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<p>LITHONIA, Ga. -- Federal agents fatally shot a fugitive early Wednesday after the man refused to put down what they thought was a gun but turned out to be a shoe.</p> <p>Agents went to an apartment complex in suburban Atlanta to arrest 24-year-old Youwiers Vilpie, said U.S. Marshal Richard Mecum. They were serving a warrant from the Drug Enforcement Administration office in south Florida. Vilpie also was wanted for questioning in two homicides in Ft. Myers, Fla., Mecum said.</p>

Gratuitous electioneering Saturday October 21, 2006 - 8:37 pm 13 Seconds--The Kent State Shootings Channel 36 On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Kent, OH, 67 shots were fired in 13 seconds. These horrifying seconds in American history resulted in the deaths of four students and the wounding of nine others. This program documents a day that some choose to forget. Others, however, fight to keep the bitter lessons alive for new generations. This compelling Emmy-winning documentary relives the disaster, day by day, hour by hour, through archival footage and interviews with those who experienced it first hand.

IDF forces operating in Nablus early Thursday morning gunned down Fadi Kafisha, 29, commander of Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades in the northern West Bank city and a "terrorist mastermind" who military officials said was financed and directed by Hizbullah. "He was a motor of terrorism," said commander of the the Shomron Brigade Col. Amir Braum of Kafisha. "He was the chief fugitive in Nablus, an explosives expert and responsible for many attacks, among them the attack at Jerusalem's French Hill in September 2004." For the fighters of the Haruv Battalion, the killing of Kafisha represented a settling of personal...

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2292911 Video at link above shows a women holding up a sign protesting the police when one of the police shoots her with a rubber bullet in the back of the leg.She then turns around and gets shot in the forehead(wich can and does kill people) then the video cuts to the police gathering around after the protests and laughing about shooting her and talking about giving out trophys for it

An Israeli helicopter air strike has killed two Palestinian militants after a rocket fired by members of the Islamic group wounded an Israeli civilian.Witnesses said the helicopter fired a missile at a group of men operating in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said it fired after the militants launched a rocket. Three militants were also wounded. The strike came hours after an Israeli man was wounded when a makeshift Hamas rocket landed near a school in the Israeli town of Sderot, near the Gaza border. A hospital official said the man was in a serious condition. Palestinian militants...

MEXICO CITY – A Mexican teen allegedly shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent had been detained in the United States 11 times for people smuggling, a Border Patrol spokesman said Wednesday. The shooting of Guillermo Martinez has intensified an already white-hot international debate about illegal immigration, and prompted Mexico to open a criminal investigation and send a diplomatic note to Washington. Opposition lawmakers have accused President Vicente Fox's government of not expressing sufficient outrage, however, and have vowed to consider a nonbinding resolution branding the 18-year-old an innocent victim and demanding that his shooting be punished.But Raul...

Army strikes in Gaza: Air Force fires missiles at vehicle traveling in Gaza City Wednesday afternoon; Palestinian sources say four people killed, four others wounded. Senior Islamic Jihad commander apparently killed At least four Palestinians were killed and at least four others sustained wounds after the Air Force fired missiles at a vehicle traveling in Gaza City’s Sajaya neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Palestinian sources said an IDF gunship fired several missiles at the vehicle carrying five people, apparently members of the Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades. Some of those wounded were passersby. Some of those injured sustained serious wounds. The al-Quds Brigades’...

Israel resumed its policy of targeted interceptions Thursday, striking a top Islamic Jihad field commander in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp and killing at least six other Palestinians. Military sources confirmed that an aircraft fired a rocket into a vehicle in Gaza, saying that the target was Shadi Mehana, the senior Islamic Jihad commander in the northern Gaza Strip. The army said he was behind the renewal of Kassam rocket attacks since Israel pulled out of Gaza in August. The Associated Press reported that at least six other Palestinians were killed in the strike on the white Subaru, including Mehana's deputy...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003. "I as chief spokesman for the government of Pakistan confirm that our forces have killed Amjad Hussain Farooqi," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press...

GAZA (Reuters) - A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Sunday, Palestinian witnesses said. They said the missile was apparently fired by an Israeli airforce drone hovering overhead Gaza City. The missile tore through a car carrying a top leader in Hamas's Izz-el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, killing him and wounding several passersby. Several witnesses earlier reported seeing a flash of light before the explosion. The incident took place in an Islamic militant stronghold in Gaza City. Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, is...