knocking about while my brother and I were growing up – we made lots of pretty messes.
‘I only decided to make art my profession after starting a journalism degree and deciding it wasn’t something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
‘Once I had made the change to a fine arts degree, I gave it everything as I knew how difficult it would be to make it as a painter.
‘And thankfully I have received prizes steadily throughout my career, the last and most notable was the 2008 BP Portrait Award of which I was very proud.’
Mr Wylie is now looking forward to his next solo exhibition which will be held at the Plus One Gallery in Chelsea, London from early April.
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Dave C
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