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Somali Ax Man Gets 9 Years for Cartoonist Attack
By not in system - AOL NewsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Somali man convicted of terrorism for breaking into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The Aarhus city court ruled Friday that Muhideen Mohammed Geelle should be expelled from Denmark after serving the sentence. The 29-year-old entered cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home armed with an ax on New Year's Day 2010. Westergaard locked himself inside a panic room and was unharmed. Police arrived and shot Geelle in the leg. The court on Thursday found Geelle guilty of terrorism. Westergaard's ...
Death at SeaWorld: Where Is Tilikum, the Whale Who Killed His Trainer?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyDawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld performer who died last February, had not crossed my mind in months. But last night I saw some year-end stories on 2010 newsmakers and what they were doing with their 16th minute of fame. One was Isaiah Mustafa, who found fame and fortune on a Super Bowl commercial for Old Spice. Another was Antoine Dodson, who scared away a would-be rapist from his sister's bedroom and whose comments to a news crew led to the "Bed Intruder Song." Tilikum, the killer whale, became a household name on Feb. 24, after he turned on his trainer Dawn Brancheau. When I first saw her ...
What Does North Korea Want?
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- North Korea, the capricious wild child of the international community, is acting out to get the world's attention with deadly consequences that threaten to spiral out of control. What isn't clear is why Pyongyang is so rapidly escalating its provocations now, or whether today's shelling of a populated South Korean island and other actions -- acts of war in most contexts -- could set the secretive nuclear-armed state on a path toward open combat with its neighbors that would almost certainly draw in the United States. Stalinist North Korea is the most opaque nation in the world, ...
Diver's Breathing Could Be Used to Thwart Attack
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
(Nov. 16) -- For years, the military has looked at ways to spot -- and stop -- divers and swimmers who could pose a security threat to ports and ships. Now an acoustics expert says he may have found a way to use the sound of a diver's breathing to ward off a potential attack. "One of the main concerns is a diver coming to port and bringing explosives and other dangerous devices," Alexander Sutin, a research professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, told AOL News in an interview. "Now we know how to detect the diver, but then how can you stop him?" David J. Phillip, AP An acoustics ...
Deadly Attacks on Christians Spread Through Baghdad
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- Car bombs ripped through Christian neighborhoods today across Baghdad, killing at least three and terrorizing Iraqi Christians, who have been targeted with "destruction" by al-Qaida. At least 25 were wounded in bombings and mortar attacks. Some of the casualties were non-Christians. In the neighborhood of Kamsara, residents said a Muslim man was killed by a secondary blast after running outside to help when a car exploded outside a Christian family's house, The New York Times reported. Today's bloodshed comes less than two weeks after gunmen from the Islamic State of Iraq, an ...
Every Cop in Mexican Town Quits After Station Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The entire 14-man police force in a northern Mexican town has resigned en masse after their station came under fire from suspected drug traffickers. The police headquarters in Los Ramones, a rural town about 40 miles east of Monterrey, is pockmarked with bullet holes after gunmen drove up to the station and unleashed a torrent of automatic weapons fire that also included barrages from grenade launchers. More than 1,000 bullet casings littered a yard where local officials had held a ceremony to inaugurate the new station just three days earlier. No one was injured, but six ...
Escaped Chimp Goes Bananas, Smashes Cop Car
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- A chimpanzee weighing more than 150 pounds attacked a police car in Missouri, slamming a trash can against the bumper and kicking the windshield before running away. Sueko, a 21-year old chimp, took aim at the police car as the final act of a rampage that saw her chase two girls, smash down a fence and swat at passing cars, The Kansas City Star reported. The chimp, known as Sue, belongs to truck driver Mark Archigo, who has driven the country with Sue riding shotgun, according to local ABC affiliate KMBC. Archigo said he left Sue in a cage in his truck. She somehow escaped ...
Mountain Goat Gores Hiker to Death in Washington
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- A notoriously aggressive mountain goat attacked and killed a hiker in Washington's Olympic National Park. Robert Boardman was picnicking Saturday at an overlook with his wife, Susan Chadd, and a friend, Pat Willits, when the goat appeared, according to the Peninsula Daily News. Boardman, 63, told his companions to move back down the trail while he tried to scare off the animal. Instead, the goat charged Boardman, goring him in the leg with one of its horns. When Chadd and Willits heard him yell, they returned to the scene to find the goat guarding his body. "The mountain ...
Wild Monkey Kills Newborn Malaysian Baby
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- A baby girl in Malaysia died after being attacked in her home by a wild monkey. The monkey snatched the 4-day-old girl, bit her and then dropped her from the roof of the family home in the state of Negeri Sembilan in western Malaysia on Wednesday, The Guardian reported. The child's mother was in the bathroom. The monkey was likely foraging for food and dropped the baby after hearing the family's cries. "We frantically searched all over the house and saw her body covered in blood lying outside the house," grandfather A. Valayutham said. The family took the baby, who had not ...
Coons Counters O'Donnell Witch Ad With Facebook and Twitter Icon
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- She says she is not a witch, but her opponent says she's not you, either. On Monday, in an attempt to reintroduce herself to Delaware voters, senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell released a now (in)famous ad that opens with the memorable line, "I'm not a witch." The spot comes after an old video clip surfaced of O'Donnell proclaiming that she had "dabbled in witchcraft," and concludes with the candidate proclaiming, "I am you." Not surprisingly, O'Donnell's opponent in the race, Democrat Chris Coons, has seized on the ad, and in less than 24 hours has launched a social ...
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