CALIFORNIA (FILMMAKER Hiding) SAM Bacile started Protests in MIDDLE EAST with his movie

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California-based filmmaker went into hiding after a YouTube trailer of his movie attacking Islam's prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed.

Speaking by phone Tuesday from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.

Protesters angered over Bacile's film opened fire on and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Libyan officials said Wednesday that Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob firing machine guns and rocket propelled grenades.
Bacile said he is a real estate developer and an Israeli Jew. But Israeli officials said they had not heard of him and there was no record of him being a citizen. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not permitted to share personal information with the media.
In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.

TUCSON Az (Man WANTED for BEATING a 84 yr old man) Thomas Domagala

TUCSON - A man with a criminal past is on the run, wanted by the Sheriff's Department.
Detectives accuse Thomas Domagala of beating an elderly man last week.
Reportedly the attack came as Domagala tried to steal the victim's car.
The 27-year-old is also wanted for multiple burglaries at other homes.
Domagala is considered armed and dangerous. And he might not be alone.
Domagala is accused of at least seven burglaries in the foothills, and Northwest Tucson since July.
Resident Mickey Walters says, "pretty scary, I actually hadn't heard about it, so I'm glad you mentioned it."

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Colin Davies says he too is surprised by the news. "I don't know, this neighborhood is usually pretty safe."
Last week, deputies say Domagala put an elderly man in the hospital, with a fractured skull.
Deputy Tom Peine with the Pima County Sheriff's Department says, "a physical confrontation ensured during which, the suspect took a gun and pistol whipped him, the 84-year-old man."
Before this latest alleged crime spree, court records show Domagala served three years in prison for theft and identity theft. He was released six months ago.
Authorities say he's likely in the company of 26-year-old Tabatha Alvarez. Police are calling her a person of interest.
"It's mainly on the North side, but we want people to be aware that he could be anywhere in town," said Deputy Peine.
Domagala could possibly be driving a stolen white Saturn SUV.
Anyone with information on where he is should call 911 or 88-crime.

DRONES Planned (FOR Libya) LONE WOLF "Ready to strike"

The deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya may have been a planned operation and not a spontaneous protest that turned violent, U.S. officials told the New York Times and CNN on Wednesday. Initial reports suggested that protesters in Benghazi, Libya, were angry about an online video that mocked the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, and then attacked the consulate, killing U.S.

Drone attacks planned for Libya "Lone Wolf ready to strike"!

 

 

 Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other foreign service workers. But now, according to the New York Times, officials suspect that "an organized group had either been waiting for an opportunity to exploit like the protests over the video or perhaps even generated the protests as a cover for their attack." U.S. sources told CNN that they don't think Stevens was a specific target of the attack.

U.S. officials also told the New York Times that they still believe the protest in Cairo, where rioters scaled the U.S. Embassy's walls and destroyed the American flag, was an unorganized mob angry over the video

TUCSON Az (AMBER ALERT) 11 yr boy MISSING TODAY-Larry Avila

Deputies were searching Monday night for an 11-year-old boy who had not returned home from his Tucson-area school.
Deputies learned shortly before 6:30 p.m. that Larry Avila had not arrived home from Valencia Middle School, 4400 W. Irvington Road, said Deputy Tom Peine, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesman.

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The boy was last seen at the school Monday afternoon, Peine said.
Deputies worked closely with Tucson Unified School District officials but were unsuccessful in finding Larry, said Peine.
The child is described as thin and about 4 feet 3 inches tall. He has brown hair and eyes, and was last seen wearing his school uniform, a blue shirt and brown shorts.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911.

RUSSIA (DOG Dies trying to save OWNER) Kazakhstan

A heartbreaking story out of Kazakhstan: According to reports, a dog was killed while trying to save its owner from an oncoming train.

The suicidal owner had passed out on the train tracks after drinking a bottle of alcohol. According to Russian news site Ria Novosti, the man told authorities that his dog dragged him to safety. The dog wasn't able to avoid being hit.

"Upon seeing the train, the dog started pulling its owner away," said Aida Muldashevam, who investigated the incident. "When train drivers saw the dog on the rail tracks, they used the emergency brake."

Unfortunately, it was too late. The dog was killed instantly, while the owner was taken to the hospital. He had two broken ribs and an injury to his shoulder.

Dogs have a well-deserved reputation for loyalty. At a funeral for a Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan in 2011, dog Hawkeye lay by the casket during the memorial service. And in a small village in China last year, a dog remained at its owner's grave for weeks. When villagers took the dog back to town, the dog returned to the grave. Villagers eventually decided to build the dog a kennel near its departed friend.

DRONE Strike (KILLS al-Qaida No. 2 MAN) SANAA, Yemen

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An airstrike killed al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car on Monday, senior Yemeni Defense Ministry officials reported. If confirmed, Saeed al-Shihri's death would be a major blow to the militant group.

The officials said the missile that killed al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was believed to have been fired by a U.S. operated drone, but that couldn't immediately be confirmed. The U.S. doesn't usually comment on such attacks although it has used drones in the past to go after al-Qaida members in Yemen.

The Yemeni officials were elaborating on a brief Defense Ministry statement sent to Yemeni reporters on their mobile phones. A senior official at the Yemeni president's office confirmed the attack, but said DNA tests have yet to establish al-Shihri's identity. The officials all spoke on

condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said she could not confirm al-Shihri's death.

Al-Shihri's death would amount to a major breakthrough for U.S. efforts to cripple the group in Yemen, which is considered a crucial battleground with the terror network. The impoverished nation on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula is on the doorstep of Saudi Arabia and fellow oil-producing nations of the Gulf and lies on strategic sea routes leading to the Suez Canal.

Al-Qaida's Yemen branch is seen as the world's most active, planning and carrying out attacks against targets in and outside U.S. territory. The group took advantage of the political vacuum during unrest inspired by the Arab Spring last year to take control of large swaths of land in the south. But the Yemeni military has launched a broad U.S.-backed offensive and driven the movement from several towns.

Taliban ( THREATEN to kill or kidnap Prince Harry) Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban said on Monday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or kill Britain's Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.

 

Queen Elizabeth's grandson is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based in Camp Bastion in the volatile Helmand province, where he will be on the front line in the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.

"We are using all our strength to get rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told Reuters by phone from an undisclosed location.

"We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him," Mujahid added, declining to go into detail on what he called the "Harry operations".

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was not worried about the Taliban threat against Prince Harry