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Six black men have been arrested and charged with committing one of the largest mass shootings in Alabama state history, a mass shooting that the national corporate media has largely refused to cover, as it blows their “white male” mass shooter narrative out of the water.

Richard ” Big Will ” Williamson, owner of BW Security Services, in Riverside, CA The recent murder of Richard ” Big Will ” Williamson, owner of BW Security Services, in Riverside, CA., once more serves notice about the very real threat decent Black men and private officers face in urban settings. He died after exchanging shots with gunmen firing into the crowd at a skating rink he secured. Believe it or not, skating rinks have become high risk venues for private officers and police. This case brought back memories of the heavy police and security presence at the one back...

N.Korean Army Chief 'Refused to Go Quietly' A gunbattle broke out when the North Korean regime removed army chief Ri Yong-ho from office, leaving 20 to 30 soldiers dead, according to unconfirmed intelligence reports. Some intelligence analysts believe Ri, who has not been seen since his abrupt sacking earlier this week, was injured or killed in the confrontation. According to government officials here, the gunbattle erupted when Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, the director of the People's Army General Political Bureau, tried to detain Ri in the process of carrying out leader Kim Jong-un's order to sack him. Guards protecting Ri,...

Man Dies After Gun Battle With Police Updated 9:17 AM CDT, Sun, Apr 25, 2010 Chicago police activity An 18-year-old man who opened fire on police has died from the gunshot wounds he sustained during the gun battle, according to a police statement. Chicago Police say they shot Izael Jackson, of the 5300 block of South King Drive, after he jumped out of a vehicle and opened fire on officers following a traffic stop Saturday night. Mobile Strike Force officers attempted to stop a car around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near East 61st Street and South Prairie...

NOGALES, Sonora — Just minutes after Fausto Hopkins arrived Thursday morning for work at his food service company in the heart of Nogales, gunfire crackled outside the building. As he huddled for safety behind closed doors in his office at about 6:30 a.m., Hopkins counted more than 200 gunshots. Many were right outside his business. Hopkins was listening to the beginning of a deadly shootout and chase between heavily armed organized-crime gunmen and Mexican law-enforcement officers that sped through the city streets just a couple of miles from the border. The rolling gunbattle went past supermarkets and malls and down...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Key Somali warlords agreed to disarm their fighters and join the government, but the breakthrough was marred by a deadly gun battle during talks that brokered the accord. Seven warlords, who controlled most of Mogadishu before it fell to Islamist fighters in June, signed the pact, even as forces loyal to one of them engaged in a firefight with security forces outside the talks' venue. "The principal warlords who controlled parts of the Somali capital have decided to surrender their weapons to the transitional federal government," government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told AFP. "They also agreed to instruct...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was eventually allowed to cross without the estimated $35 million cash but on the Gaza side of the border, his convoy came under intense fire from Fatah gunmen and one of his bodyguards was killed. Hamas said the gunmen had been aiming to kill the prime minister. "The bodyguard to Ismail Haniyeh was...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Armed men shot and killed two guards Thursday outside a prison in the western city of Jiddah, before taking cover in a residential building where they were surrounded by Saudi security forces, state-run media reported. The security forces brought in armored vehicles and helicopters to surround the building where the gunmen had fled, witnesses said. The clashes started when the gunmen opened fire on guards outside the prison, sparking a gunbattle in which the two guards were killed, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried on the government news agency. Several al-Qaida suspects are being...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani security forces arrested four foreign suspected Al-Qaeda militants, two of them disguised in burqas, after a gunfight near the Afghan border, officials said. Commandos shot out the tyres of the men's car outside the northwestern city of Peshawar in a coordinated swoop, the security officials told AFP on condition of anonymity. One other suspect escaped. Agents then raided a hideout where they found assault rifles, grenades and ammunition, plus a laptop and documents identifying possible targets for attacks in Pakistan, the officials said. The men's nationalities had not been confirmed, although some were believed to...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Militants took control of a Gaza neighborhood Friday after a shootout with Palestinian troops left two teenagers dead, and Israeli airstrikes killed five militants in a flare-up of violence that threatened an already tattered truce. Palestinian security forces, under pressure to stop attacks on Israel, went on high alert. Israeli troops massed at two makeshift camps outside the volatile coastal strip. As militants launched at least 53 rockets and mortars against Israeli targets between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz summoned top generals to a meeting to decide on a course...

/begin my translationTaiwan: A Gang Boss Who Dodged 3,000 Bullets Finally CaughtHong Kong, correspondent Song Uidal2005.07.14 The head of kidnapping gang, Chang Hsi-ming, was finally captured after he was shot by police on July 13th, ending his 10 years on the run. He made a headline when he escaped July last year, after a dramatic shootout with police, which could come straight out of (action-thriller) movies. He topped the list of the Taiwan's most-wanted, because of his kidnappings, escapes, and gun battles with police. Last July, he broke out of the siege by 1,000 policemen, dodging 3,000 bullets, and successfully escaped, plunging the Taiwan into fear and shock.  He...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Security forces seized a walled compound Tuesday where Islamic militants had been barricaded for days, ending the kingdom's largest gunbattle with armed extremists. At least 14 of the militants were killed, including top leaders of the Saudi branch of al-Qaida, state television said. Six others were captured in the three days of fierce firefights in the desert town of Rass, state TV said, citing security officials after the battle was over. For nearly 48 hours, the gunmen had been holed up in the villa compound about 220 miles northwest of the capital Riyadh and near...

Anthrax scare at US State Department after white powder found An envelope containing a suspicious white powder was found at the US State Department prompting a security alert amid fears it might be the deadly anthrax bacteria. The discovery forced a limited shutdown of the department's Office of Public Communications, where the envelope was found, while an FBI anti-terrorism team and agents from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security conducted tests on the powder, they said Monday. The ventilation system in the vicinity of the office was also turned off as a precaution, the officials said. "The area has been sealed,"...

<p>The state senator is packaging himself as the actor's conservative counterpoint.</p> <p>Underfunded and overshadowed, conservative state Sen. Tom McClintock has kicked off his gubernatorial campaign with a strategy that tries to turn the huge media focus on Arnold Schwarzenegger to his own advantage — appearing on radio and television as the actor's conservative counterpoint.</p> <p>The good news for the veteran anti-tax crusader from Thousand Oaks is that broadcasters have been eager to give him a platform.</p>

Five killed in attack on Kashmir TV station A car bombing and an ensuing gun battle at the offices of the state radio and television service in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed three suspected Islamic militants and two soldiers yesterday. Three paramilitary officers were wounded. Hours later, at least 10 others were injured in two separate attacks, including an apparent attempt to assassinate Kashmir's finance minister. Two Pakistan-based Islamic rebel groups claimed responsibility for the car bombing, which took place in the state's summer capital, Srinagar. One of the militants was killed in the explosion, while the two others died in the...

Terror rakes Valley while Delhi, Islamabad talk peace Seven security personnel, including an Army major, and a block President of the ruling People's Democratic Party, were among 15 people killed and 40 injured on Friday as militants stepped up their attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. The escalated violence saw the first suicide attack of the year in the state which made a vain attempt to target a sector headquarters of BSF, ambush on an Army patrol and a blast inside a court in Baramulla district of north Kashmir which witnessed the maximum number of militancy-related incidents on...

By Amos Harel and Anat Cygielman, Ha'aretz Correspondents, and agencies Last update 18:40 An IDF soldier sustained light-to-moderate wounds Wednesday during an exchange of fire with Palestinians in at the entrance to Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, as talks attempting to resolve the standoff in the holy site resumed. After the gun battle, which lasted a quarter of an hour, the soldier was evacuated for medical treatment to Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Karem, Jerusalem. Earlier Wednesday, IDF troops shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian who came out of the Church of the Nativity, hours before the talks were toAn...