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  • 4el.com ( shortcut o HelpUsHelpYou.com ) 6:44 am on June 18, 2015 Permalink |
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    9 killed during prayer meeting IN historic church 

    http://fox6now.com/2015/06/17/developing-police-responding-to-shooting-in-downtown-charleston-south-carolina/

    Nine killed in shooting at historic church in South Carolina; incident investigated as hate crime

    POSTED 9:14 PM, JUNE 17, 2015, BY ,
    UPDATED AT 12:59AM, JUNE 18, 2015

    SOUTH CAROLINA —

    A white man walked into a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire during a Bible study class, killing nine people Wednesday evening.

    The suspect was still at large early Thursday morning. And the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest AME church in the South, is being investigated as a hate crime.

    “The only reason someone would walk into a church and shoot people that were praying is hate,” said Charleston Mayor Joe Riley.

    Eight churchgoers died at the scene; a ninth at a hospital, police said.

    Officials wouldn’t say how many people were at the prayer service during the shooting. There were survivors, said Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen, but he didn’t elaborate.

    Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are at the scene of a shooting at a historic black church, a local lawmaker told CNN Wednesday, June 17, 2015 night.There was no immediate information on potential victims. The shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, said State Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard who represents the district where the church is located.

    Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are at the scene of a shooting at a historic black church, a local lawmaker told CNN Wednesday, June 17, 2015 night.There was no immediate information on potential victims.

    The shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, said State Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard who represents the district where the church is located.

    Historic significance

    Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has been a presence in Charleton since 1816 when African-American members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal Church formed their own congregation after a dispute over burial grounds.

    It was burned to the ground at one point, but rebuilt.

    Every Wednesday evening, the church holds a Bible study in its basement.

    The shooting was “obviously the most intolerable and unbelievable act possible,” the mayor said.

    “People in prayer Wednesday evening. A ritual, a coming together, praying, worshiping God. An awful person come in and shoot them is inexplicable,” Riley said.

    Police received the first call around 9:05 p.m. Officers arrived to find several victims inside.

    “It’s really bad. It’s a very bad scene,” local pastor Thomas Dixon said.

    Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are at the scene of a shooting at a historic black church, a local lawmaker told CNN Wednesday, June 17, 2015 night.There was no immediate information on potential victims. The shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, said State Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard who represents the district where the church is located.

    Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are at the scene of a shooting at a historic black church, a local lawmaker told CNN Wednesday, June 17, 2015 night.

    There was no immediate information on potential victims. The shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, said State Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard who represents the district where the church is located.

    Search on for suspect

    Police said the suspect in the shooting is a clean-shaven white man in his 20s, with a slender build. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and boots.

    “He obviously is extremely dangerous,” Chief Mullen said. “We will put all our resources, we will put all of our energy in finding this individual.”

    The department asked anyone with information to call 911 dispatchers.

    “While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said.

    Heavy police presence

    “Like everybody out here, we’re sick to our stomachs that this could happen in a church,” Rep. Dave Mack, a friend of the church’s pastor, told CNN affiliate WCSC.

    Corey Wessenger, who was standing across the street from the church, said the area was swarming with law enforcement.

    “I just saw a group of about 40 people escorted by cops,” Wessenger told CNN by phone.

    Community members gathered in a prayer circle just down the street from the scene.

    Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush canceled a scheduled town hall in Charleston on Thursday “due to the tragic events unfolding in South Carolina tonight.”


    Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. .

    CHARLESTON, S.C. —

    Nine people were killed in a “heinous” shooting during a prayer meeting at a historic black church Wednesday night, Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said.

    The gunman is believed to be a white man.

    “I do believe this is a hate crime,” Mullen said.

    The shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. at Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street.

    Eight died in the church, Mullen said;

    another was pronounced dead at a hospital. Mullen didn’t identify any of the victims; a reward for information on the gunman would be offered later Thursday, he said.

    Police are saying on Twitter that they’re looking for a clean-shaven 21-year-old white man. He has a slender small build and is wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots.

    “The message is that this is one hateful person — one hateful person — that did these dastardly deeds,” Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said.

    Investigators are working to “find this individual, lock him up and make sure he doesn’t hurt anybody else,” Mullen said.

    There was a bomb threat for the area near the church, but that threat has since been cleared, Mullen said.

    An Associated Press reporter on the scene said police helicopters with searchlights circled overhead in the area, and a group of pastors kneeled and prayed across the street.

    “Mother Emanuel” AME Church traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal church.

    One of its founders, Denmark Vesey, tried to organize a slave revolt in 1822. He was caught, and white landowners had his church burned in revenge. Parishioners worshipped underground until after the Civil War.

    WCPO will update this story as more information becomes available.

    Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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    http://www.rti.org.tw/m/news/detail/?recordId=198287美南卡教會槍擊案 非裔州參議員遇害
    時間:2015-06-18 14:43
    新聞引據:中央社
    美國警方表示,南卡羅萊納州查爾斯頓(Charleston)非洲裔社區老教堂17日晚間發生槍擊案,1名槍手仍在逃。

     

    此案造成

    身兼 教會牧師 的 南卡州參議員品克尼(Clementa Pinckney)不幸罹難。

    黑人民權領袖夏普頓(Al Sharpton)牧師在推特{TWITTER}上表示,

    品克尼是9名罹難者之一

    路透社報導,

    查爾斯頓警察首長穆倫(Gregory Mullen)形容這起槍擊是仇恨犯罪,

    他說:

    我們難以理解在今日的社會,有人會在群眾參加禱告會時走進教堂殺害他們」

    他並表示,稍早教會周邊傳出爆炸警報,目前已解除。

    WCIV電視台報導,警方拘留了1名背背包和相機的男子,

    隨後表示,還在追查槍案嫌犯。

    根據警方推文,事件約在美東時間17日晚間9時發生。

    警方告訴「查爾斯頓郵報」(Charleston Post and Courier),槍手目前在逃,

    嫌疑人是21歲白人男性,身穿灰色帽T和牛仔褲。

    地方電視台WCSC則指出,

    聯邦調查局(FBI)也派人到現場,但記者無法立刻取得FBI回應。

    查爾斯頓市長萊里(Joe Riley)接受「查爾斯頓郵報」訪問時說:

    這個歷史悠久的教會發生了無法形容且令人傷心至極的不幸事件,

    一個邪惡、充滿仇恨的人奪走了來這裡 敬拜 並一起禱告 的 市民。」

    教會官網介紹,這是美國南部規模最大、歷史最悠久的黑人教會之一。

    根據美國國家公園管理局(NPS)資料,

    這座教堂建於1891年,在歷史上具相當重要性。
    其他新聞

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    Dylann Storm Roof : Domains of the “Last Rhodesian” Charleston killer

    Dylann Storm Roof : Domains of the “Last Rhodesian” Charleston killer

    Posted by  on June 20, 2015, at 10:24 pm

    The evil insanity behind the mindless murders of innocent Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, is still unfolding; suspect Dylann Storm Roof will have a lot of questions to answer in the coming weeks.

    Calling himself the Last Rhodesian“, after the former apartheid-led name of Zimbabwe, Dylann Roof registered the domain name LastRhodesian.com on February 9, 2015.

    On the LastRhodesian.com, Dylann Storm Roof posted several photos along with a “manifesto” of sorts, full of racial hatred against minorities.

    According to the DomainTools historical WHOIS, the domain was registered with Reg.RU, a Russian domain registrar, and with the email address derekjeeter88@yandex.com.

    Dylann Storm Roof, is suspect for several killings in Charleston, SC.

    Dylann Storm Roof, is the primary suspect for several killings in Charleston, SC. ^THE CROSS .. .. O CONFEDERATE !!!!!!!!!

    Copyright DomainGang.com : This post is 100% true!

    http://domaingang.com/domain-news/dylann-storm-roof-domains-of-the-last-rhodesian-charleston-killer/

     

     
    • 4el.com ( shortcut o HelpUsHelpYou.com ) 2:12 pm on June 23, 2015 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      >>> Historic significance
      >>>
      >>> Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has been a presence in Charleston
      >>> since 1816 when
      >>> African-American members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal Church formed their own congregation
      >>> after a dispute over burial grounds.

      ^the church could c[see] its 200th bday @ next year – 2016

  • 4el.com ( shortcut o HelpUsHelpYou.com ) 4:49 am on March 16, 2015 Permalink |
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    WHERE … 

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    15 March 2015, two blasts took place atRoman Catholic Chruch and Christ Chruch during Sunday service at Youhanabad town ofLahore.[4]
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    The high number of casualties is due to the fact that weekly service was underway when the attacks occurred[3]
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    Responsibility[edit]

    Jamaat-ul-Ahrar a splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, which had reconciled with and rejoined the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan earlier the same month[8] claimed responsibility for the attacks.[1].

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    1.  “Worshippers killed in Pakistan church bombings”Al Jazeera. March 15, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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    【JAR(((JAAR<DUTCH>//YEAR))) 2013】
    On 22 September 2013, a twin suicide bomb attack took place at All Saints Church[3] in PeshawarPakistan, in which 127 people were killed 
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    The second bomber entered the church and detonated bomb inside church.[1] 
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    Perpetrators of the attack[edit]

    The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan-linked Islamist group Jundallah claimed responsibility for the attack.[8][9] They said that the attack on Christians and non-Muslims will continue because they are the enemies o Islam[9] 

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  • 4el.com ( shortcut o HelpUsHelpYou.com ) 4:53 am on January 31, 2015 Permalink |
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    Sukkur 

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-30/bomb-attack-on-pakistani-mosque-kills-at-least-123a-officials/6059106

    Pakistan mosque bomb attack kills at least 60, survivors trapped under rubble: officials

    Updated about 5 hours agoSat 31 Jan 2015, 7:02am

    A bomb blast at a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan has killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens more, officials said, in the deadliest sectarian attack to hit the country in more than a year.

    The bomb exploded as worshippers attended Friday prayers in the town of Shikarpur in Sindh province, about 470 kilometres north of Karachi.

    Pakistan has suffered a rising tide of sectarian violence in recent years, most of it perpetrated by hardline Sunni Muslim groups against minority Shiite Muslims, who make up about 20 per cent of the population.

    Sindh health minister Jam Mehtab Daher said “the death toll from the attack has increased to 61”.

    “There are 54 dead bodies in Shikarpur hospital. Seven others died in Sukkur and Larkana hospitals,” he said.

    Witness Zahid Noon said hundreds of people had rushed to the scene to try to dig out survivors trapped under the roof of the mosque, which collapsed in the blast.

    Television footage of the aftermath showed chaotic rescue scenes as people piled the wounded into cars, motorbikes and rickshaws to take them for treatment.

    “The area is scattered with blood and flesh and it smells of burnt meat, people are screaming at each other… it is chaos,” Mr Noon said.

    “A huge contingency of police and rangers is present here and ambulances from the nearby towns have started to arrive.”

    Abdul Quddus, a senior police official in Shikarpur, said the initial investigation suggested it may have been a suicide blast.

    An official with a national Shiite organisation, Rahat Kazmi, said

    up to 400 people were worshipping in the mosque when the blast struck.

    Increasing attacks on Shiite targets

    It is the bloodiest single sectarian attack in Pakistan since January 22 last year, when

    24 Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran were killed when their bus was bombed in southwestern Baluchistan province.

    Friday’s attack came as prime minister Nawaz Sharif visited Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, to discuss the law and order situation in the city.

    Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city and economic heartbeat, has wrestled for several years with a bloody wave of criminal, sectarian and politician murders.

    Anti-Shiite attacks have been increasing in recent years in Karachi and also in the southwestern city of Quetta, the northwestern area of Parachinar and the far northeastern town of Gilgit.

    Around 1,000 Shiites have been killed in the past two years in Pakistan, a heavy toll, with many of the attacks claimed by the hardline Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).

    Pakistan has stepped up its fight against militants in the past month, following a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

    Heavily armed gunmen went from room to room at the army-run school murdering 150 people, most of them children, in an attack that horrified the world.

    Since then the government has ended a six-year moratorium on executions in terror-related cases and pledged to crack down on all militant groups.

    AFP

    Topics: unrest-conflict-and-wardefence-forcespakistanasia

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    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31056086

    Pakistan Shia mosque blast in Shikarpur kills dozens

    Pakistan mosque bombing aftermathDozens of people were wounded in the attack

    At least 40 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a Shia mosque in southern Pakistan, officials say.

    Dozens were wounded in the attack after Friday prayers in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, and the death toll is expected to rise.

    Sunni militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack.

    Local media reports suggest that the blast could have been a suicide attack, but police are investigating.

    There has been rising sectarian violence in Pakistan in recent years. Sunni militant groups have targeted the Shia minority in the past.

    The Jundallah militant group claimed that they had carried out the attack. The group has been linked to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and announced allegiance to Islamic State (IS) last year.

    A number of people were trapped after the roof of the mosque collapsed due to the force of the explosion, local media said.

    Witness Zahid Zoon told AFP news agency that hundreds of people rushed to the scene after the blast to try to dig out survivors from the rubble.

    “It is chaos,” he said.

    Pakistani security officials gather at a mosque after a bomb explosion in Shikarpur in Sindh province,The bomb exploded at a packed mosque just after Friday prayers
    Pakistani security officials gather at the scene following a bomb attack at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Shikarpur in Sindh provinceSome people were trapped after the roof of the mosque collapsed from the force of the explosion

    Senior police official Abdul Qudoos Kalwar said that four children were among the dead, according to the Associated Press news agency

    Several of the most severely wounded patients were taken to hospitals in the cities of Larkana and Sukkur.

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    Analysis: BBC’s Ilyas Khan, IslamabadJundallah has been part of TTP and has been linked to militant groups including al-Qaeda as well as an Iranian Sunni Muslim group.

    If the Jundallah claim is to be trusted, it would be its second most audacious attack on Shia Muslims in recent years. In 2012, it said it killed at least 18 Shia passengers after pulling them out of a bus in the northern Kohistan region.

    The group first hit the headlines in 2004 with an ambush on the army’s Karachi Corps commander. Though it did not claim the attack, the investigators named it and arrested some of its members.

    Police in Karachi have blamed some recent attacks on Jundallah , but the group itself has made no comment.

    However, some of its recent claims have conflicted with those of the TTP. In June 2013 it said it carried out the killing of nine foreign climbers on Nanga Parbat, but the TTP said a specially established unit called Jundul Hafsa had done it.

    Three months later, both Jundallah and Jundul Hafsa claimed the killing of over 70 Christians in a church in Peshawar, but the TTP later said Jundul Hafsa was not involved.

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    Dr Shaukat Ali Memon, from the hospital in Shikarpur which received the first of those wounded, made an appeal on state television for blood donations.

    Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the incident and ordered an immediate inquiry.

    The attack came as Mr Sharif visited the city of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.

    The BBC’s Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that attacks on Shia targets have been fairly common in Karachi, on the coast, but are relatively new in the interior of Sindh province, where the influence of a more tolerant Sufi Islamic tradition is more widespread.

    Our reporter says that Friday’s incident is reportedly the fifth attack of a sectarian nature in the province’s interior since 2010.

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