VOA News 07 December 2010 With the USS Arizona memorial in the background, Pearl Harbor survivor Richard Laubert, of Phoenix, Oregon, attends the 69th anniversary ceremony marking the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 2010, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Americans across the United States are holding ceremonies Tuesday to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Hundreds of people are estimated to be gathered at Pearl Harbor, where a new visitor's center is to open at the scene of the attack, near the site where the battleship Arizona sank.
On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the base just before 8 a.m., Hawaii time. The attack killed more than 2,400 Americans, sank five battleships and drew the United States into World War II.
More than 1,100 sailors died on the Arizona, which still lies at the bottom of the harbor. It is a memorial to what then-U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt described as "a date which will live in infamy."
At the same time as the Hawaii ceremony, the National Park Service in Washington held a wreath-laying ceremony at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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What's happening at Pearl harbor right now?
07-12-2010
Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is makeup by the American.
07-12-2010 Deborah Leigh (USA)
Too bad your article didn't list the other ships and their memorials in the harbor. God bless the Arizona and her crew, but the Utah is still resting on the bottom. Tell the whole story. God bless everyone who was at the Harbor that day!
07-12-2010 (United States of America)
REST IN PEACE. THANKS FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY. MY FAMILY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THOSE WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE. REST IN PEACE. grateful (free) American
07-12-2010 Anthony Seminara (USA)
GOD BLESS ALL OUR FIGHTING MEN PAST AND PRESENT AND MAY ALL THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON REST IN PEACE
07-12-2010 Jack Straw (US of A)
A day worth remembering, one the government could have easily avoided by alerting the base of the incoming Japanese fleet. But then again we wouldn't have gotten involved in World War II if Roosevelt hadn't allowed so many men to die without warning
07-12-2010
Don't you wonder if Iraq will have heir own Pearl Harbor like day when the imperialist U. S. invaded their country?
07-12-2010 Tilomai Tui (Hawaii)
I thank you to those who risk there lives, and may they rest in peace with the Love of God.
07-12-2010 Debbie Barr (Tacoma,wa)
My great-uncle George Scott was at pearlharborthat morning. He was able to fire on the Japanese planes. He was from Bremerton,WA.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Someone set fire to an Islamic center on Sunday, two days after a man who worshipped there was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Other Muslims fear it could be the first volley of misplaced retribution.
The charges against Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born 19-year-old who was caught in a federal sting operation, are testing tolerance in a state that has been largely accepting of Muslims. Muslims who know the suspect say they are shocked by the allegations against him and that he had given them no hint of falling into radicalism.
The fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis was reported at 2:15 a.m., and evidence at the scene led authorities believe it was set intentionally, said Carla Pusateri, a fire prevention officer for the Corvallis Fire Department.
Authorities don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the center was targeted because Mohamud occasionally worshipped there.
"We have made it quite clear that the FBI will not tolerate any kind of retribution or attack on the Muslim community," said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon.
Mohamud was being held on charges of plotting to carry out a terror attack Friday on a crowd of thousands at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, and it wasn't clear if he had a lawyer yet.
On Friday, he parked what he thought was a bomb-laden van near the ceremony and then went to a nearby train station, where he dialed a cell phone that he believed would detonate the vehicle, federal authorities said. Instead, federal authorities moved in and arrested him. No one was hurt.
There were also no injuries in Sunday's fire, which burned 80 percent of the center's office but did not spread to worship areas or any other rooms, said Yosof Wanly, the center's imam.
After daybreak, members gathered at the center, where a broken window had been boarded up.
"I've prayed for my family and friends, because obviously if someone was deliberate enough to do this, what's to stop them from coming to our homes and our schools?" said Mohamed Alyagouri, a 31-year-old father of two who worships at the center. "I'm afraid for my children getting harassed from their teachers, maybe from their friends."
Wanly said he was thinking about temporarily relocating his family because of the possibility of hate crimes.
"We know how it is, we know some people due to ignorance are going to perceive of these things and hold most Muslims accountable," Wanly said. "We do what we can, but it's a tough situation."
The imam said Corvallis, a college town about 75 miles southwest of Portland, has long been accepting of Muslims.
"The common scene here is to be very friendly, accepting various cultures and religions," Wanly said. "The Islamic center has been here for 40 years, it's more American than most Americans with regards to age."
In Portland, residents are alarmed by the terror plot, but Mayor Sam Adams said they are "not going to let this change our values of being an open and embracing city." He said that he beefed up patrols around mosques "and other facilities that might be vulnerable to knuckle-headed retribution" after hearing of the bomb plot.
The FBI was working closely with leadership at the Corvallis center as agents investigated the fire, Balizan said. A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest.
Authorities have not explained how Mohamud, an Oregon State University student until he dropped out on Oct. 6, became so radicalized. Mohamud graduated from high school in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, although few details of his time there were available Saturday.
Wanly described him as a normal student who went to athletic events, drank an occasional beer and was into rap music and culture. He described Mohamud as religious, saying he attended prayers in Corvallis once or twice a month over a year and a half.
Wanly, 24, said that in about 15 conversations he had with Mohamud, the teen rarely discussed religion. He said that may have been because Mohamud knew his extremist views wouldn't be tolerated, and suggested that Mohamud was influenced by radical teaching he read on the Internet.
"If a person has a type of agenda, he can find anything he wants on the Internet and block out everything else," Wanly said.
In the days leading up to his arrest, Mohamud's friends thought he appeared on edge, Wanly said.
"He seemed to be in a state of confusion," Wanly said. "He would say things that weren't true. He'd say 'I'm going to go get married,' for example. He wasn't going to go get married."
Mohamud is among tens of thousands of Somalis who have resettled in the United States since their country plunged into lawlessness in 1991. The U.N.-backed government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu, the capital, while large parts of Somalia are controlled by the insurgent group Al-Shabab, which vows allegiance to al-Qaida.
Omar Jamal, first secretary for the Somali mission to the United Nations in New York City, told The Associated Press his office has received "thousands of calls" from Somalis in the United States who are concerned about tactics used by federal agents in the sting operation against Mohamud.
Jamal said there is concern in the Somali community that Mohamud was "lured into an illegal act."
"Rest assured that the community is very against anyone who tries to do harm to the citizens of this country," Jamal said in a phone call.
But many Somalis in the United States are wondering whether Mohamud's "rights have been violated" by federal agents in the sting operation, he said. "What did they tell him to go along with this heinous crime?" Jamal said.
An FBI affidavit said it was Mohamud who picked the target of the bomb plot, that he was warned several times about the seriousness of his plan, that women and children could die, and that he could back out.
Officials said Mohamud had no formal ties to foreign terror groups, although he had reached out to suspected terrorists in Pakistan.
FBI agents say they began investigating after receiving a tip from an unidentified person who expressed concern about Mohamud. This summer an agent e-mailed Mohamud, pretending to be affiliated with an "unindicted associate" whom Mohamud had tried to contact.
Agents had some face-to-face meetings with Mohamud. On Nov. 4, in the backcountry along Oregon's coast, they convinced him that he was testing an explosive device — although the explosion was controlled by agents rather than the youth.
On Friday, an agent and Mohamud drove into downtown Portland to the white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert.
Authorities said they allowed the plot to proceed to obtain evidence to charge the suspect with plotting to carrying out the attack.
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Duara reported from Portland. Associated Press writers William McCall and Tim Fought also contributed to this report.
The site of the attack in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday.
KARACHI, Pakistan — A coordinated attack by gunmen wielding grenades and a powerful car bomb struck at a police compound in a heavily guarded quarter of central Karachi on Thursday, heavily damaging several buildings in a direct strike at government counterterrorism forces.
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A three-story police building was leveled, and a residential unit for families of police officers was reported heavily damaged.
As of Thursday evening, the death toll stood at 18, with at least 100 people injured, but rescuers were still sifting through rubble, and it seemed clear that the death toll would rise. Hospital officials said that women and children were among the injured.
That the attackers were able to penetrate the area — engaging police officers in a firefight and driving a bomb-laden vehicle to the compound’s second gate — was telling. Police officers patrol the streets; mass transit is barred from some streets; and gates keep most traffic from the compound. The area is home to two five-star hotels, government offices and the American Consulate.
Karachi has a history of sectarian and ethnic strife, and mosques and Western targets have been struck in the past by militant groups. But attacks directly on government targets have been rare.
Babar Khattak, a top police official, said some personnel remained unaccounted for. Twenty police officials had been on duty, he said. There were suspicions that the attack was a reprisal for a recent series of arrests of militants. Mr. Khattak said that the police counterterrorism unit had arrested nine militants in the past few days.
But there were conflicting reports about whether the suspects were in the compound at the time of the attack. Mr. Khattak said they were not, but Fayyaz Leghari, Karachi’s police chief, said that several militant suspects were there.
He said they were suspected of being members of Laskhar-e-Jhangvi, a banned sectarian group.
The U.S. Senate race is Kentucky is heading into November much like it started — a bare-knuckled contest with Democrats again trying to define Republican Rand Paul by dredging up his past.
The race has tightened over the past weeks, but such a strategy already appears to be backfiring as one of the biggest cheerleaders for Democratic candidate Jack Conway denounced his recent TV ad questioning Mr. Paul's religious beliefs.
The 30-second ad that began airing last week says that while attending Baylor University, Mr. Paul was in a secret society that mocked Christianity and that he forced a female student to bow to a god named "Aqua Buddha."
The Paul campaign posted a response ad Monday titled "False Witness," with the narrator asking: "What kind of shameful politician would sink so low as to bear false witness against another man just to win an election?"
Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, said Monday the Conway ad was "very dangerous" and "came close to the line" of being inappropriate.
"Candidates who are behind at the end reach, and sometimes they overreach," she said on MSNBC-TV's "Morning Joe" program. "This ad is a very dangerous ad because it reaches back to college. ... I think the ad came close to the line."
Mrs. McCaskill made the comments about 24 hours after she branded the "tea party"-backed Mr. Paul an "extreme candidate" and predicting Mr. Conway, the state's attorney general, would come from behind to win the race.
"Ask Elizabeth Dole what might happen," Republican strategist Elliott Curson said Monday about the Conway ad.
Mr. Curson was referring to a TV ad Mrs. Dole ran in the final weeks of her 2008 North Carolina U.S. Senate re-election bid that questioned Democratic challenger Kay Hagan's ties to an atheist political group.
Ms. Hagan, who was an official at a Presbyterian church in Greensboro, defeated Mrs. Dole, who was seeking a second term.
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