Daily Misfortune Friday July 25, 2014

Daily Misfortune Friday July 25, 2014 ---
July 25, 2014

On this day:

1. I-35W northbound closed at Hwy. 36 after bus and semis collide Minneapolis Star Tribune Semi jacknifed leaving trailer blocking all lanes resulting in a fiery crash on northbound I-35W at Hwy.280 with another semitrailer, Metro mobility bus and another vehicle.
2. Minneapolis Pickup bursts into flames on Hwy. 169, halts NW. metro traffic for miles
3. Urgent lessons Israel, US must learn to counter Hamas’s clever tactics, strategy | The Times of Israel. Since the end of Pillar of Defense in late 2012, Hamas and other Gaza terror organizations have doubled their rocket arsenal, allowing some 120 rockets to be fired daily at various ranges. Indeed, Hamas has successfully surprised Israelis with its rockets’ range — namely, when its R-160 (a.k.a. the Syrian M-302 allegedly shipped by Iran) forced Israelis in the country’s central and northern sections to head for their shelters. Firing this many rockets at varied targets allows Hamas to pursue three key objectives: (1) to subject as much of the Israeli population as possible to constant rocket fire; (2) to try to exceed the saturation point of the Iron Dome air-defense system through heavy barrages; (3) and to prove that Hamas can stand on its own feet in the fighting, even as Israel operates in Gaza.
4. M-302 rocket Used by Syria and Hezbollah before Hamas. introduced 2006, weighs 1,155 lb, range 62-132 miles
5. 5 casualties 3 children killed 3 injured 2 suspects July 25, 2014 Philiadelphia Tioga Carjacking Hit And Run Rampage In the Tioga section of North Philiadelpha, carjackers ran down a crowd killing 3 siblings and critically injuring their mother and another woman. Two suspects fled on foot.
6. July 25, 2014 F-16s Escort Sunwing Airlines Bomb Threat Canadian citizen Ali Shahi, 25. terrorized Sunwing Flight 772. He became increasingly agitated after the plane took off. He man tore up magazines and the safety card and tried to rip the window shade off, he said. After the passenger told the crew that he wanted to “blow up the airplane” the plane returned to Toronto escorted by F-16 fighter jets as it was rushed by armed SWAT officers to remove the suspect. His father Sadegh Shahi blamed the police and health system for not helping with his son's mental health issues, and he is not at fault as he never means anything he says.
7. 50 killed July 25, 2014 (Raqqa, Syria) - At least fifty Syrian soldiers are captured and beheaded by Islamic State militants, who then post the heads on a long row of fence posts.
8. 15 killed July 25, 2014 (Ghor, Afghanistan) - Three women and a child are among fifteen Shiites singled out and pulled off a bus by dedicated Sunnis, who bound their hands and then execute them.
9. 1 mosque destroyed, motive: religion July 24, 2014  ISIS Destroys Jonah's Tomb In Mosul Iraq  The militant group ISIS destroys the tomb of Jonah, a place thought to be the burial site of the prophet believed by Abrahamic faiths to have been swallowed by a whale or fish. ISIS operatives planted explosives around the mosque containing the tomb then detonated it. The Sunni Mosque of the Prophet Younis, which is the Arabic name for Jonah was blown up. Though ISIS claims to adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam, they have nonetheless targeted multiple Sunni shrines, blowing up or bulldozing any place they deem "unIslamic."

News

1. Intercept (anti-counterterrorism)  Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux23 Jul 2014 The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept. The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government’s secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database... 
2. Charges: Bemidji man shot 17-year-old girl after she told him not to ride mower in her yard
3. Jul 24, 2014  counterj The United Nations has acknowledged that its facilities in the Gaza Strip were storing Palestinian missiles and rockets.
4. July 24, 2014 IRAQ: ATTACK ON PRISONER CONVOY KILLS 60 PEOPLE Attack on bus in convoy kills prisoners and 8 soldiers in Iraq.
   
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