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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/08/blaze_damages_former_hospital/
“Blaze damages former hospital
Buildings were being repaired
The former state facility is being converted into apartment buildings and condos . Officials will investigate the cause of the blaze.”
(MARK WILSON/GLOBE STAFF)
By Allison Mudge, Globe Correspondent | April 8, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Investigators are waiting for the area to cool and probably will have to wait until tomorrow to begin probing the fire’s cause, Sacco said.”
A few more details UPDATE:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1107141
“New TB Strain in South Africa a Concern”
Apr 7th - 9:14pm
By CELEAN JACOBSON Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The extent of the deadly new strain of tuberculosis in South Africa and the region is not known and is cause for concern, an international health expert said Wednesday.
Dr Fabio Scano, a TB expert from the World Health Organization in Geneva, has been sent to South Africa at the request of the government to assist with the outbreak of the extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain, or XDR-TB.
“We don’t know the extent of multiple drug resistant and extreme drug resistant TB in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern African region. There is not yet the capacity to test in these countries,” Scano said at a news conference.
South Africa has reported 352 cases of the virulent strain since it was discovered last year in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province. There have been 221 deaths and concerns have been raised about the strain spreading across the region.
Scano said an epidemiological investigation was under way to determine the full extent of the disease.”
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879270503&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Apr. 8, 2007 9:19 | Updated Apr. 8, 2007 9:58
“India’s foreign minister injured in car accident”
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The accident took place late Saturday as Mukherjee, 72, was traveling back from his parliamentary constituency north of Calcutta, eastern India’s main city, said Raj Kanojia, a senior police official in the state of West Bengal, where the crash occurred.
The truck driver apparently lost control when a tire burst as Mukherjee’s convoy was driving past in the opposite lane, Kanojia said.
The Press Trust of India news agency described his condition as serious in its initial reports filed soon after the accident, although a lawmaker from the governing Congress party, Adhir Chowdhury, said Sunday the foreign minister was out of danger.”
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17046980.htm
Posted on Sun, Apr. 08, 2007
“Abductor on run in victim’s SUV
Police say man assaulted Pa. woman in Akron area”
By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “She called her husband from Cleveland on Saturday afternoon. Her child was unharmed, and the woman was being treated for the assault in a Cleveland-area hospital.
Police describe the suspect as a white man in his late 20s or early 30s, 5 feet 8 and weighing about 200 pounds.
He has distinctive tattoos on his arms resembling Chinese writing. He was wearing a red and khaki two-piece outfit and driving the victim’s blue 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Pennsylvania plate: FPH 6490.
The woman, who is in her mid-30s, left her home in a wealthy northern suburb of Pittsburgh with her child at 9:40 a.m. to shop at the Giant Eagle at Pittsburgh’s Waterworks Mall.
When she did not return by 11:30 a.m., her husband became concerned. He filed a missing-person report with police there at 1 p.m.”
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11246&Itemid=128
April 8, 2007
Release A070408a
SENIOR AL-QAEDA LEADER CAPTURED IN BAGHDAD RAID
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces captured a senior al-Qaeda leader and two others during raid Sunday morning in Baghdad.
Coalition Forces identified the man as the gatekeeper to the al-Qaeda emir of Baghdad. He has alleged ties to several senior al-Qaeda members and is reportedly linked to a number of mass casualty vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks in the Baghdad area.
He was detained along with another known al-Qaeda VBIED cell leader and one other suspect.
“This is a significant step in our efforts to disrupt the VBIED network and their devastating attacks against the Iraqi people,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
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More Details UPDATE:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6536635.stm
Last Updated: Sunday, 8 April 2007, 08:07 GMT 09:07 UK
“Ten dead at Philippine army base”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A gunman has attacked a Philippine army base on the island of Jolo, killing nine soldiers and a civilian.
Officials said they were unsure whether the gunman was a soldier or was the civilian found among the dead.
The unidentified attacker opened fire inside the base during a power cut, one report said.”
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http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/67154.html
Posted on Sun, Apr. 08, 2007
MEXICO
“Mexican ports, oil rigs vulnerable to attacks
A McClatchy investigation found that Mexican ports and oil installations lack adequate security to fend off a possible terrorist attack.”
BY KEVIN G. HALL
McClatchy News Service
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico
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“A Citizens’ Army in New Orleans”
Time ^ | Apr. 04, 2007 | Russell McCulley
Posted on 04/07/2007 11:04:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879271095&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Apr. 8, 2007 10:43 | Updated Apr. 8, 2007 10:46
“Europe: Majority supports strike on Iran”
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070408-045345-3323r
“Taliban renew threat to kill Afghan hostage”
AFP
April 8, 2007
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “President Hamid Karzai vowed Friday not to make any more hostage deals with the Taliban, saying the one he made last month to free Mastrogiacomo was an “extraordinary” situation.
“It was an extraordinary situation and won’t be repeated again,” Karzai told a press conference in Kabul Friday.
“No more deals with [anyone] and with no other country.””
IN THE U.S.A.:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/LOCAL/704080387/-1/LOCAL17
April 8, 2007
“New Castle church burns
‘This is a dastardly deed for a church to be criminalized on the eve of one of the holiest holidays,’ state fire marshal says”
By Cordell Eddings
cordell.eddings@indystar.com
“The parishioners of St. Anne Catholic Church in New Castle don’t intend to let Saturday’s destruction of their 83-year-old building by fire dampen their Easter service.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At 8 a.m. today, church members will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ in a service in Bundy Auditorium at Chrysler High School, about two miles away.
“The church was so symbolic. But it’s about the people,” said Sister Shirley Gerth, coordinator of the 700-member parish.
“Our faith is strong, and we believe God is still with us. We will rebuild,” she said.
Authorities say they have evidence indicating the fire started as a result of a criminal act, but they declined to elaborate.
“This is a dastardly deed for a church to be criminalized on the eve of one of the holiest holidays,” State Fire Marshal Roger Johnson said.”
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07040033.htm
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Saturday, April 7, 2007
Muslim cleric threatens suicide attacks
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: An emotionally charged madressah youth screams slogans against perceived immorality in the capital as a pile of CDs and cassettes burns near Lal Masjid on Friday. — Dawn
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A hard-line Muslim cleric has threatened to unleash a wave of suicide attacks if the Pakistan government tries to counter his bid of enforcing Islamic laws in the federal capital through vigilante Islamic courts that he announced he would set up.
Maulana Abdul Aziz made the threat while addressing the Friday congregation in the Lal Masjid (red mosque) located near the city centre of Islamabad.
“The government has been saying that an operation against us is the last option, I want to tell the government that suicide attacks are our last option,” the Reuters News Agency quoted him as saying.
Maulana Aziz, the chief cleric of the Lal Masjid, flexing his “religious muscles” in a Taliban-like fashion, set a one-month deadline for the government to ensure closure of music shops and bordellos.
Last month, the cleric’s quest for eroding “immorality” resulted in imprisonment of three women accused of being prostitutes in Jamia Hafsa, a radical religious school that is being run under his patronage.
Aziz reportedly said the religious school students will take action themselves to stamp out vice from the capital if the government failed to do so.
“Our youths will shake their palaces with their suicide attacks,” the Reuters News Agency quoted him as telling Friday congregation at the mosque.
“They should not take the law into their own hands; this will create lawlessness in the country. We will not allow them, I will not allow this,” the Reuters News Agency quoted Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf as telling a convention on Friday.
Pakistan’s leading Human Rights Activist, Asma Jehangir, reportedly said a rally would take place in the eastern city of Lahore on April 19 to condemn the cleric’s moves.
The writer is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3385789,00.html
Border Guard shoots assailant in Hebron
Published: 04.08.07, 12:46 / Israel News
The attacker who stabbed two Israelis near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was shot by Border Guard forces. Megan David Adom has reported that he was hit in his leg. He was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem for medical treatment.
One of the Israelis sustained serious wounds, while the other was lightly injured. (Hanan Greenberg and Ali Waked)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3385783,00.html
sraeli seriously injured in stabbing attack in Hebron
Published: 04.08.07, 12:28 / Israel News
A Palestinian man stabbed two Israelis near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. One of the men sustained serious wounds, while the other was lightly injured.
Magen David Adom crews attended to the injured. (Hanan Greenberg)
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“Richmond, Va., Says `Enough Is Enough’”
Apr 6th - 3:52pm
By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - At the scene of a recent homicide, someone dropped a note in a police car identifying the killer. The police chief was amazed.
“I’m seeing things I’ve never seen before,” Chief Rodney Monroe said. “There was a belief that a person could commit a homicide in the city and never worry about somebody turning them in. But that’s changed.”
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Sun Apr 08 2007 03:39:09 GMT-0700.
Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
PERSECUTION
http://www.persecution.org
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=432527
7 hurt in Khartoum blast
8 April 2007
KHARTOUM - Seven people including children have been injured when a truck loaded with ammunition exploded on Saturday near a weapons depot in the Sudanese capital, officials said.
The blast occurred when heat caused a spark on the truck, the defence and interior ministries said in a statement. Seven people were injured by shrapnel, including three children.
Saturday’s explosion caused the brief closure of Khartoum’s international airport and witnesses described seeing a fireball, and columns of smoke rising into the air.
Sapa-AFP
I ditto Cindy's previous ditto. Also, the above really steams me.... I suppose this is because we still need some kind of ami in the ME even if the party in question is not a good all-around friend.
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