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Show Sunday, February 17, 2008 DAILY HERA ID A4 FAST FACT M ORNING BRIEFING measured by Egypt time during the day was at by a water and night a sun clock (a primitive sundial) In Ancient clock. Source: Micrepedia of World Facts Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The Nation ? 55 : 1 f - . 1 i .V 11 i i i N. GHANBARI z1 i. 1 : " 1 J . l HARAZ J ' 4 11 4 m If i "VS. Associated Press Emergency personnel investigate a car crash on Indian Head Highway. Saturday, in Accokeek, Md. 1 Fla. deputy dumps paralyzed man out of wheelchair TAMPA, Fla. A deputy He said he planned to rob the psychiatrist and leave the country with his mother, who lives in a nursing home, but until recently had lived with him in an apartment in Queens. who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa Calif, jailhouse floor has been released from jail after posting bail. Jail records show Marshall-Jone- s Char-lett- e was booked into the Orient Road jail early Saturday after turning herself in. It is the same jail where Marshall-Jone- s worked. She is accused of tipping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair. A videotape of the incident has been widely circulated. The Hillsborough County deputy was charged with one count of felony abuse of a disabled person and released after posting $3,500 bail. An attorney for Marshall-Jones listed in jail re- cords did not return a phone message. 8 dead, 6 injured in Md. street-rac- e ACCOKEEK, Md. A car plowed into a group of st reel racing fans obscured by a cloud of tire smoke on a highway Saturday, killing eight people and scattering bodies in the early morning darkness. At least six others were injured in the gruesome wreck along a flat, isolated stretch of highway about 20 miles south of Washington known for illegal races. Witnesses said about 50 people were gathered before dawn along Route 210 as two cars spun their wheels, kicked up smoke and sped off, said Prince George's County police Cpl. Clinton Copeland. Fans had spilled onto the teen shot J ' ? ' ' v - .V v- - - -- junior high classroom taken off life support Astronauts wrap up spacewalks n The astronauts awoke Saturday to the song "I Believe I Can Fly" by Yolando Adams space-walkin- g astronauts wrapped up work on the exterior of 'f, . i ill ,j ? I n ill .. 1 mv :f f I Si t F' ' ,, CHARLES DHARAPAKAssociated Traditional dancers wear sarongs bearing t he image of President Bush as they wail to perform upon his arrival International Airport in Dure Salaam, Tunzuniu, on Sut unlay. Press at Julius Nyerere boy from the southern part of the capital, Jakarta, radio best number," said Khouri, reported. It said he died whose family made its fortune Friday at a hospital in the city. Senior Health Ministry in real estate. "1 bought it bed BAGHDAD official in be best to want cause the a second in Nyoman Kandun conIraqi provfighters firmed the report and said the world," ince have quit working with UAE began aucThe American troops after two inlaboratory tests confirmed the cidents this week in which U.S. tioning off vanity license plates boy had the dangerous H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. soldiers killed militia members. last May. It was not clear how he was automobile license Citizen brigades in the Ordinary infected, and Kandun gave no plates issued to drivers here province of Babil, south of further details. and even most other vanity Baghdad, quit work after three Earlier Saturday, the Health series plates members were killed by U.S. carry both Arabic and Western numerals and forces Friday, a local police Ministry said a Indonesian boy from Central script, defining the issuing city spokesman said. e fatal Java province died of bird flu. and country. Another The boy, whose name was not incident occurred in the same Bush talks to Congress disclosed, became ill on Feb. 3 province a little over two with a cough and other respiraweeks ago. Nationwide in that from Africa time span, 19 citizen militia tory symptoms, according to DAR ES SALAAM. Tanzamembers have been killed and the Health Ministry's Web site. 12 wounded by U.S. forces, President Bush is betting He died a week later in a nia said the police spokesman, hospital in the city of Solo Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than about 280 miles southeast of Capt. Muthanna Ahmed. it does from down the street in The action in Babil province Jakarta, said Sumardi, a minisfollows a strike by citizen briWashington. try spokesman. Like he many Indonesians, he goes by one Foreign aid programs that gades members in Diyala provBush sees as crowning achievename. ince, northeast of Baghdad, and which he holds that has gone on for more than ments Tests confirmed the boy had a week. The citizen militias aldear are having their spend- Bird flu kills H5N1, the ministry's Web site said. lege the local police chief leads ing levels questioned on Capitol Indonesian boy Hill. By visiting Africa for six' a death squad and seek his reThe victim's A moval, among other demands. JAKARTA, Indonesia days to showcase their results. neighbors had sick chickens on Also this past week, a leader Bush aims to change that in Indonesian boy has their property and the boy apin another powerful citizens the short term and secure the died of bird flu, a health official parently slaughtered some of militia warned that U.S. and said Saturday, announcing the them before he became ill, the programs' future beyond his presidency. Iraq forces country's second death from ministry said. His first stop Saturday was should no longer interfere in its the illness in one day. The two cases, which were work, suggesting coordinated Benin, a tiny sliver on West Canada extradites efforts against insurgents Africa's coast. Hundreds of apparently unrelated, brought Nazi war convicted millions of U.S. dollars are Indonesia's bird flu death toll might be coming to an end. criminal to Italy A U.S. military spokesman to 105. helping to pay for an aggressive on Saturday downplayed the The latest victim was identiROME forAn campaign, the fied only as Han, a recent events and said they mer SS prison guard who was training of tens of thousands have little impact on the more sentenced to life in prison in than largely Italy for Nazi war qrimes was Surnii Muslim movement, jailed near Naples Saturday, known as the Awakening hours after he was extradited Movement. from Canada. . Maj. Brad Leighton called Michael Seifert arrived the recent events "unfortushortly before dawn at an air- nate accidents" but said there port near Rome aboard a miliwasn't any trend or underlying tary jet from Toronto. He was issue to connect the incidents. taken to a prison near Naples, The Awakening Movement where he was having a routine began in late 2006 in Anbar medical exam, said Bartolomeo province when former Sunni Costantini, the military prosMuslim insurgents and those ecutor who pursued the case. V . who assisted them turned on "His legs were a little wobin Iraq and the rest bly after he got off the flight" of the insurgent movement likely due to the stress and the and agreed to ally with U.S. long journey, Costantini said. and Iraqi forces. The citizens Seifert has a pacemaker also known brigades members, but otherwise is apparently as Sawha and recently rehealthy, he said. If doctors ; named Sons of Iraq by the U.S. deem it necessary, Seifert : military, are paid about $10 per could be incarcerated in a hos' day. pital ward in the prison. Along with a six month If someone is willing to host freeze in activities of the Mah-d- i him, the former SS officer Army militia ordered by Shi-it- e eventually could be allowed to Muslim cleric Moqtada serve his sentence on house ar- and the increased surge rest because of his age. in U.S. troops, the Awakening Seifert, known as the "Beast is seen of one the Movement as i. 1 , WSV of Bolzano," was convicted in key reasons for a reduction of absentia in 2000 by a military violence in Iraq. tribunal in Verona on nine ?counts of murder committed Car license plate while he was an SS guard at a auctioned off for $14M prison transit camp in Bolzano, .northern Italy. ABU DHABI, United Arab At his trial, people testified Emirates A license plate that Seifert starved a with nothing but the number prisoner to death, gouged on it went for a record $14 MISHA JAPARIDZEAssociated Press out a person's eyes and tormillion at a charity auction tured a woman before killing Saturday. her and her daughter. of Saeed Khouri, a member Seifert, a Canadian citizen of supporters of Armenian Presidential candidate, Opposition a wealthy Abu Dhabi family, listen to him during a rally in Yerevan, Levon Ukrainian origin, has acknowlwouldn't say how many autoArmenia, on Saturday. Armenians elect a president on edged being a guard at the mobiles he owned or which1 of the small, economically struggling for Tuesday, upcoming camp but denies being them might carry the record- involved in atrocities. country in a volat ile corner of the globe. another Iraqi province ends cooperation with U.S. Militia in breaking single-dig- plate. it "I bought it because it's the U.S.-allie- 1 oil-ric- h HOUSTON -- With their outdoor work completed, the astronauts aboard the orbitcomplex ing shuttle-statiofocused all their attention on the inside of the new Colum-bu- s lab. The 10 space travelers have all day Saturday and just half a day Sunday before the hatches between shuttle Atlantis and the international space station are sealed. and Kenny G. On Friday, a pair of - " I Y3f -- JkK A VENTURA, Calif. boy who was shot at his junior high school died of head wounds, an autopsy showed Friday. Lawrence King was taken off life support and had some of his organs harvested, said Armando Chavez, a senior deputy medical examiner with Ventura County. King was targeted this week by a younger boy because he came to school in Oxnard dressed in feminine attire, classmates said. Prosecutors have charged Brandon David Mclnerney with premeditated murder and want him tried as an adult. g - T" I - - ' . in Columbus, installing a packinstruage of smoky, dark roadway to ments as well as a huge box watch the cars drive away when a white Ford Crown 1 of radiation, orbital debris Victoria unexpectedly came and other experiments. The European Space up from behind and smashed into them. Agency's station program "There were just bodies manager, Alan Thirkettle, everywhere; it was horrible," couldn't be more pleased. said Crystal Gaines, 27, of "We're really a real partner now, and we feel it and Indian Head, whose father it's a very, very nice feeling, was killed. Police interviewed the indeed," Thirkettle said. "We're a very happy set of Crown Victoria driver, but bunnies." no charges were pending, During their 7 12 hour Copeland said. Authorities were looking for the drivers spacewalk, Rex Walheim and Stanley Love also inof the two cars involved in stalled handrails on Columthe race. bus, and removed a broken gyroscope from the space New York police station and loaded it into the man in brutal shuttle for next week's ride slaying of therapist home. They did not have time to inspect a jammed solar rotary joint on the orbitNEW YORK A Queens man with a history of mental ing outpost. problems was arrested Saturday in the vicious slaying 2 snowmobile drivers of a psychologist attacked killed in Alaska in her office with a meat ANCHORAGE, Alaska cleaver, police said. David Tarloff, 39, was Two snowmobile drivers were killed Friday when taken into custody in the morning after investigators they triggered an avalanche matched him with three palm and were buried in the snow for nearly an hour, Alaska prints found at the bloody crime scene, said Police Com- State Troopers said. The two were driving missioner Raymond Kelly. their snowmobiles in the Tarloff made statements incriminating himself during backcountry near Turnagain a Pass, about 70 miles south of interrogation, Kelly said. The questioning Anchorage, when the avalanche occurred, Troopers stopped when he asked for a lawyer, and it wasn't clear spokeswoman Beth Ipsen said. later Saturday whether he had an attorney. Murder and They were buried for about 45 minutes before attempted murder charges are pending, Kelly said. being located. Troopers initially reported that three Therapist Kathryn people had died in the avaFaughey was slashed 15 times with the cleaver and a lanche, but the third person knife in her Manhatwas recovered, evaluated tan office Tuesday evening. by medical professionals at the scene and released, A psychiatrist who worked in the building, Dr. Kent Ipsen said. One snowmobiler was Shinbach, went to Faughey's aid and was badly injured. pulled from the slide, and snow was removed from the During questioning, Tarface of the other, but CPR loff said he had gone to the office because Shinbach had efforts weren't successful, him institutionalized in 1991. she said. arrest 1 f 1 high-profil- of teachers and reforms to Benin's judiciary, port and financial systems. "My trip here is a way to remind future presidents and future Congresses that it is in the national interest and in the moral interests of the United States of America to help people," Bush said. The first American president to visit Benin, Bush spent three hours at the airport in Cotonou. I le promoted progress in the country and then flew across the continent to Tanzania after his plane refueled, On Sunday and Monday, Bush planned to highlight a new aid pact with Tanzania as well as efforts on AIDS, malaria and education. Bush also goes to Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia. Like Benin and Tanzania, they are desperately poor but making strides, with U.S. help, on economic growth, the rule of law and better living conditions. d Shiite-dominat- - anti-malar- 83,000-memb- . Y if ,!i -- LL.1Z- -L TZt4 - J 1 r T Armenian election SS-ru- n . |