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Three Islamic Terror Attacks Kill Dozens

Three Islamic terror attacks were carried out almost simultaneously today after call for “Ramadan calamity.”

In Lyon, France, a terrorist named Yassin Salih rammed a car through the gate of an American-owned chemical factory. He attempted to blow up the complex but failed. He then decapitated the manager of the complex and posted his head on a fence by the factory. Salih also posted Islamist flags to the fence.

Salih, which French officials confirmed they had under surveillance as a possible terrorist sympathizer, was wounded in the explosion and taken into custody. His wife and one other accomplice have also been taken into custody.

French President Francois Hollande confirmed it was an Islamist terror attack.

In Tunisia, at least two terrorists stormed a beach popular with tourists and gunned down 27 people. An attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait has left at least 25 dead. Hundreds were wounded in both attacks.

On Tuesday, the spokesman for the terrorist group ISIS issued a call for “calamity” for “infidels, crusaders, Shiites and apostates”.

“Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom,” Abu Mohamed al-Adnani said.

ISIS Releases Video Showing Executions

Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released a video showing a series of brutal executions in what they say is an instructional video on dealing with spies.

The video, filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, shows the brutal killing of a dozen condemned men. In the first segment, men are placed into a car and then a terrorist blows up the car with a rocket propelled grenade. The screams of the men in the car can be clearly heard on the recording.

In the second section, they lower men in a cage into a swimming pool to drown and use an underwater camera to show the men dying. In the third, they line kneeling men up and wrap an explosive cord around their necks which is then detonated.

The film is intercut with footage of the condemned men allegedly confessing to their “crimes.”

The video comes on the heels of a major ISIS operative being killed in an air strike outside of Mosul. A Pentagon spokesman revealed Wednesday that Ali Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia, a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, died in a June 15th strike.

“His death degrades ISIL’s ability to integrate North African jihadists into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a jihadist with long ties to international terrorism,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.

Plague Expert: “No One’s Fault” Teen Died From Plague

An expert on the plague says that the death of a teenage boy in Colorado was likely unavoidable because of how the disease presents itself.

‘You need some kind of indication from patient history that [plague] is what it is,” Dr. Robert Perry, plague researcher with the University of Kentucky, told USA Headline News. “Septicemic is rare enough and doesn’t have really many more symptoms that anybody would think of going in real soon for that.”

“If he had gone in soon enough, and the doctors had recognized what it was, maybe he would have been OK but after a certain period of time even antibiotics are too late.”

Perry said that the symptoms that would have been presented by Taylor Gaes would have mimicked the flu until the very end.

“There was no reason anyone would have thought it was anything significant, just the flu,” Dr. Perry said. “Nobody did anything wrong here. The parents, the kid.”

“It could have been a dozen of viral or bacterial agents,” he continued. “There aren’t any distinguishing symptoms to say it’s not a flu that you’re going to get over. And once it progresses to a certain stage, it’s just too late. It’s essentially the same as pneumonic plague. The symptoms are pretty common to a bacteria that causes a lung infection.”

“24 to 48 hours after symptoms start to show, it’s too late to treat pneumonic plague.”

Dr. Perry said that because the bacteria went straight into the bloodstream it was classified as “septicemic.” He said that the other two kinds of plague show earlier symptoms because the bacteria would grow in the skin or lungs before entering the bloodstream. Once the bacteria enters the bloodstream, it immediately begins to destroy internal organs.

“Septicemic plague is basically bubonic plague that skips the earlier stages,” Dr. Perry said.

ISIS Crucifies Two Children For Eating During Ramadan

Islamic terrorist group ISIS has crucified two children because they ate food before sunset during Ramadan.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the murders Monday. Muslims are prohibited from taking food or water between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan.

It is the latest in a long string of abuses against children by the Islamic extremists.

“We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child expert Renate Winter said in February about ISIS. “There was a video placed [online] that showed children at a very young age, approximately 8 years of age and younger, being trained to become child soldiers.”

ISIS has also been reported to have kidnapped over a thousand children to be forced into jihadi training camps.

Iraq’s al-Sumaria TV network aired a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman in Mosul that said ISIS kidnapped 1,227 from various Mosul neighborhoods. The children have been labeled “Cubs of the Caliphate” and are being educated in the extremist ISIS ideology.

Pakistan Heat Wave Death Toll Skyrockets

The death toll from the heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan has skyrocketed in the last 24 hours.

Reported yesterday at close to 225 victims of the heat, the official toll now stands at over 650 people. Morgue officials say they are overwhelmed by the number of bodies and that hospitals throughout the region have declared a state of emergency.

Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, the area’s largest hospital, reported treating over 3,000 patients in the last few days. The city’s main morgue is over capacity.

Authorities have closed schools and even some government offices in an attempt to keep residents from going out in the lethal heat.

Saeed Mangnejo, senior provincial health official, told the Irish Independent newspaper that he expects the death toll to climb further in the next few days.

The wealthy in the city have been receiving tankers of water but the poor are having to go without fresh, cool water.

“This is how it is. No one cares for common poor man here,” Khadim Ali complained as he fanned his cousin, Shahad Ali, a 40-year-old vegetable vendor who collapsed in the heat.

The situation is further complicated for many Muslim residents as they cannot eat or drink during the daylight hours because of Ramadan.

Meterologists say a sea breeze will likely move into the region through the night bringing cooler temperatures. A monsoon rain could also reach the city and bring relief.

The city’s electrical grid continues to fail as residents overwhelm the system with air conditioners and fans.

High School Athlete Dies from Plague

A rare strain of the plague has killed a 16-year-old Colorado athlete.

Taylor Gaes was a star athlete for Poudre High School. Taylor, who was 6 foot, 4 inches, was already being considered an excellent college baseball prospect and was being scouted by schools when he fell ill.

He died June 8th, a day after his 16th birthday from a sudden illness. Friends thought it was just a bad case of the flu. He woke up that morning and told his parents he coughed up blood. The family tried to rush him to the hospital but he died five minutes before arriving.

That’s when doctors discovered the real cause of death was septicemic plague. It is the rarest of three forms of the plague and happens when bacteria directly enters the bloodstream. It is highly fatal.

Health officials are speculating that Taylor contracted the disease from fleas on a dead rodent or other animal on his family’s farm.

Now the Larimer County Health Department is warning all those who attended Taylor’s memorial on the ranch to be vigilant for any changes in their health.

“There is a small chance that others might have been bitten by infected fleas, so anyone who was on the family’s land in the last 7 days should seek medical attention immediately if a fever occurs,” the agency said.

Gaes was the first resident of the area to contract the disease since 1999 although a visitor to the region in 2004 caught it while camping.

Heat Wave Kills 224 in Karachi

A record-shattering heat wave in Pakistan has left at least 224 people dead.

Officials in Karachi, the country’s largest city with 20 million residents, say that 224 people have been confirmed dead from heat related causes. Hundreds more are being treated for heat stroke or other heat related illnesses.

“Hospitals across the city are overcrowded due to record numbers of patients suffering from heat stroke,” Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar, the health minister for Sindh province, said. “The numbers are unprecedented but the situation is under control.”

Temperatures in the city on Saturday reached close to 113 degrees fahrenheit, the highest recorded temperature in the country in 15 years. Sunday’s high was around 108.5 fahrenheit. The city’s all time record is 117 degrees fahrenheit set in 1979.

Local media reported that 150 bodies were taken to the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth. The morgue usually receives 20 bodies a day.

Many of the country’s residents are Muslim, meaning they are observing Ramadan and not partaking of food and water during the daylight hours. The city is also dealing with frequent power outages that cut off air conditioning and fans.

The heat wave comes after a wave last month in India left over 2,000 people dead.

Famed Christian Missionary Elisabeth Elliot Joins Jesus

Elisabeth Elliot, who continued her ministry to the Auca tribe in Ecuador years after her first husband and four other missionaries were speared to death by the tribe in the 1950s, has passed away after battling dementia for the last decade.

Elliot was 88.

Elliot wrote about the loss of her husband when their daughter was only 10 months old.

“A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In 1953 we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category — a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed,” she wrote.

“After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death. Our daughter, Valerie, was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.”

Tributes came in from around the evangelical world for Elliot, who authored the best selling book Through Gates of Splendor.

“Just like Jesus, and Jim Elliot, she called young people to come and die. Sacrifice and suffering were woven through her writing and speaking like a scarlet thread. She was not a romantic about missions. She disliked very much the sentimentalizing of discipleship,” said Pastor John Piper. “The thread of suffering was not just woven through her words, but through her relationships. Not only did she lose her first husband to a violent death three years after they were married; she also lost her second husband, Addison Leitch, four years after her remarriage.”

“Other than my parents & Rick, no one has had a greater impact on my life than Elisabeth Elliott. Forever grateful,” Kay Warren noted in a tweet.

“On Earth, she married three times — her first two husbands preceded her in death — but from earliest childhood her deepest affections were for her Savior, and it was for Him that her soul yearned,” wrote Warren later in a tribute on her blog in which she talked about how she was first introduced to Elliot’s work as a teenager.

Nine Dead In Charleston Church Shooting

A white gunman walked into a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday night. He sat in the prayer service for about an hour before he pulled a gun, opened fire and killed 9 people including the pastor who was also a state senator.

The gunman has been identified by the FBI as 21-year-old Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina. He was apprehended Thursday morning in Shelby, North Carolina, about three hours away from the shooting site.

“This is a situation that is unacceptable in any society and especially in our society and our city,” Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said.

Officials confirmed that three men and six women were killed in the shooting. The gunman reportedly reloaded five times during the assault.

Witnesses said that the pastor, Clementa Pinckney, tried to talk the gunman out of the attack. Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of the pastor who survived the assault.

“He just said, ‘I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country,” Johnson said.

The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

“The only reason that someone could walk into a church and shoot people praying is out of hate,” Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley said. “It is the most dastardly act that one could possibly imagine, and we will bring that person to justice. … This is one hateful person.”

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