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الأحد، 29 أبريل 2012

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Prom Night – Lincolnton High School 2012
Police defuse two powerful car bombs in Northern Ireland
Two Indonesian police officers arrested in people smuggling case
Fla. infant dies after being held under scalding water by teen mom
Bomb blast kills NATO service member in Afghanistan

Prom Night – Lincolnton High School 2012

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 08:17 PM PDT

Lincolnton, NC: (photos by Ron McCann)

Lincoln County students (l-r) John, Brittany, Allison and Kendall had a full day on Saturday while visiting several Lincolnton historic sites, followed by a Hickory Crawdads baseball game and then attending the Lincolnton High School 2012 prom on Saturday evening. Sounds like a full day.

Police defuse two powerful car bombs in Northern Ireland

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 07:11 PM PDT

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND (BNO NEWS) -- Two powerful car bombs have been defused in Northern Ireland, police said on Saturday afternoon, blaming dissident republican paramilitaries who remain violently opposed to a 1998 peace deal which ended most violence in the region.

District Commander Chief Superintendent Alasdair Robinson said the first explosive device was discovered on late Thursday afternoon in an abandoned vehicle on Fathom Line in Newry, not far from the border with the Republic of Ireland. The road was closed shortly after while residents were told to remain indoors.

"A security operation got underway and, as a result of this operation, Army Technical Officers (ATO) made safe a viable device contained in the back of the Citroen Berlingo van," Robinson said during a press conference on Saturday. "The device contained two blue barrels with 125 kilograms (275 pounds) of homemade explosives in each one, and a detonator, all the equipment which meant this device was ready to go."

Police called the car bomb in Newry a 'very significant' device, one of the largest car bombs found in Northern Ireland in recent years. "If this had exploded it would have caused devastation," Robinson said. "To put it in perspective: anyone within 50 meters (165 feet) of this device would have been killed and anyone within 100 meters (328 feet), seriously injured."

Just over 24 hours later, on late Friday evening, police evacuated up to 70 homes after a suspicious object was found under a parked car in a garage in north Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. The device was made safe several hours later, and officials said it would have been a 'real tragedy' if the bomb had exploded.

Meanwhile, also on Friday, police recovered a number of guns and ammunition during a security operation targeting dissident republican terrorists in north Belfast. Several houses in the area were briefly evacuated during the large-scale operation, which lasted several hours.

In August 1998, a total of 29 people were killed and more than 300 others were injured when a car bomb exploded in the town of Omagh in Northern Ireland. The attack, carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) which broke away from the mainstream Provisional IRA, was Northern Ireland's worst terror attack in 30 years.

The peace deal in 1998 brought an end to more than three decades of violence between mainly nationalist Catholics opposed to British rule in Northern Ireland and pro-union Protestants who wanted it to continue. In April 2011, a booby-trap car bomb near Omagh killed Police Constable Ronan Kerr.

Two Indonesian police officers arrested in people smuggling case

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 05:58 PM PDT

SELONG, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- Two Indonesian police officers were arrested on Saturday morning on suspicion of being involved in an operation to smuggle dozens of illegal immigrants from Africa to Australia, local authorities said.

First Brigadier 'E.G.' and Brigadier 'M.K.' from East Lombok police in the south-central province of West Nusa Tenggara are alleged to have been involved in the smuggling of illegal asylum seekers from Somalia and Eritrea. Indonesia is commonly used as a transit region for asylum seekers trying to reach Australia illegally.

East Lombok police chief Adjutant Senior Commander Agus Nugroho told the Jakarta Globe newspaper that both officers were handed over to the West Nusa Tenggara provincial police in order for legal procedures to continue. Police also identified four other Indonesians involved in the alleged smuggling case.

"There is no special treatment; they are treated the same as the four civilian suspects," Agus said. The case was discovered when 34 illegal immigrants from Somalia and Eritrea became stranded on Sepang beach in Bontong village in the West Nusa Tenggara district of Sumbawa on April 15. Among the 34 asylum seekers were 24 men, nine women and a child.

The Jakarta Globe reported that each of the individuals paid Rp 25 million ($2,725) to the group to board a 12 by 3 meter (39 by 9 feet) wooden Australian-bound ship. Heavy waves, however, affected the ship, which ultimately broke down and ended up stranded on the beach.

Last year, Indonesia passed a law against people-smuggling as thousands of asylum seekers travel through Indonesia in their attempts to reach Australia. The new law imposed prison terms of up to 15 years and a large fine for those found guilty of helping to transport asylum seekers into the country.

In mid-February, five military officers and a civil servant were arrested after evidence surfaced which claimed they were involved in the human smuggling of more than 250 people off the coast of East Java in Indonesia in December 2011. The overloaded ship capsized off Prigi in East Java, killing more than 200 people. Only 47 people survived the incident.

Fla. infant dies after being held under scalding water by teen mom

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 03:52 PM PDT

PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) -- A two-month-old baby from Florida who was critically injured earlier this month when he was held under scalding water by his mother as punishment has died at a local hospital, officials said on Saturday. His teen mother remains in jail.

Emilio Jesus Bautista suffered severe burns on April 16 when his mother, 18-year-old Chekayla Ariel Dampier, placed him in an infant wash tub at her Port Richey home and ran hot water over him for two to three minutes. The abuse happened at around 1 p.m., but it took Dampier until 10 p.m. to bring her severely injured child to a hospital.

"Pasco Sheriff's detectives have confirmed that Emilio Jesus Bautista, severely burned when his mother Chekayla Dampier allegedly placed him under scalding water for several minutes, died this morning at Tampa General Hospital," sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll said on Saturday. "The case remains under investigation."

According to a complaint affidavit written by Detective R. Grady, Emilio sustained severe burns to the head, chest and arms. "Physicians at TGH (Tampa General Hospital) advised the infant sustained severe second-degree burns causing damage that is undetermined at this point to the infants eyes and ears as well as the above mentioned body parts," he said in his report, filed before Emilio died on Saturday.

Grady reported that Dampier initially blamed the incident on others but later changed her story when her statement was proven false. "Post Miranda, the defendant advised [..] she was frustrated with Emilio's crying for hours and admitted placing him in an infant wash tub and running hot water over him for 2 to 3 minutes," Grady reported. "The defendant advised she allowed the hot water to run directly on Emilio's head and body for 2 to 3 minutes. The defendant admitted Emilio was crying during the entire incident."

Sheriff's investigators took the temperature of the hot water at Dampier's house and registered it at 142 degrees Fahrenheit (61.1 degrees Celsius). "The defendant admitted when drying Emilio off with a towel she observed his skin coming off and other parts of his skin were 'bubbling'," said Grady, who requested a high bond due to the severity of the injuries and the age of the victim.

Dampier, who is unemployed and has a long history of arrests for thefts and other non-violent crimes, has been charged with aggravated child abuse resulting in great bodily harm, although the charge is likely to be upgraded following the infant's death. She remains at the Land O' Lakes Detention Center on $150,000 bond.

Bomb blast kills NATO service member in Afghanistan

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 11:56 AM PDT

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A coalition service member was killed on late Saturday evening when a roadside bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. Few other details were immediately released.

ISAF said one of its service members was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in Afghanistan's south. But because the multinational force defers the release of specific details to national authorities, no other details about the incident were released, including the exact location.

Earlier on Saturday, another ISAF service member died as a result of a non-battle related injury in southern Afghanistan. Officials did not provide any other details about the service member's cause of death.

The nationalities of the service members involved were also not immediately disclosed by ISAF. "It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities," a brief statement said.

The deaths on Saturday raise the number of coalition troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 132, most of them American and British service members, according to official figures. A British soldier died on Friday after he was shot by an insurgent while on patrol in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province, which is located in Afghanistan's south.

A total of 566 ISAF troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2011, down from 711 in 2010. A majority of the fallen troops were American and were killed in the country's south, which is plagued by IED attacks on troops and civilians.

There are currently more than 130,000 ISAF troops in Afghanistan, including some 90,000 U.S. troops and more than 9,500 British soldiers. U.S. President Barack Obama previously ordered a drawdown of 23,000 U.S. troops later this year, and foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

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