Shiite militiamen clash with U S Iraqi troops in Najaf
Clashes in Najaf between Muqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi Army and U S and Iraqi troops kill at least 20 Iraqis and one U S soldier. A helicopter is shot down, a shrine is damaged, and U S warplanes attack a cemetery where militants hid. Al Sadr warns of renewed revolution if truces are not honored. Separately, attackers dressed as police kill six and wound 24 in Mahawil.
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Najaf
Iraq
Muqtada al- Sadr
U.S
al-Sadr
Mahdi Army
Ahmed al- Shaibany
Associated Press
Interior Ministry
Muqtada al-Sadr
Sadr City
Baghdad
Interrogators test witness Abu Ghraib abuse details at Fort Bragg hearing
Military interrogators testified they witnessed naked prisoners kept around the clock at Abu Ghraib and forced into sexual poses while guarding guards failed to report the abuse up the chain. The Article 32 hearing considers court martial for Pfc. Lynndie England amid a broader probe.
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Abu Ghraib
Fort Bragg
N.C
Iraq
Pfc
Lynndie England
Spc
Hannah Schlegel
Schlegel
Carolyn Wood
Agents search homes in anthrax investigation
Federal agents searched two Wellsville New York homes tied to Dr Kenneth Berry a bioterrorism expert and founder of PREEMPT Medical Counter Terrorism as part of the anthrax probe. A Dover Township New Jersey search and details remain at large with no arrests reported.
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Wellsville
N.Y
New York
New Jersey
FBI
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Dover Township
N.J
Kenneth Berry
Berry
Adam Fadel
Debbie Weierman
Jersey Shore
Atlantic City
Preempt
USA Today
Pentagon
Afghan prisoners plead for freedom at Guantanamo tribunal
Two Afghan detainees appeared in a U S military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay asking for release. The men testified via Pashto interpreters that they surrendered or were forced into the Taliban, while the court restricted identities and classified testimony.
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Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Cuba
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Man accused of plotting to blow up courthouse
Gale William Nettles 66 was arrested in Chicago on charges he plotted to blow up a federal courthouse. He believed he had 1500 pounds of fertilizer he could use as a bomb but the material lacked explosive potential and other players were cooperating with authorities. Nettles planned to supply terrorists and claimed a half ton of ammonium nitrate could reach Chicago in two days for the target. He is held pending a detention hearing.
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Gale William Nettles
Oklahoma City Federal
Nettles
Dirksen Federal Building
U.S
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Timothy McVeigh
Oklahoma City
New Orleans
Al-Qaida
Hamas
Afghan charged in killings of four journalists in 2001
Reza Khan faces trial for the November 19 2001 killings of journalists in a Kabul bound convoy. The victims include Australian TV cameraman Harry Burton Afghan photographer Azizullah Haidari Italian reporter Maria Grazia Cutuli and Spanish journalist Julio Fuentes. Khan confessed to the crimes and said the killings were ordered by a Taliban figure though he suggested theft as motive.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Reza Khan
Jalalabad
U.S
Harry Burton
Azizullah Haidari
Reuters New Agency
Maria Grazia Cutuli
Corriere Della Sera
Julio Fuentes
el Mundo
Abdul Fatah
Khan
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Patrick Leahy
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