Donald Trump didn’t back down from his comment that “Islam hates us” at the Republican debate Thursday, but Marco Rubio hit back at him with more nuance.
CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Trump if he meant all 1.6 billion Muslims in the world when he said the religion hates America. “I mean a lot of them,” Trump replied. “There’s tremendous hatred, and I will stick with exactly what I said to Anderson Cooper.”
Tapper then turned to Florida Sen. Rubio. “I know that a lot of people find appeal in the things Donald says, because he says what people wish they could say,” Rubio said. “The problem is presidents can’t just say anything they want. It has consequences, here and around the world.”
Rubio then said, “There is no doubt that radical Islam is a danger to the world,” but that it’s wrong to generalize the whole religion. “I can also tell you that if you go to any national cemetery, especially Arlington, you’re going to see crescent moons there,” he continued. “If you go anywhere in the world, you’re going to see American men and women serving us in uniform that are Muslims.”
Trump then responded, talking about the terrorist attacks of 9/11. “You can say what you want and you can be politically correct if you want, I don’t want to be so politically correct,” he said. “I like to solve problems.”
“I’m not interested in being politically correct,” Rubio shot back. “I’m interested in being correct.”
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Man Filmed Punching Trump Rally Protester
een arrested after video emerged of a demonstrator being punched at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina.
John Franklin McGraw is charged with assault and disorderly conduct, Cumberland County Sheriff's office said.
The 78-year-old, of Linden, North Carolina, is expected in court in April.
Rakeem Jones, who is black, said he was being escorted out of the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville by several deputies on Wednesday night when he was attacked.
He told the Associated Press he recalled thinking: "Wow. The police watched me get hit."
Cumberland County Sheriff Earl "Moose" Butler said in a statement: "No one should be subjected to such a cowardly, unprovoked act as that committed by McGraw."
Footage shows Mr Jones being restrained by officers as an onlooker says: "Chill, chill! You don’t gotta grab him like that!"
Mr Jones told the Washington Post he had gone to the rally with fellow demonstrators, including a white woman, a Muslim, and a gay man.
Mr Trump, who is the Republican front runner for November's White House election, was interrupted by protesters 17 times as he gave a speech at the venue.
"Go home to mommy and have her tuck you into bed," the candidate told one protester as he was led out of the arena.
It was not the first fracas at a Trump rally.
On Tuesday, after one of his rallies in Florida, a reporter for conservative news website Brietbart said she was set upon by the candidate's own campaign manager.
Michelle Fields said she was trying to ask the Republican a question when she was grabbed and thrown to the ground by Corey Lewandowski.
The Trump campaign has denied the accusations as "entirely false", despite other witness accounts.
One of Ms Fields' own colleagues, Patrick Howley, has been suspended by Brietbart after he posted tweets casting doubt on her claims.
Some previous incidents involving protesters at Trump rallies have had racial overtones.
An African-American woman was shoved this month by white men at an event for the candidate in Kentucky.
And racial slurs were shouted at a Black Lives Matter demonstrator in Alabama last November.
Obama: Cameron was 'distracted' after Libya intervention
David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, he also criticised "free riders" in the international community who are unwilling to offer military resources despite calling for action.
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
Mr Cameron's spokesman said there were "real challenges" in Libya.
He said: "We need it to support a process that brings a government to Libya and to support that government in the future - the challenge we had is do we stand by and let a leader torture and terrorise his own people?"
Asked about the criticisms over defence spending, the spokesman refused to comment on conversations between the PM and the president.
President Obama's remark to the PM was reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
The toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya - following UN-backed air strikes designed to protect civilians - led to a power vacuum and instability, with no authority in full control.
The intervention was led by the UK and France - and in his interview, Mr Obama reflects on "what went wrong", saying: "There's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up."
'Casualties averted'
Mr Cameron, he said, became "distracted by a range of other things". He also criticised former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying he had tried to claim the spotlight.
The former French president, he said, "wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign, despite the fact that we had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure" for the intervention.
President Obama said the intervention "averted large-scale civilian casualties (and) prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict". But he added: "And despite all that, Libya is a mess."
He also criticised what he called "free riders" in the interview, saying European and Gulf countries were calling for action against Gaddafi, adding: "But what has been a habit over the last several decades in these circumstances is people pushing us to act but then showing an unwillingness to put any skin in the game."
'Like rats'
Despite efforts to support Libya's National Transitional Council, and the first elections in the country for decades, it rapidly descended into violence, with two rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, some allied to so-called Islamic State.
In January, Mr Cameron told MPs the "Libyan people were given the opportunity" to build a stable democracy - and it was a matter of "huge regret" they had not taken it.
He stressed that - unlike in Iraq - the post-conflict planning was locally driven.
"Gaddafi was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats," he said. "An international coalition came together to protect those people and to help the Libyan people, who then got rid of Gaddafi.
"And they had an opportunity to build what they said they wanted."
15 February 2011 - Protests against Colonel Gaddafi's regime erupt in Libya
20 February - Anti-Gaddafi rebels seize control of Libya's second city Benghazi
21 February - David Cameron, on a tour of the Middle East, condemns violence by the Gaddafi regime. Over the next few days he faces criticism over the government's handling of the evacuation of Britons from Libya
28 February: Mr Cameron asks the Ministry of Defence to "work with our allies on plans for a military no-fly zone" over Libya
2 March: Mr Cameron is forced to defend the no-fly zone plan after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates dismisses the idea as "loose talk"
14 March: Mr Cameron insists it is "perfectly deliverable" - and denies he is having trouble convincing other EU leaders, with the exception of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of the need for one
17 March: The UN Security Council votes to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
19 March: The RAF begins bombing raids alongside French and US jets, with logistical support from several Arab nations
21 March: MPs vote to authorise UK military action, which is backed by then Labour leader Ed Miliband
21 August: Rebel fighters enter Tripoli. Mr Cameron cuts short his summer holiday in Cornwall to hold a meeting of the National Security Council and makes a statement outside Downing Street saying: "Gaddafi must stop fighting - without conditions - and clearly show that he has given up any claim to control Libya."
1 September: Libya's interim rulers meet world leaders in Paris to discuss reshaping Libya, as Gaddafi urges his supporters to fight on
15 September: Speaking in Benghazi's Tahrir square, Mr Cameron praises the way Libya's interim authority has taken charge but warns the "hardest part" is still to come
20 October: Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel fighters in the city of Sirte
Obamas Roll Out Red Carpet For Canada's PM
US President Barack Obama is hosting the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister in nearly two decades.
"It's about time, eh?" he said as he welcomed Justin Trudeau to the White House with pomp and pageantry on Thursday morning.
Canada's photogenic first couple arrived under unseasonably sunny skies with military bands blaring.
Mr Trudeau, 44, is being treated to an Oval Office meeting, a Rose Garden press conference and a coveted state dinner.
He and his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, a former TV host, were greeted on the South Lawn by Mr Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
"There is no relationship in the entire world like the Canada-US relations," said Mr Trudeau.
The visitors came bearing gifts - a Canadian aboriginal sculpture for Mr Obama and an aboriginal beaded cape for Mrs Obama.
They also brought presents for the Obamas' daughters, designer scarves, and the US first family's pets - dog boots.
Americans sometimes tend to overlook their northern neighbour, but Canada is the United States' largest trading partner.
More than $2bn worth of goods and services cross the border every day, and about 75% of Canada's exports go to the US.
Mr Obama, 54, saluted the young liberal leader as an ideological soulmate who shares his views on tackling climate change and inequality.
"From my perspective, what's not to like?" Mr Obama said on Thursday.
Before their bilateral, the two nations pledged to jointly implement an international agreement in Paris on curbing global warming.
They committed to reducing methane emissions by 40% to 45% from 2012 levels over the coming decade.
Mr Trudeau, the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, aims to reboot relations that were strained during the time of his conservative predecessor, Stephen Harper.
The two countries' administrations clashed over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, which Mr Obama rejected last year.
Ties soured to such an extent that the US ambassador to Canada could not get a meeting with Mr Harper or his Cabinet ministers for months.
Thursday's state dinner will be the 10th hosted by Mr Obama during his time in the White House.
It is also the first state visit accorded to a Canadian prime minister since 1997 when Bill Clinton hosted Jean Chretien.
Facebook buys selfie face-swap app Masquerade
Facebook has bought photo-editing app Masquerade, which lets people change their appearance in real-time.
The app can transform faces - often in a cartoon-like fashion - and overlay make-up, animal features or accessories on live video.
Masquerade's filters have been compared to those in rival Snapchat, which Facebook tried to buy in 2013.
One expert said Facebook was responding to competition from Snapchat, which streams millions of videos daily.
Face-changing apps gained popularity after instant messaging app Snapchat added live filters called lenses in 2015.
he face-swap filter, which switches two people's faces with often alarming results, has become a particular favourite on social media.
"I think Facebook has realised Snapchat has something it doesn't," said David Wilkinson, managing partner at digital consultancy Soho Strategy.
"A lot of people share filtered selfie videos, so I think we can expect to see this integrated into Facebook's Messenger platform.
"Snapchat has its own USP as an ephemeral messaging platform, but for the novelty factor people might just use Facebook's built-in filters."
In 2013, Facebook tried to take over Snapchat for $3bn, but the instant messaging firm rejected the offer, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Facebook has not disclosed how much it has paid for Belarus-based Masquerade, but said it would keep the app running as a standalone program, as well as integrating features with its social network.
"Masquerade has great technology to help us bring even more creative tools to Facebook, and help extend this work to video," the company said in a statement.
Al-Shabab denies top leaders killed in US air strikes
Mogadishu, Somalia - A senior al-Shabab commander has made a public appearance to deny claims that he and another group leader were killed in US air strikes last week at a training camp in southern Somalia.
Washington said on Monday it had carried out several strikes in Somalia's Hiiraan region, in which it claimed more than 150 of the al-Qaeda-linked group's fighters had been killed.
Somali officials said later on Monday that five al-Shabab commanders had been killed in Saturday's attack, including Mohamed Mire, the group's Hiiraan governor, and Yusuf Ali Ugas, al-Shabab's former Hiiraan chief.
But Mire appeared on Thursday in the village of Buqa Qabe - in the same province the air strikes took place - to dismiss the claims.
"It is all lies. They said I was among those killed. But I'm here and doing well as you can see," he told a crowd that had gathered to see the public execution of a man the group accused of being a Somali government soldier.
Air strikes
Al-Shabab, which is fighting Somalia's internationally recognised government, has recently attacked and overrun military bases belonging to the African Union peacekeeping mission, AMISOM.
The US air strikes occurred at 14:00 GMT on Saturday at a camp about 130km from Belidogle airport in the Lower Shabelle region - a major base for AMISOM troops. American soldiers are also present at the Belidogle base.
The al-Shabab fighters were training for a large scale attack and posed an imminent threat to US and African Union forces in Somalia, according to the Pentagon.
"It is all propaganda. America is losing this war and that is why they now have to resort to guerrilla tactic," Mire added, in reference to a Wednesday morning raid on the town of Awdhegle - 50km south of the capital Mogadishu - by joint US and Somali special forces.
Somali officials said more than a dozen al-Shabab fighters were killed in the raid which involved two helicopters. Al-Shabab said only one of its fighters was killed.
There was no way of independently verifying both claims.
Crack Phone Fingerprint Tech Using Printer
Cracking the fingerprint sensor technology on an Android phone can be done using a printer and some glossy paper, it has been claimed.
A 300dpi scan of a fingerprint can be printed on the paper using special conductive ink, and placed on the end of your finger.
Researchers at Michigan State University said the DIY workaround is then able to unlock the phone.
Their study paper said: "We have proposed a simple, fast and effective method to generate 2D fingerprint spoofs that can successfully hack built-in fingerprint authentication in mobile phones.
"Once the printed 2D fingerprints are ready we can then use them for spoofing mobile phones."
They using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Huawei's Honor 7 phones in their tests.
The left index finger of one of the report's authors was validated on each of the phones, before another researcher used the technique to unlock it with their own hand.
Researchers Kai Cao and Anil Jain said: "This experiment further confirms the urgent need for anti-spoofing techniques for fingerprint recognition systems, especially for mobile devices which are being increasingly used for unlocking the phone and for payment."
The risk to a typical user is small, as the system needs a high-resolution scan of a fingerprint.
However for law enforcement agencies it could provide a way to unlock phones without having to rely on software back doors.
A Samsung spokesperson said: "It takes specific equipment, supplies and conditions to simulate a person’s fingerprint including being in possession of the fingerprint owner’s phone to unlock the device."
A Huawei spokesperson said: "Honor takes data integrity very seriously and we are committed to protecting customer privacy through the constant updating of new technologies, including fingerprint sensor technology."
At the Mobile World Congress last month it was also demonstrated that fingerprint sensors on iPhones - seen as having one of the more secure fingerprint systems - could be tricked using dental mould and a small amount of Play-Doh.
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