Archive for terrorism
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Many children are among those gravely injured in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing. Eight children were transported to local Boston hospitals after two bombs went off several feet from the finish line as runners were closing in on finishing the 26 miles race at approximately 2:57 pm. One child, an 8-year-old boy, was killed in the ... read more »
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Thursday, September 20th, 2012
The funeral for Glen Doherty, 42-years-old, the Navy SEAL who was murdered in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya last week, was held on Tuesday with the presence of a very unexpected guest. Jonathan Arcuri, 9-years-old, walked down to the funeral from his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, where the funeral was being ... read more »
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
A family passing through the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in Kansas had an interaction with the TSA which they say lead to a 4-year-old girl experiencing nightmares and forms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Michelle Brademeyer, 27, was traveling with her young daughter, Isabella, and her 6-year-old son. The children’s grandmother was to meet them on that ... read more »
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
A 3-year-old toddler in a wheelchair was caught on video, in what appears to be an invasive search by the TSA at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The little boy was in a wheelchair because he had a broken leg. The video, which was shown on Facebook and You Tube over the weekend but was actually taken ... read more »
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
An overly ambitious mall cop tried to confiscate a father’s phone after he had taken a picture of his daughter eating ice cream. Chris White, 45, was at the Braehead Shopping Center in Glasgow, Scotland, with his 4-year-old daughter when he pulled out his phone to take a picture of her. He was soon approached ... read more »
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) — A five-year-old girl was injured on Tuesday morning when a home-made bomb exploded at a kindergarten in the Far East Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Itar-Tass News Agency reported on Wednesday. The attack happened at around 7.25 a.m. local time when the young victim opened an aerosol spray-can which had ... read more »
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