 The young man who killed six people at a house party over the weekend had brought three guns, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, a baseball bat and a black machete, and told guests as he blazed away, “There’s plenty for everyone,” authorities said Monday. Several witnesses described the gunman making statements to that effect during the massacre Saturday morning, Deputy Police Chief Clark Kimerer said Monday. Huff killed six people and wounded two before taking his own life when confronted by an officer who arrived within 45 seconds of the first shots being fired.Kimerer told a news conference that Huff, 28, was “clearly intent on doing homicidal mayhem,” but after searching his apartment and interviewing his twin brother, police still had no idea why....
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 Police Suspect Voodoo Ritual After Second Group of Skulls Found in Haiti |
Scavengers found 10 human skulls Monday in a trash heap the second such grisly find in as many days in Haiti's capital, where authorities speculated that the bones may have come from a Voodoo ritual. The skulls were inside plastic buckets along a busy road in an eastern district of Port-au-Prince, bystanders said. Two U.N. civilian police could be seen trying to match the skulls with several sets of jaw bones also found in the dump, littered with tin cans, old shoes and a child's doll. Authorities may have to call in experts from outside the country to determine the age of the skulls, which were to be turned over to Haiti's national police, U.N. civilian police spokesman Marc Jacquet said. ...
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| London mayor rebukes U.S. ambassador U.S. won’t pay $14 a day congestion charge for driving in city center |
The U.S. ambassador to Britain has refused to pay London’s $14 daily toll on cars in the city center, prompting London’s outspoken mayor to say on Monday he was behaving “like some chiseling little crook.”The embassy stopped paying the fee last July, shortly before Ambassador Robert Tuttle took up his post. It argues that the daily toll on those driving in central London during business hours is a tax that diplomats should not have to pay.Mayor Ken Livingstone’s office says the fee, known as the “congestion charge” and aimed at cutting traffic, is a payment for a service, not a tax. “When British troops are putting their lives on the line for American foreign policy it would be quite nice if they paid the congestion charge,” Livingstone said.“We will find a way of getting them into court either here or in America. We are not going to have them (evade) their responsibilities.”...
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| Activists want public to know terror case ruling |
A civil liberties group asked an appeals court on Monday to force a federal judge to unseal a ruling he made in a terrorism case regarding the government's warrantless wiretapping program.The judge's sealing of the ruling without an explanation is unprecedented, the New York Civil Liberties Union said."Courts do not have authority to issue entire opinions in secret," the group said.The group's submission to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came in the case of two Muslims accused of supporting terrorism. The NYCLU asked to intervene three days after defense lawyers for the men asked the same appeals court to say the judge erred in letting authorities keep information about wiretaps secret....
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| Protests Over Immigration Bills Continue With L.A. Student Walkout, Detroit Rally |
Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday, waving flags and chanting slogans in a second week of protests against legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants. In Washington, 100 demonstrators wore handcuffs at the Capitol to protest a bill that would make it a felony to be in this country illegally and would make it a crime to dispense aid to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Immigrant supporters also object to legislation that would also impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and would build fences along part of the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 500,000 people gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, and tens of thousands rallied in Phoenix and Milwaukee last week...
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| Report: Britain Helped CIA Capture Two British Terror Suspects in Africa, BBC Reports |
British officials helped the CIA capture two British nationals in Africa who were later taken to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the BBC said Monday, citing secret telegrams it reportedly obtained. Iraqi-born Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna are alleged to have been associated with al-Qaida through their connection with the London-based radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada. Al-Rawi had lived in Britain since 1985, and el-Banna was granted refugee status in Britain in 2000. Al-Rawi and el-Banna were arrested several years ago in Gambia while trying to return to Britain with electronic equipment authorities described as suspicious. The men's lawyers claim it was a battery charger. ...
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