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Category: Breaking News

  • One American killed in hostage rescue in Iraq

    One American killed in hostage rescue in Iraq

    According to CNN, an American was killed in an otherwise successful rescue of more than 70 hostages from ISIS;

    Seventy hostages were liberated in the operation, which involved U.S. special operations troops as well as Kurdish and Iraqi forces, U.S. officials said.

    The operation took place in Hawija in northern Iraq, one U.S. source said.

    From Business Insider;

    The raid was directed against an ISIS run prison to the east of Hawija and featured American helicopters and airstrikes, The New York Times reports citing unnamed Iraqi officials. During the operation Kurdish forces took the lead while US Special Forces and airstrikes provided support.

    According to the Iraqi officials, the raid resulted in the freeing of the Kurdish prisoners and the capture of several senior ISIS militants. The Times reports that two unnamed US military officials confirmed the general outline of the operation.

  • Peace rally bombed

    Peace rally bombed

    Ankara bombing

    According to Fox News, the start of a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey was interrupted by two bombs causing 86 deaths and another 186 injured. The rally was to protest recent violence between Kurdish guerrillas and Turkish security forces;

    Television footage from Turkey’s Dogan news agency showed a line of protesters fanned out on the street near the train station, chanting and performing a traditional dance with their hands locked, when a large explosion hit behind them.

    The video also showed several people lying injured on the streets or being taken into ambulances.

    The reports aren’t clear on whether it was a suicide bombing or not. According to the Associated Press, about 70 of those casualties died immediately while the remainder died at the hospital

  • Spencer Stone, Paris train hero, stabbed

    Spencer Stone, Paris train hero, stabbed

    Spencer Stone

    Chief Tango sends us a link to NBC News which reports that Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans on the train to Paris who stopped a jihadist from killing a number of Europeans a few weeks ago, was stabbed outside a club in Sacramento, California.

    Airman First Class Stone was in stable condition on Thursday, an Air Force spokesperson said.

    “He is alive and in stable condition at this time,” the spokesperson said. “We do not have any information as to the events preceding the incident.”

    Stone was stabbed multiple times in the torso after a fight near some popular bars in downtown Sacramento, police said, according to NBC affiliate KCRA.

  • Shots fired at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

    So two Jim-Bobs in Mississippi driving a red Ford Ranger with “Broken Arrow” written on the windshield, drove up to Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi and fired off a couple of rounds hitting no one, apparently, according to WDAM.

    A vehicle matching the description of the two suspects truck was found near New Augusta off Old Augusta Road.

    […]

    Police are still searching for two white males that allegedly fired from the vehicle and fled in the vehicle.

    Members of the Forrest County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Forestry Commission are assisting in the search.

    According to CBSNews about 4600 reservists and national guardsmen are doing their annual training at Camp Shelby.

    Clearly we need to ban red Ford Rangers.

  • Randall Smith; Fifth casualty of Tennessee shooting passes

    Randall Smith; Fifth casualty of Tennessee shooting passes

    Randall Smith

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    WISHTV reports that Randall Smith, one of the wounded of the terrorist attack in Tennessee has passed bring the death toll to five.

    According to 24-Hour News 8 sister station,WANE, Darlene Proxmire, the step-grandmother of Randall Smith, called NewsChannel 15 Saturday morning and said he passed away around 4 a.m. He was originally from Paulding, Ohio. He was 24.

    Proxmire said Smith had extensive damage to his liver and colon from the shooting. He had a few surgeries at a hospital. He was serving in Chattanooga as a logistics specialist in the U.S. Navy at the time of the shooting.

  • Hutchinson arms some Arkansas National Guard (UPDATED)

    Hutchinson arms some Arkansas National Guard (UPDATED)

    Asa Hutchinson

    Arkansas governor, Asa Hutchinson has instructed his National Guard Adjutant to arm full-time National Guard folks in the state in the wake of the murder of four Marines in Tennessee earlier this week, according to Arkansas News.

    “I want to join in those who are calling for greater security at our recruiting stations and military installations,” Hutchinson said in a written statement. “We’ve had numerous instances of attacks. Clearly, they are a target, and for us to have unarmed military personnel makes no sense, which is why I am directing Maj. Gen. Mark Berry to arm full-time personnel as he deems necessary at military installations.”

    One of the Marines killed was Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, a native of Arkansas, the Marine Corps said Friday.

    In addition, the governor has ordered that the state flag to be flown at half-staff on Monday for the four Marines. Thanks to Club Manager for the link.

    Updated; Mary Fallon, the governor of Oklahoma has done the same, according to KSWO;

    Fallin issued an executive order allowing Asher to arm certain full-time personnel in military installations throughout Oklahoma with weaponry as he deems necessary “to adequately provide for security of the facilities and their occupants.” Such installations shall include, but not be limited to, military recruiting offices.

    In another executive order, the governor instructed that all American and Oklahoma flags on state property be flown at half-staff through 8:00 a.m. Monday in honor of the four Marines killed.

    48 states to go.

  • Shootings in Chattanooga

    Shootings in Chattanooga

    Chattanooga

    Various news sources are reporting that someone took shots from a Ford Mustang, using a long gun, on a recruiting station and a Navy Reserve Center (about 7 miles apart) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two (or three, or four) Marines have been injured along with a police officer. There are reports that the gunman is dead. From WRCBTV in Chattanooga;

    The shooting incident began on the U.S. Naval Recruiting on Lee Highway in Chattanooga ended at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center on Amincola Highway Thursday morning about 11am.

    A Chattanooga police officer was shot, according to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke. Both Berke and CPD Cheif Fred Fletcher visited the shooting scene and went to the hospital to check on the officer.

    In their live report, CBS News says that there is no longer a threat as the lone gunman has been killed.

    Notice the “no guns allowed” sign by the bullet holes. So, he didn’t break the law by taking his guns inside.

  • “Shelter in place” at Walter Reed

    According to local DC news, someone heard a shot fired at the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland (formerly the Bethesda Naval Hospital). According to the local media, there have been no casualties nor has a shooter been seen. I’m thinking that some joe set off a post-July 4th firecracker, but the local authorities are taking it seriously, as they should;

    Armed police were spotted escorting what appeared to be employees out of a building. Employees and members of the media were moved away from the front gate.

    A Walter Reed employee tweeted that they were under a “code white.” Another employee told WUSA9 that they practice “code white,” the code for an active shooter, each year. An employee who called into WUSA9 said that she did not hear any shot but that she had gotten the alert for a code white and was in a secure building. She also said that she felt that there needed to be more drills.

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the live stream if that kind of stuff mesmerizes you;

    12:57 PM; Nevermind – they’re standing down now.