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الخميس، 15 ديسمبر 2011

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Elevator crushes woman to death in New York City
LA Countering Homegrown Extremism with Community Policing
Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria
Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria
Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria

Elevator crushes woman to death in New York City

Posted: 15 Dec 2011 03:40 AM PST

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- An elevator at an office building in New York City suddenly moved up on Wednesday morning with its doors open, crushing a woman to death, police said. Two others witnessed the bizarre accident.

The accident happened at around 10.30 a.m. local time on Wednesday at a 28-story building on Madison Avenue. The victim, identified as 41-year-old Suzanne Hart, had stepped halfway onto the elevator when it suddenly shot up, crushing her between the elevator floor and the shaft wall.

Two other people who were on the elevator were not injured, but were treated for trauma after witnessing what was described as a 'gory' scene. "People were running and screaming 'Someone got crushed in the elevator'," one witness told NBC New York.

Hart was the director of new business, content and experience at advertising agency Y&R, which is a major tenant in the building although it recently announced it would move to a new building. Hart was on her way to her office when she was killed. "I loved her. She was a beautiful person," her boyfriend told NBC New York.

Peter Stringham, chairman and CEO of Y&R, called it a tragic day. "We are deeply, deeply saddened to confirm that one of our employees has died," he said. "Our focus at this moment is the well-being of our employee's family and our larger Y&R family."

The elevators at the building were previously cited for city building code violations. An investigation is continuing.

LA Countering Homegrown Extremism with Community Policing

Posted: 15 Dec 2011 12:49 AM PST

The White House says fighting homegrown extremism in the United States is a top national security priority. The Los Angeles Police Department is working with the Department of Homeland Security to implement a plan to train police across the country to prevent extremism.

A White House counter-terrorism plan announced earlier this month calls for local police to work with U.S. minority and immigrant communities. The second-largest city in the United States, Los Angeles, is home to immigrants from around the world. "We are one of the most diverse cities in the world. We have more languages spoken here than I think anywhere in the United States and possibly the world," he said.

Deputy Chief Michael Downing heads the Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department. He says local authorities have been working closely with federal agencies and members of the community for years. "The world is globalized. The threat is internationalized that traditional crime has become transnational. ... people that live in our country now represent this whole globe," he said.

Downing says sensitivity to how immigrants think and react to world events in their home country will help them feel less isolated and prevent extremist behavior. He says building trust through relationships and addressing minority community concerns is key.

Omar Ricci of the Muslim Public Affairs Council agrees. "It develops a partnership where Muslims are not treated as suspects, but treated as resources in combating the more global problem of terrorism," he said.

Community outreach is the job of police officer Chand Syed, who is of Pakistani descent, was born in Saudi Arabia, and raised in the United States. "My religion and my ethnicity has assisted because I have an understanding, and I can talk on a level that other police officers might not be able to," he said.

Downing says programs like those of the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments that reach out to minority communities are not common among U.S. law enforcement agencies. "Ninety percent of the police agencies in America have less than 100 officers," he said.

He says smaller police agencies do not have the resources or training to form partnerships with minority groups.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Peter Bibring says without proper training there is a danger of ethnic profiling. "We just need to make sure that whoever is doing that policing focuses on activity that actually gives rise to a suspicion of criminal activity or suspicion of terrorist activity, instead of focusing broadly on protected constitutional conduct like photography or on particular racial or religious groups," he said.

Downing says Los Angeles Police do not practice broad profiling. "If we are profiling as it relates to terrorism, we are profiling behavior only. It does not matter what you look like, it does not matter what god you worship," he said.

Downing says Los Angeles police are working with federal officials to develop effective training for law enforcement across the country.

The White House Plan also wants groups, such as schools, that do not normally deal with such issues to be involved with countering violent extremism. But Officer Syed says accomplishing that is complicated. "Funding is a big thing, education. My unit could definitely use more officers. We would love to do more outreach and engagement with different communities, but we are limited by budget," he said.

Syed says he hopes the White House will provide the money to carry out its plan to fight extremist threats in the United States.

Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:02 PM PST

LAGOS, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) -- As many as 30 people are feared to have been killed after a vessel capsized on a river in southern Nigeria on late Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday afternoon.

The accident happened at around 11.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday when a local transport boat capsized at the Chiogbonna Waterfront in the Rumuolumeni area of Obio-Akpor in Nigeria's Rivers State.

South-South zonal coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Umesi Emenike, told the Nigerian Tribune that the boat is believed to have been overloaded with somewhere between 40 and 50 people on board, mostly women who were returning home from a local market.

Officials said the rescue efforts were slowed because no state emergency services are available at night in the area. "If we had a standing State Emergency Management Agency, information would have been got quite in time and people would have been mobilized to the scene in time," Emenike said, as quoted by the media outlet. "Unfortunately because there is no coordinating agency on the ground, it is difficult to get information promptly."

According to Emenike, ten people were rescued while eleven bodies have been recovered as of Wednesday morning. But Police Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, Ben Ugbuegbulam (DSP), said seven persons were rescued and that only one body had been recovered.

However, local officials disagreed with both numbers and NEMA spokesman Yushau Shuaib claimed three people had been rescued with 20 bodies recovered. More information was expected on Thursday.

Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:02 PM PST

LAGOS, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) -- As many as 30 people are feared to have been killed after a vessel capsized on a river in southern Nigeria on late Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday afternoon.

The accident happened at around 11.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday when a local transport boat capsized at the Chiogbonna Waterfront in the Rumuolumeni area of Obio-Akpor in Nigeria's Rivers State.

However, local officials disagreed with both numbers and NEMA spokesman Yushau Shuaib claimed three people had been rescued with 20 bodies recovered. More information was expected on Thursday.

Dozens feared dead after boat sinks in southern Nigeria

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:02 PM PST

LAGOS, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) -- As many as 30 people are feared to have been killed after a vessel capsized on a river in southern Nigeria on late Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday afternoon.

The accident happened at around 11.30 p.m. local time on Tuesday when a local transport boat capsized at the Chiogbonna Waterfront in the Rumuolumeni area of Obio-Akpor in Nigeria's Rivers State.

However, local officials disagreed with both numbers and NEMA spokesman Yushau Shuaib claimed three people had been rescued with 20 bodies recovered. More information was expected on Thursday.

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الخميس، 15 ديسمبر 2011

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