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BRIEFS BG NEWS WIRE SOURCES Investigation shows no abuse of prisoners SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. Army officer who investigated abuse at Guantanamo Bay after guards allegedly bragged about beating detainees found no evidence they really mistreated the prisoners, military officials said yesterday. Col. Richard Basset, whose findings were approved by the Navy admiral in charge of the Miami-based Southern Command, did not recommend disciplinary action against the sailors named in the statement by Marine Sgt. Heather Cerveny.
Optimism toward disarming North Korea BEIJING (AP) — International talks on North Korea’s nuclear program convene today with a new sense of optimism about the possibility of the first tangible progress on the communist nation’s disarmament since negotiations began more than three years ago. The main U.S. envoy said yesterday that the first steps on dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons could be agreed upon at this round of meetings in Beijing.
They said witnesses in nearby Marine aircraft saw the flames but saw no sign that it involved hostile fire. An Iraqi air force officer, however, said the helicopter was downed by an anti-aircraft missile. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information. An Iraqi farmer who lives about a half mile from the crash site said he heard a missile fired moments before the SAMIR MIZBAN | AP PHOTO crash, which took place in an insurgent-infested region. CHECKPOINT SEARCH: An Iraqi army soldier searches a driver on a vehicle checkpoint “The helicopter was fly- in central Baghdad, Iraq,. At least five people were killed in morning attacks. ing and passed over us, then dense plume of black smoke rose went down.” we heard the firing of a misAssociated Press Television over the remains. The Marine sile,” the farmer, Mohammed al-Janabi, said. “The helicopter video showed the flaming officials suspected the fire was then turned into a ball of fire. It wreckage lying in a field in front caused by a mechanical probflew in a circle twice and then of a cluster of mud homes. A lem, the officials said.
By Robert H. Reid The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in flames yesterday in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S. military said. It was the fifth U.S. aircraft lost in less than three weeks and the latest sign of growing problems with aviation in Iraq. A U.S. military statement gave no reason for the crash of the CH46 Sea Knight, which went down near Fallujah in Anbar province, about 20 miles from Baghdad. However, at the Pentagon, three Marine Corps officials said the troop-transporthelicopterwasin flames when it went down, with the pilot appearing to attempt a hasty landing but losing control as the aircraft descended.
ROME — They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale “Romeo and Juliet” have sparked theories the remains of a far more
By Matti Friedman The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Fighting broke out between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers last night as Israel searched for Hezbollah bombs along the frontier between the two countries, officials from both sides said. Lebanese soldiers opened fire and Israeli troops responded with tanks and light weapons, Israeli security officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Lebanese military officials said their troops opened fire with machine guns on a bulldozer after the vehicle crossed the so-called Blue Line — the U.N.-demarcated boundary — and entered about 20 yards into Lebanon. It was the first time that shooting erupted across the border since shortly after a cease-fire on Aug. 14 ended a 34-day summer war between Israeli forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah militants. Lebanese Army troops serve alongside international peacekeepers in south Lebanon, a force meant to maintain the U.N.-brokered cease-fire that ended the 34day war between Israel and Hezbollah last summer. The Israeli army spokesman’s office confirmed the incident, but could not confirm that the source of the shooting was Lebanese troops.
Child porn found on internet server By Brian Bergstein The Associated Press
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BUSTS: Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter announces during a news conference in Vienna they have busted a major international child pornography ring.
The numbers behind an international child pornography bust yesterday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,400 suspects from 77 countries allegedly paid to view videos depicting sexual abuse online. But the nature of Internet traffic makes it sadly unsurprising that people would figure they could hide so much hideous material. Finding and stamping out such content “is needle-ina-haystack work,” said Carole Theriault, a security consultant
with Sophos PLC in London. Austrian authorities said an employee of a Vienna-based Internet file-hosting service approached his national Interior Ministry last July with word that he had noticed the pornographic material during a routine scan. The videos showed “the worst kind of child sexual abuse,” said Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter, citing the rape and sexual abuse of girls and boys younger than 14. At times the children could be heard screaming.
Lead investigator Harald Gremel said the videos were online for at most a day before they were discovered. The Austrian Internet service employee blocked access to the videos while recording the computer addresses of people who tried to download the material, and gave the details to authorities. Within 24 hours, investigators recorded more than 8,000 hits from 2,361 computer addresses in 77 countries around the world, including the United States, according to Gremel.
Skeletons found embracing each other By Ariel David The Associated Press
Bomb search fight breaks
U.S. aircraft in flames, one of several recent losses
U.S. soldier indicted for Baghdad shooting ROME (AP) — A judge, yesterday, ordered a U.S. soldier to stand trial in absentia for the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad, the prosecutor said. Spc. Mario Lozano is indicted for murder and attempted murder in the death of Nicola Calipari, who was shot on March 4, 2005, on his way to the Baghdad airport.
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ancient love story have been found. Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons dating back to the late Neolithic period outside Mantua, 25 miles south of Verona, the city of Shakespeare’s story of doomed love. Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been
a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, because their teeth were found intact, said Elena Menotti, the archaeologist who led the dig. “As far as we know, it’s unique,” Menotti told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan. “Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging.”
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