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The post in question was written by a man calling himself Cody Agnew, who posted it on Facebook on Sunday. It stated that he knew a woman who had survived the killing spree despite being shot 12 times and having 11 bullets removed since.
Agnew claimed that the woman, who he described as "coherent" and "fairly stable," said there had been three gunmen in the gay nightclub on the night of the attack, and not just one.
The controversial post, which has since been deleted, claimed there were "bits of information that the media aren't telling us."
A police raid in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville has ended with the death of a hostage taker, who fatally stabbed a police officer near his house and then killed his partner. Reports claim the man was shouting Islamist slogans during the attack.
RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.
The attacker shouted "Allah Akbar," Le Parisien cited witnesses as saying.
Unconfirmed reports have emerged suggesting that the attacker might have links to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL).
The terror group's "news agency," Amaq News, cited a source claiming that the perpetrator was an IS "fighter," SITE, a terror monitoring group, reported.
Reports on Twitter claimed that the attacker had sworn allegiance to the group.
RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.
The attacker shouted "Allah Akbar," Le Parisien cited witnesses as saying.
Unconfirmed reports have emerged suggesting that the attacker might have links to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL).
The terror group's "news agency," Amaq News, cited a source claiming that the perpetrator was an IS "fighter," SITE, a terror monitoring group, reported.
Reports on Twitter claimed that the attacker had sworn allegiance to the group.
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The girl, 19, was stabbed two times in the wrist and once in abdomen, Rennes prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet told journalists, adding that her wounds are not life-threating.
The girl's assailant told a witness that he was a Muslim. He was immediately detained by police at the scene of the crime and later told officers that he was obeying voices in his head that had ordered him to make a sacrifice for Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting that began on June 6.
"Voices told him that he had to make a sacrifice on the occasion of Ramadan," Jacquet told AFP.
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The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. at a plastics business in the 3700 block of Fruitland Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. More than 3,100 customers were without power early Tuesday, according to Southern California Edison.
The message should serve as a sharp warning to Americans, who have allowed their central bank, the Federal Reserve, to march to the beat of the Wall Street bankers' edicts while achieving catastrophic results for the country and its citizens. Since the Wall Street crash of 2008, enabled by the formation of trillions of dollars in dicey derivatives and a mountain of subprime debt while the Federal Reserve kept its blinders securely in place, the U.S. national debt has doubled to $19 trillion while the Fed's balance sheet has ballooned from $800 billion to $4.5 trillion through endless rounds of sopping up the toxic waste (called "Quantitative Easing" or QE to pretty it up).
Perhaps America needs a national referendum on a FedExit. That dialogue was supposed to have begun in the U.S. Senate back in 2014, starting with stripping the central bank of its power to supervise Wall Street bank holding companies because it had clearly demonstrated itself to be not just a captured regulator but pure putty in the hands of the Wall Street banks. (See here, here, here and here.) The dialogue ended abruptly, as most things do in the U.S., with no explanation as to why to the American people.
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According to Officer Jeb Hilton, speaking to NBC News, an armed individual took one hostage inside the store. The incident is being investigated as a case of workplace violence.
Police evacuated people from the building and asked people to stay away from the scene.
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Construction materials caught fire on International Drive, just north of Walt Disney World, reported Orlando's My News 13, citing the Orlando fire department.
"As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end," Khan said.
Comment: This is also the first Muslim mayor of London, and the inevitable anti-Muslim reaction has ensued. Ever get the feeling like everything that happens is just setting up for one big battle? Buttons are certainly being pressed, every sore spot of Western society is being poked, every fault line is being shaken. Interesting times.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, affirmed the FCC's latest net neutrality rules, which consumer groups and President Barack Obama have backed as essential to preventing broadband providers from blocking or degrading internet traffic.The telecom industry and Republicans have heavily criticized the rules as burdensome and unnecessary regulation, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz once labeling it "Obamacare for the Internet."
AT&T immediately announced it would appeal the ruling, saying it's always expected the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court. Several industry trade groups are expected to join the effort.
The court decision marks a victory for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who led the agency's Democratic majority in approving the rules in February 2015 over the objections of the agency's two GOP commissioners. The rules apply utility-style regulation originally written for telephone companies to both land-based and wireless Internet services.
Comment: That was just from Germany in 2006. There's more, lots more. Here's a list provided by the English Daily Mail:
May 1981 — England fans damage shops in Basel following World Cup loss to Switzerland.
June 1988 — About 400 fans arrested for brawling in bars and streets at European Championship games in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
July 1990 — England fans involved in violent scenes in Cagliari and Rimini during World Cup in Italy.
June 1992 — England fans clash with locals and police in Malmo and Stockholm at the European Championship in Sweden.
February 1995 — Right-wing England thugs tear up seats and attack local fans at Dublin's Lansdowne Road, forcing the friendly game against Ireland to be abandoned after 27 minutes.
June 1996 — About 200 English fans arrested in central London after England loses to Germany in the European Championship semifinals.
October 1997 — Police baton-charge England fans during a World Cup qualifying game in Rome.
June 1998 — England fans clash with locals in Marseille and Saint-Etienne, France, at the World Cup.
November 1999 — About 160 fans are arrested in running battles between England and Scotland fans before European Championship playoff game in Glasgow.
June 2000 — About 850 fans — almost all English — are detained after rioting in Brussels and Charleroi, Belgium, before England's Euro 2000 game against Germany. 56 people injured. UEFA threatens to throw England out of competition.
June 2006 — About 170,000 England fans descend on Germany for the World Cup, starting riots and fights wherever they go, and shocking locals with incessant insults about their being 'dirty f*cking Nazis'.
June 2016 — Hundreds of fans, mostly English, clash with locals and Russia supporters in Marseille over three days. The worst riots take place the day of England's opening European Championship against Russia.