The Discovery Channel TV building has been taken over by a shooter. A gunman reportedly entered the Discovery Channel building in Silver Springs, MD and has taken at least one person hostage. A witness
The U.S. president , Barack Obama , was briefed Wednesday on the preparations for the possibility of a Category 3 hurricane Earl reaches the East Coast , the White House .
Obama spoke by telephone with the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA , for its acronym in English ), Craig Fugate. The official briefed Obama on the preparations for the potential impacts of Hurricane Earl on the East Coast and New England . In parts of the coastline of North Carolina and Virginia have installed surveillance equipment from the hurricane.
Obama said that FEMA should be prepared for all scenarios , including worst case and must do everything necessary to protect residents and communities along the coast. Even be convinced to residents and visitors to areas that could be affected to comply with all evacuation orders issued by local and state officials .
It is always much more difficult to determine when to end a war that identify how it originated. In Iraq , neither U.S. President , Barack Obama, and other political and military leaders are called misleading: the declaration of the end of combat operations by Obama on Tuesday night in a speech to the nation from the Oval Office and made official Tuesday at a ceremony in Baghdad said only the beginning of a new era marked by uncertainty. And the only certainty is that Washington, after seven years and five months of military intervention is not a victory today to sing and can only bet that the passage of time justifies a contention that the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, acknowledged yesterday forever tainted by how it started.
“The problem with this war for many Americans is that they demonstrated that was not valid the premise with which we justify starting it, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction , ” Gates admitted yesterday in a speech in Ramadi before participating in the Al Faw Palace of Baghdad in the starting ceremony of the Operation New Dawn , as has been baptized poscombate phase in which still has 50,000 troops in Iraq since yesterday under the command of General Lloyd Austin and engaged in the next 15 months to training of Iraqi security forces .
A COUNTRY DETERMINANT Gates wanted to leave the door open to optimism about the future of Iraq, challenged by the political deadlock for months that prevents the formation of Government in Baghdad. ” If Iraq ends up being a democratic country, although the cost of having reached that point will have been terrible, the potential to be the nucleus of a significant change in the whole region can not be underestimated , “said Rumsfeld . Both he and Vice President Joe Biden and the military leadership Baghdad present at the ceremony yesterday were echoing the tone of contention that Obama used his speech on Tuesday, received in the U.S. with some warmth.
All hostages were released after an armed man who held them in a commercial building in the state of Maryland in the United States , was wounded by police officers today, police said .
Thomas Manger, Chief of Police of Montgomery County in Maryland, told reporters that the three hostages are unharmed and left the building and the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland , where the incident occurred.
pointed out that the Manger responsible, a man of Asian features , is under police custody , but refused to confirm the status of the subject.
Manger did not provide further explanation of the actions of the police which ended the four-hour incident .
The police had conducted preliminary negotiations with men in an attempt to persuade him to leave free the hostages and surrender peacefully.
The suspect, who reportedly was upset by the Discovery network programming , entered the headquarters of the Discovery Channel through the front door at 13:00 pm today , Eastern Time U.S. .
The man had what looked like a device with a metal can attached to the body and carrying a firearm, Manger said in previous reports .
Speaking to reporters after the subject was injured, Manger said the device was detonated.
Sources of law enforcement identified James J. Lee as responsible , noting that it began an investigation into the facts.
Lee , 43 years old , protested outside the Discovery Channel building in February 2008 , local officials said .
The man was arrested and charged with disorderly coomportamiento in public , as indicated in the files, officials reported .
The U.S. president , Barack Obama, said both Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli , Benjamin Netanyahu, ” want peace “and are possible ” to complete the negotiations within a year . ” The president, who in the morning he met separately with Netanyahu and Abbas said that “the only way for peace “are the direct talks between the two conflicting parties , which should serve to ” resolve all differences. ” Similarly , he said, the only solution to the occupation of Palestinian territories and the creation of a Palestinian state living in peace and harmony with Israel. “The status quo is not sustainable ” for the Middle East or the world , Obama said , adding that the U.S. will be part of “active” and “substantial “in the negotiations , but ” not impose ” a solution. Obama made the remarks at the White House , flanked by U.S. special envoy for the Middle East , George Mitchell and Secretary of State , Hillary Clinton , tomorrow will be responsible for formalizing the return to direct negotiations, blocked for almost two years.
The president urged both sides to put aside their differences and mistrust , arguing that the resumption of direct negotiations is an opportunity that we must seize . ” He acknowledged that ” not easy “to reach an agreement, “years of disagreements do not disappear overnight , but was optimistic it can “build a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East . ”
Netanyahu : ” Abbas is a partner for peace ”
Israeli Prime Minister considers the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas , his ” partner for peace “and bets to reach the summit in Washington , marking the resumption of direct talks between the two sides , a ” historic compromise . ” “President Abbas , you are my partner for peace ” , say Mr Netanyahu in a speech prepared for delivery tonight at a White House dinner to be attended , besides the U.S. President , Barack Obama, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah of Jordan and the envoy of the Quartet for Middle East Peace , former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. “It depends on us to overcome this agonizing conflict between our peoples and to establish a new beginning , “says the text , collected by the Israeli daily Haaretz . Netanyahu ‘s intention , in his own words, is to create ” a secure and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians “not only ” a brief period between wars “or” temporary respite between outbreaks of terrorism. ” “We seek peace to end the conflict once and for all. We seek a peace that lasts for generations. This is the peace that my people want. This is the peace that we all deserve , “said Netanyahu. For the prime minister of Israel , who will address several times throughout his speech directly to Abbas, whom he considers his ” peace partner pair “,” Peace begins with each leader. ” Netanyahu argues that the Jews are not foreigners “in” the land of their ancestors, ” but in a conciliatory gesture said that both Israelis and Palestinians “share “this territory. “I came here today to reach a historic compromise that will allow both peoples to live in peace, in safety and dignity , “he says in his prepared remarks. This stability would be consequences of “progress and hope “in both social and economic terms . “If we work together we can take advantage of the great advantage that our unique place under the sun.
Our geography , history, culture , climate and talent of our people can create unprecedented opportunities in tourism , commerce, industry , energy, water and more, ” it added . On the other hand , peace is also facing challenges in the form of terrorist attacks by those Netanyahu describes as ” enemies. ” Thus , the prime minister prefers ” a horizon in the West Bank dominated by apartment towers , not missiles “or that the roads in the area ” carrying trade, not terrorists ” . We left Lebanon , we got terrorism. We left Gaza , we got terrorism.