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1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS.2-Utilities still struggling after storm. 3-The Nation's Weather. 4-House topples, highway closes in Daniel's Harbour. 5-Democrats Easter message censors Christ, Resurrection. 6-CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE BOMBED IN GAZA. 7-ElBaradei sees nuclear-arms-free Mideast as inevitable. 8-Iran Recruiting Israeli Jews as Spies. 9-Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town 10-3 slain at Bible distributor in Turkey. 11-Slain Israeli Professor Saved Others in Va. Tech Massacre. 12-Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Wed Apr 18 2:00 PM EDT

APR 18,07
MAP 5.5 HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
MAP 4.0 OFFSHORE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.8 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 JUJUY, ARGENTINA

APR 17,07
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.8 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.2 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.6 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 2.8 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 5.2 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 2.6 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 5.3 KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.7 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII

APR 16,07
MAP 3.7 NORTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.5 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 MYANMAR
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 5.2 TONGA
MAP 3.8 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 4.2 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 6.4 WEST OF MACQUARIE ISLAND
MAP 4.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 2.8 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 4.9 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 4.9 ALBANIA
MAP 3.0 NEBRASKA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.8 BALLENY ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.1 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Utilities still struggling after storm By CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press Writer APR 18,07

PORTLAND, Maine - Utility crews cut their way through downed trees Wednesday to restore service to thousands of customers still without power since a huge weekend storm battered the East Coast. Communities from New Jersey to Maine were still coping with stream flooding after the storm dumped more than 8 inches of rain in places, along with coastal flooding brought on by astronomical high tides and heavy surf.Seventeen deaths were blamed on the weather system.New Hampshire safety officials made plans Wednesday to breach the 19th century Hayden Mill Pond dam at Hollis to relieve the pressure of high water from the storm and avert a failure. A dozen families living near the six-acre reservoir were evacuated Tuesday evening and National Guard troops closed part of a highway as a precaution.

More than 50,000 businesses and residences remained without power Wednesday in Maine, where Central Maine Power Co. was being helped by repair crews from neighboring New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and as far away as Pennsylvania.Utility officials warned that some people might be without power until the end of the week.

It's a huge number of trees that are down, so it's a big job cutting those away, said CMP spokesman John Carroll. Plus there are 250 broken poles. That's an
enormous number of poles.Utilities in New Hampshire reported nearly 19,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity Wednesday and said some might not be reconnected until the weekend.In many areas, road damage and fallen trees blocked repair crews' access, said New Hampshire Electric Cooperative spokesman Seth Wheeler.There are 18 different tree crews we've hired ... just clearing trees first before the line crews can get in there and do construction, Wheeler said.

About 1,700 New Jersey residents were in emergency shelters Wednesday because of flooding, up slightly from the day before, as more rivers crested. Rescue crews went house to house by boat in a flooded section of Fairfield asking if residents of any of about three dozen homes needed to be evacuated, said State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones.The numbers are fluctuating, actually going down in some places as folks go home, but rising in others as people who had been holding out just give in and go to a shelter, Jones said.Sections of some New Jersey highways were still closed by standing water Wednesday.More than 80 New Hampshire roads remained closed by high water or damage, said Department of Transportation spokesman Bill Boynton. Most were expected to be reopened soon, but it could take weeks to repair landslide damage to Route 101 in Wilton, he said.

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch had asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to start a preliminary damage assessment in all 10 counties to determine eligibility for federal disaster relief. Many New Hampshire communities have been overwhelmed by all the flooding, he said.Swollen rivers in Massachusetts were receding but waves still crashed over sea walls and flooded coastal roads early Wednesday, authorities said.Two families were evacuated from oceanfront homes in Duxbury, Mass., late Tuesday but were able to return Wednesday morning, fire Capt. Skip Chandler said. Their homes had knee-deep water on the ground floor, he said. Thank goodness it wasn't worse,he said.Most roads had reopened in the suburbs north of New York City, as homeowners in Westchester County piled water-ruined carpets and furniture in heaps outside. On Fire Island, a barrier island along the south side of New York's Long Island, some homes were clinging to narrow beaches atop rickety pilings because the storm's waves had scoured the sand out from beneath them. There's nothing I can do, said homeowner Bill Raymond, 55. You've got to keep your fingers crossed.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Wed Apr 18, 5:55 AM ET

A storm system that dumped rain on parts of the West will continue to move eastward on Wednesday, bringing rain and light snow to parts of the Rockies and high Plains. Northern California and Washington are expected to also experience rain, while scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely in the northern high Plains. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s are expected in the Northwest.

Light to moderate snow and coastal rain are expected in New England, while light snow is also possible over parts of the Great Lakes region, turning into rain later in the day.A low pressure system that caused severe weather over Texas on Tuesday is expected to move through the lower Mississippi Valley and parts of the Southeast on Wednesday, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected across the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, moving into parts of the Mid-Atlantic region by evening.Temperatures in the lower 48 states Tuesday ranged from a low of 16 degrees at Alpine, Ariz., to a high of 90 degrees at Imperial, Calif.

House topples, highway closes in Daniel's Harbour
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 | 2:02 PM NT - CBC News

Landslides in a town on Newfoundland's west coast claimed their first house Wednesday, as officials restricted traffic on a nearby highway.A series of landslides have caused several structures to tumble down a steep cliff in Daniel's Harbour.(CBC) The house, a bungalow, slid down a steep cliff in Daniel's Harbour.It has toppled off the edge of the embankment … and is now gone, CBC reporter Bernice Hillier said early Wednesday afternoon.People here are pretty upset about this. They, I guess, didn't think that this was going to happen, Hillier said.

Here's a house where a man has worked all his life, and put so much into, raised a family, and now it's gone.RCMP have closed traffic in both directions on Route 430, better known as the Northern Peninsula Highway.Traffic was first closed after midnight, but reopened for a few hours on Wednesday morning.Hillier said crews are now trying to find an alternate route to the Northern Peninsula Highway.The precautions were taken in the wake of a series of landslides — including a large slide on Sunday morning that pushed tonnes of soil into the Gulf of St. Lawrence — that have put a series of Daniel's Harbour structures at risk.Six homes and one business have been cleared because they are in danger of sliding down a cliff.Owners of two of the homes were told earlier this week to evacuate. Orders for the rest had been made last fall, in the wake of a massive landslide last October.

Derrick Biggin, who left his home on Monday, said he salvaged most of his material possessions, but that he is losing much more than that.When those houses do end up in the drink, it's going to be very dramatic to everyone involved. … It's part of you, Biggin said.It's been part of you for 30-plus years and it's hard to get over those things.Biggin said he expects to lose his house before the week is out.
A series of small landslides after Sunday's massive tumble have chewed away at the narrowing safety zone leading to the highway, which runs along the side of a vertical cliff where all the slides have occurred.

Democrats Easter message censors Christ, Resurrection
Fear offending non-Christians

Dear Stan,

First, the politcally correct crowd tried to take Christ out of Christmas. Now, the Democratic Party has taken Christ and the Resurrection out of Easter. On March 30, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a press statement titled DNC Offers Passover Greetings.

The press statement read: On Monday night, Jews around the world will begin celebrating Passover, a week-long holiday that commemorates the Israelites' freedom from persecution and slavery.A week later, Dean and the DNC issued another statement concerning Easter: Easter Sunday is a joyful celebration. The holiday represents peace, redemption and renewal, a theme which brings hope to people of all faiths.

The DNC refused to even mention Jesus or the Resurrection, the very heart of Easter.The DNC took one of two unique Christian holy days and turned it into a politically correct religious day. The DNC treated Easter as if was not unique to the Christian faith, and made it into a nondescript, universal, nonexclusive religious celebration celebrated by every religion in the world. The DNC greeting had not one word to say about the Resurrection, but said Easter represents peace, redemption and renewal.They define the Jewish holy day correctly, as they should. But to keep from offending any non-Christian, the DNC takes the Christian Easter and defines it in a politically correct manner.

Intentionally offending Christians is something the DNC doesn’t mind doing.

Take Action
Send an e-mail to the Democratic National Committee telling them you expect a public apology. https://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=247

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE BOMBED IN GAZA
Joshua Fund offers to help rebuild this lighthouse in the darkness
By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., April 16, 2007) -- Just a week ago, our Joshua Fund team was in Jerusalem, getting a briefing from Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian evangelical leaders, including two brave Christian leaders from Gaza.

They shared with us the intense opposition they face from radical Muslims who will stop at nothing to keep the good news of Jesus's love for all mankind from being heard in the Palestinian-controlled territories. They explained that hundreds of Muslims have turned to faith in Christ over the past year despite such opposition. They also asked us to pray not that the persecution would stop, but that they and their Christian colleagues would have the courage both to endure and to truly love their Muslim neighbors and their jihadist enemies the way Christ loved the lost while on earth. Yesterday just seven days after that meeting I received the following email from an Arab believer in Gaza:

At 2:00 am on Sunday, two cars with masked gunmen parked in front of the Bible Society office in Gaza and kidnapped the security guard. An hour later they returned and placed a large bomb on the doors.

The damage is very big. We thank the Lord that there were no injuries....The team is strong and encouraged in the Lord, [One Palestinian Christian leader] has gone down to Gaza this morning to stand by them and give them support, as well to start the process of fixing and reopening the bookshop. At noon time a group from the Ministry of Culture will come to show their support and their denial towards such an act. This is expected to draw more attention by the media who has been covering this attack since it took place early morning. Many channels including Al-Jazeera have reported this story.

The Associated Press also reported on the story: Three explosions hit Gaza City early Sunday, damaging two Internet cafes and a Christian bookstore. No one was hurt and no group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which took place around 3 a.m. local time, Palestinian security officials said. Several similar attacks on Internet cafes and music stores in recent months have been claimed by a little-known extremist Islamic organization calling itself the Swords of Truth.

The officials would not speculate on the identity of those behind the Sunday attacks, saying only that the incidents were under investigation. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. Heavy external damage was visible at the three stores. At the bookstore, which is funded by American Protestants and known as the Bible Society, a number of books were also burned in the explosion. In recent months, about three dozen Internet cafes and shops selling pop music have been attacked in the Gaza Strip, with assailants detonating small bombs outside businesses at night, causing damage but no injuries. Palestinian security officials have said they suspect a secret vice squad of Muslim militants.Another Arab ministry leader wrote to me, saying: Our staff and the Bible society staff are all safe, but the challenge is what is coming. Please pray for wisdom to continue the ministry and a protection for staff and their disciples who from [a Muslim] background.

I agree as Jewish and Gentile believers, let us join together to pray for our brothers and sisters and ask the Lord to prevent radical jihadists from being able to silence the gospel as they so desperately desire. And let us remember what Jesus told us in Matthew 16:18: I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. (KJV)

The Joshua Fund has offered to help finance the rebuilding of this lighthouse in the darkness.We'll let you know the details of this project as soon as we can.

UNFORTUNATELY THE BIBLE TELLS ME THE OPPOSITE THAT WW3 STARTS AT THE EUPHRATES RIVER IN IRAQ AND OR SYRIA. NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED AS 1/2 OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE.

ElBaradei sees nuclear-arms-free Mideast as inevitable (Roundup)
Apr 15, 2007, 14:35 GMT

Amman - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Mohamed ElBaradei on Sunday expected the eventua emergence of a Middle East free of nuclear arms that also includes Israel and Iran. Eventually, a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction that also assembles Israel and Iran is inevitable, ElBaradei told reporters after a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan. This will be the last chance for us to set up a Middle East security order that is based on cooperation and confidence rather than on the possession of nuclear arms, he said. The IAEA chief criticized the double standards applied to Israel on the one hand and other countries in the region on the other as far as nuclear programmes were concerned. There has been a mistake in dealing with this (Israeli) nuclear file over the past five decades, he said. ElBaradei blamed Arab countries for joining the nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) without Israel's joining of the agreement or stipulating that Israel joins it at a later stage.

This was a mistake that led to imbalance, with Israel possessing a nuclear deterrent while Arab states committing themselves to programmes for peaceful uses, he said. However, there is an opportunity for taking the security aspect into account as part of the peace process, he added.

When a just and comprehensive peace is established between the Arab states and Israel, it should be forged in parallel with a security order based on wiping out all weapons of mass destruction, he said. Responding to a question, ElBaradei said he had not so far come to the conclusion that the Iranian nuclear programme was set up for military purposes. We still have enough time ahead for resolving this problem through peaceful means. The Iranian issue cannot be resolved except through dialogue, he added. He said any military solution to the Iranian nuclear standoff will be irrational, catastrophic and will complicate the problem further.ElBaradei said that he would be dispatching an IAEA team to Jordan next week to conduct a serious and comprehensive study to help Jordan set up its own nuclear programme. Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Iran Recruiting Israeli Jews as Spies
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz 29 Nisan 5767, April 17, '07

(IsraelNN.com) The General Security Services (GSS) recently uncovered a new effort to recruit Jews with family or other interests in Iran into the service of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (VEVAK), the Islamic Republic's chief intelligence agency. According to information released by senior GSS officials on Tuesday, at least ten Israelis have passed the first stage of
recruitment and have received money from Iran. All ten were recruited when visiting relatives in Iran, but none have been indicted, as they had not yet passed any information on to their handlers. According to a senior GSS source, the last year has seen an increase in Iranian intelligence activities targeting Israel, including approximately 100 attempts by Iranian agents to recruit Israeli Jews visiting family members in Iran. In exchange for the promise of information about events in Israel, the Islamic Republic has paid thousands of US dollars to Israeli Jewish collaborators.

Iran, the senior GSS source explained, identified in the trips by Israelis to Iran an opportunity to serve its interests in espionage against Israel.The recruitment process begins at the Iranian Consulate in Turkey, where Israelis who wish to visit Iran go to obtain entry permits. There are no current restrictions on Israelis visiting the Islamic Republic, which has not been legally declared an enemy state. Israelis seeking entry to Iran are grilled for information in Turkey by agents of VEVAK presenting themselves as consular diplomats. The Israelis are asked about their family ties and military service, as well as about political and social issues in the Jewish State, among other topics. In some cases, Israelis have been questioned for hours on end in an isolated room inside the Iranian Consulate. Once in Iran, the visiting Israeli identified by the Iranian agents as a potential recruit is put through a lengthy series of interviews with VEVAK agents. There have been cases of Israelis refusing to cooperate with the Iranian authorities at this stage, leading to their arrest for several months.

Once an Israeli tourist has been successfully recruited, the VEVAK agents may request seemingly innocuous tasks of them upon their return home. Israelis have been asked to do such things as provide Iran with pictures of certain places in Israel, identify key figures in Israeli society and recruit an acquaintance as an agent for Iran, as well. I see Israeli Jews leaving the country for business or family visits in Iran, where they are recruited for the purposes of spying, as a serious phenomenon, the GSS official continued. This time, we did not file charges, but in the future, we will not restrain ourselves from prosecuting such people.Commenting on the reports of Israeli Jewish spies in the employ of Iran, Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad (National Union-NRP) said that the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee must quickly finalize the draft of his legislative bill defining Iran as an enemy state. Eldad submitted the bill several months ago, in an effort to fill the legal lacuna left by Israel's previous friendly relations with the Persian state under the deposed Shah. Eldad said that, if the process is given top priority, the draft law could be completed and brought to the plenum within a week.

Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town by Neil Sands APR 18,07

ADAMINABY, Australia (AFP) - Australia's worst drought in a century has uncovered a town deliberately flooded 50 years ago as part of a massive hydro-electricity scheme, stirring painful memories for former residents. Adaminaby, a small farming town nestled in the Snowy Mountains on the border between New South Wales and Victoria states, was submerged under 30 metres (98.5 feet) of water in 1957 when the local valley was dammed to form the man-made Lake Eucumbene.The settlement was never expected to be seen again but the severity of the drought has evaporated most of the lake, bringing it back to the surface.We couldn't believe it when the old streets started to reappear, said Leigh Stewart, a local history buff who grew up in the old town and once ran a shop there.It brought back a lot of memories, I can still see in my mind's eye how the town was, he adds, gesturing around the muddy wreckage of what was once his family home.Stewart said the town's re-emergence was a striking demonstration of the severity of the drought.It shows how bad the situation is around here, he said.

The dam's at about 20 percent capacity now and it's getting worse. We're all hoping it turns around soon and we get some consistent rains that will fill the lake again.

The hills around the lake are topped with green vegetation that stops abruptly at a line mid-way down the valley, replaced with brown mud that marks the old shoreline, some 30 metres above the current water level.

The sloping main street of the old town, its bitumen eroded from decades underwater, is now being used by locals as a boat ramp to access the depleted Lake Eucumbene. Shards of pottery, rusted batteries, bottles and other remnants of everyday life in the old town dry in the sun, with the foundations of old houses covered by a thick layer of silt from what used to be the bed of the lake.The blackened skeletons of trees drowned half a century ago poke out from the water about 50 metres (165 foot) from the current shoreline in a straight row, still marking the route of a road they once lined in the old town.A flight of concrete steps leads up to the remains of the St Mary's Catholic Church, now reduced to a few tilting brick columns and rotten wooden floorboards.It was at the top of these stairs that Greg and Mary Russell were sprinkled with confetti when they were married 60 years ago.Greg, now 82, said he had mixed feelings wandering the streets in the old town where he played as a child.It's sad and it makes me a bit nostalgic, he told AFP. We had some good times there and it's strange to see it this way now.

The creation of Lake Eucumbene was one of the largest projects in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, a huge post-war engineering project designed to harness the power of the Snowy River.The scheme involved building seven power stations and 16 dams, linked by 145 kilometres (90 miles) of tunnels through the mountains and 80 kilometres (50 miles) of viaducts.

More than 100,000 workers were involved in its construction, many of them refugees from war-ravaged European communities whose arrival permanently altered Australia's demographics, diluting the predominance of those from British roots. Tiny Adaminaby, a hamlet of about 700 people, stood in the way of the ambitious nation-building project and policy-makers in Canberra decided it must be sacrificed in the name of progress. We were told we had to move, said Anne Kennedy, who was still a child when her home was flooded. A lot of us never wanted to go, my father tried to chase them down the street with a gun, but they said it was for the good of the nation and we had no choice in the matter. A contemporary photograph taken at the ceremony to mark commencement of the dam's construction shows the townsfolk dressed in their Sunday best, their sombre, worried expressions contrasting with the official bunting and celebratory placards.

More than 50 buildings from the old town were moved nine kilometres away over a hill to the town that now bears the name Adaminaby. Some timber houses were simply lifted onto the back of trucks and driven to the new settlement, others such as St John's Church of England were dismantled stone-by-stone and rebuilt. Kennedy said only about 250 of Adaminaby's residents resettled in the new town, the rest took compensation packages they regarded as woefully inadequate and moved elsewhere. She said the town, which had once been a thriving local hub, struggled as its regional rivals prospered with the development of ski-fields and other tourism attractions in the area. Many locals developed a deep mistrust of outsiders because they felt they had been betrayed when their community was relocated, she said. We had an influx of new people a few years ago who bought retirement homes here, she said. People weren't very welcoming because they didn't trust outsiders after what happened with the relocation. Adaminaby was starting to get a reputation as an unfriendly place.Kennedy's solution was to begin work on a huge quilt showing the town's history that involved all members of the community working together in the local town hall for two years. She said the plan successfully brought the community together and the re-emergence of the old town now also gave displaced townsfolk a chance to come to terms with the past. It lets people say goodbye to the old town because they never really had a chance to do that originally, she said. She was also hopeful the ruins of the old town could become a tourist attraction to bring visitors to modern Adaminaby. Who knows? she said. At least it would mean something good came from all of this.

3 slain at Bible distributor in Turkey By BENJAMIN HARVEY, Associated Press Writer APR 18,07

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Assailants tied up three people at a publishing house that distributes Bibles in Turkey and then slit their throats Wednesday, adding to a string of attacks apparently targeting the country's tiny Christian minority. The killings occurred in Malatya, a city in central Turkey known as a hotbed of Turkish nationalism and is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to
assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.Malatya Gov. Ibrahim Dasoz said two of the victims at the Zirve publishing house were found already dead and the third died after being taken to the hospital.

All had their throats cut and their hands and legs were bound, he said.Dasoz said police detained four suspects and were investigating whether another man who suffered head injuries when he jumped from the window of the publisher's office may have been involved in the attack. He was reported undergoing surgery for his injury.

The German Embassy said one victim was German. I am shocked that a German citizen is among the victims. Even if the exact circumstances of the crime are not yet known, I most strongly condemn this brutal crime, German Ambassador Eckart Cuntz said in a statement.

Another victim was Turkish, Dasoz said, but he could not confirm the nationality of the third person killed.Zirve's general manager told CNN-Turk television that his employees had recently been threatened. We know that they have been receiving some threats, Hamza Ozant said, but could not say who made the threats.The publishing house had been targeted previously in protests by nationalists who accused it of proselytizing in this overwhelmingly Muslim but officially secular country, Dogan news agency reported.Making up less than 1 percent of Turkey's 70 million people, Christians have increasingly become targets amid what some fear is a rising tide of hostility toward non-Muslims.In February 2006, a teenager fatally shot a Catholic priest as he prayed in his church, and two more Catholic priests were attacked later in the year. A November visit by Pope Benedict XVI was greeted by nonviolent protests, and early this year a gunman killed Armenian Christian editor Hrant Dink.

Associated Press writer Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara contributed to this report.

Slain Israeli Professor Saved Others in Va. Tech Massacre
by Gil Ronen 29 Nisan 5767, 4/17/2007

(IsraelNN.com) As Israel observed Holocaust Day, thousands of miles away, A Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor gave his life in another senseless murder - and apparently in an act of heroism. Among the 32 people killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech Monday is 77-year-old engineering professor, Liviu Librescu, a citizen of Israel.

According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu ran to the door of his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing the gunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result. Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old student who had been in Librescu's class in room 204, told a reporter that at 9:05 a.m. the heard screams and a loud banging sound from the next-door classroom. When the students realized it was gunfire, he said, some hid behind tables, and others leapt from the classroom's windows. Calhoun himself was among the last to jump. Before I jumped from the window, I turned around and looked at the professor, who stayed behind, maybe to block the door. He had been killed.Librescu is survived by his wife of 42 years, Marlena, who was with him in Virginia, and sons Aryeh and Joe who are in Israel. They intend to bury him in Israel.

Asael Arad, an Israeli student who visited the widow after the tragedy, told Army Radio Tuesday that Marlena had been receiving e-mails from students who credited Prof. Librescu with saving their lives. I lost my best friend, the widow told a reporter for NRG at her home near the Blacksburg campus. He was a great person, who loved teaching more than anything. Marlena said someone had initially informed her that her husband was injured in the shooting. I looked for him in the hospitals all day but I didn't find him, she said. The Librescus are Rumanian Jews who came on aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in 1978 – after then-Prime Minister Begin interceded on their behalf with the Rumanian government, according to Marlena. The couple went on a sabbatical to the United States since 1986 and has been living there ever since.

NEW BREAKING NEWS IN THIS CASE, CHO SENT PICTURES AND LETTERS TO NBC BEFORE HE GUNNED DOWN THE 32 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AT VIRGINIA TECH. NBC WILL BE AIRING THE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT.

Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech -By Mike Wereschagin
TRIBUNE-REVIEW - Wednesday, April 18, 2007

BLACKSBURG, Va. Thirty-three bred a gathering of thousands. Here, on the soft grass of the Drill Field, between two pieces of a catastrophe, the heart of Virginia Tech glowed last night. A candlelight vigil, organized by students in remembrance of the 33 students and professors gunned down Monday in the worst shooting in modern U.S. history, drew more than 10,000. Many left campus yesterday to be with family, draining the school of still more students. Last night became a testimony from those who remained a resurrection of place. I plan to go on, said Thomas Connors, 22, a senior from Charlotte, N.C. Leaving was never a thought. All my friends feel that way.For some, it was the first time they'd seen their friends since Monday morning, when the campus was locked down and no one knew who remained alive. It's good to see you, was, for a night, a powerful enough greeting to elicit tears.

This is the way the community is around here, said Crystal Horning, 44, a municipal worker in nearby Christiansburg. Her husband, Leslie, 43, said the size of the gathering came as no surprise.

The challenge is how to recognize and accept (the shooting), and move on with our lives, he said. You can't bury it.Organizers set up six double-sided white, wooden placards which will stand there until Sunday and attached black markers. Well-wishers posted messages of defiance, solidarity and eternity. The crowd began trickling onto the field nearly an hour before the scheduled 8 p.m. start. By the time the vigil began, a shimmering sea of soft orange light coated the field, the participants standing so close and in such numbers that it was difficult to tell where one person stopped and the next began.

We heal. We come back, said Gade Kimsawatde, 21, a bio-technology major from Bangkok, Thailand. She wanted to leave earlier to be with family until university classes resume Monday, but as a resident assistant, she stayed an extra day to make sure people on her dormitory floor were doing all right. This is love, Zenobia Hikes, vice president of student affairs at the school, said, speaking to the crowd. Look after each other.Brief remarks from Hikes, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and student leaders lasted only about nine minutes. For about a half-hour afterward, they stood silently, sang Amazing Grace and broke into a boisterous, spontaneous call-and-response: Let's go! came the cry. Hokies! the reply.

Between speakers, the massive assembly stayed hushed through a moment of silence, and remained still during a long, slow rendition of Taps played by a member of the school's Corps of Cadets. And when it was over, they didn't leave. They raised their candles higher. Mike Wereschagin can be reached at mwereschagin@tribweb.com or (412) 391-0927.