Sentences photos on Flickr

Sentence to Mariana Gómez, the young woman who was stopped in the station Constitution by the Police of the City after having kissed to his wife, Rocio Girat, in OCT 2017. It was condemned to 1 of suspended prison by "resistance to the authority" "

Manchester - Multiple Scenes. And the Manchester Arena Bombing. by pepandtim

1 2

The Postcard

A postally unused Color Gloss Series postcard that was published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire They state on the divided back of the card that the image was reproduced from a colour photograph, and that the card was printed in Holland. They have also identified the scenes:

Albert Square

Piccadilly, St. Peter's Church

Piccadilly Gardens.

City Tower

City Tower (formerly Sunley House) on the left of the card was completed in 1965. It is a 30-storey high-rise office building situated in the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester city centre. With a roof height of 107 metres (351 ft), as of September 2025 it is the second-tallest office building in Manchester after the CIS Tower (118 m (387 ft)), and the third-tallest outside London after the CIS Tower and 103 Colmore Row in Birmingham (108 m (354 ft)).

The Manchester Arena Bombing

Manchester was the scene of an appalling terror attack when on the 22nd. May 2017, an Islamist extremist suicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as people were leaving the Manchester Arena following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and 1,017 were injured, many of them children. Several hundred more suffered psychological trauma.

The bomber was Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old local man of Libyan ancestry. After initial suspicions of a terrorist network, police later said that they believed Abedi had largely acted alone, but that others had been aware of his plans.

In March 2020, the bomber's brother, Hashem Abedi, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder and attempting to murder 1,017 others, and was sentenced to life in prison.

The incident was the deadliest terrorist attack and the first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom since the 7th. July 2005 London bombings.

The Bombing

On the 22nd. May 2017 at 22:15 a member of the public reported Abedi, wearing black clothes and a large rucksack to Showsec security. A security guard observed Abedi, but said that he did not intervene in case his concerns about Abedi were wrong, and out of fear of being considered a racist.

The security guard tried to use his radio to alert the security control room, but was unable to get through.

Police officers on duty that night were subsequently criticised for their behaviour in the hours leading up to the atrocity - including a two-hour dinner break and a 10-mile round trip to buy a kebab.

At one point, when Abedi took his final trip through the station to his hiding place in the foyer, there were no BTP officers on duty in the area.

At 22:31 the suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device, packed with nuts and bolts to act as shrapnel, in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena.

The attack took place after a concert by Ariana Grande that was part of her Dangerous Woman Tour. 14,200 people had attended the concert.

Many exiting concert-goers and waiting parents were in the foyer at the time of the explosion. According to evidence presented at the coroner's inquest, the bomb was powerful enough to kill people up to 20 metres (66 ft) away.

A report by inquiry chair John Saunders blamed “failings by individuals” for “missed opportunities” to detect and stop bomber Salman Abedi.

Saunders outlined a “litany” of failures by venue operators SMG, security firm Showsec and British Transport Police (BTP) - failures that included taking unauthorised two-hour meal breaks and ignoring members of the public who tried to raise the alarm:

-- Reconnaissance Oversights

Abedi went to the arena several times to carry out hostile reconnaissance in the run-up to the bombing, visiting on the 18th. and 21st. May, and also on the afternoon of the day of the attack.

Although arena operator SMG and security firm Showsec “had experience of identifying and responding to potential hostile reconnaissance effectively”, the system for passing on information about suspicious behaviour was “insufficiently robust”.

If the Showsec staff on duty at the time, Kyle Lawler and Mohammed Agha - then aged 18 and 19 respectively - had been aware of previous reports of suspicious activity, “it would have increased the possibility” of Abedi being spotted.

Inquiry chair Saunders also notes that SMG could have extended the permitted security perimeter from the entrance doors of the arena to the City Room, the foyer where the bomb detonated. The report says:

“Had permission to push out the perimeter

been granted, an attack in the City Room

would have been much less likely.”

-- Absence of Officers

Despite five officers being assigned to the arena on the night of the attack, “there was a complete absence of any BTP officer in the City Room” in the half hour before Abedi detonated the bomb. And no officers were policing the public areas of the venue between 8.58pm and 9.36pm.

The report found that BTP officers “took breaks substantially and unjustifiably” longer than their authorised one hour. Instructions to stagger breaks between 7.30pm and 9pm - when younger children could be leaving the venue - were also ignored.

The public inquiry into the attack had previously heard how two officers on duty at the concert, PC Jessica Bullough and PCSO Mark Renshaw, had taken a “two-hour-and-nine-minute dinner break to get a kebab five miles from the arena”. The Telegraph reported:

"Bullough has since admitted that were

she present on her shift as she should

have been, she would have likely stopped

Abedi and asked him what was in his bag”.

-- The CCTV Blindspot

Saunders' report says that Abedi chose an “obvious hiding place” in a CCTV blindspot of the arena City Room foyer, having no doubt identified this area during his hostile reconnaissance:

“Had the area been covered by CCTV so that

there was no blind spot, it is likely that this

behaviour by Abedi would have been identified

as suspicious by anyone monitoring the CCTV."

Giving evidence to the inquiry, Showsec security guard Agha said that he had noticed Abedi in the City Room, but only because he “liked the look” of Abedi's trainers.

-- Inadequate Patrols

The inquiry report says that:

"A further missed opportunity to spot Abedi

in the half hour before the bomb detonated

arose from the absence of an adequate

security patrol by Showsec at any stage

during this time”.

The supervisor charged with carrying out “pre-egress” checks, Jordan Beak, did so “only very briefly”, patrolling for about ten minutes, during which he just “looked towards the staircases up to the mezzanine area”, where Abedi was sitting.

The report notes:

“He did not consider them a very important

part of the check because it was not an

egress route. Mr Beak did not go up on to the

mezzanine area, and so he did not see Abedi.

This was a significant missed opportunity.”

-- Concerns ‘Fobbed Off’

Saunders wrote that:

"The most striking missed opportunity, and the

one that is likely to have made a significant

difference, was an attempt by a member of the

public to raise concerns about Abedi after

becoming suspicious about the bomber's large

and obviously heavy backpack".

Christopher Wild told the inquiry how he had spotted Abedi while waiting for his 14-year-old daughter to leave the concert.

According to the BBC, Wild recalled how he approached Abedi and said:

“It doesn't look very good you know, what you

see with bombs and such, you with a rucksack

in a place like this, what are you doing?”

Abedi reportedly told Wild that he was “waiting for somebody, mate”, before asking what time it was.

Wild alerted security guard Agha about his suspicions around fifteen minutes before the blast. But according to the inquiry report:

"Agha did not take Christopher Wild’s

concerns as seriously as he should have”.

Wild felt that he had been “fobbed off” by the guard, who claimed to already be aware of Abedi. Agha is said to have made “inadequate” efforts to flag down his supervisor or pass on the message via his colleague Lawler, who had a radio.

Although Agha did share Wild’s concerns with Lawler, the latter “felt conflicted about what to do” and “stated he was fearful of being branded a racist and would be in trouble if he got it wrong”.

Lawler ultimately made an attempt to contact a senior supervisor through the radio, but couldn’t get through, and made no further efforts to communicate what he had been told to anyone else. Saunders wrote:

“The inadequacy of Mr Lawler’s response

was a product of his failure to take Mr Wild’s

concern and his own observations sufficiently

seriously. Mr Wild’s behaviour was very

responsible. He stated that he formed the

view that Abedi might let a bomb off.

That was sadly all too prescient, and makes

all the more distressing the fact that no effective

steps were taken as a result of his efforts.”

Aftermath of the Explosion

Three hours after the bombing, police conducted a controlled explosion on a suspicious item of clothing in Cathedral Gardens. This was later confirmed to have been abandoned clothing and not dangerous.

Residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation via Twitter to those left stranded at the concert. Parents were separated from their children attending the concert in the aftermath of the explosion.

A nearby hotel served as a shelter for people displaced by the bombing, with officials directing separated parents and children there. Manchester's Sikh temples along with local homeowners, hotels and venues offered shelter to survivors of the attack.

Manchester Victoria railway station, which is partly underneath the arena, was evacuated and closed, and services were cancelled. The explosion caused structural damage to the station, which remained closed until the damage had been assessed and repaired, resulting in disruption to train and tram services.

Victoria Station reopened eight days later, following the completion of police investigation work and repairs to the fabric of the building.

On the 23rd. May, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK's terror threat level had been raised to "critical", its highest level.

In the aftermath of the attack, Operation Temperer was activated for the first time, allowing up to 5,000 soldiers to reinforce armed police in protecting parts of the country.

Tours of the Houses of Parliament and the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace were cancelled on 24 May, and troops were deployed to guard government buildings in London.

On the 23rd. May, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, via the Nashir Telegram channel, said the attack was carried out by "a soldier of the Khilafah". The message called the attack:

"An endeavor to terrorise the mushrikin,

and in response to their transgressions

against the lands of the Muslims."

Abedi's sister said that he was motivated by revenge for Muslim children killed by American airstrikes in Syria.

The Manchester Arena remained closed until September 2017, with scheduled concerts either cancelled or moved to other venues. It reopened on the 9th. September 2017, with a benefit concert featuring Noel Gallagher and other acts associated with North West England.

Later that month, Chris Parker, a homeless man who stole from victims of the attack whilst assisting them, was jailed for 4 years and three months.

Casualties of the Attack

The explosion killed the attacker and 22 concert-goers and parents who were in the entrance waiting to pick up their children following the show. 119 people were initially reported as injured. This number was revised by police to 250 on the 22nd. June, with the addition of severe psychological trauma and minor injuries.

During the public inquiry into the bombing, it was updated in December 2020 to 1,017 people sustaining injuries.

The dead included ten people aged under 20; the youngest victim was an eight-year-old girl, and the oldest was a 51-year-old woman. Of the 22 victims, twenty were Britons and two were British-based Polish nationals.

North West Ambulance Service reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, carried 59 people to local hospitals, and treated walking wounded on site. Of those hospitalised, 12 were children under the age of 16.

The first doctor thought to have been on scene was an off-duty consultant anaesthetist, Michael Daley. In recognition of his bravery for the role he played in the immediate medical response to the incident, Daley's name was entered into the BMA's Book of Valour in June 2017.

The Attacker

The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British Muslim of Libyan ancestry. He was born in Manchester to a Salafi family of Libyan-born refugees who had settled in Manchester after fleeing to the UK to escape the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

He had two brothers and a sister. He grew up in Whalley Range and lived in Fallowfield. Neighbours described the Abedis as a very traditional and "super religious" family who attended Didsbury Mosque.

Abedi attended Wellacre Technology College, Burnage Academy for Boys and The Manchester College. A former tutor remarked that:

"Abedi was a very slow, uneducated

and passive person".

He was among a group of students at his high school who accused a teacher of Islamophobia for asking them what they thought of suicide bombers. He also reportedly said to his friends that being a suicide bomber "was OK" and fellow college students raised concerns about his behaviour.

Abedi's father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a Salafi jihadist organisation proscribed by the United Nations, and father and son fought for the group in Libya in 2011 as part of the movement to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.

Abedi's parents, both born in Tripoli, remained in Libya in 2011, while 17-year-old Abedi returned to live in the United Kingdom. He took a gap year in 2014, where he returned with his brother Hashem to Libya to live with his parents. Abedi was injured in Ajdabiya that year while fighting for an Islamist group.

The brothers were rescued from Tripoli by the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise in August 2014 as part of a group of 110 British citizens as the Libyan civil war erupted, taken to Malta and flown back to the UK.

According to a retired European intelligence officer, Abedi met with members of the ISIS Battar brigade in Libya, and continued to be in contact with the group upon his return to the UK.

An imam at Didsbury mosque recalled that Abedi looked at him "with hate" after he preached against ISIS and Ansar al-Sharia in 2015.

Abedi's sister said her brother was motivated by the injustice of Muslim children dying in bombings stemming from the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War.

A family friend of the Abedi's also remarked that Salman had vowed revenge at the funeral of Abdul Wahab Hafidah, who was run over and stabbed to death by a Manchester gang in 2016 and was a friend of Salman and his younger brother Hashem. Hashem later co-ordinated the Manchester bombing with his brother.

According to an acquaintance in the UK, Abedi was "outgoing" and consumed alcohol, while another said that Abedi was a "regular kid who went out and drank" until about 2016. Abedi was also known to have used cannabis.

He enrolled at the University of Salford in September 2014, where he studied business administration, before dropping out to work in a bakery. Manchester police believe Abedi used student loans to finance the plot, including travel overseas to learn bomb-making.

The Guardian reported that despite dropping out from further education, he was still receiving student loan funding in April 2017. Abedi returned to Manchester on the 18th. May after a trip to Libya and bought bomb-making material, apparently constructing the acetone peroxide-based bomb by himself. Many members of the IS Battar brigade trained people in bomb-making in Libya.

He was known to British security services and police but was not regarded as a high risk, having been linked to petty crime but never flagged up for radical views.

A community worker told the BBC he had called a hotline five years before the bombing to warn police about Abedi's views and members of Britain's Libyan diaspora said they had "warned authorities for years" about Manchester's Islamist radicalisation.

Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities for his extremism by five community leaders and family members, and had been banned from a mosque; the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, however, said Abedi was not known to the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme.

On the 29th. May 2017, MI5 launched an internal inquiry into its handling of the warnings it had received about Abedi and a second, "more in depth" inquiry, into how it missed the danger.

On the 22nd. November 2018, a Parliamentary report said that MI5 had acted "too slowly" in its dealings with Abedi. The committee's report noted:

"What we can say is that there were a number

of failings in the handling of Salman Abedi's case.

While it is impossible to say whether these would

have prevented the devastating attack on the

22nd. May, we have concluded that as a result of

the failings, potential opportunities to prevent it

were missed."

Investigation Into the Bombing

The property in Fallowfield where Abedi lived was raided on the 23rd. May. Armed police breached the house with a controlled explosion and searched it. Abedi's 23-year-old brother was arrested in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in south Manchester in relation to the attack.

Police carried out raids in two other areas of south Manchester and another address in the Whalley Range area. Three other men were arrested, and police initially spoke of a network supporting the bomber; however they later announced that Abedi had sourced all the bomb components himself, and that they now believed he had largely acted alone. On the 6th. July, police said that they believed others had been aware of Abedi's plans.

According to German police sources, Abedi transited through Düsseldorf Airport on his way home to Manchester from Istanbul four days before the bombing. French interior minister Gérard Collomb said that Abedi may have been to Syria, and had "proven" links with IS.

Abedi's younger brother and father were arrested by Libyan security forces on the 23rd. and 24th. May respectively. The brother was suspected of planning an attack in Libya, and was said to be in regular touch with Salman, and was aware of the plan to bomb the Manchester Arena, but not the date.

According to a Libyan official, the brothers spoke on the phone about 15 minutes before the attack was carried out. On the 1st. November 2017, the UK requested Libya to extradite the bomber's younger brother, Hashem Abedi to the UK in order to face trial for complicity in the murder of the 22 people killed in the explosion.

Photographs of the remains of the IED published by The New York Times indicated that it had comprised an explosive charge inside a lightweight metal container which was carried within a black vest or a blue Karrimor backpack.

Most of the fatalities occurred in a ring around the bomber. His torso was propelled by the blast through the doors to the arena, indicating that the explosive charge was held in the backpack and blew him forward on detonation. A small device thought to have possibly been a hand-held detonator was also found.

The bomb contained the explosive TATP, which had been used in previous bombings. According to Manchester police, the explosive device used by Abedi was the design of a skilled bomb-maker and had a back-up means of detonation. Police also said that Salman Abedi bought most of the bomb components himself, and that he was alone during much of the time before carrying out the Manchester bombing.

On the 28th. May, police released images showing Abedi on the night of the bombing, taken from CCTV footage. Further images showed Abedi walking around Manchester with a blue suitcase.

According to US intelligence sources, Abedi was identified by the bank card that he had with him and the identification was confirmed using facial recognition technology.

A public inquiry into the attack was launched in September 2020. The first of three reports to be produced was a 200-page report published on the 17th. June 2021. It found that:

"There were a number of missed opportunities

to alter the course of what happened that night,

and more should have been done by police and

private security guards to prevent the bombing."

News Leaks

Within hours of the attack, Abedi's name and other information that had been given confidentially to security services in the United States and France was leaked to the news media. This led to condemnation from Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Following the publication of crime scene photographs of the backpack bomb used in the attack in the 24th. May edition of The New York Times, UK counterterrorism police chiefs said the release of the material was detrimental to the investigation.

On the 25th. May, Greater Manchester Police said that it had stopped sharing information on the attack with the US intelligence services. Theresa May said she would make clear to President Trump that:

"Intelligence that has been

shared must be made secure."

Donald Trump described the leaks to the news media as "deeply troubling", and pledged to carry out a full investigation.

New York Times editor Dean Baquet declined to apologise for publishing the backpack bomb photographs, saying:

"We live in different press worlds.

The material was not classified at

the highest level."

On the 26th. May, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States government accepted responsibility for the leaks.

Links with the Muslim Brotherhood

According to a secret recording unveiled by the BBC, Mostafa Graf, the imam of the Didsbury Mosque where Salman Abedi and his family were regulars, made a call for armed jihad ten days before Abedi bought his concert ticket.

Following these revelations, the Manchester Police opened an investigation into the mosque and its imam, who also fought with a Libyan Islamist militia. Mostafa Graf is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, an organisation founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Al-Qaradawi is known for having claimed:

"Suicide bombings are a duty".

Haras Rafiq, head of the Quilliam think tank, told The Guardian that the Muslim Brotherhood runs the Didsbury Mosque.

The Didsbury Mosque is controlled by The Islamic Centre (Manchester), an English association headed by Dr. Haytham al-Khaffaf, who is also a director of the Human Relief Foundation, a Muslim Brotherhood organisation blacklisted for terrorism by Israel. Between 2015 and 2016, al-Khaffaf's Human Relief Foundation received over £1.5 million from the Qatar Charity, which is also subject to US counterterrorism surveillance.

Trial and Sentencing of Hashem Abedi

On the 17th. July 2019, Salman Abedi's brother Hashem was charged with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. He had been arrested in Libya and extradited to the UK.

His trial began on the 5th. February 2020. On the 17th. March, Hashem Abedi was found guilty on 22 charges of murder, on the grounds that he had helped his brother to source the materials used in the bombing, and had assisted with the manufacture of the explosives which were used in the attack.

On the 20th. August, Hashem Abedi was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 55 years. The judge, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, said that sentencing rules prevented him from imposing a whole life order as Abedi had been 20 years old at the time of the offence. The minimum age for a whole life order is 21 years old. Abedi's 55-year minimum term is the longest minimum term ever imposed by a British court.

Ismail Abedi

In October 2021 it was reported that Salman Abedi's older brother Ismail had left the UK despite being summonsed by Sir John Saunders to testify before the public inquiry into the bombing. Saunders had refused Ismail Abedi's request for immunity from prosecution while testifying.

Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande posted on Twitter:

"Broken. from the bottom of my

heart, i am so so sorry. i don't

have words."

The tweet briefly became the most-liked tweet in history. Grande suspended her tour and flew back to her mother's home in Florida.

On the 9th. July 2017, a performance to benefit the Manchester bombing victims was held in New York City's The Cutting Room, called "Break Free: United for Manchester", with Broadway theatre and television performers interpreting Ariana Grande songs.

On the 4th. June, Ariana Grande hosted a benefit concert in Manchester, entitled "One Love Manchester" at Old Trafford Cricket Ground that was broadcast live on television, radio and social media.

At the concert, Grande performed along with several other high-profile artists. Free tickets were offered to those who had attended the show on the 22nd. May. The benefit concert and associated Red Cross fund raised £10 million for victims of the attack, and £17 million by August. New York's Vulture section ranked the event as the No. 1 concert of 2017.

The Kerslake Report

On the 27th. March 2018, a report by Bob Kerslake named the "Kerslake Report" was published. The report was an independent review into the preparedness for, and emergency response to, the Manchester Arena attack on the 22nd. May 2017.

In the report, Kerslake "largely praised" the Greater Manchester Police and British Transport Police, and noted that it was "fortuitous" that the North West Ambulance Service was unaware of the declaration of Operation Plato, a protocol under which all responders should have withdrawn from the arena in case of an active killer on the premises.

However, it found that the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service was "brought to a point of paralysis" as their response was delayed for two hours due to poor communication between the firefighters' liaison officer and the police force.

The report was critical of Vodafone for the "catastrophic failure" of an emergency helpline hosted on a platform provided by Content Guru, saying that delays in getting information caused "significant stress and upset" to families.

It also expressed criticism of some news media, saying:

"To have experienced such intrusive and

overbearing behaviour at a time of such

enormous vulnerability seemed to us to

be completely and utterly unacceptable".

However, it was also noted that:

"We recognise that this was some, but by

no means all of the media, and that the

media also have a positive and important

role to play."

Memorial to the Bombing

The victims of the bombing are commemorated by The Glade of Light, a garden memorial located in Manchester city centre near Manchester Cathedral. The memorial opened to the public in January 2022.

The memorial was vandalised on the 9th. February 2022, causing £10,000 of damage. A 24-year-old man admitted to the offence in April and will be sentenced at a later date.

The 2018 Manchester Terror Attack

The Manchester Arena is next to Victoria Station, and in fact partly above it. Victoria Station witnessed a subsequent terror attack on the 31st. December 2018 at 20.52.

Mahdi Mohamud, a 25 year old man from Somalia stabbed three people in a knife attack at the station. He appears to have acted alone.

Mohamud shouted "Allah!" and "Long live the Caliphate!" during the attack, and "Allahu Akbar" after being arrested. A witness alleged that during the attack he also shouted a slogan criticising Western governments. BBC producer Sam Clack reported that he heard Mohamud saying:

"As long as you keep bombing other

countries this sort of s--- is going to

keep happening,"

Mohamud had lived in England for about 10 years, and resided in Manchester's Cheetham neighbourhood with his parents and siblings.

Two of the three victims, a couple in their 50's who had come into town to celebrate the New Year, were hospitalised with serious injuries. The third victim was a British Transport Police officer who received a stab wound to his shoulder.

Despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Mohamud was convicted of a terror offence and the attempted murder of three people, due to his possession of significant amounts of extremist material and the attack's extensive planning. He pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder and a terror offence.

The perpetrator, who was initially detained under the Mental Health Act, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a high-security psychiatric hospital.

The Second Inquiry into the Arena Bombing

On the 3rd. November 2022, inquiry chair Sir John Saunders issued a second report into the atrocity. Within the 884 pages he said that the emergency services failed to communicate properly in response to the incident, stemming from 'failures to prepare.'

He concluded that "Failing" emergency services thought a terror attack "could never happen" before the Manchester Arena bombing.

Sir John Saunders said the majority of those who died were so badly injured they could not have survived. However, it is believed that two of the 22 fatalities could have recovered if they had received better medical care.

Pointing the finger at leaders of the police, fire and ambulance services, he said:

“On the night of the attack, multi‐agency

communication between the three

emergency services was non‐existent.

That failure played a major part in what

went wrong.”

He added:

“There had been failures to prepare. There

had been inadequacies in training.

Well-established principles had not been

ingrained in practice.

Why was that? Partly it was because, despite

the fact that the threat of a terrorist attack was

at a very high level on the 22nd. May 2017, no

one really thought it could happen to them.”

The report also paid tribute to the “heroic” actions of ordinary members of the public who joined police and security and medical teams trying to save lives in a “war zone”.

Sir John said that two fatalities, John Atkinson, 28, and the youngest victim, eight year old Saffie-Rose Roussos, did have a chance of survival. Sir John said:

“I have concluded that one of those who

died, John Atkinson would probably have

survived had the emergency response

been better.”

He added:

“In the case of Saffie Rose Roussos, I have

concluded that there was a remote possibility

that she could have been saved if the rescue

operation had been conducted differently.”

The inquiry heard that only three paramedics went into the City Room after the attack. Crews from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service took more than two hours to attend the Arena.

Sir John added:

“GMP (Greater Manchester Police) did not

lead the response in accordance with the

guidance that it had been given or parts of

its own plans.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service

(GMFRS) failed to turn up at the scene at a

time when they could provide the greatest

assistance.

North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) failed

to send sufficient paramedics into the City

Room.

NWAS did not use available stretchers to

remove casualties in a safe way, and did not

communicate their intentions sufficiently to

those who were in the City Room.”

Despite highlighting a series of failings, he said that:

"There were some parts of the emergency

response that worked well, and that no doubt

lives were saved”.

Paying tribute to those who helped the victims, he said:

“The heroism shown by very many people

that night is striking. I have seen the terrible

footage from the CCTV and body-worn video

cameras of the scene of devastation in the City

Room.

The description of that area as being like a

“warzone” was used by a number of witnesses.

That is an accurate description. To enter the

City Room or remain there to help victims

required great courage.”

Sir John added:

“At the centre of my Inquiry is the terrible loss

of twenty two lives. Each family and each person

at the Arena has a deeply personal story to tell

about the impact of the attack on them.

My report cannot change what has happened.

My intention is to uncover what went wrong and

find ways of improving practices so that no one

has to suffer such terrible pain and loss again.”

The report also stated that responsibility for the deaths lies with suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, and his brother Hashem, 25, who is serving life behind bars for his part in the plot.

The inquiry found that the brothers had “planned to cause as much harm to as many people as they could" when Abedi exploded his home made device.

What can you do by Young-Chung Hsue

Once you ask Cortana this question, she will list some basic sentences that you can communicate with her. In fact, the samples in MemorizeYC are all gotten from this list.

Speirs280610IPRT11 by Irish Penal Reform Trust

Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.

Leif Sentence 0640 by Gotham Girls Roller Derby

Life sentence by unefunge

1

Sometimes even the comfiest cage is just a cage.

Sentence Types: Learning, Practicing, Testing by CHSH-Teach

This pack includes great resources for teaching, practicing and testing on the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.

Unit includes posters for each type of sentence (two sizes each) and multiple worksheets! Students will be asked to fill in the correct answer, create specific types of sentences as well as marking multiple choice answers.

Download Club members can download @ www.christianhomeschoolhub.com/pt/Grammar-Resources-4th-8... (or) can be purchased @ www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Types-Learni...

Juan Francisco Medina, Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1954 by Washington Area Spark

Juan Francisco Medina from New York is shown in a November 1954 photograph. He was a Puerto Rican Nationalist Party member accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.

Medina was convicted of sedition and sentenced in 1954 to six years in prison in prison for sedition.

Sedition trial:

Following the wounding of five U.S. Representatives in the Capitol building March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on them from a visitor gallery, the U.S. government began a series of mass arrests that resulted in two conspiracy trials 1954-55. A third trial took place in Puerto Rico.

The four participants in the shooting—Delores Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores Rodriguez and Andres Figueroa Cordero—were quickly arrested and convicted in the attack with sentences varying from 16 years to 75 years in jail.

But the federal government went further, convening three different grand juries, summoning 91 Puerto Ricans and bringing indictments against 17 members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party for “seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force.”

The four charged in the shootings were also among the 17 charged with conspiracy.

The indictment alleged that the defendants were “active members, leaders, officers or persons in control of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, which is charged to be an organization dedicated to bringing about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force of violence or armed revolution.”

In effect, the government was using the same strategy it was using to break up the U.S. Communist Party during that period. If you were an active member of the Nationalist Party, you were guilty even if you committed no illegal acts yourself.

Four of those charged turned state’s evidence and gave testimony against the other defendants.

At the first month-long trial in October 1954, much of the evidence against the group consisted of testimony by police or informers of speeches given by Nationalist Party leaders who had used slogans like, “Throw the Yankees out at pistol point,” “give your life and property for independence,” and saying that President Harry Truman “could be hanged in a place in San Juan.”

Many of the speeches dated prior to the 1950 attempted armed revolution in Puerto Rico by the Nationalist Party that was defeated and for which many party members were jailed in Puerto Rico.

Defense attorney Conrad J. Lynn charged the government sought “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”

Julio Pinto Gandia, a defendant who was acting as his own counsel and was the alleged leader of the group in the U.S., told the court that the party, founded in 1922, was not “a band of terrorists” and that any violent actions arose out of individual “despair.”

The most sensational specific testimony came from one of those indicted who turned state’s evidence--Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, brother of Delores Lolita Lebron who was the leader of the four shooters.

Lebron Sotomayor testified that Pinto Gandia told him there would be attacks on Congress, President Dwight Eisenhower and the Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner in Washington, but could not say how the plans would be carried out.

Other specific testimony involved another of those indicted who turned state’s evidence. Angle Luis Medina testified he had purchased a number of pistols and three carbines in Chicago at the direction of a party leader who told him “to be ready in case of a revolution” to free Puerto Rico.

The evidence against most of the defendants committing any specific illegal act was thin.

U.S. Attorney J. Edward Lumbard summed up the case saying that the Nationalist Party had supplied the pistols used in the U.S. Capitol shooting and a 1950 attempt to assassinate President Harry Truman and that each of the 13 defendants had their “moral fingerprints on the guns” used.

Lumbard further told the jury that the government did not have to prove that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government—only that they had conspired to overthrow the authority of the United States in Puerto Rico.

The defense called five witnesses to testify that the Nationalist Party did not advocate overthrow of the U.S. government and only sought total independence for Puerto Rico.

Lynn told the jury that the government was trying “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”

Pinto Gandia had earlier sought dismissal of the indictments against the four shooters as double jeopardy and because the government, “intended to bring the guilt of the four defendants upon the other defendants by association or inference.”

He added, “it is not a crime to preach and work for the freedom of a nation and that membership in the Nationalist Party itself did not indicate anyone was part of a conspiracy.

The jury deliberated only a few hours before finding all the defendants guilty.

Two weeks after the verdicts, more arrests took place and a second trial scheduled.

The trial of 11 other Nationalists took place February-March 1955 and followed the same lines as the first trial, except that Lebron Sotomayer gave additional details to his earlier testimony.

Ten of the 11 were found guilty. Serafin Colon Olivera, 28 of New York, was acquitted. Testimony had indicated he was a Nationalist Party member in 1949 and attended a Nationalist dance in 1953.

Those found guilty in the two trials received sentences ranging from 18 months to six years in prison. Appeals failed.

In Puerto Rico, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos hailed the attack as “sublime heroism.” The governor revoked a previous pardon of the party leader and he was arrested after a shootout and imprisoned.

Charges were placed against 15 party members on the island, however 12 were acquitted at trial in late 1954. The three found guilty were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3-10 years.

Albizu Campos’ health suffered badly in prison where he suffered a stroke in 1956 that left him unable to talk or walk. He was pardoned in 1964, but died a few months afterward.

The Nationalist Party was all but dead as a result of the U.S. trials and by suppression by authorities in Puerto Rico, although it continues to exist today.

First trial sedition trial in 1954:

Jorge Luis Jimenez, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Manuel Rabago Torres, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Rosa Collazo, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Juan Bernardo Lebron, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Juan Francisco Medina, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Armando Diaz Matos, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Julio Pinto Gandia, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Carmelo Alvarez Roman, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Jose Antonio Otero Otero, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Andress Figueroa Cordero, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment

Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment

Dolores Lolita Lebron, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment

Irvin Flores Rodriguez, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment

Second trial in 1955:

Juan Hernandez Valle, Puerto Rico, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Maximino Pedraza Martinez, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Santiago Gonzalez Castro, sentenced to six years imprisonment

Esteban Quinones Escute, sentenced to four years imprisonment

Angel Luis Arzola Velez, sentenced to four years imprisonment

Antonio Herrera Moreno, sentenced to four years imprisonment

Carmen Dolores Otero Torresola, sentenced to four years imprisonment

Pedro Aviles, sentenced to four years imprisonment

Julio Flores Medina, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

Miguel Vargas Nieves, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

Those who turned state’s evidence:

Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, suspended sentence

Francisco Cortez Ruiz, suspended sentence

Carlos Aulet, suspended sentence

Angel Luis Medina, suspended sentence

Acquitted at May 1955 trial:

Serafin Colon Olivera

For more information and related images to the 1954-55 conspiracy trials of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, see flic.kr/s/aHskRMRawC

For more information and related images to the 1950 attempted assassination of President Truman and the 1954 wounding of five U.S. Representatives, see flic.kr/s/aHskghBC71

The photographer is unknown. The photo is believed to be a mugshot. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

Speirs280610IPRT15 by Irish Penal Reform Trust

Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.

Count Dankula sentencing by David Farrer

Airdrie Sheriff Court

Count Dankula sentencing by David Farrer

Airdrie Sheriff Court

Sentenced to Death by Wedding by Le*Gluon

2 5

Korvon Bazaar, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, november 2012.

FR: Mariée jusqu´à ce que mort s'en suive. Au Korvon bazar, Douchanbé, Tadjikistan, novembre 2012

#sentence #frase #cute #evolution #progress #motivation #motivational #tagsforlikes #cool #instacool #good #instagood #follow #followforfollow #follow4follow #followme #instadaily #picoftheday #photooftheday #tbt #swag #tflers #igers #like4like #bestofthe by Leticia Gago abucha

Sentence Contribution From Michael by Edith Abeyta

Craigslist Sentence Generator Garland, 2014 for CSA PGH

Each contributor was paid $5 for one autobiographical sentence. The letters from each sentence will be cut and sewn into letters to form the garland.

Moat by Scott

3

Taken at the remains of Sentence Castle Templeton. Local legend has it that this was the court of the Knights Templars. It has also been suggested that it was is the predecessor of Narberth Castle that was attacked and burnt down in 1116, 1215 and 1220 by Welsh Princes. It is also reputed to be on ley lines with Ireland

The site is a circular mound or ringworks, approximately 15ft high with a scooped hollow on the top of the mound. It has a stream running along the eastern side

sentence by Bertrand Joossen

sentenced by Chris Teso

3 6

3 exposure HDR. -1.33, 0, 1.33

This condemned shack is on the edge of the city located in the seaport area of Boston.

#2 by ThisguycalledLenny

5 8

Deming - mid-sentence by Marcela Errazquin

1

Leif Sentence 0639 by Gotham Girls Roller Derby

Meringue Sweet Hearts House of Love Box by Woodyloo

2

Sentences you can declare upon giving your gift of “House of Love” to your Valentine:

-“Baby, let me build you a castle! “

-“Honey-bunny, May this be a symbol of OUR house of Love…”

-“My love to you goes through the roof”

Motivations by Erzulia

Sentences

389485_muzzled mouth plastic clear plastic hood ruffled p_xl-1024-v1-0 by simplylala

2 1

Sentenced to sissification in plastics

CONAN EXILES #LIVE Let's Play! #22 by David Lomas

Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at www.twitch.tv/thenoobofficial CONAN EXILES #LIVE Let's Play! #22 👍 Drop a Like for more content! ✔️ Subscribe: goo.gl/qUMci5 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/Gyr5ORysg1o ❤️ Follow: www.twitch.tv/thenoobofficial Conan Exiles is a survival video game developed and published by Funcom for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game is set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, with the custom playable character being rescued by Conan, beginning their journey. Early access versions of the game were released in early 2017, officially leaving early access on May 8, 2018. The most basic premise of Conan Exiles is survival in the fictional prehistoric Hyborian Age. Player characters begin convicted of various crimes, sentenced to death, and are crucified under the scorching desert sun. The player is rescued by Conan, however, and as an exile must now navigate a harsh desert landscape, appropriately titled The Exiled Lands. Though large, this was initially the only biome available for exploration. A later update added a biome called The Frozen North, which added new elements to build, new armors and a whole new land to explore. It also added Star metal which is used to build strong armor, and better tools and weapons. An additional biome, The Highlands, was added in 2017. A high-level Volcano area followed in Q2 2018 in the northern-most region of the game map. This newest addition also added Obsidian, used to create powerful tools and weapons rivaling their Star Metal counterparts. According to Funcom community manager, Jens Erik, the finished game is around 53 km2 🎧 Production Music courtesy of: Ben Sounds: www.bensound.com Epidemic Sound: www.epidemicsound.com ARK Playlists: Ark Season 9 - goo.gl/fZk9Vv Ark Season 8 - goo.gl/8kfHsg Ark Season 7 - goo.gl/dAh25p Ark Season 6 - goo.gl/rt9reO Ark Season 5 - goo.gl/mFf6gT Ark Season 4 - goo.gl/6f1awY Ark Season 3 - goo.gl/CbpjUf Ark Season 2 - goo.gl/WtJGvh Ark Season 1 - goo.gl/a70cLs Subnautica Playlists: Subnautica Season 1: goo.gl/wGmVFU Subnautica Season 2: goo.gl/zbZXUm Destiny 2 Playlists: Titan Playthrough: goo.gl/aZHCW9 Osiris New Dawn: Osiris New Dawn Season 1: goo.gl/QaU4Cv Osiris New Dawn Season 2: goo.gl/k42GEG 👉 Social Media 👈 🔥 Facebook: www.facebook.com/theofficialnoob 📲 Twitter: twitter.com/TheNoobUTube ☎️ Discord: discord.gg/R6CzVh3 🌍 Web: thenoobofficial.com Groups that help YouTubers: ☎️ Dysfunctional Gaming: goo.gl/vW7u4a ☎️ Talentsy: goo.gl/QfsGwv The Idiot Brigade 🎮 Slayer Vs Gaming: goo.gl/ruk5SH 🎮 Nightmaaron: goo.gl/UtXRUK ️ TheNoob Official: goo.gl/qUMci5 🌍 Web: theidiotbrigade.wordpress.com Thank you so much for watching my video, I really hope you enjoyed it.

Parole a caso by 3x0=3

11

random words

Sentencing Law: Rhetoric & Reality by Penn Law

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium

(October 29, 2011)

Paddy Hill by blinkofaneye

4 6

Paddy Hill was a member of the Birmingham Six who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for two pub bombings in Birmingham. Their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 1991

Count Dankula sentencing by David Farrer

Airdrie Sheriff Court

The longest sentence by Benjamin Lukoff

1

Before I read the sentence in white on blue, I thought the bumper sticker was referring to אהיה אשר אהיה (Exodus 3:14)!

By the way, "I am" isn't the shortest sentence in the English language. I would give that honor to something like "Go!," an imperative. You get to lose the pronoun that way.

sentence by Diane Greene Lent

Close Rikers. 18 Deaths this year.

graffiti sentence by Anne-Lise Heinrichs

stops making a lot of sense toward the end: perhaps Mister Abernethy was hitting the bottle again, despite being in prison?

Laguna beach - sentence by Federico C.

3

California - Agosto 2010.

Portfolio @ www.federicoc.tk

Blog @ federicoc.tumblr.com/

god by Ard Hesselink

1 11

Found this on a building site in Amsterdam. I think it was van Woustraat near the Albert Cuyp. Meaning? Deeper meaning? Deepest meaning...?

Marquee Sentence by courtneyp

1 1

These titles make a complete sentence, heh

Le Touquet Paris-Plage - Riding in the Forest Prior to 1938. And Mauthausen Concentration Camp. by pepandtim

2 2

The Postcard

A carte postale that was published by C. A. P. of Strasbourg, The image is a glossy real photograph. The card was posted in Le Touquet using a 1 franc stamp on Sunday the 11th. September 1938. It was sent to:

Mr. Farrall,

180, Cann Hall Road,

Leytonstone,

Essex,

England.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Sunday.

Dear Pop,

We came here yesterday.

It is a lovely place - the

weather is fine.

Hope to go for a nice

bathe this morning.

It's nice to get some

fresh air after Paris.

The woods look very

nice & we want to get in

some nice walks.

This is all for now,

Love,

Mabel."

The Italian Grand Prix

So what else happened on the day that Mabel posted the card to her father?

Well, on the 11th. September 1938, Tazio Nuvolari of Italy won the Italian Grand Prix. It was the last Italian Grand Prix held until 1947.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Also on that day, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was born on the 4th. October 1903, was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era, and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust.

After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in May 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.

Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the SS in 1931, and by 1935 he was considered a leader of the Austrian SS. In 1938, he assisted in the Anschluss, and was given command of the SS and police force in Austria.

A committed antisemite, Kaltenbrunner played a pivotal role in orchestrating the Holocaust, and Nazi genocide intensified under his leadership.

He oversaw the coordination of security and law enforcement agencies involved in widespread extermination, the suppression of resistance movements in occupied territories, extensive arrests, deportations, and executions.

He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial (Himmler having died of suicide in May 1945) at the Nuremberg trials, where he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kaltenbrunner was sentenced to death, and was executed by hanging on the 16th. October 1946.

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner - The Early Years

Kaltenbrunner was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria, the son of a lawyer, and spent his early years and primary education in Raab. He later attended the Realgymnasium in Linz.

Raised in a nationalist family, he was childhood friends with Adolf Eichmann, the infamous SS officer who played a key role in implementing the Nazis' "Final Solution" against Europe's Jews. After Gymnasium, Kaltenbrunner went on to obtain his PhD in law at Graz University in 1926.

Kaltenbrunner then worked at a law firm in Salzburg for a year before opening his own law office in Linz. He had deep scars on his face reportedly from duelling in his student days, although some sources attribute them to a car accident.

On the 14th. January 1934, Kaltenbrunner married Elisabeth Eder, who was also a Nazi Party member; the couple had three children.

In addition to the children from his marriage, Kaltenbrunner had twins, Ursula and Wolfgang (b. 1945) with his long-time mistress, Gisela Gräfin von Westarp. All the children survived the war.

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's SS Career

On the 18th. October 1930, Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party as member number 300,179. In 1931, he was the Bezirksredner (district speaker) for the Nazi Party in Upper Austria.

Kaltenbrunner joined the SS on the 31st. August 1931; his SS number was 13,039. He first became a Rechtsberater (legal consultant) for the Nazi Party in 1929. In 1932 he began working at his father's law practice, and by 1933 he had become head of the National-Socialist Lawyers' League in Linz.

In January 1934, Kaltenbrunner was briefly jailed at the Kaisersteinbruch detention camp with other Nazis for conspiracy by the Engelbert Dollfuss government. While there he led a hunger strike which forced the government to release 490 of the party members.

In 1935, he was jailed again on suspicion of high treason. This charge was dropped, but he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for conspiracy, and he lost his license to practice law.

From mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS Abschnitt VIII in Linz, and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS.

In order to provide Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinz Jost with new information, Kaltenbrunner repeatedly made trips to Bavaria. He would hide on a train and on a ship that travelled to Passau, then return with money and orders for Austrian comrades.

In 1937 Kaltenbrunner was arrested again by the Austrian authorities on charges of heading the illegal Nazi Party organization in Oberösterreich. He was released in September 1937.

Acting on orders from Hermann Göring, Kaltenbrunner assisted in bringing about the Anschluss with Germany (13th. March 1938). Controlled from behind the scenes by Himmler, Kaltenbrunner still led, albeit clandestinely, the Austrian SS as part of his duty to "coordinate" and manage the Austrian population – this entailed the Nazification of all aspects of Austrian society.

-- Mauthausen

On the 21st. March 1938, he was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer. He was a member of the German Reichstag from the 10th. April 1938 until the 8th. May 1945. Amid this activity, he helped establish the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp near Linz.

Mauthausen was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Austria following the Anschluss. On 11 September 1938, Kaltenbrunner was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer (equivalent to a lieutenant general in the German Army).

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner and WWII

In June 1940, Kaltenbrunner was appointed Vienna's chief of police, and held that additional post for a year. In July 1940, he was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmführer into the Waffen-SS Reserve.

Alongside his many official duties, Kaltenbrunner also developed an intelligence network across Austria, moving southeastwards, which eventually brought him to Himmler's attention for appointment as chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in January 1943.

The RSHA was composed of the SiPo (Sicherheitspolizei; the combined forces of the Gestapo and Kripo) along with the SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service).

Fearing a collapsing home-front due to the Allied bombing campaigns, and worried that another "stab-in-the-back" at home could arise as a result, Kaltenbrunner immediately tightened the Nazi grip within Germany.

According to former SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Georg Mayer, Kaltenbrunner was present at a December 1940 meeting with Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and Heydrich where it was decided to gas all Jews incapable of heavy physical work.

Under Kaltenbrunner's command, the genocide of Jews picked up pace as extermination was to be expedited and the concentration of Jews in the Reich itself and the occupied countries were to be liquidated as soon as possible.

Kaltenbrunner stayed constantly informed over the status of concentration camp activities, receiving reports at his office in the RSHA.

In order to combat homosexuality in the greater Reich, Kaltenbrunner pushed the Ministry of Justice in July 1943 for an edict mandating compulsory castration for anyone found guilty of this offence. While this was rejected, he still took steps to get the army to review some 6,000 cases to prosecute homosexuals.

During the summer of 1943, Kaltenbrunner conducted his second inspection of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. While he was there, 15 prisoners were selected to demonstrate for Kaltenbrunner three methods of killing: by a gunshot to the neck, hanging, and gassing.

After the killings were performed, Kaltenbrunner inspected the crematorium and later the quarry.

In October 1943, he told Herbert Kappler, the head of German police and security services in Rome, that the eradication of the Jews in Italy was of special interest for general security. Four days later, Kappler's SS and police units began rounding up and deporting Italian Jews by train to Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1944, during a meeting in Klessheim Castle near Salzburg, when Hitler was in the process of strong-arming Admiral Horthy into a closer integration between Hungary and Nazi Germany, Kaltenbrunner was present for the negotiations.

He escorted Horthy out once they were over. Accompanying Horthy and Kaltenbrunner on the journey back to Hungary, Adolf Eichmann brought with him a special Einsatzkommando unit to begin the process of rounding up and deporting Hungary's 750,000 Jews.

It was said that even Himmler feared him, as Kaltenbrunner was an intimidating figure with a height of 1.94m (6'4½"), facial scars, and a volatile temper.

Kaltenbrunner also allegedly headed Operation Long Jump, an alleged plan to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt in Tehran in 1943.

Immediately in the wake of the 20th. July Plot on Hitler's life in 1944, Kaltenbrunner was summoned to Hitler's wartime headquarters at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) in East Prussia in order to begin the investigation into who had planned the assassination attempt.

The conspirators were soon identified. An estimated 5,000 people were eventually executed, with many more being sent to concentration camps.

Historian Heinz Höhne counted Kaltenbrunner among the fanatical Hitler loyalists and described him as being committed "to the bitter end". On the 15th. November 1944, he was awarded the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords.

Using his authority as Chief of the RSHA, Kaltenbrunner issued a decree on the 6th. February 1945 that allowed policemen to shoot "disloyal" people at their discretion, without judicial review.

On the 18th. April 1945, three weeks before the war ended, Himmler named Kaltenbrunner commander-in-chief of the remaining German forces in southern Europe. Kaltenbrunner attempted to organize cells for post-war sabotage in the region and Germany, but accomplished little.

Hitler made one of his last appearances on the 20th. April 1945 outside the subterranean Führerbunker in Berlin, where he pinned medals on boys from the Hitler Youth for their bravery. Kaltenbrunner was among those present, but realizing the end was near, he then fled from Berlin.

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's Arrest

On the 12th. May 1945 Kaltenbrunner was apprehended along with his adjutant, Arthur Scheidler, and two SS guards in a remote cabin at the top of the Totes Gebirge mountains near Altaussee, Austria, by a search party initiated by the 80th. Infantry Division, Third U.S. Army.

The party climbed over mountainous and glacial terrain for six hours in darkness before arriving at the cabin. After a short standoff, all four men exited the cabin and surrendered without a shot being fired.

Kaltenbrunner claimed to be a doctor and offered a false name. However, upon their arrival back to town his last mistress, Countess Gisela von Westarp, and the wife (Iris) of his adjutant Arthur Scheidler chanced to spot the men being led away; the ladies called out to both men and embraced them. This action resulted in their identification and arrest by U.S. troops.

In 2001, Ernst Kaltenbrunner's personal Nazi security seal was found in an Alpine lake in Styria, Austria, 56 years after he had thrown it away to hide his identity. The seal was recovered by a Dutch citizen on holiday.

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the Nuremberg Trials

At the Nuremberg trials, Kaltenbrunner was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Due to the areas over which he exercised responsibility as an SS general and as chief of the RSHA, he was acquitted of crimes against peace, but held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

During the initial stages of the Nuremberg trials, Kaltenbrunner was absent because of two episodes of subarachnoid hemorrhage, which required several weeks of recovery time.

After his health improved, the tribunal denied his request for pardon. When he was released from a military hospital he pleaded not guilty to the charges of the indictment against him. Kaltenbrunner said all decrees and legal documents that bore his signature were "rubber-stamped" and filed by his adjutant(s).

He also said Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller had illegally affixed his signature to numerous documents.

Kaltenbrunner argued in his defence that his position as RSHA chief existed only theoretically, and said he was only active in matters of espionage and intelligence. He maintained that Himmler, as his superior, was the person culpable for the atrocities committed during his tenure as chief of the RSHA.

Kaltenbrunner also asserted that he had no knowledge of the Final Solution before 1943, and went on to claim that he protested against the ill-treatment of the Jews to Himmler and Hitler.

Further denials from Kaltenbrunner included statements that he knew nothing of the Commissar Order, and that he never visited Mauthausen concentration camp, despite documentation of his visit.

At one point, Kaltenbrunner went so far as to avow that he was responsible for bringing the Final Solution to an end. In response to his denials, people in the courtroom laughed.

-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's Conviction and Execution

On the 30th. September 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) found Kaltenbrunner not guilty of crimes against peace, but guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the 1st. October 1946, the IMT sentenced him to death by hanging.

Kaltenbrunner was executed on the 16th. October 1946 at 1:15 am, in Nuremberg. He was 43 years of age when he died. His body, like those of the other nine executed men and that of Hermann Göring (who had committed suicide the previous day), was cremated at the Eastern Cemetery in Munich, and the ashes scattered in a tributary of the River Isar.

Motivations by Erzulia

Sentences

Count Dankula sentencing by David Farrer

Airdrie Sheriff Court

blasphemy.. by Allen Warren

3 16

For the first time in history Pakistan has sentenced to death a Christian woman for blasphemy.

The Court of Sessions passed the death sentence on Asia Bibi on November 7.

Asia, who is from Ittanwali in Punjab province, laboured in the fields for a Muslim landlord. She was arrested after a heated discussion about religion with her fellow farmworkers. Hers was one of only three Christian families in the village.

Some of the women workers had been putting her under pressure to renounce her Christian faith and accept Islam.

On June 19, 2009, the women pressed Asia about Islam. She responded by sharing with them about her faith in Christ.

She spoke of how Jesus Christ had died on the cross for their sins and then asked them what Mohammed had done for them.

On hearing this response the Muslim women became very angry and began to beat her. Some men took Asia by force and locked her in a room. They used the PA system of a local mosque to broadcast plans to punish Asia by blackening her face and parading her through the village on a donkey.

www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/first-christian-...

Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" "Who are you?" Saul replied. And the voice called back, "I am Jesus, the one you persecute."

Healing is in Your Hands.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2yqWFlg60

Tags Sentences

View allAll Photos Tagged Sentences