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Dog meat festival canceled BEIJING (NY Times) — In the whirlwind of growth that is modern China, the loss of ancient traditions often provokes dismay and outrage. But people across the country cheered recently when officials in eastern China said they were doing away with a 600-year-old local custom: the slaughter of thousands of dogs to be eaten at an autumn festival. The Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival, as it is called, was abruptly canceled last week after local officials were shamed by an online campaign begun by animal rights advocates. Gruesome photographs taken at past festivals that show canine carcasses, some bloody and others cooked, circulated on Chinese microblogs, creating popular pressure against the festival, which was set for October. Pet ownership has grown rapidly among the Chinese, as has a greater consciousness of animal rights. In the Mao era, the Communist Party condemned pets as a byproduct of bourgeois decadence. These days, dogs and cats) have become accouterments of Chinese middle-class living. What was once slated for the pantry is now housed in a playpen. “I once had a pet dog, and I’m not a huge fan of dog meat,” said a 36-year-old man in Guangdong Province who is credited by a Chinese journalist with helping start the campaign against the festival on Sina Weibo, a popular microblog platform. The blogger declined to give his name and agreed to chat only over the Internet. “The reason why I posted that message online is very simple — that is, I don’t want to see dog lovers’ feelings get hurt,” he said. Other grass-roots animalrescue efforts have also gotten results. Last April, a man spotted a truck on a Beijing highway that was packed with more than 500 dogs being shipped to slaughterhouses that supply restaurants in northern China.
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U.S.-born Qaeda leader killed in Yemen drone strike BY LAURA KASINOFF AND MARK MAZZETTI THE NEW YORK TIMES
SANA, Yemen — Anwar alAwlaki, the radical Americanborn cleric who was a leading figure in Al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate and was considered its most dangerous Englishspeaking propagandist and plotter, was killed in an American drone strike on his vehicle on Friday, officials in Washington and Yemen said. They said the strike also killed a radical American colleague who was an editor of Al Qaeda’s online jihadist magazine. Many details of the strike were unclear, but one American official said that Mr. Awlaki, whom the United States had been hunting in Yemen for more than two years, had been identified as the target in advance and was killed with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. The official said it was the first C.I.A. strike in Yemen since 2002. Yemen’s Defense Ministry confirmed Mr. Awlaki’s death. The strike appeared to be
the first time in the Americanled war on terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that an American citizen had been deliberately killed by American forces, a step that has raised contentious constitutional issues in the United States. It was also the second highprofile killing of an Al Qaeda leader in the past five months under the Obama administration, which ordered the American commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May. Mr. Awlaki was an important member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded by some antiterrorism experts as the most dangerous branch of the Al Qaeda network. He was considered the inspirational or operational force behind a number of major plots aimed at killing Americans in the United States in recent years, most notably the deadly assault at an American army base in Fort Hood, Tex., and attempts to bomb Times Square and a Detroit-bound jetliner. “The death of Awlaki is a major blow to Al Qaeda’s
Anwar al-Awlaki, left, in a 2010 video, and Samir Khan, shown in North Carolina in 2008 (GETTY IMAGES/THE NEW YORK TIMES).
most active operational affiliate,” President Obama said in remarks at a swearing-in ceremony for the new Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, outside Washington. Mr. Obama said the cleric had taken “the lead role in planning and directing the efforts to murder innocent Americans.” Mr. Obama also called Mr. Awlaki “the leader of external operations for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” — the first time the United States has used that description of him. Yemen’s official news agency, Saba, reported that the attack also killed Samir Khan, an American citizen of Pakistani
origin who was an editor of Inspire, Al Qaeda’s Englishlanguage Internet magazine. An American official said the United States government believed Mr. Khan had been killed as well. It was not clear whether Mr. Khan, who proclaimed in the magazine last year that he was “proud to be a traitor to America,” was also a deliberate target of the strike. A Yemeni Defense Ministry statement said that a number of Mr. Awlaki’s bodyguards were also killed. Neither the Americans nor the Yemenis explained precisely how they knew that Mr. Awlaki had been confirmed dead.
Kodak hires lawyers, considers filing for bankruptcy Eastman Kodak, the troubled camera maker, is considering a possible filing for bankruptcy, according to a person briefed on the matter. The company has also hired law firm Jones Day to assist on a possible restructuring, Kodak confirmed. Kodak, which has reported only one full year of profit since 2004, is weighing its options as it tries to shore up its financials and sell a collection of patents. In July, the company
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“It’s one of those cascading effects,” said Chris Whitmore, an analyst with Deutsche Bank Securities. “They are kind of cascading over the waterfall.” Founded 131 years ago by George Eastman and based in Rochester, N.Y., Kodak became famous for its yellow film packages that at one time dominated the market. But the company has struggled to reinvent itself for decades, as digital technology has replaced film. — The New York Times
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