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Amber Alert issued for 2 children after woman found dead in Round Rock, Texas

January 2, 2018 by  
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ROUND ROCK, Texas — Authorities have issued an Amber Alert as police search for two missing children in relation to a suspicious death in Round Rock, Texas, CBS affiliate KEYE-TV reports. Police responded to a welfare check on Sunday and found a deceased woman inside the residence.

The missing children were identified as 14-year-old Lilianais Victoria Cake Griffith and 7-year-old Luluvioletta Mariposo Bandera-Margaret. Griffith is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. She has brown eyes and wears a right nose stud with braces. Bandera-Margaret is 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 75 pounds. She has curly brown hair and brown eyes.

“Both are associated with a person of interest in the suspicious death investigation,” Round Rock police said in a statement.

Terry Allen Miles, 44, is a person of interest in the woman’s death, police said, and may be connected to the abduction. Police said he was last heard from in Round Rock on Saturday. Miles is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. He has hazel eyes, wears glasses and has a beard. It’s not clear what the relationship between Miles and the children is.

Police believe Miles may be heading to Louisiana. They said Miles drives a gray 2017 Hyundai Accent with Texas license plate JGH-9845. They said there’s a white sticker on the upper-right hand corner of the vehicle. There is also a white sticker on the upper right hand corner of the rear window. Police provided CBS affiliate KHOU-TV with an image of Miles’ vehicle. 

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Round Rock Police released this image Terry Allen Miles’ 2017 Hyundai Accent.

James Reid, a resident who lives nearby, said he believes Miles lived with the woman who was found dead.

“Usually you hear it, and it’s somewhere else, and I’m glad that wasn’t me, and I was nowhere near it, but this happened next door. I was just glad none of my kids or my wife was here,” Reid told KEYE-TV. “If they were here, they were in the house. Most of the time they were gone.”

Reid said he hopes the girls are safe. “I don’t want them to get hurt. Like I said, I got kids, and I wouldn’t want that to happen to mine.”

Round Rock police are encouraging the public to call (512) 218-5516 if they have any information in the case.

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‘No more!’ Trump tweets to Pakistan, accusing it of ‘lies & deceit’

January 2, 2018 by  
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s defense minister responded angrily Monday to an early-morning tweet by President Trump that accused America’s once-close ally of “lies deceit,” countering that the United States had given Pakistan “invective mistrust” in return.

In his first tweet of the new year, Trump had said the United States had “foolishly” given Pakistan $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, “and they have given us nothing but lies deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.”

Trump wrote further: “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!”

Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir-Khan hit back on Twitter, writing that Pakistan, as an “anti-terror ally” of the United States, had given Washington land and air communication, military bases and intelligence cooperation that “decimated Al-Qaeda over last 16yrs” while America “has given us nothing but invective mistrust.”

Officials in the country’s capital scrambled to arrange a cabinet meeting to be held Tuesday to adopt a response to the Twitter attack, while Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in an interview on Geo Television that the country is ready to publicly provide an accounting of “every detail” of U.S. aid it has received.

Pakistan was already doing all it could to combat terrorism within its borders, he said.

“We have already told the U.S. that we will not do more, so Trump’s ‘no more’ does not hold any importance,” Asif said.

Late Monday afternoon, White House spokesman Raj Shah said the White House does not plan to spend $255 million in fiscal 2016 military aid to Pakistan already appropriated by Congress. That decision was first reported by CNN. The payment has been on hold since August, out of the Trump administration’s insistence that Pakistan do more to crack down on extremists who threaten Afghanistan.

The tense exchanges followed days of speculation that the Trump administration — dissatisfied with the way Pakistan has dealt with the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network and other terrorist groups — was set to dramatically reduce aid to the South Asian nation, long a key partner in the region.

“We shouldn’t overstate the policy significance of this tweet,” said Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “It’s more likely to be an expression of frustration or a statement of intent rather than an actual declaration of a new policy.”

According to a November report from the Congressional Research Service, the United States has appropriated $34 billion in direct aid and military reimbursements for Pakistan since 2002, with proposed security and economic assistance at $345 million for this fiscal year. That number is a significant decrease from the $526 million allotted in fiscal year 2017.

In India, news of Trump’s tweet was met with celebration in some quarters, a healthy dose of skepticism in others. Analysts pointed out that in October Trump had tweeted that the administration was “starting to develop a much better relationship with Pakistan and its leaders.”

This worried Indian officials who had hoped Trump would be taking a stronger stance on Pakistan.

The goodwill appears to have flagged for a variety of reasons; administration officials, for example, were reportedly not happy that Pakistan freed Hafiz Mohammad Saeed from house arrest in November. The Islamist cleric — who led the militant group that conducted the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, which left more than 160 civilians dead — had been arrested last January.

Last month, during a visit to Afghanistan, Vice President Pence had issued a warning to the country, saying Trump had “put Pakistan on notice” that it has provided a “safe haven” for terrorist groups. “Those days are over,” Pence said.

Gowen reported from New Delhi.

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