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President Obama Lifts U. S. Arms Ban On Vietnam
Secret Service Agent Shoots Man Brandishing Gun At White House Checkpoint
The Secret Service agents secured the entire perimeter of the White House.
A man who approached the White House on Friday brandish- ing a gun was shot and wounded by a Secret Service agent, the agency’s spokesman said. The man, whose identity was not re- leased, was taken into custody and treated at a nearby hospital.
Secret Service officers repeat- edly ordered the man to stop and drop the gun, David A. Iacov- etti, the Secret Service’s deputy assistant director of public affairs, said in a statement. When the man refused, a Secret Service agent shot him once, and officers took him into custody.
Iacovetti added that officers recovered a gun at the scene and gave the unidentified suspect medical attention.
He was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition, ac- cording to MSNBC..
A White House official told the press that “no one within or asso- ciated with the White House was injured” and President Barack Obama was briefed on the situa- tion.
The episode began shortly after 3 p.m. Friday, when the man walked toward a security check- point on E Street, southwest of the White House.
The shooting, in a high-traffic area near the National Mall crowded with tourists and other bystanders, was the latest in a string of security episodes involv- ing the White House.
Since then, the Secret Service has significantly expanded train- ing for officers and beefed up se- curity around the fence.
In this episode, the Secret Serv- ice said, the armed man did not penetrate the White House grounds.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was secured “within the White House complex” during the shooting, said Meghan Dubyak, a spokeswoman.
Still, the White House and Treasury Department were placed on lockdown while the police in- vestigated, interrupting an unusu- ally sleepy spring afternoon at the White House.
President Obama, who left on Saturday for a weeklong trip to Vietnam and Japan, decided to squeeze in a rare weekday round of golf with three close aides.
Rare Copies Of Anti-Slavery Documents To Be Auctioned
Two of the most important docu- ments of American history will be sold this week.
Rare copies of the 13th Amend- ment, which abol- ished slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation will be sold by
Sotheby’s, an auc- Rare copies of the 13th Amendment and tion house in New the Emancipation Proclamation will be sold
President Barack Obama
announced Monday that the United States is fully lifting a decades-long ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam.
In a joint news conference in Hanoi with Vietnamese Presi- dent Tran Dai Quang, Pres. Obama said that the removal of the ban on lethal weapons was part of a deeper defense cooper- ation with the country and dis- missed suggestions it was aimed at countering China's growing strength in the region.
Instead, it was the desire to continue normalizing relations between the United States and Vietnam and to do away with a ban "based on ideological divi- sion between our two countries," he said.
The Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of Saigon -- now called Ho Chi Minh City - - after the United States with- drew combat forces and the North Vietnamese launched a massive offensive to reunite their homeland under communism.
While Vietnam and China are
President Obama and Viet- namese President Tran Dai Quang strengthen ties be- tween the two countries.
neighbors that share a commu- nist ideology, China has aggres- sively claimed territory in the South China Sea, irking Vietnam and other Southeast Asian neighbors and also raising con- cerns internationally.
In a recent and provocative show of force, China flew two jets close to U. S. aircraft sta- tioned in airspace above the dis- puted region.
York, during its on Wednesday.
President Confirms Taliban Leader Is Dead
“Two Centuries of
American History” auction on May 25.
It is the first time both copies of the anti-slavery documents will be up for sale, simultane- ously.
The 13th Amendment, signed by President Abraham Lin- coln, is only one of 14 original copies that exist, most of which live within the confines of vari- ous museums and institutions. Lincoln, who signed the docu- ment on February 1, 1865, called the amendment a “king’s cure for all the evils.”
The copy of the Emancipation
Proclamation up for auction — which was dated January 1, 1863, and freed all slaves in con- federate-owned territory — is one of 27 copies in existence, 20 of which are framed in institu- tions. The remaining copies are owned by private collectors.
The anti-slavery documents will be on sale to the public and are expected to attract millions of dollars. The Emancipation Proclamation is estimated to fetch between $1.5 to $2 million while the 13th Amendment is es- timated to sell between $2 to $3 million.
President Obama on Mon- day confirmed the death of Tal- iban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
Mansoor is believed to have been killed Saturday in a U. S. drone strike in a remote area of Pakistan.
"We have removed the leader of an organization that has con- tinued to plot against and un- leash attacks on American and Coalition forces, to wage war against the Afghan people, and align itself with extremist groups like al-Qaeda," the President said in a written statement issued by the White House.
Mansoor, who is believed to be around 48, formally assumed the leadership of the Taliban last year following the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The White House statement said he rejected efforts by the Afghan government to seriously engage in peace talks.
The Pakistani government on Sunday denounced a U. S. drone strike that killed Man-
Former CIA Agent Claims He Helped South Africa Jail Nelson Mandela
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed by a drone.
soor, saying the attack violated Pakistan's sovereignty and stressing that peace can be at- tained only through negotia- tion.
Afghan Chief Executive Ab- dullah Abdullah tweeted that Mansoor was killed Saturday in a drone strike in Quetta, Pak- istan. "His car was attacked in Dahl Bandin," Abdullah said in the tweet.
Nelson Mandela spent nearly three decades behind bars and became the symbol of the anti-Apartheid move- ment in South Africa, and eventually became the na- tion’s first Black president after his release.
In a recently released arti- cle, a former CIA agent admit- ted that he helped the South African government jail the beloved world leader.
Britain’s Sunday Times
made the original report that agent Donald Rickard led authorities to Mandela in 1962 via a tip, which led to the leader living in brutal prison conditions for 27 years.
Rickard, who died this past March, told British film- maker John Irvin about his role in Mandela’s jailing for Irvin’s film, Mandela’s Gun, which focuses on the weeks leading up to the arrest.
A spokesperson for the rul- ing ANC Party, of which Man- dela was a member of, said
The late President of S. Africa, Nelson Mandela was allegedly conspired against by the U. S. CIA according to former spy Donald Rickard.
that the Rickard admission confirmed their suspicions that America and other West- ern powers conspired with the Apartheid-led government. John F. Kennedy was presi- dent when Mandela was cap- tured and jailed.
The spokesman, Zizi Kodwa, alleged that the CIA is still interfering with South African political affairs in a re- cent press statement.
White House News
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