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Nawaz Offers Views on Changing Pakistani Perceptions of U.S.
Shuja Nawaz, Director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, was interviewed on The Takeaway morning radio news program on the Pakistan flood situation. The discussion focused on the U.S. being the single largest donor of aid, and the potential for Pakistanis to shift their perceptions of America. Nawaz insists that the U.S. should stay the course with aid to Pakistan, but warns of the long-term effects of America's goodwill, stating that "changing image takes a long time."
Nancy Walker Addresses U.S. Africa Command Conference
Dr. Nancy J. Walker, Director of the Ansari Africa Center, gave the keynote address at Africa Command’s Senior Leader Offsite Conference in Starnberg, Germany on August 26, 2010.
South Asia Center's Shikha Bhatnagar Spotlighted
Shikha Bhatnagar's recent appointment as Associate Director of the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council, is yet another manifestation of a growing trend of second generation Indian Americans' advent into leading Washington, DC think tanks as senior policy analysts and associates.
Chuck Hagel Discusses START Ratification on RussiaToday
Atlantic Council Chairman Chuck Hagel was interviewed for RussiaToday on delays in ratification of the START treaty in both the U.S. and Russia.
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In August the sunny calm and quiet that is a Swedish summer will be shattered by the impact of Joint Direct Attack Munitions dropped by F-16CM Fighting Falcons from US Air Force Europe.
German High School Shooting Kills 15
James Joyner | March 11, 2009A shooting rampage has left at least ten dead and many wounded in at the Albertville Realschule school near Stuttgart, Germany.
At least 10 people were killed on Wednesday when a gunman fired shots at a secondary school in southwestern Germany, a regional government official said. "We have to assume a death toll in the double-digits," a spokeswoman for the interior ministry in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said. "These are students."
The incident took place at 9.30 am local time at the Albertville school in Winnenden, a town of 27,600, near Stuttgart in southwestern Germany.
German media said the gunman, dressed in a black camouflage suit, was a 17-year-old former student at the school. Police, rescue workers and fire fighters were at the scene and helicopters circled the town. The school has been evacuated.
A breaking report from AFP says the suspect has been arrested.
This tragedy will come as a shock to most in the United States, as our media treat rampages by gunmen as a uniquely American phenomenon made possible only by our lax firearms laws. In fact, as the DW report notes, "The Winnenden incident hooting is the latest in a spate of school shootings in Germany in recent years."
An AP report provides a timeline of previous school shooting incidents:
Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland.
Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opens fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.
Nov. 7, 2007: Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, shoots and kills eight people and himself at a high school in Tuusula, Finland.
April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shoots 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then kills himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Nov. 20, 2006: Sebastian Bosse, 18, goes on a rampage at his former high school in Emsdetten, Germany, near the Dutch border, shooting and injuring four students and the school janitor. Police commandos later found Bosse dead.
April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, previously expelled from a school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and a policeman, before committing suicide.
April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school's library.
March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, killed 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, and then killed himself.
A quick count will show only nine incidents in thirteen years, including this morning's -- all tragic, of course, but hardly an epidemic. Of those three each were in Germany and the United States, two in Finland, and one in Scotland.
UPDATE: AP now reports that sixteen people were killed, including the gunman. Additional details:
He killed nine students and three teachers, apparently singling out female victims. Eight of the students were girls and all three teachers were women.
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The gunman killed a male passerby outside the building before forcing his way into the backseat of a car and making the driver head south, according to Stuttgart prosecutors, who are leading the investigation. Police launched a land and air manhunt. When the driver swerved off the road at a police checkpoint, he managed to escape.
The suspect, identified only as Tim K., ran into an industrial area in the town of Wendlingen with police in pursuit. He entered an auto dealership, shooting and killing a salesman and a customer, both men, and went back outside, prosecutors said. The guman opened fire at police vehicles in front of the auto dealership, prosecutors said. "A gunbattle ensued between the 17-year-old and the many police," the prosecutors' office said in a press release. "According to our current information, the 17-year-old then shot himself."
James Joyner is managing editor of the Atlantic Council. AP Photo.



























Comments
I doubt this was inspired by the other U.S. incident, that news only just broke and i'd imagine this has been planned at least a bit in advance.
Jeremy, elementary school outlines.
9 incidents? hardly an epidemic? those are just the 9 most well known and highest casualty incidents.
Heinz Schmidt (Germany) killed 4 and wounded 23
Walter Seifert (Germany) killed 10 and injured 22
Charles Whitman (America) killed 17 and wounded 30
Anthony Barbaro (America) killed 3 and wounded 11
Michael Slobodian (Canada) killed 2 and wounded 13
Robert Poulin (Canada) killed 2 and hurt 5
Edward Allaway (America) killed 7
Brenda Spencer (America) killed 2 and hurt 9
Karel Charva (Germany) killed 5 and injured 14
James Kearbey(America) killed 1
Laurie Dann (America) killed 1
Patrick Purdy (America) Killed 5 and wounded 30
Marc Lepine (Canada) killed 14 and injured 14
Gang Lu (Canada) killed 5
Eric Houston (America) killed 4 and injured 13
Valery Fabrikant (Canada) killed 4
Wayne Lo (America) killed 2
Flemming Nielsen (Denmark) killed 2
Jamie Rouse (America) killed 2
Barry Loukaitis (America) killed 3
Jillian Robbins (America) killed 1
Evan Ramsey (America) killed 2
Luke Woodham (America) killed 3 and injured 7
Michael Carneal (America) killed 3 and injured 5
Mitchell Johnson & Andrew Golden (America) killed 5 and wounded 10
Andrew Wurst (America) killed 1
Kip Kinkel (America) killed 4 and wounded 25
Todd Cameron Smith (America) killed 1
TJ Solomon (America) injured 6
Seth Trickey (America) injured 4
Charles Williams (America) killed 2 and injured 13
Jason Hoffman (America) injured 5
Peter Odighizuwa (America) killed 3
Allen Xiang (Australia) killed 2
Robert Flores (America) killed 3
Biswanath Halder (America) killed 2
Jeffrey Weise (America) killed 9
James Newman (America) injured 2
Kimveer Gill (Canada) shot 20, 1 of whom died
Charles Carl Roberts (America) kill 5 and wounded 5
Asa Coon (America) injured 4
Dimitris Patmanidis (Greece) injured 3
Farda Gadirov (Azerbaijan) killed 12 and wounded 13
thats not even all of the school shooters, and im not even listing postal killers, workplace murderers, mall massacres, and random killing sprees. some of the more notable ones:
Ernst Wagner (Germany) killed 14
Mutsoi Toi (Japan) killed 30
Stanley Graham (New Zealand) killed 8
Howard Unruh (America) killed 13
Mark Essex (America) killed 10
Woo Bum Kon (Korea) killed 57
George Banks (America) killed 13
James Huberty (America) killed 21
Patrick Sherrill (America) killed 14
Campo Delgado (Colombia) killed 30
Julian Knight (Australia) killed 7
Michael Ryan (England) killed 16
Joseph Wesbrecker (America) killed 7
James Pough (America) killed 9
David Grey (New Zealand) killed 13
Wade Frankum (Australia) killed 7
George Hennard (America) killed 23
Gian Ferri (America) killed 8
Colin Ferguson (America) killed 6
Baruch Goldstein (Israel) killed 29
Mattias Flink (Sweden) killed 7
Eric Borel (France) killed 15
Martin Bryant (Tasmania) killed 35
Genildo Franca (Brazil) killed 17
Mark Barton (America) killed 12
Larry Gene Ashbrook (America) killed 7
Byran Uyesugi (America) killed 7
Michael McDermott (America) killed 7
Friedrich Leibacher (Switzerland) killed 14
Richard Durn (France) killed 8
Doug Williams (America) killed 6
Terry Ratzmann (America) killed 7
Kyle Huff (America) killed 6
Sulejmon Talovic (America) killed 5
Robert Hawkins (America) killed 8
Matthew Murray (America) killed 4
Charles Thornton (America) killed 6
Bruce Pardo (America) killed 9
Michael McLendon (America) killed 10
Robert Stewart (America) killed 8
Jiverly Wong (America) killed 13
George Sodini (America) killed 3
Nidal Hasan (America) killed 13
Ibrahim Shkupolli (Finland) killed 5
this phenomenon of mass murder (either spontaneous or planned) is neither new (the earliest I list here is from 1913) nor is it confined to any part of the world (althought it is 99% of the time men)
Tyler Peterson (America) killed 6
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dude this is crazy crap its like da columbind one t0 u shoud go cack it out
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