Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse Top Fans' Hologram Wish-Lists

Departed artists like Whitney Houston, Queen's Freddie Mercury and John Lennon also get mentions from fans in Times Square.
By Kate Callahan


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NEW YORK — After the Tupac hologram performance at Coachella made such a huge splash, the team behind the projection system floated the possibility this week of an Elvis hologram to perform with Justin Bieber. Even '90s girl group TLC is rumored to be considering a virtual version of the late Left Eye on their upcoming tour.

With all that talk, MTV News hit Times Square to ask fans which departed artists they would most like to see perform in hologram form. While some of those interviewed wanted to see other rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. or Nate Dogg, one fan thought Whitney Houston should get the honors.

"I love her, I grew up singing her [songs], just walking around the house when I was seven or eight," Shayana of Houston said.

Brits Amy Winehouse and John Lennon of the Beatles were also popular picks, and a few rock fans mentioned Queen's flamboyant frontman. "It would have to be Freddie Mercury because Queen were one of the all-time greatest bands and he was a showman," said a fan named Rob.

Blane Mader would like to see a hologram of another great showman, Michael Jackson.

"It's a really cliché answer, but in my time I've never seen him and it would just be something awesome to watch," Mader said of the King of Pop.

Members of the Jackson 5 recently announced that they would love to have a virtual Michael on their upcoming Unity Tour. "Wouldn't that be wonderful? As a matter of fact, we had that idea two years ago for Michael's Cirque du Soleil show," Michael's brother Jackie Jackson told E! News.

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S. Africa in adulthood as 'born frees' come of age

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20 years ago today: Voters sing while they wait to vote in a voting station April 27, 1994 in Lindelani, in Natal Province, South Africa.

By Rohit Kachroo, NBC News Correspondent in Johannesburg

Modern South Africa has officially entered adulthood. It is eighteen years old today, and millions of its people are celebrating ?Freedom Day?, the anniversary of the country?s first democratic elections and the moment that marked the miracle birth of Nelson Mandela?s ?Rainbow Nation?.

Today, a public holiday, South Africans are reflecting upon the country?s phenomenal progress, with concerts, private parties and civil celebrations. Citizens are sharing their memories of where they were that day and how it felt to vote for the first time. Some will try to re-live the euphoria and optimism of those historic moments.


South Africa?s eighteenth year of freedom marks a coming of age, with the first children to be born after the end of the racist regime now able to vote for the first time. But increasingly, many South Africans see Freedom Day as a time to reflect upon today?s challenges rather than the victories of yesteryear - a time to ask why South Africa has not progressed further than it has.

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As South Africa approaches its third decade of democracy, many of its black communities are still blighted by poverty and hopelessness; they are on the wrong side of the so-called ?economic apartheid?.

Others believe that the cancer of public corruption is modern South Africa's greatest problem, complaining that today?s politicians are?mere shadows of the leaders of Nelson Mandela?s generation and have become more focused on their own interests than those of their people.

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View images of civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, who went from anti-apartheid activist to prisoner to South Africa's first black president.

One recent report suggested that forty per cent of South Africans believe most of the country?s lawmakers to be corrupt.

For many citizens, violent crime is the real issue. Although the police claim to be winning the war on many crimes, the recent gang-rape of a mentally disabled girl in Soweto which was filmed and posted onto the internet appeared to indicate a wider epidemic. According to one estimate, a woman is raped in South Africa every 26 seconds.

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This?is a youthful society, where most people are too young to have any memory of the dark days of Apartheid. They only know democracy, but are equally familiar with society?s current-day ills. In an editorial, The Star newspaper of Johannesburg reflects on what it calls the nation's ?crucial crossroads?, arguing that although much has been achieved,? democracy has not always been ?the magical panacea? that South Africans have hoped for.

?The so-called ?born frees? reach adulthood, many of them with little or no interest in the momentous events that led up to the year of their birth. Many other older South Africans have been left bitterly disappointed in what has been achieved since?, it says.

Jackson Mthembu, a spokesman for the ruling party, the African National Congress, defends the record of the government in the same newspaper. ?In 18 years a lot has been done, but hardly enough to reverse 300 years of colonialism. The structural weakness of the racist policies did more damage than we care to acknowledge.?

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Army working on hovering, non-lethal drone-bazooka

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The Defense Department is known for researching some out-there ideas, and a?bazooka that will fire a patient, intelligent hovering guard drone is no exception.

Drones are playing a bigger part in warfare these days, but there are few that can be used quickly and effectively in combat. If the bad guy is getting away behind some rubble and your way is blocked, wouldn't it be nice to be able to send a drone after him? And more seriously, wouldn't it be good to know that this drone would accomplish its job with patience, and without unnecessary killing?

Seems like a lot to ask, but the need is real and the Army sees a lot of applications for this type of technology. What they are envisioning is called?the?Nonlethal Warhead for Miniature Organic Precision Munitions, based on earlier research into a more dangerous weapon, the Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System.

It would essentially be a hovering drone, fired from a bazooka-like device, that would hover over its victim until it had a clear shot ? and then tag the target with one of several possible nonlethal weapons.?The drone would be accurate from 100 meters,?more or less?beyond the?reach of small arms, and would only weigh a few pounds. But those few pounds could be enough when, in its "terminal phase" after it has hovered for too long and used up most of its fuel, it fires itself at a vehicle or other larger target, potentially striking it at up to 100mph.

The system is still in the earliest stages of development ? we can only guess at what type of technology would be used for hovering, for instance ? but it's certainly a real project. You can read further specifications here at the Army's Small Business Innovation Research intro paper.

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Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Gunmen attack Afghan governor's office in south

(AP) ? Afghan security forces killed two would-be suicide attackers who entered the provincial governor's compound in the southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, an official said.

Parwiz Najib, the director of the Kandahar governor's media office, said two of the governor's bodyguards were killed and one wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the attackers, who were equipped with explosive-rigged suicide vests, hand grenades and automatic rifles.

The attackers were attempting to reach the governor's office inside the compound when the governor's bodyguards identified them, sparking the gunbattle, Najib said.

Najib said the attack lasted less than 30 minutes and the governor was unharmed.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack.

Saturday's firefight is another reminder of the insurgents' ability to strike in even some of the most secure areas of the country. Earlier this month, militants launched a large-scale coordinated attack on the diplomatic center of the capital Kabul and three other cities in which 36 insurgents and 11 others were reported killed.

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Spotlight on leader of Islamist group in Mali

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? He's a former diplomat whose armed Islamist group now controls much of northern Mali. He has links to an al-Qaida franchise and was expelled from Saudi Arabia for ties to yet another fundamentalist movement. U.S. officials call him a master manipulator.

Iyad Ag Ghali's group and Tuareg rebels took northern Mali a month ago in the wake of a military coup in Mali's capital that left government soldiers stationed in the north in disarray. His group, Ansar Dine, now seems to be muscling out the Tuareg rebels for control over an area that's roughly the size of Texas.

He is quickly becoming the most powerful person in northern Mali and, most worrisome for regional security, he is showing signs that he's willing to let militants of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb operate freely. Before, leaders of AQIM, as the group is known, did not dare show their faces in major northern Mali towns. But now diplomats are reporting privately that several have been spotted.

Ag Ghali's heavily armed men, with black flags fluttering from their pickup trucks, are attacking bars that sell alcohol, smashing non religious artwork and banning men and women from socializing in the streets. The Taliban did the same when they gained control of most of Afghanistan and its capital in the mid-1990s and imposed strict Islamic law. Arab militants used Afghanistan as a haven and al-Qaida took root, building terrorist training camps.

Similarly, al-Qaida militants and other Islamist fighters are descending on northern Mali, as reported earlier by The Associated Press. Residents of the region's major towns say Ansar Dine fighters are much more visible than the Tuareg separatists of the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad.

"I think Iyad wants a zone where he can impose discipline, where he can punish people by whipping them and cutting off their hands," said Tiegoum Boubeye Maiga, a Malian journalist from the north of the country who runs the newspaper La Nouvelle Republique.

While some wonder whether Ag Ghali is motivated more by religion or by personal ambition, he has taken on at least the appearance of a fundamentalist.

Gone is the large mustache that he used to sport. On a video released by Ansar Dine ? which in Arabic means Supporters of Islam ? he has a full, graying beard.

Colleagues say he became more religiously active in the 1990s when Tabligh Jamaat, a fundamentalist but nonviolent Islamic movement from Pakistan and India, started preaching in northern Mali. Tabligh Jamaat, founded early in the last century, is an offshoot of the Deobandi school of Islam which is very hardline. Most of the Taliban leadership is Deobandi.

After Ag Ghali was assigned in 2007 to Mali's consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Saudis became concerned about the amount of time he spent on his satellite phone and his ties to Tabligh Jamaat. The Saudis considered his activities incompatible with his status as a diplomat, according to a colleague who worked with Ag Ghali at the time and who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the press.

He had been appointed to Saudi Arabia after he helped negotiate a peace accord that ended a brief Tuareg rebellion. "Some Tuareg rebels are irked at what they view as Ag Ghali's self-centered decision to abandon northern Mali during a time of crisis, leaving his Tuareg rebel colleagues in the lurch," a leaked U.S. Embassy cable noted in 2008.

Today, the doubts about Ag Ghali's motivations are resurfacing.

"One of the key questions that needs to be answered now is to what extent does Ag Ghali believe the Islamist rhetoric of Ansar Dine or to what extent is he just using it to legitimize his quest for power," said Andrew Lebovich, a senior analyst at The Navanti Group, a Virginia-based analytical firm.

Ag Ghali's family is part of a group of Tuaregs who have traditionally ruled the region around the town of Kidal, and he has been active in the rebellions there for years. Other leaked U.S. diplomatic cables describe Ag Ghali as a master manipulator, especially when there is the chance to make money.

"Ag Ghali is so adept at playing all sides of the Tuareg conflict to maximize his personal gain," notes a cable from October 2008 that was released by WikiLeaks. "Like the proverbial bad penny, Ag Ghali turns up whenever a cash transaction between a foreign government and Kidal Tuaregs appears forthcoming."

Ag Ghali is known to be an intermediary between hostage-paying European governments and kidnappers belonging to AQIM. A senior U.S. diplomat told AP there are credible reports that AQIM is fighting alongside Ansar Dine. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not authorized to speak to the press.

Ag Ghali has had contact for many years with AQIM, according to Lebovich.

"He interacted with AQIM's predecessor ... as a hostage negotiator as far back as 2003," says Lebovich. "And it's also been widely reported that one of his cousins leads an AQIM unit."

Ag Ghali's age isn't clear. He was born in Abeibara in northern Mali in the late 1950s. In the 1970s, like many other young Tuareg men, he left to join Moammar Gadhafi's Islamic Legion in Libya, according to a longtime friend who did not want to be named.

The friend said Ag Ghali was sent to fight against Chad in the 1980s, and fought in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. By the early 1990s, Ag Ghali returned to Mali to take part in a Tuareg rebellion in which he was a senior commander and then helped negotiate a peace deal with the government.

The leaked cables show that Ag Ghali spoke with staff at the U.S. Embassy in Bamako several times between April 2006 and January 2010 about events in Mali.

"Soft-spoken and reserved, Ag Ghali showed nothing of the cold-blooded warrior persona created by the Malian press," according to a May 2007 cable that was written after a meeting at the embassy.

That reserved nature may have masked the warrior persona.

Western powers are closely watching developments, especially now that gun-wielding members of Ansar Dine are trying to impose Shariah in an area where most people practice a moderate form of Islam.

France and the United States have said they are willing to offer logistical help to the Malian armed forces, though Mali has made no move yet to reclaim the north. Without any outside assistance, Malian government forces may be outgunned .

French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently said that "everything needs to be done to prevent the creation of an Islamic or a terrorist state in the heart of the Sahel."

The total number of troops making up Ansar Dine, AQIM and the Tuareg rebels is probably less than 2,000, but their extensive experience fighting in the tough desert conditions of northern Mali give them an advantage over the troops from southern Mali. They're also armed with weapons, including heavy weapons, pillaged from Libyan stockpiles.

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Associated Press writer Baba Ahmed contributed to this report.

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