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Pilot crashes into Texas building in anti-IRS suicide, leaves rambling manifesto
Fox News, “Pilot Crashes Into Texas Building in Apparent Anti-IRS Suicide”
Read the rambling manifesto here
A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the incident was a single act by a sole individual, who appeared to be targeting the federal building. He refused to classify it as terrorism.
“I call it a cowardly, criminal act and there was no excuse for it,” Acevedo said at a news conference.
The FBI identified the pliot as Joseph Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer. Stack was confirmed dead, but his body has not yet been recovered.
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Olympic luger killed in crash
NBC Olympics, “Olympic luger killed in crash”
It took only three seconds.
Sliding faster than ever in his life, 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili had one turn left in his final Olympic training run. Flirting with 90 mph on a $100 million track pushing speed to the outer limits, the luger from the republic of Georgia tilted his head slightly forward as his sled climbed the high-banked wall.
His last move.
Kumaritashvili lost control, crashing into the wall entering the final straightaway. His body went airborne, arms and legs flailing over the opposite side of the track, his upper body smashing into an unpadded steel pole as his sled continued skidding down the track. It all took just 48.9 seconds, start to crash.
WARNING: Graphic video
I bet they’re shaking in their boots: US places new sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard
Fox News, “U.S. Slaps New Sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard”
The White House on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp. in response to Iran’s defiant move to bolster its uranium enrichment program to levels capable of producing an atomic bomb.
The new sanctions target one person and four companies for penalties over their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it would freeze the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Rostam Qasemi and four subsidiaries of a construction firm that he commands and was hit with U.S. sanctions in 2007. The sanctions expand existing U.S. unilateral penalties against elements of the Guard Corps, which Western intelligence believes is spearheading Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.
President Obama said he’s “bent over backwards” to engage Iran in “constructive” dialogue and the U.S. will push the United Nations to sanction the country. Iran told nuclear inspectors on Wednesday that it will begin higher-grade uranium enrichment within days, Reuters reported.
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