Published April 21, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Two Minnesota girls who felt bullied by their colleagues killed himself in an apparent suicide pact during a sleepover at a teen of houses.
A relative found the bodies of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz, both 14, on Saturday a home in Island Lake Township, Minn.
The girls are hanged and left suicide notes, one in which plans for her funeral, ABC News reports.
"They asked all pink and Princess and butterflies," told Fentress aunt, Robin Settle, the network in an interview.
The two friends, who attended Marshall High School, reportedly felt outcasts in their eighth-grade class.
Settle said that her niece was often teased about her appearance. Haylee, who was expelled from school for the defense of Moravetz in a fight, wanted to return to Indiana recently where they, according to reports had moved, she said.
"She was made fun of for being overweight, her red hair," Settle told ABC News. "They posted on my wall [Facebook] that they really wanted to come back. .. that the people were mean and cruel and they don't fit in."
The Star Tribune reports that grief counselors, and other supporting services were made available this week to the girls classmates and others at the school.
"When the community is the death of a child is experiencing, it is something which the community has to come together to work," Marshall told schools Superintendent Klint Restaurant ' de Oorsprong ' the Marshall Independent newspaper.
Click to read more about the girls ' suicide pact from ABC News
SUMMERFIELD, Fla.-Tyler Jackson When Seath receive a text message Sunday afternoon of 15-year-old ex-girlfriend Amber Wright say she wanted to rekindle their romance and that they should meet in a central Florida house, a female friend of Jackson's felt that something was not right.
"I wouldn't fall for that," 16-year-old Brittnay Jones told Jackson, recalled them to The Associated Press.
The 15-year-old Jackson ignored the advice of his friend and went Sunday to a home in Summerfield, about 65 kilometers Northwest of Orlando.
There, authorities said, he was shot and mortally beaten as a result of a plot to lure him there and kill him. Then, Jackson's body was stuffed in a sleeping bag and burnt, and the remains were in paint buckets and dumped on a remote lime rock pit, authorities claim.
Marion County Sheriff's detectives said the way the defendants carried out the crime was "contrary to what they had ever seen."
Six people in connection with the crime, five with the first murder charge arrested the authorities on Tuesday night. The five were being held without bond.
The researchers said in an arrest affidavit that the five suspects different roles in Jackson's death had acknowledged. Authorities said Wright and a woman, 18-year-old Charlie Kay Ely, recognized tries to convince to come to the woman home Jackson. Members also said the brother of the girl, 16 and 20-year-old Justin Soto acknowledged participating in the attack on Jackson and claimed that 18-year-old Michael Jackson Bargo repeatedly with a .22-caliber revolver shot.
Authorities, as well as family and friends, said Bargo was dating Jackson's ex-girlfriend and a few weeks ago in a fight with him.
The five were gathered in the House Sunday "when Michael Bargo began to speak of his hatred for the victim Seath Jackson," authorities wrote the 16-year-old boy told them. "The conversation then turned into a plan to lure the residence so that Michael Seath Bargo him with the assistance of other persons can kill."
Authorities have also the stepfather of the small suspects, 37-year-old James Young havens III, in charge of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. He was being held on $ 10,000 bond. The AP does not identify the two youngest suspects because they are minors.
Researchers looking for remains Wednesday afternoon in both the fire and lime rock pits, as well as for the murder weapon.
Bargo and some friends began plotting of Jackson's death, after the two fought a few weeks ago, authorities said, and things quickly.
The plan called for the Bargo girlfriend text Jackson, tells him that she wanted to get back together and that he should meet her in the House, authorities said. Ely and Soto lived in the House, and Bargo sometimes stayed there, according to court papers.
Authorities said that Ely told them that they and the 15-year-old girl met with Jackson to try to get him "back to her hometown so that the murder could take place." But Jackson a disagreement with them not back.
Ely told deputies "Michael Bargo was furious and demanded that the two young Jackson to get to the House so that it could be done," according to the affidavit.
That's when the 15-year-old girl an SMS message sent to Jackson, authorities said.
Brittnay Jones told the AP that Jackson her Sunday about the lyrics told. Jackson's Facebook postings in early March shows affection towards the girl whom he dated, but they turned angry against the end of the month.
When Jackson arrived Sunday afternoon, authorities said that Soto told them, Bargo and the 16-year-old boy emerged from an extra bedroom and "bum-rushed" and started to beat Jackson. The 16-year-old told authorities that he and Soto, Jackson beaten with wooden objects.
Bargo shot multiple times Jackson, told several defendants researchers.
Authorities said that Soto told them that when Jackson tried to escape, he hit him with an ax handle and subdued him. Researchers say that Soto acknowledged help the victim in a bath where he said Bargo beat his kneecaps places, and realizing that Jackson was still alive, shot him again.
Afterwards, some members of the Group hog-tied Jackson and his body in a sleeping bag, which were placed in the backyard fire pit and burned for several hours, authorities said.
His ashes were then in 5-liter cans and paint removed, authorities said. The House was then sanded with bleach to get rid of the blood.
Havens told investigators after the murder he arrived and helped the axis in the paint cans and get rid of other evidence, authorities said.
Jackson's parents reported him missing Monday, thinking that he had run away. Authorities said they learned of the assassination Tuesday when havens woman named researchers say her 16-year-old son was a witness to the murder.
Bargo, Soto, Ely — who maintains they ran into the bedroom before any shots were fired — and the little brothers and sisters were arrested hours later.
Phone messages left by the AP to listings of Bargo, Soto, Ely and ports were not returned Wednesday. A phone number listed for parents of the victim was not in service. A woman who stood outside House about three kilometers from the site of the attack of the victim told an AP reporter to leave.
Lacy Lyons, 18, described Jackson as a "good boy" which did well at school.
"He had the cutest little smile," said Lyons.
Court records show that Bargo had previously cost of burglary and grand theft. Another Court record showed that a woman an injunction against Bargo to protect her son had been looking for. Telephone number of the woman is broken.
Bargo, the lawyer for that case, Charles Holloman, said that his client had no violent track record.
"He has his scraps, like a lot of kids growing up, but certainly nothing that rises to this level," said Holloman.
Jones, the friend who tried to stop Jackson to go out to the House, said that the murder would never have happened.
"It's just guys and their stupid fighting," said Jones. "It's just who wants to be the bigger man."
If environmentalists fight for a ban on the use of lead in ammunition and fishing tackle out of concern for wild animals and their habitats, several u.s. lawmakers have rushed to defend the tools of hunters and fishermen with a new Bill to such items of regulation shield.
Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont, and John Thune, R-s.D., co-chairs of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, unveiled this week legislation to clarify the long-standing exemption of munitions and associated parts under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, which allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate "chemicals" under certain circumstances.
Having regard to fiscal revenue as justification, say the legislators that a ban would lead to higher excise duties on more expensive bullets, which would be the price of many hunters and fishermen.
"Hunting, shooting and fishing are more than just pastime in Montana-they are part of our outdoor heritage," said the Tester. "They're Montana values that we at our children and grandchildren. And I will fight for these values when Washington D.C. rules in the way of commons sense. "
"Outdoor activities, including hunting and fishing, not only provide recreational opportunities, but also a great contribution to South Dakota's economy," said Thune. "The EPAs were regulations in other areas are already harmful jobs and businesses around the country, and I am determined to ensure that ammunition and tackle not subject to arbitrary regulation."
A coalition of conservation groups suing the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce a ban. They call the legislators legislation "misplaced" at its best.
"I think it's sad," said Adam Keats, senior counsel for the Center for biological diversity that the lead lawyer on the EPA process. "It is a sad move by elected officials that are ignoring facts, science and the health of people in this country in harm's way just to appeal to a very rich, rich lobby: the gun lobby."
"I think the Bill is ridiculous," said Jeff Miller, a supporter of the conservation with the center, which the coalition of green activists. "I think it's a waste of taxpayer money. It tries to prolong the inevitable. Lead is going to go away. "
The Coalition filed a lawsuit in November after the EPA rejected his petition last summer that the use of lead in ammunition argued and tackle is poisoning of the nation's Lakes, ponds and forests. The EPA said it does not have the authority to regulate lead in munitions and added that shells and cartridges are excluded from the definition of "chemicals" in the poisonous act.
Environmentalists are now located in a skirmish with legislators, the EPA and gun rights groups.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the Association for the firearms and hunting industry, says a ban on traditional ammunition the financial health of nature conservation in jeopardy, since the federal excise tax of 11 percent tax that manufacturers pay on the sale of ammunition is a primary source of funding for conservation.
But environmentalists call that argument a "nons tarter."
"I guarantee that if the EPA to ban lead ammunition, there would be no difference in excise duties taken by federal officials," said Keats. "It is not a rational argument. The starting point you must believe hundreds of thousands of people who are not allowed to use lead ammunition will instead give yacht ".
Miller said that excise duty shall also apply to ammunition sold regardless of its composition.
"Sales of copper-based ammunition just as much money for conservationists," he said. "It's a nonissue. This tax would continue.
The Foundation also says higher costs associated with alternative munitions will price everyday consumers from the market, pointing to the 1% market share of alternative munitions.
"The economic growth of America's firearms and ammunition industry remains a bright spot in our country still-ailing economy," said Lawrence Kean, senior vice president and general counsel to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. "Passing this important legislation will help to ensure that our industry, which is responsible for more than 183,000 well-paid jobs and has an economic impact of more than $ 27.8 billion annually, continues to shine."
But Keats dismissed that as "cynical lies perpetrated by these guys."
"It's not about anything that they say that it is about," he said.
Miller said that EPA was wrong to reject legal Coalition petition and believes that the Agency has turned his back on the issue because it was a "hot potato" before the mid-term elections.
"They have fully the right to regulate lead ammunition," he said, adding that trying to argue against that is "sticking your head in the sand."
A leading panel of experts Thursday estimated that President Obama is not the last spending as much money as the White House initially claimed and saves budget is approximately $ 1.5 trillion more expensive than the Republican plan.
As he is a big fiscal policy address last week, Obama has and other officials have touted that the White House plan would cut $ 4 trillion over 12 years. Using that figure, they have claimed that it is very similar to a Republican House plan that supposedly 4.4 trillion over 10 years would be cut.
But given the fact that most of the lines of the budget a 10-year window used, as required by law, the Committee for a responsible federal budget tried to provide an apples to apples comparison--and determined Obama proposal would actually cut deficits by $ 2.5 trillion over the next ten years. It credited the President for the "moving the ball forward", but said that based on assumptions from the Congressional Budget Office, the plan is not doing enough to address the debt crisis.
"It seems unlikely that the policies proposed in the context of the President would be sufficient to reduce debt to a manageable level," she wrote.
In response the White House claimed that using the window of 10 years, the President's budget plan 2.9 trillion, not $ 2.5 trillion would be cut. And officials continued to stick to the requirement that it cuts $ 4 trillion over 12 years. A White House aide suggested that the President's plan would save more than the Commission claims, in part because of a "fail-safe" provision that would lead to additional expenditure cuts if debt reduction targets are not met.
"Even with the Commission for a responsible federal budget to transfer rules of the game and the factor that the failsafe is not in their analysis, they still confirm that plan the President would substantially reduce the deficit and avoid a large increase in the debt that" White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage told Fox Business Network.
The Committee for a responsible federal budget also chosen back Republican claims about their spending plan. Although Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., author of the plan, which it would be cut 4.4 trillion over a decade, said the Commission claimed that it's more like $ 4 trillion would reduce in that period.
That leaves $ 1.5 trillion still separating the two plans, in a comparison of apples to apples, questions about administration claims that Republicans and Democrats agree on how much to cut.
The new estimates also revealed that the GOP plan would bring the debt down to about 69% of GDP by 2021. By contrast, Obama plan would bring the debt up to 77% of GDP, the report said.
The Committee shall be composed of former officials of the CBO, the White House Office of Management and budget and other important offices.
Americans under the impression of security preparations for the upcoming Royal Wedding may be surprised to know that it would be hard to implement many of these precautions here in the u.s.
Former CIA agent Mike Baker told "there's a more mature acceptance in the United Kingdom of balance between civil liberties and security," FoxNews.com. "They went through homegrown terror problems with the IRA, and they were bombed in the second world war, and it developed an attitude that you do not find".
Baker said Americans should be more security "immediately after an incident if 11 september", but it's not too long before people start to complain "" with to take off their shoes at the airport.
British authorities are prepping for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton say that they will probably use random stop and searches, closely controlled closed-circuit camera spread across London and "preventive police," which means police can arrest someone for a terror charge--even planning or incitement to an act of terror--before all the evidence the related have, to maintain order and security. Pre-charge "" detentions can be based on a set of methods, including telephone taps, electronic surveillance and old-fashioned snooping espionage.
Even uploading photos to a new iPhone app is limited in the surroundings of the Hotel Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace on the wedding day.
Baker, founder of the global security firm for science, said that would be the biggest point of contention in the United States.
The application, which automatically uploading photos on the web and groups them according to where they were taken, has been labeled a "threat to the security" of London police, who use it near the marriage have banned. The police say they will follow to use the application on the wedding day and arrest anyone caught unauthorized upload images.
Baker said that would not fly in the US "you to tell them what they can and cannot do with their iPhone? That would drive people crazy. "
Former NYPD Detective Pat Brosnan said that enlargement of the powers of the stop-and-research would be much harder.
"The United Kingdom has the capacity and authority to enable as a light switch on and off like a light switch the stop and search powers of their police authorities," said Brosnan, now founder and President of the Group Brosnan, FoxNews.com. He said there are certain circumstances in the us where the police can planimetric view and access only to those who in searches. But even the police powers are limited.
"In Times Square you can pen everyone in on New year's Eve and search their pockets and maybe give them a quick patdown, but you might do a search body. That is still not permitted without probable cause. "
He said, also applies to "preventive police."
"They are an established threshold for an arrest the decline and aprons for the sole purpose of safety for an event. That would never fly here in a million years, "said Brosnan.
One thing that "fly" in the US is closed circuit TV, who Brosnan says is already in use by law enforcement in several American cities. But Baker says that it doesn't come close to the supervision in London.
"It's nothing like it in terms of coverage. I could get someone on the street in London and follow them pretty much wherever they go. It is a very impressive capability, and we are nowhere near that. "
The main difference between u.s. and U.K. Security is not necessarily what is done, but how it is played, Baker said.
"We don't necessarily fat about things to describe, and we have a few more obstacles," Baker said. "But our objectives are still the same: to check the perimeter, control of the Interior, make sure that we understand the crowd and movement, doing all the surveillance in advance and make sure we collect evidence for identifying the potential objectives and lock them."
Former Assistant Director of the FBI Bill Gavin, Gavin, the group said President Obama the inauguration is a perfect example. "We pretty much shut down Washington, D.C. We ban a lot of things."
But the men agree that the Community law enforcement in the United States still needs more authority to the country safe.
"There is a number of different measures that must be run in the face of the reality that we have now. Our biggest threat is homegrown extremism, "Brosnan said. "How to get control of that? It's difficult, very difficult, and people have forgotten. "
A Spanish teacher from Princeton University committed suicide in Chelsea after the Ivy League school not to renew his contract, a friend said yesterday.
Antonio Calvo, 45, was found in his 12th floor apartment on w. 26th St. 12 April with self-inflicted slash wounds to his neck and arm, authorities said.
Calvo, who went on teaching at Princeton in 2000 but not tenure, had told four days earlier that he would not be reduced as a teacher and as Director of the Spanish program.
"This news came after a long campaign was launched against him by a group of graduate students and lecturer of the Department" the friend, Marco Aponte, told the Post.
Aponte said he told the attacks on Calvo involved "political correctness".
He said the Spanish Department recommended that the Calvo refresh but was overruled by the University.
"Antonio was very dedicated to his job and worked very hard," said Aponte, a professor at a British University.
One of the Calvo students, Philip Potsdam, said that the professor was "an absolutely amazing man."
Aponte said that Calvo should leave the United States since his visa was sponsored by Princeton. His nationality was not immediately known.
A spokeswoman for the school refused to comment on the Calvo employment status.
The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday corrected Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who the dismissal of two air traffic controllers during an interview news announced Wednesday, but gave the wrong reason for one of their dismissal.
With the Federal Aviation Administration under strict control after a series of accidents, LaHood told PBS that had two air traffic controllers--one in Tennessee--and one in Miami fired. So far so good.
He explained that the controller in Miami had fired for the guidance of a 737 Southwest flight to look at a small airplane that radio contact to determine if there was something was wrong.
"Completely violates procedures," he said. "You cannot lead a large plane to look at a small plane. That's not the way this is done. "
But the controller is not incompetent, but for sleeping on the job was fired.
LaHood was correct that the Tennessee controller was fired for making a bed in the control tower, including pillows and blankets.
"We're not going to sit by and let that kind of behavior occur in control towers," he said.
The two firings were two of the five cases where sleeping controllers that have gained notoreity this year.
In a separate embarrassment, was a controller caught watching a DVD movie on his post. Controller was suspended. In total, the FAA eight controllers and regulators suspended since the end of March.
But the civilian air traffic controller that allowed first lady Michelle Obama of Boeing 737 to get too close to a 200-ton military cargo jet on Monday will not be punished. Military air traffic controllers at Andrews Air Force Base was Obama of breaking a landing airplane for fear that the military jet would not have enough time to clear the runway.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident. LaHood told PBS that the first lady was never in danger, the US aviation system the safest in the world, but it should perform better.
"So, I'd say that flying is safe, but we must do more, and we do more, and we will continue to do more until we make sure that domain controllers take personal responsibility for the main security jobs that they have" he said. "We do a top-to-bottom review of procedures, workplace procedures and other things".
The FAA issued new air traffic rules for flights with Mrs. Obama or the vice President. An air traffic supervisor instead of a controller processes these flights, the Agency said. A supervisor treats all flights with the President.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Shakirullah Jan, upheld a decision by the Lahore High Court and acquitted five of the accused in a judgment that rested on flaws in the prosecution’s account of the rape and discrepancies in Ms. Mukhtar’s statements during initial investigations.
The five men who were acquitted have been jailed for years already in connection with the rape, which occurred in 2002, and are expected to be released this week. The sixth, Abdul Khaliq, is to complete a life sentence.
Ms. Mukhtar was raped on the orders of the village council in Meerwala, a dusty farming village in Punjab Province in a case that jolted the country and ignited international outrage.
The rape was said to be a punishment for her younger brother’s supposed illicit relations with a woman from a rival tribe, the Mastoi. Later police investigations found that the boy had been molested by three Mastoi tribesmen and that the accusation against him had been a cover-up.
Ms. Mukhtar became a cause célèbre among human rights advocates after she spoke out against the crime, and her ensuing legal struggle became a source of strength and inspiration for rape victims. She also set up two schools in her village.
“I am deeply upset by the decision of the Supreme Court,” she said by telephone from Meerwala. “Now I don’t have confidence in any court. But the court of God is bigger than any worldly court.”
She also expressed concern for her safety, saying, “The Supreme Court will be responsible if something happens to me or my family.”
Ms. Mukhtar said that she was informed of the court hearing on Wednesday night and wanted to attend it the next day, but that her lawyer, Aitzaz Ahsan, advised her not to. Mr. Ahsan could not be reached for comment despite repeated efforts.
“He said that the court would already have made up its mind, and there was little use in my traveling through the night to reach Islamabad,” she said.
Ms. Mukhtar appeared to be resigned to the decision. “I leave everything in the court of God,” she said.
The legal battle took many twists and turns in the past nine years. Fourteen men were initially charged in the case in 2002, and six — the leader of the village council, a council member and the four men accused of carrying out the rape — were convicted and sentenced to death that year.
In March 2005, the Lahore High Court overturned the convictions of five of the men and commuted the death sentence of the sixth to life in prison.
Women’s rights advocates said the Supreme Court decision was a reflection of a flawed criminal justice system. “Mukhtar’s case was so well known, and for nine years we had been campaigning, and even then if she cannot get justice, then there is no hope for any victim,” said Farzana Bari, a rights activist in Islamabad who attended the court hearing.
The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch expressed dismay at the decision, saying in a statement that it was “a setback for Mukhtar Mai, the broader struggle to end violence against women and the cause of an independent rights-respecting judiciary in Pakistan.”
But some lawyers disagreed with the criticism and said that the bench included two of the finest judges of the Supreme Court, who ruled on the basis of the evidence before them.
“Part of the problem is that there were certain statements that Ms. Mukhtar made and later denied, but police officers had recorded them,” said Feisal H. Naqvi, a prominent lawyer. “There were certain discrepancies between her statements originally and her statement subsequently.”
While one judge might overlook the discrepancies, another might feel obliged to disqualify the evidence, Mr. Naqvi said. “It is a judgment that I disagree with,” he said, “but it is not a judgment that I disrespect.”
While they were greeted by the buckling roads and collapsed houses familiar to many Japanese in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that wrought such destruction here on March 11, they faced the added burden that dangerous radiation levels from the Daiichi plant might mean they were saying goodbye to their homes for months or years. Some worried they would never return.
In Okuma and nearby towns inside the 12-mile zone around the plant declared off limits by the government, those who returned encountered a ghost town where traffic lights did not function and abandoned dogs lolled in the empty streets.
At a family farm in nearby Tomioka, cows had the run of the place, eating the lettuce in the garden and roaming through the front yard. At a farm in Namie, the scene was grisly: about 40 cows, chained to their posts, lay dead, side by side, in two adjacent barns. Another dead cow was sprawled across the road, blood oozing from its mouth. A few live cows sat serenely nearby, as if nothing had happened.
In Futaba, a town next to the plant, several signs stretching across the empty streets extolled the virtues of atomic energy. “Nuclear power is energy for a brighter future,” read one. Another said, “The correct understanding of nuclear power leads to a better life.”
And at the gate of the Fukushima Daiichi plant itself, workers in white suits and masks turned away an unauthorized car while photographing its license plate. On a board behind the workers someone had written, “Don’t give up.”
The crippled reactors themselves, and the undoubtedly frenzied work going on there, were obscured by hills, some with cherry trees in full blossom.
While the government ordered an evacuation of the area shortly after the nuclear emergency began, it has not enforced the edict until now, and residents have been slipping back into the zone to retrieve their belongings.
Radiation levels around the plant have fallen sharply since the days just after the accident, clearing the way for returnees. A reporter who roamed through various parts of the evacuation zone for five hours on Thursday had a total exposure of about 50 microsieverts, about the same as one would experience on a round-trip flight between New York and Los Angeles.
With the government now enforcing the evacuation order, there is the question of whether those who have ignored it until now will leave. The government says 78,200 people lived within the 12-mile radius of the plant before the earthquake. A police spokesman in Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located, said spot checks on 3,378 addresses in the past three weeks found people at 63 of them.
An additional 62,400 people live 12 to 18 miles from the plant. They were urged to evacuate or to remain indoors.
Tadanori and Eiko Watanabe, who live in that outer zone, about 17 miles from the power plant, have done neither. While worried about radiation, they refused to abandon their 16 beef cows. “Our cows are like our family, and we can’t leave them here,” said Ms. Watanabe, as she and her husband carted away manure in wheelbarrows.
Most of their neighbors have long since left, and their houses are dark. “Especially at night it’s scary,” Ms. Watanabe said, adding that she and her husband passed the time watching television. Ms. Watanabe said that if she were ordered to evacuate, rather than just urged to do so, she would obey. “We’re looking for a place we can go with the cows,” she said.
Kiyoshi Abe, a farmer in Minamisoma who lives about eight miles from the nuclear plant, said he was the only one in his neighborhood not to evacuate. “I’m amazed the Japanese are so obedient,” he said by telephone.
But Mr. Abe, who is 83, said that at his age, “I don’t care about a little bit of radiation.” He also has cancer, which he said might worsen if he had to move.
Ken Ijichi contributed reporting from Okuma, Japan, and Yasuko Kamiizumi from Tokyo.
President Yoweri Museveni addressed the nation on Thursday evening, defending his government’s action against protesters and the spending decisions that the protesters blame for the rising cost of living.
“Nobody can take over power through an uprising,” Mr. Museveni said in televised remarks that were transcribed by New Vision, a state-owned newspaper. “Whoever thinks like that, I pity such a person.”
Demonstrations over rising food and fuel prices started two weeks ago, spearheaded by two politicians who lost to Mr. Museveni in elections in February.
Despite the meager size of the protests, government security forces have responded with overwhelming force, killing at least five people since the protests began, including a young child, and wounding and arresting hundreds more.
On Thursday, the former presidential candidate who is the protest leader, Kizza Besigye, was bundled into a police van and taken to court within minutes of stepping onto a Kampala street. But unlike his previous arrests during the protest movement, Mr. Besigye was not granted bail on Thursday, and was later whisked away to a prison far outside of the city.
Norbert Mao, another jailed former presidential candidate who is leading protests, was transferred to the same prison outside of Kampala, indicating a growing sensitivity on the part of the government to the politicians’ provocations and influence.
Until Thursday, the protesters in Kampala seemed only as bold as the senior politicians often at the front of the march. But with the leaders jailed, the demonstrations on Thursday grew on their own and evolved into a violent parade of protesters, some holding up banners attacking government corruption, and many with rocks.
“The situation is pushing us,” said Jamo Luyombya, 24, a day laborer. “They are controlling us with the power of the gun, but not with their power of love.”
In Kampala, heavily armed soldiers and police officers fought running street battles with stone-wielding protesters through a popular market as thousands stood on rooftops and balconies to watch.
In the town of Masaka, far from journalists covering the protests in Kampala, a 2-year-old was killed after being shot in the chest and head when the police opened fire with live ammunition near a crowd of unarmed protesters, according to Ugandan news reports.
Many more were reported wounded in Masaka, and two police officers were hospitalized after being severely beaten by protesters there, the police said. A news report said that the two officers had died on the way to the hospital.
“The Ugandan government must immediately end the excessive use of force against protesters,” Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday. “The police have a duty to protect themselves and uphold the law, but it is completely unacceptable to fire live ammunition at peaceful protesters.”
The events could prove pivotal for a movement that so far has failed to gain the same momentum and social cohesion as protests over similar concerns in northern Africa.
“The rioting shows that people need change of government,” said Annek Cabine, a bystander at the market where the protest came through. “Otherwise, this problem could become like Libya.”
But many still see the protest movement as contrived, propped up by politicians bitter over brutal electoral losses. Others wonder whether it has a chance of displacing Mr. Museveni, who has been in power for a quarter-century.
“The key to regime change is of course the army,” said Dr. Elliot Green, a Uganda specialist at the London School of Economics, who said that Mr. Museveni had “done well” in keeping the army “in his pocket.”
But Dr. Green said Africa had a long history of urban food riots that brought down governments.
“Obviously the current situation in Burkina Faso should also worry Museveni, where a riot by soldiers was sparked by a food riot,” said Dr. Green. “Museveni has a lot to be worried about.”
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WASHINGTON-Russia is pulling out of a program that poured $ 1 billion from the U.S. government and other foreign donors into the research labs that built the Soviet Union's vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
Officials with the International Science and Technology Center are negotiating to close the Moscow headquarters of the organization, which was formed in 1994, three years after the Soviet Union collapsed. The center gave tens of thousands of experts in nuclear, chemical and biological warfare the chance to engage in civilian research and work with colleagues from the U.S. and other nations that once stood on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
The program helped pay the salaries of Russian weapons scientists who otherwise might have sold their services to rogue regimes or terrorists after the Cold War, but it long outlived the crisis that inspired its creation. Russia came to regard the intergovernmental program as obsolete as the country's economy surged over the past decade.
Russia's U.S. ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, who negotiated the establishment of the center, told The Associated Press that his country no longer needs it. "The mission has been accomplished," he said. "It is a little bit outdated."
U.S. congressional investigators concluded that U.S. taxpayer money helped Russia's weapons institutes stay in business by recruiting younger scientists and retaining key personnel who might otherwise have moved to the West--a finding at odds with the program's goal of reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Foreign aid programs helped keep Russia afloat as it lurched from crisis to crisis in the 1990s. But the Kremlin has been phasing out these programs in recent years, saying in effect it no longer needs to be treated as a charity case.
In August, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's office issued a brief statement announcing Russia's withdrawal from the program in six months. The Center's director, Adriaan van der Meer, said he is negotiating the terms of the closure and hopes to win an agreement for "an orderly wind down" over the next several years of 355 Russian projects worth about $ 155 million.
Van der Meer said the center will continue working in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and several Central Asian states, where it runs about $ 95 million worth of projects. Over the past 17 years, the center has tracked space debris, developed fusion power, searched for vaccines against deadly diseases like Ebola and much more.
When the program began after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian economy was in shambles and the government struggled to pay salaries in secret cities where armies of technicians, engineers and scientists designed and built weapons.
"It really provided a lifeline in the 1990s for people who were underpaid or underemployed and might otherwise have gotten desperate enough to sell their services elsewhere," said Matthew Bunn of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Today Russia pumps more oil than Saudi Arabia, holds almost $ 500 billion in currency reserves and by one measure has the world's seventh-largest economy. Increasingly, the Russian government has regarded foreign aid as an embarrassing reminder of its past dependence on aid. But some arms control experts said Russia's decision may also have been motivated by security concerns.
Retired U.S. Army Brig Gen. Kevin Ryan, executive director for research at the Belfer Center, said that both Russia's Federal Security Service and the FBI have long worried that Russian and U.S. weapons scientists working together on peaceful projects might inadvertently spilling state secrets. "That's the risk for everybody, but they consider it a higher risk than we do," Ryan said.
The U.S. contributes about one-third of the money for the Center's projects, van der Meer said, while the European Union pays for another third, and Canada, Norway, Japan and South Korea the rest.
Arms control advocates such as Ryan say the program still plays a vital role by supplementing salaries at underfunded weapons institutes and fostering ties between Russian and Western scientists.
A 2007 Government Accountability Office study of U.S. Energy Department collaborative research programs in Russia found that senior officials at many former Soviet labs believed there was no longer any need for Western financial support.
Lab officials in Russia and Ukraine told the GAO, Congress ' investigative arm, that foreign grants had helped them recruit and retain key personnel, preventing them from emigrating to the United States or other advanced industrial nations. These officials told the GAO that there was "little danger of scientists migrating to countries of concern," according to the 2007 study.
The center was prohibited from funding weapons work: The point was to introduce weapons scientists to civilian research. Congress objected when it discovered in 2008 that some of the institutes receiving U.S. aid were also working with Iran's nuclear program, specifically the recently completed nuclear power plant at Bushehr. The U.S. has long contended that Iranian officials use the Bushehr civilian power project as cover for pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Iran has always denied it is seeking to build atomic weapons.
Relations between the U.S. and Russia have roller coastered since the center opened in 1994, reaching a high point after the September 2001 terrorist attacks and a post-Cold War low in the aftermath of the August 2008 war between Georgia and Russia.
Under the Obama administration's reset or ties with Russia, Moscow has agreed to let the U.S. ship military supplies to Afghanistan through its territory, supported tough new U.N. sanctions against Iran and signed the New START treaty reducing the ceiling on both countries ' nuclear arsenals.
Despite these improvements, U.S. intelligence officials say Russia remains wary of U.S. intentions. "Russian military programs are driven largely by Moscow's perception that the United States and NATO are Russia's principal strategic challenges and greatest potential threat," James Clapper, director of national intelligence, told Congress in March.
Russia has recently launched a $ 700 billion drive to modernize its nuclear and conventional military forces by 2020.
Henry Sokolski, who once served as the Pentagon's deputy for nonproliferation policy and is now director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit, said the International Science and Technology Center leaves a mixed legacy. "Whatever good it might have done to deflect weapons activities, it probably undid by supporting these institutes, which are weapons institutes," he said.
Ryan said that even if Western aid has helped Russia's military institutes, they represent little threat to the U.S. compared with the weapons programs of countries like Iran and North Korea.
"We have disagreements (with Russia), but we're not on the verge of war," he said. "If you look at the results of the product or the Russian military-industrial complex right now, I don't think we ought to be concerned."
Van der Meer credited with creating the Moscow center almost from scratch a civilian research community in Russia in Soviet times, where 85 percent of scientists worked in military labs. Tens of thousands of them worked in "closed cities" that didn't appear on any maps. Van der Meer and several U.S. officials said they hoped the Center's programs could continue in some form in Russia.
"It would be very silly to destroy the investment or about $ 1 billion over the years," van der Meer said.
Florida officials are said to be an investigation into an unemployment agency that red capes to jobseekers on the hunt for their next paycheck that thousands of dollars to expand.
Workplace Central Florida launched its "Cape-A-investigative actions Challenge" on 11 April as a way for unemployed Floridians to take over Dr. Evil "unemployment" in the comic book-themed campaign by the Agency, which runs through 30 June.
As part of the new campaign workplace Central Florida spent a reported $ 14,000 on red capes to handing out to jobseekers who do one of the various tasks that are described on the website of the Agency, WFTV.com reports.
To enter the contest, job seekers and employers take an online quiz, a vacancy online sites or take a photo with the "evil" unemployment character.
"Once the task is complete, should jobseekers visit every workplace Central Florida or JobVantage office with proof of the activity," reads a 12 April news release. "All job-seekers who are evidence of the activity will be provided the official entry form and an official investigation Cape-A-cape (while supplies last)."
The campaign, including a promotional video President Owen Wentworth actors in a red cape, reportedly costs $ 73,000, WFTV.com reports.
Job seekers such as Gregory Bryant told the website that the capes are a waste of money and that he is offended by the cartoon-like image of unemployed.
"It is a mockery for the Americans," he told the website.
Florida's Agency for workforce innovation, which some supervision of regional boards, sent a letter to employees Central Florida asked the campaign "insensitive and wastage," WFTV.com-reports.
Workforce Central Florida was previously investigated by officials in 2006, when it was ordered to pay almost $ 3.5 million to the Federal Government to settle claims that it abused public money, WFTV.com reports.
A message seeking comment from FoxNews.com workplace Central Florida officials was not immediately returned on Wednesday.
TOKYO--Japanese authorities may, for the first time should strictly implement their evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear plant Wednesday, citing concerns about radiation risks to the residents back to check on their homes.
Approximately 70,000-80,000 people in the 10 towns and villages within 12 miles of the plant Fukushima Dai-ichi lived before 11 March earthquake and tsunami wrecked his power and cooling systems, setting off the worst crisis since the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
Virtually all of the residents leave when the Government ordered the area evacuated on 12 March, but some occasionally have returned and police don't block them legally. There is currently no penalty for violating the zone.
"We consider set ' Note areas ' as an option for actually limiting input" in the zone, first Cabinet Minister Yukio Edano said.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan will meet with local officials and evacuees to discuss the plans during a visit to the stricken region Thursday, Edano said.
Now that the situation in the factory seems to have stabilized somewhat, both residents and authorities consider how to best weather a prolonged evacuation. Residents have requested they be allowed to check their houses and possessions, collecting while government officials are worried about the radiation exposure.
Some police roadblocks on the main roads in the area have set up but only write down license plate numbers of cars.
"There is a realization of a need for a stronger implementation of the space," said Noriyuki Shikata, one of Edano of Deputies. "Both the matter of ... strong enforcement of the area and a realisation of the temporarily go back home is something we need to closely coordinate with local municipalities."
Shikata has no details of how the Government could restrict entry to the area or when the restrictions would be introduced.
"There are also issues relating to non-residents who are entering the area. There are people who can steal things, "he said.
May, who is also a nuclear crisis management center during his trip Thursday will visit, is under fire from the opposition for the Government response to the nuclear crisis. Edano proposed that that plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. should have been better prepared.
"Apart from the question of whether the accident could have predicted, there was not enough preparation on the basis of an anticipation, and there is no mistake about that," he said. "We urge all nuclear operators immediately precautions every possible on the basis of the lesson from the Fukushima nuclear accident, and not wait for the details of the accident were examined.
In a step towards restoration of the crippled plant cooling systems, has TEPCO pumps are highly radioactive water from the basement of one of the turbine buildings to a makeshift storage area. Freeing the factory of pools of polluted water will free access for workers trying to recover from the plant cooling systems, but it may take months.
Still, a high official at the UN nuclear agency suggested the worst of the radiation leaks can be passed.
The total amount of radiation released are expected to be only a "small increase of what it is now" as "things go on as planned," said Dennis Flory, a Deputy Director-General to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
IAEA experts discuss ways to help Japan objectives laid down in a blueprint for ending the crisis that TEPCO released over the weekend. His plans call for the achievement of a cold shutdown of the plant within nine months. But government officials acknowledge that setbacks the timeline could slow down.
In the meantime, TEPCO remains spray of water in the reactors and their spent fuel storage pools to prevent them from overheating and releasing even more radiation.
TEPCO said on Wednesday that it has begun distributing applications for compensation to residents forced to evacuate from their homes around the plant. The company is offering about $ 12,000 per household as interim compensation.
People elsewhere in the disaster zone who lost houses and other damage say help has been slow to materialize.
Meanwhile, trade figures show that Japan exports declined for the first time in 16 months in March, the effects of the disasters that destroyed factories and ports has become corrupt.
Automatic export mainly took a beating, falling by 28%, such as Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co., and Nissan Motor Co. were forced to suspend production due to lack of parts.
BEIJING-an unusually large group of 10 US Senators visited by the authorities on the country's embattled dissident community in China on Wednesday amid a major crackdown.
It was one of the largest and most senior Senatorial delegations ever set foot in China. The visit was in the works for some time, but was delayed by negotiations in Washington about the federal budget.
On Wednesday, members of the delegation, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met Vice Premier Wang Qishan and central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan in Beijing to discuss trade and finance.
Details of the discussions were not immediately released, but Wang said the size of the delegation the importance Washington placed on bilateral relations showed.
Reid said he expects the negotiations "free flowing".
The Group was scheduled for Thursday with Vice President Xi Jinping, widely touted as the next leader of China, and the head of China's rubber-stamp legislature, Wu Bangguo, for travel to the cities of Chengdu and Xi'an. Last three days was their visit expected.
"During talks with Chinese officials, the group will discuss including clean energy, trade, currency, foreign policy and human rights," the delegation said in a statement issued on his arrival in Hong Kong on Monday.
China's yawning trade surplus with the United States and the allegations that it deliberately undervalues its currency, the yuan, to stimulate exports is expected to feature prominently in the talks.
The delegation comprises together with Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Republicans Richard Shelby of Alabama and Mike Enzi of Wyoming.
Dozens of well-known Chinese lawyers and activists from all over the country are gone, interrogated or criminally detained for subversion in the 2-month-old crackdown, apparently sparked by the Chinese Government fears of a Middle East-style anti-Government protest movement.
Human rights groups say the crackdown on a scale not seen in many years, with the security forces arbitrary tactics to hold in their houses in spite of the Chinese law people. China has responded to complaints about the crackdown by those detainees, including internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, use of the law as cover for attacks on the ruling Communist Party to blame.
NEW ORLEANS--relatives of the 11 men who were aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform died flying over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, back to the epicenter of the worst offshore oil disaster in the history of the nation.
Meanwhile, on land, Vigils were planned in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on the occasion of the leakage.
On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a rig operated by Transocean Ltd, burst into flames if it is a good for BP PLC. drilling was, killing 11 workers at or near the drilling floor. The rest of the crew evacuated, but two days later toppled the rig in the Gulf and sank to the seabed. The bodies were never found.
In the next 85 days, 206 million litres of oil--19 times more than the Exxon Valdez spilled--spewed from the well. In response, the nation's largest offshore fleet of ships command since d-day and BP spent billions of dollars in cleaning up the mess, self storing collapse.
"I can't believe that tomorrow a year because it seems like everything just happened," Courtney Kemp, whose husband Roy Wyatt Kemp was killed on the rig, wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday. "I've learned a lot of things through all this, but the important thing is to live each day as if it were your last. .. What matters is if you really live."
Transocean invited to three members of each family to attend the flyover. They are expected to fund a $ 20 billion by BP founded ciom, she said.
Still, it's not all so gloomy.
Congestion on the roads narrow coast of Alabama, crowded seafood restaurants in Florida and families holiday along the Louisiana coast attest to the fact that familiar routines return, albeit slowly.
"We used to fuss about that," said Ike Williams, referring to the heavy traffic headed for the water in Gulf Shores, Alabama, where he chairs and sunshades to beachgoers hires. "But it was such a welcome face."
Many questions linger: the fishing industry will recover? The environment will bounce back completely? Accepts an oil-hungry audience ever more deep water drilling?
"It looks like it is all gone," said Tyler priest, a historian oil on the University of Houston. "People have turned their attention elsewhere. But it will play like Exxon Valdez did. There will be 20 years of litigation. "
Most scientists agree the effects "were not as severe as many had predicted," said Christopher D'Elia, Dean at the School of the coast and the environment to the Louisiana State University. "People had said this was an ecological Armageddon, and that did not come to pass."
Biologists are concerned about the impact of the spill in the long term for the marine environment.
"There are these cascading effects," said D'Elia. "It would be accumulation of toxins in the food chain, or changes in the food Web. Some species can dominate. "
Meanwhile, accumulated oil is believed to lie on the floor of the Gulf, and it still shows up as a thick, sticky black crust along miles of Louisiana's swampy shoreliand distant memory, "said Douglas Brinkley, a historian from the University of the rice. But the accident will affect long-term environmental history, he said.
Brewer kills ' Birther ' Bill for presidential candidates-Ariz. Gov vetoes Bill allowing Guns on Campus
PHOENIX--Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill that required President would have Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their American citizenship before their names may appear on the ballot of the State.
The Bill would have made Arizona the first State to give such a requirement. Opponents had warned that the Bill would give another black eye Arizona after last year's controversy over the State of illegal immigration enforcement law.
Brewer said in her letter that they veto was concerned that the Bill empowered Arizona's Minister of Foreign Affairs to the qualifications of all candidates to assess when they file to run for office.
"I do not support the designation of one person as the gatekeeper to the vote for a candidate, which in a way resulting in arbitrary or politically motivated acts can lead," said Brewer, who was Secretary of State until they became Governor in 2009.
"Moreover, I never thought is presented with a bill that would allow candidates for the Presidency of the largest and most powerful nation on Earth require to submit their ' early baptismal certificates ' circumcision among other records to the Arizona secretary of state" she said. "This is a bridge too far."
The certificates were among the documents that a candidate could have filed under the invoice instead of a birth certificate.
So-called "birthers" claim there is no evidence that Obama was born in the United States, and he is therefore ineligible to become part of the President. But Hawaii officials are certified that Obama was born in that State.
The u.s. Constitution requires that presidential candidates "natural born" American citizens, be at least 35 years old, and a resident of the United States are at least 14 years. Opponents questioned whether Arizona's bill would have added additional requirements.
The measure would require that political parties and presidential candidates hand in affidavits stating the citizenship and age of a candidate. It would also have required of the applicant's birth certificate and a sworn statement saying where the applicant has lived for 14 years.
If candidates do not have a copy of their birth certificates, they can meet the requirement by providing baptism or circumcision hospital birth certificates, records and other documents.
If it could not be determined whether candidates who documents in place of their birth certificates that are eligible to appear on the ballot were, the Minister of Foreign Affairs been able to set up a Committee to determine whether the requirements were met. The names of the candidates are kept off the vote as the Minister of Foreign Affairs did not believe that the candidates the citizenship requirement.
The Bill a does not explicitly a review procedure before a candidate whose name from the vote was held.
Sponsor of the draft law, Republican Rep. Carl Seel of Phoenix, declined immediate comment on Monday, the right of veto. But he said earlier that the President's birth record would not meet the requirements of his proposal and that Obama should provide other records, such as baptism certificates and hospital records.
RALEIGH, NC--the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her was charged Monday with murder in the death of her friend.
Crystal Mangum was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and two counts of theft. She has been in prison since April 3, when the police her with stabbing attack in the 46-year-old Reginald Daye. He died after almost two weeks in a hospital.
A lawyer for Mangum and officials in the district attorney's office did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Mangum, accused lacrosse players of raping her in a 2006 Party complained against, she was hired to perform as a stripper. The case heightened long-standing tensions in Durham about race, class and the privileged status of college athletes.
Prosecutors declined to charge for the false accusations, but Mangum bizarre legal problems have continued.
Last year, she was convicted of felony charges after her house with her three children within a fire setting that almost were torched. In a videotaped police interrogation she told officers she got into a confrontation with her boyfriend at the time--not Daye--and burned his clothes, the windshield of his car destroyed and threatened to cross him.
Friends said Mangum has never recovered from the stigma placed by the case lacrosse and has been involved in a series of questionable relationships in an effort to ensure stability for her children. Vincent Clark, a friend who co-authored Mangum of self-published memoir, said that he hopes that people won't rush to judgment--echoing one of the lessons the oft-quoted from the lacrosse case itself.
Clark said that Mangum realizes that she has mental problems.
"I'm sorry for her. I hope that people realize how difficult it is to her, "said Clark.
When the Daye cousin spoke to a 911 dispatcher after the stabbing, he referred the Mangum still wearing fame.
"It is Crystal Mangum. The Crystal Mangum, "said the cousin, whose name was removed from a publicly released version of the emergency call. "I told him they damn problems from the beginning."
First impressions in consumer electronics, like dating, a world of difference: blow the launch and you're in for a hard landing.
That's why the BlackBerry PlayBook has been getting such dim reviews--if it's not love at first sight, a second look of a consumer, in particular with the handsome, capable Apple iPad out there are not.
Let us be clear, that no one doubts that BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion to build a killer business tablet can--but for some reason the company yet.
I've been using the PlayBook for a few days now and found a catalogue of shortcomings: no email, no calendar, no contacts, no 3 G cellular service, very few apps. The list goes on. Sure you can some of these functions if you link with your existing BlackBerry phone, but come on--this stuff must be baked right in.
And if you don't have a BlackBerry you'll be left feeling that this company does not want anything to do with you.
Open up the BlackBerry App world market on the PlayBook takes you to a half-abandoned strip mall where the only shops left a general Dollar and a laundrette. Look, it's not the amount of apps that matter, it is the quality. Apart from a paltry few dozen apps, those who created it in the store look like they were made in a long weekend.
RIM claims to be a whopping 3000 apps already submitted. We'll see--not yet ready, and we have no indication when they will be ready. And brace yourself: The PlayBook will not play any of the apps available through the BlackBerry App Store.
That's right, that the BlackBerry PlayBook App Store is completely independent from the BlackBerry App store. Huh?
Consumers will demand a few quality core apps that simply don't exist yet, it seems. I wanted to Pandora--nope. I wanted a quality Twitter app--nope. Quality games--nope. I was able to find a ' how to speak Swedish ' app.
What frustrates me most is that the user experience does not match the hardware. The PlayBook and offers a nice rubberized design, a beautiful screen, dual quality speakers at the front for stereo sound and two beautiful cameras (one on the front side a on the back). It is a fast, powerful and solid, but the experience is half-baked.
The operating system feels like a cross between Palm's Web OS and Apple's iOS, thanks to a sprinkling of features here and there as a pinch-op-zoom, map stack, and the ability to hold your finger down on an icon to remove or rearrange an application.
The BlackBerry PlayBook has the most beautiful multitasking experience of a tablet, in his favor--swipe up to show your apps available, from left to right the apps that you run, or swipe down to see your toolbar to see. It felt just right, and I've really enjoyed that.
You are not going to beat Apple by Apple to copy, and initially I thought RIM maybe the company to compete by creating something original. A company tablet for the Wall Street PowerPoint-loving crowd, perhaps? Not only did RIM's PlayBook not to compete with Apple not to compete in the very niche it calls the bread and butter: the business user.
BlackBerry might certainly these flaws within the next few months. But the first impressions matter.
WASHINGTON--Democratic officials said Monday that retired Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez is expected to run for the u.s. Senate in Texas, Democrats a high-profile recruit to the seat being vacated by GOP Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not competent to discuss private conversations with Sanchez.
Sanchez is a retired Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the coalition forces in Iraq was when revelations about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib became known. He got from his command in June 2004 and has since maintained that he never authorized torture in prison. He retired from the army in 2006, the Abu Ghraib scandal of the blame for his retirement.
Sanchez would be the first prominent Democrat to search Hutchison the seat. Last week, said senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., who runs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, that they expected to be a strong candidate in Texas. Two Democratic officials with firsthand knowledge of Murray's plans, she said, referring to Sanchez.
The Associated Press reached Sanchez by telephone at his home in San Antonio, but Sanchez asked the reporter to call back in a few minutes. When the number was chosen, the phone was disabled and went directly to voicemail. He did not immediately return a message.
Sanchez is so far the only prominent Democrat in the race to replace Hutchison, Republicans have in the row for a shot at the seat. Frontrunners are rich Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, former Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams and current Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones. Other GOP candidates are former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz. Hutchison announced in January she would retire at the end of its current mandate.
Despite the taint from the scandal of Abu Ghraib would Democrats Sanchez a credible candidate. They call his military background, centrist bona fides, ability to tap into Texas money, a growing pool of Hispanic voters and a potentially fractious Republican primary.
Matt Canter, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a statement in which he spoke warmly of the retired general.
"General Sanchez has spent his entire life in our own country, and there is no doubt that he would be a strong candidate if he decides to continue to serve his country in the Senate," Gallop said. "He has a huge life story, arms, rose to the rank of General in the army, and courageous leads more than one hundred thousand troops in both Gulf Wars growing up."
Sanchez served as the Commander of US troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. That time included the revelations about abuse at Abu Ghraib. Sanchez was never directly linked to misbehavior--and maintains he had no knowledge about events in prison--but the issue is certain to come as the race enters.
Since leaving the military, Sanchez has written a book and openly critical of U.S. military strategy in Iraq, particularly the swing. He has also called himself a "progressive" in an interview, as well as a fiscal conservatives.
BEIJING-a Chinese farmer has called the death sentence he got for raping 116 women, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.
Dai Qingcheng, 46, received the death penalty in December for raping women between 1993 and 2009 in the Eastern Province of Anhui in Eastern China, the China Daily reported.
The paper said he appealed to the higher people's Court in Anhui Province, but said no when the case would be treated.
Dai usually preyed on women migrant workers who had gone to bigger cities for work, says the report. His victims ranged from young girls to women in the 1950s and included a woman who was six months pregnant.
The China Daily quoted police as saying Dai evaded capture for so long because some of his victims were too ashamed to go to the police.
The Dai lawyer during his trial, Ming Tian, told the newspaper that he didn't expect the appeal to be successful that had because there is no new evidence. He has not said what Dai was based his appeal on.
Insists that the Court went unanswered Tuesday.
TOKYO-the operator of Japan the crippled nuclear plant began pumping highly radioactive water Tuesday out of the cellar of one of his buildings to a makeshift storage area in a crucial step towards easing the nuclear crisis.
Removing the 25,000 tons of contaminated water collected in the basement of a building in unit 2 of the plant Fukushima Dai-ichi turbine will help access for employees trying to restore vital cooling systems that were eliminated in the 11 March tsunami.
It is but one of the many steps in a lengthy process to resolve the crisis. Tokyo Electric Power Co. projected into a roadmap released at the weekend that it would be up to nine months to reach a cold shutdown of the plant. But government officials acknowledge that setbacks the timeline could slow down.
The water will be removed in stages, with the first third of it be treated in the next 20 days, said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan of nuclear and industrial safety agency. In all, there are 70,000 tons of contaminated water to be removed from the plant the reactor and the turbine buildings and nearby trenches, and the whole process may take months.
TEPCO brings the water to a storage building that was flooded with light during the tsunami that later became contaminated water pumped into the ocean to space for the highly contaminated water. The operator is also trying to develop a system for the disinfecting of incoming water so that it can be reused to cool the plant reactors, Nishiyama said.
"We hope to gradually contaminated water through that process," he said, adding that the "some months" would take to this system ready.
Once the polluted water in the premises of the plant is safely removed and radioactivity refuse, employees can begin repairing the cooling for the reactors of the units 1, 2 and 3, which employed at the time of the tsunami were. Employees must also restore cooling features on five of the plant spent fuel pools, one for each of units 1-4 and a shared pool for units 5 and 6, which in a cold shutdown on 11 March.
Cold shutdown is when a reactor core stable at temperatures below 100 Celsius.
Some residents who were evacuated from around the Fukushima plant, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, began with Japan's nuclear crisis dragging on, moving from school gymnasiums in temporary housing. Hundreds of which have not found apartments or relatives to take them in began filling up inns in hot springs.
"The Government has asked us to be ready to take in as much as 200 evacuees for the next four months at least," said Masaki Hata, whose family the Yoshikawaya Hot Springs Inn is performed on the edge of Fukushima Prefecture for seven generations.
Michiaki Niitsuma, a 27-year-old office worker, said he was happy to be a comfortable place to stay while he waited to go home.
"My children sick in the shelter. It was cold. It is much better here. It is a relief, "he said.
TEPCO In the blueprint for the reactors to stabilize, the tool aims to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools and radiation leaks in the next three months. Within 6-9 months is the goal of a cold shutdown of the reactors and the buildings, possibly with a form of industrial canvas, to deter any further tamp cover possible radiation leaks.
Two remote-controlled robots in the buildings of the reactor unit 1 and unit 3 shipped on Sunday showed that radiation levels within--to 57 millisieverts per hour--still too high for humans were realistic.
The packbots U.S.-created, which resemble drafting lamps on tank-like treads, were also briefly sent unit 2 on Monday, officials said, and the radiation level turned out to be a much lower 4.1 millisieverts per hour.
But the high level of humidity inside the reactor building fogged the robot's camera lens, making it difficult to see conditions inside. They were withdrawn after less than an hour, said officials.
"We don't want where the robot was able to pick up and then not forget," said TEPCO manager Hikaru Kuroda.
The reason for the higher air humidity was not clear, but it suggests that employees--if they were to go within--would also have difficulties seeing through their masks, Kuroda said.
NASA promised Monday what amounts to a $ 270 million deposit on the space shuttle future agency post, four companies of the burden in private space flight post are to provide financial support.
This is the second--and much larger--round of funding in NASA's commercial crew development (CCDev) program, which to drive efforts by private companies for the development of viable human spaceflight capabilities, such as the decades-long era of the space shuttle comes to an end.
"The next vehicle to carry American flag our astronauts in space is going to be a U.S. commercial provider," said Ed Mango, NASA's commercial crew program manager. "The partnership with industry is forming NASA will support the development of multiple American future systems that can provide access to low-Earth orbit."
The grants include:
Blue origin, from Kent, Washington, 22 million dollars for orbital commercial aerospace vehicle design and development, including the pusher escape system testing and motor.
sierra nevada Corp. of Louisville, Colorado, that $ 80 million to mature the dream Chaser system receives, focused on several spacecraft.
SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, who flew the Dragon capsule to orbit and restored it with success last year, 75 million dollars for different items.
The Boeing Company of Houston, Texas, whose team includes Bigelow Aerospace, which 92.3 million dollars for a variety of items.
The varying amounts of the prizes are not indicative of their merit, NASA warned. Indeed, the companies is awarded are not all competing to build an end-to-end spacecraft; Some launchers are building, while others will be based on missiles, the United Launch Alliance to enter their spacecraft to heaven.
Indeed, SpaceX (and Orbital Sciences Corp) have separate agreements with NASA to cargo supply flights to the space station after the retirement of the shuttle.
Space efforts of these companies are not only funded by taxpayer dollars, of course; each company is investing his own money. NASA awards grant only when specific milestones are met, Eric Anderson, President of the commercial aerospace Federation explained.
"These companies are investing their own money in addition to NASA's money to add even more investments in the definitive system," he explained in a statement congratulating the winners. "Every taxpayer dollars go further."
Of all the companies is the mysterious blue origin, founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, the least known. NASA selected the company for the Pusher escape system, a launch abort system, but the space agency also said that the company was working on a capsule design that has seen little exposure of the public.
NASA spent $ 50 million on the CCDev program in 2009 and plans to invest an additional $ 850 million next year in the next phase of the programme, CCDev 3.
The Agency hopes that "paying products" by mid decade.
"Mid-decade is an important decade that we are going to try to go to," said Mango, pointing out that obtaining a vehicle State certification, profiling and numerous security checks to fly.
"We're working as fast as we, within the limits of safe space flight," Macalaster added. ' We are not around, we're going to hopefully make a lot of progress in the coming years, so we can get there as soon as we can.
SAN FRANCISCO-it's the lawsuit that just wouldn't die.
Despite the strong and clear statement relayed by one of the country's top courts last week, the Winklevoss twins on the Court of appeal Monday asked to reconsider her order requiring that they accept a settlement on the creation of Facebook, the most popular social network of the world.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claimed initially that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook; They agreed to their lawsuit in 2008 in exchange for 20 million dollars in cash plus shares in the company.
The twins say that later she discovered the stock was worth less than claimed at the time, and they sought to have the deal destroyed.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss--the former Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Zuckerberg--the argument that the twin savvy enough to understand what they were agreed to in 2008 they signed the agreement.
"At some point, disputes must come to an end," chief justice Alex Kozinksi wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel. "That point has now been achieved."
Not so fast, now claiming the lawyers.
Legal representatives for the Winklevosses have asked for a special 11-judge panel to consider their appeal, in the hope that the larger Panel finds things more in their favor.
"Or the appellants would be better off financially keeping the proceeds of the settlement instead of dissolution and deal with their lawsuit against Facebook a personal decision for them — not a Court of appeal — to create," their lawyers wrote.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were famous played by Armie Hammer in the social network, a Hollywood blockbuster that the events surrounding the creation of the 500-million-strong social network dramatized.
The original case came against Facebook in 2004, when the brothers claimed that Zuckerberg broke a verbal agreement with the plaintiffs ConnectU (originally called the Harvard connection). The twins alleged that Zuckerberg stole not only the code and the idea, he them jammed them so he could his site, thefacebook.com, first.
The suit was originally settled for $ 65 million in 2008, but the most recent lawsuit had claimed fraud for Facebook and Zuckerberg "not a more recent valuation of different Facebook stock volunteering." The settlement is now worth more than $ 160 million because of Facebook's more appreciation.
Facebook would not comment on the most recent Court movement, instead, tell FoxNews.com that "We the Ninth Circuit careful consideration of this matter to appreciate and are pleased that the Court in Facebook's favor."
Meanwhile, Facebook faces legal challenges on another front. Paul Ceglia, a businessman upstate New York, he claims that in 2003 a $ 1,000 investment in Facebook, which gave him the right to 50 percent made of what today is the 500 million user force powering social networks.
Facebook calls the emails--as well as Ceglia itself, and the whole thing--an utter fraud.
Beirut-Syrian security forces opened fire before dawn on hundreds of anti-government demonstrators staging a sit-in, shooting live ammunition and tear gas before they hunt through the streets for hours, witnesses said Tuesday.
There were victims but the exact number was not immediately clear.
"They shot at everything, there was smoke everywhere," an activist in the central city of Homs told The Associated Press by telephone, asking that his name not be used because he feared for his personal safety. "I saw people on the ground, some shot in their feet, some in the stomach."
The streets were largely deserted by early afternoon, with people stay inside their homes.
Monday, hundreds of people had gathered on the square of the clock in the Centre of Homs, mattresses, food and water to bring it to the site for a deadlock Egypt-style. They vowed to stay until President Bashar Assad is ousted--a brutal escalation of the monthlong rebellion against the country's authoritarian regime.
An eyewitness said police used loudspeakers to call on protestors to evacuate the area around 2 hours shortly thereafter, life security forces moved in, firing tear gas, then first ammunition on demonstrators on the run.
"They went to people at home, they arrested many," a resident Homs said by telephone. "We heard ambulances all night."
Three people in Homs confirmed the account, all of them asking for anonymity, for fear of reprisals from the Government.
The witnesses accounts cannot be independently confirmed because Syria has severe restrictions placed on media and foreign journalists expelled.
At least 200 people have died in the past month, as security forces have launched a deadly crackdown on a growing protest movement, say human rights groups. The Government has dry promises of reform should be accompanied with brutal tactics to quell the unrest, using the much despised unleash security forces and pro-regime villains known as shabiha.
The Government on Monday blamed the weeks of turmoil in ultra-conservative Muslims looking for a fundamentalist state--the last attempt to portray the reform movement such as populated by extremists.
Assad has played on the fears of sectarian warfare as he works to crush any popular support for the uprising.
The impasse in Homs Egypt-style funeral processions followed by more than 10,000 mourners for some of those killed in the clashes Sunday that left a rights group said at least 12 people dead.
The demonstrators, mostly young men but also women and children, had set up tents, bringing in mattresses, food and drink. A tent was declared a "national unity tent." Another "martyrs" tent set up to express support for the dead a day earlier, according to an eyewitness.
"Go," a banner afsmeektet Assad.
The Government has in the past want to stir up unrest for many of the murders "armed gangs" debt.
United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will be reserved for urgent issues of international peace and security to spend an entire day debating the rights of "mother earth".
A block of Socialist governments usually led by Bolivia raised the issue on the agenda of the General Assembly to discuss the establishment of a UN Convention that the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of human rights would give to mother nature.
Treaty supporters want the introduction of legal systems to the balance between human rights and what they perceive to be the inalienable rights of the other members of the Earth community--plants, animals, and the terrain.
Communities and environmental activists would be given more legal power to monitor and control industries and development to harmony between man and nature. Although the United States and other Western Governments are in favour of sustainable development, some see the upcoming event, "harmony with nature," as political grandstanding--an attempt to blame environmental degradation and climate change on capitalism.
"The concept of" Mother Earth "is not generally accepted," said a spokesman for the British mission to the UN about Bolivian proposal. "In general, our position is that we must focus on key sustainable development issues through existing channels and processes to deal with."
The General Assembly a resolution two years ago, Bolivia guided proclaim 22 April as international mother earth day. " The measure was approved by all 192 Member States. But the Bolivian President Evo Morales eyes much more, vowing in a speech to the UN members who started a worldwide movement was to "a Declaration on the rights of mother earth."
Morales, who repeatedly says "the Central enemy of mother earth is capitalism", named for the making of a Charter that the right to life of all living things. Morales, who was named world hero of mother earth by the General Assembly, has since made great progress in his campaign.
In January, it was Bolivia's world's first nation to grant equal rights to the natural environment for humans. Bolivian law of mother earth is strongly influenced by the spiritual indigenous Andean world outlook that around the Earth deity Pachamama runs, roughly translated to mother earth.
The Bolivian law stipulates 11 rights for nature, which include: the right to life and existence; the right to clean water and clean air; the right not cellular structure modified or genetically altered; the right of nature free from human change processes. The law also provides a Ministry of mother earth to act as an ombudsman, who ensures the nature is "not affected my mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of the ecosystems and local resident communities."
Encouraged by this victory, Morales goal is to make its domestic performance as a UN Convention. An address in 2008 to a UN forum on indigenous people, he said the first step in saving the Earth is to "eradicate capitalism" and to force rich industrialized countries to "debt to pay their environment." Morales presented 10 points, or Evo's ten commandments, as they affectionately named by followers, to save the planet.
Among them is a call to the end of the capitalist system, and a world without imperialism or colonialism. Respect for mother earth is commandment 6. UN critics slammed the decision to spend a whole day of mother earth legislation as not only a waste of time and resources, but a great blunder.
"The UN is a one-Act show," said u.n. watchdog Anne Bayefsky, of view to the UN, in which "Western democracies are responsible for the world's ills and developing countries are eternal victims."
Bayefsky said that the General Assembly of the focus on mother earth distracts from more pressing issues and problems at the United Nations.
"The rights of inanimate objects violated by the developed countries to be considered as a useful focal point this month," she said, adding that "Syria is scheduled for next month to the UN's top human rights body to be elected, and Iran is on the u.n. rights body of the top women." Syria is one of the sponsors of the Treaty "mother earth".
Bolivia's Ambassador to the u.n., Pablo Solon, who was on the debate and the ' expert ' panel discussions at the UN Headquarters, said, "currently many harmful human activities are fully legally" Morales represent, including those that cause climate change.
"If legal systems recognized the rights of other-than-human," he says, such as mountains, rivers, forests and animals, "courts able to deal with the fundamental problems of environmental pollution."
It's not clear if Bolivia's new stringent environmental laws will actually go as far to protect life forms such as insects, but the legislation includes all living creatures.
A 12-year-old Michigan girl will be charged with armed robbery after they tried to hold up a convenience store, MyFoxDetroit.com Monday reported.
Sheriff's Deputies say the girl walked into the country more food Center in Highland, Michigan, with a nine millimeter gun demanding cash. Workers recognized the girl, who she said is a regularly.
A worker called 911 while other girl pressed.
"They pointed a gun at me. I thought it was a joke at first, "said an employee of the store at the 911 call.
The girl was reportedly wearing a bandanna over her face and a black-colored clothing. They can be heard on the 911 dispatch cry.
"How she tried to rob you?" the employee was asked on the 911 call.
"They basically had a mask on and pointed a gun to me. .. She is on the floor now, "replied the woman.
According to researchers got the 12-year-old the pistol of her neighbor. She had a key to the House and knew where the gun was held. The Oakland County Sheriff's Department says costs for stealing a weapon can be.
As of now, the girl charged as a juvenile with armed robberies. She is located in the children's Village in Oakland County.
Sources told MyFoxDetroit.com that may be there are some issues in the girl family recently. It's unclear if these problems played a role in the Monday's events.
"I think there's a lot bigger than money in her life. That's what I would assume, "told one person MyFoxDetroit.com.
"That is incredibly beautiful, someone that young starters like this. That is not very good, "said another.
Founder of the & freedom of faith Coalition, Ralph Reed, says Yes, he had a telephone conversation with Donald Trump about three weeks ago. But unlike messages, Reed FOX News tells it was not an interview to campaign manager for a possible Trump presidential campaign.
In fact, says that he Drove with a number of potential candidate countries, but not spoken about employment.
"Because of my involvement with the Coalition faith & freedom, I don't intend to play an active role in a presidential campaign in 2012," he told FOX News.
That's not to say Reed's organisation will avoid shaping the Republican presidential nomination race. The Coalition faith & freedom has state affiliates across the country.
For example, the Iowa faith & Freedom coalition back on February 7, hosted the first event attended by a block of potential presidential candidates. The Iowa organization is led by RNC Committee member Steve Schiffler, an influential figure in the State Republican politics.
Reed observes its national organization 58-million voters contacts (largely Evangelical Christian and Roman Catholics) created in 2010, in an election year that saw Republicans gains seats in the u.s. Senate and the House.
And to the question many political pundits ask aloud these days, "Donald Trump actually will run for President?"
On the basis of that phone call from singular, Reed says he thinks that Trump threatens to walk away.
WikiLeaks cables reveal U.S. financing for groups seeking to overthrow Syria's al-AssadAt least $6 million has gone for anti-government programs inside Syria, according to cablesThe State Department denies it is seeking to undermine al-Assad's regimeA department spokesman says the U.S. is trying to build "democratic institutions"
Washington (CNN) -- The State Department denies it is seeking to undermine the regime of Syrian President Bahsar al-Assad, despite the revelation in diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks that it is financing groups seeking to overthrow him.
The cables, first reported by the Washington Post, reveal the State Department disbursed at least $6 million for anti-government programs inside Syria, with the money going to a group of Syrian exiles, living in London, called the Movement for Justice and Development. It has also supported the reformist satellite channel Barada TV.
Malik al-Abdeh, Barada TV's editor in chief, called the channel "a platform for Syrians to air their grievances about their government, to promote democratic awareness, empower civil society, highlight human rights abuses and break the regime's stranglehold on media and give Syrians a voice."
Although Abdeh is on the board of the Movement for Justice and Development and his brother is the director, he insists there is no connection between Barada TV and the group.
He said the network has "multiple sources of funding," including a California-based non-governmental organization and members of the Syrian expatriate community.
A source working with Barada TV told CNN the channel is closely affiliated with the Damascus Declaration, a very broad coalition of activists that includes Christians, Druze, Kurds, Shiia, Sunni and women.
The source described the channel's programming as "secular, liberal and progressive," dealing with issues such as corruption, economic hardship and concerns of youth including unemployment, education tuition and social media. Although it promotes democracy and reform in Syria, the channel has not called for al-Assad's regime to step down.
The source said that the U.S. government currently is providing technical support to the group, including providing bandwidth and access to satellites in order to broadcast. Iranians have started blocking the network at the behest of the Syrians, the source said.
Abdeh denied the U.S. government is providing such support and said the channel broadcasts on a commercial satellite.
Acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner declined to discuss specific activities Washington was undertaking with the Syrian opposition but said they were "no different" than similar democracy and governance programs the United States was undertaking in democratic countries around the world.
"We're not working to undermine that government," Toner said. "What we are trying to do in Syria, through our civil society support, is to build the kind of democratic institutions, frankly, that we're trying to do in countries around the globe. What's different, I think, in this situation is that the Syrian government perceives this kind of assistance as a threat to its control over the Syrian people."
According to the diplomatic cables, the assistance began in 2005 under President George W. Bush and continued under the Obama administration, although it is unclear to what extent U.S. funding is still being given to Syrian opposition figures.
The Obama administration has sought to engage the al-Assad regime and appointed an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in six years. Although the administration has condemned the brutality of Syrian security forces on protestors, Washington has not called for al-Assad to step down from power.
According to the WikiLeaks cables published by the Washington Post, the U.S. embassy in 2009 voiced concern that President Barack Obama's efforts to engage al-Assad would be in jeopardy as a result of the U.S. activities with opposition groups.
Syrian officials "would undoubtedly view any U.S. funds going to illegal political groups as tantamount to supporting regime change," read a diplomatic cable from April 2009.
"A reassessment of current U.S.-sponsored programming that supports anti-[government] factions, both inside and outside Syria, may prove productive," the cable said, adding the U.S. needed to "bring our U.S.-sponsored civil society and human rights programming into line a less confrontational bilateral relationship."Blog Archive
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