http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/marriott/ en-us Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:07:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381999/posts SNIPPET: "SANTIAGO – One person was injured and several windows were destroyed when a small bomb exploded at a bank branch in the Chilean capital, police said. The blast occurred at 2 p.m. at a branch of Banco de Credito e Inversiones inside a Marriott hotel in Santiago’s affluent Las Condes neighborhood." LATIN AMERICAN HERALD TRIBUNE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381999/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369574/posts The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand smut that features actors who do not use condoms. "Marriott is certainly not alone among major hotel chains that promote and profit off the sale of unsafe, condom-less adult films to their hotel guests," AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein states. "However, we want to highlight the brazen hypocrisy--the Mormon Marriott's moral masquerade--of such... LA Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369574/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:22:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324929/posts 26 August 2009 INDONESIAN BOMBING SUSPECT A JIHAD MAGAZINE PUBLISHER AND WEBMASTER As of today he's in the custody of Detachment 88. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. First the news reports: • Preacher's son arrested: Mohammad Jibril runs his father's company, Ar-rahmah Media, which publishes religious books and JihadMagz, a glossy 148-page magazine devoted to Islamic fighters and wars across the world. He also set up the militant website, arrahmah.com, which posts news in Bahasa Indonesia and English on the Islamic struggle to preserve and spread their religion. INTERNET-HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324929/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:47:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314027/posts SNIPPET: "Indonesian police confirmed that DNA tests proved that wanted terrorist Noordin Mohammed Top was not killed during last week's raid on a farmhouse in Java in Indonesia." SNIPPET: "DNA tests confirmed that the body of the person killed was that of another wanted terrorist named Amir Ibrohim. Ibrohim, who is also known as Amir Abdullah, worked as a contractor for the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels and is said to have aided in the July 17 attacks. He was reportedly seen on tape escorting one of the suicide bombers during the July 17 attacks. Ibrohim is also believed... LONG WAR JOURNAL.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314027/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:28:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295430/posts Jakarta bombers may have been guests at Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, police say Michel Maas in Jakarta and Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor Suicide bombers posing as hotel guests are believed to have been responsible for the explosions in two hotels that killed at least eight people in Jakarta yesterday and wounded more than 50, in the first such attack in Indonesia for almost four years. Bleeding victims, some of them foreign businessmen who, moments earlier, had been engaged in breakfast meetings, limped or crawled out of the JW Marriott hotel and the neighbouring Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta’s Mega Kuningan business... The Times (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295430/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294635/posts Here is video of the head of security for the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta talking to CNN about the deadly hotel blasts that have killed either eight or nine people, depending on the report you hear. The Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton were both hit by what appears to be terrorist suicide bombers. Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono condemned the attacks . . . . Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world. Jemaah Islamiyah is a radical Islamic network that has been tied to Al-Qaeda. They were behind the Bali bombings - two blasts - that killed 202 people... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294635/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:48:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294468/posts JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Bombs have exploded at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in the Indonesian capital on Friday, ripping the facade off the Ritz. Police say at least four people are injured. Debris and shattered glass littered the street outside the neighboring hotels in an upscale Jakarta neighborhood. Ambulances were being shuttled into the area. A man jogging by the hotels said he first heard a loud explosion at the Marriott. Five minutes later, a bomb followed at the Ritz. Alex Asmasubrata said he saw four bodies inside the Marriott. One had its stomach blown out. An Associated Press reporter... The Timaru Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294468/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:49:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294483/posts At least four people have been killed in two separate explosions at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, say reports. The country's Metro TV reported that one blast hit the Ritz-Carlton and the other, the Marriott Hotel. Television footage showed the facade of one of the hotels had been torn off by the blast. The BBC's Karishma Vaswani, outside the Marriott, said ambulances are present and security is extremely tight. South Jakarta police Col Firman Bundi said the four who died were foreigners, reported AP. "There were explosions heard from two separate places, one the JW Marriott, the other... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294483/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294466/posts Explosions have hit two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, say police reports. The country's Metro TV reported that one blast was heard and felt at the Ritz-Carlton and another hit the Marriott Hotel. At least three people were injured in the Marriott blast, the Associated Press quoted police as saying. One witness told Reuters some windows on the lowers floors of the Ritz-Carlton hotel had been shattered. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294466/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:45:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210097/posts CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The historic Greenbrier resort, which has gone from hosting presidents and royalty to posting losses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday and unveiled a plan to sell itself to hotel giant Marriott International Inc. for up to $130 million. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210097/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162941/posts WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Al Qaeda’s operations chief in Pakistan and a top aide have been killed, Pakistani officials confirmed on Friday. Operations chief Osama Al-Kini was thought responsible for attacks including the bombing of Marriott hotel in Islamabad and an unsuccessful attempt to kill former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Al-Kini and his lieutenant Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, both Kenyans, were killed in a missile strike in South Waziristan on January 1. Security officials in Islamabad said Al-Kini’s killing would relieve the security apparatus of a ‘big worry’. agencies Daily Times [Pakistan] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162941/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:23:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162417/posts WASHINGTON -- Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been reappointed to Marriott International's board of directors, the Bethesda, Md., hotel company announced Wednesday. Romney, the former chief executive of Bain Capital, served on Marriott's board for 10 years before resigning to run for governor in 2002. He was also chief executive of the Salt Lake Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. At Marriott, he will chair a newly formed finance committee, overseeing the company's financial performance and how it spends money. ... The Marriott and Romney families, both devout Mormons, have been close friends for decades, and they have... Mormon Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162417/posts#comment Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:40:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131901/posts While acknowledging that he is a Mormon, Bill Marriott said this week that neither he nor his company, Marriott International, contributed to the campaign to pass Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that would define marriage as solely between a man and a woman. Gay-rights activists urged their supporters to boycott Marriott hotels around the world because of Marriott's membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which raised about $22 million for the initiative that passed Nov. 4. For the past 20 years, Marriott International has had domestic-partner benefits and has earned a perfect score on the... The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131901/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:05:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200776/posts The heightened security for the Republican convention resulted in four Pakistani students from St. John's University being detained in Times Square last night. The four, who were in a burgundy van, were taken into custody shortly after 5 p.m. outside the Marriott Marquis hotel on Broadway and West 45th Street after cops thought they were acting suspiciously. They were questioned for at least seven hours at the Midtown North precinct on West 54th Street while anxious relatives waited outside. Police sources said two of the students were on an FBI watch list. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200776/posts#comment Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:31:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089969/posts Excerpt - Karachi, 24 Sept. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - The alleged mastermind of last Saturday's deadly truck bombing of the Marriott hotel in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, has emerged. The suspect, Qari Zafar (photo), has become part of Al-Qaeda's hardline Takfiri inner circle. He enjoys the protection of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud and is believed to be hiding out in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area of North West Frontier Province. Zafar is not only the suspected mastermind of the Marriot bomb blast, but has created a network which will shortly target strategic installations belonging to... adnkronos.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089969/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:49:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088200/posts ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's president, prime minister and other leaders had planned to dine at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday night, when it was struck by a massive truck bombing, a government official said Monday. The Saturday night suicide truck attack killed 57 people and wounded more than 250, and sparked a fire that left the hotel in ruins. Al-Arabiya TV reported Monday that it received a claim of responsibility for the attack by a previously unknown group called "The Fedayeen of Islam," but noted that it could not authenticate the audio recording or the name of... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088200/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:14:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086969/posts via translation - ALERT - Pakistan: the Czech ambassador was killed PRAGUE - The Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, which had called for help from the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad shortly after the attack Saturday, died Sunday announced in Prague public television CT 24. AFP via translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086969/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:01:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086539/posts ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, damaging buildings in a wide radius, killing at least two people and wounding at least 25. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086539/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:04:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086728/posts Many people were trapped in rooms of the burning five-star Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital after a suicide bomber detonated a large truck loaded with a ton of explosives at the hotel gate, killing at least 60 people and injuring some 200 more. The Marriott, frequented by foreigner and local VIPs and the hotel of choice for American officials, is danger of collapse. The ceiling of the banqueting hall crashed down on 500 guests at the Ramadan evening meal. DEBKA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086728/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086627/posts Several senior officers of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who are reported to be currently visiting Islamabad were the target of the blast at the Marriott Hotel which took place here tonight. Well placed sources said that Marriott Hotel is usual hotel choice of the US officials and it seems that militants tipped off that certain high level US intelligence officers were currently staying at the hotel. The Indian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086627/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086605/posts Dozens dead in Pakistan hotel blast At least 40 people were killed and 100 wounded in the explosion at the Marriott [AFP] At least 40 people have been killed and 100 others wounded after a truck-bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. Reports said a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the entrance of the hotel. Many foreigners stay in the hotel while visiting Pakistan and it is heavily guarded. The blast resounded through Islamabad. Reuters news agency reported that at least 40 people had been killed. Police sources also said the death toll stood at 40. But there were fears the death toll could rise as many... Al Jazeera and agencies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086605/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:23:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1934037/posts Fairmont Hotels and a New York investment firm pulled out of a $46 million deal to buy the Peaks Resort, leaving Telluride’s largest hotel in long-term limbo as it prepares to reopen for the ski season. Two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations — one from each side of the table — said the hotel’s expensive infrastructure problems had torpedoed the deal. After examining the Peaks, buyers Fairmont and Manhattan-based Thor Equities concluded that the hotel needed $6-7 million in repairs, on top of a planned $60 million renovation... The impasse didn’t break, and on Friday, Fairmont and Thor... The Daily Planet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1934037/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:53:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927602/posts Hotel chains are removing Bibles from guest rooms, replacing them with "intimacy kits" and adding "One Night Stand" packages as well as "romance concierge" personnel to their offerings, according to a new report in Newsweek. Tens of thousands of Americans are protesting the trend, through an action e-mail alert sponsored by American Family Association. The Newsweek report by Roya Wolverson suggested a new marketing campaign could be based on the apparent values-less programs that are appearing. "Marriott spokesman John Wolf says the Bible question [whether to include them in guest rooms] is premature for the new [boutique hotel] venture, which... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927602/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:10:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924396/posts In the rooms of Manhattan's trendy Soho Grand Hotel guests can enjoy an eclectic selection of underground music, iPod docking stations, flat-screen TVs and even the living company of a complimentary goldfish. But, alas, the word of God is nowhere to be found. Unlike traditional hotels, the 10-year-old boutique has never put Bibles in its guest rooms, because "society evolves," says hotel spokeswoman Lori DeBlois. Providing Bibles would mean the hotel "would have to take care of every guest's belief." What might be surprising to many Americans is that the Bible-free room isn't a development just in hip New York... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924396/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:36:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888341/posts Marriott still employs security firm with Black Muslim Bakery ties. Over the past decade, more than a hundred thousand visitors have strolled into the Oakland Marriott Hotel and convention center, where among the first faces they encountered were those of well-dressed young men sporting bow ties. These men are the hotel's private security officers, who also happen to be members of the Black Muslim clan believed responsible for the assassination of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. East Bay Express News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888341/posts#comment Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:45:12 GMT