 Aaron Kyle Huff lived with his twin brother and delivered pizzas since he moved to Seattle from Montana. An apartment manager said Huff and his brother were ideal tenants, calling them "twin teddy bears."Those who knew him expressed shock when they learned he was suspected of opening fire in a house full of partygoers dressed like zombies in dark clothing and pale makeup, killing six of them and injuring two. He then turned the gun on himself."It's a total shock," said Regina Gray, manager of Town & Country Apartments, where the Huff brothers lived. "He and his twin brother are the kindest, sweetest, gentlest people."It was a sharp contrast to the man police spokesman Sean Whitcomb described Sunday as "extremely dangerous" who "approached the house shooting and didn't stop shooting."...
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 US soldiers kill 22 in attack on Baghdad mosque |
US forces killed 22 people and wounded eight at a mosque in east Baghdad in an incident likely to lead to increased tensions with the Shia community. Police said the US troops had retaliated after coming under fire. Videotape showed a heap of male bodies with gunshot wounds on the floor of the Imam's living quarters in what was said to be the Al Mustafa mosque. There were 5.56mm shell casings on the floor, which is the type of ammunition used by US soldiers. A weeping man in white Arab robes is shown stepping among the bodies. Police Lt Hassan said some of the casualties were at the office Dawa, the party of the Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Haidar al-Obaidi, a senior Dawa official, said: "The lives of Iraqis are not cheap. If the American blood is valuable to them, the Iraqi blood is valuable to us." ...
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| Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says |
In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second United Nations resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war. But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times."Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning," David Manning, Mr. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser at the time, wrote in the memo that summarized the discussion between Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and six of their top aides....
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| Troops and Rebel Tribesmen Clash in Southwestern Pakistan, Leaving Three Dead |
Rebel tribesmen set off a bomb near the home of a senior government official southwest Pakistan and launched a separate attack on a military post, triggering a gunbattle that left two attackers and a soldier dead, officials said. Another attacker was killed when his motorcycle hit a land mine as he tried to escape after Sunday's shootout near Sui, a mountain tribal town in southwest Baluchistan province, said Abdul Samad Lasi, a local government official. Two soldiers were injured in the gun fight. Sparsely populated Baluchistan has in recent years been the scene of scores of bomb, rocket and land mine attacks, most blamed on renegade tribesmen demanding increased royalties for resources, such as natural gas, extracted in their territories. Fighting between rival tribes has also caused hundreds of people to flee their homes....
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| Two Boys Still Missing in Milwaukee After Week; Search Becomes Criminal Probe, Police Say |
Police said Sunday the search for two boys who disappeared a week ago was turned into a criminal investigation. Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz wouldn't reveal what prompted them to treat the case differently, saying it would compromise the investigation. The change did not come because of one detail, she said, but an "amassing of information" through police canvassing the neighborhood, tips and leads. Quadrevion Henning, 12, and Purvis Virginia Parker, 11, were last seen around 3:30 p.m. March 19, when they asked Henning's grandfather whether they could play basketball at a nearby park. While there are many unanswered questions about the case, investigators had no reason to believe the boys were outside of Milwaukee, she said. ...
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| Blogger up for non-fiction award |
An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention. Others include Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, a biography of 19th-Century cook and author Mrs Beeton and a study of post-war US-Soviet relations. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 14 June. Professor Robert Winston, chair of the judging panel, said this year's longlist contained "an exceptionally wide variety of genres". "It looks as if finalising a shortlist is going to be excessively difficult," he said. Previous winners of the prize include Like a Fiery Elephant, Jonathan Coe's biography of the author BS Johnson, and Stasiland, Anna Funder's chronicle of the hardships endured by people from the former East Germany. ...
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