*BREAKTHROUGH – ABDESLAM WILL ‘COOPERATE’ WITH FRANCE
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam wants to cooperate with the French authorities, according to his lawyer. It is unclear whether that means he will rat out his ISIS terror-associates. Abdeslam was arrested after a months-long manhunt, and he’ll reportedly be questioned by a Belgian prosecutor Thursday at the facility in Bruges, Belgium, where he is being held. A judge will decide later this week whether he’ll be extradited to France, lawyer Cedric Moisse said. French prosecutors filed a request for his transfer after his arrest. Abdeslam has allegedly admitted to being in Paris on the night of Nov. 13, when 130 were killed in an ISIS terrorist attack. He’s reportedly told officials that he fled to Brussels instead of carrying out a suicide mission that night.
*CLIMATE WATCH – Antarctic Melt May Double Sea-Level Rise
According to new research published Thursday in the journal Nature, ice melting from Antarctica could cause a dangerous rise of as much as 6 feet in global sea levels by 2100, nearly double the amount scientists had projected if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked. The additional source of sea-level rise adds to previous estimates of sea level rise normally calculated based on Greenland ice melt and glaciers located elsewhere. A scenario where civilization obtains net-zero or negative carbon emissions by 2100 would stem the rising sea, the study contends.
*WHO READS LBN? Author Lawrence Grobel
*CLUELESS – ISIS Leader’s Ex-Wife: I Had No Idea
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ex-wife gave an interview to a Swedish newspaper during which she explained that she had no idea that the “normal family man” was also a dangerous terrorist. Iraqi woman Saja al-Dulaimi said, “I married a normal person who was a university lecturer. At the time his name was Hisham Mohammad.” Dulaimi added that the marriage, which is now dissolved, was “shallow.” He “didn’t say much about his background,” she explained. “How he could become emir of the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world is a mystery.” Dulaimi continued, “It was a shock to find out—seven years later—that I’d been married to the most dangerous man in the world.” NBC News reports that it was not able to independently verify the news story’s interview contents.
*LBN-MY REVIEW: “I respect LBN for being so fearlessly independent.” —–Dr. Kenneth Chang, Toronto, Canada.
*DRIP DRIP – Pentagon Releasing 12 More Gitmo Inmates
In President Obama’s push to close the Guantanamo military detention camp, another dozen detainees will be transferred to at least two countries that have agreed to house them. The relocations will start over the coming days and last over the next few weeks, a U.S. official told a Reuters reporter on Wednesday. Tariq Ba Odah is included in this latest effort to empty the facility. Ba Odah made headlines for a long-term hunger strike; he’s lost about half of his body weight. Last month, Obama presented a plan to close the prison to Congress, and there are 91 prisoners left at the naval base. Most of the inmates have been held without a trial—or even a formal charge—for more than ten years.
*LBN-INVESTIGATES: The U.S. state/district with the highest concentration of gay couples is Washington, D.C. (1.29%). The lowest concentration of gay couples is found in North and South Dakota (0.22% each).
*LBN-SPOTLIGHT: “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer www.TheExcelCommunity.com
*LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Mike Ovitz — the CAA founder who was once the most powerful agent in Hollywood — will finally be questioned under oath on April 14 about the wiretapping of former Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. “They’ve been avoiding this for many years, but it’s finally going to happen, and it will be videotaped,” Busch, who now works for Deadline Hollywood, told me. The trial is set for June 20, which is exactly 14 years to the day when Busch discovered a dead fish with a red rose in its mouth and a sign reading “stop” on the smashed windshield of her car.
*LBN-BUSINESS INSIDER: ***During Starbucks 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Starbucks chairman and ceo Howard Schultz expanded on a question he posed two years ago: What is the role and responsibility of a for-profit company? Today, Schultz asked partners (employees), shareholders and thousands who watched the live web broadcast: “What is the role and responsibility of all of us, as citizens?” Schultz said he has “struggled for weeks to find the right words to express the pain I feel in my heart about where America is headed and the cloud hanging over the American people.” And he said there are times when he’s had a hard time recognizing “who we are and who we are becoming.”
*LBN-MUSIC INSIDER: ***Steven Tyler has signed with WME in all areas, Billboard has exclusively learned. He was previously at CAA, while Paradigm continues to represent Aerosmith for touring.
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*LBN-OVERHEARD: ***Watching Pamela Anderson‘s sex tape with her ex-husband Tommy Lee, would be torturous forDavid Hasselhoff. “No. No!” shrieked the former “Baywatch” star, 63, on Tuesday’s episode of “Dirty, Sexy, Funny withJenny McCarthy.” “Because I knew her. It was like watching my freaking sister. I knew her! No, I couldn’t. Did you watch it?” McCarthy, who always speaks her mind said she viewed the tape and used it for her pleasure. “Of course, I beat off to it,” McCarthy, 43, confessed. “I loved it.”
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