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• Aug. 16: St. John the BaptistParish Sheriff deputies examine acar with bullet holes at a crimescene where two sheriffs werekilled and two wounded in anearly morning shootout in St. Johnthe Baptist Parish.• Sources tell FOX 8 the shootinghappened in a parking lot of ashuttle service that takes workersto a nearby refinery. FOX 8 Next Slide Previous Slide
Two sheriff's deputies inLouisiana have been shot to deathand two others injured after anearly-morning shootout in St.John the Baptist Parish, west of New Orleans.Authorities identified thedeceased officers as BrandonNielsen, 34, and Jeremy Triche,28. The Times-Picayune reportedthat the injured officers areMichael Scott Boyington, 33, andJason Triche, 30.The first shooting occurredaround 5:30 a.m. in a parking lotused by workers in an area of manufacturing plants andrefineries along the MississippiRiver. New Orleans Local News,Weather, Sports, InvestigationsLouisiana authorities say the twosheriff's deputies were killed in an"ambush" after they responded toreports of a traffic officer beingshot multiple times earlyThursday morning near anisolated parking lot for a Valerorefinery.Residents at the Riverview trailerpark notified police about aspeeding car, which matched thedescription of the car used in theearlier shooting, Michael KerryTregre, the St. John the Baptistsheriff, said.The two officers wereinterviewing an individualunderneath some blankets. Duringthe interview, another personexited the trailer with an assaultweapon and "ambushed" them,Tregre said.Louisiana State Police have takenover the investigation. Theinvestigation is considered “hot”and ongoing.There are five people in custody,authorities said. Two of themwere hurt in the shooting and arehospitalized. It was unclear howofficers managed to take thesuspect with the assault weaponinto custody. Authorities do notbelieve there are any additionalsuspects."Air support and local lawenforcement combined with us,"Trooper Evan Hallel, told FOX-8."We got feet on the ground andpeople in the woods. We're tryingto gather all the information thatwe could at this time."Two officers in the earliershooting suffered gunshot woundsand are hospitalized. One iscurrently undergoing surgery.The Times-Picayune reportedthat deputies were outside theemergency room at River ParishesHospital, which is holding OfficerJason Triche. He reportedlysuffered multiple injuries to hiskidney, spleen and bladder.The superintendent for St. Johnthe Baptist Parish was told not toopen a nearby school, butauthorities say there is no publicthreat.Fox News' Edmund DeMarcheand the Associated Presscontributed to this report Click for more fromFox8Live.com Click for more from NOLA.com•Print•Email•Share•Comments•Recommend•TweetRelated StoriesMan accidentallyshoots self in Nevada movietheater Hero guard shot thwartingattack at Family Research CouncilHQShare This Article NewsletterSignupSign up for free e-mail newsalerts from FoxNews.com andFoxBusiness.com. NewsletterSignupThis entry passed through theFull-Text RSSservice — if this isyour content and you're reading iton someone else's site, please readthe FAQ atfivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.FiveFiltersrecommends:IncineratingAssange - The Liberal Media GoTo Work .[unable to retrieve full-textcontent][unable to retrieve full-textcontent][unable to retrieve full-textcontent][unable to retrieve full-textcontent][unable to retrieve full-textcontent]
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By Alessandra Prentice andEduardo GarciaLONDON/QUITO| Thu Aug 16,2012 11:02am EDT(Reuters) - Ecuador has grantedpolitical asylum to WikiLeaks'founder Julian Assange, ForeignMinister Ricardo Patino said onThursday, a day after the Britishgovernment threatened to stormthe Ecuadorean embassy inLondon to arrest the formerhacker.Britain has said it is determinedto extradite him to Sweden, wherehe is accused of rape and sexualassault, but Assange fears he willultimately be sent to the UnitedStates which is furious that hisWikiLeaks website has leakedhundreds of thousands of secretU.S. diplomatic and militarycables.Ecuador's decision is likely todeepen a political dispute overAssange's extradition with Britain,which said it was "disappointed"with the ruling, and sets the stagefor possible further confrontationbetween the two countries.Patino said Ecuador feared forthe safety of the Australian, whohad lodged an asylum requestwith President Rafael Correa, aself-declared enemy of "corrupt"media and U.S. "imperialism"."Ecuador has decided to grantpolitical asylum to Julian Assangefollowing the request sent to thePresident," Patino told a newsconference in Quito.Patino said Assange's extraditionto a third country without properguarantees was probable, and thatlegal evidence showed he wouldnot get a fair trial if eventuallytransferred to the United States."This is a sovereign decisionprotected by international law. Itmakes no sense to surmise thatthis implies a breaking of relations (with Britain)," Patinoadded.Assange has been holed up insideEcuador's embassy in centralLondon for eight weeks since helost a legal battle to avoidextradition to Sweden.Even after Thursday's decisionhis fate is still far from clear:Britain has promised to extraditehim and the removal of theEcuadorean embassy's diplomaticstatus would expose him toimmediate arrest by the Britishauthorities."We are disappointed," a ForeignOffice spokesman said."Under UK law, with Mr Assangehaving exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities areunder a binding obligation toextradite him to Sweden. We shallcarry out that obligation."EMBASSY STRESS?Outside the Ecuadorean embassynear London's famed Harrodsdepartment store, supportersrelayed the announcement abouthis asylum request over aloudspeaker to cheers andclapping from protesters who hadgathered outside the building.Supporters shouted: "The peopleunited will never be defeated!",waving Ecuadorian flags andholding posters showingAssange's head, reading "noextradition".A Reuters reporter saw at leastthree protesters being draggedaway by police before thedecision was announced aftertussles with police.It was unclear how long Assangecould stay in the small embassy -housed on the ground floor of anapartment block - which is under24-hour surveillance by Britishpolice.After the announcement, theBBC reported that Assange hadthanked the staff in the Londonembassy for their support and hadsaid to them: "things will get morestressful now".Britain has said it could use alittle-known piece of legislationfrom 1987, introduced in the wakeof the shooting of a British policeofficer outside the Libyanembassy in London, to stripEcuador's embassy of itsdiplomatic status.The Ecuadorean government hasbristled at the warning: its foreignminister said Britain wasthreatening Ecuador with a"hostile and intolerable act",comparing the action to Iran'sstorming of Britain's Tehranembassy 2011."I've lived, worked and travelledin places with proper dictatorshipsand nowhere have I seenviolations of the Viennaconvention to this extent," saidFarhan Rasheed, 42, a historianwearing an "I love Occupy"badge, outside the embassy."Here we have a governmentwhich claims to be a governmentof law and justice, stretching andpossibly about to break a seriousbinding international agreement."Britain's threat to withdrawdiplomatic status from theEcuadorean embassy also drewcriticism from one of its ownformer diplomats who said itcould lead to similar movesagainst British embassies."I think the Foreign Office haveslightly overreached themselveshere," Britain's formerambassador to Moscow, TonyBrenton, told the BBC."If we live in a world wheregovernments can arbitrarilyrevoke immunity and go intoembassies then the life of ourdiplomats and their ability toconduct normal business in placeslike Moscow where I was andNorth Korea becomes close toimpossible."SEX CRIME?Assange, whom Sweden wants toquestion over accusations of rapeand sexual assault made by twofemale former WikiLeaksvolunteers in August 2010, sayshe fears Sweden could send himon to the United States.His supporters have said U.S.authorities want to punish him forpublishing diplomatic cableswhich laid bare Washington'spower-brokering across the globe."The reaction he has is that hewants to underline that this(asylum) is a measure that isaimed at the U.S. and not againstSweden," said Per E Samuelsson,one of the lawyers representingAssange who talked to Assangeafter the decision."He has sought political asylum inorder to eliminate the risk that hewill spend the rest of his life inprison in the United States,"Samuelsson said.Ecuador said it had tried to getassurances from Britain andSweden that Assange could not beextradited to a third country butthat no assurance was given.Under European law, neitherBritain nor Sweden couldextradite anyone to a country
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Submitted at 8/16/2012 10:05:33 AM
By Alessandra Prentice andEduardo GarciaLONDON/QUITO| Thu Aug 16,2012 11:47am EDT(Reuters) - Ecuador has grantedpolitical asylum to WikiLeaks'founder Julian Assange, ForeignMinister Ricardo Patino said onThursday, a day after the Britishgovernment threatened to stormthe Ecuadorean embassy inLondon to arrest the formerhacker.Britain has said it is determinedto extradite him to Sweden, wherehe is accused of rape and sexualassault, but Assange fears he willultimately be sent to the UnitedStates which is furious that hisWikiLeaks website has leakedhundreds of thousands of secretU.S. diplomatic and militarycables.Ecuador's decision is likely todeepen a political dispute overAssange's extradition with Britain,which said it was "disappointed"with the ruling, and sets the stagefor possible further confrontationbetween the two countries.Patino said Ecuador feared forthe safety of the Australian, whohad lodged an asylum requestwith President Rafael Correa, aself-declared enemy of "corrupt"media and U.S. "imperialism"."Ecuador has decided to grantpolitical asylum to Julian Assangefollowing the request sent to thePresident," Patino told a newsconference in Quito.Patino said Assange's extraditionto a third country without properguarantees was probable, and thatlegal evidence showed he wouldnot get a fair trial if eventuallytransferred to the United States."This is a sovereign decisionprotected by international law. Itmakes no sense to surmise thatthis implies a breaking of relations (with Britain)," Patinoadded.Assange has been holed up insideEcuador's embassy in centralLondon for eight weeks since helost a legal battle to avoidextradition to Sweden.Even after Thursday's decisionhis fate is still far from clear:Britain has promised to extraditehim and the removal of theEcuadorean embassy's diplomaticstatus would expose him toimmediate arrest by the Britishauthorities."We are disappointed," a ForeignOffice spokesman said."Under UK law, with Mr Assangehaving exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities areunder a binding obligation toextradite him to Sweden. We shallcarry out that obligation."EMBASSY STRESS?Outside the Ecuadorean embassynear London's famed Harrodsdepartment store, supportersrelayed the announcement abouthis asylum request over aloudspeaker to cheers andclapping from protesters who hadgathered outside the building.Supporters shouted: "The peopleunited will never be defeated!",waving Ecuadorian flags andholding posters showingAssange's head, reading "noextradition".A Reuters reporter saw at leastthree protesters being draggedaway by police before thedecision was announced aftertussles with police.It was unclear how long Assangecould stay in the small embassy -housed on the ground floor of anapartment block - which is under24-hour surveillance by Britishpolice.After the announcement, theBBC reported that Assange hadthanked the staff in the Londonembassy for their support and hadsaid to them: "things will get morestressful now".Britain has said it could use alittle-known piece of legislationfrom 1987, introduced in the wakeof the shooting of a British policeofficer outside the Libyanembassy in London, to stripEcuador's embassy of itsdiplomatic status.The Ecuadorean government hasbristled at the warning: its foreignminister said Britain wasthreatening Ecuador with a"hostile and intolerable act",comparing the action to Iran'sstorming of Britain's Tehranembassy 2011."I've lived, worked and travelledin places with proper dictatorshipsand nowhere have I seenviolations of the Viennaconvention to this extent," saidFarhan Rasheed, 42, a historianwearing an "I love Occupy"badge, outside the embassy."Here we have a governmentwhich claims to be a governmentof law and justice, stretching andpossibly about to break a seriousbinding international agreement."Britain's threat to withdrawdiplomatic status from theEcuadorean embassy also drewcriticism from one of its ownformer diplomats who said itcould lead to similar movesagainst British embassies."I think the Foreign Office haveslightly overreached themselveshere," Britain's formerambassador to Moscow, TonyBrenton, told the BBC."If we live in a world wheregovernments can arbitrarilyrevoke immunity and go intoembassies then the life of ourdiplomats and their ability toconduct normal business in placeslike Moscow where I was andNorth Korea becomes close toimpossible."SEX CRIME?Assange, whom Sweden wants toquestion over accusations of rapeand sexual assault made by twofemale former WikiLeaksvolunteers in August 2010, sayshe fears Sweden could send himon to the United States.His supporters have said U.S.authorities want to punish him forpublishing diplomatic cableswhich laid bare Washington'spower-brokering across the globe."The reaction he has is that hewants to underline that this(asylum) is a measure that isaimed at the U.S. and not againstSweden," said Per E Samuelsson,one of the lawyers representingAssange who talked to Assangeafter the decision."He has sought political asylum inorder to eliminate the risk that hewill spend the rest of his life inprison in the United States,"Samuelsson said.Ecuador said it had tried to getassurances from Britain andSweden that Assange could not beextradited to a third country butthat no assurance was given.Under European law, neitherBritain nor Sweden couldextradite anyone to a country
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