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Around 1,400 passengers were grounded at Warsaw's Frederic Chopin airport Sunday, after hackers attacked ground computer systems used to issue flight plans.
A spokesman for state-run airline LOT, Adrian Kubicki, said the problem was fixed after around five hours, but that 10 of the carrier's domestic and international flights had to be cancelled. About a dozen more were delayed.
"We're using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry," he said, adding that the safety of ongoing flights had not been compromised.
The affected flights were bound for Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Copenhagen and domestic destinations.
LOT said some passengers had since been able to board their flights, but that the remainder had been put up in hotels on Sunday evening.
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Authorities are investigating a website that contained a purported manifesto that they believe to be connected to Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman accusing of killing nine people inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, this week.
Among prognostications about segregation and other racist topics, the writer says "someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”
Investigators have not made a final determination on the authenticity of the manifesto and photos but are working under the belief they're as real as they appear to be, a federal official briefed on the probe told ABC News.
They "don't have any indication that it isn't [authentic]," the source said. "We just can't make the definitive link."
The site allegedly revealed disturbing views about race in addition to dozens of photos believed to be of Roof, including one of him holding a gun and another of him holding a Confederate flag.
On the site, the writer espouses segregation and white racial superiority, views apparently shaped after the writer became interested in the Trayvon Martin case, the post said.
Martin, an unarmed teen, was shot to death by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman in 2012. The writer believes that “Zimmerman was in the right.”
Towards the end of the purported manifesto, the writer explained why Charleston was chosen as a target.
“I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country,” the writer said. “We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”
The website, which was unavailable today, was titled “The Last Rhodesian,” referring to the ruling white minority in Apartheid-era Zimbabwe.
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PHOTO: Dylann Roof is shown in this photo posted to website: <a href="http://lastrhodesian.com" rel="nofollow">lastrhodesian.com</a>.
Former FBI agent Michael German, who has infiltrated white supremacist groups, said the writer of the purported manifesto fits a pattern of an individual with a "deep-seeded hatred." He said those individuals often turn to the Internet and different groups "trying to find some justification where their anger and frustration can fit in."
Though Roof doesn't appear to be directly a part of a white supremacist group, German said it's not unusual for individuals to act alone.
"The above-ground groups, the groups you hear about, the so-called hate groups, tend not to be involved in criminal activity because they're identifiable, [so] it's easy to find them," he said. "There are individuals within the movement are actually instructed to go out and do something on their own or with a small group, a small cell of like-minded people."
Roof, 21, was apprehended in Shelby, North Carolina, about 250 miles from where he allegedly opened fire inside the Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday night at Bible study. He allegedly confessed to the killings, according to a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation, and has been charged with nine counts of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
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PHOTO: Dylann Roof is shown in this photo posted to website: <a href="http://lastrhodesian.com" rel="nofollow">lastrhodesian.com</a>.
ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said Roof's defense team may have difficulty pleading an insanity defense.
"The insanity defense is so hard to win, particularly in a case like this, where [there] seems to have been so much sort of premeditation and thought about how he was going to do what he was going to do and why he was going to do it," he said.
Ashley Pennington, a public defender assigned to Roof, has not responded to ABC News' request for comment.
Several family members of the nine people killed at Charleston's Emanuel African MethodistEpiscopal Church balanced their grief with forgiveness at Roof’s first court appearance Friday afternoon.
“I forgive you,” the daughter of victim Ethel Lance, 70, said through tears to Roof, who appeared at the bond hearing via video-conferencing from jail. "You took something very precious from me and I will never talk to her ever again. I will never be able to hold her again. But I forgive you. And have mercy on your soul."
"We welcomed you Wednesday night in our bible study with open arms," said Felicia Sanders, the mother of 26-year-old Tywanza Sanders.
"Every fiber in my body hurts," Sanders added. "And I'll never be the same."
Alana Simmons, granddaughter of victim Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, said, "Although my grandfather and the other victims died at the hands of hate, this is proof everyone's plea for your soul is proof that they lived and loved and their legacies will live and love. So hate won't win and I just want to thank the court for making sure that hate doesn't win."
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President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina won't seek another office when her second term ends Dec. 10, defying recent speculation she might run for congress.
With the passage of the filing deadline at midnight Saturday, Fernandez's name did not appear on any list of candidates. She is barred by Argentina's constitution from seeking a third presidential term.
Expectations had been rising that Fernandez might not be willing to leave government completely after holding public offices for more than two decades and many speculated she could decide to lead the congressional slate in Buenos Aires province.
Her son Maximo Kirchner, however, is seeking a seat in the House of Deputies for Santa Cruz province. He is the son of Fernandez and the late Nestor Kirchner, who preceded his wife as president.
Fernandez still is expected to remain an influence in the left-of-center Front for Victory coalition that has supported her policies of government intervention in the economy.
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America’s latest horrific act of gun violence is forcing Washington to wrestle anew with the easy availability of deadly weaponry in a nation that constitutionally protects the right to bear arms.
Gunfire slays more than ten thousand people annually in the United States, including nine church-goers last week in Charleston, South Carolina.
Amid the grief, reports surfaced that suspected shooter Dylann Roof was given a gun as a birthday present earlier this year. That such a troubled young man had a firearm shows America has a problem to confront, according to President Barack Obama.
“Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people,” said Obama late last week. “What’s different is not every country is awash with easily-accessible guns. And so I refuse to act as if this is the new normal.”
Already, the issue is reverberating in next year’s presidential race. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton noted the Charleston tragedy followed shooting rampages at a Connecticut elementary school and a Colorado movie theater.
“We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns and division,” said Clinton. “How many innocent people in our country from little children to church members to movie theater attendees, how many people do we need to see cut down before we act?”
America’s biggest gun-rights lobby, the National Rifle Association, has not shied from the fight. The group’s leader, Wayne LaPierre, recently pledged to defeat Clinton, and, in 2012, famously declared: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
The NRA’s political clout is such that prominent Republicans lined up to address its annual national convention this year, including former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who is now running for president.
“I have a message for the Obama administration,” said Bush. “Why don’t you focus more on keeping weapons out of the hands of Islamic terrorists, and less on keeping weapons out of the hands of law-abiding Americans?”
The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights affirms the right to bear arms, and the United States has almost as many privately-owned guns as citizens. Two years ago, the Senate tried and failed to pass legislation to better scrutinize gun buyers. President Obama says such measures are politically-perilous but will be embraced one day.
“I know, today’s politics makes it less likely that we will see any sort of serious gun safety legislation,” Obama said. “I want to be clear: I am not resigned. I have faith we will eventually do the right thing.”
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CAIRO—Members of the Islamic State group have planted explosives in the ruins of the ancient central Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitoring group said Sunday.
The U.K. based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear whether the militants were preparing to blow up the ancient desert city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, or simply intended to impede any counteroffensive by government forces.
Islamic State captured Palmyra from the forces of President Bashar Assad in May, arousing fears that it might destroy its ruins, which include monumental streets lined with columns, temples and burial towers.
But it has also shown off monuments such as the ancient city of Rasafeh, northeast of Palmyra, in propaganda footage about its self-proclaimed caliphate.
Shortly after capturing Palmyra, Islamic State blew up its military prison, notorious for the brutal treatment of political prisoners.
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DETROIT (WWJ/AP) — Police are investigating a fatal shooting that took place at a block party on Detroit’s west side on Saturday night.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig is calling the shooting at a barbecue an “act of urban terrorism.”
Malique Jones , 19, was shot and killed and at least 12 others were injured in the shooting.
Jones was shot about a month ago in the same neighborhood.
Jones was shot about a month ago in the same neighborhood.
“Some believe it was expected,” said Chief Craig of the shooting. “Apparently the victim expected … the message to the two outstanding suspects – we will find you – someone is going to talk.”
Another man was critically injured and eight others, five men and three women, were listed as seriously injured. The victims ranged in age from 21 to 46, he said.
Dolunt said the shooting happened at a neighborhood party that included a barbecue attended by families with some small children in strollers. The party was being held at a basketball court near Webb St. and Dexter Ave.
“Through the grace of God no children were shot,” he said.
Detroit Police Sergeant Cassandra Lewis told WWJ Newsradio 950 that the shots were fired around 8:45 p.m. in the area where an estimated 400 to 500 people were attending a party.
“No one is coming forward with information – which is very disheartening,” said Dolunt. “I woke up this morning and my wife says ‘there were seven people shot in Philadelphia too.’ What’s going on with people? They had this thing in South Carolina the other day, you’ve got to wonder what’s in people’s minds.”
Authorities suspect the dead man was targeted by the shooter, although Dolunt said that was preliminary.
Anyone with information should call Detroit Police at 313-596-1616.
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By Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press 8:25 p.m. EDT June 21, 2015
Detroit Police Chief James Craig urrged people in the community to come forward with information.
Detroit Police Officer Jency Payne, exams the crime scene where blood still remains on Sunday, June 21, 2015. On Saturday evening, 12 people were shot and one confirmed dead in Detroit, MI.(Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo
Detroit Police Chief James Craig labeled those involved in a shooting on the city's west side "urban terrorists" and urged the community to come forward to catch those involved.
He said the retaliation shooting — at a party on the city's west side where hundreds, including families and children, gathered Saturday night — left 11 people injured and one dead.
"You will allow this to continue if you do nothing," he said. "We can't do it alone. We're angry, as I know many who live in this neighborhood are angry, but this is not the time to be fearful."
He said the person fatally shot — 19-year-old Malik Jones — was believed to be part of the gunfight and had been shot less than a month earlier. Police are looking for two men, both of whom had a gun. One of the men had a silver handgun with an extended clip.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig, center, talks to the media Sunday, June 21, 2015 at the scene where 12 people were shot and one confirmed dead on Saturday evening in Detroit, MI. (Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)
"These cowardly thugs decided they would retaliate against the victim and as a result of that, 47 shots were fired," Craig said before he and other police officers canvassed the neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
He spoke at the basketball court at Dexter and Webb on Detroit's west side, where blood stains remained. He said police weren't certain who fired the first shots. Gunfight broke out in the area where a group of about 300 people from the neighborhood had gathered Saturday to play basketball and cook.
Those shot Saturday night ranged in age from 19 to 47 and included four women and eight men, Craig said. Four remained in the hospital in stable condition Sunday, and the other seven were at home recovering.
"Say something, do something, be part of the solution," he said during his plea to the community to come forward.
Craig said somebody took the gun Jones had and that it could be used again in the neighborhood.
Many of the victims, Craig said, weren't talking to police.
"I understand the fear associated and I understand retaliation, but are we going to let these urban terrorists take over our neighborhoods?" he asked.
DeJuan Watson was a little bit surprised when he heard the location of the shooting.
"It's a tough area, but no more than other places (in Detroit)," the 31-year-old Detroit resident said while walking to his car with some food from the Food Farm Market Sunday afternoon, just down the street from the basketball court. "This is more police around than I've seen lately."
The area around the shooting scene, like many spots in Detroit, is full of vacant houses – some boarded up and some with the boards knocked out. Several police cars were in the area late Sunday afternoon, patrolling and talking to people strolling down Dexter.
There were a few children out playing on the sidewalks and a few adults sitting on porches, taking in the nice weather.
A half mile or so away, there were fewer vacant houses, surrounded by houses with neatly trimmed yards and well-kept facades. There are several houses in the area being sold by the Detroit Land Bank Authority, including a few on Cortland Street.
"There are a lot worse places, but I can't call this the best place," said Tyrone Hill, 43, as he sat outside of his cousin's house nearby, drinking a beer. "Most folks around here know someone who's been robbed or had their house broken into. (The police) show up eventually. It just depends on the day how fast they get here."
Craig, along with members of the police department, talked with people who live near the shooting site and asked for their help.
He also had a message for the suspects: "We're going to find you and we're going to take you into custody."
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAK-UP (800-773-2587).
Staff writer David Jesse contributed to this report. Contact Elisha Anderson: <a href="mailto:eanderson@freepress.com">eanderson@freepress.com</a> or 313-222-5144
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Barack Obama Okoth, a student at Senator Barack Obama Primary School in Kogelo, Kenya, takes notes on June 17. President Obama is visiting Kenya next month, and many wonder whether he will return to his father's village. (Kevin Sieff/The Washington Post)
KOGELO, Kenya — Barack Obama Okoth was tugging at his Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, trying to remember everything he could about the man he was named after.
“He lives in America, and he’s a king,” the 7-year-old said after a long pause. It’s easy to understand why the young Barack would think so. He attends Senator Barack Obama Primary School, a stop on the Barack Obama Safari Tour, near a hotel that offers a Barack Obama Suite.
For as long as Barack has been alive, his village has been peppered with tributes to his namesake, the American president whose father was born here in 1936. Thousands of tourists have come to see the village the president described in his memoir — writing that his life’s trajectory “was connected with this small plot of earth an ocean away.” After Obama was elected, electricity arrived in Kogelo. The only road to the village was paved. A Kenyan security detail was dispatched.
Next month, Obama will make his first trip to Kenya as president. If he returns to Kogelo, he’ll find a village lifted by its association with the world’s most powerful man, but still wrestling with disease and poverty. He’ll find people proud enough to name their boys Barack Obama but disappointed that he waited until the seventh year of his presidency to return to his father’s homeland.
“When he comes, we will present our problems,” said Edwin Okoth, Barack Obama Okoth’s father, his hands on his son’s shoulders.
It’s not only people in Kogelo who remain unsatisfied. Given the president’s familial connection to East Africa, many expected Obama to transform America’s relationship with the region. That hasn’t happened. The White House has launched an initiative to expand access to electricity across the continent, and funding for public health and counterterrorism programs has increased, but by most measures, Africa has remained on the periphery of Obama’s foreign policy agenda.
“As a country, we expected more,” said Augustus Muluvi, head of foreign policy at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, one of the country’s top think tanks. “We expected him to come earlier and we expected him to come with specific programs for Kenya and East Africa. This hasn’t been the case.”
Edwin Okoth remembers when Obama visited Kogelo in 2006 as a senator. When Obama walked through the village’s open-air market, a crowd gathered. Okoth got as close as he could and waved. It amazed him that a man just one generation removed from Kogelo could become so important. When Okoth’s wife became pregnant the next year, he knew they would name the baby Barack Obama.
“Maybe the spirit of the man will follow the boy,” he remembers thinking.
The small hospital where Barack Obama Okoth was born is also where hundreds of the village’s HIV/AIDS patients are treated. Nearly 18 percent of Siaya County, where Kogelo is located, is HIV positive, according to Kenya’s National AIDS control council, nearly three times the national average. In 2006, Obama took an HIV test here, an effort to remove the stigma from the exam. But since then, the fight against the disease has run up against cultural barriers to prevention and a lack of public health funding.
“We have been waiting for assistance from outside,” said the clinic’s doctor, George Musa.
Also in 2006, Obama visited the village’s primary and secondary schools, where his father attended. The schools were promptly renamed after him. And although some aid funds arrived when Obama became president, mostly from individual donors, the schools remain largely unchanged. The roofs leak. Many students drop out before high school because the fees are too expensive for their families.
In Barack Obama Okoth’s first-grade classroom last week, there were 84 students in one room.
“What’s seven plus three?” the teacher asked. She paused before choosing who to call on.
“Obama,” she said.
There was a brief moment of confusion — the class had two Barack Obamas.
Barack Obama Okoth stood up, but his nerves caught up with him. He froze in place before opening his mouth.
“Nine?” he said.
“Anyone else?” the teacher asked.
The boy sat back down. His mother had sewn the word “Obama” on his backpack, and he wore it everywhere, even now that he was sitting down in class. His father had explained what it meant to carry the name, the expectations that came along with it. It’s a sentiment repeated across Kenya.
“Huenda akawa Obama,” croons the group Sauti Sol in Swahili in one of Kenya’s most popular songs. “Maybe you will be Obama.”
Edwin Okoth is proud of his job as a motorcycle taxi driver. The income is reliable, and it keeps him from descending into alcoholism, like so many others in Kogelo. But he wanted more for his son. Barack Obama Okoth would learn English, he said. He would go to college.
“I’m going to be a doctor,” said Barack Obama Okoth, standing outside Kogelo’s market. His father smiled.
Obama’s visit to Kenya will focus on the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, where the president will probably emphasize the economic potential and innovation in East Africa, now home to dozens of small tech start-ups. Perhaps most famously, a mobile banking system, called Mpesa, has revolutionized the way Kenyans do business.
For its part, though, Kogelo has remained mostly untouched by the kinds of innovation visible in places such as Nairobi. If he does end up going to college, Barack Obama Okoth would be a rare exception.
Last week, a group of French donors was scheduled to visit Barack Obama Secondary School, where they were expected to offer funds for renovations. But at the last minute, the donors learned that the school didn’t possess a deed for the land on which it was built, another sign of Kogelo’s undeveloped economy. They canceled their trip.
“It’s a big inconvenience,” said the principal, Henry Odongo, as the children waited to perform a dance planned in honor of the now-canceled visit.
But that visit paled in comparison to the one Kogelo was really waiting for. A local radio program had announced that Obama would “visit Kogelo for three hours” as a part of his Kenya trip. Though the White House hasn’t confirmed that report, it was enough to send a shock of excitement through the village.
Would his helicopter land on a farm? Would he finally pledge financial assistance? Would he dine with his grandmother, Sarah Obama, who still lives in Kogelo, in a small house with a red roof? Residents guessed at the details.
Nicholas Rajula, owner of Kogelo Village Resort, got to work fixing up his hotel. He hired an artist to make a life-size sculpture of the president.
“We need to be ready,” he said, standing in front of the hotel restaurant called the White House.
Edwin Okoth was getting ready, too. This time, he would get closer to the president. He would bring his son forward and make the introduction.
“I will tell him, ‘This is my son, Barack Obama.’ ”
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Kevin Sieff has been The Post’s bureau chief in Nairobi since 2014. He served previously as the bureau chief in Kabul and had covered the U.S. -Mexico border.
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Politics | Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:04am EDT
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Middle East, accompanied by U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey (R), on Capitol Hill in Washington June 17, 2015.
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WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will urge NATO allies to "dispose of the Cold War playbook" during a trip to Europe this week, as the alliance adapts to a new kind of threat fromRussia in the east and Islamic State to the south, U.S. officials said.
Carter heads first to Berlin, where he is expected to call for a more muscular global security role from Germany, Europe's largest economy. Germany remains hesitant to deploy troops abroad, seven decades after the end of World War Two.
"He will encourage Germany, under the firm leadership of the minister of defense, to increase their security role in the world, commensurate with their political and economic weight," a senior U.S. defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Relations between Moscow and the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region. NATO says Russian is still actively providing military support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, despite Moscow's denials.
U.S. officials say Ukraine has illustrated the importance of being able to counter "hybrid warfare," the blend of unidentified troops, propaganda and economic pressure that the west says Russia has used there. NATO's historic focus had been the conventional threats of the Cold War, which ended in 1991.
"Carter ... will really push the alliance to think about new threats, new techniques, urge them to kind of dispose of the Cold War playbook and think about new ways to counter new threats," the official said.
In visits in Germany and then in Estonia, Carter will get a first-hand look at NATO's new rapid response forces and climb aboard a U.S. warship fresh from Baltic Sea drills, aiming to reassure allies unnerved by Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
Carter will likely offer details on plans to pre-position heavy military equipment in Europe, the official said.
All of the moves been decried by Moscow, which has threatened to beef up its own forces and to add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
Apart from Russia's annexation of Crimea, NATO officials say the rise of Islamic State and other militants in North Africa and the Middle East has also dramatically changed NATO's security environment.
NATO defense chiefs meeting on Wednesday and Thursday in Brussels are expected to discuss plans to create an alliance role in Iraq aimed at strengthening Iraq's institutions. A plan could be approved in July, the U.S. official said.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart; additional reporting by Adrian Croft in Brussels; Editing by David Gregorio)
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