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Picture taken on May 5, 2012, shows former German rapper Denis Cuspert, center, among Salafis in Bonn, GermanyHenning Kaiser鈥?stanley cup AFP/Getty ImagesBy Nash JenkinsOctober 30, 2015 3:56 AM EDTA U.S. air strike in Syria has killed a German hip-hop artist who left his home country in 2012 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria and rap in the name of jihad.On Oct. 16, 39-year-old Denis Cuspert mdash; once a moderately successful Berlin rapper who went by Deso Dogg mdash; was in a car near Raqqah, ISIS de facto capital, when a successful air strike destroyed the automobile. An unnamed defense official told the Daily Beast that Cuspert was the strike target.Cuspert was a foreign terrorist stanley cup fighter and operative for [ISIS] who used social media to take advantage of disaffected youth and potential Western recruits, Elissa Smith, a Pentagon spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News. He publicly threatened the President of the United Sta stanley cup tes and German citizens; he also encouraged Western Muslims to conduct attacks on behalf of [ISIS].The story of Cuspert radicalism begins five years ago, when a near-fatal car crash led him to convert to Islam. Before that incident, he was a rapper with three albums under his belt; by early 2011, he was calling himself Abu Malik and using his YouTube channel to celebrate extremist figureheads like Osama bin Laden. He shifted his creative focus from rap to jihadi nasheeds, ballads of war tha Xmaq Witness Scenes From Indonesia Military Plane Crash
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY attends a press conference calling for the creation of an independent military justice system to deal with sexual harassment and assault in nike dunk the military, in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Feb. 6, 2014.Mandel Ngan鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Maya RhodanAugust 27, 2014 4:58 PM EDTSen. Kirsten Gillibrand D-N.Y. says in a new book that she has faced several sexist encounters with her male colleagues, being nicknamed everything from Honey Badger to hottest member of the Senate.Good thing you ;re yeezy working out because you wouldn ;t want to adidas campus get porky, Gillibrand says one colleague told her in the congressional gym, according to an excerpt of her book Off The Sidelines published by People.After she lost weight following a pregnancy, Gillibrand writes that one male colleague squeezed her waist and implored: Don ;t lose too much weight now, I like my girls chubby.And she says one southern congressman told her, You know, Kirsten, you ;re even pretty when you ;re fat.I believed his intentions were sweet, even if he was being an idiot, Gillibrand writes.But Gillibrand told People she hasn ;t been fazed by these incidents, and said she using the sexism she faced working in Congress as motivation to take on issues like military and campus sexual assault. In the book, which is being released in Septe |
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