BREAKING NEWS

“Osama = sh_tweasel?”

“#2 from Al Qaeda is very militant #2. It will blow the crap out of you if given half a chance.”

“...apparently the fighting in this spot has been going on for days. They say that they have been battling Chechen resistance, not Arabs. This may not be the real deal, folks...


...and now, back to 'Fishing, woodchucks and other upstate phenomena!'”

“Let's not get too excited here, until the DNA results come back, this could just be another Taliban turd.”

“I thought they might be holding back so they could catch his ass live on the six o'clock news....”

“Osama Bin Laden is dead. He was killed in November 2003 by a giant marshmellow from space. My sources are documented and I will fax them to your location upon request.”

“Bin Laden's right-hand man slips net

By Rodney Dalton, New York correspondent and Agencies
March 20, 2004

A BULLETPROOF LandCruiser at high speed bursting out of a tribal compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan region was just the latest infuriating setback in the US's quest to bring down the top of the al-Qa'ida tree.

The car, followed by two armoured vehicles and a phalanx of heavily armed militants able to wipe out dozens of crack troops sent to blast the terrorists from their nest, is believed to have contained Ayman al-Zawahiri, right-hand man to Osama bin Laden.

After mounting speculation that US and Pakistani forces ranged on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border were about to pounce on al-Qa'ida's key planner, a senior Taliban spokesman yesterday made the claim Washington least wanted to hear - that both Zawahiri and bin Laden were safe in Afghanistan.

"He may have slipped the net," the official said.

continued...”

“BREAKING NEWS

Sheriff's investigators say Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch being searched, CNN confirms. Details soon.”

“Wonder what they're looking for this time...”

“Michael Jackson's Never go there ranch”

“I know a man that used to work with jacksons father for years :)”

“Are they looking for the rest of his nose?”

“No, I think that got sold on Ebay a few years back.”

“Yeam I bought it!”

“Guitarist Among Five Killed in Ohio Shooting
Gunman Shot and Killed by Police Officer
By JAY COHEN, AP


COLUMBUS, Ohio (Dec. 9) - A gunman charged onstage at a packed nightclub and opened fire on the band and crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities and witnesses said.

Police spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, who played for the band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk.

She identified the gunman as Nathan Gale, 25, of the Marysville area northwest of Columbus. She said there was no information on a motive or if he had any connection to the band.





Damageplan had just begun its first song at Alrosa Villa when the man shot Abbott five or six times at point-blank range, a witness said.

Abbott, 38, one of metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were original members of Grammy-nominated thrash rock pioneers Pantera, a popular metal band in the 1990s.

The witness, 22-year-old Chris Couch, said he was standing about 30 feet from the stage when he saw a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walk up to the stage, followed by a bouncer and another club employee.

The man in the sweatshirt climbed onto the stage, started yelling and opened fire on the guitarist, then shot a bouncer who pulled him off the musician, Couch said.

Police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said that after shooting at band members, the gunman fired into the crowd. Mull said the gunman was shot and killed by a police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting began

"If the officer wasn't as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," Mull said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."

Mercurio said the officer who killed the suspect was patrolling nearby when he heard the call about the shooting. He entered the club through a back door and was directed to the stage, where he saw one person lying dead and the suspect holding onto another person, Mercurio said. The officer shot and killed the suspect.

The name of the fifth person killed was not immediately released. Mercurio said family members were still being notified.

Thursday morning, a dozen yellow roses, still in plastic wrap, lay near the entry to the low-slung beige building that since 1974 has hosted mostly heavy metal acts. The club, just off a freeway exit on the city's north side, sits amid motels, small businesses and office complexes.

After the shooting began, Couch and a friend headed for the exit along with a tide of hundreds of fans.

"It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," Couch said.


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Amanda Stankus, 19, who attended the show with Couch, said she initially thought the shooting was part of the show. "I just saw the guitarist fall down, and we decided to get out of there," she said.

The Abbott brothers produced Damageplan's debut album, "New Found Power," which was released in February. Other band members are vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.

"Damageplan carries on the tradition Pantera started, the ... hell-raising tradition we were all about," Vinnie Paul Abbott told The Dallas Morning News in October. "We do play some Pantera songs. Me and Dime wrote them, and we feel like we have the right to play them. But the focus is on Damageplan.

"It took a while for some of the Pantera fans to accept it; we knew that was gonna be the case," he said. "Change is something that people have a hard time accepting. But me and Dime intended on doing this our whole lives."

A message left with Atlantic Records, which oversees the record label on which Damageplan records, was not immediately returned.

Damageplan's Web site said Darrel and Vinnie Abbott grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area where their father, country songwriter Jerry Abbott, owned a recording studio.

Telephone numbers for both Darrell and Jerry Abbott are unlisted and could not be reached early Thursday by The Associated Press.

Pantera, known for its brutally hard, fast and aggressive sound, recorded four albums in the 1990s. They attracted a massive cult following and the band's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994, surprising chart-watchers and critics alike.

Pantera was nominated for Grammys for best metal performance in 1995 for "I'm Broken" and in 2001 for "Revolution Is My Name." The video "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits," made charts earlier this year as one of the top 10 in music video sales.

Dozens of messages were posted to the Dallas band's Web site after the shootings.

"This is the worst day in metal history," one posting read.

"The metal world feels your pain," another wrote.

Associated Press writer Jay Jorden in Dallas contributed to this report.


12/09/04 09:27 EST”

“So this has happened three times in one day?

Shocking!”

“Mapes is an hour and two threads behind today. LOL!”

“hey!”

“dub hasn't posted yet this morning. I hope he wasn't the gunmen.”

“I'm having flashbacks to the day Tony Randle died!”

“I did not see any other thread on this.

nigal stop wanking my chain.”

“EEEEWWWWWWW, wanking your chain?”

“At least Tony R was somebody.”

“Well, I can understand not realizing the "Life in Nigal's Ohio" thread was about this, but "R.I.P Dimebag Darrel"?”

“http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/35150,1.php
http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/35149,1.php”

““At least Tony R was somebody.”

DBD was better than Hendrix.

I still miss Old Dirty Bassturd...”

“haha see I do not read all the thread.
who knew”

“Sorry. Currently really getting into Franz Ferdinand and St. Germain.”

“DBD was better than Hendrix.

I still miss Old Dirty Bassturd...”
Nigal
9:22:16 AM
12/09/04


as in Jimmi?

you better head for the hills son, Marko is in the house and this may peeve him off a tad.”

“I can always count on a good Hendrix slam to get things going Mapes. No, he wasn't as good but for some reason he was almost always ranked near the top ten by fans.

But five in the chest is better than helplessly drowning in your own vomit.”

“yeah way Buddur

hehe”

“Dimebag Darrel?

Hey, I should start a band and call myself Scumbag Stu!
last edited: 12/09/04 9:57:38 AM”

“I can be blowhard Brian”

“Maybe 'Pissing Pennsy' might want to join?”

“BREAKING NEWS...SANTA WILL BE TIED UP THIS YEAR
”

“-- Attack on dining hall at U.S. military base near Mosul, Iraq, kills 22, including U.S. troops, Pentagon officials say.”

“Just an update on what WK posted
Americans among 20 dead.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq”

“Man-o-man. Terrible. Pray for the families of these GIs.”

“I feel the pain of all those who get their relatives back in a box.”

“Texas court reverses murder convictions of Andrea Yates, the woman found guilty of drowning her 5 children in bathtub.”

“They must have found her insane, I take it..

Or, had to do with that psychiatrist's testimony. I think I heard something about that...
last edited: 1/06/05 8:59:29 AM”

“We've got a train crash and a chlorine gas leak north east of Augusta in Graniteville, SC this AM. Info trickling in.”

“Wow, MM! That one sounds like it has bad potential. Is it in a populated area?”

“Yikes!”

“Reports are 8 dead and a couple hundred injured, mostly inhalation injuries. There's still a chlorine leak as of this AM so folks are still evacuated from the area.”

“the train wreck made fox news? It's not even an hour from me. Clorine!”

“Yeah, that train wreck's a nasty business. And right in town, too. Last night they were reporting 5,400 people evacuated. Some people refused to leave, I can't even understand that. I'd have been getting out as soon as they lifted the "shelter in place" order.

Don't worry Gemini, it's only about a 1-2 square mile area that's been directly affected.”

“They think they may find more dead today, according to NPR.”