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Daily Misfortune Thursday January 16, 2014 ---

Armed conflicts and attacks

2013–14 Thai political crisis:
- An explosion rocks the protests in Bangkok resulting in dozens of injuries. (CNN), (AP)
At least three people are killed and fifteen are injured after an explosion in a passenger train travelling from Peshawar to Karachi. (PTI via Business Standard)
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon:
- A rocket fired into the Lebanese border town of Arsal kills seven people and wounds 15. (Reuters)
Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan:
- At least 14 people are killed in a suicide bombing attack on a Kabul restaurant. (BBC)
Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present):
- Two people were shot dead as clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police flared up across Egypt. (Reuters)

Friday January 17 2014 Maryland Mother Exorcism Excuse for Killing Toddlers A Germantown, Maryland mother and another woman are alleged to have killed two toddlers and trying to kill two other children. Montgomery County police believe the motive was an exorcism releasing demonic spirits that had possessed the siblings. The two dead children were found Friday morning stabbed to death on their mother’s bed.

Friday January 17, 2014 Shooting threat prompts Escondido school closures San Francisco Chronicle (AP) social media posting warning that bullets would fly at a charter high school and that the posting's alleged author would commit suicide ...

Disasters

Bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria claim at least one life with towns in the Grampians National Park region evacuated. (The Australian)
Three men are held in custody on suspicion of starting the Colby Fire in Los Angeles County, California. (BBC News)
A stampede at the home of Muslim religious leader Mohammed Burhanuddin in the Indian city of Mumbai results in 18 deaths. (SBS World News)

January 17, 2014 2 Shot At North Philadelphia Charter School Two students were shot in the cafeteria before 3:30 p.m. at Delaware Valley Charter High School in North Philadelphia. Authorities were asking the shooter to turn himself in. This is the 6th disaster in 6 days: Sunday San Jose serial arson, Monday Florida movie shooting, Tuesday Roswell middle school shooting, Wednesday Illinois wednesday supermarket shooting, Thursday California Rim fire, Friday Friday North Philadelphia High shooting

4 injured January 16, 2014 Five people are injured on the Gaza Strip in an Israel Air Force raid responding to rocket attack
4 killed 26 injured January 16, 2014 Syrian Civil War: A suicide bomber kills 4 people and injures 26 in the Lebanese town of Hermel
Post-Iraq War January 16, 2014 TMZ reveals photos of United States Marines burning bodies of Iraqis prompting an investigation from the Department of Defense.(CNN)
January 16, 2014 Giant Rim Fire Started By Illegal Hunter Campfire near Yosemite
1 killed January 16, 2014 Kansas City Hall Shooting Marlon Williams shot in the head
2 killed January 16, 2014 March 27, 2014 investigation Blossom Street Bridge Crash into River was Deliberate Murder Suicide

1 injured, 4 suspects arrested: January 16, 2014 Former Marine gives chase to armed bandits

Daily Misfortune Wednesday January 15, 2014 ---
Timeline January 2014 ---

Headlines:

raqi insurgency At least 26 people are killed in a series of attacks in central Iraq. (BBC)
Internal conflict in Burma: A Thailand-based women's rights group accuses Myanmar of using rape as a weapon of war. (Reuters)
Wednesday January 15, 2014 Gunman Shot Dead After Killing 2 At Indiana Grocery Store 3 Dead
Wednesday January 15-16, 2014 Teen Henry Jackson Killed After Oklahoma Crime Spree, Shooting ATF Agents n fire.
January 15, 2014 Seattle University Student Stabbed By Teen
Wednesday January 15, 2014 17-year-old Topeka West High School student. Brendan Steven Moore
January 15, 2014 Successful SC black Jehovah Witness family of 4 found dead in apparent murder-suicide

Daily Misfortune Tuesday January 14, 2014 ---

Syrian Civil War 46 Palestinians and Syrians in the Yarmouk Camp died of starvation and lack of medical care since October, from a Syrian army enforced blockade.

3 school "accidents" and attacks

January 14, 2014 17 students 3 adults killed Pakistan Truck "Accidentally" Hits School Bus Head On
Two people were shot when student brings shotgun in music case at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, U.S. A 12-year-old male suspect was apprehended.
January 14, 2014 threats to high school in Texas believed by Matthew Tollis New England Bomb Hoax SWAT Prank not-Terrorist Spree

January 13, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

An explosion kills 14 people in Laoshan District, China. (CNN)
January 14, 2013 Two Shot and Killed in Aurora Illinois Home and Restaurant Bathroom There were two apparently unrelated fatal shootings in Aurora Illinois in the evening. A 22 year old woman was shot in her home after an argument with a man in what appeared to be a domestic situation. A 22 year old man was shot in the bathroom inside a Mexican restaurant, and two suspects were seen fleeing the scene.
January 13, 2013 Florida Movie Theater Shooting Kills One Over Texting Retired Tampa Police Department officer, Curtis Reeves was arrested after a Florida movie theater shooting in Wesley Chapel before the screening of 'Lone Survivor', a surprise hit movie about survival of attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Reeves became agitated with Chad Oulson for texting before the movie began, and after an argument Reeves fired a gun at Oulson and his wife. Nicole was wounded in her hand blocking the gun. to her hand, before Chad was struck. It recalled the unprovoked July 2012 Aurora Colorado theater shooting that killed 12 and wounded 70. No news reports speculated on whether the shooting could have been connected to a terrorist motive or a group sympathetic to the Taliban

Disasters

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Puerto Rico. (Reuters viaCBC)
2013–14 South Pacific cyclone season:
- Tonga restores contact with islands in the Ha'apai islands after Cyclone Ian passes through on the weekend causing at least one death and significant damage. (ABC Hews Australia)

Science

China conducts the test of a new hypersonic missile vehicle, dubbed the "WU-14", which has top speeds of Mach 8 to Mach 12. The weapon was launched on an ICBM. (Newsmax)

School safety incidents:

1. Monday January 13, 2014 Colorado District Closes Schools After Reports Of Possible Shooting, Bomb Threat The South Conejos School District superintendent told 11 News that over the weekend, there were rumors in the community that there could be a shooting at either the high school or elementary school, and a a bomb threat. The high school and the building housing the elementary and middle schools were closed Monday but nothing was found.

2. January 13, 2014 Texas Seven Lakes High School Zip Gun Bomb Evacuation Seven Lakes High School in Katy Texas was evacuated after a zip gun explosive device was found on campus. Such devices are often made from a pipe and can fire nails. The FBI and a bomb squad from Houston responded and suspect Thomas Scott Barfield was arrested

3. The same day Pequannock Township High School in New Jersey was evacuated after a message was found on a bathroom wall

January 12, 2014 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

January 12, 2013 Grenade Injures Firefighters At Mindanao Science College At the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology Mindanao, Phillipines, a man tossed a grenade near a firetruck as firefighters and police were fighting a fire which may have been set in building for security guards as a lure. The blast injured more than 24 people. In November a bomb was found by the flagpole but may have been set to scare rather than detonate.

Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
- A car bombing at a bus station in central Baghdad kills at least nine people. (BBC)
- January 8-12 2013 San Jose Serial Arsonist Sets Dozen Fires in a Week Greater Saint John Baptist Church on E. San Antonio St. in San Jose was damaged by arson, and another fire was set on the property on Sunday January 12. A series of fires have been evidently set by the same person in the Roosevelt, Little Portugal, Wooster and Five Wounds neighborhoods, as well as the eastern parts of the Brookwood Terrace, Naglee Park and Northside neighborhoods near downtown San Jose, California. January 13 was the first time in six days there were no suspicious fires after a string of 12 suspicious fires over five consecutive days

January 11, 2014 (Saturday)

Arts and culture

A district in the ancient town of Dukezong in Tibet burns down. (ABC News)

Attacks and conflicts

Aitizaz Hassan, a Pakistani boy who died after trying to stop a suicide bomber is nominated for an award by Nawaz Sharif.(CNN)
Syrian Civil War
- 500 people are killed in inter-factional fighting between an alliance of secular rebels and moderate Islamists against radical Islamists. (BBC)
- According to rebel-lnked SOHR, 41 Palestinians die due to food and medical shortages in rebel-controlled Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp after a blockade by Syrian army. (Raw Story) (France 24)
Central African Republic crisis
- African migrants are to be evacuated as violence continues in the country. (CNN)
2013 Thai political crisis
- 7 people are injured after protesters are attacked by gunfire. (Voice of America)
Euromaidan
- Yuri Lutsenko, one of the leaders of the protests, is injured during clashes with the police. (Los Angeles Times)
War in Afghanistan
- A four-year-old Afghan boy is killed by U.S. troops. (Business Standard)
Somali Civil War
- The United States is to deploy military advisers more than twenty years after the Black Hawk down incident. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Business and economy

Total S.A. is to invest in shale gas exploration in the United Kingdom. (The Gaurdian)

Disasters and accidents

A chemical leak in West Virginia morphs into a crisis after the contamination of a portion of the state's water supply. (CNN)

Date: January 10, 2014 Friday

Attacks and armed conflicts

Central African Republic crisis
- Amidst pressure for failing to resolve ongoing conflict, President of the Central African Republic Michel Djotodia resigns nine months after Séléka toppled François Bozizé. Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet becomes acting president. (IB Times)
A car bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, kills Chaudhry Aslam Khan, a senior police investigator known for pursuing Pakistani Taliban militants; two other officers with him were also killed. (The Australian)
The Kenyan Air Force bombs a suspected terrorist camp in Garbahaareey, Somalia, killing 30 militants. (AP via Fox News)

2 unrelated(?) incidents 30 minutes and 2 blocks apart: January 10, 2014 NYC cab hits and kills 9 yr old son of radiation oncologist who treated Giulani. Dr. Richard Stock cried out in horror after the cab hit young Cooper as it made a left turn. Richard suffered a leg injury, and his son were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where Cooper was pronounced dead. A half hour earlier just two blocks away, another 73-year-old man was killed after being dragged along the pavement by a green charter bus in a separate apparently unrelated accident two blocks away. Both the bus driver and the cab driver stayed at the scene but neither was charged.

January 9, 2014 (Thursday)

Attacks and conflicts

Syrian Civil War:
- A car bomb kills 18 people, including women and children, in Syria's central Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization. (CNN) (Ynet News)
- Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda try to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home. (NYT)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- A suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi army recruits and wounds 36 in Baghdad. (Reuters)
14-year-old boy Aitizaz Hassan in northern Pakistan is killed stopping a suicide bomber at the main gate of his school but saves the lives of all of his schoolmates gathered for their morning assembly. The Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims responsibility for the attack. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
The government of Afghanistan announces the release of 72 Taliban fighters from jails, despite American objections that they pose a security threat. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.(AP via ABC News)
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin declares a state of emergency for 100,000 West Virginia American Watercustomers in five counties (Boone, Lincoln, Kanawha, Jackson, and Putnam) because of a spill of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol into the Elk River. (NBC)

Law and crime

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is sued for his role on "Bridgegate". (BBC News)[proof some people deliberately target traffic, so terrorists may also stage accidents to harm traffic]
Russian authorities investigate six suspicious deaths and at least one car explosion in southern Russia's Stavropol territory, about 300 miles from Sochi, the site of next month's Winter Olympics. (CNN)
Seven suspects are arrested in the deaths of Venezuelan actress and beauty star, Monica Spear, and her ex-husband, whose 5-year-old daughter witnessed the roadside shooting and was also wounded. (The Miami Herald)
Insane Clown Posse sues the Federal Bureau of Investigation for accusing its fangroup, the Juggalos, of being a gang. (NBC News)

Thursday January 9, 2014 Threat of school shooting leads to arrest in Westport
Former student Dylon Campbell allegedly made a threat on Facebook against a current student and a former student at Ocosta High School in Westport Washington.

January 8, 2014 (Wednesday)

Attacks and conflicts

South Yemen insurgency:
- Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants are killed in a U.S. drone strike in the southeastern province of Hadhramaut. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

A Canadian National Railway train from Toronto carrying crude oil and propane derails and catches fire in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, in the northwest part of the province, causing 45 homes to be evacuated in a rural area. No one has yet been injured, and the fire has diminished, so far without the propane exploding. (MSN)
Nine passengers on the Dehradun Express from Mumbai die when the train catches fire. (Gulf News) (BBC) (CNN)(UPI)
Two crew members are killed died and another is missing after a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter makes an emergency water landing off the Virginia coast, east of Virginia Beach; the two survivors are being treated at a Norfolkhospital. (NBC)
An avalanche causes one death and temporarily traps three others outside the boundaries of Vail Ski Resort on Vail Mountain in Colorado. (CNN)
Jan 8, 2014 - Elderly driver accidentally crashes her car through the front doors of a Rite-Aid drugstore in New Jersey hitting a customer inside

January 7, 2014 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict
- Both belligerents mass execute dozens of their combatant prisoners. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Four killed in US Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk crash in England's Norfolk coast. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
Kirikiri tanker explosion in Kirikiri, Apapa, Nigeria a tanker truck loaded with about 33,000 liters of gasoline accidentally (?) rammed into parked vehicles. Explosion killed about 15 people, leaving several others seriously injured, 11 cars and 60 shops were burnt

Law and crime

Five members of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, who in 1971 stole documents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and gave them to journalists, come forth. The leak exposed COINTELPRO, a program of surveillance and blackmail against American leftists including Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York Times) (The Guardian) (New York Magazine)

Date: January 6, 2014 monday

January 6, 2014 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

War in North-West Pakistan:
- A bomb detonates in a tribal elder's home in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, killing 10 people and injuring another 9. (Global Post)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- A suicide car bomber detonates at a police checkpoint in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, killing 3 police officers. (AP viaWashington Post)
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
- Gunmen kill 30 people in the central Nigerian village of Shonong in the Riyom local government area. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2014 North American cold wave
- Record low temperatures are predicted for parts of the United States with wind chill temperatures expected to drop as low as −51 °C (−60 °F). (Los Angeles Times) (CBS News) (Washington Post)

International relations

The Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout uses strong words to condemn the discovery of illegal weapons at the Palestinian embassy complex where a possible booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 1, saying it is "a serious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations." (Miami Herald)

Law and crime

American-born Colleen LaRose, who calls herself Jihad Jane, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for a failed al Qaeda-linked plot to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks who had depicted the head of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on a dog. (BBC)
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Jan 6, 2014 - But LaRose told the judge, "I don't want to be into jihad no more." LaRose
Venezuelan beauty queen Mónica Spear and her British ex-husband are murdered through a carjacking in Caracas. (Al Jazeera)

January 6, 2013 Elderly Man Accidentally Crashes Into Walpole Gas Pump An 83 year old man in Walpole, Massachusetts is caught on camera hitting a gas station attendant and then knocking down a gas pump and starting a fire with his car. The man is a regular customer who said he stepped on the gas instead of the brakes.

Date: January 5, 2014 (Sunday)

Attacks and conflicts

· Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):

· A wave of bombings hit Iraq's capital, Baghdad, killing at least 20 people. (ABC)

· Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon:

· One man is shot dead and six wounded in clashes on Sunday in the northernLebanese city of Tripoli between districts that support rival sides in neighboring Syria's civil war. (Reuters)

Date: January 4, 2014 (Saturday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

· Anbar conflict:

· The Iraqi government loses control of Fallujah to Islamist militants. (Al Jazeera)

· Majid al-Majid, the chief of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group that was accused of being responsible for a double suicide bombing in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2013, dies in custody in a military hospital in Beirut. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

· A three-story building under construction collapses in the southern Indian state ofGoa, killing at least 14 people. (Reuters via Voice of America)
January 4, 2014 Man Pursued, Shot by SUV In Apparent Road Rage Timothy "Asti" Davison called 911 to say that he was followed by a Ford Ranger pickup truck that was shooting at him and forced him off the road in Maryland. He was found wounded off the road in Pennsylvania and died later. Police believe that motive was random road rage, and there are no leads on the shooter. No one has suspected a connection to terrorism

January 3, 2014 (Friday)