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December 02, 2012 | | TRAGIC Police say NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel were reportedly among the team personnel who tried to stop Belcher from ending his own life in the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium. “He was not that kind of guy,” Belcher's grandmother tells The Daily Beast’s Christine Pelisek. MILITANTS Suicide bombers mounted a strike on a joint U.S.-Afghan base Sunday, sparking a two-hour gun battle that left at least five Afghans dead. American helicopters finally quashed the attack. A truck loaded with explosives crashed into the front of the base, in eastern Afghanistan, around 6 a.m. local time. A second vehicle exploded after being fired on by guards. Six gunmen continued the attack, for which Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility. Two Afghan medical students were among those killed. LIBYA Amid all the partisan accusations about Susan Rice’s statements after the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, we easily forget her indispensable role in bringing down Gaddafi, writes Bernard-Henri Lévy. CAUGHT Cars are trapped and at least seven people are unaccounted for after a tunnel collapse in Japan, according to media reports. Police reported seeing charred bodies in the Sasago tunnel, one of the country’s longest, after a fire broke out. Thick smoke and the fear of a second collapse delayed rescue efforts for several hours after the initial collapse late Saturday night. The number of people dead, after what CCTV showed to be a 328-foot section of concrete caved in, was not yet known Sunday morning, a Yamanashi police spokesman told Agence France-Presse. UNREST So much for civil society. Hundreds of supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi gathered Sunday to block a meeting by the country’s top court on a new draft constitution. The protesters want to prevent any attempt to question the document’s legality. The president, who has been the subject of opposition protests ever since he seized broad new powers in recent weeks, has called for a constitutional referendum on Dec. 15. Morsi’s opponents have said that the constitution has serious flaws, but the document has received support from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood party. | | 
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