Top Canadian Commander to Admit Murders and Sex

Comment:

Wonder why sometimes soldiers from U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Italy, to name a few, when they were sent overseas to countries such as, Afghanistan and Iraq, to fight a war and rid of terrorists, and they were mostly not successful… The reasons are pretty simple, its attitude problem, its moral problem, its vision and mission problem… They mostly don’t have these ‘attitude and moral’ virtues, to fight such a war, so its not strange if you heard them swearing, and cursing, and trashing civilians, and do some wired stuff.

I don’t know if they have learnt anything from the wars in Vietnam, Cambodian, and such.

In the case below, the Colonel (and I belived his is not the only case). Clearly show a man with very low moral, arrogant, power-hunger, and sex-maniac, but was promoted to a very high rank... congratulation!

In Islam, promotion is grant based not only on skills and experiences, but also 'good moral and attitude.' .... And in Islam, Muslim usually married the girl or girlS they like, and not indulge in 'out of sex' affairs and other sexual manic activities.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/8093143/top-canadian-commander-to-admit-murders/ (9th October 2010)

Top Canadian commander to admit murders
Charmaine Noronha and Rob Gillies, AAP October 8, 2010, 2:19 am

The lawyer for a military commander who flew Queen Elizabeth II and other dignitaries around Canada says his client will plead guilty to murder, sexual assaults and dozens of breaking and entering charges. Colonel Russell Williams was the commander of Canada's largest air force base until he was charged earlier this year with the murder of two women, the sexual assault of two others and 82 break-ins, during which he stole women's panties.

Michael Edelson, Williams' lawyer, told a judge on Thursday Williams intends to plead guilty to all the charges at his next court appearance on October 18. The case shocked the country, hurt soldiers' morale and prompted fears that the commander of Canada's most high-profile military base and the man who once flew the country's prime ministers could have been a serial killer.

In 2005, Williams was pictured with the Queen and Prince Philip on the front page of the newspaper of Canadian Forces Base Trenton after he had served as their pilot during a visit. Williams waived his right to a preliminary hearing in August and was ordered to stand trial and return to court on Thursday.

The 47-year-old is charged with the first-degree murder of Jessica Lloyd, 27, whose body was found in February, and Marie Comeau, a 38-year-old corporal under his command who was found dead in her home in November last year. Both women were asphyxiated. He is also charged with forcible confinement, breaking and entering and sexual assault after two other women were attacked during separate home invasions in the Tweed, Ontario area in September 2009.

Williams is also charged with breaking into 47 homes 82 times, beginning in 2007, including one home nine times. Most homes were burglarised repeatedly on the same street. Most of the homes Williams was accused of breaking into were in Ottawa, where Williams has a house with his wife, and in the Tweed, Ontario, area, where Williams lived while he worked at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Trenton, Ontario. "He's just a very twisted individual; there's no two ways about it," said retired lieutenant-general Angus Watt, who once promoted Williams.

"He was able to lead an elaborate double life and was able to keep it successfully concealed. This was the act of a depraved individual and really has no reflection on the men and women of the Canadian Forces." Angela McCanny, whose Ottawa home was broken into on consecutive days in 2008, said all the women's underwear in the house were stolen.

Anne Marsan-Cook, whose Belleville home was broken into on consecutive days in 2009, said her sex toys and all her underwear were taken. She also said a chilling message was left on her computer: "Go ahead, call the police. I want to tell the judge about your really big dildos."

"I was one of the lucky ones," Marsan-Cook said on Wednesday. The Ottawa Citizen cited police sources as saying police seized 500 women's undergarments from Williams' Ottawa home. Court documents allege Williams broke into Comeau's home days before he killed her. Another alleges Williams twice returned to the home of one of his victims to steal items after he sexually assaulted her.


http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/8178159/canadian-colonel-gets-life-for-murders/ (22nd October 2010)
Canadian colonel gets life for murders
AAP October 22, 2010, 3:06 am

A Canadian court on Thursday sentenced Colonel Russell Williams to two consecutive life sentences for a spree of murders, sexual assaults and burglaries of women's homes. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Scott described Williams as a "sick and dangerous man".

Williams will not be eligible for parole for 25 years. Police arrested Williams in February for the disappearance and death of 27-year-old woman, last heard from the previous month. He was later charged with the November 2009 murder of a female corporal under his command at the Trenton military base, as well as in two home invasions in which women were confined and sexually assaulted, and an additional 82 counts of break-and-enter and attempted break-and-enter in Ottawa, Belleville and Tweed.

A stash of women's undergarments taken by police from Williams' Ottawa residence was linked to the burglaries near his home and job. Police also seized hundreds of photographs and videos of the sexual assaults and murders from his home computer.

Banks in Malaysia

Comment:

Now this is about time, I have long wrote to the Bank Negara Malaysia, and complaint to them about the late fees charges on credit cards, and the so-called dishonor cheques fees (charges/penalties). The late fees charges is so exorbitant, which the bank can easily overcome with just a click of the mouse, yet they choose to issue penalties on its loyal customers.

Also the interest charged on credit card of 15-18 percent per annum (by Malaysian banks) are simply too high. It simply make the poor man poorer!

http://au.biz.yahoo.com/y7finance_editorial/12052010/half_million_tipped_join_class_action_on_bank_fees.html (Accessed on 13th May 2010)

Half a million tipped to join class action on bank fees
Thursday May 13, 2010, 1:00 pm

By: Lexi Metherell and Shane McLeod, ABC
Up to 500,000 people are expected to join a class action against local and foreign banks for repayment of dishonour and late fees. Official figures show the banks collected nearly $1.2 billion in such fees in the 2008 financial year. The money came from honour and dishonour fees on bank accounts, and over-limit and late fees on credit cards.

Financial Redress, a subsidiary of litigation funder IMF, is funding the litigation against 12 banks who it says have illegally charged well over $5 billion over the past six years. The case will be based on the claim that the fees are illegal because they amount to a penalty rather than a legitimate fee.

Financial Redress managing director James Middleweek says the action will try to recoup as much of that $5 billion as possible, but it depends how many people make claims. "Realistically if we got 300,000, 400,000 people to sign up over the course of the next few weeks and months we'd have a sort of 600, 700, 800 million [dollar] class action," Mr Middleweek said. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers are the solicitors running the action.

The firm's chairman Bernard Murphy says the public response has been overwhelming, with 3,000 registrations on the company's website as of last night. "We're the largest class action law firm in the country and we've never seen a response like it," he said.

Mr Murphy says the case will hinge on contract law and the fact that penalty fees are in excess of what it costs the banks to process late payments or bounced cheques. "There's a contract law provision which states that if one party breaches a contract the victim of the breach is only allowed to charge a genuine pre-estimate of the damages for that," he said.

"So the situation we have here is that a person overdraws the account in breach of the contract with the bank and the bank's entitled to charge a genuine pre-estimate of the actual cost of that.
"Now that genuine pre-estimate would be, in some cases in relation to credit cards overdrawn, several cents. In relation to cheques, maybe $2.

"They've [banks] been charging $25 to $60. So we say the charges are extravagant and exorbitant. The law says that if those charges are extravagant or exorbitant then they amount to a penalty, which is illegal. "It's a very substantial action because, for example, in 2008 alone the Reserve Bank states that these exception fees totalled $1.2 billion," he said.

"So there is an estimated claim value in the order of $5 billion."

Australian banks have anticipated the threat to their fees and last year they started winding them back. National Australia Bank was one of the first to move to scrap dishonour fees, which is estimated to have cost NAB alone about $100 million.

"We see this as a first step, a small step in rebuilding our reputation which we've called out as a strategic issue," National Australia Bank chief executive Cameron Clyne said.

"As I said today this fee generates one in two of all the complaints the bank receives so we think it's a pretty good place to start."

Consumer group Choice believes there will be strong public interest in a class action. Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn says he has joined the class action as a private individual because there is an important legal issue to be tested. "We would imagine that there is real appetite for remedy on behalf of the public," he said.

"[Over the years we've had feedback such as people] writing to the bank saying what are you doing charging us these very high fees for what are often fairly mundane breaches, [like] being a bit late paying a credit card transaction?"

The Finance Sector Union, which represents workers in the banking sector, has mixed feelings about the planned class action. The union's national secretary Leon Carter says the lawsuit will bring some welcome attention to the sector, but it is not a long-term fix.

"Our concern is that if this lawsuit is successful the banks will simply make their money up somewhere else or even worse, sack staff to recoup any costs," he said. "The only long-term solution to this problem is better regulation."

Banks have unfairly deducted exception fees for years. Join the court action to get your money back. Visit www.financialredress.com.au or call 1300 473 373.

Kompaun JPJ Naik 333 Peratus

Comment:

One thing comes to my mind when the JPJ/government announced the 333 percent increases in summones, compounds, and/or fines for vehicle and/or traffic offences = This will definitely make road users more careful of their speed limits and other traffic and/or vehicle offences, but at the same time, this will also encourage 'corruptions' among JPJ enforcement officers. Why would someone wants to pay RM1000 for an offence when they can pay RM200-500 cash (of corruption money) to enforcement officers?? (JPJ officers will definitely get fatter after this! Some of course!).

At the end of the day, we need to ask the JPJ/government, what is all the fuss of the ridiculously large increase in compounds/summones? Are the people not suffering enough already due to the economic crisis, high unemployment rates, and high crime rates, among others.

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2010&dt=0420&pub=Kosmo&sec=Negara&pg=ne_01.htm (20th April 2010)

Kompaun JPJ naik 333 peratus
Oleh JUNHAIRI ALYASA
junhairi.alyasa@kosmo.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR - Para pemilik kenderaan dan pengguna jalan raya perlu lebih berhati-hati selepas ini berikutan kadar kompaun maksimum kesalahan jalan raya akan dinaikkan daripada RM300 kepada RM1,000 tidak lama lagi.

Kenaikan kira-kira 333 peratus itu berikutan pindaan ke atas Akta Pengangkutan Jalan 1987 yang akan dikuatkuasakan kelak. Peruntukan itu adalah antara 51 Fasal pindaan yang terkandung di dalam Rang Undang-Undang Pengangkutan Jalan (Pindaan) 2010 yang dibentangkan untuk bacaan kali pertama oleh Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Rahim Bakri di Dewan Rakyat semalam.

Antara pindaan lain yang dicadangkan termasuk menaikkan umur kelayakan memohon lesen memandu motosikal daripada 16 tahun kepada 17 tahun. Penalti bagi kesalahan melanggar umur kelayakan itu juga dinaikkan daripada tidak melebihi RM2,000 kepada tidak kurang daripada RM1,000 dan tidak lebih daripada RM5,000.

Police Chief in Hot Water over Dinner??

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7030023/sack-nixon-for-bushfire-dinner-fielding/ (7th April 2010)

Police union joins Nixon criticism
AAP April 7, 2010, 12:34 pm
It's impossible for anyone to back former Victoria police chief Christine Nixon after revelations she had dinner at a pub on Black Saturday while hundreds of homes burned, the police union says.

Come on, even police officer has the right to a dinner, damn right, if the bushfire victims have their rights to a dinner, so too is the police chief! Thats what we call equal right to basic needs (e.g. a dinner)!

And victims of the nation's worst bushfire disaster now face an "unthinkable" situation having realised that Ms Nixon, who is now in charge of bushfire reconstruction, had left her post at 6pm the day of the tragedy, said Police Association secretary Greg Davies.

What 'unthinkable situation'... its all a media playdown, support by police officers that dislike her!

"This is a scandalous situation. There is no excuse for it," he told reporters on Wednesday.
Ms Nixon told the royal commission into the disaster on Tuesday that she had a meal and monitored the bushfires through the internet, television and radio on February 7, 2009.

What 'scandalous situation' ? This is a bit too much to say to someone who has a dinner after a long day at work!! (And nowadays, professionals monitor the bushfires through the Internet, television, and radio... professional also use what we call the GIS (Geographic Information System) to monitor effectively the situation and bring it under control. They don't need to be in the 'burning fields' to get the job done!!

But she expanded on those comments in the media, saying she went out to a bistro for dinner with friends that night and has since defended that decision. "I did say in the statement I gave to the (royal) commission that I had a meal and I didn't say, obviously, at the time that I had gone to a local hotel and had a meal with two friends," she told ABC Radio. "That's all it was, it was a very quick meal and I went back home again and received many calls and monitored the situation."

Ms Nixon was appointed head of bushfire reconstruction upon leaving her position as the state's police chief.

"It's unthinkable that the victims of this disaster now have to look at the very person who was supposed have their hand on the tiller but had their hand on the cutlery (and who) is now supposed to be responsible for rebuilding their lives," Mr Davies said.

Again the word 'unthinkable'... played by the media and others, bushfire victims have the right to a meal (dinner), so is the police chief ! Come on, grow up people!

He said Victorian Premier John Brumby should no longer have confidence in her abilities. "On the information that's available, it's impossible for anyone to back her," he said.

What 'abilities' issue?? You mean having dinner (because one is hungry) will have their 'abilities' and 'professionalism' in question?!

"This is not about a Christine Nixon witchhunt. This is about substance over style and there was very little substance on the day, quite clearly." Family First Senator Steve Fielding said Ms Nixon should be removed from the Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority immediately. "It's beyond belief that the state's top cop was more interested in going out to dinner with friends than steering the police force through this country's biggest natural disaster," he said in a statement.

Come on people... grow up! Get the facts right... And don't be a hypocrite !

Kadar Cerai di Perlis Membimbangkan

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2010&dt=0327&pub=Kosmo&sec=Terkini&pg=bt_03.htm (27 March 2010)
Kadar cerai di Perlis membimbangkan
27/03/2010 1:30pm

KANGAR – Keruntuhan institusi keluarga di Perlis membimbangkan berikutan 502 pasangan atau kira-kira 25 peratus daripada 2,037 pasangan Islam yang mendirikan rumah tangga sepanjang tahun lepas berakhir dengan perceraian.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Agama Islam Perlis, Jafperi Othman berkata, bagi tempoh antara Januari sehingga pertengahan bulan ini sahaja, lebih 120 pasangan bercerai. Punca perceraian antara lain ialah disebabkan masalah nafkah dan kecurangan, katanya semasa merasmikan mesyuarat agung ke-5 Persatuan Melayu Perlis (Pemanis) di sini hari ini.

Beliau memberikan contoh kes pasangan remaja yang mendaftar sebagai peserta Program Pembangunan Rakyat Termiskin (PPRT) kerana tidak dapat menyediakan pendapatan yang mencukupi untuk menampung kehidupan selepas bergelar suami isteri.

"Mereka sepatutnya bersedia dengan sumber kewangan sebelum berkahwin bagi mengelakkan diri daripada masalah selepas perkahwinan,” katanya.

Yang Dipertua Pemanis, Datuk Mohd. Zain Hamzah pula melahirkan kebimbangan dengan peningkatan gejala sosial yang melanda golongan remaja Melayu sejak kebelakangan ini. Katanya, kebanyakan mereka alpa terhadap tanggungjawab dalam bidang pendidikan dan mempertahankan susila. – Bernama


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Anak Bekas Mufti 'Tiada Tauliah' ?!

Komen:

Di mana pergi nya hadis nabi yang menyuruh kita 'sampaikan (ajaran Islam) walaupun satu ayat.'

Penceramah adalah lulusan BA dan MA dlm kes ini...dan dalam kes bekas mufti Perlis, Dr Asri pula, beliau adalah lulusan PhD, dari UIA, bukankah itu 'kelayakan' dan tauliah tertinggi??!

Susahnya lah walaupun orang nak buat baik...

URLhttp://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0302&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Mahkamah&pg=ma_01.htm (2nd March 2010)
Anak bekas mufti didakwa
Oleh AINOL AMRIZ ISMAIL
utusanN9@utusan.com.my

Fathul Bari Mat Jahya (kiri) ketika berada di Mahkamah Rendah Syariah Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, semalam.
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KUALA PILAH 1 Mac – Anak bekas Mufti Perlis, Fathul Bari Mat Jahya mengaku tidak bersalah ketika didakwa dalam perbicaraan di Mahkamah Rendah Syariah di sini hari ini atas tuduhan mengajar tanpa tauliah di negeri ini.

Tiga pengikut kanannya, Abdullah Sanusi Othman, 40; Nik Amirul Faiz Nik Md. Yusof, 25; dan Khairudin Daud, 55, masing-masing turut membuat pengakuan yang sama atas kesalahan bersubahat dengan pendakwah bebas itu.

Fathul Bari, 30, didakwa mengajar tanpa tauliah di Maahad Ittiba Sunnah, Kilometer 1.5, Jalan Lama Seremban-Kuala Pilah, semalam. Dakwaan terhadapnya dikemukakan oleh Pendakwa Syarie, Mohd. Al Hafid Ismail mengikut Seksyen 53(1) Enakmen Jenayah Syariah Negeri Sembilan 1992 (Pindaan 2004).

Ketiga-tiga pengikutnya pula didakwa bersubahat dengan Fathul Bari pada tarikh dan tempat yang sama mengikut Seksyen 34 Enakmen Jenayah Syariah Negeri Sembilan 1992 (Pindaan 2004) yang dibaca bersama Seksyen 37 enakmen sama.

Bagi kesemua pertuduhan tersebut, setiap tertuduh boleh didenda RM3,000 atau penjara dua tahun. Hakim Syarie, Zainal Abidin Kusemin membenarkan Fathul Bari dibebaskan dengan jaminan RM2,200 bersama dua penjamin di kalangan penjawat awam.

Beliau juga memerintahkan ketiga-tiga pengikut penceramah itu masing-masing dibebaskan dengan jaminan RM2,000 berserta seorang penjamin di kalangan penjawat awam. Zainal menetapkan 5 April ini untuk perbicaraan kes tersebut.

Terdahulu, Fathul Bari memohon jaminan dikurangkan di antara RM50 dan RM100 dengan alasan dia masih belajar di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM). Fathul Bari yang beralamat di Utan Kandis, Arau, Perlis merupakan lulusan Universiti Madinah dan memperoleh Ijazah Sarjana di Jordan. Dia kini mengikuti pengajian peringkat Doktor Falsafah di UIAM.

Semalam Fathul Bari bersama tiga pengikut kanannya ditahan anggota penguat kuasa Jabatan Hal Ehwal Agama Islam Negeri Sembilan (JHEAINS) ketika sedang mengajar di hadapan hampir 50 orang awam di Maahad Ittiba Sunnah.

Kesemua mereka ditahan pada pukul 11.30 pagi sebelum dibawa ke Balai Polis Kuala Pilah untuk siasatan. Beberapa buku dan peralatan yang digunakan turut dirampas dalam serbuan itu.





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US University Professor Shooting...

Comment:

So much for blaming Muslims, or Asians, or Blacks, if a shooting occurs, in campus or off campus. So who to blame now?!

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/20100213154931/Article/index_html (Accessed on 13 February 2010)

US university lecturer kills three, wounds three

2010/02/13

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama: A female US lecturer has shot dead three people and wounded three others after learning she had been denied tenure at a northern Alabama university. The incident happened at the University of Alabama in Huntsville yesterday, and college spokesman Ray Garner told reporters that police had arrested one person and detained another.

"At this point we have three dead, three confirmed people who are dead,” Garner said. “We have three dead and three wounded,” he added.

Garner said two of the three people injured in the shooting remained in critical condition while a third was in stable condition at a Huntsville Hospital.

Local television WAFF, citing local authorities, said the shooter was a middle-aged female staff member who had opened fire after learning at a biology faculty meeting that she would not be granted tenure.

The television station said all three fatalities were staff members at the university. Police have not yet released the identities of the shooter and the victims. Classes on the campus were cancelled, and counseling services to the 7,500 students are being offered, according to the school’s website.

The local Huntsville Times reported that a female biology professor had been taken into custody and that her husband had been detained.

Erin Johnson, a second-year student, told the newspaper that a biology faculty meeting was underway at the math and science building, the Shelby Center, when she heard screams coming from one of the rooms.

Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican senator after whom the university centre was named released a statement offering his “thoughts and prayers” to students and faculty members, WAFF said. “I am deeply saddened to hear of this horrible tragedy,” his statement said.

The incident was just the latest in a series of school shootings to rock the United States — most of which have been carried out by students — amid the nation’s ever-prevalent debate about gun control.

The shooting comes more than two years after the southern state of Virginia was left horrified by the April 2007 massacre of 32 people at the Virginia Tech university by a student gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, who turned his gun on himself.

In 1999, two teenagers went on the rampage at Columbine school, Colorado, gunning down 13 people before killing themselves.

In the first six weeks of this year alone several shootings have already been reported around the country.

Last month, eight people were killed in the southern state of Virginia.

A man surrendered to authorities after a massive manhunt in the woods near the historic town of Appomattox, during which he opened fire at a helicopter aiding the search.

And in early January a disgruntled employee at a Missouri plant of a Swiss power company went on the rampage shooting dead three people and wounding five others. He also killed himself in the bloody shooting, believed to have been triggered by a dispute with the ABB company over his pension funds. -- AFP

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/headlines.aspx (13 February 2010)
Professor charged over US campus rampage17:33 AEST Sat Feb 13 2010

A biology professor has been charged with murder over the shooting deaths of three fellow professors at a campus in south America. Authorities say Amy Bishop, an instructor and researcher at the University of Alabama Huntsville campus, opened fire during an afternoon faculty meeting, killing the three colleagues and injuring three other school employees.

Amy Bishop has been charged with one count of capital murder, which means she could face the death penalty if convicted. Amy Bishop, 42, was taken Friday night in handcuffs from a police precinct to the county jail and could be heard saying: "It didn't happen. There's no way .... they are still alive".

Police said they were also interviewing a man as "a person of interest."

University spokesman Ray Garner said the three killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and two other faculty members, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. Three others were wounded, two critically, in the gunfire, which Davis' husband said occurred at a meeting over a tenure issue.

The injured were identified as department members Luis Cruz-Vera, who was listed in fair condition, and Joseph Leahy, in critical condition in intensive care, and staffer Stephanie Monticello, also in critical condition in intensive care.

No students were harmed in the shooting, which is in a community known for its space and technology industries. Sammie Lee Davis said his wife, Maria Ragland Davis, was a researcher who had tenure at the university.

In a brief phone interview, he said he was told his wife was at a meeting to discuss the tenure status of another faculty member who got angry and started shooting. He said his wife had mentioned the alleged shooter before, describing the woman as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was."

Bishop, a neurobiologist who studied at Harvard University, joined the UAH biology faculty as an assistant professor in 2003.

Andrea Bennett, a student majoring in nursing, was in one of Bishop's classes on Friday morning.Bennett said nothing seemed unusual, but she described Bishop as being "very weird" and "a really big nerd."

"She's well-known on campus, but I wouldn't say she's a good teacher. I've heard a lot of complaints," Bennett said. "She's a genius, but she really just can't explain things."

Andrea Bennett, an athlete at UAH, said her coach told her team Amy Bishop had been denied tenure and that may have led to the shooting.

"She went to Harvard, so she is very smart. I can see that her getting denied tenure at UAH would be pretty upsetting," said Bennett.

Another student, Erin Johnson, told The Huntsville Times a biology faculty meeting was under way when she heard screams coming from a conference room. University police secured the building and students were cleared from it.

There was still a heavy police presence on campus Friday night, with police tape cordoning off the main entrance to the university.

The university posted a message on its website on Friday afternoon telling students the campus was closed Friday night and all students were encouraged to go home. Counsellors were available to speak with students.

The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama. The university is known for its scientific and engineering programs and often works closely with NASA.

Three people were killed and one other was wounded in a shooting at a University of Alabama campus.

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