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Man starts fire outside White House
From correspondents in Washington
16nov04

A BEARDED man shouting "Allah" was injured while apparently setting fire to his belongings outside the White House today and was quickly subdued by Secret Service guards.

A Reuters reporter saw the man try to present a manila envelope to guards near a Secret Service post on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington.
Moments later, a plume of smoke rose above the guard post, while two guards wrestled the man to the ground and a third extinguished flames that engulfed his briefcase and overcoat a few metres away.

The man, who appeared to suffer from a burn to his right hand, groaned and repeatedly shouted "Allah", as guards held him on the ground. The area was cordoned off and fire trucks and ambulances arrived on the scene.

Neither the Secret Service nor the White House offered immediate comment on the incident, and the man was not identified.
 
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i have a question to anyone who knows. if one were to set his entire body on fire, how long would it take before he burns his nerve cells and can't feel the fire anymore? cuz if it takes hella long then thats some real discipline to just sit there and feel yourself burning up, ya know
 
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WAS IT GUILT OR GREED THAT DROVE HIM TO IT?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man who set himself on fire outside the White House on Monday was a Yemeni federal informant on terrorism upset over how the FBI had managed his case, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Mohamed Alanssi, who had recently discussed his work as an informant in interviews with The Washington Post, told the newspaper by faxed letter and telephone on Monday he intended to "burn my body at unexpected place," the newspaper reported.

The U.S. Park Police said in a statement that a Middle Eastern male in his early 50's approached the northwest gate of the White House around 2 p.m. with a letter for the president. After a brief conversation with Secret Service officers, the man pulled a lighter from his pocket and ignited his jacket, the statement said.

The Washington Post said Alanssi, 52, was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he was listed in critical condition with burns over about 30 percent of his body.

Neither the Secret Service nor White House had immediate comment on the incident. The man's name was being withheld pending notification of his family, the Park Police said.

A spokesman for the FBI in Washington was not immediately available for comment on the Post report early on Tuesday.

In interviews with the newspaper, Alanssi, who is from Yemen and also uses the name Mohamed Alhadrami, expressed anguish over not being able to visit his family in Yemen.

He told the newspaper that he suffers from diabetes and heart problems and that his wife suffers from stomach cancer. Alanssi said he could not travel to Yemen because he has no money and because the FBI, which expects him to testify at a terrorism trial in New York, was keeping his Yemeni passport.

"It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI," Alanssi was quoted as saying.

"The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position . . . I am not crazy to destroy my life and my family's life to get $100,000," he said.

Alanssi said he became a major informant for the FBI after the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States. He said he was paid $100,000 in 2003 but had expected much more and had not received the permanent residency status he was promised, the newspaper reported.

"We don't have a policy on revealing who is a cooperator or informing witness," Joe Valiquette, an FBI spokesman in New York, told the Post. The U.S. attorney's office in the eastern district of New York, which is prosecuting the terrorism-related trial in January, also declined comment, the newspaper said.
 
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^^^ YOU KNOW WHAT I NEVER ROOTED FOR THE GOOD GUYS WHEN IT CAME OT CARTOONS AND TOYS. WHEN I PLAY GAMES I TRY TO PICK THE EVIL LOOKING CHARACTERS. ZANGIEF WAS OK IF YOU LEARNED HOW TO CONTROL HIM. VERY SLOW AND HE COULDN'T JUMP HIGH. BLANKA WAS COOL BECAUSE HE HAD A NICE SIZE REACH AND COULD EASILY CHAIN COMBOS. WHEN I PLAYED VERSIONS THAT OFFERED TAG TEAMS I WOULD USE BLANKA/GUILE COMBOS OR A TEAM OF RYU'S (RYU,KEN GOUKI/AKUMA).


I'M GONNA START A THREAD ON GAMES NOW.
 
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HERESY said:
^^^ YOU KNOW WHAT I NEVER ROOTED FOR THE GOOD GUYS WHEN IT CAME OT CARTOONS AND TOYS. WHEN I PLAY GAMES I TRY TO PICK THE EVIL LOOKING CHARACTERS. ZANGIEF WAS OK IF YOU LEARNED HOW TO CONTROL HIM. VERY SLOW AND HE COULDN'T JUMP HIGH. BLANKA WAS COOL BECAUSE HE HAD A NICE SIZE REACH AND COULD EASILY CHAIN COMBOS. WHEN I PLAYED VERSIONS THAT OFFERED TAG TEAMS I WOULD USE BLANKA/GUILE COMBOS OR A TEAM OF RYU'S (RYU,KEN GOUKI/AKUMA).


I'M GONNA START A THREAD ON GAMES NOW.
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Zangiefs 360 piledriver was the most destructive move...and BTW Dhalsim was sick if you used him right.
 
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I liked the 2nd article alot better than the first one you posted, TOKZKTLI.
The first one made a big deal out of the guy yelling out "Allah!", when his faith prob had little or nothing to do with his actions...
it's not uncommon for a middle eastern muslim to frequently say Allah. Theres plenty of americans who say "oh-my-god" on a frequent basis without even thinking about it.
 
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actually blanka wasnt weak at all, my main charectors were ken, ryu, and guile.

anybody have callus (arcade) emulator? we can go head to head on SF2 (net play)
 
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