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TEHRAN ( Iran pilot killed fighting in Iraq )

TEHRAN: An Iranian pilot has been killed while fighting in Iraq, state media reported Saturday, in what is thought to be Tehran’s first military casualty during battles against Islamic State fighters.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency did not say whether the pilot died while flying sorties or fighting on the ground.
It said Col. Shoja’at Alamdari Mourjani was killed while “defending” Shiite holy sites in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.
His death comes after Iran’s declarations that it will provide its western neighbor with whatever it needs to counter the militants who are laying siege to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.
Samarra is a major flashpoint in the fighting and is home to the Shiite Al-Askari shrine which was bombed by Al-Qaeda in February 2006, sparking a bloody Sunni-Shiite sectarian war that killed tens of thousands.
The reports of the pilot’s death came as Iranian officials insist their assistance is not in the form of troops, but rather of weapons and equipment if Iraq asks for them.
The Fars news agency appeared to confirm the IRNA report, publishing photos of a funeral service for the pilot on Friday in his home province of Fars, in southern Iran.
Fars did not give any details, but hinted that Alamdari Mourjani was a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, whose elite Quds Force is believed to be on the ground and assisting Iraqi forces, despite Tehran’s denials

MIAMI ( Three Dead, One Missing in Miami Boat Crash )

MIAMI – Three people died and one went missing after three boats collided in waters off Miami on Friday night during the Independence Day celebrations, local media reported Saturday.

Miami firefighters rushed to Dinner Key Marina around 11:00 p.m. after getting a call about three boats crashing into each other off Coconut Grove, a tourist area of Miami.

A total of nine people were taken to hospitals – two to the Kendall Regional Medical Center, three to Mercy Hospital and four to Jackson Ryder Trauma, Local 10 channel said.

Jorge Pino of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said that of the four people taken to Jackson Ryder Trauma, two later died, a man and a woman.

Miami firefighters found three people in the water, but said the investigation might discover that more are missing.

Up to now, the names of victims and survivors have not been revealed.

The investigations are currently focused on determining who was in each of the three boats involved in the crash and how many people there were in all.

Several media say that two children ages 3 and 5 were in the accident.

They were not injured and are back with their grandparents, Local 10 said.

The boats were towed to the Dinner Key Marina dock to continue the investigation

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Great white shark attack - Southern Calif.

 

 

Shark bites man off Southern California beach

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a 7-foot-long great white shark bit a man swimming off of Southern California's Manhattan Beach.

Rick Flores, a Los Angeles County Fire spokesman, said Saturday that the victim was bitten on the upper right side about 9:30 a.m., suffering puncture wounds described as moderate. The victim was taken to a hospital conscious and breathing on his own.

Flores says a person fishing off the Manhattan Beach Pier hooked the shark and spent over 30 minutes trying to reel it in, which made the shark agitated.

The victim was in a group of long-distance swimmers about 300 yards off the beach, where Flores says the shark bit the man.

The fisherman cut the line and a surfer put the injured swimmer on his board, taking him ashore

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Operation fetal position — that’s the West’s strategy in the clash of civilizations, although I would certainly question calling Islamic rule, sharia and jihad civilized. Photo: Soldiers patrol through a terminal at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, France, Friday, July 4, 2014. The French civil aviation authority on Friday announced stepped-up security measures “for the summer period.” The agency said the measures might cause delays on U.S.-bound flights. French government officials would not elaborate Friday on the measures, citing the need for discretion in security matters. Photo: Michel Euler, AP This is not just France: UK airports on alert over ‘different and disturbing plots to bring down jets’ amid fears terrorists are working on an undetectable bomb that could be surgically implanted in the body. Stay on top of what’s really happening. Follow me on Twitter here. Like me on Facebook here. France steps up security on US-bound flights, SFGate, July 4, 2014 PARIS (AP) — France is increasing security on flights headed for the United States this summer amid U.S. concerns that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new kind of bomb. The Obama administration this week called for tighter security measures at foreign airports that have direct flights to the U.S., prompting British airports to increase security Thursday. The French civil aviation authority on Friday announced stepped-up security measures “for the summer period.” The agency said the measures might cause delays on U.S.-bound flights. French government officials would not elaborate on the measures, citing the need for discretion in security matters. One fear is that extremists with a U.S. or other Western passport could carry the new bomb onto a plane undetected by airport security. At Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, U.S.-bound flights saw delays of 30 minutes to an hour Friday. Sophie le Poulennec, a 26-year-old heading to Chicago, said she hoped there weren’t any new luggage restrictions as a result. “I got no information today about this,” she said at the airport. A U.S. counterterrorism official said this week that American intelligence has picked up indications that bomb makers from Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have traveled to Syria to link up with the al-Qaida affiliate there, known as the Nusra Front. Olivier de France, a European security expert at France’s Institute for International and Strategic Relations, said expertise already exists to put explosive devices “in anything from shoes, soles, to energy drinks and even possibly surgically implanting these devices.” What’s different now, he said, is that “this expertise, we fear, might now have proliferated in the direction of Syria and in the direction of Iraq … in the direction of militants who might very well have European passports and therefore might very well have immediate access to trans-Atlantic flights.” He said the enhanced security measures could involve closer checks of mobile devices and computers. He said they shouldn’t be cause for “any particular hysteria,” and stressed the importance of governments sharing information to increase security. - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/jihad-high-alert-france-steps-security-us-bound-flights.html/#sthash.YCLtnfWn.dpuf

Iran ( Iran pilot killed "defending" Shiite Muslim holy sites in Iraq )

 

Iran's official IRNA news agency did not say whether the pilot died while flying sorties or fighting on the ground.

It said Colonel Shoja'at Alamdari Mourjani was killed while "defending" Shiite Muslim holy sites in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.

His death comes after Iran's declarations that it will provide its western neighbour with whatever it needs to counter the Sunni militants who are laying siege to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Samarra is a major flashpoint in the fighting and is home to the Shiite Al-Askari shrine which was bombed by Al-Qaeda in February 2006, sparking a bloody Sunni-Shiite sectarian war that killed tens of thousands.

The reports of the pilot's death came as Iranian officials insist their assistance is not in the form of troops, but rather of weapons and equipment if Iraq asks for them.

President Hassan Rouhani vowed last month that Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, would protect Shiite holy sites in Iraq, including in Samarra