[Cindy]

Speaking of Seattle...

SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.com
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/158905_cabdriver31ww.html

"Cab driver found slain" (January 31, 2004)


KOMO-TV STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Friends of the driver who came to the scene said he was a hard-working Somali immigrant who came to the United States 11 years ago.


"He had a wife and three young children. He was a cab driver part time, just to supplement his income," said Omar Ahmed."

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SEATTLE TIMES.com
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001848580_seatac01m.html

"Sea-Tac screeners' letter prompts federal probe"

By Cheryl Phillips
Seattle Times staff reporter

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May not be significant. Taxi cab drivers have a shockingly high rate of being murder victims. In terms of being a murder victim it's just about the highest risk profession in the US.

[JustPiper]

244 Muslim Pilgrims Die in Hajj Stampede
19 minutes ago

By RAWYA RAGEH, Associated Press Writer

MINA, Saudi Arabia - Nearly 250 Muslim worshipers died in a hajj stampede Sunday during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in one of the deadliest tragedies at the notoriously perilous ceremony.

The stampede, during a peak event of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj, lasted about a half-hour, Saudi officials said. There were 244 dead and hundreds of other worshippers injured, some critically, Hajj Minister Iyad Madani said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_hajj&cid=540&ncid=716

[JustPiper]

Breaking News Alert
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military says 56 killed, more than 200 injured in Irbil suicide attacks.
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CNN

Israeli forces enter Jericho
02/01/04 08:25 AM, EST
Israeli forces made an incursion Sunday morning into the West Bank town of Jericho, engaging in a gunfight with Palestinians before bulldozing a house and killing a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Israeli military sources said.