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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Reuters) -- A U.N. court trying the masterminds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide on Monday began to hear a case against a former sports ministry official whose popular songs were said to have encouraged the killings. Simon Bikindi, a musician and former official in Rwanda's Ministry of Youth and Sports, was arrested in the Netherlands in 2001. He faces six counts of genocide to which he has pleaded not guilty. "He was the singer whose popular songs were supposed to have encouraged people to commit genocide," Timothy Gallimore, spokesman for Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda...

McCollum says terror ignored By Sam Dealey The former chairman of a congressional task force on terrorism accuses the Clinton administration of repeatedly ignoring detailed warnings of terrorist threats against the United States issued nearly a decade ago. “It was pretty clear during the Clinton era that they heard our reports but just didn’t care,” said former Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.). McCollum founded and chaired the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare from 1989 to 1995. The panel produced a number of sensitive reports that were selectively distributed within the congressional leadership and intelligence community. He is now seeking...