Chinese man kills U.S. tourist in Beijing

[Divine Discontent]

Source: MSNBC

BEIJING - A Chinese man attacked two American tourists in Beijing on Saturday, killing one of them and injuring another before committing suicide, officials said.

A spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Government said the attack happened in downtown Beijing at noon on Saturday. Officials issued a statement saying the 47-year-old attacker, Tang Yongming, also injured an American woman and her Chinese tourist guide.

The attack took place on the second level of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist attraction in north Beijing. Tang later jumped to his death from the ancient monument used to tell time centuries ago.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26104003

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yikes... what a horrible tragedy for those people.

[Divine Discontent]

1. of course it could have just been random...

but, they foster such distrust of us (beware the internets!) that one has to wonder the reason... hopefully there'll something they can find out before this is brushed aside. Wonder if B*sh will hot tail it out of there? He's at a beach? Oh brother, please, NO pics folks, PLEASE!

www.cafepress.com/perotoutsmccain & more at www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[Truth4Justice]

45. Glad the attacker jumped, instead of being pushed, to his death. Just sayin....

bullets are expensive in China......

[Egnever]

2. please dont let this blow up into an international incident.

God and Bush just has to be there. You just know he is going to say something ignorant.

[Frisbee]

25. Like Bush gives a shit...

about an average American citizen. Unless it was a well connected republican, he won't give a shit. Oh sure, he'll say something moronic, you can pretty much count on that (happens every time he opens his pretzel hole). But in the end, this is the man who has sent over 4000 Americans to die for his own agenda in an illegal war, so one more average Joe won't mean shit to him, even if he says it does.

[catgirl]

3. Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING - A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.

The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.

The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime against foreigners in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics.

The stabbing came only hours after what by many accounts was the most spectacular opening ceremony in Olympic history and it has already dampened some of the enthusiasm.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oly_china_american_killed;_ylt=AoKAxVEsd1lqRlqQ4XnYPdes0NUE

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So much for all the security China claims to have.

[glowing]

4. Such a tragedy.... but then again, how "free" is a society that dictates

everything to you? I think I'd go a bit crazy after a while.

[AllentownJake]

5. As much as I dislike the Chinese Government

This happens to forieghn tourist in the United States from time to time.

1 billion people some of them are bound to be mentally unbalanced.

[girl gone mad]

7. Don't forget that our very own right wing lunatic..

Eric Rudolph tried to murder hundreds with a bomb during the Atlanta Olympics.

It would be a little hypocritical for use to overreact.

[Royal Oak Rog]

15. I would agree with that

If we were displacing people here like China was. I can't be sure that was the cause, but China is all the things George Bush wishes for America, he's not over there for nothing. As far as human rights go China is despicable as you can get. I've judged China before this happened, this is probably just a symptom to their sick treatment of human beings. All hail McDonalds, mf'ers!

[Kali]

42. happens all the time all over the world

to people in their own homes by relatives, randomly on the street, fighting over resources etc etc. Humans can be violent.

[Truth4Justice]

44. They would have had a higher risk in the US with all the guns on the streets here.

[bulloney]

6. What does ABC lead with on Saturday's GMA? The Edwards affair.

The first six minutes of the cast was an "exclusive" in-depth report culminating months of investigating by Brian Ross. That's 10% of the first hour's total time. That's what led the cast.

Not the Americans attacked and killed at the Olympics. Not the Russian invasion of Georgia and its ramifications on the oil market and the state of the world in general. They led with the story about Edwards' affair. And they said they'll have more on the story later in the hour.

That's when I turned the damned TV off.

[Erebus67]

8. Sex sells

Prominent politician caught up in a sex scandal. It's gonna lead for at least a few days. Ultimately the media is a business and when it comes to selling ads dragging a prominent politician through the mud gets butts in seats. He is a self made millionaire and a successful, well liked politician. The media knows they will get viewers if they broadcast his fall from grace live in TV. They know they will get both those that are cheering his disgrace and those that love him and are mourning it.

[Maccagirl]

9. Amen

That's all I have to say to that. I was literally sick to my stomach eating my breakfast. The MSM learned nothing from their 24/7 year-long Lewinskyfest.

[shadowknows69]

18. No they learned plenty

They learned that the dumb ass sheeple like shiny, sexy objects best.

[Divine Discontent]

38. F*CK ABC!!!!!!!!!

my goodness, that's horrible. those bastards... GOD forbid they talk about a murderous suiciding Chinese man at the Olympics killing an American - GOD forbid they talk about the mass warfare that just happened in Georgia that killed thousands....


NO NO --- Edwards not keeping it in his pants, THAT'S the most important thing! Brian Ross is gross... wonder what he's doing in private. He probably bitched that he deserved major time for the effort of trying to expose Edwards - a story he was SCOOPED on by the Enquirer!!! HAHAHA loser.


NEVER MIND THAT JOHN EDWARDS IS NOT RUNNING ANY MORE - AND HAS NO ELECTED POSITION - HE MUST STILL BE DESTROYED IN THE MEDIA - THAT'S WHAT THE OWNERS SAY!

[bitchkitty]

39. sigh...you're right. With our media, sex is breaking news. n/t

[Divine Discontent]

40. yep, and they also want to make him so useless politically that Obama won't pick him for AG

but he very well might... no matter what they do, it's unlikely, but he may say that a private matter like that was between he and Elizabeth. we'll see...

ON TO VICTORY!

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[LatteLibertine]

10. Unfortunate

Yet another of the common United States citizen taking it on the chin for the Corporations and very wealthy that foster ill-will world wide. I wish some of the "nuts" had better access to these groups of troublemakers.

[Royal Oak Rog]

11. China displaces and un employs thousands;

all so the mega conglomerates can play in a totalitarian regime which offers very few human rights to its citizens. What did you think was gonna happen?

[ohio2007]

22. they will bring them back after the olympics ends. The smog machine can't be stopped forever

just a few days. Everybody will have to work triple shifts in september;
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PxymwN7nYQQ

[isentropic]

12. I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to go to that shitty city

for -any- reason. :puke:

[still_one]

23. China is an amazing country, and if your basing your view on one unbalanced citizen

who committed a awful crime, I suggest your "disgust" at the cities of China are misplaced and definitely not fair

[isentropic]

28. Uh, I have been there. You could not pay me enough to go again.

Even if I didn't have asthma.

[still_one]

30. Since in your original post you did not indicate it was because of the pollution

and health reasons, and since this thread is about the killing of an American by a deranged Chinese citizen, there was no way to discern what your dislike for the city was

You don't want to go to China, don't, especially if it doesn't agree with you

[isentropic]

32. Yes I didn't make it clear. I'm certainly not Asiaphobic, I have spent a lot of time

in the Far East...I adore Japan and have many dear friends there. I didn't suffer from asthma though when I was in China...I just didn't care for the culture and "ambiance."

[still_one]

33. That's cool /nt

[krabigirl]

34. The pollution made me so sick when I went there in 2005. I was sick for the entire trip.

[Frisbee]

26. I can't imagine...

The IOC giving China the Olympics.

[still_one]

29. Gee, I guess on that basis, after the hundreds of thousands of people we killed

in Iraq, Viet Nam, etc. perhaps the U.S., Russia, France, and most every country in the world, except maybe for some of the scandinavian countries, should not be allowed to host the Olympics

[FarLeftRage]

13. Fucking chicoms

that is all...

[Posteritatis]

36. People still use the word "chicom?" Oy. (nt)

[Haole Girl]

14. Interesting the news made no mention of it

I hope it will be an isolated incident.

[2Design]

16. usa kills lots of people on the streets - murders are up in most cities

put it in perspective - tourist are attacked here more than other cities - it was safer to travel european cities than our cities

[skooooo]

17. Geeze why is everyone minimizing this?

No it's not an "international incident," but for tourist to be killed during the Olympics is terrible. How sad.

[2Design]

19. it is sad and terrible anytime a tourist or any person is murdered

we do it everyday in iraq - our government murders people regularly - the death penalty is murder too - I am not happy for this incident but my concern was that it would be blown out of proportion to what our own cities and government do - their is a lot of pointing fingers on human rights but we are torturing people and the media and lots of people think that is ok. The guy who was here to fix my air conditioning said if he had a gun and was in iraq it would be warm all the time - that is the kind of craziness that is out there -

[skooooo]

20. It is sad.

That's all that needs to be said. Weird that the immediate reaction seems to be to minimize the tragedy of it.

[Dreamer Tatum]

21. It IS bad, but a little while back Euro tourists were getting killed by the handful in Florida

...tourists sometimes get killed. It's awful.

[still_one]

27. Who is minimizing it? It is reported, and on the headlines

In fact it is being reported far more than are activities in Iraq

[skooooo]

35. previous posters in the thread imo.

[davsand]

24. Family of a US volleyball coach.

They just broke into Olympic coverage to offer sympathy to the rest of the family and to the volleyball coach. Did not catch it all, but the name they gave was Bachman, I think.

How very sad.



Laura

[CatholicEdHead]

31. He was the CEO of Bachman Floral in the Twin Cities

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=521386&catid=2



http://www.startribune.com/sports/olympics/26470189.html

[Divine Discontent]

41. that's sad he sounded so caring

what a lot of people don't understand is that B*sh has made us hated around the world so much that things like this will happen, even in China where violence is low. Could you imagine the risk of death in Egypt, or Jordan?

[MrsMatt]

43. yes - and he and Barbara

have always been great supporters of the arts. I've met Barbara, and she is a hell of a nice person.

His death is really quite a loss for our community.

[moondust]

37. If only everybody had a gun.

He might have taken out a half dozen before somebody caught on and nailed him.

:sarcasm: