Anwar al-Awlaki uses online magazine to explain why Middle East revolts are not a setback for al-Qaida Senior al-Qaida leaders have welcomed the uprisings in the Arab world in their first comprehensive statement on recent events, published in an internet magazine earlier this week. Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical preacher who grew up in America but is now a fugitive in Yemen – used a lengthy article in an English-language magazine called Inspire to explain why the revolts sweeping the Middle East were not a setback for al-Qaida. “Our mujahideen brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and the rest of the Muslim world will get a chance to breathe again after three decades of suffocation,” Awlaki wrote in an article entitled The Tsunami of Change. The magazine also featured translated excerpts of earlier statements by senior figures in al-Qaida, such as deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, which had previously only been posted in obscure extremist forums. Zawahiri calls on the “people of freedom and honour in Tunisia, Egypt and in each of the Islamic lands” not to let their recent efforts go to waste. His statement appears to have been written before the fall of President Hosni Mubarak nearly two months ago. Experts say the fact that no more recent statement is available indicates how isolated the al-Qaida No 2, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan’s rugged western border areas, currently is. The fifth issue of Inspire, which is thought to be produced by the al-Qaida affiliate, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is slickly produced with colour graphics, pages of selected quotes from western analysts and several pages of illustrated instruction on how to strip and clean an AK47 rifle. “It is our opinion that the revolutions that are shaking the thrones of dictators are good for the Muslims, good for the mujahideen and bad for the imperialists of the west and their henchmen in the Muslim world,” reads an opening editorial. The magazine is clearly designed to counter claims that the mass, largely secular, pro-democracy movements of recent months in the Middle East show the marginalisation of radical violent Islam within the Muslim world. Although James Stavridis, Nato’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of US European Command, said earlier this week that intelligence had revealed “flickers” of al-Qaida presence among rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, most analysts agree that the organisation has played no role at all in recent events in the Arab world. Noman Benotman, a former member of the Libyan Fighting Group – the Islamist group once affiliated with al-Qaida – told the Guardian that Gaddafi had effectively eliminated radical Islamism in Libya although “there may be a very few unorganised individuals, very young on the whole, now active”. Efforts by al-Qaida to rebuild networks in Egypt in recent years have failed while their local affiliate in north Africa, Al-Qaida in the Maghreb, has been largely forced to retreat to isolated desert zones in the south. Awlaki, who is believed to be behind several recent attempts to launch terrorist attacks in America , quotes Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, claiming that the “success of peaceful protests discredited the extremists and exposed their bankrupt arguments”. “The outcome doesn’t have to be an Islamic government for us to consider what is occurring to be a step in the right direction,” the 39-year-old cleric writes. The magazine invited questions for Awlaki or contributions to be sent to email addresses, one each from Yahoo, Google and Hotmail. al-Qaida Global terrorism Arab and Middle East unrest Jason Burke guardian.co.uk
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Former MP for Livingston sentenced for submitting false invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling £8,385 The former Labour MP Jim Devine has become the third MP to be jailed over the expenses scandal after being sentenced to 16 months at the Old Bailey. Devine, who succeeded the late foreign secretary, Robin Cook, as the MP for Livingston, was found guilty last month of two charges of false accounting. The 57-year-old had submitted false invoices for cleaning and printing work totalling £8,385. He was the first MP to plead not guilty and face trial over expenses fraud . A former psychiatric nurse and union convenor of Bathgate, Lothian, Devine was alleged to have submitted the claims to clear an overdraft. He used a blank receipt he had requested from the landlord of his local pub in London, who also ran a cleaning service and provided Devine with a Polish cleaner. He subsequently submitted three further fraudulent blank receipts, all purporting to be signed “with thanks” by the landlord, Tom O’Donnell, who had no idea that money was being claimed in his name. Devine also submitted claims for printing costs amounting to £5,505, using receipts from a printing company. The court heard he had contacted the company to ask them to write out the receipts in advance for work. Initially hesitant, the company agreed in the belief that the work would be forthcoming, but it never came. He was cleared of a third count relating to a further £380 of cleaning work. Devine had denied the charges and his defence counsel, Gavin Millar QC, told the court that, if he had wanted to clear his debts, he would not have falsified invoices for just a few hundred pounds. During the trial, Devine claimed his former office manager, Marion Kinley, paid herself more than £5,000 from his staffing allowance without his knowledge. But an employment tribunal in Edinburgh last autumn found in her favour, and after the trial she said: “Far from receiving anything I was not entitled to, the employment tribunal judge ruled fully in my favour and, in November 2010, Mr Devine was ordered to pay me £35,000.” Devine was formally declared bankrupt last month after failing to pay Kinley £35,000 for unfair dismissal. Kinley ran his constituency office in West Lothian after being elected to parliament in 2005. The employment tribunal heard he bullied and harassed her and made up stories to justify firing her. Devine, who claimed to have been given advice on his expenses “with a nod and a wink” from a fellow MP, was Scottish health organiser for the Unison union. He was chairman of the Scottish Labour party from 1994 to 1995, and election agent for Cook, whom he succeeded after Cook’s death during a walking holiday in Scotland . Earlier this month, David Chaytor, 61, lost an appeal to reduce his eighteen month prison sentence to 12 months . The former Labour MP for Bury North pleaded guilty in December to submitting bogus documents to falsely claim £18,350 for rent and IT work. Eric Illsey, 55, who pleaded guilty to dishonestly claiming £14,000 relating to insurance, repairs, utility bills and council tax at his second home, was jailed for one year in February. The former MP for Barnsley Central, he stood down before sentencing, with his resignation triggering a byelection. The former Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick is awaiting sentence after becoming the first member of the House of Lords to be convicted . In January, the 58-year-old was found guilty of making £11,277 in false claims in relation to overnight subsistence and travel costs, claiming a residence in Oxford when he in fact lived in Ealing, west London. MPs’ expenses House of Commons Caroline Davies guardian.co.uk
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Labour leader to launch party’s local election campaign with promise to be public’s ‘voice in tough times’ Labour will be the public’s “first line of defence” against the coalition government’s spending cuts, the party’s leader, Ed Miliband, will say. Miliband – who will vow to be the public’s “voice in tough times” – will seize on local government cuts forced by the tight funding settlement at the launch of Labour’s local election campaign later on Thursday to claim the coalition’s reductions would cost the average family with two children £182 this year. “Labour launches our election campaign with a clear pledge to people across the country – we will be your voice in tough times,” he will say. “Cuts designed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg are coming direct from Downing Street to your street. Families in every part of the country will be hit by these unfair cuts. “Areas with the greatest need are being asked to bear the greatest burden. The worst-off areas are being hit the hardest, while the average family will be hit much harder than people in David Cameron’s constituency. “Labour will be your community’s first line of defence against the damage being done by a Conservative-led government and their Liberal Democrat allies.” In an interview conducted prior to the launch, the Labour leader also underlined his support for “people power” by those demonstrating their opposition to government policies in street marches and rallies as “the kind of politics we need in this country”. The Labour leader has been mocked by Cameron and other critics for making a speech at the anti-cuts protest in London, organised by the TUC last weekend – notably for claiming that the march, attended by more than 250,000 people, followed the tradition of suffragettes, the civil rights movement in the US, and the anti-apartheid movement. Miliband told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme he was not trying to suggest that the government cuts were comparable to apartheid, but was making a point about the importance of the people exerting power. “The march on Saturday was about politics being practised by people making their voice heard in a peaceful way,” he said. “That tradition of politics not just being about what happens at Westminster, or in legislative chambers, but about people themselves making a difference is an important tradition … If politics is just practised by elites, and is just about you and me and people in Westminster, then actually I think many people will be alienated from that process.” He added: “Take the U-turn the government made on forests. That was people saying: ‘You’ve got to change,’ and I think that is the kind of politics we need in this country. Miliband will kick-start the election campaign with a speech and a question and answer session in the Midlands. Labour is claiming its councils charge less, on average, than Tory and Liberal Democrats authorities, to the tune of £207 and £40 respectively. Asked on Today if Labour councils should raise council tax to protect services, Miliband said the amount of money involved would not make a “huge difference”. He added that Labour was reviewing its policy on capping council tax rises. Referring to the local elections in May, he said his view on deficit reduction was underpinned by the three big challenges he has identified – ensuring everyone shares in rising prosperity, protecting the next generation’s chances and building strong communities. “My view about the deficit come out of my view about the big challenges that Britain faces,” he said. “If you look after what we did after 1945, when we also had big debt, we said: ‘What kind of country do we want to build, and then let’s make our decisions on the deficit.’ “So you see, the point about this deficit debate is that it’s got to be seen in this bigger context and that is what I’m going to be saying in this local election campaign launch today.” Pressed on the alternative to the government’s deficit plan, Miliband refused to be drawn on detail other than to reaffirm Labour’s commitment to halving the deficit in four years. He insisted the important element being ignored in the debate about spending cuts and tax rises was economic growth. “The level of growth we get will define how quickly we reduce the deficit and, importantly, what other difficult decisions we have to make on tax and spending,” he said. Ed Miliband Local elections Local government Local politics Elections 2011 Local elections 2011 Public sector cuts Public services policy Hélène Mulholland guardian.co.uk
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Consumer association Which? warns that self-test kits for conditions such as prostate cancer are hit and miss Home health kits could be a waste of time, effort and money, according to consumer association Which? The DIY kits for conditions including prostate cancer and stomach ulcers could cause false alarm or provide false reassurance, the consumer magazine found. “Self-test health kits could be a useful tool, but the lack of clear information about how to use them could do more harm than good,” Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith said. “As your GP may well have to carry out their own tests to confirm a positive diagnosis anyway, you may be better off saving your money and going straight to your GP.” Which? experts examined six kits, available at chemists or online for between £4.99 and £15.99, and interviewed 64 members of the public about their use. The results were “hit and miss”, with some consumers saying the prostate test results could have led to them not seeking medical help. The research also found gaps in information which could lead to unnecessary worry. For example, a Boots blood glucose test kit marketed as helping “in the early detection of diabetes” failed to mention that glucose levels can be raised after a meal, Which? said. And a Boots bowel test kit did not provide dietary advice such as avoiding red meat for three days before the test. There were also examples of “baffling” language, with consumers in one case asked to draw blood from the “hillside” of the finger. Other potentially confusing terms included “separation membranes”, “desiccant” and “in-vitro diagnostic device”. The Selfcheck Health Test, which tests for an antigen (PSA) linked to prostate problems, did not explain that recent sexual activity, a urine infection or vigorous exercise, could raise PSA levels, the researchers said. And the Simplicity Stomach Ulcer Screening Test was misleadingly named, Which? said. It tests for a particular bacteria but only a minority of people with that bacteria are likely to develop a stomach ulcer. Which? experts and the Plain English Campaign will pass their findings to the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Products Agency (MHRA) and self-testing kit manufacturers to try to help improve the quality of information supplied. Health Prostate cancer Cancer NHS Health & wellbeing guardian.co.uk
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New Zealand’s chief coroner says some of those killed during earthquake may never be identified Some victims of Christchurch’s earthquake may never be identified and their remains may be buried in a mass grave, New Zealand’s chief coroner has said. Police have named 169 victims of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit the city on 22 February, but say they have yet to identify partial remains of others and the final death toll may be 180. The chief coroner, Neil McLean, told National Radio on Thursday that in some cases the remains were so damaged or small that identification even by DNA analysis might not be possible. McLean said he would meet victims’ families and embassy staff representing international victims in Christchurch to discuss the progress of the identification effort and what should be done with remains that can not be identified. If identification by medical or scientific means was not possible, an inquest would be held for some victims. “We will hear what we call circumstantial evidence witnesses or CCTV coverage. All those things where we can get to a stage where we can say although we have not recovered anything identifiable, they died on this date and the likely cause of death is this,” McLean said. It was possible that some remains could be buried in a mass grave. All of the victims still to be identified were from the Canterbury Television building that completely collapsed in the quake. Students from Japan, China and other countries were among those buried in the building, which housed an English-language school. New Zealand Natural disasters and extreme weather guardian.co.uk
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• High levels of radiation detected outside current 20km zone • Prime minister plans to review nuclear energy policy • Concerns over water contaminated by reactor cooling operation Pressure is mounting on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the prime minister says he plans to review the country’s nuclear energy policy. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Japanese authorities should consider expanding the zone beyond its current 20km (12-mile) radius after high levels of radiation were detected at a village about twice that distance from the plant. The government has so far resisted calls to evacuate more people from the area, but said its policy was under constant review, and that monitoring of radiation levels was being increased. More than 70,000 people living inside the 20km zone have been evacuated, but another 136,000 living between 20-30km away have been told to stay in their homes. The US has recommended that its citizens stay at least 80km away. Some have taken government advice to leave voluntarily, but many others have spent almost three weeks living in an area with few supplies and services, their plight compounded by rising radiation levels and speculation that stabilising Fukushima Daiichi could take months. Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting the bodies of as many as 1,000 people living in the evacuation zone who died in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Kyodo news agency cited police sources as saying the corpses had been exposed to high radiation levels and would probably have to be decontaminated before they could be collected and examined by doctors. Left as they were, the bodies could pose a health threat to relatives identifying them at morgues, the agency said. Cremating them could create radioactive smoke, while burying them could contaminate soil. The IAEA said measurements taken at Iitate, 40km from the plant, were above the level at which the United Nations body normally orders evacuations. Earlier this week, Greenpeace issued a similar warning after recording high levels of radiation in the village. “We have advised [Japanese officials] to carefully assess the situation, and they have indicated that it is already under assessment,” Denis Flory, a senior IAEA official, said in Vienna. “The highest values were found in a relatively small area in the north-west from the Fukushima power plant and the first assessment indicates that one of the IAEA operational criteria for evacuation is exceeded in Iitate village.” The agency said its latest readings were conducted over a wide area from 18-26 March, and that the samples contained radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137. But the chief government spokesman, Yukio Edano, said the evacuation zone would stay unchanged for the time being. “At the moment, we have no reason to believe that the radiation will have an effect on people’s health,” he said. “We need to step up our monitoring, and if necessary take steps to deal with it.” Media reported that 140 members of a US military team specialising in radiation control would arrive soon to help deal with the crisis. Nuclear safety officials said rising contamination in the sea near the plant pointed to a constant leak of radiation. On Thursday, Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency said radioactive iodine near drains running from the plant was 4,385 times higher than the legal limit. Experts said workers at the plant, 240km north of Tokyo, faced the problematic task of cooling overheating reactors with seawater while ensuring that contaminated runoff does not end up in the surrounding sea and soil . “There’s definitely a conflict now between trying to keep the reactors cool and managing the contaminated waste water being generated by the operation,” said Ed Lyman, of the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists. The deepening of the crisis exposed a dispute between the government and the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power company about the plant’s future. The firm has said four of the six reactors are beyond repair, but that two could function again . The prime minister, Nato Kan, however, said the entire plant should be decommissioned. Kyodo reported that Kan is to order a review of plans to increase Japan’s dependence on nuclear energy from 30% to 50% by 2030. With public confidence in the industry severely dented by the Fukushima emergency, few communities are expected to grant approval for the construction of 14 atomic power plants over the next 20 years. Japan disaster Nuclear power Japan Natural disasters and extreme weather Energy Justin McCurry guardian.co.uk
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Yes, it’s back on our screens! No, it’s not a new series but a run of repeats starting on BBC4 in the year 1976 . . . Age: 47. Appearance: The oldest swinger in town. Good old TOTP! Not just British TV’s longest-running chart show, but a reminder that there’s more to music than expensive videos. Such as? Such as embarrassed pop stars miming to their own recordings. Is the BBC still threatening to shut it down? Not any more. It’s been off air since 2006, if you don’t count Christmas specials. And I thought it had been buried on one of the digital channels. I’m devastated. On the other hand, I’m delighted. Because? Because if we’re talking about it now, it must be making a comeback. Got it in one. From next Thursday, TOTP will be on BBC Four in its old time slot of 7.30pm. So it’s about to be buried on one of the digital channels. Still, that’s prime time. Didn’t the show die because everyone stopped watching it? Pretty much. At its peak audiences were 15 million. By the end 14 million of them had vanished. How’s the BBC going to make it work this time? Can we look forward to a big-budget Doctor Who-style revival, ideally featuring Karen Gillan in an extremely short skirt? Only if she really can travel through time. The BBC’s not so much rebooting TOTP as repeating it – one episode a week, starting in 1976. A golden year for pop? More like a golden year for the Beeb not losing its recordings. No 1s in 1976 included Brotherhood of Man’s Save Your Kisses for Me, The Wurzels’ Combine Harvester and Showaddywaddy’s Under the Moon of Love. As for the show’s DJs . . . Or smug gits, as they were officially known . . . They were led by Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn and Dave Lee Travis. This suddenly sounds a lot less appealing. Especially since I’ve just realised it could drag on into the 2040s. Don’t worry. Punk will be along to shake everything up in 2012 – or, as we must now call it, 1977. Do say: “Now that’s what I call music!” Don’t say: “Now that’s what I call cheap TV!” Television guardian.co.uk
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It could be a political ploy, or maybe Ed Miliband has given into the pressures that assail unmarried parents When you have kids outside wedlock, and they stay outside wedlock, that looks like a decision. It might be a cynical one, it is most probably an atheistic one, and I cannot rule out the possibility that it speaks of insufficient commitment on the part of one partner or both. But at least it’s something they decided. When you have kids outside wedlock and then get married, it just makes you look really badly organised. That’s what I’d be worrying about if I were Ed Miliband . Not “Is this a vote-winner?” Not “Am I going to lose more single parents than I win right-thinking conservatives?” Not “Does my bum look politically motivated in this?” But rather, “What kind of man does this make of me, that I can’t even put the points in the right order on my personal life to-do list? Imagine me in government! I’d do everything in the wrong order, first I’d bomb somewhere, then I’d look for a diplomatic solution, then I’d check to see if I could afford it …” We have to assume that the forthcoming nuptials of Miliband and Justine Thornton are not politically motivated; the territory is too vexed for marriage to be a straightforward solution to anything. He might conceivably warm the cockles of middle England, but I suspect the people who care about this sort of thing care about other things more, and don’t care at all for a brave new imagining of leftwingery, married or not. On the other hand, Thornton could be doing it for her career. It is common for lawyers to think that parents who aren’t married – being unable to extract any protection from the law – are stupid. When you say to them, “But I don’t want to get married,” they say, “Well, that’s because you’re stupid.” They might even have rules that forbid you from ascending to QC if you are unmarried, on account of your huge stupidity. I’m going to go ahead, though, and write off career advancement as a motivation. It’s just too late, they’re strategic thinkers, and they could have leveraged more advantage out of this union at pretty much any time in the past six years than they’re getting now. So here are some other possibilities. Miliband is notoriously counter-suggestible. He only went to the march on Saturday because all his advisers told him not to. Come on, he was speaking fourth. In line-up terms, that makes him Mumford & Sons . At the precise moment that the pressure abates, and even the most rule-bound adviser is saying: “Well, you can’t get married now. It looks like an afterthought” – that’s when he wants to get married. Now he burns with a love like no other. Yesterday he could live with her. Today he can’t live without her. But really it’s the zeal of unbelievable stubbornness. I have a brother like this, most of us do, I’m sure. You just want to hope he’s not in the same field as you. On which note, let’s imagine that some commentators are right, and Ed’s entire life is one long David-Ed tournament, in which the prize is always a millimetre out of reach, since the true blank is no particular accolade, but the annihilation of one brother by the other. What has David got left that Ed doesn’t have? A number of improbable plans, some spare time in the evenings, and a wife. This theory will gain credence when Ed gets a hair transplant. Though both men’s hair is quite self-determining, David’s is much tuftier . It could all be an elaborate ploy to get the kids into a faith school. Qualifications vary wildly from faith to faith: Catholics have a points system, where the younger your baby was when it was christened the more weighting you get. (Have you ever heard anything more ridiculous in your life than a six-month-old being more religious than a one-year-old?) This is a wild stab in the dark, but might they be going for a Jewish education, in which case the heat is totally off the baby and all on Justine for an imminent conversion. But all religions like you to be married before they’ll educate your children. It keeps the riffraff out. Any idiot can get up early on a Sunday: only people with 20 grand can get hitched. I’ve heard people say that they were able to resist all pressure to marry until their own children started on them, and then their resolve evaporated. This is impossible at present, since their oldest is not yet two : but the day is not far away when both scions will be wondering why it’s fine to be on kids’ show Dramarama (Justine) and lead the opposition (Ed), and yet be way too shy to make a sound commitment to one another in a decent, unshowy Nottingham location. And at the outside (I am offering internet odds of 2/17), this is a gesture of self-abasement before the royals: you show the way, oh dyad of loveliness; we follow, squinting in your blazing light, inviting only 50 people and none of them with huge oil reserves in the Middle East, eschewing even a best man, because who could be finer than Prince Harry? No one will be knitting dolls of us, oh royal ones, though it’s not out of the question that we might generate an ironic commemorative plate. We are, your faithful servants, Ed’n’Justine. Or maybe he really does think there are votes in it. Congratulations, nevertheless, to everyone involved. Ed Miliband Weddings Faith schools Schools Zoe Williams guardian.co.uk
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Nationwide’s says house prices rose by 0.5% in March, with the three-month index showing a 0.6% increase Bad news for first-time buyers: house prices rose by 0.5% in March, according to latest figures from the Nationwide building society. The rise leaves average house prices in the UK just 0.1% higher than a year ago at £164,751. The three-month-on-three-month index, the preferred measure of house price inflation for economists because it smoothes out blips in performance, shows an increase of 0.6% to the end of March. The first quarter figures have also been released, showing prices rising by at least 1% in eight out of 13 regions. Yorkshire and Humberside saw the strongest quarterly rise of 3.4%, while Northern Ireland’s house prices were weakest with a 2.2% fall. Prices in London rebounded in the first quarter with a 2.3% increase. But Robert Gardner, the Nationwide’s chief economist, remained gloomy about prospects for the housing market: “The outlook remains uncertain, but all things considered this is unlikely to mark the beginning of a strong upturn in prices. “The economy entered a soft patch at the back end of 2010, and there have been few signs of a strong bounce-back. The jobs market remains challenging and Nationwide’s consumer confidence index suggests sentiment has fallen to an all-time low in recent months.” But this does not necessarily point to big falls in prices that would suit those struggling to buy their first home. Gardner continued: “While demand is likely to remain fairly soft, a rapid increase in the supply of properties also appears unlikely. Low interest rates and a stabilisation in labour market conditions have prevented a rise in forced selling, and the subdued market outlook is deterring many sellers. “With the economic recovery expected to remain sluggish, the most likely outcome is that the property market will follow suit, with low transaction levels and prices moving sideways or modestly lower through 2011.” He pointed out that expected interest rate rises will exert a greater drag on household income now than it would have done before the recession, because the proportion of mortgages on variable interest rates has risen from 48% in 2008 to 62% now. He added that for a house with a repayment mortgage the typical monthly payment is around £455, equivalent to 23% of individual take-home pay. A 1% rise in interest rates would see this rise to £494 – 25% of current take-home pay. But if the Bank of England rate rises to the average of 4.5% it was at in the five years before the crisis, typical payments will rise to £621 if fully passed on to borrowers. This would represent 29% of take-home pay should wages keep rising at the current rate of 2.3% a year. House prices First-time buyers Property Housing market Jill Insley guardian.co.uk
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SeaWorld Orlando Killer Whale Underwater Viewing Penguin on Southwest flight Serial Killer Whale Tilikum Returns To SeaWorld Show Tilikum The Whale Returns To SeaWorld Show For First Time Since … ORLANDO, Fla. — The killer whale that drowned a trainer at Orlando’s SeaWorld facility last year is slated to perform for the first time since the death. SeaWorld officials say Tilikum will participate in the park’s “Believe” show … SeaWorld Whale that Killed Trainer to Perform Again – AOL Travel News The killer whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando one year ago is back in the spotlight today, scheduled to perform for the first time since the incident. Whale That Killed Trainer Returns To SeaWorld Show « CBS Miami A 6-ton killer whale that killed one of its trainers last year is scheduled to perform for the first time since the incident at SeaWorld in Orlando. Whale that killed trainer returns to SeaWorld show | The … The killer whale that drowned a trainer at Orlando’s SeaWorld last year is slated to perform for the first time since the death. SeaWorld officials say Tilikum will participate in the park’s “Believe” show beginning Wednesday morning. Back in the water: SeaWorld whale that killed trainer and was … By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:47 PM on 30th March 2011 He has been involved in the deaths of three people, but today Tilikum the killer whale will resume public performances at SeaWorld . The six-tonne whale has not appeared … RealFireWorks says: KILLER whale employed #OnlyNARecession RT @cnnbrk : Killer whale involved n trainer's death returns 2 SeaWorld show. http://on.cnn.com/fPlDmO
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