 Elite police commandos chased down a group of Palestinians racing toward central Israel in a van packed with explosives Tuesday, foiling a potentially devastating bombing just days before national elections. The arrests capped a 15-minute high-speed chase by heavily armed police commandos on motorcycles. The hunt brought Israel's main highway to a standstill for more than an hour, and motorists close to the takedown ran away screaming after police announced they found live explosives. Reflecting the jitters, Israel has banned Palestinians from entering the country until after the March 28 election and greatly restricted movement through the Gaza Strip's main cargo crossing. With the closure causing shortages of milk, bread and other essentials in Gaza, Israel allowed the crossing to reopen temporarily Tuesday. ...
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Editor - 08:38:00 03-21-06
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 Blood Spilled Over Man's Perfect Lawn |
Irritated but calm, the homeowner called 911 and told the dispatcher that he had finally done something about the neighbor boy — the one, the man said into the phone, who had been harassing him for years. "I just killed a kid," Charles Martin said, according to a recording of the Sunday afternoon call (audio) released by police in Union Township, near Batavia, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati. "You just killed a kid?" the surprised 911 operator said. "Yes, ma'am," the caller replied. Martin, 66, is charged with murdering 15-year-old Larry Mugrage, who lived next door to the house where Martin kept a meticulous front lawn with grass that he could sometimes be seen measuring to the inch. ...
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| More Women Are Buying and Using Guns |
More women, from soccer moms to professionals like the ones at the Blue Ridge Arsenal gun range in Chantilly, Va., are packing heat for sport, self-empowerment and protection. "I am a short, chubby housewife," said Jaque Blundell of Arlington, Va. "I'm not as scared of the bad guys, because the guns are my great equalizer." The gun industry is catering to women with everything from more girly guns and apparel to all-female hunting trips and free ladies nights at the range. It's clear the feminine touch is adding up to big business. "A quarter to a third of all our customers here are women shooters," said Keith Weaver, who works at the Blue Ridge Arsenal. ...
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Editor - 08:33:00 03-21-06
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| Bird flu virus 'now in two forms' |
The H5N1 virus responsible for the current virulent strain of bird flu has evolved into two genetically distinct strains, US scientists have confirmed. They fear this could increase the risk to humans - and complicate the search for an effective vaccine. The US team analysed more than 300 H5N1 samples taken from infected birds and people between 2003 and summer 2005. Details were presented to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta. Prior to 2005 every known human case of bird flu had been caused by a particular subtype of the H5N1 virus, which infected people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. But the latest analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified a genetically distinct variant which appears to have emerged last year, infecting people in Indonesia. ...
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Editor - 08:24:00 03-21-06
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| Why Iraq's Police Are a Deadly Problem |
The bodies began to show up early last week. On Monday, 34 corpses were found. In the darkness of Tuesday morning, 15 more men, between the ages of 22 and 40 were found in the back of a pickup truck in the al-Khadra district of western Baghdad. They had been hanged. By daybreak, 40 more bodies were found around the city, most bearing signs of torture before the men were killed execution-style. The most gruesome discovery was an 18-by-24-foot mass grave in the Shi'ite slum of Kamaliyah in east Baghdad containing the bodies of 29 men, clad only in their underwear with their hands bound and their mouths covered with tape. Local residents only found it because the ground was oozing blood. In all, 87 bodies were found over two days in Baghdad. The grisly discovery was horrible enough, the latest and perhaps most chilling sign that Iraq is descending further into butchery and quite possibly civil war. ...
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| Japan's rich buy organs from executed Chinese prisoners |
Hundreds of well-off Japanese and other nationals are turning to China's burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals. When Kenichiro Hokamura's kidneys failed, he faced a choice: wait for a transplant or go online to check out rumours of organs for sale. As a native of Japan, where just 40 human organs for transplant have been donated since 1997, the businessman, 62, says it was no contest. "There are 100 people waiting in this prefecture alone. I would have died before getting a donor." Still, he was astonished by just how easy it was.Ten days after contacting a Japanese broker in China two months ago, he was lying on an operating table in a Shanghai hospital receiving a new kidney. "It was so fast, I was scared," he says. The "e-donor" was an executed man; the price: 6.8m yen (about £33,000)....
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