Another daring rescue by Navy Seals
President Barak Obama this week congratulated Navy Seals for their daring nighttime rescue of two hostages, American Jessica Buchanan and Danish Pole Thistedwere, held by Somali pirates since October 2011. At the time of kidnapping, they worked for the Danish Refugee Council. Jessica who is in her 30s started to show weakening health condition which prompted the rescue that was in planning for quite some time according to Vice President Joe Biden. According to sources, some overheard President, who uttered “Good job tonight, good job tonight” to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta before his State of the Union address. According to sources, all hostage takers were killed during the raid.
Navy Seals parachuted into the grounds where hostages were held and picked up by helicopters after the raid. Seals surprised hostage takers and there was an exchange of gunfire. Neither Seals nor hostages were injured.
President contacted Buchanan’s father immediately after the address to inform him of his daughter’s rescue, reports various news sources.
This is the second time in less than a year that the members of the same Navy Seals team were involved in a daring mission. Last year they killed Osama bin Laden in a more complicated mission deep inside Pakistan.
Bomb explosion destroys bridge in Sulu
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/08 January) – Suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits yesterday destroyed a bridge in the hinterlands of Sulu with an improvised bomb. Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang, Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) spokesperson, said the bandits bombed the bridge in Barangay Pangdanon, Patikul town because they “see good infrastructure projects as high speed avenues for security forces.”
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3 killed, 23 wounded in Zambo City bomb explosion
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/28 November) – Three persons, including a Marine soldier, were killed while 23 others, mostly guests to a wedding Monday, were wounded in a bomb explosion in a budget hotel here Sunday night. The blast at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday destroyed one of the two buildings of the Atilano Pension House in Barangay
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Over 100 people burn to death in Kenyan fire
Fuel leaking from a tank ignited by a cigarette butt accidentally thrown in has taken the lives of well over 100 people in the densely populated area of Nairobi in Kenya.
A petrol tank at a depot belonging to the Kenyan Pipeline Company burst and fuel spilled into an open sewer running through the populated slum. People tried desperately to scoop up the fuel and sewage but unfortunately burst into flames because of the cigarette butt.
The flames engulfed the community and many people burnt to death. Pictures of smoldering skeletons as well as horrendous images of survivors with skin peeling off their faces and arms due to the intense heat were aired on television.
Reports from the Red Cross say that an informal school within the community was burnt along with the students. Officials are unable to give an exact number of deaths though it is said to be over 150, with the police chief stating “the scene is very bad, there are many bodies we have not yet counted”.
Fire fighters were seen scrambling along the narrow alleyways spreading foam on the fuel that is spreading and fire that is still raging.
Bomb Explosion Rocks UN House
Huhuonline.com can disclose that a bomb explosion, today, rocked UN House in Abuja. An witness account revealed that a man suspected to be a suicide bomber.Read more @ http://huhuonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3425:breaking-news-blast-rocks-un-house-abuja&catid=103:more-news …
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British oil majors in focus next week – Daily Times
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Risky Drinking Water
According to the EPA, In America approximately 29 million people’s tap water is not safe to drink. Many of these people live near an industrial plant or old army facility that has contaminated the groundwater. This is the case in Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Binghamton and many cities around the U.S.
This has led people to buying counter-top water filters to have clean safe drinking water, but the truth is that many types of chemicals like perfluorochemicals, trichloroethene and perchlorate cannot be removed from the water using a counter-top water filter.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies these unfortunate millions of American who have unsafe drinking water as living in mostly small communities that don’t have the necessary funding to treat their water. Many scared people turn to bottled water for their safe drinking water needs, but the Food and Drug Administration has the same regulations as the EPA which allows for certain levels of contaminants in the bottled water as they do for tap-water. Some unregulated contaminants by the EPA and FDA like perchlorates and MTBE which is a gasoline additive find their way into bottled water. Also, chemicals from the plastic water bottles have been proved to leak their way into the water over time.
Unlike utility customers who can request to see water testing results or who are able to view yearly water reports, bottlers are not required to release their test results to the public. Drinking water from the tap or from a bottle is a gamble in America that isn’t worth the risk.
The Boat Company fined for Mist Cove oil spill in Sinclair Inlet – Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
The Boat Company fined for Mist Cove oil spill in Sinclair Inlet Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal The owner of a 24-passenger cruise ship faces a $15500 Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) fine for an oil spill earlier this year into Sinclair …
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Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter’s 2010 Trends – All Things Digital
Africa IBTimes Shocking Bieber Upset: Oil Spill Tops Twitter's 2010 Trends All Things Digital In the Twitterverse, after the BP oil spill and soccer, the next most popular topic of conversation in 2010 was the movie “Inception,” followed by the Haiti … Top Twitter Trends of 2010 The Next Web all 13 news articles