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A gunman opened fire on a Republican congressional team practice Wednesday, and at least one congressman was among the five wounded, authorities said. The Enquirer

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Residents in the Virginia Alexandria neighborhood that was the scene of the shooting recounted to reporters the massive police presence in its aftermath. (June 14) AP

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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., congressional officials say. (June 14) AP

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A person is treated by emergency workers as members of the Republican congressional baseball team look on following a shooting in Alexandria, Va 14 June 14, 2017. The Republican House majority whip Steve Scalise and at least four others have been shot shot at a congressional baseball game practice session, according to media reports(Photo: Shawn Thew, European Pressphoto Agency)

Rep. Brad Wenstrup's combat surgeon instincts kicked in after a fellow congressman was shot at a baseball practice Wednesday.

Wenstrup, ofColumbia Tusculum,used some kind of scissors to cut through Rep. Steve Scalise's pant leg to get to the Louisiana congressman's wound, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama told CNN.Wenstrup, a podiatrist, served as a U.S. Army surgeon.

"I felt like I was back in Iraq," Wenstrup told CBS News.

Scalise was among five wounded in the morning shooting, officials told news outlets. All are receiving medical attention. Scalise was undergoing surgery Wednesday morning after being shot in the hip, his office said in a statement.

For a time, "the field was basically a killing field," Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, told CNN. Fifteen to 20 U.S. representatives and two senators were on the field, Paul said. "I saw Scalise go down on second base," but gunshots were still hitting the dirt in left field, Paul told CNN.

"I dont think anyone would have survived without the Capitol Police, said Paul, who is uninjured.Nobody else had a weapon. ...It would have been a massacre without them.

Brad Wenstrup(Photo: Provided)

After police had the shooter "down," Brooks said, members of Congress deferred to Wenstrup.

"I did what I did in Iraq," Wenstrup told ABC News.You assess their wounds, and you cut down their clothes and look for the wound and make sure that you stop the bleeding.

He made sure Scalise was conscious by asking him where he was and asking him to count. Scalise was in pain and "was losing a lot of blood," Wenstrup said.

Medics arrived, and they bandaged Scalise. Wenstrup said they gave him Gatorade and water to replenish his fluids.

"I'm glad I was there," Wenstrup told Fox News, "but it's a sad day in America."

Sen. Jeff Flake, of Arizona, told CNN it took at least 10 minutes until shooter was down. During that time, Scalise lay alone on the baseball field. "We couldn't get to him" because of the shots," Flake said.

I got Steve Scalises phone and called his wife, Flake told CNN. He said he didnt want her to hear Scalise had been shot via the news.

Gabby Giffords on baseball practice shooting: 'My heart is with my former colleagues'

Officials were practicing for a charity baseball game between Republicans and Democrats, which was set for Thursday. Money from the game goes to groups such as theWashington Literacy Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, and the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation.

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From 27 April to 30 May 2017:

As of 30 May 2017, the DTM has identified 3,020,034 internally displaced persons (503,339 families) displaced after January 2014, dispersed across 106 districts and 3,577 locations in Iraq. For the same period, DTM has identified 1,813,680 returnees (302,280 families).

Overall, the total number of identified IDPs remained stable during the reporting period, with a decrease of approximately 1% (7,513 individuals). The general decrease is to be attributed to return movements across all governorates, particularly in Anbar, Ninewa, Baghdad and Kirkuk governorates. At the same time, the governorate of Ninewa alone recorded an increase of 3% (20,958 individuals) because of the military operations in the city of Mosul.

The returnee population increased by 4% (76,542 individuals). The two governorates that reported the highest increase of the returnee population were Anbar by 7% (59,538) and Ninewa by 6% (15,030). Considering the available information and the DTM methodology, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) has revised the planning figures for the humanitarian response at 3 million internally displaced persons.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

During the reporting period, between 27 April and 30 May, Ninewa was the only governorate that recorded an increase in IDPs, while all other governorates recorded a reduction. However, this should not be interpreted as an absolute decrease of displacement trends: it is rather due to returning movements reportedly outweighing new displacements in some governorates.

This was the case of Salah al-Din and Kirkuk governorates, where the ongoing military operations in Baiji, Shirqat and Hawija districts have not escalated further, prompting return movements from Kirkuk and Salah al-Din to retaken areas in Salah al-Din, and from Kirkuk to Anbar as well. Meanwhile, the steadily growth of IDPs in Ninewa is due to the military operations to retake the city of Mosul, currently focusing on the western side of the city. The operations to retake west Mosul were launched on 19 February and have caused large waves of displacements to camp and out-of-camp locations.

According to the DTM Emergency Tracking, which reports only IDP and returnees records whose locations have been verified, as of 1 June the total cumulative number of identified IDPs reached 517,650 individuals, of whom 378,120 are still in displacement and 139,530 have already returned, particularly to east Mosul, Baashiqa, Tilkaif and Hamdaniya.

Based on flow-monitoring data tracked at Hammam al-Aliel screening site, as of 1 June almost 590,000 individuals had left west Mosul and mainly headed towards camps in Southern Ninewa or east Mosul. In particular, during the reporting period the DTM has recorded an average displacement of over 6,000 individuals per day from west Mosul through this screening site, with peaks of 17,000 or 16,000 around mid-May depending on the progress of the military operations.

Furthermore, during the reporting period this identified IDP population from Mosul grew by 17% (75,930 individuals), while the number of IDPs crossing Hammam al-Aliel screening site grew by 53%, corresponding to approximately 200,000 individuals. The DTM is currently working on validating the displacement locations of IDPs in out-of-camp settings and aims to provide updated figures by location as soon as possible.

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The Manchester Arena bomb attack was planned over several months, since December last year, according to reports.

Salman Abedi had been under surveillance in Libya more than a month before the atrocity which left 22 dead, security officials in the country told the BBC.

Investigators in Tripoli have reportedly highlighted a lack of security co-operation with the UK, and say it has to developed to stop further incidents.

Officials in Libya said that they were watching Abedi from when he arrived in the country, and his father Ramadan and brother Hashem were also under surveillance, it was said.

Salman apparently spent several weeks quietly with his family in Tripoli before returning to Britain and detonating explosives at the Arena on May 22.

On a daily basis Ramadan and Hashem Abedi continue to be interrogated by Libya's Special Deterrence Force, the BBC report.

Special Deterrence Force spokesman Ahmed bin Salem reportedly said the attack was being planned as far back as last December.

He said the force had important information about Abedi's contacts in the UK and Libya.

But Libyan security teams reportedly say they co-operate better with the CIA than they do with London.

According to the report, a senior figure in the UN-backed, Tripoli government wants far closer intelligence sharing to stop any further attacks.

A Libyan security official reportedly claimed that Hashem admitted in detention that back in 2015 he and Salman joined Islamic State.

They added that Hashem bought parts for the bomb while in the UK but left the country at the same time as his brother, who went on to carry out the Manchester attack on his return.

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi case: ICC calls for arrest of ex-Libya leader's son BBC News The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for the arrest and surrender of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was released by a militia in Libya last week after six years in jail. The son of late leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is wanted for alleged crimes ...

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Saif al-Islam in Zintan after his 2011 capture. Photograph: Ammar El-Darwish/AP

A Libyan militia says it has freed Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of the countrys late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, after more than five years in captivity.

The Abu Bakr al-Sadiq Brigade, based in Zintan, said it released Saif under an amnesty law passed last year by the eastern-based parliament.

We have decided to liberate Saif al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi. He is now free and has left the city of Zintan, the militia said in a statement.

However, it is unclear whether Saif has left Zintan, and his freedom in Libya is partial. While the eastern parliament in Tobruk, to which Zintan is aligned, says he is a free man, Tripolis UN-backed government still considers him a war criminal, after a court sentenced him to death, in absentia, in 2015 for crimes during the revolution.

If Saif leaves Libya, he may also face arrest on an indictment from the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

His British lawyer, Karim Khan QC, said he was unable to confirm or deny reports of Saifs freedom, but added he was in regular contact with his client, last visiting him in the autumn.

I met him in Zintan and Ive been in contact with him in relation to this issue, he said. He was in good physical health, I had lunch with him in Zintan and sat for several hours.

Saif al-Islam, whose name means sword of Islam, was once considered heir apparent to his late father. Before the 2011 Arab spring revolution he lived in a 10m mansion in Hampstead, London, was awarded a controversial doctorate from the London School of Economics and had contacts including the billionaire hedge fund investor Nat Rothschild, Labour peer Peter Mandelson and architect Norman Foster.

He had no formal job under his fathers regime, but before the revolution had called for democratic reforms. During the uprising, however, he demanded harsh measures against rebel forces.

When Libyan rebel forces, backed by Nato airstrikes, captured Tripoli in late 2011 he fled south, and was captured in the Sahara by the Abu Bakr al-Sadiq Brigade.

Saif could potentially emerge as a political actor in Libyas chaotic and changing fabric, with tribes who formally backed his father likely to support him, along with some militias who once fought against his father.

The country has been ravaged by civil war, with Tobruk forces in recent weeks capturing key airbases in the interior.

Saifs release comes a year after Tobruk forces allowed his mother, Safia, to visit eastern Libya, and follows a ruling in March by the European court of justice to lift a travel ban on Saifs sister Aisha, who lives with her mother in Oman.

Two of Saifs brothers, Mutassim and Khamis, died in the revolution, while a third, Hannibal, lives in Lebanon. His youngest brother, Saadi, is detained in Tripoli awaiting trial on war crimes charges.

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