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President Obama Gives Emotional Heartfelt Eulogy For Beau Biden
Arsenal Found In Car Of White House Fence Jumper
President Barack Obama eulogized Beau Biden Saturday as a good man of character, hail- ing the compassion and public service of his family in a moving funeral oration about the son of grief-stricken Vice President Joe Biden.
The President said that the former Delaware Attorney General and Iraq War veteran who died a week ago from brain cancer was a fine man full of integrity who had refused to trade on his family name. He did his duty to his country and "did not have a mean bone in his body," speaking to more than a thousand mourners at a Roman Catholic funeral Mass in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Beau Biden brought to his work a mighty heart, he brought to his family a mighty heart.” President Obama appeared on the verge of being emotionally overcome several times as he praised Beau Biden as a model public official, father and son.
“He did in 46 years what most of us could not do in 146," the President said. "He left nothing in the tank. He was a man who led a life where the means were as important as the ends."
When he had concluded his eulogy, Pres. Obama stepped down from the pulpit of the St. Anthony of Padua Church, and folded Biden in his arms, placing a kiss on his vice president's cheek.
The President's comments, while memorial- izing Beau Biden, were also an extraordinary show of love and respect for his vice president from a man who is more known for keeping his emotions contained than revealing them in pub- lic.
Earlier, Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff, posthumously awarded the
President Obama hugs Vice President Joe Biden after the eulogy.
Legion of Merit to Beau Biden, hailing him as a member of a brotherhood of soldiers who had "deep moral and ethical roots."
Joe Biden did not speak at the funeral, but looked on as his daughter Ashley and son Hunter eulogized their brother and paid tribute to his own role in leading the family.
Beau Biden's funeral cortege had arrived at the church heralded by a pipe band. The vice president, wearing dark glasses, and the rest of his family, all looking bereft, formed up behind the hearse. Biden occasionally whispered in the ear of Beau's widow, Hallie, and comforted his son's two children, Natalie and Hunter.
The casket, covered in an American flag, was carried gently into the church with full military honors, reflecting Beau's service as a captain in the Army National Guard in Iraq.
Omar Gonzalez, the White House fence jumper and his arsenal.
The U.S. Attorney's office is recommending a nearly two year sentence for the man who jumped the White House fence and entered the mansion last September while wielding a knife.
In a memo filed in U.S. Dis- trict Court on Monday, prose- cutors said U.S. Army veteran Omar Gonzalez, 43, of Texas should serve 21 months in prison for his actions, citing Gonzalez "needlessly endan- gered White House occupants, Secret Service officers and civilians in the vicinity."
The memo included photos of the knife Gonzalez had when he entered the White House, as well as of the
weapons found during a search of his vehicle including ammunition, a machete, sev- eral tomahawks designed for throwing and multiple knives.
Gonzalez has a history of mental illness including post traumatic stress disorder and told Secret Service agents he was attempting to tell the President the atmosphere was collapsing.
The sentencing was origi- nally set for June 8, but has been delayed.
President Obama And Other G7 Discuss Russian Aggression
Social Media Post Leads To Major Attack On ISIS
Members of the G7 pose for their group photo. From left to right: President of the Euro- pean Council Donald Tusk, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minis- ter Matteo Renzi and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
Although ISIS is known for using social media for recruit- ment purposes, U.S. Air Force intelligence has been using it to track down Islamic State militants, according to Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command.
"These guys that are work- ing down at Hurlburt (Florida), they're combing through social media. And they see an ISIS fighter stand- ing at this command and con- trol capability for Da'Esh, ISIL. These guys go, 'ah we got an in,'" Carlisle said at a speech in Arlington, Virginia, last Monday.
Twenty-two hours after see- ing the post, U.S. warplanes went in for the kill.
"Long story short...three JDAMs take the entire build- ing out," Carlisle said in the speech to the Air Force Asso- ciation.
A JDAM is a kit attached to a conventional bomb that con- verts it into a "smart" weapon, according to the U.S. Navy. The kit, made by Boeing and put in the tail of the bombs, uses a global positioning sys- tem and internal navigation system to guide the bombs onto targets.
Using GPS coordinates, JDAM bombs have an error
Bomber used against ISIS.
rate of less than 40 feet, the Navy says.
Carlisle did not give de- tails of the type of JDAM bomb or aircraft used, but he gushed about the team at Hurlburt Field, home of the Air Force's 1st Special Opera- tions Wing.
The Islamic group has pub- lished approximately 1,700 pictures, videos and other publications all across social media and have gained at least 200,000 readers on Twitter.
Social media has been a central focus for propagan- dists to recruit, share their ex- periences and show off their triumphs. However, U.S. Intel, specifically airmen, have been avidly searching across social media to track down ISIS whereabouts to actively re- spond.
President Barack Obama and other world leaders huddled in a remote Bavarian castle Sunday, debating a way forward in Ukraine after economic sanctions failed to stop Russia's advances in the eastern part of that country.
The meeting of the G7 in Germany comes a year after the grouping of major world powers forced Russia from its ranks.
Ensconced in the Schloss Elmau hotel high in the southern German Alps, the President was expected to urge his European counterparts to extend sanctions on Russia.
President Obama said Sunday that "Russ- ian aggression" in Ukraine was at the top of the G7 agenda, along with bolstering trade, ad- dressing climate change and combating violent extremists.
Referring to Ukraine, the President said, "We think that there can be a peaceful, diplo- matic resolution to this problem, but it's going to require that Europe, the United States and the Transatlantic Partnership, as well as the world, stay vigilant and stay focused on the im- portance of upholding the principles of territo- rial integrity and sovereignty."
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