Obama's speech could help push for Ft. Hood victims

Rep. Rooney: Obama's speech could help push for Ft. Hood victims
FOX News
By Justin Sink
05/24/13

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) said Friday that President Obama's discussion of the Ft. Hood shooting during his counterterrorism speech on Thursday would buoy efforts to have the Department of Defense reclassify the Fort Hood massacre “workplace violence” rather than terrorism.

"When he put Ft. Hood in the same breath as Boston … he was basically making our case for us," Rooney told Fox News.

Thirteen people were killed and 29 others were wounded in the shooting by Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was allegedly radicalized by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. But the victims of the attack have been denied Purple Hearts and certain combat-related benefits because the massacre was determined to be "workplace violence" rather than combat violence.
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British soldier hacked to death returning to barracks in London

UPDATE Cub Scout leader stood up to murderer
Brave Ingrid Loyau-Kennett tried to shield soldier's body from attackers in Woolwich, London
From: news.com.au
May 23, 2013
A 48-YEAR-OLD Cub Scout leader has described how she jumped off a bus and tried to talk down the knife-wielding London attacker.

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett confronted one of the machete attackers at the scene of the horrific murder in London and told him "it is only you versus many people - you are going to lose". Source: Twitter

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett told London's Telegraph the alleged attacker told her: "We want to start a war in London tonight."
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Woolwich Attack: Man Reportedly Beheaded In Brutal Assault In London Neighborhood
(WARNING: DISTURBING FOOTAGE)
Posted: 05/22/2013

A man was reportedly killed in an attack with a knife and a meat cleaver in London's Woolwich neighbourhood on Wednesday.

In a statement, London's Metropolitan police commander Simon Letchford said that police have shot two men who had attacked the victim in Woolwich's John Wilson Street. The Telegraph reports that local MP Nick Raynsford said that he believed the victim was a soldier returning to his barracks, while several witnesses described the attack as a "beheading."

According to Bloomberg, two men are in police custody.

The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister David Cameron called the incident "truly shocking." Cameron asked Britain's home secretary to chair a meeting of Cobra, the government's emergency committee.
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The siege is over, but the terror remains

The siege is over, but the terror remains
By Tami Abdollah
After a harrowing 42-hour lockdown in a Mumbai hotel room, Mission Viejo residents emerge to face their new lives -- fearful when the doorbell rings, afraid to be alone, wondering how they survived.
By Tami Abdollah
December 6, 2008
For Sarita Khilnani, it's the little things -- like the ring of her doorbell Wednesday night -- that suddenly fill her with fear and remind her of the 42 hours she spent locked in her room at Mumbai's Taj hotel.

Exactly one week earlier, terrorists had blasted their way into the hotel. When the doorbell rang at Room 363 that day, it was by a heavy hand, and followed by furious knocking.

It was 1 a.m. Friday, and Sarita, 32, and her mother, Mira, 62, stood at the door, their hands clasped. They dared not approach the peephole.

"Who is it?" they asked timidly, her mother speaking Hindi. But the voices had moved away and the two were left in silence.

Hours later, mother and daughter emerged from their room and entered the hallway. Room after room had its door broken in. Shards of glass littered the floor, and luggage was strewn about.


Today, Sarita Khilnani and her mother struggle to understand why the five rooms next to theirs were violently emptied, but theirs went untouched.
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