Wednesday, February 06, 2013
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’.
Investigators: Explosives found in hostage bunker; kidnapper shot first - U.S. News - NBCNews.com - By Matthew DeLuca and Gabe Gutierrez - According to a law enforcement source close to the investigation, two explosives -- one inside the bunker and one in the ventilation pipe -- were found at the scene. - The source said four members of the rescue team approached the bunker's hatch Monday, where the captor, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, was expecting a delivery. - He had received food and other items intended for the boy in previous days. This time, however, the team opened the hatch and dropped a "distractionary device" -- more commonly known as a flashbang. - Dykes was disoriented, but managed to fire off one shot. The rescue team fired back -- shooting Dykes dead -- and saved the boy.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Small Town Wins Its Standoff With a Kidnapper - NYTimes.com - Campbell Robertson and Robbie Brown - Early ideas were proposed and dropped. Filming the scene from across the highway was a man named Rickey Stokes, a local bail bondsman who runs a blog on happenings in the area, RickeyStokesNews.com. Officials invited Mr. Stokes over, and discussed having him either go into the bunker with a camera, or teach a female F.B.I. agent to use his camera and go in. - Both of those notions were scrapped quickly. In any case, Mr. Dykes, wary of being tricked, insisted that his speech be live-streamed, not prerecorded. - Kirke Adams, the district attorney for Dale County who had been called to the scene from coaching high school girls’ soccer practice, said Mr. Dykes never gave an inch. - “The demand he made was impossible to accomplish in the way he wanted it done,” Mr. Adams said. “And he would accept no alternative.”
The Death of Print (Buildings)! - The Daily Beast - It wasn’t enough to lay off staff and scale back printing. Now, media companies are unloading their actual offices—or renting them out to strangers. Daniel Gross on the latest desperate act of a beleaguered industry.
President Obama congratulates Ravens - and drops a Reuben Foster reference | al.com - George Talbot - Obama then made reference to the news that Foster, a five-star linebacker from Auburn High School, had announced his decision to commit to Alabama. "You guys just got another draft pick down there. A guy who already tattooed Auburn on his arm and then decided to go to Alabama instead," Obama said. "He did the same thing I did," Newsome responded. "I committed to Auburn and I changed my mind. It happens all the time down there. It only counts on signing day." Click here to see video of Harbaugh and Newsome on the call with the president.
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