Student pilot left note praising bin Laden before fatal crash
Tampa police say 15 year old Charles Bishop wrote a brief note expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden and support for the September 11 attacks. He acted alone in crashing a plane into the Bank of America building, killing himself. Police describe him as a troubled loner with no known terrorist ties.
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Tampa
Fla
Osama bin Laden
Charles Bishop
Bennie Holder
Holder
Bishop
St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay
MacDill Air Force Base
Coast Guard
Bank of America
Odessan girl cuts hair to aid chemotherapy wigs
Kayla Martinez, an 11 year old from Reagan Elementary, donated two feet of hair after a January 3 haircut at Salon in the Summit. Her mother cut 12 inches earlier, sending the locks to Wigs for Kids in Rocky River Ohio, which provides wigs to cancer patients. The decision stemmed from seeing a child affected by chemotherapy.
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Kayla Martinez
Mary Lou
Keith Pattillo
Odessa
Martinez
Wigs For Kids
Ohio
Kayla
Summit
Mary Lou Martinez
Reagan
Pattillo
Martinezes
Fort Hood Soldiers Deployed to Guantanamo Bay Detainee Facility
About 300 Fort Hood troops join other forces to establish a detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba for al Qaida and Taliban prisoners. The deployment targets security and transfer duties with several days until arrival and ongoing waves of follow on troops totaling about 1 500 by weeks end.
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Fort Hood
Afghanistan
Army
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
al-Qaida
Taliban
Terry Carrico
89Th Military Police Brigade
Carrico
America
B.B. Bell
II Corps
Jeremy Willingham
Trion
Post
U.S
Cmdr
Jeff Davis
Pentagon
Ferris wheel fate debated in Paris over deadline
The owner of a 200 foot Ferris wheel on Place de la Concorde fights a dismantling deadline arguing the ride remains a popular attraction. City officials call it an eyesore as Paris weighs keeping or removing the largest wheel in France amid months of dispute.
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Paris
France
Place de la Concorde
Concorde Square
Eiffel Tower
Indian Pakistani leaders meet informally at Nepal summit
At a regional summit in Kathmandu Nepal Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf held a brief informal talk. Both nations remain on war alert with cross border tension ongoing after India claimed to shoot down a small Pakistani drone over Kashmir. Pakistani officials denied the claim and the state news agency said the drone was Indian.
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Nepal
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Pervez Musharraf
Kashmir
C. Uday Bhaskar
New Delhi
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Katmandu
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