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http://themeck.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-meck-radio-show-ala-state.htmlTuesday, February 05, 2013
Revealed: How the FBI used an elaborate surveillance network and heavily-armed SWAT teams to take Alabama hostage gunman down | Mail Online - Laura Collins - A citadel of surveillance has been erected – all unreported until now, all as negotiators hoped for a peaceful outcome. - CNN reports that military surveillance equipment and personnel were used during the standoff. - CNN correspondent Barbara Starr reports that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta personally approved the FBI using its gear and engineers during the operations. - However, it was the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, and not U.S. troops that, that stormed the bunker and recused five-year-old Ethan.
Five-star linebacker Reuben Foster commits to Alabama | al.com - Matt Scalici - Auburn High School linebacker Reuben Foster has come full circle after one of the most dramatic recruiting sagas in recent memory, committing to Alabama on Monday night during The NEW College Football Show on Fox Sports South.
Slain bus driver got hostage situation training; may have maneuvered bus during attack, state official says | al.com - Erin Edgemon - Just two years before the kidnapping of a Midland City child on Jan. 29 from his school bus, slain Dale County School bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr. had received hostage situation training, according to an official with the Alabama Department of Education.
PHOTOS: A mock bunker, a military spy camera and a veil of secrecy: Revealed, the extraordinary FBI operation to rescue five-year-old Ethan from survivalist's underground lair | Mail Online - Laura Collins - An elite team of FBI agents built a mock bunker and inserted a spy camera into Jimmy Lee Dyke’s underground bunker to rescue five-year-old Ethan after a week of meticulous planning, it was revealed today. - The FBI Hostage Rescue Team blew the doors off the bunker and shot dead the survivalist during the daring raid yesterday afternoon after footage from a secret hi-tech camera showed the boy’s life was in ‘imminent danger’.
PHOTOS: Alabama Hostage: Back in his mother's arms: Parents' joy as they are reunited with son after FBI raid on Alabama bunker left survivalist captor DEAD | Mail Online - Laura Collins - The five year old boy held captive in an underground bunker for seven days has been reunited with his mother. The emotional reunion came after FBI agents stormed the Alabama bunker in which the child had been held, leaving his survivalist captor dead. - Ethan, the child at the heart of the Alabama kidnapping crisis, spent his first evening of freedom playing, eating, laughing and joking around with his favorite toy dinosaur. - The ordeal came to a dramatic conclusion as FBI agents believed the little boy to be in 'imminent danger' and breeched survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes's bunker.
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