Dec
02
2007
This is no bull, this is a woman calmly blowing herself up to kill someone. Rumoured to be a Tamil Tiger, she did this in Sri Lanka.
The only appreciable difference, is that an Al Qeada bomber would have leveled the whole building.
— In chilling security camera footage, a female suicide bomber on a mission to kill a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister is seen patiently answering questions in a bustling government office before calmly standing up and detonating the bomb hidden in her bra.
The video, released by police Friday, gave a rare look at a suicide bomber’s last moments and the immediate aftermath of a devastating attack.
In the footage, the bomber, wearing a yellow sari and a white shawl, calmly walked into a small waiting room at the Colombo offices of Social Services Minister Douglas Devananda on Wednesday, the day he sets aside to hear complaints from the public.
The woman, identified by police as 24-year-old Sujatha Vagawanam, sat down in front of a desk and answered questions from Devananda’s 72-year-old aide Steven Peiris. As the two spoke, Peiris was repeatedly interrupted by other officials sitting nearby or walking past.
Aug
31
2007
Let the excuses begin. The School and the Government are going to vigorously defend themselves and blame the other. I am going to deconstruct this dreck in detail. At the bottom, I will note the real solution which the panel ignored.
Va. Tech president defends school’s response, while the Governor-appointed panel sharply critical of university’s actions
Virginia Tech’s president, facing calls for his ouster, defended his university’s response to the nation’s deadliest school shooting, saying Thursday that officials couldn’t have known the gunman would attack twice.
He is right. The initial attack was a homicide in the dorm, and like it or not, sometimes that happens. There was nothing overt to suggest he was planning to make it a massacre, and in fact, one of the victim’s boyfriend was considered a person of interest initially. As the timeline shows:
TIMELINE: 7.15am - Virginia Tech Police Department receives an emergency call to go to a dormitory room at West Ambler Johnston Residence Hall at the Virginia Tech University. Officers and members of the Virginia Tech rescue squad arrive to find two people, a man and a woman, have been shot dead in a dormitory. The hall is closed off, students are asked to remain in their rooms and police begin collecting evidence and identifying witnesses.
Apr
03
2007
To have to have one such grisly shooting happen is bad enough, but two in just a few days just makes the situation all the more surreal.
The first:
Police pin UW shooting on victim’s ex- boyfriend
A University of Washington resear cher was shot to death in her office Monday morning by a former boyfriend who then turned the gun on himself, police said.
Officers responding to reports of gunfire found the two dead in an office on the fourth floor of Gould Hall, the university’s architecture building, Assistant University Police Chief Ray Wittmier said.
The 26-year-old woman was granted a restraining order last month against Jonathan Rowan, according to court documents. University police said he was not affiliated with the school.
Small comfort that is. The fact is this is a grim and heartbreaking tale of an obsessed ex lover and a woman who tried all legal means to ensure her protection and safety.
“I cannot find him but he can find me (knows my place of work),” the victim, identified by colleagues as Rebecca Griego, wrote in a restraining order petition filed against Rowan on March 6 in King County Superior Court.
Jul
14
2006
I have not dealt with the situation in Israel and all the bombing and such in my blog. Honestly, I have not had near enough time to gather the links and resources necessary to do the story justice.
Others like Sister Toldjah and Michelle Malkin have more then made up for my distraction.
But this story at Opinion Journal was noteworthy to me, not just in how it deals with the participants, but with the UN, and the International Community as a whole in their reactions as well as their involvement.
The powder keg over there is very worrisome, and has been for decades, but in the latest events, Iran And Syria are not helping, nor is the UN.
Ask yourself a question: Here you have Iran and Syria clearly meddling in the events, Iran is actively seeking a nuclear program, and Iran has openly hated Israel for years.
Is this not a scary situation?
In the only positive news I could find in this, at least the people suffering from BDS will now have a new reason to blame Bush.
States of Terror: Syria, Iran and their proxies wage war on Israel.
Mar
28
2006
I am struggling with this one because it encompasses so many issues.
The details of it are well known but here is a select summary:
Tragedy on Capitol Hill: 7 dead after rampage
After partying peacefully all night with young people he’d met at a nearby rave, the heavyset man left an east Capitol Hill home around 7 a.m. He returned minutes later, draped in ammunition belts and armed with a 12-gauge shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol.
His first victim was gunned down on the front steps, the second on the porch. Pandemonium broke out as partygoers dived out windows while others tried to hold the front door shut in the face of a fusillade of shotgun blasts.
He killed six young people Saturday morning before turning the shotgun on himself as a police officer confronted him. Two others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske described the man as "quiet and humble" but knew little else about a mass killer whose crime is among the worst in Seattle history, eclipsed only by the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre that left 13 dead.
