Threats against congressional lawmakers have already exceeded the number for all of last year6/30/2017 Lawmakers have already received more threats this year than they did during all of last year, ac ccording to a letter written by Paul D. Irving, sergeant at arms at the House of Representatives. In a letter to the Federal Election Commission, Irving said that House of Representatives members have received at least 950 threatening messages this year — already surpassing the 902 threats made during all of 2016. The Sergeant at Arms is the chief law enforcement officer of the House of Representatives. "The increased use of social media has created a new avenue for individuals with ill intent to publish threatening messages directed toward Members of the House of Representatives," Irving wrote. He then asked the FEC to clarify whether all Members may use funds from their campaigns to install residential security systems. Currently, only those who have received direct threats are mentioned in advisory letters on the matter from the commission. Earlier this month, when an armed shooter shot Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise during a congressional baseball practice, both Republicans and Democrats received threatening messages, with one message reading "1 down, 216 to go." Irving went on to argue that, given the current political climate, members of Congress need extra protection in the form of security systems at home. "The anonymous nature of these postings makes it particularly challenging for the United States Capitol Police (USCP), and it is imperative that we do everything possible to protect our elected representatives," he wrote. SEE ALSO: Reporter snaps at Sarah Huckabee Sanders after she goes on lengthy rant bashing the press Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's the TV segment that prompted Trump's vicious Twitter attack on Mika Brzezinski from http://www.businessinsider.com/threats-against-congressional-lawmakers-exceeded-all-of-last-year-2017-6
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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough published a Washington Post op-ed on Friday claiming that top White House staffers threatened the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with a negative story in the National Enquirer unless the hosts begged President Donald Trump to stop it. The op-ed came one day after the president bashed them in tweets Thursday morning. "We ignored their desperate pleas," Scarborough and Brzezinski wrote. The accusation by the MSNBC hosts is made more intriguing due to the long, documented relationship between Trump and the tabloid magazine. The New Yorker published a long exposé on Trump's relationship with the National Inquirer earlier this week. In it, David Pecker, currently CEO of American Media, the parent company of the tabloid, told reporter Jeffrey Toobin that Trump is "a personal friend of mine." Pecker and Trump have been friends for decades, according to the New Yorker, and Pecker once hired a columnist on the condition that she not "bash Trump and American Media." Gus Wenner, the son of Rolling Stone cofounder and media mogul Jann Wenner, told Toobin that Pecker had admitted to him killing negative stories about Trump. "He told me very bluntly that he had killed all sorts of stories for Trump," Wenner told The New Yorker, adding that the columnist Pecker that hired had threatened to go public with a negative story about Trump.
While Pecker denied the allegations to The New Yorker, Pecker said he uses his strong media presence to help his friends. "I’d tell him every time I’d see him," said Pecker, adding that the National Enquirer's coverage of Trump was just giving the tabloid's readers what they want. "I’d say, ‘Who cares about governor or mayor, you should be President." The article that Brzezinski and Scarborough allege the tabloid was planning to run on them concerned the pair's romantic relationship. The couple announced their plans to get married earlier this year. Scarborough said on "Morning Joe" Friday that they received calls from at least three high-level officials in the Trump administration, who called to ask for certain stories to be "spiked." "We got a call that, 'Hey, the National Enquirer is going to run a negative story against you guys..." Scarborough said on the show. Trump responded by tweeting on Friday that it was actually Scarborough who called Trump to stop a National Inquirer article — a claim that Scarborough immediately denied by claiming to have texts and phone records from top officials. The National Enquirer issued a statement in which they said the publication had "no knowledge of any discussions between the White House and Joe and Mika about our story."
Join the conversation about this story » from http://www.businessinsider.com/president-donald-trump-relationship-national-inquirer-mika-brzezinski-2017-6 Future lawyers ‘must be able to effectively use technology’ Legal academic and former head of JUSTICE Roger Smith urges law schools to do more to prepare students for big changes that wait ahead in a recently penned article. As we move further into the digital age, the legal sector is increasingly toying with the idea of absorbing new technology into practice. Smith says that UK law schools have been slow to respond to these trends. But, he’s had a light-bulb idea: the regulator’s plan to scrap the Graduatue Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) is an opportunity for law schools to get in on the tech game. He says:
In Smith’s view, the reality is that students are leaving law schools ill-prepared for modern legal practice. The current education system is outdated and has been left untouched for decades. Meanwhile, the world has moved on, and a conversation covering “the impact of technology on the training of lawyers” is long overdue. How exactly the new SQE should plan to do more to incorporate technology into its syllabus is left unclear. Should law students learn to code or, at the other end, should they just brush up on their GCSE ICT skills? To try answer this, Smith — currently a visiting professor at London South Bank University — borrows some ideas from a paper drafted by the Cambridge students behind the robo-lawyer ‘LawBot X’. He highlights the need for law schools to “adopt specific courses, which will build technological knowledge” and to develop legal skills by “integrating technology-consciousness across the curriculum”. Ultimately, law students “must be able to effectively use technology”. Smith is not alone in voicing these concerns; earlier this year we spoke to legal technology expert Richard Susskind about the lack of tech modules, such as data science, offered to law students by education institutions. He warns:
But perhaps things aren’t as critical as Smith’s article seems to suggest, which has prompted a reaction from UCL academic Richard Moorhead. He says:
While it may be the case that extra tech-savvy modules can be squeezed into a three-year LLB, the same can’t be said for the nine-month GDL course, where there’s barely time to cram in the seven core foundational areas of law. So perhaps the new SQE is the solution, especially for law conversion students. For all the latest commercial awareness info, and advance notification of Legal Cheek’s careers events, sign up to the Legal Cheek Hub. The post Solicitor super-exam is golden opportunity for law schools to make their students more techy, legal education expert says appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/06/solicitor-super-exam-is-golden-opportunity-for-law-schools-to-make-their-students-more-techy-legal-education-expert-says/ Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze 160000 from his OWN partners6/30/2017 Michael Potere threatened to leak confidential info to a legal blog, according to court papers A young lawyer at Dentons has been charged with extortion after he allegedly threatened to leak sensitive information to a popular legal blog if the firm didn’t cough up $210,000 (£160,000). According to an affidavit (criminal complaint) filed with the Central District Court of California, Michael Potere told partners back in March that he intended to leave the firm to pursue a postgraduate degree in political science. Potere, who had been at the global giant’s Los Angeles office for about two years, asked if he could continue working within the firm’s litigation department until his course started in the autumn. Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by headcount, rejected his request and said he would have to clear his desk on 1 June. Again according to the affidavit linked above and embedded below, Potere allegedly went ahead and accessed a partner’s email account and downloaded “confidential and sensitive documents”. The young associate, who completed a masters at the London School of Economics in 2008, had been given access to the account last year as part of a deal the pair were working on. Astonishingly, the junior associate then apparently “demanded” around £160,000 and (as if this story wasn’t already bizarre enough) a piece of artwork on display near his office. The affidavit claims the 32-year-old then said he would send the sensitive information over to legal blog Above The Law — a bit like a US version of Legal Cheek — if the partners didn’t play ball. Potere, who is no longer at the firm, was arrested by FBI agents last week and charged with extortion. In a statement released by Dentons, the firm said:
Read the affidavit in full below:For all the latest commercial awareness info, and advance notification of Legal Cheek’s careers events, sign up to the Legal Cheek Hub. The post Dentons junior associate charged with extortion for trying to squeeze £160,000 from his OWN partners appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/06/dentons-junior-associate-charged-with-extortion-for-trying-to-squeeze-160000-from-his-own-partners/ Reality show contestants and wannabe lawyers — they have more in common than you might think The life of a Love Island star is one most stressed-out law students would dream of. Being wined and dined by the fellow islanders, lazing around the villa pool, topping up your tan — it’s a far cry from contract law-induced sobs and eight-hour library sessions. Even so, we can’t help but see a little bit of law student in this year’s reality show contestants. See it for yourself below. 1. When the exam fear strikes the night beforeYou should have probably started your revision by now. 2. When someone asks a question at the end of the lectureNobodycaresaboutyourquestion 3. When you and your housemates scrape a 2:1Proud parents all round. 4. During the post-exam discussion with friends, you realise you might have fucked up‘Equitable easement? I thought the answer was invitation to treat!’ 5. Trying to remember EU case lawInternationale Handelsgesellschaft. 6. When the three topics you revised come up in the examLaw revision roulette is only for the brave/stupid. 7. When you ask your friend to borrow their jurisprudence notes, and they refuseTrue friends stab you in the front. 8. Drinking six glasses of wine at a law firm networking event‘Hey senior partner, how you doin’?’ 9. Receiving a training contract rejection letter‘We received a high number of applications and unfortunately…’ 10. When you weren’t paying attention but still guess the correct answer during a tutorialCongratulations tutor, you played yourself. For all the latest commercial awareness info, and advance notification of Legal Cheek’s careers events, sign up to the Legal Cheek Hub. The post 10 Love Islanders’ faces law students will instantly relate to appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/06/10-love-islanders-faces-law-students-will-instantly-relate-to/ Is wearing different gowns depending on your grades morally wrong? At the University of Oxford, gowns aren’t just for graduation. Students are expected to wear the garment to exams and to formal dinners. Those who outperform their peers by obtaining scholarships or by scoring firsts in first year are able to wear distinguishable “scholars’ gowns”, which are longer and have sleeves. The moral implications of this have been thrust into the spotlight after a trio of Oxford students called the practice discriminatory and divisive. But law student Anna Lukina couldn’t disagree more. Here’s why. My view on scholars’ gowns is simple: excellence should be rewarded, and tradition should be preserved. I understand that some may be upset when they do not get necessary grades to gain the right to wear such a gown (due to factors often beyond their control), however, life is full of disappointment and 20-year-old students should not be coddled and protected from seeing their peers perform better. Moreover, stripping some students of hard-earned achievement (often against all odds) is insulting and can further damage these students, escalating their impostor syndrome. Surprisingly, this simple view has caused much controversy and tension. As a law student and an aspiring academic, I am always willing to listen to the other side in the debate. However, I do not tolerate cheating or intimidation. In my view, the stance of some of the OUSU (our Students’ Union) representatives has been far from neutral, and they even used official accounts to promote an anti-scholars gowns view in the middle of what virtually was an advisory referendum.
Even though this consultation’s result is not mandatory and technically no rules were broken, I believe that these practices are far from being suitable for OUSU as an organisation democratically representing all students — of both pro and anti scholars’ gowns camps. The result of the consultation was positive for my side of the debate (63% for keeping the gowns), and I hope that OUSU will respect this view of most students at its first council. Many arguments against scholars’ gowns were needlessly personal, and my side was accused of being selfish, uncaring, and even actively damaging for students’ welfare as well as repulsive to the majority of applicants. These allegations, however, remain unfounded and constitute, frankly, an intimidation tactic rather than a reasoned case. For instance, many, while claiming that seeing “better” gowns in exams demotivates students, rely solely on anecdotal evidence and ignore opposite experiences. However, many of my opponents have been respectful and have provided me with more perspective — even though my overall opinion has not changed. When the result of a reform is changing the status quo, the effect of gowns should be worse than just mixed to justify putting the change forward: concerns of a small number of students, while valid, are not enough to scrap an established tradition. Anna Lukina is a law student at the University of Oxford. What do you think of Anna’s views? Why don’t you let our readers know by writing a response piece? The post The Oxford University gown debate, from a law student’s perspective appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/06/the-oxford-university-gown-debate-from-a-law-students-perspective/ The morning’s top legal affairs news stories Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s contract law experience will be asset to Grenfell inquiry [The Guardian] Grenfell Tower fire: Judge ‘doubt’ over inquiry scope [BBC News] The sad story of Simon Spence and Max Hill [Barrister Blogger] Scotland’s top judge hits out at “Register of Interest” for bench [The Scotsman] Abortion law matter for Stormont, court rules [BBC News] ‘Charlatan’ ex-barrister jailed for giving immigration advice [Law Gazette] Trump’s revised travel ban comes into force amid new legal challenges [Sky News] Legal worker claims a camera was still inside her body six months after a kidney transplant as she files a suit against the doctors who operated [Mail Online] Birmingham student event: Lawyers and the fourth industrial revolution — with Pinsent Masons [Legal Cheek Hub] “If he can’t do the inquiry, no one can. The criticism of Lord Justice Moore-Bick in the press is simply ludicrous. The man has written hundreds of judgments. Of course someone will be able to drag up something which offends left-wing values.” [Legal Cheek comments] For all the latest commercial awareness info, and advance notification of Legal Cheek’s careers events, sign up to the Legal Cheek Hub. The post Morning round-up: Friday 30 June appeared first on Legal Cheek. from https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/06/morning-round-up-friday-30-june/ President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening at 8 p.m. ET, following months of intense litigation. Earlier in the week, the Supreme Court lifted much of the lower courts' blockades on the ban, allowing parts of it to take effect. The ban, which bars the entry of foreign nationals from six majority-Muslim countries, now contains several exemptions. According to the Supreme Court's order, people from Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya will not be allowed to enter the country unless they can "credibly claim" a "bona fide relationship" to a person or entity in the US. These exemptions have already sparked fierce debate over what a bona fide relationship is, and how they will be verified. Senior administration officials on Thursday clarified to reporters which types of relationships can justify a foreign national's entry into the US. Here's what they said: SEE ALSO: Trump's travel ban is set to take effect Thursday evening — here's how it will be implemented Join the conversation about this story » from http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-travel-ban-exemption-refugees-supreme-court-2017-6 Turmoil in Mexico's criminal underworld is intensifying the violence in a valuable border territory6/29/2017 The fracturing and fragmentation of Mexico's major criminal groups has pushed deadly violence to new, grim peaks in recent months. As weakened groups compete with newcomers for lucrative trafficking territories, or plazas, some areas of the country have become hotspots for violence — border cities, and their entryways to the US, in particular. Tamaulipas in Mexico's northeast corner is valuable territory because of its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the US border, highways that cross it, and the energy infrastructure in the area. The state has been wracked by violence over the years as cartels competed for power and influence. It was long the redoubt of the Gulf cartel, and over the last decade it has become a major operating area for the Zetas cartel, which formed as the Gulf's armed wing before breaking away in the late 2000s. Those two cartels, as well as rivals with designs on controlling the territory, have been responsible for much of the violence in Tamaulipas over the last 20 years. The border cities of Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, and Matamoros appear to be straining under a new wave of bloodshed driven by inter and intra-cartel feuding. The pervasive influence of criminal groups has undermined police in the state, and those groups are believed to have won political influence through intimidation and inducement. The political changeover in the state last summer may have inflamed longstanding instability. Francisco Cabeza de Vaca of the conservative National Action Party won the governor's race in June 2016, beating out an incumbent coalition led by the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party. The PRI has long been accused of links to cartels, and previous Tamaulipas governors from the PRI have been implicated in wrongdoing. Tomas Yarrington, PRI governor from 1999 to 2004, was accused of links to the Gulf cartel and went into hiding in 2012. He was arrested in Italy in April. These suspected links between politicians and criminals, and disruptions of them, are thought to contribute to violence in Tamaulipas and elsewhere. "What happens is that a lot of these officials are highly corrupt and they're tied to some of the criminal organizations," Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider. "So when a new political leader or official takes place, the alliances may change, and once those alliances change the ones that are already entrenched there are going to be fighting for survival," Vigil added, "and then that political official may tie his wagon to another group, and that group is going to try to take over that territory, so then that leads to a lot of the violence." Whatever turmoil was stirred by the political shift has likely been exacerbated by both fighting between cartels and fighting among factions of weakened criminal groups. The latter kind of fighting appears to have been roiling the border city of Reynosa in recent months, spiking in the wake of the April 22 killing of Juan Julian Loisa Salinas, a local Gulf cartel chief nicknamed Comandante Toro who was thought to run a group of hit men operating in Tamaulipas and Texas. There were violent incidents prior to his death, including clashes involving Mexican marines, but the killing hit a new crescendo after he was gunned down by Mexican troops. By the first weekend in May, violence in the city that month had already left at least 20 dead and six wounded and caused three red alerts warning residents of danger. On May 20, 70 "elite" marines had been dispatched to the city — the first elements of a military and federal-police deployment to the area to quell the violence. Throughout the latter half of the month, vehicles riddled with bullets — sometimes containing the bodies of cartel gunmen — turned up around the city. Civilians were also caught in the crossfire. The violence has continued in June, with the city seeing shootouts, roadblocks, and clashes between gunmen and security forces lasting overnight or across multiple days. Carjackings reportedly went up 80% in Reynosa in June, with one incident reportedly leading to the shooting death of a 7-year-old boy. Mexican police and military personnel came have come under attack, and US Customs and Border Patrol has reportedly cautioned agents about violence in the area. Official statistics (which are believed to often obscure the total number of killings) put the total dead in Reynosa through May at 30, while other outlets reported 41. The deaths were accompanied by an increase in robberies and the torching of homes and vehicles. The post-Toro spike in deadly violence in Reynosa appears to be driven in large part by "an internal feud," Vigil said. With Toro's demise, two factions of the Gulf cartel seem to be jockeying for control of the Reynosa plaza, which is worth at least $3 million a month, according to Mexican news site Proceso. One of those factions appears to have been formed by Toro's nephew, Alberto "Betillo" Salinas, and includes other members of the Gulf cartel. The competing faction appears to be led by Jesus "Guero Jessi" Garcia, who was once a collaborator with Toro. With the recent spike in violence in Reynosa, Tamaulipas' northern frontier remains one of Mexico's deadliest areas. Last summer, Nuevo Laredo to the northwest and Matamoros to the east were named two of the most violent places in the state. (The state capital, Ciudad Victoria, was the third.) In September, 15 people were abducted from a bus traveling through Nuevo Laredo. That same month, Mexican soldiers were ambushed outside Nuevo Laredo. The troops returned fire and killed eight assailants before giving chase, leading to another firefight in which two more attackers were killed. In December, federal officials exhumed six of eight bodies found buried near the city, some thought to be the victims of extrajudicial executions by the Mexican military. The city got a violent start to this year — one rivaling the bloodshed of 2011 and driven by factions of the Zetas cartel and other criminal groups. Among those killed in January were several officials from the state and local prosecutors' offices. Four officials sent to investigate the deaths were killed in a car wreck that appeared to be an accident. Nuevo Laredo is reportedly the focal point of a fight between factions of the Zetas cartel: the Cartel del Noreste and the Vieja Escuela Z. Both groups are suspected of committing brutal acts of violence befitting the Zetas' legacy of cruelty. Zetas leader Miguel Angel Treviño was captured in a town southwest of Nuevo Laredo in July 2013. Matamoros — across from Brownsville, Texas, and not far from the Gulf coast — has withered under periods of violence in the past, driven in part by feuds within the Gulf cartel, which has been strained by battles for succession in recent years. Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen was arrested in the city in 2003 after a battle between hundreds of his bodyguards and Mexican soldiers. In February 2015, amid ongoing violence in the city, the municipal mayor, Leticia Salazar Vazquez of the conservative PAN, appealed to both federal forces and God for a return peace in the area. A month later, the mayor's convoy came under attack from gunmen while traveling on the outskirts of the city. In January 2016, a defense secretariat convoy traveling in the city came under attack from gunmen. Soldiers in the convoy returned fire, and one of the attackers was killed. In February 2016, a shootout killed seven suspected criminals and a 13-year-old girl, prompting the Brownsville police chief to tell residents to use extreme caution when going to Matamoros. So far this year, gunmen believed to be part of various Gulf cartel factions have clashed with each other and authorities in and around the city, leaving behind grisly displays. Multiple Mexican governments had made efforts to ratchet down the bloodshed in Tamaulipas. In 2005, then-President Vicente Fox of the PAN deployed troops to Tamaulipas and other states as part of Operation Secure Mexico. Fox's predecessor, Felipe Calderon, also of the PAN, expanded and intensified the effort. Within six months of taking office in December 2006, Calderon sent thousands of troops to Tamaulipas, neighboring Nuevo Leon, and other states around the country. All told, he increased the number of troops deployed around the country from 20,000 to 50,000. Enrique Peña Nieto, Calderon's successor and the current Mexican president from the PRI, has also tried to address Tamaulipas' insecurity situation. In mid-2014 — when the state had the country's highest kidnapping rate — federal and state security officials unveiled Plan Tamaulipas, which was meant to dismantle criminal groups, close smuggling routes, and strengthen public-security bodies. That plan appears to have failed. Between 2013 and 2016, homicides in the state rose 32%. Now, in Reynosa, fractions of the Gulf cartel have attacked residents and businesses and much of the city's periphery is wracked by violence. "Terrible," local journalist Francisco Rojas told the San Antonio Express-News in May of conditions in city. "Despite the years of violence, we’ve never seen this before." Reynosa, like much of Mexico, has become particularly dangerous for journalists. Reporters like Rojas have to be discreet, and many pick their story topics carefully or avoid some subjects completely. Anonymous sources for reporting in the region have formed to reach audiences in Mexican and the US. Many in the region have turned to social media for information and alerts about violence, though online reporting has not been a guarantee of accuracy or anonymity. As in other instances of cartel power vacuums in Mexico, the fight for control of the Reynosa plaza and the surrounding area has drawn in other criminal groups.
While factions of the Gulf cartel are the main drivers of violence in and around Reynosa, remnants of the Zetas cartel, which have a longstanding presence in Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Veracruz states, are present in the area. Social-media posts also have warned of the arrival of Los Ciclones, hit men from nearby Matamoros, as well as Los Antrax, an armed group linked to the Sinaloa cartel, and Los Mazatlecos, a Sinaloa-based armed group believed to be aligned against the embattled "El Chapo" Guzman clan. "Keep in mind that it's not only the Zetas," Vigil told Business Insider, "but it's also the Jalisco New Generation cartel that is starting to move into that area in tandem with their allies, which is La Linea, which was the enforcement arm of the Juarez cartel." Jalisco, a relatively new group, is pushing into Tamaulipas in an expansionary effort, Vigil said. "And then you're having what I would call some of the Zetas plaza bosses and some of the remnants of the Zetas fighting to maintain control over certain areas there, because right now the Zetas just are extraordinarily crippled," he added. "Narco trafficking and corruption have expanded like a weed through society," said Rojas, the Reynosa journalist, in May. "Your neighbor could be one of them, you never know." SEE ALSO: Trump's Cuba policy has created doubt about an important front in the US war on drugs Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's footage of 'El Chapo' arriving to the US from http://www.businessinsider.com/cartel-gang-violence-in-reynosa-nuevo-laredo-matamoros-mexico-border-2017-6 The US military wasn't "necessarily concerned" about limiting civilian deaths during the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, according to the Army's top general overseeing logistics. At a forum sponsored by the Association of the US Army, Lt. Gen. Aundre F. Piggee made the comment in contrast to air strikes in the fight for Mosul, which he said were carried out with more care to avoid collateral damage. “These high-tech munitions limit collateral damage, and we were not necessarily concerned about that at the height of the Surge,” Piggee said, according to a transcript on the AUSA website. "Now in Mosul, we are absolutely concerned about that.” The statement is starkly different from the usual Pentagon messaging of always taking care to reduce civilian casualties. A 2003 American Forces Press Services article, for example, touted the use of precision-guided munitions that would reduce casualties in the Iraq War. The same article quoted then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as saying the coalition would "take great care" to avoid them. Still, Piggee's statement seems a stunning explanation for the rise in civilian deaths during that time. Civilian deaths in Iraq went up by roughly 70% in 2007, according to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Perhaps the most infamous example came in the release of the Iraq War logs by WikiLeaks. Leaked gun camera footage taken by US Apache helicopters in 2007 showed the pilots firing on and killing several civilians, including two Reuters journalists. A US airstrike in March killed 105 civilians in Mosul, marking one of the deadliest days for civilians since the campaign to retake Mosul began in late 2016. A Pentagon investigation asserted that explosives placed in the building by ISIS was a major factor contributing to the death toll. SEE ALSO: A Canadian sniper shot an ISIS fighter from over 2 miles away Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: There is a secret US government airline that flies out of commercial airports from http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-collateral-damage-general-piggee-2017-6 |
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