*Breaking* Hostage situation in NY

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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25287884-5006301,00.html

have some Anti comments that need correcting there 

Taliban link to US massacre in New York state

PAKISTAN'S top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has reportedly claimed responsibility for a mass murder in New York state that killed 13 people.

"I accept the responsibility. They were my men,'' Mr Mehsud told reporters in Peshawar on phone from an undisclosed location.

Mr Mehsud said the massacre was in revenge for the continued US drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The seven semi-autonomous tribal districts are known to serve as sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels.

The militant commander added that his men would hit US targets until Washington halted the missile strikes.

New York immigration centre massacre

A lone gunman burst into a New York immigration hall with his guns blazing overnight, killing 13 people and injuring several more in the latest mass shooting to rock the US.

About 41 people in the American Civic Association in Binghamton were taken hostage when Asian gunman Jiverly Voong, 42, stormed into the building packing a terrifiying array of firearms, including a high-powered rifle.

Voong, recently sacked from computer giant IBM, shot himself in the head after his killing spree.

His dead body was found on the first floor of the building with a hunting knife jammed in the waistband of his pants, US media reported.

Authorities at the scene said the man had used his car to block the back door before walking through the front doors, firing as he entered.

Late yesterday, about 1pm, witnesses reported seeing police leading two men away in plastic handcuffs as police retrieved two handguns.

The nightmare started about 10.30am, local time, when screams and heavy gun fire shattered the peace in upstate New York.

Voong reportedly targeted rooms inside the centre where a citizenship test was being conducted.

Terrified hostages hid in the closet and the boiler room during the killing spree, according to local media.

Hostages cloaked in white sheets scrambled from the building in groups of ten, holding their shaking hands on their heads.

Police searched them as they exited, worried one might be the gunman trying to escape in disguise.

Members of the two hostage groups hugged as they were released thirty minutes apart, the first group shortly after noon.

Sharp shooters and specialist FBI hostage negotiators were on hand all morning as elite SWAT team officers surrounded the building wearing heavy ballistic vests.

A local Vietnamese translator was seconded to work with police.

Earlier, a local hospital said they were treating about six shooting victims aged between 20 and 50.

At least one person rushed to the Wilson Medical Center was critically injured.

Police locked down a nearby high school and local business, ordering residents to stay inside.

Rashidun Haque, who owns a nearby convenience store, said police instructed him and his customers stay inside and away from the windows.

"I'm really shaky because this kind of thing, it's a small city, it's a beautiful city, but nothing goes down serious like this," Mr Haque said.

The immigration hall is a place where new arrivals sit citizenship tests and get help with translators.

New York Governor David Paterson said New Yorkers were reeling.

"This is a tragic day for New York," Mr Paterson said.

"While the situation is still developing and details are being gathered, we do know that a gunman entered the American Civic Association in Binghamton this morning and that there are fatalities."

It is the fourth mass shooting in the US in as many weeks.

In North Carolina last Sunday, a 45-year-old man slaughtered 10 people in a nursing home.

On March 10, a 28-year-old man in Alabama killed 10 people, including his own mother, before taking his own life.

A few days later in Miami, a man shot and killed five people, including his estranged wife and himself.

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I want to know how a towel head got a egg roll to go all jihad on newyork.


 how dumb does he think we are?









PS the names used above were not ment to be racist...