Skydiver plummeted to Death in San Francisco

 The mother of a skydiver who plummeted to his death with an instructor in a California vineyard said her teenage son was an adventurous spirit who was willing to try just about anything  including the jump that was on his bucket list of things to do in life.

Tyler Turner, 18, had a mild case of cerebral palsy and walked

with a crouched gait. His mother Francine  Turner said that didn't dampen his zest for life.

Tyler Turner had graduated from high school with honors and
had been bound for the University of California at Merced this
month to study biomedical engineering.

On Saturday, his mother drove Turner and his best friend to the
Parachute Center in Lodi, east of San Francisco, where she says they joined two other friends and sped through a safety
video Before going up in a plane, Tyler Turner knelt at the edge of the jumping area and said a quick prayer. He gave his mom a tight hug and told her he loved her.

He jumped while his mother waited on the ground, wondering
which one of the tiny dots in the air was her son.

Tyler Turner and the instructor died when they plunged together
to the ground after their shared parachute did not open.

Francine Turner said the instructor was found with his hand on
the lever for a backup parachute but it was never pulled.
San Joaquin County sheriff's officials have not identified the
instructor.

"One of the last things they wanted to do was go on a
skydiving trip they've been talking about," Turner said about her
son and his friends, who jumped safely. "I hate for any other
mother to go through this."

Turner said she paid $175 for her son's jump, which included a
video recording that is now in the hands of federal
investigators.

The four friends filled out paperwork but didn't finish watching
the safety video before they were hustled into gear, she said.
Turner said she was appalled that the center continued sending
people up to jump while she waited for word about her son.
She thought the center might halt operations.

"I'm out there waiting for my son to be recovered, for hours,
and they just kept jumping over my head," she said.
Bill Dause, owner of the Parachute Center, said the instructor
was a veteran who had about 700 previous jumps. Dause said
he sympathized but there was nothing he could do.

"It was just an accident," he told The Associated Press on Monday.

Dause told Sacramento television station KCRA on Saturday that
it appeared "something may have gone out of sequence in the
jump." He did not elaborate.

The wind and other conditions were perfect, he added.
In May, a small plane carrying 17 skydivers took off from the
center and landed upside-down after clipping a pickup truck.
People involved sustained minor cuts and scrapes.

In February, the Lodi News-Sentinel reported a solo skydiver
died after a parachute malfunction at the center. Further details
were not immediately available.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help cover funeral costs
for Tyler Turner.

One in eight US adults says they smoke marijuana, poll says

A study shows that 13% of American adults reported current marijuana use in a new Gallup survey States' willingness to legalize marijuana might contribute to rise in use.

poll says,  the percentage of American adults who say they smoke weed has nearly doubled in three years, according to a new Gallup poll.

Among those who participated in the survey, one in eight -- 13%
-- reported current marijuana use, and 43% said they have tried
the drug, an increase from 38% in 2013. The percentage of pot
smokers was 7% in the 2013 Gallup survey.

Frenzy Friday

EGYPTIAN army kills the Head of Sinai branch of Islamic state

The Egyptian military says it has killed the head of the Sinai
branch of so-called Islamic State (IS), along with dozens of its
fighters.

It said ABU DUAA AL-ANSARI was killed in a series of air strikes
on fighters of the Sinai Province – or Ansar Beit al-Maqdis –
group. The air strikes targeted jihadist strongholds near the town of El-Arish.

The Egyptian military said: "The raids left more than 45 terrorists killed, dozens of others injured and several arms caches destroyed."

Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir said in a posting on Facebook that Ansari was killed in an operation guided by "accurate intelligence".

Sinai Province is Egypt’s most active insurgent group and has
been linked to deadly attacks in Sinai and Cairo.

Breakings12 killed, 15 injured in rebel attack in India's Assam state

GAUHATI, India (AP) — At least 12 people were killed and 15
others injured Friday after rebels opened fire in a crowded
market in Assam state in India's remote northeast, officials
said.

Six rebels arrived in a motorized rickshaw and fired automatic
weapons and lobbed grenades in the crowded market in
Balajan, an area just outside the town of Kokrajhar in western
Assam, said top local police official L.R. Bishnoi.

He said that one gunman was killed by security forces and
troops were pursuing five others who fled. Several homes and
shops were badly damaged in the attack.

Police blamed a faction of the National Democratic Front of
Bodoland for the attack. The group has been fighting for an
independent homeland for the region's Bodo tribespeople for
decades. The Bodos are an indigenous tribe in Assam, making
up 10 percent of the state's 33 million people.

Friday's attack was the worst in the recent past, but the group
was blamed for the shooting deaths of more than 60 Muslim
settlers and Adivasi tribespeople in Assam in separate attacks
in 2014.

The rebels have been targeting communities they consider
outsiders, including Adivasis, whose ancestors migrated to
Assam more than 100 years ago to work on tea plantations —
as well as Muslims, accusing them and the federal government
of exploiting the region's wealth while neglecting the locals.

Dozens of rebel groups have been fighting the government and
sometimes each other for years in seven states in northeast
India. They demand greater regional autonomy or independent
homelands for the indigenous groups they represent.

At least 10,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed
in Assam state alone in the last three decades.

Breaking :ISIS Name New Boko Haram leader

The Islamic State, better known as ISIS, has announced a new leader for the insurgent group, Boko Haram.

ISIS referred to Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who was previously spokesman for Boko Haram, as the new leader replacing Abubakar Shekau.

Mr. al-Barnawi is featured in the latest issue of an ISIS magazine, the BBC has reported.

The magazine makes no reference to Mr. Shekau.

The eccentric Mr. Shekau was last seen in a Boko Haram propaganda video in March 2015, one of many footages released in his years of leading a brutal campaign against the Nigerian state.

In one of the videos, Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIS, which was originally based in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has several offshoots now in other countries including Libya.

Mr. Shekau took over as Boko Haram leader after the group’s founder, Muhammad Yusuf, died in police custody in July 2009.

Boko Haram became more deadly and radicalized under his leadership.
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Breakings:International Notorious Cyber Criminal Apprehended in Nigeria

The head of an international criminal network behind thousands of online frauds has been arrested in a joint operation by INTERPOL and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

The 40-year-old Nigerian national, known as ‘Mike’, is believed to be behind scams totalling more than USD 60 million involving hundreds of victims worldwide.

In one case, a target was conned into paying out USD 15.4 million.

The network compromised email accounts of small to medium businesses around the world including in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa, Thailand and the US, with the financial victims mainly other companies dealing with these compromised accounts.

Heading a network of at least 40 individuals across Nigeria, Malaysia and South Africa which both provided malware and carried out the frauds, the alleged mastermind also had money laundering contacts in China, Europe and the US who provided bank account details for the illicit cash flow.

Following his arrest in Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria, a forensic examination of devices seized by the EFCC showed he had been involved in a range of criminal activities including business e-mail compromise (BEC) and romance scams.

The main two types of scam run by the 40-year-old targeted businesses were payment diversion fraud – where a supplier’s email would be compromised and fake messages would then be sent to the buyer with instructions for payment to a bank account under the criminal’s control – and ‘CEO fraud’.

In CEO fraud, the email account of a high-level executive is compromised and a request for a wire transfer is sent to another employee who has been identified as responsible for handling these requests. The money is then paid into a designated bank account held by the criminal.

Mike’ first came onto the law enforcement radar through a report provided to INTERPOL by Trend Micro, one of its strategic partners at the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore. This, combined with actionable analysis and intelligence from Fortinet Fortiguard Labs in 2015, enabled specialists at the INTERPOL Digital Crime Centre, including experts from Cyber Defense Institute based at the IGCI, and the EFCC to locate the suspect in Nigeria, resulting in his arrest in June.

Abdul Chukkol, Head of the EFCC’s Cybercrime Section said the transnational nature of business e-mail compromise makes it complex to crack, but the arrest sent a clear signal that Nigeria could not be considered a safe haven for criminals.

“For a long time we have said in order to be effective, the fight against cybercrime must rely on public-private partnerships and international cooperation,” said Mr Chukkol.

“The success of this operation is the result of close cooperation between INTERPOL and the EFCC, whose understanding of the Nigerian environment made it possible to disrupt the criminal organization’s network traversing many countries, targeting individuals and companies,” added Mr Chukkol.

Noboru Nakatani, Executive Director of the IGCI warned that BEC poses a significant and growing threat, with tens of thousands of companies victimized in recent years.

“The public, and especially businesses, need to be alert to this type of cyber-enabled fraud,” said Mr Nakatani.
“Basic security protocols such as two-factor authentication and verification by other means before making a money transfer are essential to reduce the risk of falling victim to these scams.

“It is exactly through this type of public and private sector cooperation that INTERPOL will continue to help member countries in bringing cybercriminals to justice no matter where they are,” concluded Mr Nakatani.

The 40-year-old, along with a 38-year-old also arrested by Nigerian authorities, faces charges including hacking, conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences. Both are currently on administrative bail as the investigation continues.