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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Police say they will seek murder charges against the attackers who beat a sleeping homeless man to death and are suspected in two similar attacks in the city a few hours later. The first attack was caught on a university surveillance video before dawn Thursday. Police were looking for two to four young men. "It's senseless. If you look at these kids, it was almost like it was fun and games for them," Officer Scott Russell said. Norris Gaynor, 45, who was later attacked as he slept near the Broward Center for Performing Arts, died from...

Palestinian gunmen, members of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, bulldoze barricade on border, disrupt traffic on frontier, storm government offices after police arrest local leader on suspicion of involvement in kidnapping of three Britons last week Palestinians swarmed across the Gaza Strip's frontier with Egypt after gunmen bulldozed through protective barricades on Wednesday, prompting Egyptian border police to fire warning shots, witnesses said. Gunmen disrupted traffic on the frontier and stormed government offices on Wednesday in growing unrest ahead of elections later this month. The gunmen, members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction, went on...

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Palestinans celebrated the first day of the "liberation" of Gaza, scavenging through abandoned settlements for booty and taking joyous dips in the once off-limit Mediterranean sea. If idyllic beach scenes paid testament to the Palestinian people's desire for normalcy, the grim scenes of men looting the settlement rubble revealed the dark side of the Gaza Strip as Israel ended its 38-year occupation. The day also had a tragic twist for five people who flocked to the seaside, drowning in the waters that were for so long forbidden to them. The minute Israeli troops started...

In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia. "Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion," the tape warns. "We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators." In response to the threats against their city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city's police department released a statement this morning. They admitted to...

Police Need Your Help In Capturing Beating Suspects August 24, 2005 Video : KOMO 4 NEWS Police say the three brutally beat two soldiers just home from the war in Iraq outside a Pioneer Square club, but it was caught on videotape. SEATTLE - Two soldiers who just returned from a year in Iraq were badly beaten in an attack outside Pioneer Square. But believe it or not, someone caught the beating on videotape. Now, police are asking for your help identifying the suspects. The brutality of it all was captured on tape outside of Larry's Nightclub on First and...

US forces kill human 'shield' child in Iraq US forces have shot dead a child which they say was being used as a human "shield" during an exchange of gunfire near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. More than 20 people have also reportedly been killed in gun battles, drive-by shootings and suicide bombings elsewhere in the country. A statement said US forces came under attack as they were carrying out operations in Tal Afar, a volatile town west of Mosul that has seen frequent violence in recent months. "An Iraqi child was killed as terrorists and multi-national forces exchanged...

It was as plain as black and white. It was a hate crime. When 30 black teenagers from Marine Park Middle School, most of them girls, chased five white girls from St. Edmund's off a Marine Park basketball court and across a Brooklyn street - punching, kicking, slapping, pulling hair and screaming, "honky bitches," "black power" and "white crackers" - it was a racial attack. It was about hate. Police officers who responded to the scene on March 30, at approximately 4 p.m., arrested five blacks. They were charged with simple assault. Two of the white girls were treated at...

Nationally syndicated radio show host Michael Savage is smiling - thanks to Clear Channel. The mega-sized radio company has signed Savage to a mulit-million dollar, multi-year contract to continue as the afternoon drive time host at its San Francisco Bay area station KNEW (910 AM). Savage is already the #1 most listened-to host during the 3 to 6 p.m. drive time slot. The announcement of Savage's deal will be made in the next few days, but it is already causing ripples in the hot San Francisco market. The terms of the deal won't be disclosed, but will make Savage among...

An Iranian woman charged with adultery faces death by stoning in the next five days after her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court last month. Her unnamed co-defendant is at risk of imminent execution by hanging. Amnesty International members are now writing urgent appeals to the Iranian authorities, calling for the execution to be stopped. According to reports, Hajieh Esmailvand was sentenced to five years imprisonment, to be followed by execution by stoning, for adultery with an unnamed man who at the time was a 17 year old minor. Although the exact date of her arrest and trial...

Muslims cite betrayal by Bush Polls show many of them who voted for him in 2000 will not be doing so in '04 By KRISTEN MACKCopyright 2004 Houston Chronicle A poll conducted by Zogby International for Georgetown University's Muslims in the American Public Square, or Project MAPS, found that by a margin of 76 percent to 7 percent, Muslims are backing Kerry over Bush."That shift was a surprise for us. Even in 2000, they gave their vote overwhelmingly to George Bush," said Zahid Bukhari, director of Project MAPS. "Muslims are not only changing their voting preferences but also their party...

WILLIAMSON [West Virginia](AP) -- The first of five defendants charged in the murder of a Logan County woman, who was beaten beyond recognition, strangled and then drowned, has been sentenced to at least 70 years in prison. Zandell Bryant, 44, of Dingess, was sentenced earlier this week in Mingo County Circuit Court to 40 years on a second-degree murder charge, 15 to 35 years on a first-degree sexual assault charge and 15 years to life on a kidnapping charge. All the sentences are to be served consecutively. Bryant, one of five men charged in the death of 41-year-old Wanda Lesher,...

The head of CARE International Iraq operations, Margaret Hassan, was kidnapped in Iraq early Tuesday, the aid organization said in London.The spokesman said a statement with further details would be issued later Tuesday.Hassan, an Iraqi national, has more than 30 years experience working in the country, a CARE spokesperson told AFP.CARE, a non governmental organization with a presence in 72 countries, has been active in Iraq since 1991.Following the 2003 war it has focused efforts on providing emergency relief and medical aid, and restoring access to clean water.

Concern was mounting last night over the fate of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad a fortnight ago, after two separate statements appeared on the internet claiming that the women had been killed. Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, were seized with two of their Iraqi colleagues in daylight from their office in central Baghdad on September 7. They had been working in Iraq for several months for the aid agency Bridge to Baghdad. Statements from two separate groups appeared on different websites yesterday, each claiming the murders. Some statements, supposedly from militant groups in Iraq, have proven...

DUBAI: A second group yesterday claimed to have beheaded two women Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq, in a statement on the Internet, following a similar unconfirmed claim from another group.The authenticity of the claims could not be verified."The heads of the two Italian criminals, Italian intelligence agents Simona Terretta and Simona Pari, were mercilessly cut off with a knife," said the latest statement attributed to a group calling itself Ansar Al Zawahiri.The group, whose name was taken from Ayman Al Zawahiri, the Egyptian number two in the Al Qaeda terror network, said a video would be released...

BISHA, 5 September 2004 — A female guest at a wedding party in Bisha was beaten up badly after she was caught taking photos of women, Al-Watan newspaper reported. A young girl caught the guest taking photos of other guests with her cell phone. The girl asked her to erase the photos from her cell phone but the guest refused. She tried to flee the hall but the girl would not let her go until she got rid of all the photos from the cell phone. This triggered a fight between the two. When the news reached the men’s section,...

Given the choice, most people would opt for a straight bullet to the head rather than have it sawn off with a cutlass.However, personal preference has not figured highly in the modus operandi of Iraqi and Saudi insurgents for whom decapitation has become the method of choice for dispatching POW's and collaborators. Until the shooting death in June of US soldier Keith Maupin, the insurgents had made a point of beheading their captives and disseminating the grisly scenes over the Internet. Most people would recoil at the mere thought but experts say that is precisely the aim. In war, ascendancy...

Just heard on FNC that Al Jazeera is reporting that Maupin was killed. If true, I am one unhappy camper.

It is 8:15 p.m. now, local, in Iraq. Sunset in Baghdad slated for 8:16 p.m. (12:16 p.m. Eastern Time Monday).The poor South Korean captive in Iraq, Mr. Kim, may well meet a terrible fate at this moment. Please pray that these radical Islamist uncivilized animals are overwhelmed somehow by Divine Force, or hopefully; by US Marines or special forces (who would also be a divine force in this case).Watching and waiting and hoping.......

Savage souless bastards...Warning Graphic

After the brutal beheading of Nicholas Berg, his father, Michael, promptly blamed the Bush administration for his son's death. "Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld," said Michael Berg. "The al Qaeda people are probably just as bad as they are, but this administration did this."In the gruesome videotaped execution, al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, flanked by four other terrorists, first read a statement in Arabic: "For the mothers and wives of American soldiers, we tell you that we offered the U.S. administration to exchange this hostage for some of the...