Prague: Palestinian Diplomat Jamal al-Jamal, 56 Dies in Explosion

Palestinian Diplomat in Prague Is Dead After Explosion

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Investigators on Wednesday at the villa in Prague where the explosion took place. The building suffered no damage visible from the outside.

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Published: January 1, 2014

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BERLIN — The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic died on Wednesday after suffering severe injuries caused by an explosive booby-trap security system in a safe at his Prague residence that he apparently had triggered by mistake, the police reported. They said there was no indication the explosion was sabotage or a terrorist attack.

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Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, last October in Prague.

The diplomat, Jamal al-Jamal, 56, had been in the Czech capital only since Oct. 11. He and his family were just moving into the residence, and the explosion occurred while he was opening the safe, inadvertently setting off the security protection, according to a police spokeswoman, Andrea Zoulova.

Daniel Langer, the lead surgeon at the Central Military Hospital in Prague, said the ambassador had suffered head, chest and stomach injuries. The immediate cause of death will be confirmed during an autopsy.

An unidentified 52-year-old woman was taken to the hospital from the residence after apparently inhaling fumes from the explosion, but was released soon afterward, said Jirina Ernestova, an official in Prague’s emergency services.

Ms. Zoulova said a police investigation at the residence indicated that the safe itself had exploded because of careless handling that detonated the decoy system.

The president of the Czech police, Martin Cervicek, was quoted by Czech television as saying “we do not have a single indication that this could be a terrorist attack.”

The Palestinian Authority, based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, maintains missions in a number of European capitals as part of a broader diplomatic effort aimed at advancing the cause of Palestinian statehood. Ambassador Jamal’s death came against a backdrop of difficult negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israeli officials over a two-state solution to their prolonged conflict.

The villa where the explosion took place suffered no damage visible from the outside, according to the online service of the Mlada Fronta Dnes newspaper. It quoted neighbors as saying they had heard nothing.

The ambassador’s residence is different from the mission itself, which is in a neighboring villa.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that Mr. Jamal was critically injured by a blast that occurred minutes after he had opened a safe that had been transferred to the new residence from the mission’s old headquarters, and that he was pronounced dead after undergoing emergency surgery at the hospital.

The statement, carried by the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, added that Palestinian officials were in contact with the Czech authorities, authorizing them to inspect the scene of the explosion, and that a Palestinian delegation would arrive in Prague on Thursday.

Riyad al-Malki, the foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement that Mr. Jamal was “an example of a successful diplomat who was diligent in serving his country and his cause.”

Alison Smale reported from Berlin, and Hana de Goeij from Prague. Isabel Kershner contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

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Jim Fetzer Tells Us Who Actually Shot JFK

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Six JFK Shooters, Three Tied To CIA, Named–Oswald not among them

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by Sherwood Ross (with Jim Fetzer)

Six shooters who participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including three with ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), were named by a prominent critic of the Warren Commission Report (WCR).  Remarkably, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Warren Commission’s lone-assassin-designate, was not among them.

During an interview published this past Nov. 20th in The Santa Barbara Independent, WCR critic/researcher Dr. James Fetzer of Madison, WI, and Chairman of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, revealed the names of five of those who appear to have been shooters, where he has identified the sixth separately:

(1) The first shot that hit, which struck Kennedy in the back, appears to have been fired from the top of the County Records Building by Dallas Deputy Sheriff Harry Weatherford. He used a 30.06 to fire a Mannlicher-Carcano (MC) bullet fitted with a plastic collar known as a sabot, which hit JFK 5.5″ below the shoulder just to the right of the spinal column. This was a shallow wound with no point of exit.

(2) Jack Lawrence, a U.S. Air Force expert, who had gone to work for the automobile dealership that provided vehicles for the presidential motorcade just a few days before the assassination, fired the shot that passed through the windshield and struck JFK in the throat from the south end of the Triple Underpass.

(3) Nestor “Tony” Izquierdo, an anti-Castro Cuban recruited by the CIA, fired the shot that hit JFK in the back of the head after the limousine was brought to a halt. He fired three shots with two misses using a Mannlicher-Carcano, which were the only unsilenced shots fired, from the Dal-Tex Building, which housed a uranium mining corporation, Dallas Uranium and Oil, that was a CIA front.

(4) Roscoe White, a Dallas police officer with ties to the CIA, fired from the grassy knoll adjoining the motorcade route, but seems to have “pulled his shot,” Fetzer said, “because it would have hit Jackie, so his shot went into the grass.”  His son subsequently discovered his diary, but gave it to the FBI and it has not been seen since.

(5) Malcolm “Mac” Wallace, who shot from the Dallas Book Depository, may have murdered a dozen people for Lyndon B. Johnson. “Mac” appears to have fired from the west side of the book depository at Texas Governor John Connally in the mistaken belief he was Sen. Ralph Yarborough, whom LBJ despised. Wallace’s fingerprint was found on one of the boxes in the “assassin’s lair” in the book depository from which Oswald allegedly fired.

(6) Frank Sturgis, later complicit in the Watergate robbery, who also appears to have been connected to the CIA, is said by Fetzer to have fired from the north end of the Triple Underpass the shot that entered Kennedy’s right temple. Sturgis is known to have ties to Meyer Lansky, a notorious crime syndicate kingpin, and confessed his role to a New York City Gold Shield Detective when he was arrested attempting to kill Marita Lorenz.

In his interview with the Santa Barbara “Independent,” Fetzer said “there were shooters at six different locations,” with a total of up to 10 shots fired, three of which missed. He asserted JFK was hit four different times: in the back from behind, in the throat from in front, and twice in the head after the driver had brought the car to a halt to make sure he would be killed. Another shot missed and injured bystander James Tague, while “one or more shots hit Connally.”

By contrast, the Warren Commission concluded that a single bullet struck Kennedy in the back, exited through his throat and then wounded Connelly. Fetzer explained that the “magic bullet” theory propounded by the Warren Commission is not only false but provably false and not even anatomically possible, because cervical vertebrae intervene.

Ruth Paine, who appears to have been working for the CIA, arranged for Oswald to go to work for at book depository “just weeks before the assassination, which was part of the whole project to set him up as a patsy,” Fetzer said. Right up to the time of the assassination, Oswald was a paid FBI informant, collecting $200 a month, which explains why his W-2 forms have never been released by the government.

As for the motivation to kill JFK, Fetzer noted that he was threatening to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, that the Joint Chiefs believed he was soft on communism, that the Mafia was unhappy because Attorney General Robert Kennedy was cracking down on organized crime, that he was going to abolish the FED and cut the oil depletion allowance.

Fetzer said Vice President Johnson, who had forced his way onto the ticket with JFK in Los Angeles in order to succeed him when he would be taken out, “was a pivotal player” facilitating the assassination. LBJ sent his chief administrative assistant, Cliff Carter, down to Dallas to make sure all the arrangements for the assassination were in place.  And his close friend, J. Edgar Hoover, used the FBI to cover it up.

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Fetzer said further there where “more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in setting Kennedy up for the hit”: two agents assigned to the President’s limousine were left behind at Love Field; that JFK’s limousine, which should have been in the middle of the motorcade, was put first; that the motorcycle escort was reduced to four and instructed not to ride ahead of the limousine’s rear wheels; and after the first shots were fired, the driver pulled the limo to the left and stopped.

What’s more, Fetzer produced an AP photograph that appears to show Oswald standing in doorway of the book depository at the time JFK was shot. They may be compared with Oswald’s photograph taken later that afternoon in Dallas police headquarters. When questioned, Oswald told Dallas homicide detective Will Fritz that during the shooting he had been standing with Bill Shelley, one of his supervisors, in front of the building.

Note the missing left shoulder and the figure who is in front of and behind the man in the doorway at the same time, which are obvious indications the photo has been altered.  Facial features have been distorted, but the clothing is the key. “If you look at the height, weight, build, and the clothing he’s wearing—especially the highly unusual shirt and the t-shirt he has on—they correspond very closely to what Oswald was wearing when he was arrested,” Fetzer said.

For more proof that the man in the doorway (Doorman) was Lee Oswald, visit the Oswald Innocence Campaignon-line. While they altered features of Doorman’s face, the only other candidates for having been there were not wearing comparable clothing or did not fit the height, weight and build of the man in the doorway.  When you consider the totality of the evidence, no alternative explanation is reasonable.

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In his Santa Barbara Independent interview, Fetzer said public opinion polls “have shown over the years that as much as 85 percent of the public has expressed disagreement with the Warren Commission and the lone assassin theory.” Fetzer elaborated on the points he made in great detail during his keynote address, “The Assassination of America”, for the Santa Barbara JFK conference that he organized and moderated, which is now available at jfk50santabarbara.com.

Fetzer is a former Marine Corps officer who earned his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science.  He has published 29 books, including three collections of studies by experts on different aspects of the assassination. Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he is also an editor for, and contributor to, Veterans Today.

Sherwood Ross is an award-winning reporter. He served in the U.S Air Force where he contributed to his base newspaper. He later worked for The Miami Herald and Chicago Daily News. He contributed a weekly column on working for a major wire service. He is also an editorial and book publicist. He currently resides in Florida.

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Coast to Coast AM Always Has The Best Shows On The Holidays.....

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Liked · December 30, 2013 

One of the subjects Cal Cooper (tonight's guest in the second half) has studied is a very eerie occurrence that a number of people have reported. They actually receive a phone call from someone who has died, usually a close relative or friend. More: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/phone-calls-from-the-dead

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Thank you, George Noory, for always sharing the holidays with me--I can count on you.

Geraldo R--Getting his foot back in shape

Heading home! Thanks Mt. Sinai Hospital. No thx Hospital for Special Surgery for botched original job-Happy New Year


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Wishing Geraldo Happy New Year--can't wait to see your new show--feel better soon.

Love the jacket.

Roger Stone Adds a Touch of Panache to JFK Research

Washington insider and political consultant, Roger Stone, recently went out on his book tour about the JFK assassination.

The Man Who Killed Kennedy:  The Case Against LBJ

While he has received much deserved attention on his book, noted JFK journalist Jefferson Morley has said "Why Roger Stone's book has to be taken seriously," one cannot help but notice his attire, his panache, his sense of style and beautifully tailored suits.

Right, following this JFK thing forever, the tiny details can get ...well...tedious.

Admiring Roger Stone's photos on his facebok page my mind automatically says "Savile Row."

The styling of his suits, the way they fit and the details--that is tailoring at its finest--that is Savile Row.

The pressing, the stitches, the fine fabric and the way the suit fits that particular individual.

Love the Row and love sewing and tailoring forever.

Thank you, Roger, for telling us about fine tailoring and showing us pictures of your very stylish suits and bow ties.

Just purchased my shirting fabric from Liberty of London--yes, it was very expensive but the fine quality and workmanship are worth it.

Just hoping my stitches and fit come out a little bit like Roger's.

Roger Stone serves as The Men's fashion Consultant for The Daily Caller.

here is a link to Roger Stone's style page:  Stone on Style

http://stoneonstyle.com/

a link to the Jeff Morley page in the ronnie re talking about Roger:

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2013/11/lbj-killed-jfk-roger-stone-interview-on.html





Right, visiting London a few years ago, well, 2011, finally seeing Savile Row ....in person!  This is a little lengthy--wanting to just stay there forever and take pictures--unbelievable to actually see these very fine tailors at work.

And if you want shirting fabric London is the place to go.  It is a totally different deal than here in the states--the quality and the feel of the fabric.  I really should be there right now!

The Movie Guy Kevin Finnerty Talks about his Good Boss Cliff Albert

Kevin Finnerty

December 5 near San Diego, CA

Today was a hard day because the best boss, mentor and teacher I have ever had in my broadcasting career left KOGO radio. I owe a good deal of my career to Cliff Albert and not just in broadcasting. He promoted me back in 2003 to be the film critic for KOGO and from that I have become a respected movie critic within the San Diego broadcasting and writing community. Cliff has been and always will be the one of the most respected programmers and newsmen in the business. Here's wishing him the greatest success. You're the best Mr. Newz.

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Juans Williams Talks Responsibility to the Republican Party

Bill O'Reilly to Chris Christie:  May I ride on your train........

Juan, you are answering my question.  It seems like Bill O'Reilly has the same idea--I do not know about house cleaning the whole republican congress but it seems like he is going more towards the middle in his recent negative comments about duck dynasty.  The point being--that crazy right side cannot only not get anything accomplished in congress but they also cannot win a big election.  

It seems like the big money people have spoken and said anyone who wants to survive as a republican or a television show better try to get a ride on that fast moving locomotive know as the Chris Christie Express.  

It is about winning, being realistic, getting things done and standing up for the voters.  I think Bill and his "folks," the ones he is looking out for, the 500 dollar a ticket gang on his bolder and fresher meet and greet tour around the country have spoken.  

Get with the Chris Christie program and leave the whackadoodles behind or face death as a party, or worse yet as a television host.  Unless Jeb Bush or Jon Huntsman jump in and take over Chris Christie is the ticket to ride and life for the GOP.  Thanks and putting you in my blog......cl

Juans Williams Talks Responsibility to the Republican Party

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Juan Williams: Republicans to blame for the public's disgust with Congress

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As the year ends, Gallup reports that public approval of Congress averaged 14 percent during 2013. This, the polling firm points out, is “the lowest annual average in Gallup’s history.”

The pollsters added: “2013 is the only year in Gallup’s history in which all monthly readings were below 20 percent.”

Yet this is “the new normal,” according to Gallup, because in each of the last four years the congressional approval rating for the year has been below 20 percent.

It was such a bad year for Congress that Gallup predicts the 2014 midterm elections will not, fundamentally, be a fight over which party controls the House and Senate.

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Instead, the campaign could hinge on the overwhelmingly negative view of Congress and the sense “that more Americans feel that problems are with the institution itself rather than with the particular party or people who control it.”

This brings us to the quote of the year about political life on Capitol Hill. It came from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), defending the Republican-led House.

“We should not be judged on how many new laws we create,” he told CBS in July. “We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.”

This Republican strategy is at the heart of why Congress is so unpopular. They will not work on the big issues, beginning with their failure to deal with the number one public priority: creating jobs and boosting the economy.

Instead, the GOP’s congressional focus, according to the influential Republican Study Committee, is on extracting what they term “reforms” — really, they’re talking about budget cuts — in “mandatory spending” programs including food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. There is practically no desire for those cuts reflected in any polling.

As Campaign 2014 gets underway, Republicans are threatening another government shutdown tied to refusal to approve a debt-ceiling hike to pay bills. Their demand is for President Obama to make major cuts to programs such as Social Security.

The reduced-government, reduced-spending, reduced-federal-power strategy extends to the Senate where Republicans have used an historic number of filibusters and threats to block nominees to Obama administration posts and judicial seats. That led Senate Democrats to the “nuclear option,” opening the door to simple majority votes on most nominees.

But even with rules changes intended to break gridlock, the economy continues to struggle partly as a result of the GOP strategy.

This is not winning Republicans friends or votes. Only after the awful start for the ObamaCare website did generic polls on voter preference briefly lean toward the GOP. But at year end, polling on the question of generic preference now swings back and forth between the parties.

Now the Speaker is disavowing his earlier desire to have his party’s success in Congress measured by how many laws it repeals. His new talking point revolves around the number of bills passed by the GOP House that the Democratic majority in the Senate has ignored.

But even if all those bills, about 150, are counted, it does not change Congress’ absurdly low approval ratings and this Congress’ ranking, at the mid-point of the 113th Congress, as the least productive in modern times.

Of course, about a third of those bills that did pass the House called for repeal or defunding of ObamaCare. They had no chance in the Senate and no hope of avoiding a presidential veto.

Even by the standards of a divided Congress, with Republicans controlling the House and Democrats in the majority in the Senate, there has never been such an unproductive session of Congress.

NBC’s “First Read” recently published a chart comparing the productivity of today’s divided Congress (57 laws passed) to the work undertaken by a divided Congress during President Reagan’s terms – when Republicans controlled the Senate and Democrats controlled the House. The 97th, 98th and 99thCongresses respectively passed 473 laws, 623 laws, and 663 laws.

The article concluded: “It’s not even a close call. That [Democratic] House got a lot more done with its GOP rivals than this GOP House has with its [Democratic] counterparts.”

The failure to deal with the nation’s big issues begins with the Republican refusal to help the economy get better. The public is aware of the damage the Republican majority in the House inflicted upon the country when they shut down the government in October — an action that came with a price tag of  $24 billion, according to the financial services firm Standard & Poor’s.

The Republican strategy of congressional inaction has not even won fans among Republicans. According to Gallup, Democrats give Congress a 14 percent approval rating, Independents an 11 percent approval rating and Republicans a 10 percent approval rating.

There is constant attention in the news to Obama’s falling approval ratings in the polls — Real Clear Politics’ average of polls has him at 54 percent disapproval to 42.2 percent approval, near his all-time low.

But even if this is the darkest hour for the president, he still holds close to a 30-percentage point lead in approval over Congress.

At a Christmas party last week a Republican who owns several television stations came over to me with an idea: How about starting a movement to throw out the entire Congress and start over?

I thought he was joking and politely smiled. But he recounted how two radio personalities in California started the movement that led to the recall of Gov. Gray Davis (D) in 2003.

Now he wants he wants me and major television personalities, columnists and editorial writers to call for a “housecleaning” of all current members of Congress.

Well, this is the time for New Year’s resolutions.

Juan Williams is an author and political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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