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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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Militia leader admits
to plotting explosion
2 WHEELING, W, Va. — A mili
tia leader pleaded guilty
Wednesday to selling copies of
blueprints of the FBI’s fingerprint
complex to what he believed was
a terrorist group that planned to
blow the center up.
Floyd “Ray” Looker, self-pro
claimed head of the Mountaineer
Militia, actually sold the copies
for $50,000 to an undercover FBI
agent posing as a middleman for
the terrorists.
Looker’s plea came the day be
fore his second trial was to begin
on charges related to the plot to
blow up the FBI’s Criminal Jus
tice Information Services division
in Clarksburg, about 90 miles
south of Pittsburgh.
In his first trial, Looker, 56, was
convicted Friday of conspiring to
manufacture and deal in explo
sives.
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.
Environmentalists who want
the reach protected from devel
opment back one vision of its
future, while local government
officials and river users support
another — for joint manage
ment, with area counties given
the upper hand.
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