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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 2004
Page
9
Two Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay testified before a U S military tribunal declaring their innocence and claiming they did not fight Americans. One said he surrendered to uphold human rights while the other described being forced to join the Taliban.
Two Albany mosque leaders, Imam Yassin Aref and founder Mohammed Hossain, were arrested on charges tied to a supposed plan to acquire an RPG-7 launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. The operation, led by federal prosecutors, was described as a sting with no real threat, aimed at deterring terrorists.
In Najaf and surrounding Shiite areas clashes erupt between Muqtada al Sadr s Mahdi Army and U S and Iraqi forces. The fighting wounds dead and a U S helicopter is shot down while a shrine is damaged and warplanes hit a cemetery on the outskirts. Both sides accuse each other of breaking a fragile truce and threaten renewed attacks.
Kevin Smith, 34, quietly remarried his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith in Las Vegas at the Little White Chapel during a birthday visit. The couple wed previously in April 1999. Smith announced the remarriage on ViewAskew.com, joking about giving his wife another wedding for his birthday.
AP reports a man on Highway 99 frontage road in Yuba City was startled when a chicken flew into his windshield wipers and had to be freed by an officer. The bird remained unharmed.
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