UPDATE:
IF RAPE IS OKAY TO ENFORCE SOCIAL ORDER, FOR PAKISTAN, WELL BY GOLLY IT'S OKAY FOR THE U.S.A. Air Force Academy
Academy rape trial on holdJudge's action follows refusal of therapist to turn over notes
By Howard Pankratz Denver Post Staff Writer
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas - A military judge on Friday decided to indefinitely postpone an Air Force Academy sexual assault court-martial, after a civilian rape counselor refused to turn over her notes of conversations with the alleged victim.
Lawyers in Air Force sex-assault case call for delay
Defense attorneys argue that First Lt. Joseph Harding cannot get a fair trial until a therapist's records are turned over.
By Howard Pankratz
Denver Post Staff Writer
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas - Lawyers for an Air Force Academy graduate facing court-martial for two alleged sex-related crimes asked a judge Wednesday to postpone the proceedings until a Colorado Springs therapist turns over records of her conversations with an alleged victim.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2818126
Military rape trial will proceed
By Howard Pankratz
Denver Post Staff Writer
1st. Lt. Joseph Harding arrives at his trial at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio today, June 22nd, 2005. (AP / Joe Mitchell)
Randolph Air Force Base, Texas - An Air Force judge today denied a motion to dismiss sex-related charges against an Air Force Academy graduate, ruling that lawyers for 1st Lt. Joseph Harding failed to prove that an Air Force general was unduly influenced before bringing the case against Harding.
Harding is accused of "indecent assault" against one female cadet in September 1999 and raping a second female cadet in August 2000.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2817367
Be glad the Air Force doesn't fly like it prosecutes
By Diane Carman
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Don't blame the defense attorneys. They're supposed to work every angle to keep their client out of jail.
And as proceedings continued Wednesday in Texas in Air Force Academy graduate Joseph Harding's court-martial on charges of indecent assault and rape, it was obvious that his attorneys will do just about anything to keep this case from going to trial.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2820224
Two boys drown in Springs storm
By Erin Emery
Denver Post Staff Writer
Colorado Springs - A mother found the body of her 14-year-old son in a drainage culvert Wednesday, prompting rescuers to launch a search for the boy's friend, who was found dead hours later.
The names of the boys will not be released until autopsies are completed today. Colorado Springs police Lt. Rafael Cintron said the boys accidentally drowned when a thunderstorm pounded the area Tuesday, dumping 2.56 inches of rain and a foot of hail on some parts of the city. More than 30 people were treated for hypothermia or other injuries.
http://denverpost.com/news/ci_2818324
Apparent murder-suicide in Denver
By DenverPost.com
Denver - Denver police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in the parking lot of a recreation center.
The shooting happened around noon near Federal and Harvard, at the College View Recreation Center.
A 37-year-old man shot a 32-year-old woman and then himself, according to police spokesman Sonny Jackson. The man died
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2819983
More troops heading to Fort Carson
The 4th Infantry Division will swap homes with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, bringing 12,000 more GIs.
By Erin Emery
Denver Post Staff Writer
Fort Carson will grow by as many as 12,000 soldiers under a plan announced Wednesday by Army Secretary Francis Harvey to move the 4th Infantry Division to the mountain post and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Fort Hood, Texas.
Even though many of these new soldiers were already expected, the announcement will mean that several thousand more are coming to Fort Carson.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2818339
Activist's passion lives on
By Elizabeth Aguilera and Bianca Prieto
Denver Post Staff Writers
Talking around a lunchroom table at Escuela Tlatelolco are, from left, Lauren Montanez, Elizabeth Gonzalez and Candice Ramos. The school, founded by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales in 1970, continues to teach mostly Latino kids about social justice, equality and cultural history. (Post / John Prieto)
The sound of his marching footsteps on the streets of Denver is but an echo, his voice now silenced by death.
Despite the loss of famed Chicano rights activist Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, the school he founded continues to teach mostly Latino kids social justice, equality and cultural history.
For 35 years, the northwest Denver school has been a center for Latino activism; a cultural and academic home for Latino students; and a tribute to Gonzales' passion for education.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2818322
2nd mad cow case confirmed in U.S.
Denver Post Staff and Wire Reports
Feedlot cattle in a January 2004 file image. (AP / Jeff McIntosh)
Washington - Exhaustive tests have confirmed mad cow disease in an animal apparently born in the United States, officials said Friday.
It is the second case of the disease confirmed in this country, but Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns stressed there is no threat to public health.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2822595
Hard-liner elected president of Iran in landslide victory
Tehran mayor's shocking upset shakes up social reformers
By Kathy Gannon
The Associated Press
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Tehran for a press conference. (AP / Vahid)
Tehran - The hard-line Tehran mayor steamrolled over one of Iran's best known statesman to win the presidency today in a landslide election victory that cements conservative control over the nation's political leadership.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_2823079
Rights group joins jail lawsuit
By Jim Kirksey
Denver Post Staff Writer
A national civil-rights organization is joining the legal team of a Mexican citizen suing the Park County sheriff over losing a lung and part of a leg due to conditions he developed while in the county jail in 2003.
Moises Carranza-Reyes claims that he developed a streptococcus infection while incarcerated at the Park County jail for a week in March 2003, said Adele Kimmel of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2818251
Aurorans question mall's security
By Elizabeth Aguilera, Annette Espinoza and Jim Hughes
Denver Post Staff Writers
"Every time something like this happens, it is really frustrating for us," said Norma Nuñez, owner of La Cueva Mexican restaurant on East Colfax Avenue. She wants business owners to discuss crime deterrence. (Post / Craig F. Walker)
Aurora - A day after a fatal shooting at Aurora Mall, some residents were still shaken by the tragedy, while others worried about the city's image.
Mayor Ed Tauer said the shooting was an isolated incident and that the mall "is a terrific place, and it's getting better with the new renovation."
Still, the cautious reaction of the
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Missed evaluations of sex predators assailed
By Kirk Mitchell
Denver Post Staff Writer
Members of two Colorado agencies took turns explaining how the other agency was to blame for not evaluating sex offenders as possible sexually violent predators at a legislative hearing Wednesday.
A court administration official said some of the evaluations could have been done after sex offenders went to prison. Then a Department of Corrections official said prison therapists believed that sexual predator evaluations would be done before sentencing.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2818257
The Arab News
‘No Timetable for Iraq Pullout’
Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, 25 June 2005 — President George W. Bush assured Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari yesterday “there are not going to be any timetables” for withdrawal of American forces.
“This is not the time to fall back,” Jaafari concurred at a joint news conference at the White House.
Fielding questions hours after the latest attack on a US military convoy left at least six American soldiers dead, Bush conceded that it bothers Americans to see scenes of carnage on television.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=65906&d=25&m=6&y=2005
Radio, TV Lined Up for Privatization
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
JEDDAH, 25 June 2005 — Saudi radio and television will be privatized gradually, Culture and Information Minister Iyad Madani said. The ministry will first change the rules and regulations governing them before embarking on the privatization program, he added.
Speaking to reporters after inspecting the radio transmission facilities in Makkah on Thursday, he said the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) would be transformed into a public corporation.
Madani said the Cabinet has already endorsed a Shoura Council recommendation to transform state radio and television, as well as SPA, into public corporations.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65896&d=25&m=6&y=2005
Doctors Aided Gitmo Interrogators
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 25 June 2005 — Military doctors at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba have helped interrogators put maximum pressure on detainees, according to an article in the New York Times. The report, published yesterday, claims military doctors have consistently advised interrogators on methods to increase the psychological suffering of detainees and force them to cooperate with American military authorities.
The Times article alleges that doctors used the medical histories of individual prisoners to come up with ways to cause them maximum fear and distress to help them obtain intelligence information from the detainees.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=65907&d=25&m=6&y=2005
Editorial: Gitmo: America’s Shame
25 June 2005
Last week, former US President Clinton joined the swelling chorus within the US demanding the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Either that or clean the place up, he said. The constant abuse stories coming out of it has to stop.
Hardly are the words out of his mouth then, fast on the heels of the Qur’an desecration stories, come new shocking allegations about Guantanamo.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=65879&d=25&m=6&y=2005
Muhammad Ali Re-Elected IDB President
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Ali
JEDDAH, 25 June 2005 — Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Ali has been re-elected president of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for another five years, the Saudi Press Agency said.
The bank’s board of governors, who concluded their meeting in the Malaysian city of Putrajaya yesterday, took the decision.
Finance Minister Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf said Saudi Arabia had recommended that Ali’s term be renewed. “We have presented a proposal officially to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, current chairman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, to renew Dr. Ali’s term for another five years,” he told reporters.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=65898&d=25&m=6&y=2005
Zarqawi Says US Bombing Killed Al-Rashoud
Raid Qusti & Saad Al-Matrafi, Arab News
Abdullah Al-Rashoud
RIYADH/JEDDAH, 24 June 2005 — A statement posted on the Internet by the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi, said yesterday that Abdullah Al-Rashoud, one of the most wanted men on a Saudi list of 26 terrorists, had been killed in US airstrikes on the Iraqi town of Qaim near the Syrian border.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65856&d=24&m=6&y=2005
Pervez Musharraf Arriving Tomorrow
Abdul Maqsood Mirza, Arab News
JEDDAH, 24 June 2005 — Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is arriving in Riyadh tomorrow.
“Bilateral and regional issues will dominate the discussions between Crown Prince Abdullah and Musharraf,” Pakistani Ambassador Abdul Aziz Mirza told Arab News yesterday.
The discussions are expected to focus on the ongoing fight on terror and measures that will make Pakistani economy more strong.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65862&d=24&m=6&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Princess Sara Details Efforts to Fight Poverty in Kingdom
Abdul Maqsood Mirza, Arab News
JEDDAH, 24 June 2005 — The wife of Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed and president of the Higher Female Committee for Human and Social Services, Princess Sara, praised Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative to fight poverty and establish homes for the poor.
Princess Sara said that Prince Abdullah’s order to allot SR2 billion from the national budget to establish homes for the poor and fulfill their
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65843&d=24&m=6&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
The Women of Saudi Arabia are making the world a more peaceful place to live. I am impressed.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65841&d=24&m=6&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Tourism Course for Saudi Women
Maha Akeel & Razan Baker, Arab News
JEDDAH, 24 June 2005 — For the first time a course for women on planning tourism projects is being held in Saudi cities at the chambers of commerce and industry.
The course is being sponsored by the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT), which started this course in Riyadh last week and in Jeddah this week. The course will also be held in Dammam.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=65844&d=24&m=6&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Miami Herald
Oil, politics and Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez lashes out at oil companies, causing alarm bells to ring among foreign investors
BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@herald.com
WASHINGTON - Until a few months ago, Big Oil was nice to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Its top executives would visit him in the presidential palace and declare themselves ''enthusiastic'' over the country. One even urged the U.S. Congress to go easy on him.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11972077.htm
200 Haitians working illegally deported despite president's stance
Dominican immigration authorities rounded up 200 Haitians begging or working in the country illegally despite promises a day earlier from the president that he would work for a better policy.
BY RAMON ALMANZAR
Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO - Authorities deported 200 Haitians who had been begging or working illegally in a northern city, even as the Dominican president criticized mass repatriations as a human rights violation.
Immigration authorities rounded up the Haitians in the city of Santiago over two days and deported them Thursday, said Juan Isidro Pérez, deputy director of immigration for the northern region.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11983737.htm
Four plead guilty to stealing bags of nickels
Four men Friday pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving stolen property -- at least 676 bags of nickels stolen from a Federal Reserve Bank shipment.
Diosdado Cabrera, Javier Gonzalez and Juan Brito admitted to having received, stored and exchanged the nickels for cash, while Jose Antonio Portales admitted to helping load, store and bury them.
Sentencing for the four was set for Sept. 15 by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro Benages, who accepted the pleas. All of the defendants face a maximum 10 years in prison.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11983630.htm
'Preacher Man' killed after cellphone dispute
The fatal attack against a Dillard High football player originated with a dispute over a cellphone, investigators said. The teen victim's family says he was also protecting his younger brother.
BY DAVIS WARD
dward@herald.com
His football teammates used to call Eddy Power IV ''Preacher Man'' because he would lead them in prayer before games.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11971358.htm
Police: Driver shot with Taser after trying to run down officer
Miami police said that a motorist tried to run down an officer Friday morning, then took off in a chase in Northwest Miami-Dade that ended with the man being Tasered.
Police said that the incident began following a routine traffic stop on Northwest 55th Street and 21st Avenue. The suspect, whose name has not been released, tried to run down officers, then fled.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11978507.htm
Italy judge orders arrest of 13 CIA agents
AIDAN LEWIS
Associated Press
ROME - An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.
The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11976237.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Mbeki's toughest decision
Jacob Zuma refused to resign, saying that he had not been found guilty of any crime. Picture / Reuters
25.06.05
By Ray Hartley
Sunday June 12 was a crisp winter's day on the South African high veld. By the afternoon, President Thabo Mbeki had finally made his decision.
His deputy, Jacob Zuma, a man he had counted among his most trusted friends for 30 years, would have to be fired. The Durban High Court Judge Hillary Squires had convicted Zuma's financial adviser Schabir Shaik of paying more than $256,000 to Zuma for favours to advance his business interests. Zuma and Shaik, he said, had had a "generally corrupt relationship".
...He told a breakfast with South African businessmen in Lusaka, Zambia: "My conscience is clear because I know that I have not committed any crime, nor was I charged with any criminal offence. I was therefore not in court to answer to any of the allegations made."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332594
Mixed media: Whale stakes
24.06.05
Save the whales
Ex-pat in Japan: Despite whaling industry claims, today there is little demand for the bone, blubber, meat and oil that whales once supplied. But the demand for and profitability of whale watching has increased. The benefits of eco-tourism activities such as whale watching are spread over a larger portion of the population than whale hunting. In addition to whale-watching operations, those operating stores, hotels and restaurants can enjoy increased employment and revenue opportunities. The Japanese whaling industry employs only a few hundred people. - Tim Scott writing in the Japan Times
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332542
5.1 billion could save 6 million children says study
A four-year-old boy is immunised in Nigerian, one of the simple measures that could save millions of children. Picture / Reuters
24.06.05 4.00pm
LONDON - Six million children who die each year from preventable diseases could be saved if richer nations gave another $7.19 ($5.1) billion a year, researchers said.
That's the amount they calculate would cover the costs of providing drugs, vitamins and vaccines to treat sick babies in 42 countries that account for 90 per cent of child deaths.
"This cost represents $1.23 per head in these countries," said researcher Dr Jennifer Bryce, lead author of the report published in The Lancet medical journal.
In a study in 2003, Bryce and World Health Organisation colleagues identified 23 simple measures that could save millions of children in the world's poorest countries -- mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332515
Cocaine smuggler convicted
Ten grams of cocaine which was inside one of the 200-plus letters posted from Canada. Herald picture / Brett Phibbs
24.06.05
An Australian man has been convicted of being involved in importing $3.5 million of cocaine which was sent in 259 letters to post office boxes around Auckland.
The jury at the High Court in Auckland found Lei Cai, 25 guilty of importing 2.6kg of the drug and having it for supply, after deliberating overnight.
At the start of the trial last week another Australian, Abdalla Ali, 21, admitted the same charges.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332513
Japan nuclear data leak raises security concerns
24.06.05 1.00pm
TOKYO - Japanese officials scrambled to contain the public relations fallout from reports that confidential information about Japan's nuclear plants had leaked onto the internet through a virus on a personal computer.
Japan's top government spokesman pledged to take steps to protect information after data on several nuclear plants appeared online, including photographs of their interiors, details of regular inspections and repair work and names of workers.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332503
Corby sacks Indonesian legal team
25.06.05
Schapelle Corby has fired her Indonesian legal team, her sister Mercedes has announced.
Mercedes Corby broke the news in a brief mobile phone text message to AAP.
Separately, Vasu Rasiah, an adviser to the defence team, confirmed the change.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332590
Second case of mad cow disease in US confirmed
25.06.05 1.00pm
WASHINGTON - A second case of mad cow disease in the United States has been confirmed after tests, the US Agriculture Department said.
USDA said it was investigating where the animal with the brain-wasting disease originally came from. It also said meat from the infected cow was not sold to consumers or as animal feed.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10332656
Suicide bomb attack kills six US troops in Iraq
25.06.05 1.00pm
BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb attack on a US Marine vehicle in the city of Falluja killed six American troops in one of the deadliest single assaults on US ground forces in Iraq, the US military said.
In Washington, US President George W Bush vowed insurgents in Iraq would be defeated.
"The way ahead is not going to be easy," Bush told a White House news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari.
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