http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mall/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:04:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418692/posts A Muslim immigrant opened fire and killed five people in Finland today before turning the gun on himself.
CNN reported: A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping center near the Finnish capital of Helsinki Thursday, leaving five people dead, police said. Four of the victims — three men and one woman — were killed at the Sello shopping center in Espoo, just west of Helsinki, police said. Some were employees of a grocery store at the mall, police said. A fifth victim, also an employee of the grocery store, was found later at an apartment in Espoo, police said, without... sodahead.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418692/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418226/posts Shots have been fired at a shopping centre in the town of Espoo, near the capital of Finland, Helsinki. An eyewitness said at least one person was left lying on the floor after shooting broke out, the national broadcaster YLE said on its website. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418226/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:35:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415733/posts Rocky Mount, N.C. — Rocky Mount police officers are searching for Risheem Robinson, 18, who was accused of shooting inside Golden East Crossing Mall, at 1100 N. Wesleyan Blvd., around 7 p.m. Saturday. Robinson shot at three young men – ages 16, 15 and 14 – in the mall's common area near the entrance to Best Buy, Rocky Mount police Capt. Laura Fahnestock said. No one was injured, but a wall and glass doors were damaged. Police arrested the 16-year-old, Murray Chamberlain, and the 14-year-old, whose name was not released. The 15-year-old was released after questioning. Police charged Chamberlain and... Wral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415733/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407803/posts "Stop, stop, you're killing me: Knoxville Muslim says he was joking about carrying out jihad terror attack at shopping mall Ha ha! A real side splitter! Look out, Letterman!" SNIPPET: "...pushed for the detention pending trial of Hazam Ali Ahmed. The 35-year-old Ahmed was charged with being a felon in possession of firearms after authorities last week found two guns inside the Central Convenience Store on Keith Avenue that he operated. However, testimony at Monday's hearing shows Ahmed has been on the radar screen of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force since at least January 2006." SNIPPET: ""He referred to... (KNOXVILLE NEWS) via JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407803/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402461/posts A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony during a book signing event at the Mall of America in Minnesota, MyFoxTwinCities.com. reported. Neither tomato came close hitting the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, but did hit a police officer in the face, the station reported. The unidentified man may face charges for assaulting a police officer, according to the station. Die-hard supporters treated the event like another Black Friday, lining up outside in freezing weather before the mall doors opened at 5 a.m. Emily Calhoon, a high school junior from... FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402461/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:51:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384127/posts Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center. Hamid, an employee at a mall kiosk near Starbucks, has been charged with battery, terrorist threats and grand theft. According to reports, Hamid was yelling "Allah is power" and "Islam is great" while holding a pen in a fist over his head. Witnesses said he shouted anti-Christian comments, said police. Lt. Mike Elerick of the Pleasanton Police Department said the man was not provoked and didn't threaten violence,... Danvilleweekly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384127/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384246/posts Man arrested for 'anti-Christian' mall disturbance Kiosk employee allegedly tore a crucifix from someone's neck Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center. Hamid, an employee at a mall kiosk near Starbucks, has been charged with battery, terrorist threats and grand theft. According to reports, Hamid was yelling "Allah is power" and "Islam is great" while holding a pen in a fist over his head. Witnesses said he shouted anti-Christian comments, said police. "We had multiple... Danville Express http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384246/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383283/posts PORTLAND, Ore. -- A shooting has been reported and confirmed at a Tualatin strip mall, police said. Few details were available. According to Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, there may be as many as 10 victims. The shooting was reported at 7575 SW Mohawk at the Martinazzi intersection. Police first confirmed that a shooting had occurred sometime after 11 a.m. KGW.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383283/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:00:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368177/posts SNIPPET: "Shopping malls stepped up security measures and terrorism awareness training after 9/11, but it’s unlikely they could prevent a shooting rampage by a terrorist hell-bent on killing, according to industry experts. Malls lack access control, and their civilian security officers usually are unarmed, making them much more vulnerable to an attack such as the one suspect Tarek Mehanna allegedly suggested, although they are less likely terrorism targets than more high-profile, class-A office buildings, other iconic centers or power facilities. BOSTON HERALD.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368177/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367836/posts BOSTON - A pharmacy college graduate conspired with two other men on a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday. But their plans — in which the men used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said. Tarek Mehanna worked with the men from 2001 to May 2008 on the... My Fox Boston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367836/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367983/posts Via ABC News: A pharmacy college graduate made a defiant appearance in federal court Wednesday, hours after being charged with conspiring with two other men in a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq. Authorities say the men's plans — in which they used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367983/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:34:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348550/posts Dan Fuchs is a local businessman who set up a graphic arts kiosk at The Johnson City, Tennessee mall. Business was slow until a customer suggested he try selling stickers with the NoBama message. Business picked up and he expanded his line of 'anti-Obama' stickers. Today, mall administration terminated Fuchs' lease after it began receiving complaints about the allegedly 'anti-Obama' merchandise. Fuchs said he also sold 'pro-Obama' stickers, but the mall administration felt he wasn't offering a fair balance between anti and pro Obama stickers. In the video story on Channel 11's website, the mall spokeswoman inexplicably says that the... WJHL News 11 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348550/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:13:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302371/posts A man who sells conservative merchandise at a kiosk in a North Carolina mall says he hopes he'll be able to keep pushing "Impeach Obama" bumper stickers after his lease expires on Friday. Loren Spivack says his kiosk, Free Market Warrior, is being nudged out of the Concord Mills mall in Concord, N.C., beacause of political reasons. The hottest sellers at the kiosk, which has been in the mall for roughly three months, are items that are critical of President Obama, Spivack said. They include a “Work Harder, Obama Needs the Money” bumper sticker and a T-shirt that lists the... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302371/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:18:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302247/posts Is Concord Mills infringing on a business owner’s first amendment rights? http://www.wbtv.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302247/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298254/posts CONCORD, N.C. -- “Impeach Obama. “ “Al Qaeda’s favorite days: 9/11/01 and 11/04/08.” “Work Harder. Obama needs the money.” The bumper stickers and posters sold at “Free Market Warrior” at Concord Mills are meant to be “biting,” the kiosk’s owner Loren Spivack said. At least one passer-by found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer. Whatever your opinion, the fact is this: At the end of July, “Free Market Warrior” will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. The kiosk chain’s owner shared... WCNC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298254/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:50:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295360/posts Shopping centres on alert for terrorism attack The security services are preparing shopping centres across the country for a successful terrorist attack that would probably result in the deaths of dozens of innocent people. Duncan Gardham 18 Jul 2009 Ibrahim's attempt was the third time in four years that terrorists have targeted the large crowds that gather in these relatively unguarded places. In March 2004 a plot to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent with half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was foiled by MI5 and a month after Ibrahim's arrest last year, Nicky Reilly, another Muslim... Telegraph(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295360/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268219/posts Prominent Vietnam veterans and their families are appalled by an advertisement for a major local mall that shows a woman in front of a wall that strongly resembles the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with the names of the center’s stores appearing instead of the names of the war dead. Tysons Corner Center reacted quickly to condemnation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and ordered the immediate removal of 440 of the ads from the Metrorail cars where they have been posted, mall spokeswoman Allison Fischer said Tuesday afternoon. The Tysons ad features a black granite wall engraved with a list of... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268219/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:54:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252336/posts New Delhi: There is an unusual calm, amid hectic police activity, in the Lajpat Nagar market these days. The popular 3Cs Mall and the entire area around it has been turned into a fortress after the Delhi Police received specific security inputs that the building would be blown up in the next 15 days. According to sources in the Southeast district police, they got inputs from intelligence agencies about a possible threat to the mall a few days ago. After the message was forwarded to the local police, they cordoned off the entire market. Intelligence agencies reportedly told the police... INDIA EXPRESS.com - News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252336/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 19:46:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227902/posts PHOTO CAPTION: "A second al-Qaeda terror cell is believed to be planning carnage in the UK." SNIPPET: "Senior security sources last night revealed they are hunting extremists aiming to bomb a location such as a nightclub or shopping centre. They believe the cell will target London rather than the North- West, where 11 men were arrested on Wednesday, as the capital holds more "international significance"." Evidence gleaned from the arrests was revealed to Cobra, Whitehall's emergency committee of intelligence chiefs and ministers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227902/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227298/posts Michael Steele, with a knowing laugh, notes how "packed'' the shopping malls are these days, in the midst of a daunting recession. The Republican National Committee chairman was commenting on a caller's comment on Bill Bennett's radio show. The caller questioned how bad the economy really is, considering the fact that when he looks around he doesn't "see people spending any less money than they have been.'' "I've heard a number of people say that across the country,'' Steele replied with a laugh, and pretty well laughing all the way through the nodding comment: "The malls are just as packed... The Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227298/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2227310/posts If you've ever arrived home safely from a shopping spree, thank a mall cop. Tom Walton of AlliedBarton Security Services, one of the nation's largest providers of mall security professionals, complains that his people aren't getting any respect from Hollywood filmmakers who increasingly portray them as dorks, slackers and wannabe police officers. "These hard-working, highly trained men and women are our country's first responders who have a wide range of skills — from the sensitivity to deal with lost children to the ability to address criminal activity," Walton wrote in an article carried in several publications. As if malls didn't... The Denver Post / Dow Jones Newswires http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2227310/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:33:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225733/posts A woman jumped to her death in the Queens Center Mall atrium about 3 p.m. on Wednesday, landing on and injuring a high school student four levels below, officials said. The crowds in the shopping center in Elmhurst screamed and ran, and police officers had to arrive soon to help calm the crowd. The Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, said the woman was in her early to mid-50s and in the company of two teenagers when she jumped. He declined to release her identity immediately. A waist-high glass barrier runs around each floor of the atrium. It appeared that... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225733/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:58:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2223106/posts Haven't walked through the Del Amo Fashion Center in a few months, but the wife needed an eye exam, so I went to drop her off at Pearle Vision and take the kids for Dippin Dots. Well, there's no more Pearle Vision. They've been bought out by LensCrafters. Them's the breaks. Del Amo's a huge mall. Dippin Dots is quite a haul from the eye doctor, And I couldn't help but notice that about every third store was shuttered up. Many left were having closing sales--everything must go. We get to Dippin Dots and...well that's where it used to be.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2223106/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:25:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212397/posts A 200-pound car bomb malfunctioned near a crowded mall in the Israeli port city of Haifa on Saturday night, averting what could have been one of the largest such attacks in Israel in the past several years, police said. wapo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212397/posts#comment Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2211679/posts Mar 21, 2009 22:05 | Updated Mar 21, 2009 23:45 Major Terror Car Bombing Averted at Haifa's Lev Hamifratz Mall By YAAKOV LAPPIN A major terrorist car bombing was averted at a Haifa mall on Saturday night when one of several explosive devices hidden in a parked vehicle malfunctioned. After being alerted by an employee of the Lev Hamifratz shopping center, who reported hearing an explosion, police sappers were dispatched to scan the area. The sappers found a partially exploded bomb in the trunk of a white Subaru car which was parked outside the shopping center, and registered to a... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2211679/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:58:51 GMT