Laachraoui is believed to be the bomb maker behind the Paris terror in November and an Isil commander. He was one of Europe’s most wanted men who gave police the slip last year when he returned from Syria.
SOURCE: LINDAIKEJISBLOG.COM
Najim Laachraoui, 3rd Terrorist suspect in Belgium airport attack arrested in Anderlecht
Laachraoui is believed to be the bomb maker behind the Paris terror in November and an Isil commander. He was one of Europe’s most wanted men who gave police the slip last year when he returned from Syria.
FOOTBALL: Egypt arrive Nigeria today as coach Samson Siasia insists 'I don't fear them'
The first of the two Group G fixtures between the Nigeria and Egypt will take place at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Friday.
Egypt possesses European football stars like Mohamed Salah of AS Roma, Arsenal's Mohamed Elneny, Mahmoud Trezeguet of Anderlecht, Ahmed Hassan Kouka of Sporting Braga Portugal but Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia believes his players have what it takes to defeat the Pharaohs on Friday.
"Trust me, there will be no sentiment in selecting the team against Egypt on Friday. We have about seven training sessions for every player to show their readiness to play the game. I have invited them based on their current form in their clubs, now is the time for them to show Nigerians that what we see them do in Europe is real," Siasia told Completesportsnigeria.com
"I am thrilled by their various club performance and if they reproduce such forms here in Nigeria colour, I see no reason why Egypt will not be beaten soundly on Friday. The job demands total commitment from every player and official and with God on our side, we shall triumph over the two legs." "The response of players to camp, I must say was encouraging and it gives me the confidence that we are going to have a very good game on Friday. We don't fear Egypt. In fact, they should fear us because we won't give them any breathing space in Kaduna and Alexandria,"
SOURCE: LINDAIKEJISBLOG.COM
Footballer Samir Nasri's $330k lamborghini impounded by police
Nasri was pictured on Wilson Street in the Beswick area of the city, not far from from his club's multi-million pound training complex, before being picked up by a club chauffeur.
SOURCE: LINDAIKEJISBLOG.COM
R.I.P: Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dead at 46
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford -- who became world famous for his crack scandal while in office -- died Tuesday after a battle with cancer ... his reps confirm.
Ford was diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma in 2014 after a tumor was found in his abdomen. He underwent surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, but the cancer proved too strong.
Ford -- who served as mayor from 2010 to 2014 -- was caught on video smoking crack on multiple occasions during his term. He admitted to using the drug though denied he was an addict.
In 2014, Ford went to rehab to seek help for his "problem with alcohol" -- and after a 2 month stint, he returned to work to continue his term.
He died at Mount Sinai hospital in Canada -- surrounded by his family. Ford is survived by his wife and 2 children.
SOURCE: http://www.tmz.com
NFL'S RAY MCDONALD RAPE ACCUSER FURIOUS Why Did School Invite Him to Speak?
A California high school is under fire for booking ex-NFL star Ray McDonald as a guest speaker last month -- since he's still a defendant in a rape case -- and now Gloria Allred is going after the superintendent.
The ex-49ers defensive end is scheduled to go on trial next month to face allegations he raped an intoxicated woman at his home back in 2014. He has pled not guilty.
Still, he was invited to speak at Tennyson High School (in the Bay Area) on February 25th -- to help get at-risk students on the right path.
The news infuriated McDonald's accuser and her lawyer, Gloria Allred -- who fired off a letter to the superintendent of the school district -- calling the move "highly inappropriate."
Allred also suggests McDonald had ulterior motives for wanting to give the speech:
"It may be that Mr. McDonald through his appearance and speech to your students was seeking to have a positive impact on the potential jury pool in his upcoming criminal trial. I wonder, however, why you would appear to be amendable to supporting him in this strategy if indeed that was his goal."
The best part ... Allred says if the school is having trouble finding a positive role model to speak to the kids, she knows the perfect person to step in:
"I would be willing to serve as a speaker on these subjects if you would be willing to invite me."
SOURCE: http://www.tmz.com
BELGIUM BOMBERS: Brussels Airport Suicide Bombers Were Reportedly Brothers
Belgian police identified two suspected Islamic State suicide bombers captured on security cameras before they struck Brussels Airport on Tuesday in the first of two attacks that also hit the city’s metro, public broadcaster RTBF said on Wednesday.
The death toll in the attacks on the Belgian capital, home to the European Union institutions and NATO, rose to at least 31 with more than 200 wounded, Health Minister Maggie De Block said on VRT television.
The Syrian-based Islamist militant group claimed responsibility four days after the arrest in Brussels of a prime suspect in November’s Paris attacks. If confirmed, the identifications would link the Brussels blasts directly to the jailed Paris suspect, Salah Abdeslam.
The attacks sent shockwaves across Europe and around the world, with authorities racing to review security at airports and on public transport, and rekindled debate about European security cooperation and police methods.
RTBF, quoting a police source, named the suspected bombers as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui, two brothers resident in Brussels and known to the security services for crime.
The newspaper DH said a third suspect seen with them before running away from the airport after the blasts was identified as Najim Laachraoui, 25, a man sought by police and directly linked to Abdeslam.
Khalid had rented under a false name the apartment in the city’s Forest borough, where police hunting Abdeslam killed a gunman in a raid last week, RTBF said.
The Brussels blasts fueled political debate across the globe about how to combat militants.
“We can and we will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world,” said U.S. President Barack Obama.
Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination to succeed Obama in November’s U.S. election, suggested suspects could be tortured to avert such attacks.
Brussels police searched a house in the north of the city late into the night, turning up another bomb, an Islamic State flag and bomb-making chemicals in an apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek.
Local media said authorities had followed a tip from a taxi driver who may have driven the bombers to the airport.
Investigators said they were focusing on a man in a hat who was caught on CCTV pushing a laden baggage trolley at the airport with two others they believed were the bombers. An unused explosive device was later found at the airport and the man, believed to be Laachraoui, was seen running away from the terminal after the explosions.
Security experts believed the blasts, which killed about 20 people on a metro train running through the area that houses EU institutions, were probably in preparation before Friday’s arrest of locally based French national Abdeslam, 26, whom prosecutors accuse of a key role in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.
He was caught and has been speaking to investigators after a shootout at an apartment in the south of the city a week ago, after which another Islamic State flag and explosives were ound. It was unclear whether he had knowledge of the new attack or whether accomplices may have feared police were closing in.
Islamic State said in a statement that “caliphate soldiers, strapped with suicide vests and carrying explosive devices and machineguns” struck Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station.
It was not clear, however, that the attackers used vests. The suspects were photographed pushing bags on trolleys, and witnesses said many of the airport dead and wounded were hit mostly in the legs, possibly indicating blasts at floor level.
Officials said the final death tolls remained uncertain from the carnage in the morning rush hour, around 8 a.m. (0700 GMT)at the airport and shortly after 9 a.m. on the metro.
“A photograph of three male suspects was taken at Zaventem. Two of them seem to have committed suicide attacks. The third, wearing a light-colored jacket and a hat, is actively being sought,” prosecutor Frederic Van Lee uw told a news conference.
The two men in dark clothes wore gloves on their left hands only. One security expert speculated they might have concealed detonators. The man in the hat was not wearing any gloves.
“If you recognize this individual or if you have information on this attack, please contact the investigators,” a police wanted notice for the third man read. “Discretion assured.”
Islamic State warned of “black days” for those fighting it in Syria and Iraq. Belgian warplanes have joined the coalition in the Middle East, but Brussels has long been a center of Islamist militancy.
About 300 Belgians are estimated to have fought with Islamists in Syria, making the country of 11 million the leading European exporter of foreign fighters and a focus of concern in France and other neighbors over its security capabilities.
“What we had feared has come to pass,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, vowing to face down the threat.
On Wednesday, he will host a prearranged visit by French Premier Manuel Valls, who declared: “We are at war.”
Reviving arguments over Belgian policies following the Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed in an operation apparently organized from Brussels, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin spoke of “naiveté” on the part of “certain leaders” in holding back from security crackdowns on Muslim communities.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders retorted that each country should look to its own social problems, saying that France too had rough high-rise suburbs in which militants had become radicalized.
Life began to return to normal in Brussels on Wednesday, with some public transport working and cars returning to the European district, but the metro system remained closed and the airport was still shut to travelers.
SOURCE: huffingtonpost.com
ART: SPECIAL EFFECTS: New Zealand's Zoe Armstrong...(PHOTOS)
She said:
"I was always fascinated by gore and how they did zombies, wounds and fight scene make-up in movies, and I often spent my days during art classes using newspaper and old paint to make myself have a zombie hand."MORE PICS
Her theatre tech lecturer was instrumental in helping Zoe take her passion further by buying her her first special effects make-up kit.
She says she learns by watching YouTube plenty videos of professional artists, now she is so good she can create a gunshot wound in under dive minutes.
SOURCE: lindaikejisblog.com
Recovering Loots of Nigerian Politicians: AGF, EFCC boss head to Dubai to recover $200b loot
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