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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 2005
Page
3
A powerful blast in the Zalka district of Beirut injured at least three people and caused extensive damage to a shopping center and hotel. Security forces were seen rounding up several suspects as investigators assess the scene.
Police stormed a home in Inglewood California on Monday and found five people dead including two children. Authorities believe the man died by his own hand and were investigating the incident as a murder suicide. The dead include the suspect his sister in law her husband and their two children. No other details were released.
John Allen Muhammad, already sentenced to death in Virginia, was moved to Maryland before dawn for his second murder trial linked to the October 2002 Washington area shootings. He waived a hearing set to review bond status.
The man known as the Piano Man, an institutionalized violinist who performed in a British hospital chapel, has been identified as from Bavaria in Germany. He flew home on Saturday, according to the German government, and his name was not disclosed.
In Kingston Tennessee a couple charged in the killing of a corrections officer during a courthouse escape arrived back at the same building under heavy security. U S marshals escorted inmate George Hyatte and his wife Jennifer from Columbus Ohio where they had been held since Aug 10.
Iraqi leaders adjourned parliament at a midnight deadline to win Sunni Arab support for a Shiite Kurdish draft that would reshape Iraq into a federation. Sunni negotiators warned of deep rifts over federalism and Baath Party purges while U S officials cited three major sticking points. The day also saw three U S soldiers killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad and two more in a vehicle crash near Tal Afar.
President Bush urged support for U S military action in Iraq at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Salt Lake City. He equated the fight against terrorism with world wars and warned terrorists remain a threat, citing Sept 11 attacks as justification for the course in Iraq ahead of a second speech in Idaho.
Saboteurs triggered cascading blackouts that blocked Iraq's oil exports for most of Monday, costing about 60 million dollars in lost revenue and rattling global markets. Officials attributed the outage to insurgent attacks that toppled power pylons, darkening Baghdad and Basra as tankers loaded at reduced capacity.
In a weeklong operation centered in Kunar province's Korengal Valley, U S and Afghan troops killed at least 40 suspected rebels with over 29 engagements. The assault targeted militants who ambushed Navy SEALs and downed a special forces helicopter, as violence spikes ahead of elections.
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