American tourist stabbed to death in Beijing, attacker killed after leap from building (DAMN)

American Tourist Is Reported Killed in Beijing
Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) -- Team officials and state media say 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.

One of the victims was killed and one was injured in the attck on the first day of the Olympics Saturday.

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

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

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

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Damn.

Just what we need right now. Sure hope bush doesn't say something stupid. Yea right...

I am also pissed because as an Asian, this story coupled with the Winnipeg bus killer will just give the racists that much more ammo to be fucking assholes.

This is turning into a very bad week very quickly.

MSM, please don't make a big thing of this.

If you think the US hegemonic war machine and its domestic apparatus will not make a big deal of this, think again.

Just wait til Lou Dobbs wakes up and gets a chance to point cameras at his piehole.

Lou Dobbs has the full weight of the US Chamber of Commerce after him for his opposition to offshoring of American jobs.

Trying to rewrite history here?

Don

I wrote that Dobbs is against the war; I didn't say anything about his former views concerning the war.

Axiom: if ESPN is reporting it, it's already everywhere.

respect for American citizens. Now, it is a f..ing risky to claim to be American in a foreign land. How are Americans, then, going to make business around the world? How are Americans going to visit places around the world ? It is really disheartening for such a resourceful and kind people to be a prisoner of governmentpolicy.

Why shouldn't it be cool to be able to proudly say, "I'm an American" abroad and be congratulated for having a kickass President? We are literally being ENVIED for having a political system capable of producing great people like Obama and Hillary! Do you know how long it's been since we've been envied by Europe? FAR TOO LONG!

"Seibel said the two Americans who were attacked were not wearing anything that would have identified them as Americans or part of the U.S. team. He could not name the coach.

"They were not wearing apparel or anything that would have specifically identified them as being members of our delegation" or as Americans, he told The Associated Press."

She just emailed me about this. WTF! I am not going to sleep until this kid gets home.

This is too sad.