1. ISIS DEFECTOR
I quit: When airstrikes slammed ISIS in Syria, a window of opportunity opened for one of their fighters, who’d had enough. Abu Omar slipped across the border into Turkey. He’s hunkering down, because, now, he’s got a target on his back. He tells CNN in an exclusive interview with Arwa Damon that ISIS leans heavily on foreign fighters; he met lots of guys from France in the militia. He says they’ve got major pull in the group, and they’re even more heinously cruel than Syrian ISIS militants.
2. OKLAHOMA BEHEADING
We’re sorry: “My heart’s bleeding right now,” says a woman claiming to be the mother of the man accused of beheading a former colleague in Oklahoma then stabbing another. She and a woman who says she’s Alton Nolan’s sister posted an apology video to the victims’ families on Facebook. “We’re all still in shock right now,” the sister says. Nolan, a recent convert to Islam – likely a radical interpretation – faces charges today.
3. HONG KONG PROTESTS
No more tears: After clubbing, teargasing and arresting pro-democracy protesters over the weekend, Hong Kong riot police backed off on Monday. Throngs off demonstrators would like the Chinese government in Beijing to do the same. They are fighting for democratic rights in HK – which has long had a special status in China – like the right to nominate their own political candidates instead of just accepting those put forward by Beijing’s communist government.
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source: CNN.com
