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Centennial your quick guide to news from around the world Immigrant accuses police of brutality 1NEW YORK — A Haitian im migrant hospitalized with in ternal injuries says police officers sodomized him with the wooden handle of a toilet plunger after he was arrested in a nightclub fight. Two officers were placed in desk jobs while prosecutors and police investigate the allegations of torture and racial slurs. Doctors confirm Abner Louima’s injuries appear to have been caused by a blunt instrument. Louima, 30, was in critical but stable condition at Coney Island Hospital this morning. He arrest ed early Saturday after allegedly throwing punches at officers try ing to break up a fight outside a club. In a hospital bed interview Tuesday with the Daily News, Louima said he was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car and was beaten twice by officers as they drove him to the 70th Precinct stationhouse. At the station, Louima said he was stripped and assaulted in a bathroom by officers who sodom ized him with the handle of a plunger and then put the handle in his mouth. “They said, ‘Take this, nigger,’ and stuck the stick in my rear end,” Louima told the News. “This isn’t police brutality. This is torture,” said Louima’s lawyer, Brian Figueroux. Louima had emergency surgery at Coney Island Hospital to repair a puncture in his small intestine and injuries to his bladder, ac cording to officials. The New York Times reported that prosecutors and police inter nal affairs investigators intensi fied their probe on Monday, after doctors said Louima’s injuries were consistent with his story. Police Commissioner Howard Safir placed two officers on modi fied duty Tuesday night, taking away their guns and putting them in desk jobs while the investiga tion continues. The officers were identified by Louima from pho tographs shown to him in his hos pital bed. 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He pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing resources for a ter rorist attack, conspiring to com mit an offense against the United States and enlisting men from Ohio and Pennsylvania to supply explosives across state lines. ‘Tehran Vampire’ hanged, public relieved 3 TEHRAN, Iran — By night, he stalked, kidnapped, raped, stabbed and burned. The taxi driver dubbed “The Vampire” took Tehran on a three-month terror ride that end ed at dawn Wednesday when he was flogged by relatives of his victims, then hanged from a yel low crane. Public hangings and floggings are rare in Tehran — but then, so were the brutal crimes of Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh. In an unusual breach of policy, Iranian authorities, apparently seeking to assure a terrified pub lic that the spate of murders had ended, leaked the time and venue of Kordiyeh’s execution to the press. The crowds began to swell at midnight, and by dawn the life and crimes of the serial killer came to an end to the cheers and wails of some 10,000 onlookers. “I’m still not satisfied with the punishment this killer is getting for killing my daughter,” sobbed Nasser Parchami, father of 25 year-old Parvand. Gov. Locke calls for protection of river 4 OLYMPIA — Calling the Hanford Reach “an irreplace able national treasure,” Gov. Gary Locke said Wednesday he wants the federal government to protect the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River from development. Democrat Locke, a favorite in the Clinton White House, has been lobbied by both sides for support in the coming congres sional fight over control of the 51-mile reach and adjacent land. The land has been off-limits since World War II as part of the Hanford nuclear reservation. With the U.S. Energy Depart ment now ready to relinquish control, there are two opposing congressional measures for managing the pristine area. 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