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Posted on 12/01/2007 8:47:13 PM PST by nwctwx
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UPDATE:
http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&hl=en&ned=us&q=Eric+Shamp&btnG=Search+News
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Previously...
http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/2007/dec/05/record-dec-5/
“Record Dec, 5”
By Susan Larson (Contact) | The Daily Journal
Published Wednesday, December 5, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A snow plow operator stopped around 8:20 p.m. Tuesday along highways 210 and 78 near Battle Lake to help a man, later identified as Eric Shamp, 23, Battle Lake, who was along the roadside. Shamp, who appeared to be intoxicated, attempted to enter the vehicle through the drivers side door, telling the driver to get out of the truck. Shamp climbed down and the driver drove off.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He is being held in the Otter Tail County Detention Facility.”
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=9080&ccid=11
“Female suicide bomber kills 16”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BAGHDAD, (Agencies): A woman wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 16 people and a suicide car bomb killed 10 in Iraq on Friday, in attacks aimed at units helping US forces fight al-Qaeda.
Police said 27 people were wounded in the first attack, when the female suicide bomber struck at former Sunni Arab insurgents who have switched sides to join US-backed security forces battling al-Qaeda.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Witnesses said a woman walked up to the building, in a street full of shops, and began asking questions. She detonated the vest she was wearing when people out shopping before Friday prayers began gathering around her.”
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/12/indonesian_police_responsible.php
“Indonesian police responsible for firing on Australian counter-terror chief”
By Kenneth Conboy
(December 8, 2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936886/posts
“Student arrested in connection with campus shooting threat”
KESQ.com ^ | 12/09/07 | KESQ.com/AP
Posted on 12/09/2007 3:13:48 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847289613&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Dec 9, 2007 8:32 | Updated Dec 9, 2007 11:08
“Prosor: War with Iran may be unavoidable”
By JPOST.COM STAFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Prosor, who served as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s senior adviser on Iran, told the Sunday Telegraph that Teheran could enrich enough uranium to make an atomic bomb by 2009.
“At the current rate of progress Iran will reach the technical threshold for producing fissile material by 2009,” he told the British newspaper. “This is a global threat and it requires a global response. It should be made clear that if Iran does not co-operate then military confrontation is inevitable. It is either co-operation or confrontation.”
Prosor went on to say that the Iranians would soon be able to fully control all the elements of enrichment and from that point on, it would only be a matter of time before they had a nuclear weapon.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936892/posts
“Iran, China set to sign major oil deal: minister”
AFP by way of Google ^ | 09DEC07 | Agence France-Presse
Posted on 12/09/2007 3:45:50 AM PST by familyop
TEHRAN (AFP)
Thanks for the Ping, Cindy. The USGS has now upgraded it to 7.8 magnitude.
No tsunami warnings are in effect.
Thanks to RDTF for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936915/posts
“Gunman wounds 4 in missionary center”
Associated Press ^ | 9 December 2007 | Associated Press
Posted on 12/09/2007 5:27:53 AM PST by mrhansen
DENVER
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2ND SHOOTING:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937068/posts
“Four People Shot Outside Colorado Springs New Life Church”
Fox News ^ | 09 DEC 07 | Fox News
Posted on 12/09/2007 12:49:26 PM PST by aomagrat
Edited on 12/09/2007 12:59:09 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Unrelated to both of the above shootings:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937070/posts
“Pacers’ Guard Jamaal Tinsley Involved in Downtown Shooting”
WISH-TV 8 ^ | 12-9-2007
Posted on 12/09/2007 12:57:57 PM PST by rdl6989
INDIANAPOLIS
Thank you RDTF — got them all at this time.
“Joey Qatato, Pacers’ Equipment Manager, who was shot in both elbows. He was transported to Methodist Hospital in stable condition.”
owwwwww
Yep, that hurt.
Prayers for all of the victims and their families. My nephew and his wife were missionaries with YWAM. It is a great organization.
Yes, it is a wonderful program.
Prayers ongoing.
UPDATE:
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7677981
“6 shot, 2 dead, at Springs church”
By Kirk Mitchell and Chris Osher
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 12/09/2007 06:48:40 PM MST
COLORADO SPRINGS —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The gunman, whose identity has not been released, was shot to death by a security guard, police say. Four victims were transported to hospitals including some with life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
Police found various devices on the church grounds, authorities say.
Colorado Springs police Lt. Fletcher Howard said a suspect had been detained in the shootings at the New Life Church.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mario Garcia was waiting outside the church property in his Chevrolet Suburban for his three children, ages 14 to 18, who were in the basement with 50 other people for two hours, he said.
His children had attended a meeting that started at 10:30 a.m., and were walking out of the service at about 1 p.m. when they saw a man throwing “some sort of bomb,” Garcia said.”
UPDATE:
Note: Photos included.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.ywam.org/articles/article.asp?AID=493&bhcp=1&bhfv=9&bhfx=9.0%20r115&bhqs=1
YWAM Staff Killed in Denver
Official press release and YWAM statement
Tiffany Johnson, Charlie Blanch, Philip Crouse, Dan Griebenow
Dear YWAM family worldwide,
As some of you are already aware, the YWAM Denver (Arvada) Colorado center experienced a tragedy of great proportions in the early hours of Sunday morning, December 9, as two YWAM Denver staff members died at the hands of a lone gunman who entered one of their campus buildings. Two other staff members are currently at a local Denver hospital; one of them is in critical but stable condition. The four had just finished serving at a Christmas Banquet for YWAM staff and students. They were simply doing what they did so well: serve. Please pray for Peter and Linda Warren as they lead their staff of 127 through this tragedy, for staff and students, and the families of the staff who died and were injured.
The following report was compiled from various press sources and coordinated through YWAM’s International Chairman’s Office. Here is YWAM’s official press release on this tragedy, which we will update as we get more information.
For press inquiries directly related to the YWAM Denver shootings, please contact pressoffice@ywam.org. This address is for media inquiries only.
Official Press Release:
A lone gunman entered a Youth With A Mission training center in the Denver, Colorado suburb of Arvada early Sunday morning, opening fire and hitting four members of the staff. All were taken to local hospitals and two later died of their injuries.
The two wounded remain in serious condition. The gunman has not yet been apprehended, and police are continuing their search for him.
The deceased have been identified as Tiffany Johnson, 26, from Minnesota, and Philip Crouse, 24, from Alaska. Both served as staff members at the Youth With A Mission Arvada campus. The third victim, Dan Griebenow, 24, has a bullet in his neck and is listed in critical but stable condition. The fourth victim Charlie Blanch, 22, suffered gunshot wounds to his legs.
Peter Warren, the Director of Youth with a Mission Denver says they had just finished a Christmas banquet when the suspect arrived and asked a 22-year-old woman from Minnesota if he could be housed for the evening. When she told him they could not house him, that’s when, Warren says, the suspect opened fired with an automatic handgun, hitting four people. Police say they do not know whether the shooting was random or if there was a motive.
Warren says, “The young man – I don’t know who he is; I don’t think [the victims] knew him – but he must be going through a lot personally in his own life to do something like this. Our belief is that only God is the judge and our place is to forgive and that’s a difficult thing to do, but really, I think it’s the right thing to do,” said Warren.
There are about 80 people living on the Arvada campus and they have been transported to the group’s mountain campus near Golden, Colorado where they will stay while the murder investigation is processed at their residence. Warren says they are trying to deal with this situation as best as they can.
“There’s no blueprint for this,” said Warren. “You know, we’re just going to be honest, we’re going to pray with one another and cry with one another. These kids were like our kids, you know. It’s just such a tragedy, but who knows what’s going on in this young man’s life.”
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is an international and interdenominational Christian movement with operating locations in 171 nations. Launched in 1960 as a means for young people to get involved in short-term missionary service, it now has over 16 000 staff working in 1180 centers and trains over 25 000 people each year to be involved in the organization’s primary goal – to know God and make Him known. YWAM is hugely varied in its approach, operating such ministries as drop-in centers for street children in South America; hospice care for AIDs victims in Africa; literacy and job creation programs throughout Asia; and is well known for its quick response and long-term commitment to global disasters, such as the 2006 tsunami.
YWAM International Chairman Lynn Green released this statement: “We feel a deep sense of loss today and we grieve with the families and those who were very close friends of the victims. Our surviving students and staff are being well cared for and we have total confidence in those who are responsible for the training program in Arvada to care for those who have been subjected to this assault.
“Those who lost their lives had dedicated themselves to serve and we feel the sorrow of their absence. Yet we take comfort from the assurance of everlasting life for those who follow Christ in loving service to others.
“It is a great tragedy that our culture seems to produce so many deeply troubled people who express their frustration in violence. We forgive the assailant and we rededicate ourselves to serving young people in the hope that we might bring healing to other needy youth.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019080.php
(ARAB TIMES online.com)
December 9, 2007
“Kuwaiti officials arrest man calling for inner spiritual struggle against US”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taliban
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019078.php
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/12/09/wafg409.jpg
Photo caption: “Afghans gather around a Taliban hanging”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/wafg409.xml
“Taliban ‘hanged boy, 12, for spying for UK’”
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Last Updated: 2:13am GMT 10/12/2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Taliban fighters hanged a 12-year-old boy from a mulberry tree, claiming he was passing information on Taliban roadside bomb attacks to police and British forces, Afghan police have said.
The gruesome murder, which occurred in Sangin, an area held by British forces since driving out the Taliban in April, sparked outrage among politicians, who accused the al-Qaeda-linked militant group of atrocities against villagers. It was the second execution of a child attributed to the Taliban in three months.”
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