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BELGRADE, Serbia - Montenegro, March 13 (UPI) -- The Serbian government Thursday is preparing to arrest the ex-head of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's secret police for the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Milorad Lukovic, the former commander of Milosevic's police special operations unit, or JSO, and Dusan Spasojevic, another JSO member, headed the gang, the government said in a statement Wednesday. It said Djindjic's assassination was an attempt by the gang to cause chaos, lawlessness and fear in the country. Djindjic, 50, was struck by bullets fired from a high-powered rifle perched in a nearby government building...

Senior law enforcement officials have suspected for years that Sami Al-Arian, the Florida professor indicted this week on charges of supporting terrorism, posed a serious national security risk, but they were slow to take action against him because of legal, political and operational roadblocks, officials said today. The case languished for years, with investigators complaining that they were not getting the support they needed from top law enforcement officials in Washington. Beginning in the mid-1990's, officials discussed the possibility of bringing criminal charges against Mr. Al-Arian or trying to deport him because of his suspected ties to terrorism, but they...

<p>Mantis Shrimp are growing even larger than normal in the Ala Wai Canal's muck.</p> <p>Health experts are not sure what is causing Mantis Shrimp found in the muck of the Ala Wai Canal to grow larger than their normal size, but one thing is clear, they say: You shouldn't eat anything out of the canal.</p>

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Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003. Page 3 Group Lobbies for Guns to Prevent Terror ActsBy Kevin O'Flynn Staff Writer Last fall's siege of the Dubrovka theater by armed Chechens sparked much debate on how the attack could have been prevented. A new organization believes it has the answer: Let the population arm itself. That way, the group's members say, instead of accepting their fate, the hostages could have pulled out their legally registered handguns and fought off their captors. "It would have been impossible to hold [hundreds of] people if one in 10 potential hostages were armed," said Andrei Vasilievsky,...

Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., took to Honolulu streets yesterday to proclaim their message that God hates homosexuals and anyone who tolerates them. More than a dozen Honolulu police officers stood by outside the Royal Hawaiian Shopping center in Waikiki, and again at the state Department of Education building, to ensure that the demonstrators' exercise of free speech did not incite violence. The followers of the Rev. Fred Phelps, who was not at yesterday's demonstrations, regularly take his "God Hates Fags" campaign on the road. They adapted the subject to Hawaii with a "Thank God...

SAN FRANCISCO >> A federal judge blocked scientists yesterday from testing newly developed sonar on migrating gray whales. Three weeks of testing by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scientific Solutions Inc. had been set to begin yesterday a mile off the central California coast near San Luis Obispo during the whales' southward migration, but environmentalists objected. U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti halted the testing and scheduled a Jan. 17 hearing to decide whether to make the order permanent. "How do we know it's doing any damage to the whales?" Conti asked. The National Marine Fisheries Service had approved the...

Former state Rep. Ed Case defeated fellow Democrat Matt Matsunaga in a winner-take-all special election to fill the two-year term of the late U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink. Case received 33,002 votes, or 43 percent of the vote, to 23,050 votes for former Sen. Matsunaga for the 2nd Congressional District seat. Sen. Colleen Hanabusa, also a Democrat, came in third with 6,046 votes. Republican state Rep. Barbara Marumoto came in fourth with 4,497 votes. Mink died Sept. 28, just after winning the primary on Sept. 21. Mink posthumously won re-election on Nov. 5. Another special election, held Nov. 30, was to...

What became of Mujibur Rahman, and Sirajul Islam? The amiable Bengali immigrant duo "Mujibur and Sirajul" who achieved semi-castmember status as part of a running joke on the David Letterman show. It seems to me they have disappeared post 911.

More than a century after his death, Alexandre Dumas was reburied with state fanfare last month. The writer’s remains were taken from a small graveyard in his home town of Villers-Cotterêts to France’s tomb of honour at the grand Pantheon in Paris. The procession was quite a spectacle, with colourful characters from novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo brought to life by actors in costumes parading down the street. The ceremony was a mix of celebration and sombre reflection, with French President Jacques Chirac admitting that recognition of Dumas was long overdue. Our coverage referred...

You'll get to see Ellen Ratner make the incredible statement to Brenda Buttner that she "hopes" (something goes wrong with the war effort) so that Bush doesn't get reelected.

Warning to military men: Do not down UFOs, your grand-grandchildren might be in them Scientists often say that the things in the past discovered by science were just meager bits that interpreted the world in a wrong way. Those scientists who try to step aside from dogmas ask this humble question: “Maybe you are right, but is there any other explanation?” Shells of horror When British scientists started their tests of creating black holes in their labs in January of 2001, no one was surprised. Everyone thought that it was simply another lie. A black hole is formed after a...

Couple finally condemn 1978 kidnap by communist regime Justin McCurry in Osaka Saturday December 28, 2002 The Guardian Five Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korea publicly criticised the communist state for the first time yesterday, describing their abductions in 1978 as "a state-organised crime". Kaoru Hasuike, who was snatched with his then fiancee, Yukiko, from near their home on the coast, told a news conference in Tokyo: "Abduction is a serious crime I can never forgive." Mr and Mrs Hasuike, who married in North Korea after months of enforced separation, returned to Japan with three other abductees on...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — The United States has obtained corroborating evidence that mass rapes of hundreds of girls and women have been carried out by the Burmese army in central Shan Province, where the military government has tried for years to suppress an ethnic rebellion, the State Department said today. A department spokesman said the United States government had expressed "deep concern" about the rapes and other abuses to Myanmar, formerly Burma, and urged the government there to punish anyone guilty of "such heinous crimes." Washington has also called for the United Nations to carry out a more extensive investigation...

Protests grow over N Korea nuclear plans Pyongyang has removed UN surveillance equipment Australia has halted plans to open an embassy in North Korea, in the latest expression of international protest against Pyongyang's moves to restart a nuclear reactor which could produce weapons-grade plutonium. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said opening the embassy would send the wrong message now that North Korea had walked away from its nuclear non-proliferation obligations. The UN's nuclear watchdog has warned that the Yongbyon reactor - sealed up for eight years under a US-led deal - could be restarted and operational within two months. The North...

A Vietnamese court has sentenced eight people to long jail terms for having contact with what the Communist Party regards as hostile forces in the United States. Eight men in Vietnam's troubled Central Highlands region received up to 10-year sentences on charges of undermining national unity. The charges relate to an uprising in the highlands more than a year ago, when about 1,000 ethnic minority people fled to neighbouring Cambodia. It is one of Vietnam's major coffee growing regions and home to many of the country's hill tribe minorities, known as Montagnards. Failed repatriation The man considered the ringleader of...

O'Reilly: [My special] wasn't boring though, was it? Seitz: "Well, you're never boring, Bill. I don't know if I agree with you, but you're not boring." O'Reilly: "All right, better than "Will and Grace" and "CSI" tonight. -- Bill O'Reilly and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz, The O'Reilly Factor, 03/28/02 *** "If the special has a shortcoming, it's in its lack of real news value." -- Adam Buckman, NY Post, 03/28/02 *** "The code of ethics is to tell the truth as you know it and not to distort anything or exclude anything. That's basically the big tent under which...

Iraq may be transferring chemical and biological weapons to Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a TV interview on Tuesday night. Sharon said that Israel has information that "weapons he (Saddam Hussein) wanted to hide, chemical weapons, biological weapons, were indeed transferred to Syria." According to Sharon, Israel is currently trying to verify reports it has obtained on the issue. "We have some information to that effect. We are now working to confirm the information." He noted that he is unaware of other states to which Saddam Hussein transferred weapons. Sharon said that Israel knows that Iraqi scientists...

Santa tracked over Persian Gulf click for update

Chinese merrymakers celebrate Christmas (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dec 25, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Almost all restaurants, pubs and cafes were full of celebrating youth on Christmas Eve in Guangzhou. Meanwhile, in major cities across the country, department stores and supermarkets offering special holiday discounts were crowded with customers. A saleswoman surnamed Zhou working in a supermarket in Lhasa, southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region, said Christmas trees of various sizes, small bells, decorative stockings and Santa Claus dolls were sold in large numbers recently. In front of Lhasa Saikang Building, some foreigners took a picture with a Santa Claus, played by...