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7 Police Officers Murdered In Tijuana Attacks


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 10:55 PM PDT




Heavily armed gunmen staged a series of surprise attacks against municipal

police forces in this tense border city, killing seven and wounding three in

brazen assaults that shattered a four-month period of relative calm.


Six police officers and an auxiliary officer died within a 45-minute span late

Monday in ambushes at a hillside substation, on busy streets and outside an

OXXO mini-mart, where four were killed in a hail of bullets, including one who

tried to fight back.


“He took out his gun and tried to fire at them, but they shot him and he fell

backward, and his eyes rolled up in his head,” said a teenager who witnessed

the shooting in the tough Los Arenales neighborhood.


With authorities placing the blame on organized crime gunmen, municipal

police Tuesday retreated to substations and headquarters and patrolled

mostly in groups or with army escorts. The tension was palpable outside the

8th Street headquarters downtown, where motorcycle cops were being held

back from patrol until further notice.


[...]


Authorities said the attacks, by men firing AK-47 rifles from late model cars

and SUVs, were preceded by a spate of threats over police radio frequencies.

Such threats are so common, Leyzaola said, that authorities didn’t feel a need

to take precautionary measures.


The first act of violence against police Monday occurred about 9:15 a.m., when a

female officer was wounded, shot in the back while on patrol in her vehicle near

the airport. But the frenzy of attacks erupted at 8 p.m. in the ramshackle Los

Arenales neighborhood of east Tijuana, where residents say police rarely

venture. The four police officers arrived at the mini-mart to take a report
of an assault and were ambushed as they left.


Witnesses said two or three cars pulled up and that several masked men

opened fire with high-caliber automatic weapons. The officers didn’t stand a

chance, even though they were wearing bulletproof vests, the witnesses said.


Two were shot in the back and fell near the door. A female officer was struck

in the face and died while trying to take cover under a car. The fourth was

shot in the neck and died with his gun still in his right hand.


The teenager who witnessed the attack said he placed his sisters on the

floor and then peeked outside and saw the last officer go down.


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U.S. Believes Bin Laden Still Alive


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 10:39 PM PDT




The U.S. strongly believes al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still

alive, a U.S. counterterrorism official said.


The U.S. view contradicts Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s comments

today that his country’s intelligence agencies think the terrorist leader is

dead.


The U.S. official wouldn’t speculate as to why Zardari made his statements

today. Zardari also said that the intelligence agencies didn’t have evidence of

bin Laden’s death, according to the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.



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Netanyahu - Threat Of Terror Is Greater Than Ever


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 10:32 PM PDT



As Israel commemorated Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers and victims

of terror on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the

global threat of terror was greater than ever and vowed that Israel would

never cease to defend itself.


“We have no choice but to fight terror until it is obliterated and to defend

our lives,” he told bereaved families gathered for the official state ceremony

on the Mount Herzl military ceremony in Jerusalem.


“This is what we have done and what we are doing. The State of Israel,

through the Israel Defense Forces, has responded with war, determination

and diligence, with courage and sophistication, using an incomparable

morality of combat,” he said.


“Terror is a war crime, the indiscriminate murder of innocent civilians,” the

prime minister added.


Israelis stood silently at attention on Tuesday morning as a two-minute siren

wailed across the country to mark Memorial Day. The official day of remembrance opened on Monday evening and will continue into Independence Day after

sundown on Tuesday.


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New Jersey Brothers Get Life for Fort Dix Terror Plot


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 10:25 PM PDT




Three brothers were sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to kill

soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey or other military

targets in a plot that authorities said was homegrown terrorism.


Dritan “Tony” Duka, 30, was sentenced with his brothers Shain, 28,

and Elvjir, 25, for their convictions on conspiracy and weapons charges

by an anonymous jury in December. The Dukas were illegal immigrants

from Macedonia who settled in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in the 1980s

and ran a family roofing business.


“Nothing has a greater impact on society than a crime of terrorism,”

U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler said today in sentencing Dritan

Duka in federal court in Camden, New Jersey. “He clearly

intended to and planned on killing American soldiers solely
because of their status as American soldiers.”


The sentences follow a 15-month FBI investigation and eight-week trial.

Prosecutors said the men grew up in the U.S., adopted extremist

religious views, and were inspired by online jihadist videos to plan an

attack on America. Each of the brothers protested the verdicts, accusing

prosecutors and the judge of ignoring evidence or inflating the charges.


“I am innocent, I am innocent, I am innocent,” Shain Duka told the judge

today in a packed courtroom with extra security.


Dritan and Shain Duka got an additional 30 years each for buying machine

guns from an FBI informant. Two co-defendants will be sentenced tomorrow.

Each of the five were acquitted of attempted murder. All three Dukas were

ordered to repay $125,000 to the U.S. for the cost of additional security at

Fort Dix.


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Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 10:19 PM PDT




Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to

buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a

9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public.


In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD the Federal Aviation Administration’s James Johnston said the agency was aware of “the possibility of public concern
regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes” in an

around New York City.

But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI

and even the mayor’s office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out.


“To say that it should not be made public knowing that it might scare people it’s
just
confounding,” Sen. Charles Schumer said. “It’s what gives Washington and government a bad name. It’s sheer stupidity.”


The flyover — apparently ordered by the White House Office of Military Affairs

so it would have souvenir photos of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty in
the background — had President
Obama seeing red. He ordered a probe and

apologized.


“It was a mistake. It will never happen again,” President Obama said.


The NYPD was so upset about the demand for secrecy that Police Commissioner

Ray Kelly vowed never to follow such a directive again and he accused the feds
of inciting fears of a 9/11 replay.


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Swine Flu Ruled Out In 1 of 2 L.A. Deaths


Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:16 PM PDT




At least one of the two deaths that were under investigation by the Los Angeles

County Coroners Office was not caused by swine flu, a public health official
said Tuesday during a news conference.


Los Angeles County public health officer Dr. Jonathan Fielding said Tuesday

during a news briefing that news reports of two possible deaths were initially
“misreported.”


“One is definitely not swine flu and the other one is still being looked at,” he

said. But … I wouldn’t be surprised if we have deaths associated with influenza.

And, if swine flu is like seasonal influenza, we would expect that we would have

some deaths associated with it.”


Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey told the Los Angeles Times earlier Tuesday

that a Bellflower, California-hospital reported the death of a 33-year-old Long

Beach man who was brought in Saturday with symptoms resembling swine flu.


Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter said Tuesday that swine flu was not found in

a La Mirada man who died with flu-like symptoms.


Winter says lab testing is pending in the case of a Long Beach man, but swine flu

is now not suspected.


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