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Execution set for killer of two nurses 01/29/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - It was a smoke alarm that brought emergency workers to a Beaumont massage therapy clinic, but when they arrived they discovered no evidence of a fire. Instead, they found two women, both fatally shot. A former clinic patient, Richard Dinkins, faced execution Wednesday night for their deaths. His appeals were exhausted and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles this week refused to spare him from becoming the fifth Texas inmate to receive lethal injection this year and the second of three on consecutive evenings this...

August 9, 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iraqi opposition leader here to meet top Bush administration officials said Baghdad’s forces would succumb quickly in the event of a U.S. invasion, but a prominent Republican expressed reservations about an unprovoked attack. Sharif Ali, a lead member of the Iraqi National Congress, said all Iraqis have abandoned their president, Saddam Hussein, and that he and his colleagues in the anti-Saddam coalition would present a united front in their discussions with State and Defense Department officials. Ali said the London-based INC has militants inside and outside of Iraq who are prepared to cooperate...