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Return to Contents The Week Ahead : Historic homeland Security Hearing on Capitol Hill (DC)4 December 2011 Examiner
The Rep. has taken a lot of heat over a series of hearings his Committee has held on the radicalization within the Muslim-American community, some from members of his own Committee. King's efforts have even been compared to those of Senator Joseph McCarthy to expose communists in the United States in the 1950s. ….
On Friday, Committee Chair's Rep. and Senator from CT announced the names of the witnesses that they intend to call at the December 7 hearing. The White House agreed to supply two official witnesses. Also scheduled to testify is an officer with the U.S. Army. The Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy and career intelligence officer, has served in a variety of special operations assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, and South America and actively advises a number of federal, state and local governmental agencies regarding the threat of terrorism. In addition, a parent is scheduled to testify in front of the committee, he will reportedly tell the panel how his son, a Pvt. was shot and killed outside a Little Rock, Arkansas recruiting center in 2009. The Pvt. and another soldier who survived the attack were targeted by a Muslim who said he shot the two soldiers in retaliation for U.S. military action in the Middle East.
On March 10, 2011, the defendant’s father testified at the first House Homeland Security Committee hearing in a full show of support for the Rep.’s efforts. The father said his son grew up a Baptist in Memphis, and then converted to Islam and became radicalized when he left home to attend college in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2007, his son traveled to Yemen where he was arrested and deported by Yemeni authorities in 2008. Following his deportation from Yemen in 2009, in retaliation, he attacked the Little Rock recruiting center, killing one soldier and wounding another. The defendant pleaded guilty in July, 2011 in exchange for life in prison.
During his testimony in March, the defendant’s father said that Americans are "in denial" about a "big elephant in the room" - radical extremists. Immediately following the hearing, the father of the defendant questioned "why is there so much fear of talking about what is real?" He, emotionally warned other Americans and the world that "what came into his house was at the door of their houses too, and we need to talk about it, the American people." Source: [www.examiner.com/homeland-security-in-chicago/the-week-ahead-historic-homeland-security-hearing-on-capitol-hil] Return to Contents Shootings by Maine Police on the Rise (ME)2 DECEMBER 2011 Kennebec Journal PORTLAND — Maine law enforcement officers are firing their weapons more frequently in the line of duty. In November alone, there were four officer-involved shootings in Maine, including Tuesday's fatal shooting of a sheriff's department dispatcher who had gunned down a maintenance man in Dover-Foxcroft. For the year, police have been involved in nine shootings. That compares to an average of three a year during the 1990s and an average of five a year in the 2000s. This year's shootings ended in six deaths and three injuries. Officer-involved shootings have been on the rise because police are facing more threats than ever, said Robert Schwartz, executive director of the Maine Chiefs of Police Association. There are more guns and knives, more drugs, more people with mental illness on the street and more people acting aggressively toward police, he said. "I think law enforcement more than anyone would like to find a way so this doesn't happen," said Schwartz, who served 30 years on Maine police departments. "No one wants to shoot at anybody, and no one wants to get shot themselves. That's the bottom line." The uptick in police shootings comes even as Maine crime rates are low. Maine had the lowest violent crime rate nationally in 2010, FBI statistics show. Statistics from the Office of the Attorney General show there were 30 police-involved shooting in the 1990s and not a single police shooting in 1995. There were 51 shootings from 2000-2009. And in the first two years of this decade, there have been a total of 14 shootings. The Attorney General's Office declined to comment on the increase. This year's shootings have taken place across much of the state, involving the York County and Androscoggin County sheriff's departments, Maine State Police, the Maine Warden Service and police departments in Kennebunk, Portland, Belfast, Lewiston and Farmington. Being a police officer is inherently a dangerous job, said Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck. Nationally, 56 law enforcement officers were killed and nearly 54,000 officers were assaulted last year in the line of duty. Maine has not had any officers killed in the line of duty this year. In recent years, Portland police have gotten more calls for service overall and have been arresting more people for weapons violations, Sauschuck said. Criminals are also more likely now than years ago to be antagonistic and come at officers aggressively, he said. "There's undoubtedly been an increase in the disrespect level overall," he said. There's no national database on the numbers of officer-involved shootings where police fire their weapons at somebody, said Charles Miller, who heads the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted program for the FBI. But it wouldn't surprise him if the numbers were rising. The number of unprovoked attacks on police has risen 150 percent since 1980, he said, and it stands to reason that police would defend themselves. Source: [www.kjonline.com/news/Maine-police-shootings-on-the-rise-] Return to Contents Directory: gifiles -> attach -> 137 attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments 137 -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution attach -> South Korea and Brazil: Brazilian’s Plan and Korean Visit Download 162.51 Kb. Share with your friends:
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