Related Posts

‘It was like an earthquake’: Israeli strike kills 12 medics in bloody attack on Lebanon’s healthcare system

The Israeli strike on the healthcare centre was so huge that it felt like an earthquake. Without warning, the missile tore through the four-storey building in southern Lebanon, punching open concrete floors, eviscerating every wall, and gouging out a multistorey crater in the ground.
The dozen medics based there, whose job it was to respond to the injured across 20 nearby villages, were finishing dinner. There was nowhere to hide.
“The bodies were everywhere, in pieces,” says Ali Shaimi, 51, a first responder with the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Authority, which ran the centre. He is speaking to The Independent beside the skeletal remains of the building, which is still partly on fire and sending acrid, choking smoke into the air.
Describing the attack as like an “earthquake”, he says he rushed to tend to the wounded, only to realise there were none.
Abbas Hijazi, 36, another rescuer who was in a building across the street when the explosion happened, said the force of the blast sm..

What led up to the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue attack in Cuba as Raul Castro is indicted for murder

Brothers to the Rescue, a group founded by Cuban exiles, is at the center of the U.S. Justice Department's decision to seek an indictment against Cuban leader Raúl Castro, a move reviving one of the lowest points in the two countries' bitter decades-long relationship.
The indictment is connected to Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two planes operated by the Miami-based exile group. Castro was defense minister at the time, making him the nation's highest authority after his brother Fidel.
What is Brothers to the Rescue?Brothers to the Rescue began operating in 1980 during 125,000 Cubans' unexpected emigration to the United States. Founded by emigré José Basulto, it aimed to help Cuban refugees in the Florida straits by dropping supplies from small planes and alerting the U.S. Coast Guard.
The months-long crisis began after some Cubans protested travel restrictions imposed by President Fidel Castro's communist government and Castro opened the port o..

Secret Service officer arrested after exposing himself to Florida hotel guests, police say

A Secret Service officer was arrested and placed on leave after allegedly exposing himself and masturbating in front of guests at a Miami hotel.
John Spillman, 33, “committed the offense of indecent exposure” at a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center late Sunday night, according to an arrest report obtained by WSVN.
Hotel visitors told investigators they were in the lobby, and Spillman started following them, making guests retreat to their rooms for safety. One guest told authorities she and others were in “fear for their lives,” according to the report.
The guests then “saw the defendant masturbating next to their hotel room,” prompting them to call hotel security.
Spillman was found “with his pants lowered and masturbating on the sixth floor,” the arrest report says.
open image in gallerySecret Service officer John Spillman was arrested and charged with indecent exposure after masturbating in front of guests at a Miami hotel (Miami-Dade Sheriff's Off..