Number of deaths in the attack of the Morocco rises to 16 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

By HASSAN ALAOUI
The Associated Press

MARRAKECH, Morocco - the State of the Morocco news agency says the number of people killed in a terrorist attack in a coffee shop for Marrakesh tourism has increased to 16.

A crowd gathers outside a cafe in Marrakech. Morocco. Thursday, April 28, 2011. An explosion hit the cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, leaving several dead Thursday and wounded, said the news agency. (AP Photo/Amaguedes)
A man goes through debris after an explosion ripped a café popular with foreign tourists, in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Thursday, April 28, 2011 which killed and injured people in what the Government calls an alleged criminal act. If confirmed that terrorism, the explosion in the iconic Djemma el - Fna square would be the deadliest bombing in eight years Morocco. (AP Photo/Tarik Najmaoui)
A crowd gathers outside a cafe in Marrakech. Morocco. Thursday, April 28, 2011. An explosion hit the cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, leaving several dead Thursday and wounded, said the news agency. (AP Photo/Amaguedes)
EDS NOTE graphic content - a victim is located in the debris of an explosion which ripped through a cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Morocco, Thursday, 28 April 2011 killing and wounding people in what the Government called an alleged criminal act. If confirmed that terrorism, the explosion in the iconic Djemma el - Fna square would be the deadliest bombing in eight years Morocco. (AP Photo/Tarik Najmaoui)

The MAP agency said two people died of injuries, hospital, bringing the number of dead from 14 to 16. At least 20 were wounded.

The head of the hospital emergency room Marrakech main Tofail said Associated Press that one of the wounded died in hospital and another en route in an ambulance.

At least 11 of the victims were foreigners. The Israeli consul in Shanghai, said Friday that two were a couple of Jew who lived in Shanghai.

Blocked police barriers coffee after the Thursday bombing, deadly attack of the Morocco in eight years. He struck one of the main attractions in a country heavily dependent on tourism.

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April 29, 2011 03 h 46 am EDT

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Afghan forces met interviewed after the terrorist attack - ABC Online

TONY EASTLEY: A Taliban shooter was wearing a suicide vest has killed two people and wounded seven others in an attack on the Ministry of defence Afghan fortified in the capital, Kabul.

The attack is the third in four days targeting police and military compounds.

This high-security breach has raised serious questions on the effectiveness of the Afghan forces.

Sally Sara reports corresponding Afghanistan in Kabul.

SALLY SARA: This attack showed that the Taliban are still able to cut through the Afghan Government security forces.

An armed man wearing a suicide vest was able to obtain within the Ministry of defence.

He was talking about how well that several control points, because he was wearing an army uniform and carrying a military identification card.

He has had as the second floor, near the offices of the Minister and the army's Deputy Chief of staff. The attacker opened fire, but he was shot in the head before he could detonate his explosives.

It was a fatal shooting in the corridors of power of the Afghan Defence Ministry.

Although Kabul is one of the seven areas in Afghanistan should be handed over the Coalition Afghan control in July. This attack has created great concern. The Ministry of defence is supposed to be one of the most fortified parts of the capital.

The attack is one of the most serious violations of the security of the Afghan Government in several years. Fortunately, Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak was not in his Office at the time.

The incident has alarmed some analysts.

(Halal Uddin Halal speaking)

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior, Halal Uddin Halal, explains, with certainty, that it's a shock that it happened within the Ministry of defence. But he said when he thinks that logically and professionally he knows that this can happen once more.

It is the third attack on the police and military compounds in four days, including the assassination of the head of the Kandahar police in a raid of suicide and an attack on an army base in the East of the country.

The Taliban have achieving high-level targets, with few civilian victims.

But Halal Halal Uddin, said that the transfer of responsibility for the security of the coalition of Afghan forces must move forward.

(Halal Uddin Halal speaking)

Finally, he stated that the Afghan force will take the responsibilities. He said it's better for the Afghans get this experience for themselves and by difficulties they will solve problems.

These lessons could come at a heavy price if the attacks continue.

Sally Sara is in Kabul for AM.

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Student at York u. in webcam attack ID would be

Toronto police have identified the woman they believe died in his apartment in the basement, near York University after having fought with someone who has knocked on his door.

Police found the body of a 23-year old Chinese national, who studied at York, 11 p.m. Friday after an official of the Chinese Consulate called express concern.

Police identified the student as Qian Liu Monday, aged 23, Beijing.

Qian Liu, 23, was found dead in his apartment in the basement near the York University Friday.

Police said Sunday that the young woman had a video chat online at around 1 a.m. Friday with a foreign man who has since spoken with the police.

His mother had called the Chinese Consulate to say that something happened to her daughter and ask officials to check on her at his apartment in the basement located just to the South of the York campus.

Police said the student was found unclothed size, but there is no obvious sign that she was sexually assaulted. The cause of death has not yet determined.

Speaking on CBC News Network, Monday afternoon, constable Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella said that the case remains an investigation into the suspicious death.

"His body was taken to the Office of the coroner for a post-mortem investigation and they must still do more tests... and at that time there, we will have a better understanding when we get results if it is a homicide or nonmais always ranked as a suspicious death""he says.

Vella said that Qian was chatting with a man online, which has witnessed the attack and was able to give police a description of the attacker.

"[The witness online] was chatting with her on Friday to 1 hour in the morning and he heard someone knock on his door and at this point that the Lady stood and answered the door, said Vella.".

"He could hear the man seeking to use his cell phone." Date on which he noticed that there was a struggle between it and the man, and then someone disabled laptop of the victim, "said Vella.

When asked why 10 hours between when the attack was assisted and the arrival of the police, Vella said police was not informed until Friday morning.

"Someone went to [his] address because they feared for his well-being and they went to the apartment and she has found him there and they were concerned, therefore they have contacted the police," said Vella. "We responded Friday to 11 am and this is where we first made aware of the situation,"he says."

"[The witness online] is not Toronto, it is China, and there was a conversation between [the victim] and this man, but he did not notify police, it was someone else and, this is another factor that we seek to."

Zhuo Yue said and Qian used to go clubbing together. He said the person that Qian was chatting with online at the time wherever she was attacked was her boyfriend, although police would not confirm this. Zhuo said he did not know that she was in trouble until he got an email from her boyfriend in Beijing on Friday morning.

"At 8 p.m. I left home for the school," he told CBC News through an interpreter. "I saw not the message sent by her boyfriend until 8: 30 am on the bus." I called my brother immediately to check on her. She did not respond to the door. I called the landlord to open the door. ?

Vella also said that it seems that this was not a random attack.

"It looks like target, but we still consider all the possibilities at this time and it is important to keep the mind open in this case," said.

Although some of the fight is produced out of sight of the camera to the computer, a description of the assailant was provided which could see the witness:

A white man aged between 20 and 30 years.About six feet high and between 175 and 200 pounds with brown hair of medium length, and a muscular disordered at the front and treated at the rear.He wore a blue crew-neck T-shirt.

Police are still looking for a computer of the victim, who took the stage to the other. It is an IBM Thinkpad, model T400.

York University issued a statement Monday afternoon, calling for the death of the woman "terrible tragedy."

"Our whole community mourns the loss of a young promising student," the statement of the President of the York Mamdouh Shoukri. "" Our most sincere condolences and deepest sympathy go to his family, friends and classmates. ""

"The tragic death of a member of the community of York affects us all.". I would ask students, faculty and staff tend to each other at this very difficult time. ?

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Mubarak the Egypt hospitalized for heart attack

The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was suddenly hospitalized Tuesday in a station of the Red Sea on the day, it was to be summoned for questioning by prosecutors on allegations of corruption and abuse of powerEgyptian responsible said.

The Egypt Attorney General had issued a subpoena for the 82-year-old Mubarak Monday to be questioned on allegations of corruption of his three-year reign and violence against the demonstrators in the 18-day uprising that forced Office.

Citing State media, the BBC reported that Mubarak was in intensive care after suffering a heart attack. The Director of the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, where Mubarak was admitted, said that his condition was "almost stable", said the public broadcaster.

Dozens of protesters picketed at the hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, denouncing the President and carrying a sign reading, "here's the butcher". They had with Mubarak supporters in a massive security presence.

Two officials of the Egyptian security said that Mubarak arrives under the protection of the heavy police at the main hospital. Two doctors at the hospital said that he came out of his Mercedes armoured, surrounded by security and was admitted to the presidential suite in the building in the shape of pyramid.

Officials and doctors spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Egyptian State TV confirmed later hospitalization.

Mubarak was forced to resign and submit to the army, on February 11 after the unprecedented mass protests asked his departure.

The protest movement which filed that Mubarak is now pushing for him to be brought to justice for what they say is decades of abuse. Since Friday, hundreds have reoccupied parts of the Tahrir square in downtown Cairo. The demonstrators had criticized the army to be too close to the former regime and not quickly Mubarak judging.

On Tuesday, however, a fight erupted when some residents tried to break the sit-in of four days, removal of barbed wire and barricades. The army then moved in and took control of the place and sealed off the once-grassy roundabout that had been the centre of many events.

SANAA Seif, an aged 17 years on the scene, said that she had seen the army remove by force of people. The State Egyptian news agency reported that the military police had arrested a number of "thugs outlaw" instead.

Mubarak has been suffering for a number of ailments and underwent surgery of the gallbladder in Germany in March last year.

He kept a profile down since he was ousted, living at his compound in Sharm el-Sheikh. It is forbidden to travel, and its assets were frozen. Many of his senior aides have already been questioned or detained pending investigations.

On Sunday, Mubarak defended in a pre-recorded message, saying: he had not abused his authority and investigators were invited to check on its assets.

It was his first address to the people, in the two months since he resigned. Shortly after, the Attorney General has issued a subpoena for Mubarak to appear for questioning.

Decide on the site of the interrogation was a dilemma for the authorities, who wanted to give the ailing President a degree of confidentiality and security.

Mubarak's two sons are also due to appear before investigators and would have been accompanied by their father to the hospital.

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Kadhafi urges rebel Forces with an attack on a key City - New York Times

AJDABIYA, the Libya - Military Forces loyal to colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi attack the outer door of Ajdabiya Saturday, bringing the front line of the battle with the forces of Libyan opposition at the door of this strategically critical rebel city.

The forces of colonel Gaddafi began the attack Saturday morning with the dams of rockets and artillery fire in the city, in a more determined than the battles attack course of these last days. Smoke could be seen from central parts of Ajdabiya, and at noon, physicians began to evacuate the hospital room, said rebel fighters.

In early afternoon, the vehicles of the rebels have been seen leaving the city, North to Highway around Benghazi, horns honking. A rebel shouted vehicles on their passage: "the forces of Qathafi arrive!" Go! Go! Go!

Another rebel said that veterans of the colonel took the outer door and a small group of their vehicles was roaming the city, although soldiers seem unable to enter in force in the city.

Rebel vehicles brings together approximately 10 miles to the rear of the Ajdabiya and by evening were flowing back into the city, where they seem to be able to maintain control.

Yet once, NATO air strikes is entered into the battle game - at least a large mushroom cloud rose from the area where the pro-Qathafi forces were barraging the city. But once the air campaign of the allies could not prevent military colonel supporting the rebels, as was the case during a week of fighting that saw the ragged opposition forces losing bought key on the main coastal roadincluding the city of Brega.

Although the air strikes were private forces pro-Qathafi of much of their heavy armoured vehicles, the rebels do not have to match the same level of small units. In testimony before Congress a week ago, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates described rebel leaders as "disparate, disaggregated" and noted that poorly trained fighters were in a State to be able to take advantage of the effects of the air campaign allies.

The air strikes have worked against the rebels sometimes, also, as Thursday when the forces of NATO, apparently not aware that the rebels were operating heavy armoured personnel carriers in the region, hit one of their convoys, killing at least four people. NATO officials expressed regret on the whole.

Benghazi, international diplomats have been meeting in private with rebel leaders, including General Abdul Fattah Younes, the Commander of the rebel army, who appeared tired and downbeat it left meetings early in the afternoon.

Kareem Fahim contributed reports from Benghazi in Libya.

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