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France bombs Islamic State HQ, 2 more attackers identified
France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria on Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in Raqqa city, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets took off from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces. On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Turkey on Sunday, France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said his country was justified in taking action in Syria. Two more suicide bombers identified The Paris prosecutor’s office says two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified. French official says suspected attacks mastermind linked to thwarted train and church attacks.
Prosecutors said Monday that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant. Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday. A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib. The prosecutor’s office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October. Action in Syria “It was normal to take the initiative and action and France had the legitimacy to do so. We did it already in the past, we have conducted new airstrikes in Raqqa on Sunday, Mr.Fabius said. “One cannot be attacked harshly and you know the drama that is happening in Paris, without being present and active.”
Meanwhile, as police announced seven arrests and hunted for more members of the sleeper cell that carried out the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, French officials revealed. Several key suspects had been stopped and released by the police after the attack. The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, calls him very dangerous and warns people not to intervene if they see him. Yet police already had him in their grasp on Saturday, when they stopped a car carrying three men near the Belgian border. By then, hours had passed since authorities identified Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that carried hostage takers to the Paris theater. Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed that officers let Abdeslam go after checking his ID. They spoke on condition of anonymity, lacking authorization to publicly disclose such details.
Warned on Thursday, Tantalizing clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials said that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack. An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi dispatch provided no details on when or where the attack would take place and a senior French security official said that French intelligence gets these kinds of warnings “all the time” and “every day.” The officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met with the attackers after their training and helped them execute the plan. There were 24 people involved in the operation, they said – 19 attackers and five others in charge of logistics and planning. None of these details have been corroborated by officials of France or other intelligence agencies.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers believed to be involved; One who crossed with him into Belgium was later arrested, and another blew himself up inside the Bataclan theater after taking the audience hostage and firing on them repeatedly. It was the worst of Friday’s synchronized attacks, leaving 89 fatalities and hundreds of people wounded inside. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility. Its statement mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity.” In all, three teams of attackers including seven suicide bombers attacked the national stadium, the concert hall and nearby nightspots. The attacks wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously. Black Volkswagen Polo, Abdeslam rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers, another French security official said. A Brussels parking ticket found inside led police to at least one of the arrests in Belgium, a French police official said.
Three Kalashnikovs were found inside another car known to have been used in the attacks that was found in Montreuil, an eastern Parisian suburb, another a French police official said. As many as three of the seven suicide bombers were French citizens, as was at least one of the men arrested in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussells, which authorities consider to be a focal point for extremists and fighters going to Syria from Belgium. Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said suspects arrested in Molenbeek had been stopped previously in Cambrai, France, “in a regular roadside check” but that police had no suspicion about them at the time and they were let go quickly. One, identified by the print on a recovered finger, was 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who had a record of petty crime and had been flagged in 2010 for ties to Islamic radicalism, the Paris prosecutor said. A judicial official and lawmaker Jean-Pierre Gorges confirmed his identity. A judicial official said that police had also identified two others of the suicide bombers, both French nationals who had been living in Belgium – 20-year-old Bilal Hadfi, who detonated himself outside the Stade de France; and 31-year-old Brahim Abdeslam, the brother of fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who blew himself up on the Boulevard Voltaire.
Police detained Mostefai’s father, a brother and other relatives on Saturday and questioning continued on Sunday, the judicial official said. Homegrown terrorism, These details stoked fears of homegrown terrorism in France, which has exported more jihadis than any other in Europe and seen many return from the fight. All three gunmen in the January attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a Kosher supermarket in Paris were French. The attackers inside the Bataclan seemed quite young, according to one survivor, Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the stage, and then coming out from an exit door when the shooters paused to reload. Before making his final dash, he got a good look at one of the assailants, he said. “He seemed very young. That’s what struck me, his childish face, very determined, cold, calm, frightening,” Mr.Pearce said. Struggling to keep his country calm and united after an exceptionally violent year, President Francois Hollande on Sunday met opposition leaders conservative rival and former president Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has used the attacks on Paris to advance her anti-immigrant agenda.
Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker’s body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month.False alarm Paris remains on edge amid three days of official mourning. French troops have deployed by the thousands and tourist sites remain shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth. Panic ensued Sunday night as police abruptly cleared hundreds of mourners from the famed Place de la Republique square, where police said firecrackers sparked a false alarm. “Whoever starts running starts everyone else running,” said Alice Carton, city council member who was at the square. “It’s a very weird atmosphere. The sirens and screaming are a source of fear.” Officers also moved in, guns drawn, after mourners panicked near the Carillon bar, where crowds laid flowers and lit candles in memory of the 15 people killed there.
That Feeling Of Ex-Heroine!!
Starting career at a tender age as a heroine, many girls get stardom too quickly. Then by the time age crosses 30 and mature look adores the face, offers start fading down. One day, these starlets will have to call it quits only to get promoted from the tag of Senior-Heroine to Former-Heroine.
Once this ex-heroine title is gifted, not many girls could take it easily. And that could be seen and felt through their ire on different stuff. The other day former heroine Preity Zinta felt irritated when media wrote her as 90s actress, as she feels that she has done only 3 films in 90s but whole of her career took place in 2000s.
For a former heroine who is in her 40s, this would not be a big heartbreaking news if she’s written as 90s or 2000s. But those who are still tough to digest the fact that their game as heroine is over, it will be like a Preity only.
Of course, some senior actresses like Aishwarya Rai still wants to be called as heroine at 40 while Sridevi is getting same honours at 50. But they are the rarest of rare cases and maybe other pretty sirens like Preity, Rani, Shilpa, Sonali and others should start feeling sweet for that tag of ex-heroine.
Wow, Balayya Walks The Ramp
Film star turned politician Nandamuri Balakrishna is usually known for his ferocious mass avatars and adrenaline-filled power packed roles onscreen. The mighty mass star has a unique charm and style to his flamboyant personality. Now, Balayya enthralled everyone as he walked the ramp at a beauty salon opening last night.
Balayya was the chief guest at the opening ceremony of a beauty salon last night and he took part in a fashion show that followed afterwards. Balayya then brought the entire house down as he joined the sultry models and walked the ramp along with them with the style and panache the models put on the ramp.
Needless to say, the crowd went euphoric seeing Balayya on the ramp and even cheered for him. Speaking on the occasion, Balayya wished the salon owner who is also a family friend the best of success. The event was also graced by Tollywood celebs like D Suresh Babu, Raj Tarun and several others.
Why He Dumped Chiranjeevi?
That’s a rocky location in South Africa. Megastar Chiru and beautiful Urmila and dancing to that tune very perfectly. The song came out well. But suddenly the movie’s director left the project after they returned to India only to kick-start his next Bollywood venture.
For a long time, many never understood why maverick director Ram Gopal Varma has actually left Chiru’s film midway and went to Bombay. Though there are rumours that it’s Chiru who ousted Ramu for his independent way of calling the shots, insiders say something else.
At that time, Ramu was actually making a movie with Sanjay Dutt in Bollywood, but the hero got jailed for his role in 1993 serials blasts case. As Dutt was released from jail, Ramu took a flight to Bombay to wrap that project, which finally ended up as “Daud”, the utter flop. Will any director leave a project of Megastar like Chiru for a Sanjay Dutt? Probably no.
There is buzz that Ramu got pressurised from ‘mafia’ to finish Sanjay Dutt’s film as they are the real investors for that project. As Sanjay Dutt had links with mafia, and for which he got jailed now again as Supreme Court felt sentencing him is correct, this angle of Ramu-Sanjay relation might be true. In the first place, why everyone is suddenly discussing about this?
RGV is coming up with his autobiography “Guns And Thighs” next month, and Telugu fans are looking forward if he will talk about this discarded project.
Spellbound by sound
How times havmany e you wished that at the end of the day, some magic hand would pick up the things scattered messily all over the chairs and tables? That magic hand, or its ultrasonic equivalent, has been effectively designed now. A team of researchers, Asier Marzo et al, from Universities of Bristol, Sussex and Navarre and Ultrahaptics Limited have come up with a way to use sound to “pick up” objects. In a study published recently in Nature Communications, the team has demonstrated using 64 miniature speakers how high-pitch and high-intensity ultrasonic sound waves can be used to surround a small object and create a force field which can then “hold” the object. By manipulating the output of the loudspeakers the object can then be moved.
This is interesting because it differs from earlier attempts which required that the object that was to be lifted be surrounded by loudspeakers in all directions. Dr. Marzo and his team achieved it using a plane array of loudspeakers. The invisible hand that they created was of three types — tweezers, twisters and bottles. The tweezers were similar to lifting the object with a pair of fingers, while the twisters surrounded the object in a vortex of sound, and finally, the bottles were like a cage that trapped the object within.
In a video released by the group, the scientist brings in a small ball, a few millimeters across, to a point above the array of loudspeakers. He then draws away the paper. As if a pair of fingers is holding it back, the ball is seized and held in place as the paper is pulled away. While at the moment they are able to manipulate objects of width about 2 mm only, the scientists hope to perfect the technique to be able to manipulate small, cell-sized objects and also much larger ones.
Allu Arjun Participates a Fight Sequence
Stylish Star Allu Arjun turned aggressive in Rajahmundry. This is about an action sequence of his new project ‘Sarainodu’ we are talking about. Team ‘Sarainodu’, landed in the city of Rajahmundry a coupled days ago to shoot for a few key scenes of the movie.
A few romantic scenes between Allu Arjun and Rakul Preet singh were shot in the beautiful and picturesque locales of in and around Godavari. And the latest we heard is that an adrenalin pumping action sequence was shot between Allu Arjun and villain Aadi recently. This is going to be an out and out mass entertainer.
‘Sarainodu’s music is being scored by Thaman. The movie has Catherine Tresa in second heroine’s role. Boyapati Srinu is directing the movie. Mega Producer Allu Aravind is producing the movie on Geetha Arts. The movie is expected to hit screens on April 8 as a summer gift to mega fans and other movie lovers.
NTR Has ’15 Glorious Years As a Hero’!
Young Tiger Ntr’s debut movie ‘Ninnu Choodalani’ was released on 25th of May, 2001 and the star gets 15 years of his professional career completed by 24 May, 2016. However, some of the enthusiastic fans of Ntr in social media have started spreading the hash tag ’15 Glorious Years of Ntr’. Whatever it is, let’s have a mini review on ’15 Glorious years of Ntr’. ’15 years in industry and 25 movies of experience with numerous ups and downs,’ this is broadly about the career graph of Young Tiger Ntr as of now. When the star was born with ‘Ninnu Choodalani’, there was none, who believed he would be a big star soon. Ntr took no time becoming a superstar. His movies such as ‘Aadhi’ and ‘Simhadri’ took him to another level. Media tried to project him as the next number one hero after Megastar Chiranjeevi.
But then, Ntr’s downfall was started in subsequent days with a series of flops from then. Although Ntr delivered the hits and super hits such as ‘Yamadonga’, ‘Adhurs’, ‘Brindavanam’ in between, no movie of his has attained the range of 2003’s blockbuster ‘Simhadri’. As such, Ntr has to take backseat in number one race and many other stars appeared to have crossed him with their success rate.
In spite of maximum number of flops rather hit films, Ntr was never degraded with his dances, fights and performance. His latest offing ‘Temper’ got a partial success. He will be seen in a complete makeover in his upcoming film ‘Naannaku Prematho’. Analysts predict this could be the first 50 crores film for the star. Wish that Ntr gets all of his goals fulfilled in near future.
‘Baahubali’ Praised in Hawaii Film Fest
SS Rajamouili’s ‘Baahubali’ is simply unstoppable receiving International applause. As we know, the movie was praised more than like anything in Busan and Tallinn film festivals. And last night a special screening of the movie was held in Hawaii International Film Festival, USA. The movie was well acclaimed by the critics.
‘Baahubali’s sequel, ‘Baahubali – The Conclusion’ is in its pre production now. The movie will go on sets on December 14. The production teams is aimed at early 2017’s release of the movie.
‘Baahubali 2′ will be starred by Young Rebel Star Prabhas, Rana, Anushka, Tamannah, Ramyakrishna, Satyaraj and a couple of Bollywood and other industrys’ actors. Keeravani will score the tunes of the movie. The movie is being produced by Shobhu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni on Arka Media Words. It is a known news that ‘Baahubali’ has got runaway success and accumulated a share of Rs.172 crores in its full run world wide. ‘Baahubali 2’ is expected to break the collection records of ‘Baahubali’.
Venkatesh’s Film Delays Further!
Earlier this morning social media has abuzz that Eros International had come up with a deal of Rs.300 crores with Prince Mahesh. However, it was not mentioned how many films that Mahesh and Eros would be working for this biggest ever deal of Tollywood. Most importantly, Mahesh’s remuneration in this deal was not disclosed. And this afternoon, social media speculated that Mahesh had been paid Rs.25 crores as his remuneration for Murugadoss’ project. Mahesh was also said to be the only hero of Tollywood to have charged the biggest ever remuneration.
And late in the night, a number one news channel revealed that Mahesh had been paid Rs.23 crores for Murugadoss’ film. It was specially mentioned as the never seen record for any Tollywood hero. Hearing various reports on the remuneration of their hero, fans have gone sceptical and are hoping all the media houses should come up with the same reports on Maheshs remuneration else movie patrons might raise several doubts on the exact remuneration of Mahesh.
Interestingly, various reports on the budget of Mahesh and Murugadoss film were heard on social media. Some of the media houses mentioned the movie would be made with Rs.110 crores while some other media houses reported it would be confined to Rs.80 crores. The makers should have taken all the necessary care to ensure the similar details of remuneration of Mahesh and budget of the movie published/posted in the media. ” In the current scenario, young heroes are cutting down their remunerations as part of cost cutting measures of their movies and this healthy trend is definitely a welcome move by them. Heroes like Mahesh should also break the conventions to make sure their films getting blockbuster statuses,” says a trade expert.
