Taliban insurgents shooting down a U.S. helicopter

Taliban insurgents shooting down a U.S. helicopter

 

Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. They are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday's mission that’s International forces killed.

Marine Corps Gen. John Allen told a Pentagon news conference that an F-16 air strike Monday took out fewer than 10 insurgents involved in the attack on the Chinook helicopter.

In a separate statement Wednesday, the military said the Monday strike killed Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah and the insurgent who fired the rocket-propelled grenade at the helicopter.

The military said intelligence gained on the ground provided a high degree of confidence that the insurgent who fired the grenade was the person killed.

Allen defended the decision to send in the Chinook loaded with special-operations forces to pursue insurgents escaping from the weekend firefight with Army Rangers in a dangerous region of Wardak province of eastern Afghanistan.

The helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade, Allen said the military's investigation into the crash will also review whether small-arms fire or other causes contributed to the crash.

According to officials, the team included 17 SEALs, five Navy special-operations troops who support the SEALs, three Air Force airmen, a five-member Army air crew and a military dog, along with seven Afghan commandos and an Afghan interpreter.

The release had been in question because the dead were mostly covert special-operations forces from the Navy and Air Force.

The investigation comes as the remains of the troops killed in the crash were returned Tuesday in an operation the names of the fallen and denied media coverage of the arrival at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Woman's  body recover, husband suspected

Recovered the body of a woman, by the police on Sunday night, suspected to be killed by her husband, at Ghashipara in Dinajpur town of Bangladesh.

The deceased was Mokima Akhter Moon, 32, wife of Shahjahan Mahmud, a lecturer at Setabganj Degree College.

The Kotwali police said that elder brother of the deceased Mobin Haque Chowdhury suspected that Shahjahan Mahmud had beaten his wife to death.

The police recovered the body, breaking the lock of their rented house, and sent it to the Dinajpur Medical College Hospital of Bangladesh morgue for post-mortem.

Suicide in Brooklyn Park: Police

An apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn Park: Police

 An apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn Park that’s Maryland family of four is dead.

At 9 a.m., police say they arrived at a home on the 600 block of Wood Street after receiving a call from the mother of the owner.

The woman told police that she received a text message from her son, Kelly Brian Thompson. Her concerned for the safety of Thompson and his family.

Speaking to the woman, police heard a gunshot from inside the home. Officers quickly entered the house and found Thompson dead on the floor of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police also found the body of Kelly’s wife, Nina Thompson, 34, and her twins Taishawn and Treshawn Pugh, 15. All three died from gunshot wounds. Taishawn and Treshawn were not Kelly’s biological children.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Homicide Unit is currently investigating. Police believe that Kelly shot his wife and stepchildren to death before shooting himself.

The face of hungry and afraid a little boy in SOMALIA.

A little boy, hungry and afraid, at a feeding centre in the Horn of Africa: The face of famine

 A little boy from Somalia, where a terrible famine is unfolding.

As the launches a special appeal for the victims of the famine, he tells Osman’s story – the story of millions of children born into this unequal struggle.

 Dear Osman,

I helped to bury you last Saturday.

You were seven months old. You starved to death in a place called Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp. Dadaab means hope.

A twig on a mound of earth marks your place among the scores of other children buried beside you.

We finished, some children played a game of chase through the graves. Life goes on. Ten children a day are being buried in places like the Carcass Dump, so take some comfort that you are not alone.

You don’t know me Osman, I’m the journalist who stood over your discolouring corpse, and interviewed your mother while she waited to bury you. Your twin sister, Kadida, was in your mother’s arms staring down at you with a confused and scared look in her eyes.

You were lying on a mud floor in a tiny hut built by your mother from tree branches and covered with bits of plastic for a roof. 

I’m sorry for getting emotional in the hut. As a journalist trying to tell the story of how children are dying here every day, I should have been professional.

After all, some 1,500 journalists from all over the world have been through Dadaab in the past two weeks and here we — myself and photographer Leon Farrell— were in a tent with an infant’s corpse.

 There are already more than 400,000 Somali emigrants in Dadaab’s three camps, even though they were only built to house 90,000 each in 1991, when your country had a civil war.

Farewell: Osman is laid to rest in Bula Bakti among scores of other children

The Syrian people are calling for peaceful change

The Syrian people are calling for peaceful change

William Hague urged the "discredited" Syrian regime to end its violent as the United Nations Security Council adopted. A statement condemning attacks on civilians and widespread human rights abuses.

Intensification of the three-month-old bloody crackdown against anti-government protests, the international body agreed the wording – with only Syria's neighbour Lebanon dissociating itself from the text.

Hague said: "I welcome the UN security council presidential statement on Syria.

"The Security Council demonstrates the rising international concern at the unacceptable behaviour of the regime and shows that President Assad is increasingly isolated. It comes on top of a fourth round of EU sanctions put in place earlier this week.

The UN Security Council finally broke through a near-unanimous statement condemning President Bashar al-Assad for unleashing his forces on civilians and violating human rights.

Though the presidential statement has no teeth and was less than the full Security Council resolution that by the US, UK and France, it is an indication of growing impatience within the international community towards the Syrian crackdown.

Hague said: “The Syrian people are calling for peaceful change. I call on President Assad's regime to end its violence and to allow genuine political reform.

"Until it does, the regime will be discredited amongst its own people and facing increased pressure internationally."

Rapidly – increasing pressure on the 15 members of the Security Council to issue a condemnation of the regime's actions. Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa had been resisting the move.

Lebanon's deputy UN ambassador Caroline Ziade said that "while we express our deep regret for the loss of innocent victims," the presidential statement "does not help in addressing the current situation in Syria."