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The killer in an Aurora, Illinois shooting on Friday had apparently been fired from his job shortly before the incident, CNN reported. In the shooting attack, five civilians were killed and five police officers were injured. ..... The shooter has been identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin. He was killed at the scene. According to CNN, Martin was fired from his job on Friday. However, according to the New York Post, Martin had been fired two weeks prior to the shooting, after working at the company for 20 years. The site said that at least one victim said that the weapon...

Video You tube below At least 5 people are dead, 9 wounded, and an estimate 14 people held hostage in a standoff between gunman and local police in the Karak castle in Jordan. Four Jordanian police officers and a female Canadian tourist were killed in a drive-by shooting attack just outside of the castle, a popular tourist attraction 70 miles south of Jordan’s capital of Amman. Jordanian authorities say two separate shooting attacks took place before the assailants took hostages inside the Karak castle. Police have cordoned off the 900-year old Crusader castle, where the hostages, believed to be tourists,...

Several Egyptian terrorists were killed in an air strike in Sinai on Friday, which some claimed Israel had carried out. Security sources and witnesses said the terrorists were struck as they prepared to launch a rocket into Israel, reported AFP. The source of the strike was not immediately clear. Some sources spoke of an Israeli air strike conducted from Israeli air space and others credited the Egyptian military. Witnesses said at least five members of a cell led by local Islamist militants were killed in the raid. Egypt's army said two explosions were heard at around 4:15 p.m. local time...

Albuquerque Police Department Chief Ray Schultz announced Friday that the suspect accused of killing two Albuquerque police officers may be linked to two other murders Thursday. Schultz, at a news conference Friday afternoon, said John Hyde, 48, may be linked to a double murder at a motorcycle shop near Central and Tramway, along with the death of a state Department of Transportation employee found near a NMDOT warehouse. Schultz stressed that the links are only the result of a preliminary investigation. Police say Hyde shot at officers Michael King and Richard Smith on Thursday night when the two officers went...