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To: TideGlider who wrote (476903)3/15/2012 5:18:57 PM
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Three soldiers shot in France


Two paratroopers killed and another critically injured by gunman on scooter in second such attack within a week

guardian.co.uk

    Kim Willsher in Paris
    guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 March 2012 16.12 EDT
    Article history


    A policeman holds a military jacket covered with blood at the scene in Montauban where three French soldiers were shot dead. Photograph: Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty

    Investigators fear a killer on a scooter is targeting soldiers after two were killed and one seriously injured in the second "ride-by" shooting in less than a week.

    Three members of a parachute regiment were shot in a busy French town centre on Thursday afternoon. Two died instantly, while the third was reported to be in a critical condition in hospital.

    The shootings followed a similar murder last weekend, when the officer of another parachute regiment was gunned down in almost exactly the same circumstances.

    The soldiers, all in their 20s and in uniform, were standing by a cash machine in Montauban, south-west France.

    Investigators said it was unclear whether the men were withdrawing money, or had left a nearby shop or restaurant and were passing the bank when they came under a hail of fire.

    Witnesses heard several bursts of gunshots before the killer, riding what was described as a scooter and wearing a full-face helmet, escaped.

    Police who sealed off the centre of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne region, found more than a dozen bullet shells at the scene.

    The men, aged 28, 26 and 24, were from the 17th Parachute Regiment, which has been deployed in Afghanistan, Lebanon and former Yugoslavia and is based at a barracks just yards from the scene.

    Gérard Longuet, France's defence minister, said it was with "the deepest emotion" he learned of the killings and said he was confident that investigators would do all they could to ensure the gunman was brought to justice.

    He said his thoughts were with the "families of the dead men and their regiment".

    Brigitte Barèges, the mayor of Montauban, said she was "shocked and outraged" by "an assassination that appeared like a true summary execution". She said the victims' regiment had "already paid, sadly, the price of the war in Afghanistan" having lost four soldiers there.

    On Sunday in a suburb of Toulouse – 46km south of Montauban – a 30-year-old off-duty member of another parachute regiment was shot in the head at point blank range by a gunman on a scooter.

    The victim, Imad Ibn-Ziaten, 30, a marshall in the 1st Parachute Regiment, was killed while standing next to his Suzuki 650cc motorbike outside a local gym. According to French investigators, Ibn-Ziaten, who was not in uniform, was wearing his motorcycle helmet at the time he was shot.

    His commanding officers said he had served with the French army in Ivory Coast, Chad and Gabon. Detectives say he had advertised his motorbike for sale and had received a call from an interested buyer a few minutes before he was killed in what appeared to be a cold-blooded execution.

    Police and local gendarmes hunting the killer or killers say they have not established a link between the shootings.

    A police source told French journalists: "Everyone thinks there's a link between the two incidents, but we have to wait for the first results of the inquiry."



    To: TideGlider who wrote (476903)3/16/2012 1:29:17 AM
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    Marco Rubio is 10 years younger than Obama....and light years more accomplished.....IMO, He WILL be the President of the USA one day....

    Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is the junior United States Senator from Florida (2011–present). A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (2007–2009).

    Born to Cuban immigrants, Rubio was raised in Miami, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended Tarkio College and Santa Fe Community College before graduating from the University of Florida. He earned his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996 while interning for U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. In the late 1990s he served as a City Commissioner for West Miami. Rubio was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, representing the 111th House district. He was elected Speaker in November 2006.

    Rubio announced a run for U.S. Senate in May 2009 after incumbent Republican Mel Martinez resigned. Initially trailing by double-digits against the incumbent Republican Governor Charlie Crist, Rubio eventually surpassed him in polling for the Republican nomination. Rubio won the Republican nomination after Crist opted instead for an independent run. In a three-way split against Crist and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek, Rubio won the general election in November 2010 by a 19-point margin.

    Rubio has been called the "crown prince" of the Tea Party movement. [2] [3] He has been mentioned as a potential choice for Republican candidate for vice-president in 2012 but has said he is not interested. [4]


    Contents [ hide]
    [ edit] Early life, education, and early political career Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, [5] the second son and third child of Mario Rubio (1927–2010) [6] and Oria Garcia (born 1931). His parents were Cubans who had emigrated to the United States in 1956 and were later naturalized as U.S. citizens in 1975. [7] Rubio's family was Catholic, and attended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while they lived in Las Vegas, before he was 11 years old. He was confirmed and married in the Catholic Church. [8] [1] [9] [10] [11]

    Rubio attended South Miami Senior High School and graduated in 1989. He then attended Tarkio College for one year on a football scholarship from 1989 to 1990, before enrolling at Santa Fe Community College (now Santa Fe College). He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida in 1993, and his J.D. degree cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996. [12]

    While studying law, he interned for U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. [13] Marco Rubio served as a City Commissioner for West Miami before being elected to the Florida legislature.

    [ edit] Florida House of Representatives (2000–2009) He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives for the 111th district in a special election on January 25, 2000. He has won each of his re-election bids. [14] In November 2006, he was elected Speaker of the Florida State House for the 2006–08 term.

    He is the author of the book 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future. This book was compiled from Rubio's travels around the state to gather ideas from citizens. This was done through what Rubio calls "Idearaisers". Many of the issues that he pushed for in his first year as speaker came from ideas in this book. During 2007, Marco Rubio championed a major overhaul of the Florida tax system. He argued it would reduce property taxes and decrease the size of government.[ citation needed]

    During his tenure serving as Speaker of the House of Florida, Rubio shared his residence with another Florida State Representative, David Rivera. The two men co-owned a home together in Tallahassee, which later fell into foreclosure after deferring months of mortgage payments. This issue surfaced in June 2010, during Rubio's run for the US Senate but was considered resolved according to Rubio's spokesman. [15]

    [ edit] U.S. Senate [ edit] 2010 election




    Rubio speaking at CPAC in February 2010.

    On May 5, 2009, Rubio announced on his website that he planned to run for the United States Senate in 2010 for the Republican seat being vacated by Sen. Mel Martinez, who had resigned and been replaced by George LeMieux. Prior to the announcement, he had been meeting with fundraisers and supporters throughout the state. [16] Initially trailing by double-digits against the incumbent Governor of his own party, Charlie Crist, Rubio eventually surpassed Crist in polling for the Republican nomination. [17] [18]

    On April 28, 2010, Crist announced he would be running as an independent, effectively ceding the Republican nomination to Rubio. [19] Several of Crist's top fundraisers, as well as Republican leadership, refused [20] [21] to support Crist after Rubio won the Republican nomination for Senate. [22]

    On November 2, 2010, Marco Rubio won the senatorial election with 48.9% of the vote to Crist's 29.7% and Democrat Kendrick Meek's 20.1%. [23] On May 20, 2011 Marco Rubio visited Puerto Rico's governor, Luis Fortuño, and made a statement of wanting to "represent the Puerto Ricans" since he already felt he owed those who had voted for him in the Florida election. [24]

    Following his victory in the elections, Rubio soon became the subject of speculation as a potential GOP candidate for the presidential election of 2012. [25] [26] Rubio stated shortly after taking office that he has no interest in running for president or vice president in 2012. [27]

    [ edit] Tenure Upon taking office, Rubio hired Cesar Conda, former lobbyist and "top domestic policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney during the first two years of the Bush administration" as his Chief of Staff. [28] Conda is "a well-known and highly regarded policy wonk" with experience in both the executive and legislative branches of government. He is also a member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference.

    Rubio cosponsored a resolution, which was passed, to declare September as National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. [29]

    Rubio's amendment, co-sponsored by Joe Manchin (D - WV), to allow employers to restrict health coverage for contraception based on religious or moral grounds did not pass the Senate. [30] The Obama White House singled out Rubio from the many co-sponsors of the similar Roy Blunt amendment, which also failed to pass the Senate. [31]

    [ edit] Committee assignments [ edit] Personal life Rubio married Jeanette Dousdebes, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, in 1997. She is of Colombian descent, and together they have four children named Amanda, Daniella, Anthony, and Dominic. [32] Rubio and his family live in West Miami, Florida. [1] [33] Rubio attends Catholic Mass as well as a Southern Baptist church in West Kendall, Florida. [34] [9] [35]

    [ edit] "Son of exiles" controversy In October 2011, the St. Petersburg Times and The Washington Post reported that Rubio's previous statements that his parents were forced to leave Cuba in 1959, after Fidel Castro came to power, were incorrect as they had in fact left Cuba in 1956 during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. According to The Washington Post, Rubio's "embellishments" resonate with many voters in Florida, who would not be as impressed by his family being economic migrants seeking a better life in the U.S. instead of political refugees from a communist regime. [7] Rubio responded, "The real essence of my family’s story is not about the date my parents first entered the United States. Or whether they traveled back and forth between the two nations. Or even the date they left Fidel Castro’s Cuba forever and permanently settled here." [36] [37] [38] According to a number of commentators within the Cuban exile community in Miami, Rubio is justified to continue to characterize himself as a son of exiles. [38] [39]

    [ edit] Electoral history Florida U.S. Senate Election 2010Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Republican Marco Rubio 2,645,743 48.9%
    Independent Charlie Crist 1,607,549 29.7%
    Democratic Kendrick Meek 1,092,936 20.2%
    Libertarian Alexander Snitker 24,850 0.5%
    [ edit] References
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    "Rubio's father dies at 83". The Miami Herald. http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/09/rubios-father-dies-at-83.html. ^ a b Roig-Franzia, Manuel (October 21, 2011). "Marco Rubio's compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marco-rubios-compelling-family-story-embellishes-facts-documents-show/2011/10/20/gIQAaVHD1L_singlePage.html. Retrieved October 21, 2011. ^ Marrapodi, Erin (February 23, 2012). "Sen. Marco Rubio's religious journey: Catholic to Mormon to Catholic to Baptist and Catholic". CNN. http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/?hpt=hp_t3. Retrieved February 24, 2012. ^ a b Jason O'Bryan (November 1, 2010). "What Is Marco Rubio's Religion?". Politics Daily. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/01/what-is-marco-rubios-religion/. Retrieved January 19, 2012.

    ^     Montanaro, Domenico (February 23, 2012), Rubio's Mormon past revealed, NBC News, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/23/10487879-rubios-mormon-past-revealed ^ Munzenrieder, Kyle (February 23, 2012), Tween Marco Rubio Was a Mormon, But Does Anyone Really Care?, Miami New Times, http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/02/tween_marco_rubios_was_a_mormo.php ^ "Biography -- About Marco" ^ Clark, Lesley (January 5, 2011). "Miami's Marco Rubio becomes new Florida senator". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/05/2001675/miamis-marco-rubio-becomes-new.html. Retrieved August 24, 2011. ^ "Sun Sentinel report on Rubio". Sun-sentinel.com. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/politics/government/marco-rubio-PEPLT007456.topic. Retrieved November 3, 2010. ^ Bender, Michael C. (June 17, 2010).

    "Rubio faces foreclosure on Tally home; his campaign says it's resolved". The Palm Beach Post. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/rubio-faces-foreclosure-on-tally-home-his-campaign-754440.html. Retrieved May 5, 2011. ^ Reinhard, Beth (March 5, 2009). "Marco Rubio quietly registers to run for U.S. Senate". The Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/933424.html. ^ "January 26, 2010 – Rubio Edges Crist In Florida Gop Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; President Obama Under Water As Voters Disapprove". Quinnipiac University. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1297.xml?ReleaseID=1417. ^ "Election 2010: Florida Republican Primary for Senate". Rasmussen Reports. February 1, 2010. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010.

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110207506.html. Retrieved November 3, 2010. ^ Martínez, Andrea (May 20, 2011). "Senador republicano visita a Fortuño [Republican Senator visits Puerto Rico]" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Dia (Guaynabo, PR). http://www.elnuevodia.com/senadorrepublicanovisitaafortuno-971808.html. Retrieved May 20, 2011. ^ Knickerbocker, Brad (November 6, 2010). "President Obama, Marco Rubio face off on tax cuts". The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/1106/President-Obama-Marco-Rubio-face-off-on-tax-cuts. ^ Goodman, Lee-Anne (November 5, 2010). "Florida's new senator seen as 'Great Right Hope'". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/886650--florida-s-new-senator-seen-as-great-right-hope. ^ Rahn, Will (January 10, 2011). "Marco Rubio: I want to be a senator, not president or vice president". The Daily Caller. http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/10/marco-rubio-i-want-to-be-a-senator-not-president-or-vice-president/. Retrieved January 19, 2012.

    ^     Hayes, Stephen (January 28, 2011) Marco Rubio Picks a Chief of Staff: Cesar Conda, Weekly Standard ^ Voss, Laura. "Congress Dedicates September as National Spinal Cord Injury Month." Paralyzed Veterans of America. September 12, 2011. ^ "White House Attacks Marco Rubio's Contraception Bill." AP. February 13, 2012. ^ Allen, Greg. "For Marco Rubio, VP Prospects Bring New Scrutiny." New Hampshire Public Radio. March 7, 2012. ^ Rettig, Jessica (May 4, 2010). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Marco Rubio". U.S. News and World Report. http://politics.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2010/05/04/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-marco-rubio.html. ^ "Marco 101". Marco Rubio for US Senate. http://www.marcorubio.com/marco-101/. ^ Thompson, Damian (November 12, 2010). "Marco Rubio Tries to Still Debate Over Religion". The Telegraph (London).

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