 Radical imam Abu Omar was kidnapped by the CIA in Milan 4 years ago & taken to a prison in Egypt. There, he was tormented with electric shocks & suspended from the ceiling for days on end. Now Omar describes his ordeal & the role Germany played in the scandal. Osama Hussein Nasr comes downstairs to show the way to his house in Alexandria, which is difficult to find amidst the chaos of narrow alleys with their open sewers. Suddenly he's standing there, in front of a small café a diminutive man with a long, scruffy beard & a round white cap on his head. After a brief handshake, the man better known as Abu Omar urges us to follow him back upstairs. It's better to talk there, he says: "They're everywhere down here on the street, the security people." Abu Omar isn't allowed to receive visits from Western journalists. He says his "friends" the Egyptian authorities have "strongly advised" him to observe this prohibition. Abu Omar is nervous. The 46-year-old was released from jail on Feb. 11 ...
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Editor - 10:15:00 03-20-07
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 29 Die When Bus Loses Brakes, Catches Fire in Thailand |
A long-distance passenger bus caught fire and careened out of control down a mountain road in central Thailand on Tuesday after its brakes failed, killing 29 people and injuring more than 10 others, police said.The bus, which was traveling from northeastern Thailand to Bangkok, had earlier made a stop to fix its brakes, according to an initial police investigation."The front wheels of the bus burst into flames and the driver lost control of the brakes, and then the engine caught fire," police Lt. Samran Soreekun said. He said the fire spread through the bus as it plowed down the road out of control in the central province of Saraburi....
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| Rallies Across United States Mark 4th Anniversary of Iraq War |
Anti-war activists draped themselves in white sheets and laid down in the street to symbolize Iraq's dead, halting traffic in the heart of the city and leading to 57 arrests on the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, police said.The "die-in" was one of several protests around the country Monday, including anti-war rallies in Seattle; Salt Lake City and Trenton, N.J.Other protests took a more artistic bent: 4,000 white flags were placed along the waterfront in Louisville, Ky., and an exhibit of shiny black boots was arranged in the Capitol in St. Paul, Minn.In San Francisco, students, grandparents and clergy members were among those who gathered to read the names of Iraqis and U.S. troops killed in the war and call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."This is what they do in Iraq — just lay the bodies on the side of the street," said Joey Vaughan, 20, of San Francisco, as he lay on the sidewalk. "I just think it's time people pay attention."...
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| Missing Boy Scout Found Alive Spokeswoman Tells CBS News 12-Year-Old Found After Three Days In Rugged N.C. Mountains |
The 12-year-old Boy Scout missing for three nights in the damp, cool mountains of western North Carolina has been found alive, a National Park Service spokeswoman told CBS News. "There are a lot of smiling people standing around me here at the command post and a lot of rescuers and folks who are very pleased to hear this news," ranger Tina White said. "We were focusing more heavily on that 35 different segments of area where we thought he had the highest probability of being and maybe that's what paid off." Michael vanished after lunch with his fellow Scouts and troop leaders on Saturday. His father said the adults and the other boys on the trip told him Michael had slept late but nothing appeared to have been wrong. ...
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Editor - 08:16:00 03-20-07
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| U.S. Envoy, Palestinian Reportedly Meet Palestinian Official Says U.S. Diplomat Meets Minister in New Government |
A U.S. diplomat met Tuesday with the Palestinian finance minister, a Palestinian official said, in the first American contact with the new coalition government and a sign of a break in policy between Israel and its closest ally. Israel has said it will not have contact with any member of the new Hamas-Fatah coalition. The United States, however, has indicated it would maintain contact with moderates such Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad. Jacob Walles, the U.S. consul general in Jerusalem, met with Fayyad in the West Bank town of Ramallah, said Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti. "This is part of the ordinary meetings that Palestinian ministers are conducting with the international community," Barghouti said. Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate, declined to confirm the meeting took place. An Israeli official said the government was waiting for official U.S. comment before responding. ...
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Editor - 08:13:00 03-20-07
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| Russia Mine Blast Kills 105 Rescuers Still Searching Siberian Coal Mine After Methane Explosion, 4 Still Missing |
Rescuers searching a coal mine rocked by a methane gas explosion found the bodies of several more victims Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 105 a day after Russia's deadliest mining disaster in a decade. Some 200 workers were in the Ulyanovskaya mine in the coal-rich region known as the Kuzbass at the time of the blast, which occurred early Monday at a depth of around 885 feet, emergency and regional officials said. Emergency officials put the death toll at 105, while five others were still missing; 93 had been rescued earlier. At one point they had said there were 106 confirmed deaths, but later revised the figure without explanation. Company officials and safety experts, along with a British citizen and his interpreter, were in the mine examining a British-made hazard monitoring system just before the blast occurred, said Sergei Cheremnov, a spokesman for the regional government in Kemerovo where the mine is located. The British man and the interpreter were among the dead....
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