http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=ignition Tue, 21 May 2013 22:07:14 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=ignition Tue, 14 May 2013 08:12:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c2_1368531316 John Nada Some nice videos of the russian rocket launcher RPO-A Shmel with a 2.1kg thermobaric warhead. The chechen islamist called these weapon "Sheitan Truba" which means satans pipe.:D http://world.guns.ru/grenade/rus/rpo-a-shmel-e.html "The blast effect of the thermobaric / FAE RPO-A warhead,which contains about 2.2 kg of Fuel-Air Explosive is roughly equivalent to the blast effect of the 107mm / 4" HE artillery shell. Upon explosion, RPO-A warhead generates the cloud of high-temperature flame (blast) which is about 6-7 meters in diameter(blast radius 3 meters or more). The blast cloud lasts as long as 0.4seconds, thus allowing for significant incendiary effect in addition to the massive pressure wave (typical HE explosion lasts much shorter)." The newer RPO-M Shmel has a bigger 3kg thermobaric warhead and a longer range. http://world.guns.ru/grenade/rus/rpo-m-shmel-m-e.html "The rocket consists of an solid-propellant engine, folding tail fins and a large thermobaric warhead, loaded with Fuel-Air Explosive. The blast effect of the RPO-M warhead is said to be comparable with that of the 155mm / 6" HE artillery shell." The thermobaric warhead has a small RDX spreading and ignition charge which is surrounded by a big mixture of isopropilnitrate and nanosize aluminium flakes. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6c2_1368531316 John Nada Russian thermobaric rocket launcher RPO-A Shmel (Bumblebee) firing RPO-A, RPO-M, RPO, thermobaric, Rocketlauncher, rocket, launcher, russian, Shmel, Bumblebee, chechen, syria, urban warfare, urban Fri, 10 May 2013 11:49:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b01_1368200550 Raven We got this car towed to our workshop today. The backwindow were smashed and wires were pulled out. This it what I say &quot;This is a stolen car. They've wired together 3 wires to get the ignition on And here is a 4th one to start the car, just touch it. Those 3 need to be together during the drive to ensure the car stays on. The steering lock is broken. (Just sit in the passenger seat and break it with your feet) 1st gear, release the handbrake and just drive. That's how easy it is.&quot; The car needs to be from 1995 or down (Approximately for it not to have a Immobilizer) And not a alarm. This was an old Honda Accord from 1995 sedan model http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b01_1368200550 Raven How to hotwire a car Theft, hotwire, steal, easy getaway Thu, 09 May 2013 20:59:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=797_1368147404 SAPD_HRT NOTE: There is no real explanation for this to happen . In a case that has caught the attention of the federal monitor overseeing department reforms, Seattle police acknowledged Wednesday that they have no video record of a February encounter in which officers fatally shot a mentally disturbed man in North Seattle. Some of the eight officers who responded in their patrol cars did not have training in how to work their dashboard cameras, even though the department has been using them in its entire fleet since 2007, the department said. Other officers responded directly from the North Precinct at the start of their shifts and didn't have time to electronically synchronize their dash-camera systems before driving to the urgent call, police said. Still others never activated their dash-cameras by turning on their patrol car emergency lights, the department said. Consequently, there is no video -- and possibly no audio -- of the Feb. 26 shooting of 21-year-old Jack Sun Keewatinawin, interim Police Chief Jim Pugel said Wednesday. Pugel said he was looking into what happened. He acknowledged that the shooting and the department's response to it have been raised with the department by Merrick Bobb, the federal-court monitor overseeing Seattle Police Department reforms to address Department of Justice findings of excessive force and evidence of biased policing. The department's Firearms Review Board (FRB) found that the shooting of Keewatinawin was justified, while his father has questioned the department's account of the nighttime incident. A court inquest to examine the shooting has been ordered. Council concerns Pugel said the FRB's investigation into the shooting was one of the two cases that were criticized in the monitor's report on the first six months of reforms, released two weeks ago. Bobb said his team found evidence that, "at minimum, raises the potential or appearance of skewing testimony by those seeking to protect an officer." The lack of video was publicly disclosed Tuesday during a City Council briefing in which Bobb discussed the police department's progress in complying with reforms compelled under a settlement agreement with the Justice Department. "We've had some discussions with the SPD about the in-car video situation," Bobb told the council's Public Safety Committee, referring to his monitoring team. "It troubled us that there were eight officers present at a particular incident and not one of the cameras was on, even though there was sufficient time to, for some of the officers to turn on their cameras," Bobb said. On Wednesday, the committee chair, Bruce Harrell, sent a letter to Pugel, saying that the shooting "has raised significant concerns regarding the procedural policies for activation of the dash-cameras." Harrell requested a department review of "when and how dash-cams are triggered" and what changes should be made "to prevent these incidents from happening in the future." He said he understood that a shift change during an emergency played a role, but that "transparency and continually improving performance should be our goal." SPD policy requires that officers activate their dash-cams and record, if feasible, enforcement-related activity. The officers wear small microphones that allow conversations to be recorded even if video is not available. Pugel said the city is in the process of installing a new system that isn't as complicated to use. He also said he is looking at reconfiguring the Firearms Review Board to address some of the monitor's issues. Pugel said that none of the vehicles responding to the scene were pointed in the direction of the shooting and likely would not have captured the incident. It's unclear how many vehicles the eight officers drove to the scene. Story questioned Keewatinawin was shot after police responded to calls from his two brothers who said Keewatinawin was holding their father hostage with a knife at a home in the 10100 block of Fourth Avenue Northwest. In a confrontation with responding officers, Keewatinawin brandished an 18-inch piece of rebar and, in an attacklike manner, approached an officer who had slipped on wet ground in a neighbor's yard, police said. The officer and two other officers fired, killing Keewatinawin. Before summoning police, Keewatinawin's brothers, Montano Rojo Northwind Sr. and Hawk Firstrider, each called 911 after they received disturbing phone calls from their mentally ill brother. They said he raged about an imagined attack and stolen money. Keewatinawin was with their father at his duplex, phoning threats to his brothers, who were at their respective homes. Northwind and Firstrider later learned that their brother was not holding their father hostage or threatening him. In fact, their father, Henry Northwind, said he did not feel he was in danger though Keewatinawin was pacing "fast and hard, jumping up and down and stomping on the ground." Police said that two attempts before the shooting to use a Taser on Keewatinawin, who was wearing bulky clothing, failed to connect the barbs to his skin. Shortly after the incident, Henry Northwind questioned the police version of events. He said his son fell to his knees and pulled the rebar from his pants. Officers surrounded him in a half-circle and opened fire, Northwind said. Northwind said he did not see an officer fall to the ground. Keewatinawin was convicted of attacking a woman at Carkeek Park in October 2011. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on Jan. 28 after he failed to report to his Department of Corrections community corrections officer and his treatment provider. Suggestions made During Tuesday's council briefing, Bobb, the federal monitor, said he favored a technological fix that would take discretion away from officers in activating their in-car camera systems. Bobb said he preferred a system that operated from when the "ignition key is turned on" until the car is returned at the end of a shift. Under council questioning, he acknowledged there would be storage problems that would have to be addressed. In addition, Bobb said, sergeants could remind officers as they leave roll call that they must activate their cameras. He also suggested spot checks and "stings" to see if officers were complying. "You enforce it that way," he said. "You let them know they have to turn the cameras on and that they're at the risk of being found out if they don't." In December 2011, the police department released an audit that concluded patrol-car cameras were not used as often as they should be. The report, issued by the department's Office of Professional Accountability, found usage of the cameras "uneven" and recommended further study of the issue, as well as reminders to use the cameras and additional training about their importance. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=797_1368147404 SAPD_HRT Seattle Cruiser Cameras Off During Shooting Seattle, Police, Dash, Cam, Broken, Shooting Thu, 09 May 2013 02:58:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aee_1368082086 Lake8737 8 yo boy tied 5 yo younger brother up on a tree and then set the grass on the ground on fire, which is the scene from a cartoon movie, Wolf Roast Sheep. The younger brother was severely burned after his clothes caught fire before villagers put it out. Google translate 15:00 yesterday, was severely burned slowly aged 8 and 5-year-old the vast brothers, by ambulance from the the Jiangsu Lianyungang delivered hospitalized. It is understood that led to the two brothers injured because actually they play in the plot to imitate cartoon Wolf roast lamb, the same village, another 9-year-old boy tied to a tree caused by the ignition. "He rarely cry, pain, even adults can ill afford." Hear the cries of the son, father Lee Kang red eyes, the afternoon of April 6, 2011, he and his wife took the two sons to plant trees. In the meantime, two children shouting thirsty. So he let the brothers go home and drink plenty of water. But, wait half an hour to once again see two sons, two children have not people look like. Clothes, the body can not burn a human form, one coke burnt taste. " Lee Kang said, later learned, two sons and the same village 9-year-old Shun Shun play the game, to imitate the "Pleasant Goat and gray too Wolf" cartoon in ash too wolf roasted lamb's episode, cis with the village to do the rope of the bamboo broom, to slowly and Hao-hao put it in the trunk. Shun Shun ignition ignited the hay on the ground, the fire downwind potential burn brothers body. But for the villagers passing, to help the fire, two sons may have gone. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aee_1368082086 Lake8737 8 and 5 yo brothers severely burned after playing Wolf Roast Sheep from cartoon movie china,chinese,borther,fire,rescue Sun, 05 May 2013 01:35:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55c_1367731954 SAPD_HRT A west suburban woman arrested for driving under the influence early Friday in Riverside - whose blood alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit when tested at the police station - told police that she had been drinking to celebrate the fact that she would be getting her driver's license back from a previous DUI arrest, police said.About 2:10 a.m. on Friday, a Riverside Police officer observed a driver speeding while on the 3400 block of South Harlem Avenue, a release from police said. After stopping the vehicle, the officer realized that the driver may have been under the influence of alcohol. After she failed multiple field sobriety tests, she was taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol, police said. Erin James, 58, of Brookfield was arrested and charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, the release said.At the Riverside Police Department, James provided a breath sample which showed an alcohol content of .155, almost double the legal limit of .08. A check of her driver's license showed that her license was currently suspended stemming from a 2012 DUI arrest in North Riverside. While being processed on the DUI charge, James told the officer that the reason that she was drinking was to celebrate the fact that she would be getting her license back from that DUI arrest, police said. "James was supposed to be operating a vehicle with a breath alcohol ignition interlock device (BAIID) which would have prevented her from driving intoxicated," Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel said. "The fact that she was driving a vehicle not equipped with a BAIID shows that she had every intent of drinking and getting behind the wheel. Ms. James purposely drove a car that she did not own to avoid the ignition lock device and was driving back from a Forest Park bar where she was celebrating that fact that she would finally have her driving privileges back after her 2012 conviction for DUI. Ms. James is exactly the type of motorist I want kept off the road permanently under a new proposed habitual DUI law that I will be proposing in the very near future." Weitzel's proposal will include loss of driving privileges for 10 years, confiscation of vehicle and a mandatory seven year sentence upon conviction for repeat offenders, the release said. James was expected to appear in court for a bond hearing on Saturday. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55c_1367731954 SAPD_HRT Woman Arrested For DUI Was Celebrating End Of Previous DUI Woman, Charged, DUI, Celebrating Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:38:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=134_1367235191 LostRothschild Another anti editorial that takes a poke at gun owners for killing people because of attempts to establish/maintain "masculinity"; the Times just seems to run anything in which a gun is misused and assume the reader will be outraged. This guy blames guns and gun owners for the death of his friend. The only person responsible for that death is him. He was holding the gun. if he were driving the car and his friend were killed in a car accident he would not blame auto mobiles and all of those who own automobiles He knows his actions killed someone and he is of the opinion that it is somehow his error and accident is the fault of all guns and all gun owners should be blamed and punished. In true Liberal fashion, he has a guilty conscience and expects others to suffer the consequences of his actions. This leads us to the old saying that a liberal is a person with a social conscience who sees the problems in society and strives to solve them with your money. This man has personal guilt and he strives to resolve it by taking away guns from others. At least he admits that it wasn't the gun that did it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE summer before my sophomore year in high school, I moved into my father's house. My father had remarried and the only unoccupied bedroom in his house was the gun room. Against one wall was a gun case he had built in high school, and beside it were two empty refrigerators stocked with rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. My bed's headboard resided against the other wall and, above it, a resigned-looking, marble-eyed, five-point mule deer's head with a fedora on its antler rack. The room had no windows, so the smell of gun oil filled my senses at least eight hours each day. It clung to my clothes like smoke, and like a smoker's cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone - including me - that residing within my family's weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because of them), they are quite peaceable. As for me, I have three guns, one inherited and two gifts, and I'm hardly a zealot. In fact I never had much interest in guns. Yet it is I who killed a man. It was the second week in August, a Friday the 13th, in fact, in 1982. I was with a group of college roommates who were getting ready to go to the Omak Stampede and Suicide Race. Three of us piled into a red Vega parked outside a friend's house in Okanogan, Wash., me in the back seat. The driver, who worked with the county sheriff's department, offered me his service revolver to examine. I turned the weapon onto its side, pointed it toward the door. The barrel, however, slipped when I shifted my grip to pull the hammer back, to make certain the chamber was empty, and turned the gun toward the driver's seat. When I let the hammer fall, the cylinder must have rotated without my knowing. When I pulled the hammer back a second time it fired a live round. My friend, Doug, slumped in the driver's seat, dying, and another friend, who was sitting in the passenger seat, raced into the house for the phone. The house sat beside one edge of a river valley and I knew that between the orchard at the opposite side and the next town was 20 miles of rock and pine. I was a cross-country champion in high school. I could run through the woods and find my way to my cousins, who lived far into the mountains. I could easily disappear. But I remained where I was, mindful that even if I ran, I would escape nothing. So, when the sirens finally whirred and the colored lights tumbled over the yard and the doors of the cruisers opened and a police sergeant asked who was responsible, I raised my hand and patted my chest and was arrested. Though the charges against me were eventually dropped, I have since been given diagnoses of a range of maladies, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and adult attention deficit disorders. The pharmacists fill the appropriate prescriptions, which temporarily salve my conscience, but serve neither my story nor the truth. Where I grew up, masculinity involved schooling a mean dog to guard your truck or skipping the ignition spark to fire the points, and, of course, handling guns of all kinds. I was barely proficient in any of these areas. I understood what was expected of me and responded as best I could, but did so with distance that would, I hoped, keep me from being a total fraud in my own eyes. Like many other young men, I mythologized guns and the ideas of manhood associated with them. The gun lobby likes to say guns don't kill people, people do. And they're right, of course. I killed my friend; no one else did; no mechanism did. But this oversimplifies matters (as does the gun control advocates' position that eliminating weapons will end violent crime). My friend was killed by a man who misunderstood guns, who imagined that comfort with - and affection for - guns was a vital component of manhood. I did not recognize a gun for what it was: a machine constructed for a purpose, one in which I had no real interest. I treated a tool as an essential part of my identity, and the result is a dead man and a grieving family and a survivor numbed by guilt whose story lacks anything resembling a proper ending. h t t p://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/i-killed-my-friend.html?hpw http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=134_1367235191 LostRothschild I Killed My Friend: Another Anti-Gun Article from the New York Times 2, 2nd, second, amendment, gun, firearm, rights, constitution, tyranny, freedom Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:15:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e9a_1363266723 2Crazy4U On this episode of Ignition, Carlos Lago tests the most powerful production car made in America - the new 2013 Ford Shelby GT500. After running the GT500 through Motor Trend's instrumented testing gauntlet, including top speed pulls on the dyno, we head to Kingman, Arizona, where pro racer Randy Pobst gets behind the wheel to see if Ford's 662-HP beast can break the elusive 200 mph barrier. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e9a_1363266723 2Crazy4U 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Chases 200 MPH! - <span class="highlight">Ignition</span> Episode 18 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Chases 200 MPH! - Ignition Episode 18 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:46:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0d_1366399786 BloodyPeasant The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The chemical fire and subsequent explosions claimed two lives, injured 372 people, and caused an estimated US$100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas Valley 10 miles (16 km) away was affected, and several agencies activated disaster plans. Background The PEPCON plant, located in Henderson, Nevada, was one of only two American producers of ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid fuel rocket boosters, including the Space Shuttle and military weapons. The other producer, Kerr-McGee, was located less than 1.5 mi (2.4 km) away from the PEPCON facility, within the area that suffered some blast damage. In addition to ammonium perchlorate, the facility also had a 16-inch (410 mm) high-pressure natural gas transmission line running underneath the plant. With the space shuttle program frozen as a result of the 1986 Challenger disaster, there was no government instruction dictating where to ship the product, and no mandated storage procedure or proper storage facilities existed for such large quantities of the product. PEPCON stored almost all manufactured ammonium perchlorate on-site. After all of the regular aluminum storage bins had been filled, HDPE plastic drums were used for additional storage and placed on campus parking lots. An estimated 4500 tons of the finished product were stored at the facility at the time of the disaster. In addition to the PEPCON and Kerr-McGee facilities, there was also a large marshmallow factory, Kidd &amp; Co., about 500 feet (150 m) away, and a gravel quarry in operation nearby. The closest residential buildings were about 1 3/4 miles (3 km) away. Fire and explosions According to a report by the United States Fire Administration, the fire originated around a drying process structure at the plant between 11:30 and 11:40 a.m. that day. A windstorm had damaged a fiberglass structure and employees were using a welding torch to repair the steel frame, causing a fire that spread rapidly in the fiberglass material, accelerated by nearby ammonium perchlorate residue. The flames spread to 55-gallon plastic drums containing the product that were stored next to the building as employees tried in vain to put the fire out with hoses. The first of a series of explosions occurred in the 55-gallon drums about 10-20 minutes after ignition, and employees had begun fleeing on foot or in cars. About 75 escaped successfully, but two were killed in subsequent larger explosions: Roy Westerfield, PEPCON's Controller who stayed behind to call the Clark County Fire Department; and Bruce Halker, who used a wheelchair and was thus impeeded in his ability to evacuate quickly. Employees at Kidd &amp; Co., the nearby marshmallow factory, heard the explosion and also evacuated. The fire continued to spread in the stacks of drums creating a large fireball and leading to the first of four explosions in the drum storage area. The fire then made its way into the storage area for the filled aluminum shipping containers, resulting in two small explosions there, and a massive explosion about four minutes after the first. Little fuel remained after that, causing the flame to diminish rapidly, except for a fireball that was supplied by the high-pressure natural gas line underneath the plant, which had been ruptured by one of the explosions. That gas line was shut off at about 1:00 p.m. by the gas company at a valve about a mile away. There were a total of seven explosions during the accident. The two largest produced waves measuring 3.0 and 3.5 on the Richter scale. Nearly 4,500 tons (9 million lb) of the product exploded, creating a crater 15 feet (4.6 m) deep and 200 feet (61 m) long in the storage area. The combined explosions released estimated energy of 2.7 kilotons of TNT. Fire department response The Fire Chief of the City of Henderson, who was leaving the main fire station about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the PEPCON facility, spotted the huge smoke column and immediately ordered his units to the scene. As he approached the plant, he could see a massive white and orange fireball about 100 ft (30 m) in diameter and dozens of people fleeing the scene. At about 11:54, as he approached the site, the first of the two major explosions sent a shock wave that shattered the windows of his car and showered him and his passenger with glass. The driver of a heavily damaged vehicle coming away from the plant then advised the chief about the danger of subsequent larger explosions, which prompted the chief to turn around and head back toward his station. The other units also stopped heading toward the site after the explosion. The second major explosion nearly destroyed the chief's car; after he and his passenger were cut by flying glass, he was able to drive the damaged vehicle to a hospital. The windshields of a responding Henderson Fire Department vehicle were blown in, injuring the driver and firefighters with shattered glass. Several nearby fire departments responded to the accident. Clark County units staged 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the scene and assisted injured firefighters. The explosions and the raging fire were beyond their firefighting capabilities and they made no attempt to approach or fight the fire in recognition of the danger it posed. Evacuation and overhaul of the scene The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada Highway Patrol and the National Guard evacuated a five-mile (8 km) radius around the plant, concentrating on areas downwind of the explosion. Roads in the area were clogged in both directions due to residents trying to leave and curious spectators headed toward the scene, creating a traffic jam that took over two hours to clear. More than an hour after the first explosions, authorities concluded that the airborne products could be a respiratory irritant. However, it was not considered highly toxic. Nor was the danger of further explosions estimated as high. Authorities had considered expanding the evacuation zone to 10 miles (16 km), but the idea was dropped due to the new information, although a few cases of respiratory irritation were reported in a small community about 30 miles (48 km) downwind. Crews in protective clothing headed to the scene to clean up, a slow process due to leaking tanks of anhydrous ammonia and residue from acids and other products. Several firefighters had to undergo treatment for respiratory irritation. Overhaul continued until dusk and resumed the following day. Authorities found the remains of one plant employee, but no trace of the other victim was ever found. Emergency medical services treated and transported about 100 patients to five hospitals in the region, with the remaining 200 to 300 heading into hospitals on their own volition. Many of the injured had been struck by flying glass when windows were shattered. Fifteen firefighters were injured. About four hours after the incident, hospitals were advised by the fire department that their disaster plans could be deactivated. Damage assessment and aftermath The explosions leveled the PEPCON plant and Kidd &amp; Co marshmallow manufacturing facility. Damage within a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) radius was severe, including destroyed cars, damage to buildings and downed power lines. Damage to windows and moderate structure damage was recorded within three miles (5 km) of the incident. The damage reached a radius of up to 10 miles (16 km), including shattered windows, doors blown off their hinges, cracked windows and injuries from flying glass and debris. At McCarran International Airport, seven miles (11 km) away in Las Vegas, windows were cracked and doors were pushed open. The shock wave buffeted a Boeing 737 on final approach. An investigation estimated that the larger explosion was equivalent to about one kiloton of TNT, approximately the same yield of a tactical nuclear weapon. In 1991, the Nevada legislature passed the Chemical Catastrophe Prevention Act, which led to Nevada's Chemical Accident Prevention Program. Because PEPCON had only $1 million in insurance, a courtroom battle involving dozens of insurance companies and over 50 law firms resulted in a $71 million settlement that was divided among the victims and their families. After the incident, the company changed its name to Western Electrochemical Co. (WECCO). It built a new ammonium perchlorate plant in an isolated area about 14 miles (23 km) outside of Cedar City, Utah with a substantial no-build buffer around it. On July 30, 1997, an explosion at that plant killed one and injured four. Today the Henderson site is a commercial development near the Green Valley residential community. Kidd &amp; Co rebuilt their plant on their original location. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster Subscribe to http://disasters.liveleak.com for similar videos. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0d_1366399786 BloodyPeasant (Disasters) May 4, 1988 Henderson, Nevada Ammonium Perchlorate Explosion May 4, 1988 Henderson, Nevada Ammonium Perchlorate Explosion, disaster, disasters, explosion, boom, Hey, what's THIS button do, Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:11:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7eb_1366343430 BloodyPeasant The Texas City disaster was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. The incident took place on April 16, 1947, and began with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp which was docked in the Port of Texas City. The fire detonated approximately 2,300 tons (2,086,100 kg) of ammonium nitrate and the resulting chain reaction of fires and explosions killed at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department. These events also triggered the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government, under the then-recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), on behalf of 8,485 victims. Ships The Grandcamp was a recently re-activated 437-foot-long (133 m) Liberty ship. Originally named the SS Benjamin R. Curtis in Los Angeles in 1942, the ship served in the Pacific theatre and was mothballed in Philadelphia after World War II. In a Cold War gesture, the ship was assigned to the French Line to assist in the rebuilding of Europe. Along with ammonium nitrate-a very common cargo on the high seas-it was carrying small arms ammunition, machinery, and bales of sisal twine on the deck. Another ship in the harbor, the SS High Flyer, was docked about 600 feet (200 m) away from the SS Grandcamp. The High Flyer contained an additional 961 tons of ammonium nitrate and 1,800 tons of sulfur. The ammonium nitrate in the two ships and in the adjacent warehouse was fertilizer on its way to farmers in Europe. The Grandcamp had arrived from Houston, Texas, where the port authority did not permit loading of ammonium nitrate. Explosions The 38% ammonium nitrate, used as fertilizer and in blasting agents, was manufactured in Nebraska and Iowa and shipped to Texas City by rail before being loaded on the Grandcamp. It was manufactured in a patented process, mixed with clay, petrolatum, rosin and paraffin wax to avoid moisture caking. It was also packaged in paper sacks, then transported and stored at temperatures that increased its chemical activity. Longshoremen reported the bags were warm to the touch prior to loading. Around 8:00 a.m., smoke was spotted in the cargo hold of the Grandcamp while it was still moored at its dock. Over the next hour, attempts to put out the fire or put it under control failed as a red glow returned after each effort to douse the fire. Shortly before 9:00 a.m., the captain ordered his men to steam the hold, a firefighting method where steam is piped in to put out fires in the hope of preserving the cargo. Meanwhile, the fire had attracted a crowd of spectators along the shoreline, who believed they were a safe distance away. Spectators noted that the water around the docked ship was already boiling from the heat, and the splashing water touching the hull of the ship was vaporized into steam. The cargo hold and deck began to bulge as the pressure of the steam increased inside. At 9:12 a.m., the ammonium nitrate reached an explosive threshold and the vessel then detonated, causing great destruction and damage throughout the port. The tremendous blast (29.3756^0N 94.8916^0W) sent a 15-foot (4.5 m) wave that was detectable nearly 100 miles (160 km) off the Texas shoreline. The blast leveled nearly 1,000 buildings on land. The Grandcamp explosion destroyed the Monsanto Chemical Company plant and resulted in ignition of refineries and chemical tanks on the waterfront. Falling bales of burning twine added to the damage while the Grandcamp's anchor was hurled across the city. Sightseeing airplanes flying nearby had their wings shorn off, forcing them out of the sky. Ten miles away, people in Galveston were forced to their knees; windows were shattered in Houston, Texas, 40 miles (60 km) away. People felt the shock 100 miles away in Louisiana. The explosion blew almost 6,350 tons of the ship's steel into the air, some at supersonic speed. Official casualty estimates came to a total of 567, including all the crewmen who remained onboard the Grandcamp, but many victims were burned to ashes or blown to bits, and the official total is believed to be an undercount. All but one member of the Texas City volunteer fire department were killed in the initial explosion on the docks while fighting the shipboard fire, and with the fires raging, first responders from other areas were initially unable to reach the site of the disaster. The first explosion ignited ammonium nitrate in the nearby cargo ship High Flyer. The crews spent hours attempting to cut the High Flyer free from its anchor and other obstacles, but without success. After smoke had been pouring out of its hold for over five hours, and about 15 hours after the explosions aboard the Grandcamp, the High Flyer blew up demolishing the nearby SS Wilson B. Keene, killing at least two more people and increasing the damage to the port and other ships with more shrapnel and fire. One of the propellers on the High Flyer was blown off, and found almost a mile inland; it is now part of a memorial park, and sits near the anchor of the Grandcamp. The propeller is cracked in several places, and one of the blades has a large piece missing from it, a mute testament to the destruction that took place that day. Scale of the disaster The Texas City Disaster is generally considered the worst industrial accident in American history. Witnesses compared the scene to the fairly recent images of the 1943 Air Raid on Bari and the much larger devastation at Nagasaki. Of the dead, 405 were identified and 63 have never been identified. These 100 were placed in a memorial cemetery in the north part of Texas City near Moses Lake. A remaining 113 people were classified as missing, for no identifiable parts were ever found. This figure includes firefighters who were aboard Grandcamp when it exploded. There is some speculation that there may have been hundreds more killed but uncounted, including visiting seamen, non-census laborers and their families, and an untold number of travelers. However, there were some survivors as close as 70 feet (21 m) from the dock. The victims' bodies quickly filled the local morgue, and several bodies were laid out in the local high school's gymnasium for identification by loved ones. More than 5,000 people were injured, with 1,784 admitted to twenty-one area hospitals. More than 500 homes were destroyed and hundreds damaged, leaving 2,000 homeless. The seaport was destroyed and many businesses were flattened or burned. Over 1,100 vehicles were damaged and 362 freight cars were obliterated-the property damage was estimated at $100 million ($1.03 billion in today's terms). A two-ton anchor of Grandcamp was hurled 1.62 miles (2.61 km) and found in a 10-foot (3 m) crater. It now rests in a memorial park. The other main five-ton anchor was hurled 1/2 mile (800 m) to the entrance of the Texas City Dike, and rests on a Texas shaped memorial at the entrance. Burning wreckage ignited everything within miles, including dozens of oil storage tanks and chemical tanks. The nearby city of Galveston, Texas, was covered with an oily fog which left deposits over every exposed outdoor surface. Firefighting casualties Some of the deaths and damage in Texas City were due to the destruction and subsequent burning of several chemical plants (including Monsanto and Union Carbide), oil storage, and other facilities near the explosions. Twenty-seven of the 28 members of Texas City's volunteer fire department and three members of the Texas City Heights Volunteer Fire Department who were on the docks near the burning ship were killed. One firefighter, Fred Dowdy, who had not responded to the initial call, coordinated other firefighters arriving from communities up to 60 miles (100 km) away. Eventually 200 firefighters arrived, from as far away as Los Angeles. Fires resulting from the cataclysmic events were still burning a week after the disaster, and the process of body recovery took nearly a month. All four fire engines of Texas City were twisted and burned hulks. A positive result of the Texas City disaster was widespread disaster response planning to help organize plant, local, and regional responses to emergencies. Reactions and rebuilding The disaster gained attention from the national media. Offers of assistance came in from all over the country. Several funds were established to handle donations, particularly the Texas City Relief Fund, created by the city's mayor Curtis Trahan. One of the largest fundraising efforts for the city and the victims of the disaster was organized by Sam Maceo, one of the two brothers who ran organized crime in Galveston at the time. Maceo organized a large-scale benefit on the island featuring some of the most famous entertainers of the time including Phil Harris, Frank Sinatra, and Ann Sheridan. In the end, the Texas City Relief Fund raised more than $1 million ($10.9 million in today's terms). Payouts for fire insurance claims reached nearly $4 million ($40.7 million in today's terms). Within days after the disaster, major companies that had lost facilities in the explosions announced plans to rebuild in Texas City and even expand their operations. Some companies implemented policies of retaining all of the hourly workers who had previously worked at destroyed facilities with plans to utilize them in the rebuilding. In all, the expenditures for industrial reconstruction were estimated to have been approximately $100 million ($1.03 billion in today's terms). Legal case Hundreds of lawsuits were filed as a result of the disaster. Many of them were combined into Elizabeth Dalehite, et al. v. United States, under the recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). On April 13, 1950, the district court found the United States responsible for a litany of negligent acts of omission and commission by 168 named agencies and their representatives in the manufacture, packaging, and labeling of ammonium nitrate, further compounded by errors in transport, storage, loading, fire prevention, and fire suppression, all of which led to the explosions and the subsequent carnage. On June 10, 1952, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this decision, finding that the United States maintained the right to exercise its own "discretion" in vital national matters. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision (346 U.S. 15, June 8, 1953), in a 4-to-3 opinion, noting that the district court had no jurisdiction under the federal statute to find the U.S. government liable for "negligent planning decisions" which were properly delegated to various departments and agencies. In short, the FTCA clearly exempts "failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty", and the court found that all of the alleged acts in this case were discretionary in nature. In its dissent, the three justices argued that, under the FTCA, "Congress has defined the tort liability of the government as analogous to that of a private person," i.e., when carrying out duties unrelated to governing. In this case, "a policy adopted in the exercise of an immune discretion was carried out carelessly by those in charge of detail," and that a private person would certainly be held liable for such acts. It should also be noted that a private person is held to a higher standard of care when carrying out "inherently dangerous" acts such as transportation and storage of explosives. According to Melvin Belli in his book Ready for the Plaintiff! (1965), Congress acted to provide some compensation after the courts refused to do so. The Dalehite decision was eventually "appealed" to Congress, where relief was granted by means of legislation (Public Law 378, 69 Stat. 707 (1955). When the last claim had been processed in 1957, 1,394 awards, totaling nearly $17,000,000, had been made. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster Subscribe for similar videos at: http://disasters.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7eb_1366343430 BloodyPeasant (Disasters) Texas City April 16th, 1947 Ammonium Nitrate Explosion texas city disaster, ammonium nitrate, explosion, disaster, history, texas, april 16th, 1947, boom, big boom, badaboom, big badaboom Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:07:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb2_1365404306 SAPD_HRT It was an early, crisp, frosty, fall Saturday morning, when dispatch called. She said a man had been parked at the local gas station for the last eight hours and was "acting strangely." My first thought was, 'Why didn't someone call seven hours ago?' I arrived at the station and saw the car parked at the far pump occupied by a lone male... Do You Know Who This Is? I went inside to talk to the cashier. She told me that the driver would fuel the car with small amounts of gas, come inside, pay and then return to the car. A while later, he would come inside, walk around for a time, buy food, and return outside. This pattern had continued throughout the night. The car's battery had apparently died when the driver left the ignition on but not run the car. I didn't take me too long to determine he had mental health issues. I got his driver's license, ran it through dispatch. The name sounded familiar but both the car and the driver's license were from an adjoining state. The phone rang. It was the dispatcher. She told me this was the guy who had shot an officer in my town a number of years before. A Car Load of Guns The officer had responded to a call of a man with a gun.During the resulting standoff, he and another officer had attempted to get the suspect to surrender. The suspect had a long history of mental health issues. The situation finally came to a head when he shot and wounded one of the officers in the arm. As a result, he was confined to a mental health facility. I walked the driver back out to his car and saw several gun cases sitting in the back. Not unusual since it was hunting season, but in this case, obviously a greater concern than normal. He was patted down and the guns checked and found to be unloaded. You are probably asking yourself, why is a guy who shot a police officer and then confined to a mental health treatment facility driving around with a car load of guns? I had the same questions. At the time, it was only illegal for someone who had been involuntarily confined to a mental treatment facility to possess a pistol, but long guns were ok. The law has changed since then. Apparently, in the opinion of his mental health providers he was safe enough to be allowed to leave the facility in his car and drive to see his parents for several days. They had recently moved into a nursing home. He had apparently gotten the guns from his father because the nursing home didn't allow them in their facility. With no reason to hold him, I persuaded him into letting me jump start his car and he was on his way. On duty the next morning, I received a dispatch that the suspect was at a residence, unannounced and uninvited, and the caller, knowing his history, was terrified. I responded and found the car in the alley. The suspect came walking out of the garage attached to the house. He told me that he had gone to the woman's house to talk about his parents. I patted him down and put him in the back of my squad car. The woman told me she had been cooking breakfast and saw the suspect standing in the garage staring at her through the window of the connecting door. She quickly locked the door, locked the front door and called 911. I went back out to his car to make sure that all the guns were unloaded and noticed that one of the cases wasn't zipped all the way closed, as required by law. I arrested him for an uncased firearm. The firearms were confiscated. He would be released, pay his fine, and continue to return periodically to visit his parents, without the guns, which were given to one of his relatives. He was never a problem. Let's Focus on the Problem The point of this story is twofold. First, you never know who you will run into on any contact. Secondly, in those days, I probably had dozens, if not hundreds, of guns go by me in cars as hunters headed to and from a day afield. I am sure I passed hundreds more in the homes of the citizens of the community that I served. Law abiding citizens in possession of firearms never cause me any grave concern, regardless of make, model, or caliber. Dangerously mentally-ill people and criminals concern me far more than guns, which are merely an instrument. Laws need to change to allow the dangerously mentally ill to be included in a database to prevent them purchasing firearms. It needs to be a crime to knowingly allow someone who is dangerously mentally ill to access firearms. Most of all, we need judges, prosecutors, and cops to enforce the gun laws that are already on the books. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb2_1365404306 SAPD_HRT Guns, the mentally ill, and law enforcement Guns, the mentally ill, law enforcement Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:41:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=911_1365269681 JihadKiller1s1k http://www.naturalnews.com/039797_North_Korea_nuclear_attack_Nuke_Free_Zone.html (NaturalNews) It's sheer genius. Never doubt the brilliance of the democratic party when it comes to national defense. President Barack Obama has announced the immediate deployment of a west coast network of "Nuke Free Zone" signs that will prevent nukes from striking America is exactly the same way "Gun Free Zone" signs stop school shootings. "It's time we took action to ensure the safety of American citizens," Obama declared at a Friday press conference, during which he held up the new "Nuke Free Zone" signs for everyone to see. "And to the American people, I say your government is protecting you, putting your tax dollars to work for the noble cause of self-preservation." California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was quick to applaud the measure, citing the importance of "doing something constructive" to protect America from the nuclear threats of Kim Jong-Un, the leftist dictatorial leader of North Korea who was first given nuclear fuel refining technology by the USA. Nuke Free Zone signs being made in China to save taxpayer money The "Nuke Free Zone" signs will be made in China using slave labor camps and will be purchased in quantities of 1.6 billion at a time by the Department of Homeland Security in order to "significantly reduce costs," says the White House. U.S. citizens will be encouraged to place the Nuke Free Zone signs on the roofs of their homes so that they are visible via satellite, thereby deterring nuclear-tipped ICBMs from targeting their homes. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at first didn't understand how the signs would work. He publicly asked, "How will the signs work if they are written in English but the Koreans read only Korean?" White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was quick to respond with an explanation: "The power of Nuke Free Zone signs transcends all language because they are blessed by our dear leader, Barack Jong Obama-Un." New York governor furious that no signs are being deployed in his state Not everyone loves the idea of the signs being deployed on the west coast, however. New York Governor Cuomo was furious to learn that no Nuke Free Zone signs would be provided to cover New York. "Are New Yorkers not worth saving from North Korean nukes?" He asked in a public speech. "We demand Nuke Free Zone signs be deployed across our great state, otherwise the nukes that are diverted from California's use of Nuke Free Zone signs may end up landing in New York." New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced he planned to "eat all the signs" and thereby transform into a "living human Nuke Free Zone." Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs also weighed in on the issue, saying, "There is no North Korean nuclear program." He then added, "...even though the program exists." When InfoWars.com founder Alex Jones warned Americans that, "Signs do not have magical powers and they will not stop intercontinental ballistic missiles," he was immediately blasted as a "fear mongering conspiracy theorist" by NPR, which accused Jones of "ginning up fear for personal profit." Jones was later accused by the New York Times of, "Obviously working for North Korea because he doesn't want Americans to protect themselves with Nuke Free Zone signs." North Korea response to Nuke Free Zone sign announcement The response from North Korea's military has been unfortunate. "We must hurry and launch these nuclear missiles before the Nuke Free Zone signs are erected," said a top North Korean military official earlier today. "Otherwise our plans will have been foiled by Obama yet again." It is not yet known who can act more quickly: China's slave labor factories that are manufacturing the Nuke Free Zone signs, or North Korean's long-range rocket scientists who are still trying to figure out how to light the rockets' fuses while having enough time to run away before ignition. Either way, it's clearly a high-stakes arms race that has captured the attention of the world. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=911_1365269681 JihadKiller1s1k Obama erects national defense against North Korean nukes with network of 'Nuke Free Zone' signs Obama erects national defense against North Korean nukes with network of 'Nuke Free Zone' signs Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:04:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c6d_1364360400 Yowzer The day started like a regular Sunday for Mohammad al-Daher, better known as Abu Azzam, the commander of the rebel Farouq Brigades in the vast swath of eastern Syria called the Jazira, a region that stretches from the Turkish border to the Iraqi frontier and encompasses the three provinces of Raqqa, Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor. He had a series of meetings in the morning in a number of locations in the bustling town of Tal Abyad on Syria's border with Turkey as well as in the partially destroyed former police station that is the Farouq's headquarters. And he was going to visit his mother. By late afternoon, however, the burly 34-year-old Raqqa native would be lying in a hospital bed - wounded by members of the ultraconservative Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra (which the U.S considers a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda). Abu Azzam's targeting has blown open a sharp rift and long-brewing conflict between the more secular nationwide Farouq brigades and the Jabhat. The two groups are among the most effective, best organized and most well-known of the many military outfits aligned against Syrian President Bashar Assad - and the fight between them is just beginning. ( MORE: Syria's Many Militias: Inside the Chaos of the Anti-Assad Rebellion ) Farouq has the upper hand in Tal Abyad, which lies opposite the Turkish city of Akcakale. It snatched the border crossing from Assad's forces on Sept. 19, much to the chagrin of a number of other rebel groups - both secular units under the loose banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), as well as Islamist groups operating independently. It's not the only border post controlled by the Farouq. The gateway to Idlib province, Bab al-Hawa, near the Turkish city of Reyhanli, is also in their hands. The Jabhat, on the other hand, were at the forefront of taking Raqqa city, farther to the south, the first provincial capital to fall to any rebel force. By mid-afternoon, Abu Azzam stopped in to see his mother, Em Mohammad, in her modest first-floor apartment a short walk from the Farouq base. The young man stooped to kiss her right hand, he put his forehead to it before kissing her cheeks and embracing her warmly. "Finally, I see you!" she told him, gently scolding her son as he sat beside her. "You know the last time I saw him he was like this," Em Mohammad said, picking up Abu Azzam's two cell phones, holding one to each ear and pretending to issue orders into them, interspersing the talk of weapons and requests for battle updates with "Hi, mother, how are you, how is your health?" The half a dozen men in the room all laughed. "I'm sorry," Abu Azzam told his mother, "but what can I do?" Turkish coffee was served in delicate, thin-handled china cups. On this day Abu Azzam wasn't in his unit's military uniform. He was dressed in indigo jeans, a dark green crew-neck sweater, a black leather jacket and navy boat shoes. He has a Salafi-style black beard (without a mustache) that he frequently tugs at and a smile so broad and disarming that it seems like it takes up his whole face. ( PHOTOS: Syria's Slow-Motion Civil War ) He reached for his pack of Winston Silver cigarettes before turning to his mother, a feisty, friendly woman in a long black dress and powder blue headscarf whom he bore a striking resemblance to. "Just so you don't hear it elsewhere, they planted an device in my car yesterday," he told her. Em Mohammad put her hand up to her mouth. She had lost Abu Hussein, the second of her three sons, on Feb. 20 in the battles for Raqqa province. He was also a member of the Farouq, a father of two little girls, and now her eldest son was telling her he had been targeted. "May God protect you," she told him. "Nobody dies before his time," Abu Azzam said, repeating a common Arabic phrase. In a chilling premonition of what would happen just a few hours later, he said: "I know that I am going to be killed either by the regime or by the Jabhat. There is no difference, they are both dirty." The device consisted of several sticks of TNT wired to the ignition of a BMW vehicle Abu Azzam often travels in. A neighbor alerted the Farouq leader to the presence of the device. Seated on the floor, Abu Azzam rattled off a laundry list of towns and cities he said the Farouq helped clear of Assad's forces. "What did they liberate?" he said of the Jabhat. "They are just here to try and impose their rules on us." He held up his cigarette: "They threatened to label me a kafir because of this," he said. (Some ultraconservatives consider smoking a sin.) ( MORE: Viewpoint: A Chemical-Weapon Mystery, a Reminder of How Blind We Are in Syria ) Some of the men in the room who had just returned from Raqqa city, relayed details of the Jabhat's smear campaign there against Abu Azzam and the Farouq. "They're calling us Farouq sarouk," one said ( sarouk roughly translated in this context means thief). "Some of them say that we are nonbelievers." It's not the first time Abu Azzam has clashed with conservative Islamists. Before taking Tal Abyad, he was in charge of the Bab al-Hawa crossing hundreds of kilometers away. A Syrian Islamist extremist called Abu Mohamad al-Absi, who led a group of foreign jihadis who at one point controlled one of Bab al-Hawa's two gates, wanted to raise the black banner over the border crossing, something Abu Azzam opposed. Al-Absi was kidnapped and killed in September 2012, most likely by the Farouq, although they haven't admitted it. The jihadis retaliated in early January, killing Abu Azzam's successor, Abu Ali, at Bab al-Hawa. In several meetings with TIME over the past year, Abu Azzam has repeatedly said the Farouq will not allow Islamic extremists to "hijack" the revolution. There was a knock at the door. A cleric with a long gray beard, in a flowing white galabiya (a loose, floor-length robe) and a vest over it, entered the house. Em Mohammad and most of the men in the room were asked to sit in another room while Abu Azzam met the man. "Please wait with the chief of staff," Abu Azzam said, laughing, referring to his mother. Other men in the Farouq jokingly call Em Mohammad "Anissa," after Bashar Assad's mother Anissa, a woman who some say acts as her son's key adviser and is actually the real power behind the regime. That Em Mohammad is respected among the Farouq for her warmth, savviness and strength is without question, and those qualities would soon come to the fore in the hours ahead. The meeting was brief and the sheikh didn't stay for lunch, which was placed on a black plastic sheet on the floor as is customary. Store-bought kebabs, grilled tomatoes and green peppers, as well as minted yogurt were laid out. Flat Arabic bread was passed around. "This is the first thing I've eaten all day," Abu Azzam said. It was almost 4:30 p.m. ( MORE: How Islamist Rebels in Syria Are Ruling a Fallen Provincial Capital ) The three men seated around him, Bandar, Ramadan and Badr, were all old friends from the central city of Homs who studied at the university there. The four men all lived together before the Syrian revolution. When the uprising became armed, Abu Azzam, a fourth-year Arabic-literature student living in the city, joined the Farouq as did most of his friends. The Farouq Brigades emerged from Homs and nearby Rastan just months into the Syrian uprising, now two years old. In the period since, operating under the FSA umbrella, they have formed units across the country, from Daraa in the south near the Jordanian border to the northern region bordering Turkey. The brigades take the name Farouq from Omar bin al-Khatab, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, political architect of the caliphate and, historically, the second Caliph. The men recalled their university days with laughter. The mood was light. "I've lost so much weight in this revolution," Bandar said, laughing. "Do you remember how we used to cook in Homs?" Abu Azzam's specialty was molokhia , green leaves that are carefully picked and turned into a viscous green soup served with chicken and plain rice. Ramadan recounted an incident that had happened earlier in the day in Raqqa city that TIME also witnessed. He had stopped at a street-side coffee stall in his white pickup truck that has a black flag bearing the Muslim shahada (There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Prophet) mounted on it. Three teenage girls walked past, two in hijabs, tight jeans and figure-hugging sweaters that extended to their thighs, the third in a black abaya. The third girl looked at the armed men in the truck and brazenly took off her abaya. Under it, she was dressed like her friends. "She must have thought we were Jabhat because of the flag and wanted to make a point!" Ramadan said. "So I turned up the music so she would know that we weren't." He continued proudly: "See, this is Raqqa, and the Jabhat thinks it's going to control it?" ( PHOTOS: From the Front Lines: Syria by Narciso Contreras ) Lunch was cleared and the men said their goodbyes. Abu Mansour, Abu Azzam's deputy who is also his cousin, walked into the room, bid his cousin farewell and told him he was going to check on his family just across the border in the Turkish town of Akcakale. Abu Mansour walked the short distance home. His niece had just served steaming-hot Turkish coffee, but before Abu Mansour could take a sip, one of his two cell phones rang. "What! Where are you? I'm coming now!" he said into the phone before jumping up, shoving his local Alhamraa cigarettes and his phones into his leather jacket and rushing out the door. It was a little before 5 p.m. and Abu Azzam had just been shot. Minutes earlier, on the other side of the border, Abu Azzam had also received a phone call, from one of his men. The Jabhat had set up a random checkpoint at a spot dubbed Liberation Roundabout on the main road in Tal Abyad and were detaining Farouq fighters and trying to disarm them. A few days earlier, 11 Farouq men were picked up by the Jabhat in town. Abu Azzam grabbed a BKC machine gun and ran out the door to intercede on behalf of his men. According to Em Mohammad, he didn't ask any of his men to come with him but two followed him anyway. He had just reached the roundabout and stepped out of his car when a member of the Jabhat reportedly tossed a hand grenade in his direction before others opened fire. The melee was over within minutes, and Abu Azzam, as well as several other wounded men, were being ferried by passersby to the border crossing into Turkey, where Abu Mansour was waiting to rush his bloodied commander in a taxi to the local hospital in Akcakale. ( PHOTOS: The Swallows of Syria ) The hospital foyer was crowded with unarmed Farouq fighters in plainclothes, as well as others. Em Mohammad paced up and down. She was carrying a blue garbage bag containing her son's clothes. She held up his indigo jeans. They were bloodied and there was a tear above the right knee. Abu Azzam was shot in the left side of his abdomen, both his hands were bandaged and he sufferd shrapnel wounds to both legs, as well as above his right eye. One of the Farouq men's phone rang. "Don't do anything until we get men and ammunition," he told the caller. "Calm down! Calm the men down! Here, speak to Em Mohammad and do whatever she says." Em Mohammad took the phone. "Please, you are all my sons. This is not the time for rash decisions. We must be smart. Calm down. We are all angry. This has become personal but we don't want unnecessary loss of life. Please calm the men down, I'm counting on you." Abu Azzam was wheeled into the nearby X-ray room. His mother leaned forward gently through the crowd to cover his naked shoulder with the pale mauve sheet. One of the two Farouq fighters was lying on a gurney in the emergency room. He looked to be about 20 years old and was dressed in military camouflage pants and an aqua t-shirt. He had a shrapnel wound to his left ankle, which was bandaged. Tears welled in his eyes. "They shot Abu Azzam!" he said, before asking one of his colleagues for water, a request denied on doctor's orders. "Then let me go back out there and fight!" he said. "Let me fight them!" he said, crying. A gurney with a pale mauve sheet covering a dead man was wheeled out of the emergency room into the foyer, and toward the elevator to be taken to the morgue. The crowd in the foyer gathered around it as the sheet was lifted to reveal the man's face. he had shoulder-length hair, and also looked to be in his early 20s. Em Mohammad and members of the Farouq didn't recognize him, but a short man with a closely-cropped graying beard did. The dead man was a member of Jabhat al-Nusra, the short man claimed, before offering the dead man's name. Em Mohammad started crying. "He's so young, may God rest his soul," she said, a generous sentiment given that the man had apparently just tried to kill herson. ( MORE: The Destruction of a Nation: Syria's War Revealed in Satellite Imagery ) Soon after, another dead man was also wheeled out, also identified by the short man as a member of Jabhat al-Nusra. "They have eyes and ears everywhere," Em Mohammad said, referring to the short man. There were other characters in the foyer, men who were identified to TIME as Turkish intelligence agents. By 6 p.m., four policemen were guarding the entrance of the hospital and using a hand-held metal detector to check everyone coming through the doors. Abu Azzam was to be transferred to a bigger hospital in Sanliurfa some 53 kilometers away. He let out a cry of pain as he was wheeled into a waiting ambulance. A thin stream of fresh blood escaped from under the large bandage over his right eye. (As of Tuesday, the Farouq commander was still in hospital, under Turkish guard, in a stable condition.) Later on Sunday night, Abu Azzam's sister and other female relatives crossed into Turkey in the dark, along with their children. They were taken to Abu Mansour's home. Two Farouq men sat outside the front door, guarding it although they were both unarmed. One, a man in a black and gray tracksuit, sat on the stairs. With deep sadness, he said that the day's events had made him want to forget about the revolution. "If this is what it has come to - to us fighting each other - then I want to sit at home and support Bashar," he said. His view was not shared by most of the Farouq who were itching for a fight. By Monday, no fewer than five Farouq liwas (or brigades although the term doesn't strictly correlate to a brigade in the modern military sense) were on their way to Tal Abyad from the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib. There have been clashes in Tal Abyad between the two groups although by Monday afternoon the border crossing was reopened. Abu Mansour, Abu Azzam's deputy, said the Jabhat approached him and requested that the matter between the two groups be resolved in a Sharia court. As a goodwill gesture, they released 11 Farouq fighters as well as 22 others they had picked up earlier. They were also forced to retreat out of the various positions they occupied in Tal Abyad to their main base in the town. "The problem is that they have forgotten that we are all fighting Bashar," Abu Mansour said of the Jabhat. "They want an Islamic emirate. They say that they are Islamists and we are apostates, but we will not accept that they have any sway or authority over us or others. May God heal Abu Azzam, that is the main thing, but in every province now, we will fight them." http://world.time.com/2013/03/26/in-syria-the-rebels-have-begun-to-fight-among-themselves/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c6d_1364360400 Yowzer In Syria, the Rebels Have Begun to Fight Among Themselves Syria, FSA, Al nursa, infighting, farouq