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Sunday, October 20, 2013
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Norwegian-Somali 'radicalized' before mall attack
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, a gunman shoots a man trying to take cover inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, a gunman shoots a man trying to take cover inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
ADDS SOURCE INFORMATION AND PROVIDES ALTERNATE CROP - In this June 2007 photo provided by a former classmate, Norwegian-Somali Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow sits on a rock during a school outing in Larvik, Norway. Dhuhulow has been identified as one of the gunmen who attacked an upscale mall in Kenya, officials said Friday Oct. 18, 2013. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Umayr, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, the streak of a bullet just fired from a gun, is seen as a guman fires his weapon inside the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
In this frame grab from surveillance video provided by Kenya Police via KTN, two gunmen wander through the Westgate Mall, Sept. 21, 2013, in Nairobi, Kenya. Several attackers from the Somali militant group al-Shabab stormed the mall on Sept. 21, killing at least 67 people during a four-day siege. (AP Photo/Kenya Police via KTN)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Quiet and respectful at the mosque as a boy, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow later became angry and radicalized, people in the coastal town in Norway where he grew up said Friday of the Somali native — the first Westgate Mall attacker to be identified.
Security camera images show the 23-year-old and three other gunmen firing coldly on shoppers as they made their way along store aisles after storming the upscale mall four weeks ago Saturday.
Until recently, investigators had referred to the attackers only by the colors of their shirts. However, two officials in Nairobi, one Western and one Kenyan, confirmed Friday that one of the gunmen had been identified as Dhuhulow.
The suspect's 26-year-old sister, reached in the southern Norwegian town of Larvik, said his family was unaware of any role he may have played in the four-day siege that killed at least 67 people.
"I don't want to believe this. I don't believe that this is him. It doesn't look like him. It isn't him," Idman Dhuhulow told The Associated Press from the quiet town of 40,000 nestled between mountains and the sea, where Dhuhulow lived after his family moved there from Somalia in 1999.
She said her brother went to the Somali capital of Mogadishu for a three-month visit in 2009, then moved to Somalia for good in March of the following year.
He had been studying economics in Norway and "his plan was to go back to Mogadishu and study there," she said.
"We had the best relationship that you can have. He was nice and careful," she said, adding that she had read media reports that he had become radicalized but "that's not something I saw."
Mohamed Hassan, a leader in the Somali immigrant community in Larvik, also described Dhuhulow as respectful to his elders as a young boy and teen.
"He was a quiet, lovable boy while he was here. I never saw him fight other young boys. He was not a troublemaker here in Larvik," Hassan said.
However, others recalled a different Dhuhulow.
Bashe Musse, a Somali Norwegian community leader in Oslo, said Dhuhulow had become radicalized in the years before he left Norway. And another man, who would give only his first name Yussuf, also said a man he believes was the Norwegian-Somali gunman was associated with "pretty radical" circles in Norway.
"He was mad. He didn't feel at home in Norway," said Yussuf, who declined to give his last name for fear of reprisals from sympathizers of al-Shabab, the Somali militant group behind the mall attack.
Yussuf said he met the man he knew as Abdi in 2008 in Oslo and had not had any contact with him since, but several people he knew recognized him in the closed-circuit TV footage of the mall attack.
"We said that it could be him when we looked at the video," Yussuf said.
The newly released images from the mall's security cameras show four men armed with AK-47 rifles cold-bloodedly firing on defenseless shoppers. At one point, a gunman is seen shooting a man trying to hide behind a statue of an elephant. Bleeding profusely, but still alive, the man squirms. Then another gunman comes back and finishes him off.
In other scenes, terrified shoppers and employees are seen scrambling for safety, some scuttling like crabs, as tracer bullets flash overhead.
Authorities have so far been unable to identify any of the assailants from the bodies pulled from the rubble of the mall, where a raging inferno tore through its main department store and a roof parking lot collapsed.
Charred human remains recovered Thursday were awaiting forensic tests Saturday to determine if they belong to the attackers. They filled two plastic containers measuring a foot wide and a foot across, and were recovered along with four AK-47 rifles from a section of the mall that collapsed as security forces battled the terrorists, authorities said Friday.
Johansen Oduor, the chief Kenyan government pathologist, said he didn't know if the remains were those of two bodies or three because the remains were sealed and he hadn't seen them yet.
The Somali Islamic militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the Sept. 21 attack, saying it was in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia to go after the extremists. Kenyan officials initially said it was carried out by 10 to 15 gunmen, but the security camera video shows only four. A police official said three suspects are in custody, though none directly took part in the attack.
Besides the AK-47 rifles, 11 magazines of ammunition — all apparently used by the attackers — were also found in the rubble, a security official said. A rocket-propelled grenade, likely from Kenyan security forces, was also recovered. The two officials insisted on anonymity because the information has not been released publicly.
Somali authorities may have had Dhuhulow in their grasp earlier this year, when a man with the same name was arrested in Mogadishu in connection with the murder of a Somali journalist. The man was released by a Somali court in March for lack of evidence.
Meanwhile, in Larvik, those who knew Dhuhulow said they were shocked that someone who grew up in their midst had been identified as a suspect in the Nairobi mall attack.
Hassan described the community as a "wonderful multicultural" place with a strong track record of peaceful integration. "The language school here, where foreigners come to learn Norwegian, is brilliant. It is teaching other communities how to do it," he said.
Robert Rognli, the principal of Thor Heyerdahl High School, which Dhuhulow attended from 2006-2009, described Larvik as a "typical Norwegian town with a typical Norwegian community spirit."
A former high school classmate of Dhuhulow's said it was hard to believe that the teen she once knew could have carried out such an attack.
"The video I saw looks a lot like him. But it's difficult to see," said the woman, who didn't want her name used because she was uncomfortable being associated with a terror investigation.
"He was a quiet guy," she said. "He was very committed to his religion, but not extreme. He brought a prayer mat to school."
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Lewis reported from Stavanger, Norway. Associated Press writers Tom Odula in Nairobi, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report.
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Report: Microsoft to boost Xbox TV lineup with street soccer series
After snagging CBS exec Nancy Tellem and launching a Halo-based TV series with Steven Spielberg, Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios appears to be tackling a whole new genre. According to Deadline Hollywood, the fledgling TV division will launch its first reality-TV series for Xbox Live based on street soccer called Every Street United. Eight 30-minute episodes will be produced featuring undiscovered talent playing four-on-four soccer across eight different countries. The idea is to have the top eight compete in a climactic final match during the World Cup, though final details are still up in the air. The show will reportedly target Xbox's sports-crazy demographic, though the choice seems a bold move for Microsoft -- which is clearly thinking outside the US box.
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Pussy Riot Member Withdraws Prison Release Plea
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WARSAW – Jailed Pussy Riot musician Maria Alyokhina withdrew her application for an early release, while her bandmate, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova resumed her hunger strike on Oct. 18.
Alyokhina explained her move as a gesture of solidarity with Tolokonnikova.
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"I have no moral right to take part in this court hearing at a time when my friend and fellow convict Nadezhda Tolokonnikova does not have such opportunity," Alyokhina was quoted as saying by the Russian wire service RIA Novosti. She also called for an early release for all female convicts who have small children, just like Tolokonnikova and herself.
Meanwhile, Tolokonnikova, who was moved back from the hospital to her prison on Oct. 17, has resumed a hunger strike, according to the Twitter account of Gruppa Voina (@gruppa_voina), affiliated with Pussy Riot. Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, explained her decision by the fact that Tolokonnikova’s demands about transferring her to another prisons were not fulfilled.
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Tolokonnikova originally went on a hunger strike on Sept. 23 out of protest against poor treatment of inmates at correctional facility #14 in Mordovia, southeast of Moscow. She suspended the hunger strike on Oct. 1 due to health complications, but said she was ready to resume if her demands were not met. Her hunger strike put the correctional facility under scrutiny, and instances of mistreatment of inmates were discovered.
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are serving two-year sentences for the anti-Putin “punk prayer” they performed at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in February of 2012. They are due for release in April 2014.
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Katy Perry Reveals Kate Hudson Friendship; Singer's Real Name Is Katheryn Hudson!
Katy plus Kate equals BFFs! Katy Perry revealed that she and Hollywood stunner Kate Hudson not only share a love for the California sunshine -- the two are actually quite good friends as well.
And, Perry pointed out, the pair even share a name!
"When we text, it's like 'Hudson here,'" Perry, whose real name is Katheryn Hudson, said during the SiriusXM Town Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 15. "We are buds and we get along. …We have become friends and go to game nights together, we play this game called Mafia … we play it all the time."
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Among the games that Perry, 28, and Hudson, 34, play with their pals are Mafia and running charades.
"We stopped going to clubs and we started staying home and having game nights, which is really fun," Perry continued. "And she is super cool, she is gorgeous, to die for."
A few of Perry's other current girl crushes include Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, and current on-the-rise pop star Ariana Grande.
"I love her so much," the Prism singer gushed. "She has the best female vocal in pop music today, I would say. She has literally the best voice. Best voice live. She kills it."
"And I got to hang out with her and listen to her record [Yours Truly] before it came out because I wanted to reach out to her and just be like,'Hey girl, you're just about to go through a whirlwind,'" she said.
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To prepare for her own whirlwinds -- recording Prism, the followup to the mega-smash Teenage Dream -- the pop star said she escapes home to Santa Barbara, where she can feel like herself again.
"My hometown is a lot of the reason why I get to kind of go back to the feeling of when I was a teenager, when I was 13 and I picked up the guitar and was inspired by music," she said. "And I still am inspired by music but it’s nice I get to go home to Santa Barbara and feel like Katheryn Hudson, which is who I really am."
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JPMorgan Strikes Tentative $13B Mortgages Settlement
JP Morgan Chase & Company headquarters in New York.
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In what would be the largest such settlement in U.S. history, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reportedly reached a tentative deal with the Justice Department that would see the bank pay $13 billion to settle civil charges related to wrongdoing by some of its units just before and during the housing crisis.
The deal, sources tell news outlets including NPR, would not absolve JPMorgan from possible criminal liability.
Word of the tentative agreement emerged around 3 p.m. ET. Saturday. We posted when the news broke and followed with background and more details.
Our original post and subsequent updates follow. Scroll down and "read up" if you want to see how the story developed.
Update at 5 p.m. ET. Sources Tells NPR About The Tentative Deal:
Two sources familiar with the talks tells NPR Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson that the tentative agreement was reached Friday night and that the language of the deal is still being written. But the sources said the general outlines of what's been reported are correct.
Update at 4:30 p.m. ET. The Accusations:
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, as Bloomberg notes, "accused JPMorgan and its affiliates of making false statements and omitting material facts in selling $33 billion in mortgage bonds to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Sept. 7, 2005, through Sept. 19, 2007. The regulator said executives at JPMorgan, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns Cos., which were acquired by JPMorgan in 2008, knowingly misrepresented the quality of the loans underlying the bonds, among other things, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan."
Update at 4 p.m. ET. No Release From Criminal Liability:
"The tentative deal does not release the bank from criminal liability, a factor that had been a major sticking point in the discussions," according to Reuters' source for the story.
Update at 3:45 p.m. ET. "Moving Closer" And Some Details:
The New York Times characterizes the news this way: JPMorgan and Justice "are moving closer to a $13 billion settlement." The Times adds that:
"The bank would be expected to pay about $9 billion in fines, according to a person briefed on the negotiations. JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, is also likely to spend $4 billion in relief for struggling homeowners, another person briefed on the talks said."
Update at 3:35 p.m. ET. Settlement Would Be A Record:
ABC News had previously noted that the settlement was expected to be the "largest-ever payment in the history of financial regulation," topping the "previous record when BP paid out $4.5 billion following criminal charges related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill." Fox Business calls it the "largest-ever settlement involving a U.S. company."
Update at 3:20 p.m. ET. Deal Reportedly Reached Friday:
According to CNBC, "Attorney General Eric Holder and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, along with two lawyers, struck the deal Friday after the market close."
Bloomberg News reports that "the settlement amount, which increased from $11 billion to $13 billion during negotiations [Friday] night, the person said, includes a $4 billion accord with the Federal Housing Finance Agency over the bank's sale of mortgage-backed securities."
3:08 p.m. ET. We're seeing multiple reports that:
— "J.P. Morgan has reached a $13 billion tentative settlement with the Justice Department." (The Wall Street Journal)
— "JPMorgan Chase has reached a $13 billion tentative deal with the Justice Department, said a person familiar with the negotiations." (CNBC)
— "JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a tentative resolution of all civil mortgage-related matters with the U.S. Department of Justice, a person familiar with settlement negotiations said." (Bloomberg News)
— "JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion deal with the U.S. Justice Department to settle a range of mortgage issues, a source close to the talks said on Saturday. The settlement does not include any release from criminal liability for the bank, the source said." (Reuters)
NPR's Business Desk is working the story. We'll update as things develop.
At $13 billion, the settlement would be about $2 billion more than recent reports had predicted. As The Associated Press has written, JPMorgan had been:
"Said to be discussing an $11 billion national settlement with the Department of Justice over mortgage-backed securities. The securities lost value after a bubble in the housing market burst, helping to bring on the financial crisis."
Last month, as we wrote, the bank "agreed to acknowledge that it violated federal securities laws and [to] pay $920 million in penalties assessed by regulators in the U.S. and U.K. to settle charges related to the huge trading losses racked up by its London traders last year."
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Microsoft is rolling out a third update for Windows Phone 8--the most distinctive feature of which i
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