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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. military prosecutors reportedly have convinced a judge to keep secret the identity of witnesses against a detainee held at Guantanamo. "It is conceivable, if not likely, that al-Qaida members or sympathizers could attempt to target witnesses," Marine Maj. Jeffrey D. Groharing wrote to the judge, Army Col. Peter E. Brownback III, The New York Times reported Saturday. Brownback has ordered defense lawyers preparing for the war crimes trial of Omar Ahmed Khadra, 21, not to tell anyone, including Khadra, the identity of the witnesses, the Times reported.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi scientist killed in the U.S. invasion and now linked by arms hunter David Kay to possible nuclear weapons research was working on an advanced gun, not atomic bombs, fellow physicists say. They and eyewitnesses also say Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id was killed not when he tried to "run a roadblock," as asserted by Kay, but when a U.S. tank crew blasted his civilian car without warning on an open street. These accounts of the physicist's research and death, provided by 10 Iraqis and supported on key points by U.N. arms inspectors, challenge a core element of...