Hunt for French Moll, A Better Bullet
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Vol. 4, No. 10
Ils Sont Morts: Now the hunt is on for the girlfriend of a Muslim gunman killed yesterday in the re-taking of a kosher grocery on the east side of Paris. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, was in the store but escaped during the chaos. Her boyfriend, Amedy Coulibaly, and four hostages were killed in the assault.
More than a thousand heavily armed police officers and soldiers have been deployed in the Paris area.
A three-day manhunt and hostage takings at two locations ended yesterday with near-simultaneous explosions, gunfire, and the deaths of three terrorists sought in connection with the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre in Paris. French-born brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi were killed where they had taken refuge in a print shop in an industrial complex near Charles de Gaulle airport.
Police said the brothers were armed with a rocket launcher and other weapons and that the kosher grocery was rigged with explosives.
To The Moon, Alice: The Space X resupply ship is on its way to the International Space Station today but the mission is a partial failure. Space X tried to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a barge 200 miles offshore so it could be re-used. But the rocket landed too hard and broke up.
General Discharge: The FBI and federal prosecutors want to charge former General David Petraeus with leaking secrets while he was director of the CIA. Investigators believe Petraeus shared classified information with Paula Broadwell, the writer with whom he had an affair. Broadwell wrote a breathlessly adoring biography of Petraeus, who was the television-star general of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The retired four-star and disgraced CIA director has indicated he would go to trial rather than plead guilty.
Nation: Baltimore prosecutors have filed charges against a high-ranking Episcopal bishop accused of killing a bicyclist Dec. 27th while driving drunk and texting. Suffragan Bishop Heather Cook, the number two person in the Baltimore Episcopal diocese, is accused of hitting 41-year-old Thomas Palermo and leaving him to die in the street. Cook has a previous record for drunk driving.
>Former Florida A&M band member Dante Martin has been sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter and felony hazing in the 2011 death of drum major Robert Champion. Champion was beaten to death in a hazing ritual.
AirAsia: The tail section of AirAsia 8501 has been lifted from the Java Sea but the jet’s black boxes have not been recovered. Forty-eight bodies have been recovered out of 162 people on board.
The Obit Page: Handsome leading man Rod Taylor, who starred opposite Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” has died in Los Angeles at age 84. Born in Australia, he made about 50 Hollywood movies.
Look Ma!: Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge for supporting terrorism. He was convicted in May of hostage taking and planning to set up a terror training camp. During the sentencing hearing Abu Hamza’s lawyer asked for leniency for his client because he’s missing an eye and both hands. He says he lost them to a landmine while fighting the Russians in Afghanistan.
Human Dolphin: Former Miami Dolphin running back Rob Konrad fell from his fishing boat off the south Florida coast and swam nine miles to shore. His 36-foot boat was on autopilot and motored off. Konrad was treated for hypothermia after swimming for 12 hours.
The Bullet: California Gov. Jerry Brown broke ground this week on his dream $68 billion bullet train, the high-speed rail project that would run from Sacramento and San Francisco all the way to San Diego at 200 mph. The first leg will go 29 miles from Madera to Fresno, basically from one place few people are to a destination not many people want to reach. At age 76 now, Brown will be 92 before he ever gets a chance to ride the bullet from San Francisco to San Diego. He’s betting that even if he never gets to see it finished, he’ll go down as a visionary.
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