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...news that Maurice Clemmons' rampage had come to an end brought an immense sense of relief to the citizens of the Seattle-Tacoma area. The nearly 48-hour manhunt for him had gripped Washington State since early Sunday morning, Nov. 29, when Clemmons reportedly walked into the Forza Coffee Co., a shop in a strip mall in the Tacoma suburb of Parkland, reached into his jacket, pulled out a gun and opened fire on four officers from the town of Lakewood who were working on their laptops. It ended on a dark street in south Seattle just before...
Clemmons, 37, had been back on the streets for less than a week when he allegedly shot the police officers in the coffee shop. He was released on bail on Nov. 23 after being held in jail since July on eight felony charges, including child rape and assault, that were originally lodged in May. Pierce County judges set bail for the two sets of charges at $150,000 and $40,000, respectively, in spite of the prosecutor's objections that they were too low. Clemmons was able to secure the funds from Jail Sucks Bail Bonds, in Chehalis, Wash...
Indeed, even as the Northern League continues to cite Christian themes in its opposition to a growing Muslim minority, Pope Benedict XVI on Nov. 27 presented the annual message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees. "Jesus' words resound in our hearts," he said. " 'I was a stranger and you welcomed me,' as, likewise, the central commandment he left us: to love God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind, and to associate this with love of neighbor." Now that is a different kind of Christmas spirit...
...Bahrain last week. First, a dodgy propeller apparently stalled their vessel's progress toward the nearby emirate of Dubai. Worse still, seemingly adrift in the Persian Gulf, their 60-ft. boat appears to have inadvertently coasted into the territorial waters of Iran. Duly halted by Iranian naval vessels on Nov. 25, the men - seasoned sailors who had planned to take part in a yacht race from Dubai the following day - were swiftly whisked into the uncertain fate of Iranian custody at a moment of mounting tensions between Tehran and the West...
...between London and Tehran, which has been stretched thin in recent months amid conflict over Iran's nuclear ambitions and disputed presidential election. With Britain often the preferred whipping boy of the Tehran regime's denunciation of alleged Western conspiracies against it, the yachtsmen's capture, made public on Nov. 30, could hardly have come at a worse time. Desperate to play down the incident and avoid a diplomatic row, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was looking forward to the matter "being promptly sorted out." Tehran took a different tone. "Naturally our measures will be hard and serious...