The Los Angles Times
Grieving Police Provide Account of Fatal Standoff
Villaraigosa asks for patience in the probe of the death of a gunman and his young daughter.
By Jill Leovy and Natasha Lee, Times Staff Writers
Los Angeles police said Monday that the shootout that left a 19-month-old toddler dead occurred after officers attempted to rescue the girl by storming the used car dealership where her father was holding her hostage.
The decision came more than two hours into Sunday's standoff when officers believed they had wounded Raul Peña and hoped they could save Susie Lopez, a pigtailed little girl whose somber face adorned magazine ads for his car lot.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shooting12jul12,0,941709.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Scotland Yard Appeals to Public in Its Inquiry
Detectives ask for cellphone images, other photos or video taken Thursday at the attack scenes, but keep quiet on their progress.
By Tracy Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer
LONDON — Across this grieving city on an incongruously sunny Sunday, church bells tolled and religious leaders prayed for calm as work crews pulled bodies from the wreckage of bombed subway cars crushed deep beneath the ground.
The investigation into the bloodiest terrorist attack on British soil and the hunt for its perpetrators proceeded "with great vigor," authorities said Sunday. But they remained tight-lipped about any progress. Among other elements, investigators were attempting to determine whether the suspected Islamic extremists who blew up three Underground trains and a double-decker bus were British-born or immigrants, and whether they had ties to foreign terrorist cells.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britbombs11jul11,0,313070.story?coll=la-home-world
List of Missing Is as Diverse as London Itself
The attacks unite the multicultural city in anger and grief. 'These criminals are the enemies of all of us,' a Muslim leader says.
By Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
LONDON — Nazy Mozakka came from Iran. Slimane Ihab, from Tunisia, arrived by way of Paris. Gamze Gunoral, a Turk, moved to London just a few weeks ago. Rachelle Yuen of Mauritius, Karolina Gluck from Poland and Anat Rosenberg of Israel had settled here years before.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-diverse11jul11,0,264824.story?coll=la-home-world
Democrats Take Aim at Rove in Leak Case
Some lawmakers call for action to be taken against Bush's aide. The White House says little.
By Richard Simon and Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON — The ongoing controversy about who might have leaked the name of a covert CIA operative to journalists heated up Monday as reports about the possible involvement of President's Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, dominated the daily White House news briefing and Democrats began to ratchet up their criticism of Rove.
Less than a week after one reporter went to jail for not revealing her source and two weeks after Time magazine's corporate parent surrendered volumes of its reporter's notes to a federal grand jury investigating the leak, the pot was stirred anew Sunday when Newsweek reported that Rove was the source for Time's Matthew Cooper.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-rove12jul12,0,2520574.story?coll=la-home-headlines
An Old Nazi Guard faces ONLY deportation? What?
A Nazi's Day of Judgment
Josias Kumpf, 80, faces deportation. The former SS soldier denies killing Jews. 'I was a good boy,' he says -- but tell that to a death camp survivor.
By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer
RACINE, Wis. — Two government lawyers knocked at the door of a brick, ranch-style house here two years ago and, getting no answer, wandered around back. There they found an old man sitting alone on a patio chair. He wore a cap to shield himself from the afternoon sun. He noticed that one of the lawyers was pregnant, and he cleaned off another chair. Sit down, he said.
Josias Kumpf had been living in the United States for nearly half a century. He had been an American citizen for 40 years. He had married, raised five children and worked for 35 years stuffing sausage at a factory in Chicago. Retired and a widower, his health failing, he was living at his daughter's home in Racine.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-nazi12jul12,0,2918381.story?coll=la-home-headlines
The Great Alaskan Morel Rush of '05
Being the true story of intrepid pickers, cutthroat buyers, anxious distributors, curious scientists, conflicted locals and other denizens of the mushroom circuit, all of whom headed north in search of the mother lode.
By Nancy Rommelmann, Nancy Rommelmann last wrote for the magazine on home funerals and green burials.
Jay Southard waits just south of mile marker 1313 on the Alaska Highway. It's early June, and the temperature at 8 p.m. is in the 40s, with a raw wind running off the Alaska Range, which rises, iron-colored and veined with snow, in the near distance. Southard is not looking at the mountains, but at the highway running through the center of the town of Tok, keeping an eye out for a red Ford van carrying eight Mexican mushroom pickers. Just because they've been selling him their hauls of morels—450 pounds one day, a little more than 500 the next—doesn't mean they'll sell to him today. If the Weasel got to the Mexicans, Southard might as well pack up and go back home. With several tons of mushroom-drying equipment and $20,000 of setup here in Tok, this is something he really, really does not want to do.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-mushrooms28jul10,0,1173209.story?coll=la-home-magazine
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gas blast kills 16 in northern Russia
12.07.05
MOSCOW - A suspected gas explosion tore through a shop in northern Russia on Monday, killing 16 people, officials said. "The explosion took place in a two-story brick building. We are trying to discover the reason," said Emergencies Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.
He said the blast was in Ukhta, a town in the Komi region 1,500 km northeast of Moscow.
News agencies quoted local police as saying the damage was characteristic of a gas explosion.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335385
Suspect vehicle 'may be connected to attacks'
July 13, 2005 - 12:47AM
Police evacuated a railway station and car park in Luton, northwest of London, to recover a vehicle with a suspected link to last week's bombings in the capital, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
A 100-metre cordon was placed around the train station, which was shut to the public at 2.45pm (2345 AEST) to enable police to remove the vehicle for examination.
"Police believe the vehicle may be connected to the terrorist attacks in London," the spokesman said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/suspect-vehicle-may-be-connected-to-attacks/2005/07/13/1120934251047.html
Suspect vehicle 'may be connected to attacks'
July 13, 2005 - 12:47AM
Police evacuated a railway station and car park in Luton, northwest of London, to recover a vehicle with a suspected link to last week's bombings in the capital, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
A 100-metre cordon was placed around the train station, which was shut to the public at 2.45pm (2345 AEST) to enable police to remove the vehicle for examination.
"Police believe the vehicle may be connected to the terrorist attacks in London," the spokesman said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/suspect-vehicle-may-be-connected-to-attacks/2005/07/13/1120934251047.html
Local sympathisers monitored
By Marian Wilkinson National Security Editor
July 13, 2005
Toll rises … a temporary mortuary in east London.
Photo: AFP
Police and ASIO are aware of terrorist sympathisers in Australia who could provide a support network for a terrorist attack here, the Australian Federal Police's senior counter terrorism officer, Ben McDevitt, says.
"People who subscribe to extremist ideologies are right here … [and] have demonstrated they would be willing to provide support … to terrorist groups who might seek to target Australia directly," Mr McDevitt said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/local-sympathisers-monitored/2005/07/12/1120934245492.html
Australians increasingly living alone
July 12, 2005 - 9:44PM
Australians are increasingly living alone on smaller pieces of land as marriage break-ups and decreasing fertility take their toll on society, a new snapshot of Australian society has found.
Nuclear families of mum, dad and the kids living together in one home are becoming rarer as couples split up or decide not to have children, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
And grandparents are bearing the burden of child minding as parents return to work, the Australian Social Trends 2005 report has found.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Australians-increasingly-living-alone/2005/07/12/1120934244575.html
Australians increasingly living alone
July 12, 2005 - 9:44PM
Australians are increasingly living alone on smaller pieces of land as marriage break-ups and decreasing fertility take their toll on society, a new snapshot of Australian society has found.
Nuclear families of mum, dad and the kids living together in one home are becoming rarer as couples split up or decide not to have children, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
And grandparents are bearing the burden of child minding as parents return to work, the Australian Social Trends 2005 report has found.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Australians-increasingly-living-alone/2005/07/12/1120934244575.html
Human shield baby killed in police shoot-out
July 12, 2005
Police vehicles are seen in Los Angeles, where a baby girl was shot and killed when her father used her as a shield in a gun battle with police.
Photo: AP Photo/Los Angeles Times/Rober
A toddler was shot and killed when her intoxicated father used her as a shield during a fiery gunbattle with Los Angeles police after a three-hour stand-off , say US authorities.
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said his officers were well within department policy when they fatally shot car wash owner Jose Raul Pena, 34, on Monday.
An officer was shot in the shoulder but is expected to recover.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/human-shield-baby-killed-in-police-shootout/2005/07/12/1120934234636.html
Teenager spared jail for accident that killed friend
By Natasha Wallace
July 13, 2005
The children's court was packed with grief-stricken relatives - those of a 14-year-old boy who died in a car accident, and those of his friend, the driver who crashed the stolen car.
It was the first time the parents of the boys had met since the accident last year.
During the chance meeting in the corridors of Bidura Children's Court yesterday, the 17-year-old expressed his remorse to his friend's family for the pain he had caused them.
He, too, had suffered, and his sorrow was deeply felt, a magistrate said later as he sentenced the boy for several offences, including dangerous driving occasioning death.
It was about 3am on October 24 last year when the Enfield teenager got behind the wheel of a stolen Nissan Pulsar hatchback. Soon after he lost control and crashed into a tree in Ashbury. He was not drunk, nor under the influence of drugs, but was about 20 kmh over the speed limit.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/teenager-spared-jail-for-accident-that-killed-friend/2005/07/12/1120934245301.html
Australians increasingly living alone
July 12, 2005 - 9:44PM
Australians are increasingly living alone on smaller pieces of land as marriage break-ups and decreasing fertility take their toll on society, a new snapshot of Australian society has found.
Nuclear families of mum, dad and the kids living together in one home are becoming rarer as couples split up or decide not to have children, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.
And grandparents are bearing the burden of child minding as parents return to work, the Australian Social Trends 2005 report has found.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Australians-increasingly-living-alone/2005/07/12/1120934244575.html
The Chicago Tribune
Shrub poisoned zoo monkeys
But report clears Lincoln Park staff
By William Mullen
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 12, 2005
A two-month outside investigation of animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo found the zoo generally acted appropriately but revealed troubling, previously unpublicized circumstances in the May deaths of three langur monkeys and Wankie the elephant.
The report by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association said the monkeys apparently were poisoned by leaves from a yew shrub--known to be toxic to primates--growing just outside the exhibit. Zoo director Kevin Bell said it was "a serious oversight" that keepers did not conduct a veterinary review of all plants in the area.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507120244jul12,1,6967239.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Chicago reaches record in visitors
'04 total up by 7%; city No. 4 in U.S. domestic travelers
By Kathy Bergen
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 12, 2005
Travel to Chicago surpassed pre-9/11 levels for the first time last year, with domestic leisure travelers leading the surge and contributing to healthy weekend occupancy rates at downtown hotels.
A record 31.9 million visitors flocked to the city, a 7 percent increase over 2003 and a slight rise above 2000 levels, according to estimates the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau will release Tuesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0507120124jul12,1,1958864.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Police Raid 5 Residences in North England
By MATT MOORE
Associated Press Writer
Published July 12, 2005, 6:55 AM CDT
LONDON -- Anti-terrorist police investigating the London bombings raided five residences in northern England Tuesday morning. No arrests were immediately reported.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-britain-bombings,1,4719131.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Psychopaths know how to take good care of business
By Peter Carlson
The Washington Post
Published July 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Finally, a business magazine has asked a question on many folks' minds: "Is Your Boss a Psychopath?"
The magazine is Fast Company and its answer to that question is: Yes, your boss might very well be a psychopath. After all, many of America's legendary titans of industry exhibited symptoms of psychopathy -- folks such as Henry Ford, Armand Hammer, even Walt Disney.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0507110015jul11,1,4275617.story?coll=chi-news-hed
DUI sentencing fortified
Potential felonies now solely state's domain
By Angela Rozas
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 12, 2005
Drunken drivers could face harsher penalties--including more jail time for those with a child passenger or those who have been convicted of multiple offenses--under a batch of new laws recently signed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507120181jul12,1,7098311.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The New Zealand Herald
Ten years late, a mass funeral for Srebrenica victims
Mujic Sabra, a Bosnian Muslim woman cries over the coffin of her son Mujo. Picture / Reuters
12.07.05 1.00pm
By Peter Popham and Vesna Peric Zimonjic
SREBRENICA - Naza Hasanovic came back to Srebrenica again today. The last time she saw her brother Hamid Velic alive was exactly 10 years ago, on this very spot. Today she buried him here.
It was one of 610 funerals at the Memorial Garden opposite the former base of the United Nations Dutch peacekeepers which took place on the 10th anniversary of Europe's worst genocidal atrocity since the Nazis.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335415
IT WOULD seem as though others are starting to get closer to the estimate of the Lancet. This is just the beginning of a common consensus.
39,000 Iraqis killed in fighting, new study finds
12.07.05 8.20am
NEW YORK - Thirty nine thousand Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since the United States-led invasion, a figure considerably higher than previous estimates, a Swiss institute reported on Monday.
The public database Iraqi Body Count, by comparison, estimates that between 22,787 and 25,814 Iraqi civilians have died since the March 2003 invasion, based on reports from at least two media sources.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335404
Employers critical of court awards for work accidents
12.07.05 4.00pm
Employers have voiced alarm at the rapid increase in financial awards being made by the courts to victims of workplace accidents.
An award of $195,000 last month after a fatal accident on a commercial fishing boat more than doubled the previous maximum. But increasing payouts would not make workplaces safer, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) claimed today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10335468
Bombing inquiry biggest in UK history
British police officers stand beside a poster appealing for information on a woman missing since last week's bombings in central London. Picture / Reuters
12.07.05
By Jason Bennetto
Up to 400 extra police are being drafted in to help with the London bombing inquiry, which has become the biggest criminal investigation in British history.
Many of the additional officers will be helping with the analysis of thousands of hours of video from cameras on and around the three underground trains and a double-decker bus hit by bomb attacks that killed at least 52 people last week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335439
Blair may bring forward new anti-terror powers
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair ahead of an address to parliament on the bomb attacks in London. Picture / Reuters
12.07.05
By Andrew Grice
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to speed up planned new anti-terrorism laws if the police and security services demand extra powers in the wake of last week's London bombings.
The legislation is likely to include a tougher line against radical Muslim clerics in Britain who have been accused of whipping up hatred of the West among young Muslims.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335428
Tsunami team help identify London bomb victims
The temporary mortuary set up at the Honourable Artillery Company to house the dead victims of the bomb attacks in central London. Picture / Reuters
12.07.05 4.30pm
By Jason Bennetto
The police team working on identifying victims of the Asian tsunami have switched their attention to the men and women who were killed in the London bombing.
As the first victim of the terrorist attack was named yesterday the police indicated that many more people are expected to be formally identified in the coming days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335470
Zimbabwe's first black cricketer calls for tour to be cancelled
Henry Olonga has arrived in NZ. File picture / Reuters
12.07.05 1.00pm
Zimbabwe's first black test cricketer, Henry Olonga, said today the situation in his country should be seen in the same light as apartheid was in South Africa.
Olonga arrived in New Zealand today to support the Green Party's campaign to stop the Black Caps tour of Zimbabwe, due to start early next month.
"I personally believe it shouldn't go ahead simply because what is happening to people in Zimbabwe is just terrible," he said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10335433
Gas blast kills 16 in northern Russia
12.07.05
MOSCOW - A suspected gas explosion tore through a shop in northern Russia on Monday, killing 16 people, officials said. "The explosion took place in a two-story brick building. We are trying to discover the reason," said Emergencies Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.
He said the blast was in Ukhta, a town in the Komi region 1,500 km northeast of Moscow.
News agencies quoted local police as saying the damage was characteristic of a gas explosion.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335385
Rove leaked CIA secret
12.07.05
Top White House adviser Karl Rove was one of the secret sources that spoke to reporters about a covert CIA operative whose identity was leaked to the media, Newsweek magazine reported.
The magazine said Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove talked to Time magazine about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10335361
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