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Kenya's Garissa University College awakens to Islamist militants' terror By Greg Botelho, CNN The sun hadn't risen at Garissa University College. Most students slept in their beds. A few had woken up to head to early morning Christian prayers. Then the terror began. It started with an explosion and gunshots around 5:30 a.m. Thursday (10:30 p.m. ET Wednesday) at the Kenyan school's front gates. The attackers continued to fire as they stalked through campus, with the Red Cross saying they stopped at a girls' dormitory. At one point, they burst into a room where Christians had gathered and took hostages, said lecturer Joel Ayora. A student in the room told Alex Kubasu, a reporter with CNN affiliate Citizen TV, that the terrorists sprayed bullets indiscriminately, striking his thigh. "Then they proceeded to the hostels," Ayora told CNN, referring to the university dorm, "shooting anybody they came across -- except their fellows, the Muslims." According to AFP, the gunmen separated the students by religion and allowed Muslims to leave. This would be consistent with the past practices of Al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based terror group that's claimed responsibility for the attack. That's what Al-Shabaab did in a December raid on a quarry in the Kenyan village of Kormey, near the Somali border, that ended with at least 36 killed. Whatever their religion, hundreds of students managed to escape, said Dennis Okari, a reporter with CNN affiliate NTV. Some ran. Some crawled. All feared for their lives. And they were the lucky ones.

I do not know if ISIS was behind the Bardo National Museum massacre in Tunisia but they seem to either inspire people or grab credit or both. Yet another massacre. This time in Yemen. Over 130 are dead in Yemen after twin suicide attacks ISIS claims responsibility for the attack More than 130 dead and over 340 injured, several in critical condition in 3 blasts in Sanaa, Yemen mosques Meanwhile, ISIS is busy destroying relics of ancient civilization. (Assyrian civilzation Mar Behnam monastery)

Iraq troops 'retake parts of Tikrit' from Islamic State ISIS militants trick mother into ‘eating her kidnapped son’ Islamic State brutes fed a distraught woman searching for her kidnapped son some meat and rice – and then told her she had just eaten her son, according to a British man who joined the fight against ISIS. Yasir Abdulla, 36, of Yorkshire left his wife and four kids to battle the maniacal extremists in his Kurdish homeland, The Sun reported. “I hate IS because of what happened to an old Kurdish woman from a nearby tribe,” he said. “Her son was captured by IS fighters and taken as a prisoner to Mosul. She was determined to find her son and went to IS headquarters and asked to see him.” He said the thugs told her to rest after her long journey and offered her the food before taking her to her son. “They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and soup. She thought they were kind,” he said.“But they had killed him and chopped him up and after she finished the meal and asked to see her son they laughed and said, ‘You’ve just eaten him,’” Abdulla told The Sun.

Well, that's a relief. I like creating nature in SimCity 4 Deluxe. If I can cheat and build large spaces anytime, can I create huge forests or lakes? Is there any terraforming in this game?

Let's bury the dead first before we erect a monument.

Can you buy land at any time? What if you want a farm, forest, etc. ? Is an increase in population necessary beforehand?

I hardly have any feelings about this at all nor do I feel emotionally invested in this in anyway. (Then again, I am not a regular player by any measure these days. I come here mostly to observe people's works). To be honest, I am "glad" that this is just a video game company - something that has nothing to do with the overall welfare of human society.

Maxis has been "dead" for some time now- what has existed until now was its zombified shell. This is the funeral.

[X] Poorly received products [X] Employees being laid off [X] Another company division being shut down [X] No modicum of business sense ... just another day at the office at EA Headquarters. *sip*

It looks like the local alcohol vendors will see an increase in their revenue.

Why China? The Chinese want to keep North Korea alive and supplies the hermit kingdom with food and technology since both are scarce in North Korea. Decades before the Korean War, the Chinese encouraged Koreans to settle in its northeastern provinces just south of Russia to prevent Soviet influence. The area is populated today by Korean Chinese who speak the same language as their miserable cousins across the border. Post - Korean War, the Chinese aim to preserve North Korea since it is a buffer state against pro - American South Korea.

40% of the priority zone searched so far. The remaining 60% should be completed by May if they are on schedule. If the entire area has been exhausted and the plane is still not yet found, they will reconsider what to do next. I do think they should continue and exhaust all possibilities in the current priority search zone. After all, it seems that there was criminal intent behind this disaster. The next phase after that would be to expand the search zone to an area of about 1.1 Million Square Kilometers. That is about the size of Bolivia. It will be too daunting at that point and they are considering ending the search unless other countries decide to assist and cover the expenses.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Australia says hunt for missing jet may be called off soon

Video: ISIS is destroying ancient Assyrian Civilization relics, statues, and artifacts. Libraries are also being bombed.(http://www.ibtimes.co.uk) Ancient several thousand year old relics... gone forever.

Impressive looking airport.

Unlike Mexican affairs, ISIS has made it clear that they want to take the war to American soil and they have killed several Americans in the process. Not to mention, they repelled the U.S. armed Iraqi army. Langley is not going to take this sitting down, not after everything they have done to rebuild the Iraqi army from the Saddam era. In a sense, the threat from ISIS is a current one. Meanwhile ISIS has released more videos from its cells in Syria, Iraq and now Libya. Syria: ISIS executes a Syrian prisoner with a shotgun to the head at close range. Iraq: ISIS parades 17 captured Kurdish Pershmerga fighters in animal cages in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. ISIS claims they plan to turn them into human candlesticks. ISIS chops women's hands off and whips men for using cellphones Libya: ISIS' franchise in Libya releases video where several Egyptian Coptic Christians are beheaded. Egypt retaliates by bombing ISIS positions.

Just a suggestion: You may want to turn off/reduce the one way arrows in your NAM settings.

Yemen is on the verge of becoming a failed state Diplomats Flee Yemen http://notizie.tiscali.it/media_agencies/15/02/11/20150211_EST_TN01_0024.jpg

Keeping people in the dark about ISIS, in the same manner by which Boko Haram's massacres are being ignored by the press, is definitely not the way to go. Besides, ISIS is a clear threat to human civilization and security of the region. They are franchising their organization to other countries like Libya and have support from Islamic terrorist groups in Southeast Asia.

Poor girl. Quite good looking as well. I hate to say this, but if this is true, she was spared from a gruesome, choreographed death in front of a camera. Jordan challenges ISIS claim of U.S. hostage death in airstrike I have a feeling the 2 Japanese and the Jordanian pilot were killed in advance. I have not seen the videos yet but there are reports that these were planned,choreographed, and edited videos (ISIS has a habit of releasing edited movie trailer-like videos). ie. Not something done in a few hours past the deadline and before the release of the videos. NYTimes Interactive: The Fates of 23 ISIS Hostages in Syria Out of curiosity, is it possible to find the geographic location of the uploaders via their IP addresses? If I were an ISIS member I would have uploaded it in an area away from the hostages and mask the IP address while doing so. But surely, with so many gruesome videos, would we have a clearer idea where they are coming from? It seems to be in Raqqa, Syria but a specific location has not yet been pinpointed.

The pilot requested if he could climb to a higher altitude to avoid a big thunderstorm. I speculate as the plane was climbing it began to lose lift As the plane continued to climb it eventually stalled causing a crash. http://www.straitstimes.com/sites/straitstimes.com/files/20141229/airasia-flight-2812.jpg