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Another Shooting at a high school in California

January 11, 2013 - 6 minutes ago.

A STUDENT entered his classroom with a shotgun and attempted to kill two classmates at a High School in Califorina this morning.

Police say the class teacher managed distract the shooter with discussion as he evacuated his 28 students from the classroom.

Kern County police Sheriff said the student - armed with a 12 guage shotgun - had entered his Taft Union High School class in the second floor of the science building and started shouting at another student with which he had "known issues".

Police said the 16-year-old shot this student before turning to a second student, addressed him and fired again. He missed.

The teacher - while trying to urgently shuffle his class out the door - attempted to engage the shooter in conversation.

The campus supervisor also rushed to the room and joined the conversation.
Taft High School

An instagram picture showing concerned parents massing outside Taft High School, California. Picture: karlhargestam / instagram

The two were able to talk the 16-year-old into putting the gun down immediately before police arrived.

He was later found to have his pockets stuffed full of shotgun cartridges. Between two and four shots are believed to have been fired in the classroom.

Police said they had been able to respond quickly as a neighbour had spotted the student leave his home near the school with the shotgun and called 911.

Police would not confirm reports that the student behind the shooting had earlier been suspended from the school for writing up a "hit list" of people he wanted to harm.

The Taft Union High School has a full-time armed Sheriff's deputy assigned to security. Police said this officer had not been at the school that day as he had been "snowed in" at his property.
Taft

Taft City manager's assistant Debra Elliott says the shooting was reported shortly after 9am local time Thursday (4am Friday, AEDT).

One student was airlifted to Kern Medical Center with "major" injuries. He is in a critical condition.

The teacher, who was hit by a shotgun pellet in the head, initially refused treatment.

A schoolgirl member of the class is under observation after the shotgun was discharged alongside her head. Another student fell during the evacuation and also needed treatment.

Students told 23ABC that they initially thought the alert was a scheduled shooting response exercise. But it it "suddenly turned real" when they saw fear on teacher's faces.

The principal had used the school intercom to warn students and teachers to lock themselves in their classrooms.

Three ambulances, the medivac helicopter and armed police were sent to the school immediately after the incident were reported.

KERO-TV reports receiving news of the attack from people hiding in cupboards at the school. The station reports Kern County sheriff's department officers had going room-by-room to secure the school.

Parents were been instructed to pick up students from an emergency assembly point on the football field.

Taft has a population of more than 8000 people and is some 200km north-west of Los Angeles.
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That it would happen again is no surprise.

capricorn wrote:

rath wrote: Misinformation in support of their own right wing Nazi / fascist style views of the world. in support of not banning guns.

Hahahaha!

The Nazis were the ones who banned guns hahah! As did every mass murderous dictator in history!

You can add the USA to that list now to it seems.

Imagine ....... The USA trying to tell another country who to enforce gun control laws.



Friday Jan 11, 2013

Richard Chichakli.

AN INTERNATIONAL fugitive who worked with the world's most infamous arms trafficker has been arrested in Melbourne after applying to be a protective services officer.

Federal and state police arrested Richard Chichakli, 53, in Melbourne on Thursday after the US requested his extradition on charges linked to arms shipments to a notorious African war criminal.

Victoria Police confirmed he was caught by the job screening process. He had not been offered a position or started training.
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Lord of War … Nicolas Cage in the role of Viktor Bout.

US authorities allege Mr Chichakli helped Viktor Bout - known as the ''merchant of death'' and portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the movie Lord of War - to buy planes illegally in the US.

In February 2010 the US announced that Bout and Mr Chichakli were wanted for money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy over their alleged links to the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who was sentenced last year to 50 years' jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Mr Chichakli said nothing during his brief appearance at Melbourne Magistrates Court. The defence lawyer Andrew Sim said Mr Chichakli wanted to be known as Jehad Almustafa, not Chichakli, and was not applying for bail.
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Viktor Bout.

He was remanded in custody until Thursday after a US government lawyer said she was completing extradition proceedings.

Mr Chichakli, a US citizen, has been on the run since April 2005 when agents from the FBI and the Treasury Department raided his home near Dallas, Texas. It was rumoured he travelled first to Syria, then to Moscow.

Under US law it is illegal for associates of Taylor to do business in the US. Bout, allegedly with Mr Chichakli's help, spent years selling arms to Taylor, fuelling horrific wars in West Africa.

To get around the US laws, which mirrored United Nations sanctions, Bout and Mr Chichakli set up an airline, installed others as office holders and tried to buy two planes using front companies. When the US realised Bout controlled the front companies, it blocked the transfer of money to the companies selling the planes.

Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and in 2010 extradited to the US to stand trial for terrorism after being accused of intending to smuggle arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to use against US forces.

Last April he was convicted of four counts of conspiracy to kill Americans, to sell anti-aircraft missiles, and to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation. Bout was a translator in the Soviet armed forces before the fall of the Iron Curtain, and is believed to have built his business using military planes left in the collapsing Soviet Union in the early 1990s. It has been claimed that in the next two decades he sold arms to warring parties in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Libya, Angola, Kenya and Lebanon. He was accused of - but denied - selling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and claimed he had been contracted to transport UN personnel.

On his personal website, Mr Chichakli says he met Bout in 1995 in the United Arab Emirates where Mr Chichakli was the commercial manager of Sharjah Airport free trade zone, and Bout wanted to set up an airline.

After his contract finished, the accountant moved back to the US and set up a management consultancy. He says Bout, who by then had moved to South Africa, contacted him in 1998 and asked him to assess whether an airline Bout owned could be publicly floated.

He says the last time he had business dealings with Bout was 2000, when he tried to help the arms dealer set up a manufacturing business in the US. The US rejected Bout's visa application.

However, Mr Chichakli admits he stayed friends with Bout, saying he is proud of the fact that he did not abandon him after a damning 2000 UN report raised allegations of arms trafficking.

In 2003 in a New Yorker magazine profile of Bout, Mr Chichakli referred to him as his ''friend and brother''.

In 2011 he told a blogger via email: ''The United States government is not about justice,'' he said. ''It is all about domination and control … It is crazy to even think that Victor Bout could stand a chance of justice in the US.''

rath wrote:

at1with0 wrote:

rath wrote:P.S.S ...... i don't mene to nit pik ....... bt you spelllling is geting wors.

rath wrote:Friday Jan 11, 2013

Cool rath! Your article is from the future!

capricorn wrote:

rath wrote:Friday Jan 11, 2013

Cool rath! Your article is from the future!

My article is not from the future .... your just living in the past.

But a shotgun is not an assault rifle.

So this kid had a shotgun and he wasn't able to kill anyone. He shot twice inside a classroom and only nicked one guy. Hmm, I guess this kid never had any practice or training.

Assault Weapon is a very vague term. Today they can put a ban on Assault Weapons, which today would mean Assault Rifles. Then tomorrow (if they want to ban all weapons) they simply change the classification of shotgun and handgun to "assault" weapon. Then... there you have it, full on weapons ban.

Do not trust these corrupt politicians. The reality is that Obama wants all your weapons, not just assault rifles. He wants the people to be powerless.

Did you hear that New Jersey is proposing a bill that would mandate a home inspection if you owned any guns? They would come into your house and inspect your weapons to make sure they are out of harms way from children and that they are all properly registered! WHAT?! this is in direct conflict with our 4th amendment!!!

capricorn wrote:Horrible... Absolutely Horrible.

Unfortunately, Guns will be blamed for this incident. Not the psychopath behind them.

I am just wondering, if a guy goes around stabbing 20 people with a butcher's knife, will they also ban the butcher's knife?