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(CNN) -- Burning the Quran would be an "outrageous and grave gesture," the Vatican said Wednesday, joining a chorus of voices pleading with a small Florida church not to burn Islam's holy book on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The Vatican body responsible for dialogue with other religions expressed "great concern" about the plan by Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it would be a "disrespectful, disgraceful act." She was speaking Tuesday night at a State Department dinner in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Her statement came a day after the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.
But despite the growing pressure, the pastor of the Florida church, Terry Jones, said Wednesday that "as of this time we have no intention of canceling."
Jones all week has rebuffed pleas to call off the event, saying radical Islamists are the target of his message.
"The general needs to point his finger to radical Islam and tell them to shut up, tell them to stop, tell them that we will not bow our knees to them," Jones said on CNN's "AC360."
"We are burning the book," Jones said. "We are not killing someone. We are not murdering people."
Jones announced Wednesday that the church's website provider has "canceled" Dove World Outreach Center's accounts, though its website, and another URL for a book written by Jones titled "Islam is of the Devil," were still accessible Wednesday evening.
"We feel that it's definitely an indirect attack on our freedom of speech," Jones said, adding that the provider, Rackspace, is "trying to shut us down."
But he said, "This is not going to affect the event going forward."
A spokesman for the provider, Rackspace, said the company decided to cancel the center's sites after investigating a complaint and reviewing both sites.
The center "violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy," said Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame.
"This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue," said Goodgame, adding that his company had given the center until midnight to find another host and move its content. Goodgame said Rackspace has about 100,000 customers and he did not know how long it had hosted those two specific sites.
On Tuesday, Jones said his flock was taking Petraeus' warning seriously but had not decided to cancel the event.
Jones told CNN that while his congregation still plans to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the church is "weighing" its intentions.
"We have firmly made up our mind, but at the same time, we are definitely praying about it," Jones said on CNN's "American Morning."
As reaction to the planned event grew Wednesday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took to social media outlets, using Twitter to call on Jones to "please stand down."
On Facebook, Palin wrote that Jones' planned Quran burning "will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don't feed that fire."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the few public officials who defended Jones' right to go ahead, even as he condemned the idea as "distasteful.
"I don't think he would like if somebody burned a book that in his religion he thinks is holy. ... But the First Amendment protects everybody, and you can't say that we are going to apply the First Amendment to only those cases where we are in agreement," Bloomberg said, citing the section of the Constitution that promises freedom of speech.
"If you want to be able to say what you want to say when the time comes that you want to say it, you have to defend others no matter how much you disagree with them," Bloomberg said.
The planned action has drawn sharp criticism from Muslims around the world and from U.S. officials.
The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan condemned it as "disrespectful, intolerant and divisive," in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are deeply concerned about all deliberate attempts to offend members of any religious or ethnic group," said Stephen Engelken, the second-ranking diplomat at the embassy.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government "in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups."
It emphasized that it strongly condemned "the offensive messages, which are contrary to U.S. government policy and deeply offensive to Muslims especially during the month of Ramadan."
"Americans from all religious and ethnic backgrounds reject the offensive initiative by this small group in Florida. A great number of American voices are protesting the hurtful statements made by this organization," the Afghanistan embassy said.
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, issued a joint statement with Lloyd Austin, the commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq, to condemn the act.
"As this holy month of Ramadan comes to a close and Iraqis prepare to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, we join with the citizens of Iraq and of every nation to repudiate religious intolerance and to respect and defend the diversity of faiths of our fellow man," they wrote.
With about 120,000 U.S. and NATO-led troops still battling al Qaeda and its allies in the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement, Petraeus warned that burning Qurans "is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems -- not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community."
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman denounced the Quran burning as "contrary to the teachings of tolerant divine religions and totally incompatible with the logic of dialogue among civilizations, religions and cultures."
Suleiman noted that a United Nations conference on religious tolerance two years ago called on people "to renounce hatred and intolerance and terrorism," and "to reflect on the Christian teachings and concepts of humanity that emphasizes the love and respect for the other."
Thousands of Indonesians gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday to protest the planned Quran burning.
"The burning is not only an insult to the holy Quran, but an insult to Islam and Muslims around the world," said Muhammad Ismail, a spokesman for the hard-line Indonesian Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population.
Jones said his congregation is aware that the action is offensive.
"We realize that this action would indeed offend people, offend the Muslims. I am offended when they burn the flag. I am offended when they burn the Bible. But we feel that the message that we are trying to send is much more important than people being offended."
Jones said Muslims are welcomed in the United States, if they observe the Constitution and don't try to impose Sharia, or Muslim law.
The message, he said, is directed toward the "radical element of Islam."
"Our message is very clear," he said. "It is not to the moderate Muslim. Our message is not a message of hate. Our message is a message of warning to the radical element of Islam, and I think what we see right now around the globe provides exactly what we're talking about," he said.

Sarah Palin is speaking out against a plan put forth by a Florida-based church to burn Qurans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The former Alaska governor outlined her position on the contentious issue in a message posted to her Facebook page Wednesday evening.
"Book burning is antithetical to American ideals," she wrote. "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation -- much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."
Even in the wake of criticism, Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center -- who is organizing the demonstration -- signaled that he has no intention of backing down on his controversial plan earlier this week.
Palin directly addressed Jones in the statement she issued on the matter:

I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don't feed that fire. If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.

In an unusual twist, Palin's stance aligns with that of many prominent figures in the Obama administration -- from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Gen. David Petraeus sounded the alarm over the national security threat that Quran burning may pose earlier this week:

Petraeus took the rare step of a military leader taking a position on a domestic matter when he warned in an e-mail to The Associated Press that "images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan -- and around the world -- to inflame public opinion and incite violence."

 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran.
The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said it will burn the Islamic holy book Wednesday, the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks. Local officials have denied a permit for the bonfire on the church's grounds, but the center - which made headlines last year by distributing T-shirts that said "Islam is of the Devil" - insists it will go ahead with the plan.
About 3,000 members of a hard-line Islamic group marched to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Jakarta waving banners and posters condemning the plan. The group organized similar rallies in five other cities across Indonesia, the world' largest Muslim nation.
Religious leaders in Indonesia have condemned the plan and called on the U.S. government to use its influence to get the fire canceled.

 KABUL, Afghanistan – The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.
Meanwhile, NATO reported the death of an American service member in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
The comments from Gen. David Petraeus followed a protest Monday by hundreds of Afghans over the plans by Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center — a small, evangelical Christian church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy — to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war.
"Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence," Petraeus said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen echoed those sentiments Tuesday, saying any burning "would be in a strong contradiction with the all the values we stand for and fight for."
Muslims consider the Quran to be the word of God and insist it be treated with the utmost respect, along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the Quran is deeply offensive.
In 2005, 15 people died and scores were wounded in riots in Afghanistan sparked by a story in Newsweek magazine alleging interrogators at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay placed copies of the Quran in washrooms and flushed one down the toilet to get inmates to talk. Newsweek later retracted the story.
Responding to Petraeus' comments, Dove World Outreach Center's senior pastor Terry Jones acknowledged Petraeus' concerns as legitimate but said the church still planned to go ahead with the burning.
"We are at this time not going to cancel it. We're still considering it and praying about it," Jones told The Associated Press. "We are also just also concerned and wondering, when do we stop? How much do we back down? ... Instead of us backing down, maybe it's to time to stand up."
The church, which made headlines last year after distributing T-shirts that said "Islam is of the Devil," has been denied a permit to set a bonfire but has vowed to proceed with the burning. The congregation's website estimates it has about 50 members, but the church has leveraged the Internet with a Facebook page and blog devoted to its Quran-burning plans.
The American's death brings to at least six the number of U.S. forces killed in Afghanistan this month, along with at least four other non-American members of the international coalition.
Engagements with insurgents are rising along with the addition of another 30,000 U.S. troops, bringing the total number of international forces in the country to more than 140,000.
At least 322 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan so far this year, exceeding the previous annual record of 304 for all of 2009, according to an AP count.
Petraeus is asking for 2,000 more trainers and field troops for the international force, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans.
Also Tuesday, authorities confirmed the ambush killing of a district chief by suspected insurgents in the northern province of Baghlan on Monday afternoon. Nahrin district chief Rahmad Sror Joshan Pool was on his way home after a memorial service for slain anti-Soviet guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Massoud when rocket-propelled grenades hit his vehicle, setting it on fire, said provincial spokesman Mahmood Haqmal.
Pool's bodyguard was also killed in the attack, and one militant died and two were wounded in the ensuing fire fight with police, Haqmal said.
Five children were killed and five wounded in Yaya Khil district in the southern province of Paktika when an insurgent rocket fired at an Afghan army base hit a home Monday evening, provincial government spokesman Mokhlais Afghan said.
Kidnappers also seized two electoral workers and their two drivers in the western province of Ghor, according to deputy provincial police chief Ahmad Khan Bashir.
Insurgents have waged a campaign of violence and intimidation to prevent Afghans from voting, especially in rural areas, while some pre-election violence has also been blamed on rivalries among the candidates.
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Associated Press writers Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, Travis Reed in Miami, Mitch Stacy in Tampa, Florida, and Amir Shah in Kabul contributed to this report.

The Psychic Spy

He also claimed it had crystal bands of planetary rings, like Saturn but not as far out. This observation was very controversial at the time. Six years later, in 1979, the Voyager probe got closer to Jupiter than ever before, and confirmed it had rings of charged dust particles, just like Swann described.

 

Remote Viewing into The Future

• Joseph McMoneagle predicted the January 1980 launch date of a new submarine. Satellite photos confirmed this.

• Keith Harary saw the release of a hostage held by Iranian militants due to medical problems. He described the symptoms as nausea and damage down one side of the body. Three weeks later, the hostage was freed with muscle weakness, facial numbness, tremors and multiple sclerosis which affected his muscles on one side.

• Paul H Smith retrospectively relayed his remote viewing session of the attack on the American warship, the USS Stark. He produced a detailed 30-page report detailing the location, method and reason behind the attack.

Official Results of The Stargate Project

Some key project personnel

Major General Albert Stubblebine

A key sponsor of the research internally at Fort Meade, MD, MG Stubblebine was convinced of the reality of a wide variety of psychic phenomena. He required that all of his Battalion Commanders learn how to bend spoons a la Uri Geller, and he himself attempted several psychic feats, even attempting to walk through walls. In the early 1980s he was responsible for the United States Army Intelligence and Security CommandSpecial Forces primarily out of Fort Bragg, with Stargate. After some controversy involving these experiments and alleged security violations from uncleared civilian psychics working in Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs), Major General Stubblebine was placed on retirement. His successor as the INSCOM commander was Major General Harry Soyster, who had a reputation as a much more conservative and conventional intelligence officer. MG Soyster was not amenable to continuing paranormal experiments and the Army's participation in Project Stargate ended during his tenure. (INSCOM), during which time the remote viewing project in the US Army began. Some commentators have confused a "Project Jedi", allegedly run by

Ingo Swann

Originally tested in the "Phase One" were OOBE-Beacon "RV" experiments at The American Society for Psychical Research, under research director Dr. Karlis Osis. A former OT VII Scientologist, who alleged to have coined the term 'remote viewing' as a derivation of protocols originally developed by René Warcollier, a French chemical engineer in the early 20th century, documented in the book Mind to Mind. Swann's achievement was to break free from the conventional mold of casual experimentation and candidate burn out, and develop a viable set of protocols that put clairvoyance within a framework named “Coordinate Remote Viewing” (CRV). In a 1995 letter Ed May wrote he had not used Swann for two years because there were rumors of him briefing a high level person at SAIC on remote viewing and aliens, ETs. Though Swann was a good receiver, May had two current receivers that were better.

Keith Harary

Pat Price

 

Joseph McMoneagle

 

McMoneagle claims he had a remarkable memory of very early childhood events. He grew up surrounded by alcoholism, abuse and poverty. As a child he had visions of small rabbit that would come to him at night, to comfort him when he was alone and scared, and first began to hone his psychic abilities in his teens for his own protection when he hitchhiked. He enlisted to get away. McMoneagle became an experimental remote viewer, while serving in U.S. Army Intelligence.

Lyn Buchanan

 

Buchanan was a sergeant brought in by General Stubblebine for two main reasons: firstly he was believed to possess extraordinary telekinetic abilities, and secondly computer software expertise. These made him exceptionally well-qualified to be the database manager for the Stargate project. In this role, Buchanan had the opportunity to work with all the key members of the unit, and in possession of statistical analysis of the session data, was able to properly assess the accuracy of the session data obtained. After leaving the forces, Buchanan founded "Problems > Solutions > Innovations", contracted Mel Riley to work for his company, and continues to undertake private tuition.

Frederick "Skip" Atwater

An INSCOM officer from Ft. Meade served as its military operations officer from 1978 until his retirement in 1987. In 2007 Atwater was interviewed for TAPS Paramagazine by Dennis "DJ" Mikolay.

Mel Riley

Riley is an army Sergeant who retired in 1991. Riley was noted for being able to describe what lay under objects in aerial photography. In 1984, the CRV unit had only several trained remote viewers, and Riley was requested transferred to the unit. Riley was featured in the documentary released in 1995 by the BBC titled "The Real X-Files." He has recounted past life experiences as a Native American, and continues to be involved in native American culture.

Paul H. Smith

Smith is a retired U.S. Army Major and intelligence officer. Smith was one of the five people trained as a prototype test subject in Ingo Swann's psychic development of the CRV protocols in 1983. Upon the closure of the Army's Center Lane remote viewing program, Smith was re-assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s follow-on remote viewing unit, Sun Streak, which later became Star Gate. He was the main author of what is known today as the “CRV Manual”. Its purpose was simply to serve as a guide and a reference for the terminology and it served to show inquisitive lawmakers what the millions of dollars were being spent on. Swann wrote to Smith giving Smith's manual his approval. Smith has published articles on remote viewing in UFO Magazine, and about dowsing and remote viewing in The American Dowser, the quarterly journal of the American Society of Dowsers. His book Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program was the book bonus feature for the March 2006 Reader's Digest as The Most Secret Agent. In his book Smith tells the reader there are those who can bend spoons with their minds,  claims he has remote viewed into the future and bilocated, has some doubts about the place of extraordinary memories of his fellow remote viewers, shows he believes in Ingo Swann's teachings, honesty and versions of events, and supports the military potential of remote viewing. Smith blames bureaucrats afraid to take a risk, selective data and close-minded skeptics for the closing of Star Gate.

Ed Dames

David Morehouse

David Morehouse entered into the DIA's Remote Viewing unit in 1987. Despite being designated by his superiors as “Destined to wear stars,” he resigned his commission in 1995 after his decision to write Psychic Warrior, a book in which he details his experiences as a remote viewer in the Stargate Project. He is the director of David Morehouse productions, and his company has trained 15,000 civilians in Remote Viewing Techniques.

 

Montgomery County polisi telah dikonfirmasi kantor pusat Discovery Komunikasi di Georgia Avenue di pusat kota Silver Spring telah dievakuasi setelah laporan seorang laki-laki mungkin dengan bahan peledak di dalam gedung.

Seorang pria memasuki lobi dan mungkin telah menembakkan senjata dan menyatakan, "Tidak ada yang akan berhasil," kata Montgomery County polisi.

Dalam sebuah wawancara telepon di ABC 7 News dan TBD TV, Discovery Komunikasi Lisa Lucas karyawan bangunan sedang lockdown, dengan jumlah karyawan tak dikenal yang berlindung di kantor. Polisi telah membentuk penjagaan di sekitar gedung.

Dia mengatakan sekitar 01:20, "mendengar kita, Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop."

Polisi belum mengkonfirmasi bahwa beberapa tembakan ditembakkan.

Montgomery County polisi mengatakan SWAT di TKP, dan Tim Tanggap Darurat perjalanan.

Tersangka adalah laki-laki Asia, kata polisi.


UPDATE: 01:50 Waktu Setempat: Menurut Kopral. Dan Friz, seorang jurubicara kepolisian Montgomery County, tim taktis mencoba menghubungi pria bersenjata, yang sedang dipantau di televisi sirkuit tertutup.

Tim "taktis telah mengumpulkan rencana untuk berurusan dengan orang ini," kata Friz ABC 7 News.

Friz tidak dapat mengkonfirmasi laporan bahwa beberapa tembakan telah ditembakkan, tapi dia bilang tidak tembakan telah ditembakkan oleh polisi pada 13:40 waktu setempat

Polisi awalnya dikirim ke gedung untuk laporan tembakan sekitar 13.00. Polisi yang melaporkan tersangka adalah laki-laki Asia.

"Beberapa jenis perangkat pada dia yang dapat sifatnya meledak ..." Friz kata.


UPDATE: 02:02 pm: The Discovery Channel Day care telah dievakuasi ke McDonald's terdekat. Day care itu merawat sekitar 100 anak-anak. Mereka dilaporkan aman.

UPDATE 02:15 Angela Gates, juru bicara Metro, mengatakan Silver Spring stasiun Metro tetap terbuka, meskipun pintu selatan ditutup. Bus bahwa layanan Silver Spring Pusat Transit sedang berbelok di sekitar jalan-jalan ditutup, katanya. Colesville Jalan diblokir.

UPDATE 02.21: Polisi mengatakan setidaknya ada satu sandera.

UPDATE 2:25 Semua pekerja di gedung dievakuasi. Banyak disuruh pulang meskipun mereka meninggalkan barang-barang pribadi di dalam bangunan.

UPDATE 14:33 ini e-mail yang dikirim kepada karyawan Discovery

Perihal: URGENT: Karyawan Harus Pulang - Jangan Sampai Kembali ke 1DP Karyawan Perhatikan lebih lanjut di 1DP harus pulang untuk sisa hari itu. Tidak ada karyawan harus kembali ke 1DP untuk alasan apapun. Karyawan dengan mobil di 1DP tidak harus kembali ke kantor, melainkan menggunakan modus alternatif transportasi.

Anak-anak dari Discovery Kids Place aman dan dengan para guru di McDonald's di persimpangan Colesville dan Kedua Aves. Orang tua harus bertemu anak-anak mereka di sana dan pulang ke rumah untuk sisa hari itu.

2:52 UPDATE: Departemen Kehakiman koresponden untuk NBC News, Pete Williams, menegaskan nama tersangka sebagai James Jay Lee, seorang demonstran lama dari Discovery.

Moco POLISI UPDATE 15:20: Kepala Kepolisian Montgomery County Tom Manager mengatakan, negosiasi dengan pria bersenjata sedang berlangsung, dan bahwa ada sejumlah "kecil sandera" tapi jumlah pasti belum ditetapkan. Palungan mengatakan tidak ada laporan tentang cedera seperti yang belum.

Dia juga menolak mengatakan apakah pria bersenjata itu membuat tuntutan apapun.

"Aku tidak akan membahas sifat konservasi kita dengan dia," kata Manger.

Adapun laporan bahwa pria bersenjata itu mungkin bom, Manger berkata, "Kami akan dengan asumsi mereka membawa alat peledak."

Palungan menolak untuk mengidentifikasi pria bersenjata itu terbuka, mengatakan polisi harus bertemu dengan dia muka dengan muka lebih dulu. Sumber telah mengidentifikasi dirinya sebagai James Jay Lee.

Kapten Starks Paulus mengatakan, polisi akan memperbarui lain sebelum 04:00

UPDATE 03:41: St Michael School di 824 Avenue Wayne telah ditempatkan pada lockdown, ABC 7 News telah dikonfirmasi.

UPDATE 04:03: moco polisi mengalami briefing, dan berkata kecil kecuali bahwa mereka akan memiliki update lagi oleh 5 Polisi pm kata beberapa rincian "dapat mempengaruhi bagaimana kita memperlakukan situasi ini."

UPDATE 17:00: Polisi menembak tersangka. Kondisinya tidak diketahui. Ketiga sandera aman.

Petugas menembak tersangka at 4:48, Chief Tom Manger kata. Kondisi penembak tidak segera diketahui. Dia belum dihapus dari gedung.

Palungan mengatakan pria bersenjata itu perangkat atau perangkat diikatkan ke tubuhnya, dan perangkat "muncul untuk pergi," kata Manger.

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Polisi melakukan negosiasi dengan pria bersenjata yang diduga polisi memegang "sejumlah kecil sandera" di gedung markas Discovery Channel di pusat kota Silver Spring.

Mereka telah mengidentifikasi pria bersenjata itu sebagai demonstran lama Discovery Channel James Jay Lee, yang ditahan di tahun 2008.

Lee tampaknya melepaskan tembakan di lobi, mengatakan "Tidak ada yang ke mana-mana."


5:39 UPDATE: Sumber yang melaporkan bahwa polisi telah membunuh seorang pria bersenjata yang menyerbu ke markas Discovery Channel di pusat kota Silver Spring sore ini dan membawa tiga sandera.

UPDATE 06:06: Seorang pria yang ingin Discovery Channel untuk mencegah manusia dari mereproduksi masuk ke markas besar perusahaan Silver Spring pada hari Rabu, dilaporkan menembak, dan membawa tiga sandera orang, County Montgomery polisi dan sumber kata.

Empat jam kemudian, si penembak - yang diidentifikasi oleh sumber-sumber penegak hukum sebagai James Jay Lee - telah mati, ditembak oleh polisi seorang perwira taktis, menurut Montgomery County Kepala polisi Tom Manger.

Selama empat jam kebuntuan, sebagai negosiator dilatih berbicara dengan Lee, Montgomery County polisi taktis pindah ke posisi di sekitar gedung. Mereka mampu melihat pria bersenjata itu dan mendengarkan apa yang dikatakannya, Kata Manger .

"Pada satu titik, tersangka, dilaporkan bahwa dia mengeluarkan pistol bahwa ia datang dengan, dan mengarahkannya ke salah satu sandera," kata Manger. "Itu belum dikonfirmasi sekarang apakah dia benar-benar menembakkan senjata atau tidak, tapi pada saat itu, unit taktis kami pindah ke sini Mereka menembak tersangka tersangka sudah meninggal.."

Manger menambahkan bahwa, "Para sandera itu semua bisa aman keluar dari gedung."

Salah satu sandera adalah seorang penjaga keamanan; dua lainnya Karyawan Discovery , Kata Manger. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Chief Richie Bowers mengatakan ketiga sandera sedang dievaluasi, namun tampaknya tidak terluka.

Manger mengatakan tersangka telah diikat apa yang tampak seperti alat peledak di tubuhnya, dan juga membawa dua kotak dan dua ransel dengan dia. Polisi menduga objek mungkin berisi alat peledak, dan masih bekerja dengan aman memindahkan mereka.

sumber penegak hukum mengidentifikasi pria bersenjata sebagai James Jay Lee,, 43 seorang demonstran sering demo di Discovery Channel.

"Dia jelas memiliki sejumlah masalah dengan Discovery," kata Manger.

David Leavy, eksekutif wakil presiden Discovery untuk urusan korporat, menambahkan: "Kami akrab dengan pria ini Dia telah memprotes sini di masa lalu.."

Leavy berkata: "Seluruh karyawan dicatat" dan "kita dijalankan rencana darurat evakuasi kita lancar Kami sangat bersyukur untuk itu.."

Lee berpendapat bahwa Discovery Channel harus menghabiskan lebih banyak waktu mengecewakan dari reproduksi manusia, karena manusia telah menghancurkan bumi dan menyebabkan perang, dan bahwa Discovery harus mempersembahkan program untuk mengecilkan hati manusia .

UPDATE 18:44: Seorang wanita yang mengatakan dia bertindak sebagai juru bicara keluarga, tapi menolak untuk memberikan namanya mengkonfirmasi bahwa Jim McNulty, seorang karyawan Discovery, adalah di antara tiga sandera "Satu-satunya komentar yang bisa kuberikan Anda akan. Bahwa Jim , yang (sandera), mampu berbicara kepada istrinya sebentar dan pastikan bahwa dia adalah OK, "katanya.

TBD dan ABC 7 News yang bekerja untuk mendapatkan wawancara dengan McNulty.

SILVER SPRING, Md - Polisi menembak seorang pria bersenjata yang menahan tiga sandera selama beberapa jam hari Rabu di gedung Komunikasi Discovery di Silver Spring, Md, pihak berwenang mengatakan. Mereka mengatakan para sandera itu aman dan pria bersenjata itu telah ditahan.

Polisi mengatakan kondisi penembak tak dikenal. Setidaknya satu alat peledak meledak ketika ia ditembak, dan alat peledak lain yang masih bisa di gedung di Montgomery County di pinggiran kota Washington, DC, kata mereka.

Montgomery County Kepala polisi Thomas Manger mengatakan tidak seorang pun diyakini telah disandera pria bersenjata itu cedera.

Orang-orang di lantai kedelapan dan kesembilan bangunan di dekat pinggiran Washington dievakuasi dengan aman, seperti juga anak-anak di Kids Discovery Place pusat penitipan siang hari, kata polisi, menambahkan bahwa tidak ada yang diketahui telah terluka.

pihak penegak hukum mengatakan kepada NBC News mereka percaya orang itu James Jay Lee atau James Jae Lee, 43, seorang demonstran lama di gedung yang dijatuhi hukuman enam bulan masa percobaan diawasi perlakuannya pada Maret 2008.

"Hal yang baik adalah kita harus bagian luar bangunan aman, kita berbicara dengan dia, dan ia ingin berbicara dengan kami," kata Polisi Montgomery County Kapten Paulus Starks.

Since Usain Bolt gained world-wide fame for being ridiculously fast at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he's been able to mix in visits to his favorite club, Manchester United, his other favorite club, Real Madrid, and more between running ridiculously fast. In the past, he's talked about playing as a "left-sided defensive midfielder" when he was in high school, but now he's seriously talking about his future as a footballer and not just his past.

Says the 24-year-old in his autobiography:

"Ideally, if I was to play football, I'd sign for my favorite team -- Manchester United. People say it's not realistic but nobody has seen me play so you never know. If Alex Ferguson saw me in one of those charity matches he might think I could replace Ryan Giggs."

You might laugh at that last sentence, but considering Sir Alex just bought a player for £7 million sight unseen, picking the next Ryan Giggs out of a charity match could be possible.



But according to the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone, Bolt isn't just spouting off to sell books:

I ask about his ambitions. Ultimately, he says, he'd love to make a go of playing football professionally. He's being deadly serious. One of the perks of being Usain Bolt is that sporting stars love to meet him, so whenever he's travelling and there's time, he tries to train with a top football team. Last year it was Manchester United, a few days ago it was Bayern Munich. He's still carrying a copy of the French sporting newspaper L'Equipe, which features a spread on his football skills and praise from Bayern manager Louis van Gaal. He shows me a photo of himself with his arm wrapped round the dwarfed 6ft German forward Miroslav Klose. "If I keep myself in shape, I can definitely play football at a high level," he says.

Presumptuous? Yes. Impossible? Maybe not. His speed and celebrity would certainly get him a trial somewhere -- whether he has any skills on the ball or not.

All this will have to wait until at least after the 2012 Olympics, though. At which point Ryan Giggs will probably still be playing and Bolt will probably still be carrying around that copy of L'Equipe.

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