Volume 91, Issue 13 | May 4, 2011
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US Kills Osama Bin Laden Decade After 9/11 Attacks
less than 40 minutes. Bin Laden was shot in the head, officials –––––––––––––––––––––––––– said, after he and his bodyguards resisted the assault. WASHINGTON – Osama bin Three adult males were also Laden, the face of global terror- killed in the raid, including one ism and architect of the Sept. of bin Laden’s sons, whom of11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a ficials did not name. One of bin firefight with elite American forces Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. Long believed to be hiding in caves, bin Laden was tracked down in a costly, custom-built hideout not far from a Pakistani military academy. The stunning news of his death prompted relief and euphoria outside the White House and around the globe, yet also deepening fears of terrorist reprisals against the United States Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a senior and its allies. member of al-Qaida. U.S. offi“Justice has been done,” cials also said one woman was President Barack Obama said killed when she was used as a late Sunday from the White shield by a male combatant, and House in an announcement that two other women were injured. seemed sure to lift his own poThe U.S. official who dislitical standing. closed the burial at sea said it The military operation took would have been difficult to mere minutes, and there were no find a country willing to accept U.S. casualties. the remains. Obama said the reU.S. Blackhawk helicopters mains had been handled in acferried about two dozen troops cordance with Islamic custom, from Navy SEAL Team Six, a which requires speedy burial. top military counter-terrorism “I heard a thundering sound, unit, into the compound identi- followed by heavy firing. Then fied by the CIA as bin Laden’s firing suddenly stopped. Then hideout — and back out again in more thundering, then a big By DOZIER & DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS
blast,” said Mohammad Haroon Rasheed, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, after the choppers had swooped in and then out again. Bin Laden’s death marks a psychological triumph in a long struggle that began well before
one man and one woman.” He went on to say that to fit in with –––––––––––––––––––––––––– this Constitution ideal, the law needed to be refined. In fact, In a state that forbids same- Mark Miner, the spokesperson sex marriage, the year 2009 for Gov. Rick Perry, said giving marked a feat for Texas as a law transgendered people marriage allowing transgendered people rights was never planned and is to use documentation of their working to try to “clarify the unBy LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN & CHRISTOPHER HAWLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Southerners turning to their faith to make sense of the devastation left behind by the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S.
Tennessee. The storms that roared across the South last week flattened churches and crushed the homes of pastors and parishioners in a ragged stretch from Mississippi to Virginia. At least 342 people were killed and thousands more hurt.
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history also will be counting on the federal government for help, which Obama Cabinet members assured would come quickly. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured hard-hit neighborhoods of Alabama and Mississippi on Sunday to offer condolences and pledge support. “This is not going to be a quick comeback or an immediate (recovery) but it will be, in my view, a complete one,” she said in shattered Smithville, Miss., where little was left standing. Federal officials already have See BIN LADEN page 5 said several areas are eligible for disaster relief, including 28 counties in Alabama and four in
the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Qaida was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled. “We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time,” CIA director Leon Panetta declared to employees of the agency in a memo Monday morning. He warned that “terrorists al-
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Storm Survivors Turn to Faith, Federal Government
So on the first Sunday after the disaster, believers streamed into houses of worship to give thanks for being spared, to mourn the dead and ponder impossible questions. Why did some survive without any explanation? Why did others die for no apparent reason? Many people in this highly religious region saw God at work, even amid the devastation. “God just put his big old arms around us,” said Peggy Blevins, 59, of Rainsville, Ala. “I don’t understand why he takes some people and leaves others. But I thank him just the same for pro-
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The 2011 UNH Spring Weekend! All of the cars on North Campus were cleared to make room for –––––––––––––––––––––––––– a variety of awesome carnival rides and games. Spring Weekend is one of From 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the busiest times of the year for North Campus was absolutely the University of New Haven. packed with people taking adBy ISAAK KIFLE STAFF WRITER
get a massage, get your nails done, receive a caricature of yourself, get served at a tiki bar, jump onto a Velcro wall, sumo wrestle, and much, much more! On top of everything else, there were a variety of enter-
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sexual reassignment to obtain a marriage license was signed into effect by Sen. Tommy Williams and Rep. Lois Kolkhorst. Now, nearly two years after this initial ruling, the same legislators are trying to reverse their decision. When asked about the change, Sen. Williams had this to say: “The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage between
intended consequences” of that law. In 1999, a state appeals court decision declared that gender is designated at birth and remains a life-long attribute in spite of a sex change. While Kolkhorst has been tightlipped for her part, Sen. Williams insists the intent See RIGHTS page 7
A large reason for this is all of the events that are put on around campus every year at this time. Following the spring concert on Friday, April 29 was the spring carnival on Saturday, April 30.
vantage of everything there was to offer. There was a truck offering brick-oven pizza and another with fried dough. In addition to the rides, there were stuffed animals you could make, you could
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tainers at the carnival to keep people entertained throughout the day. They performed a variety of magic tricks and prop See WEEKEND page 7