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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Police mum on motive in SF jewelry store killing
In this frame grab from video, emergency personnel tend to an injured man after a shooting outside a shopping center in San Francisco, Friday July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. Investigators were trying to determine if the shooting was connected to a botched robbery. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
In this frame grab from video, emergency personnel tend to an injured man after a shooting outside a shopping center in San Francisco, Friday July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. Investigators were trying to determine if the shooting was connected to a botched robbery. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
A police officer carries weapons down Eighth Street toward the scene of a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
A crowd gathers near Eighth Street and Brannan Street after a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
San Francisco Police Sgt. David Almaguer patrols the scene of a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
San Francisco Police officers and FBI officials work the scene near at Eighth Street and Brannan Street after a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Police have yet to release a motive behind the fatal killings of two women and the serious wounding of a man at a shopping center in a trendy San Francisco neighborhood.
A bloodied gunman suspected in the killings was arrested after opening fire on officers Friday afternoon.
Officers encountered the suspect outside the San Francisco GiftCenter and JewelryMart who began shooting at officers while running toward a restaurant. He surrendered after apparently running out of ammunition.
Inside, officers found the women inside the Victoga jewelry shop dead and the man wounded. Witnesses say the women were employees and the man is the owner.
Police Chief Greg Suhr said police didn't know the relationship between the suspect and the victims even though he had previously been seen in the building.
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Islamist protests in Cairo grow, U.S. seeks Mursi release
By Maggie Fick and Tom Finn
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi protested in Cairo on Friday after a week of violence in a bitterly divided nation, and the United States called for the first time for the deposed leader to be freed.
Nine days after the army toppled Egypt's first elected leader following a wave of demonstrations against him, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood is trying to mobilize popular support for his reinstatement, which for now looks like a lost cause.
Officials say Mursi is still being held at the Republican Guard compound in Cairo, where troops killed 53 Islamist protesters on Monday in violence that intensified anger his allies already felt at the military's decision to oust him.
Four members of the security forces were also killed in that confrontation, which the military blames on "terrorists". Mursi's supporters call it a massacre and say those who died were praying peacefully when troops opened fire.
Asked whether Washington agreed with the German Foreign Ministry's call for Mursi to be released, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "We do agree."
She declined to say if the United States had officially conveyed its wish to Egyptian officials and the military.
At a Cairo mosque where Mursi supporters have held a vigil for more than two weeks, crowds swelled as people were bussed in from the provinces, where the Brotherhood has strongholds.
"We're here and we're not leaving," said Amer Ali, who drove the five-hour journey from the Nile city of Assiut with his wife and two young children to join tens of thousands of protesters.
"We came with our kids to support legitimacy, democracy, and our civilian president, the first freely elected president in the Arab world."
Some 2,000 people had gathered close to Cairo University on the weekly Muslim day of prayer, in the holy month of Ramadan.
The youth-led Tamarud group, which brought millions to the streets to demand Mursi resign, called for a Ramadan celebration in Tahrir Square, the cradle of the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Only a few thousand came.
Tensions in Egypt could ease if the biggest Islamist protests since the clash on Monday pass off peacefully.
SHOCK AND ANGER
Many of Egypt's 84 million people have been shocked by the shootings, graphic images of which have appeared on state and private news channels and social media. The incident occurred just three days after 35 people were killed in clashes between pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators across the country.
The Brotherhood contends it is the victim of a military crackdown, evoking memories of its suppression under Mubarak.
But many of its opponents blame Islamists for the violence, and some have little sympathy for the demonstrators who died, underlining how deep the fissures in Egyptian society are.
Islam Ibrahim, a Brotherhood member, was shot in the knee in Monday's violence, and still does not know if his brother Nasim, a soldier in the Republican Guard, was among those firing.
"I don't like to think about it. If he was (there), I know he wouldn't fire on unarmed demonstrators," he said.
The unrest has raised fear over security in the lawless Sinai peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Militant groups in North Sinai have promised more attacks and urged Islamists to take up arms, while the army has vowed to step up operations in the region, which is near the Suez Canal, the busy waterway linking Asia and Europe.
An Egyptian military helicopter briefly crossed into Israeli-controlled airspace over the Gaza Strip, in a possible sign of increased security jitters.
Security sources in Egypt and Israel both described the flyover as a navigational error, but it came shortly after militants killed an Egyptian policeman and wounded a second in an attack on a checkpoint in Sinai across the border from Gaza.
Egyptian military helicopters were also seen dropping flyers on a pro-Mursi rally in the town of Al Arish around 50 km (30 miles) from Israel's border, urging them to denounce violence.
VIGIL ENTERS THIRD WEEK
Outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in northeastern Cairo, tens of thousands of Brotherhood supporters prayed and listened to speeches. Some of them have camped out in searing heat, fasting in the daytime since Ramadan began on Wednesday.
In a wooden shack erected on a side street and emblazoned with portraits of Mursi, men prepared vats of rice and lamb. Others put the food in plastic bags to distribute after sundown, when Muslims break their fast.
People squirted water from bottles to cool each other down. Others rested in the shade, dozing or reading the Koran.
The vigil began on June 28, as plans for the June 30 protests that drew millions of anti-government demonstrators to the streets gathered pace.
Since then, the camp has become the de facto base of the Brotherhood, whose leaders live under the threat of detention after prosecutors ordered their arrests earlier in the week.
Judicial sources say Mursi is likely to be charged, possibly for corruption or links to violence. Prosecutors are also looking again at an old case from 2011 when Mursi and other Brotherhood leaders escaped from prison after being detained during anti-Mubarak protests.
His son Osama told CNN that he was proud of Mursi.
"We back any decision you take. Even if you decided to leave the office. Your family, we are all proud of you, God bless you," he said in English.
The detentions and threats of arrest have drawn concern from the United States, which has walked a semantic tightrope to avoid calling Mursi's ousting a military coup.
U.S. law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. Washington, which gives Egypt's military $1.3 billion in aid each year, has said it is too early to say whether Mursi's removal by the army meets that description.
The army has said it was enforcing the nation's will - meaning the huge crowds of people fed up with economic stagnation and suspicious of a Brotherhood power grab who took to the streets to demand Mursi's departure.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NAMED
Crucial to longer-term stability will be holding parliamentary and presidential elections, which the transitional authorities are hoping to achieve in a matter of months.
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Mursi, has announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it to satisfy parties' demands and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He has named liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister, and Beblawi said he had named center-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa el-Din as his deputy. Beblawi also said he expected to swear in a cabinet next week.
Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.
Rich Gulf states have thrown Egypt a $12 billion lifeline in financial aid, which should help it stave off economic collapse.
More than two years of turmoil have scared away tourists and investors, shriveled hard currency reserves and threatened Cairo's ability to import food and fuel.
(Additional reporting by Noah Browning, Mike Collett-White, Peter Graff, Ali Saed, Seham el-Oraby and Yasmine Saleh in Cairo, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Alison Williams)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-braces-more-protests-prays-calm-001543810.html
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Jerry Arispi, aspiring lawyer, running for San Bernardino mayor
SAN BERNARDINO -- Another resident joined the crowded race for mayor on Thursday, saying his vision for the city centered on improving its image.
"We have to home in our major problem, and our problem is our negative reputation," said Jerry Arispi, 33, a recent graduate of Florida State University College of Law returning to his longtime home of San Bernardino. "People know us for our low (median) income, high crime, our bankruptcy, but we have great assets. We won't start attracting commerce and improving our revenue base unless we change how people look at us."
Ways to do that, Arispi said, include encouraging the arts and use of buildings like the Inland Center
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Mall and California Theater."Professors are being told, first, don't live in San Bernardino," said Arispi, whose husband teaches at Cal State San Bernardino. "No. 1, we've got to get people to feel safe -- there are certain nuisance crimes we can't tolerate... and we've got to give them pride in this city, which does have great assets."
Arispi also wants to give more loans to people improving their houses and adding solar panels to their roofs.
"What I would like is to see San Bernardino known as being a green city," Arispi said in an interview befre announcing his candidacy to a group of 30 supporters.
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said he had volunteered with several political campaigns before, and enthusiastically joined on when Arispi, a longtime friend, asked."The biggest thing is his excitement and that he's something new" said Garcia, of Cal State San Bernardino. "He has a fresh vision."
Garcia said Arispi's idea of living locally, shopping locally and eating locally particularly attracted him.
As a career, Arispi is working toward getting licensed to practice law in California, but he's focused on a mayoral race that he expects to win, he said.
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U.S. envoy confident on deal with Afghans on troops
WASHINGTON ? Facing sharp criticism from a Senate panel, a senior Obama administration official expressed optimism Thursday that the U.S. will reach an agreement with the Afghan government allowing American troops to remain in the country beyond 2014.
James Dobbins, the special U.S. representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said President Obama is still mulling a range of options for the actual size of the U.S. military presence at the end of next year, but told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that as the Afghans build up their country, they will not stand alone.
?We?ve made significant progress on the text of a new bilateral security agreement,? Dobbins said. ?Of course, without an agreement on our presence in Afghanistan, we would not remain. But we do not believe that that?s the likely outcome of these negotiations.?
But Democrats and Republicans on the committee voiced frustration over the shortage of detail on troop levels. With Afghans slated to elect a new president in the spring of 2014, it is key to let them know they will not t be abandoned by the United States as the Taliban claims, said Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat and the committee chairman.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has to decide if he is willing to accept a longer-term U.S. troop presence by negotiating an agreement with acceptable terms, he said.
?For our part, I believe that President Obama should signal to the Afghans and our allies what the post-2014 U.S. troop presence will look like governed by a security agreement,? Menendez said. ?The lack of clarity on this point has led to too much hedging in the region.?
Sen. Bob Corker, the panel?s top Republican, said the uncertainty over future U.S. troop levels is ?almost embarrassing? and is undermining the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
?This administration . . . has tremendous difficulty making decisions,? Corker said. ?I think the administration has got to quit looking at its navel and make a decision on what the force structure is going to be in Afghanistan.?
The U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan last month formally handed over control of the country?s security to the Afghan army and police. The handover paved the way for the departure of coalition forces ? currently numbering about 100,000 troops from 48 countries, including 66,000 Americans. By the end of the year, the NATO force will be halved. At the end of 2014, all combat troops will have left and will be replaced, if approved by the Afghan government, by a much smaller force that will only train and advise the Afghans.
Although Obama remains undecided on how many troops will remain in Afghanistan along with NATO forces, it is thought that it would be about 9,000 U.S. troops and about 6,000 from its allies.
The two primary goals for the U.S. in Afghanistan are to train, assist, and advise Afghan forces so that they can maintain their own security, and making sure that American forces can continue ?to go after remnants of al-Qaida or other affiliates that might threaten our homeland,? Dobbins said.
?That is a very limited mission, and it is not one that would require the same kind of footprint, obviously, that we?ve had over the last 10 years in Afghanistan,? he said.
But with respect to actual troop numbers, Obama ?is still reviewing a range of options from his national security team and has not made a decision about the size of a U.S. military presence after 2014,? Dobbins said.
Peter Lavoy, the acting assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, told the committee the U.S. ?is transitioning in Afghanistan, not leaving.?
The White House said Tuesday the decision on troops in Afghanistan won?t be imminent. But White House spokesman Jay Carney said the so-called ?zero option? - no forces at all - is still on the table. The U.S. will have clear objectives for its mission in Afghanistan after the long-planned drawdown, Carney said, adding that those objectives could be met with a residual force or through other means.
Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to President George W. Bush, told the committee that the discussion of the zero option, even if ultimately disavowed, could prove damaging.
?The U.S. and its allies need to be actively countering the narrative of abandonment that is frequently heard in Afghanistan,? Hadley said.
The best way to do this would be for the U.S. to state its intention as soon as possible to have a robust troop presence in Afghanistan and to announce the size of that force before work on the bilateral security agreement is completed, Hadley said.
Source: http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130711/NEWS05/307110012
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Military Spokesman - Sinai Attacks Within Scheme of Create Chaos
Military Spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali said that Chief of Second Field Army escaped an attempt on his life in the border town of Rafah after gunmen opened fire on his car. Militants attacked the senior military commander convoy while he was checking Shaykh Zuwayed area near the border with the Gaza Strip.
One girl was hurt during the exchange of fire and died later in hospital, he said. Militants who were in a truck were chased down and stopped. "There have been several attacks in Sinai on army and police officers to create chaos in the area and harming the stability and national security of Egypt," Ali said on his Facebook account.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201307111523.html
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Bush?s call for GOP to embrace immigration reform seems to have little effect
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Bush?s call for GOP to embrace immigration reform seems to have little effect 
Former president George W. Bush, who enjoyed healthy support among Latinos during his time in office, has broken a virtual five-year silence in national politics by calling on ...
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