 Fights broke out in a Los Angeles-area prison on Wednesday, injuring 19 inmates in the latest violence since a race riot that erupted at a nearby jail over the past weekend claimed the life of one man. The fighting at Pitchess Detention Center-East between black and Latino inmates took place in four separate dormitories and involved more than 450 inmates, but the four fights were stopped in about an hour, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.A Sheriff's Department spokesman told reporters outside the prison that one inmate suffered a head injury and was taken to local hospital. Three prisoners had superficial cuts and also were transferred to a hospital for treatment. The other 15 injured inmates were treated at the scene....
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 U.S. reportedly in contact with Sunni insurgents Diplomats: No peace commitment from Arabs yet; meanwhile, 3 troops die |
U.S. officials have met figures from some Sunni Arab insurgent groups but have so far not received any commitment for them to lay down their arms, Western diplomats in Baghdad and neighboring Jordan said Wednesday.Three more U.S. troops were killed in Iraq — two of them in roadside bombings, the U.S. command said.The meetings, described as being in the initial stage, have not included members of al-Qaida in Iraq or like-minded religious extremists, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. Contacts have taken place in western Iraq, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, according to two diplomats based in the Jordanian capital, Amman. One of them said talks might shift to Egypt “at some point.”...
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| Congress 'made Wikipedia changes' |
Online reference site Wikipedia blames US Congress staff for partisan changes to a number of political biographies. Computers traced to Capitol Hill removed unpalatable facts from articles on senators, while other entries were "vandalised", the site said. An inquiry was launched after staff for Democratic representative Marty Meehan admitted polishing his biography. Wikipedia is produced by readers who add entries and edit any page, and has become a widely-used reference tool. Using the public history of edits on Wikipedia, researchers collected the internet protocol numbers of computers linked to the US Senate and tracked the changes made to online pages. The site lists half a dozen prominent biographies that had been changed by Senate computers, including those of Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, Florida Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. ...
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| Torino Police Brace For Protests |
Fast-changing events, including regional protests and the surge of rioting across the Muslim world, have complicated the task of protecting the Winter Games. The host city's police chief still believes security plans are flexible and thorough enough to avert serious problems. "Our plan, which has been in preparation for many years, took into account the possible emergence of new problems," Rodolfo Poli said in an interview at his office Wednesday with The Associated Press. "We're policemen, not altar boys," he added. "We always think more pessimistically than what happens in reality." Poli, a veteran of Italy's long-running battle against domestic terrorist groups such as the Red Brigades, said authorities are bracing for attempts by leftist and anti-globalization protesters to ...
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| Editors quit in dispute over cartoon decision General manager of N.Y. paper refused images that sparked Muslim rioting |
The editors of a New York alternative newspaper that drew criticism last year for making light of Pope John Paul’s failing health resigned Wednesday over what they called their managers’ refusal to publish controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper, have sparked fury from some Muslims and violent protests in Europe and the Middle East. For many Muslims, Islam forbids images of the prophet. One cartoon showed Muhammad with a turban resembling a bomb.In an article on the New York Observer’s Web site on Wednesday, Harry Siegel said that he and three colleagues on the editorial board of the New York Press resigned after being ordered not to print the cartoons in an issue dedicated to the controversy. ...
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| Bobbitt Acquitted of Domestic Battery |
A man whose domestic troubles gained notoriety when his then-wife cut off his penis in 1993 has again been acquitted of a domestic battery charge. John Wayne Bobbitt, 38, acknowledged a pattern of domestic trouble after Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Toy Gregory ruled Tuesday that Bobbitt's estranged wife, Joanna Ferrell, had not been injured."I've always had a problem with judgment, particularly when it comes to women," Bobbitt said.He was convicted in February 2003 of battery involving Ferrell, prompting a northern Nevada judge to revoke his probation and send him to prison for his role in a 1999 store theft.Bobbitt was acquitted of a domestic violence charge in Las Vegas after an August 2004 incident involving Ferrell and her teenage son....
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