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Show XXIX X XIXIX'XX X XXXXXXXX MPage 2 ^Wednesday, April..^2^20^ Celebs&Peopie Today'slssue Today is Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Amanda Mears who is eel- • ebrating her 22nd birthday today. NEW YORK (AP) - NBC "Today" show news anchor Ann Curry is heading to two war zones this week. She is traveling to both Iraq and Afghanistan to report on how the wars are being reshaped under the administration of President CURRY Barack Obama. Her reports are to air on both the "Today" show and NBC's "Nightly News." NBC would say little about her specific reports, except that she The policy of The Utah Statesman is will be given some unprecedented to correct any error made as soon as access. She may also try to do possible. If you find something you some reporting in Pakistan. would like clarified or find unfair, Her "Today" colleague Matt please contact the editor at 797-1762 Lauer gets the rep, but Curry has orTSC105. POLICE A N D FBI AGENTS ESCORT the Somali pirate suspect U.S. officials identified as Abdiwali been a real globe-trotter. Since Abdiqadir Muse into FBI headquarters in New York on Monday, April 20. Muse is the sole surviving Somali the beginning of 2008, she's tried pirate suspect from the hostage-taking of commercial ship captain Richard Phillips from the Maersk Alabama. to climb Mount Kilimanjaro AP photo and been to the Congo, Serbia, Pakistan, Japan, China and France, She's been to Darfur four times since 2006.free society may First trainload of uranium not be beneficial for authoritarian tailings leaves Moab mainland China. MOAB, Utah (AP)-The first NEW YORK (AP)-Amber trainload of radioactive uranium tailTamblyn says she found a big ings has been taken from a dump site advantage in filming her new TV near Moab. series on location in New York. appealed to President Barack Obama for his NEW YORK (AP) - A Somali teenager arrived U.S. Department of Energy offiThe actress said a lot of shoprelease. She said her son was coaxed into piracy by to face what are believed to be the first piracy cials say they're still testing equipment charges in the United States in more than a cenping was involved between shoot"gangsters with money." and travel routes that are designed to tury, smiling but saying nothing as he was led into ing, adding: "No one goes back to "I appeal to President Obama to pardon my eventually move 16 million tons of their trailers." teenager; I request him to release my son or at a federal building under heavy guard. uranium waste to a disposal site 30 Tamblyn, who starred in least allow me to see him and be with him during Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, the sole survivmiles away at Crescent Junction. the trial," Adar Abdirahman Hassan said in a tele- TV's "Joan of Arcadia" and the ing Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an The first trainload departed on "Sisterhood of the Traveling phone interview with The Associated Press from American ship captain, was to appear in a courtMonday. Pants" films, plays a New York her home in Galkayo town in Somalia. room Tuesday on what were expected to be piracy Don Metzler, project director for police detective in ABC's "The and hostage-taking charges. The boy's father, Abdiqadir Muse, said the DOE, says the system is expected to Handcuffed with a chain wrapped around his pirates lied to his son, telling him they were going Unusuals." be fully operational after a ribbonTamblyn's character is used waist and about a dozen federal agents surroundto get money. The family is penniless, he said. cutting ceremony early next month. to the finer things in life but has ing him, the slight teen seemed poised as he passed "He just went with them without knowing After May 4, a train with 88 conthrough the glare of dozens of news cameras in a what he was getting into," Muse said in a separate chosen a career that will take her tainers full of the sludge will depart worldST drenching rainstorm. His left hand was heavily'; telephone interview WithThe APlhrougTTan i ^ in the evenings Monday through bandaged from the wound he suffered during the . Thursday. This summer, train shipskirmish on the cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama. He also said it was his son's first outing with ments are planned to increase to A law enforcement official familiar with the the pirates after having been taken from his home seven days a week. case said Muse (moo-SAY') was being charged about a week and a half before he surrendered at under two obscure federal laws that deal with sea to U.S. officials. David Letterman's Top Ten Things piracy and hostage-taking. The official spoke on The young pirate's age and real name remained Overheard In The Meeting Between condition of anonymity because the charges had unclear. Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez not been announced. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Work -April 20,2009 The teenager was flown from Africa to a New to rid Utah's largest natural fresh[I See PIRATE, page 15 York airport on the same day that his mother water lake of millions of pounds of 10. "Donde esta 'el Presidente dumbunwanted carp is getting a $1.5 milass'?" lion boost. 9. "Sorry, Mr. President, they don't The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sell Marlboros here." says it's contributing $1 million to the Utah Lake program. State officials 8. "Let's get a picture of you shaking will provide $510,000. hands with Hugo Chavez to really piss The money will pay to remove off Rush Limbaugh." about 5 million pounds of carp from the lake over the next year or so. WASHINGTON (AP) he didn't want to see prosecutions ing of the CIA's use of simulated 7. "Mr. Chavez, I have a book for you, Commercial fishermen began - President Barack Obama said of CIA agents and interrogators drowning and other harsh methtoo - Artie Lange's 'Too Fat To Fish.'" removing carp from the lake late last Tuesday the United States lost who took part in waterboarding ods while questioning terror year to help the June sucker, a native "our moral bearings" with grueand other harsh interrogation suspects. 6. "Does this breakup mean Lindsay and endangered fish that loses valusome terror-suspect interrogatactics, so long as they acted Obama banned all such tech- Lohan is back to dating guys?" able places to hide from predators tions and left the door open to within parameters spelled out by niques days after taking office. prosecuting Bush administration government superiors who held But members of Congress have 5. "Remember, you can't spell Hugo officials who vouched for their that such practices were legal at continued to seek the release without 'hug.'" legality. the time. of information about the early At the same time, Obama said But the administration's stages of the U.S. response to the 4. "I can't believe they killed Edie on OGDEN, Utah (AP) - A former the question of whether to bring stance on Bush administration Sept. 11,2001, terror under for'Desperate Housewives.'" Ogden city police officer lauded for charges "is going to be more of a lawyers who actually wrote the mer President George W. Bush. helping end a mall shooting ramdecision for the attorney general memos approving these tactics Lawsuits have been brought, 3. "Does Biden really think he's foolpage is being sentenced on a sexual within the parameters of various has been less clear. "There are a seeking the same information. ing anybody with those plugs?" battery charge. laws and I don't want to prejudge host of very complicated issues Obama said Tuesday that he A Tuesday hearing was scheduled that." The president discussed involved" Obama said. is worried about the impact that 2. "I think there's one thing we can for Ken Hammond in 2nd District both agree on - there's a new star in the continuing issue of terrorThe president took a question high-intensity, politicized hearCourt. Last month Hammond the Hollywood galaxy by the name of ism-era interrogation tactics with on this volatile subject for the ings in Congress could have on pleaded no contest to a class A misreporters as he finished an Oval first time since he ordered the the government s efforts to cope Zac Efron." demeanor charge of sexual battery. Office meeting with visiting King release last week of top-secret with terrorism, but that he could Weber County prosecutors say Abdullah of Jordan. 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