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Suspected Gunman Arrested After Hostage Situation at Oroville High School
Written by Elizabeth Bishop, Senior Internet News Producer
# Oroville Union School District
Police have arrested a suspect who allegedly took hostages this morning at Las Plumas High School in Oroville, according to Cal Fire.
The alleged gunman was arrested at 10:40 a.m. No one was injured. The student who were held hostage are now being released.
The lockdown began at 9:15 a.m. An unknown number of students were being held in the band room, according to Cal Fire.
All schools in Oroville are locked down, according to the school district.
Parents of the students are gathering outside the school.
The school district has posted the following message on its Web site:
“All Oroville Union High School District schools are on lock down. There is an incident at the Las Plumas High School campus. The Butte County Sheriff’s Office has the campus under control. If your student is at the Las Plumas campus you will not be able to pick them up at this time. If you would like to pick up a student from another school be prepared to show identification and please be patient with the emergency support staff. Please help keep our phone lines clear and check the district website for updates.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298497,00.htmlSenior Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed by U.S. Forces
Friday, September 28, 2007
Abu Usama al-Tunisi
WASHINGTON — U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad, and recent similar operations against Al Qaeda, have left the organization in Iraq fractured.
“Abu Usama al-Tunisi was one of the most senior leaders ... the emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq and part of the inner leadership circle,” Anderson said.
Al-Tunisi was a leader in helping bring foreign terrorists into the country and his death “is a key loss” to Al Qaeda leadership there, Anderson told a Pentagon news conference.
“He operated in Yusufiyah, southwest of Baghdad, since the second battle of Fallujah in November ‘04 and became the overall emir of Yusufiyah in the summer of ‘06,” Anderson said in a videoconference from Baghdad.
“His group was responsible for kidnapping our American soldiers in June 2006,” Anderson said.
He did not name the soldiers and Pentagon officials said they did not immediately know whom he was referring to. But three U.S. soldiers were killed that month in an ambush-kidnapping that happened while they were guarding a bridge.
Spc. David J. Babineau was killed at a river checkpoint south of Baghdad on June 16, 2006, and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker were abducted. The mutilated bodies of the kidnapped soldiers were found three days later, tied together and booby-trapped with bombs.
Anderson said recent coalition operations also have helped cut in half the previous flow of foreign fighters into Iraq, which had been at about 60 to 80 a month.
He credited the work of the Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement and U.S. teams.
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Thanks for all the updates dryman’s wife.
I hope this guy is tried as an adult.
Updates appreciated.
I notice that none of the articles contain any comments from the students about this student hostage taker.
That’s interesting.
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