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Supreme Court to hear
commandments case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court said Tliesday it will consider
whether the Ten Commandments
may be displayed on government
property, ending a 25-year silence
on a church-state issue that has
prompted bitter legal fights around
the country. Ten Commandments
displays are common in town
squares and courthouses and on
other government-owned land, in
cluding the Supreme Court. A wall
carving of Moses holding the tablets
js in the courtroom where justices
will hear arguments in the case.
Lybia to demilitartize
after sanctions are lifted
TRIPOLI, Libya -- The son of
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pro
posed a new plan for general reforms
in which he said his country will move
away from the Middle East and reduce
spending on the military.
“Libya has decided to separate from
the so-called Middle East,” Seif al-Is
lam Gadhafi said at the opening ses
sion of a Tripoli conference for busi
ness leaders from Western countries.
Gadhafi said he is proposing a
new reform plan that will include
major cuts in military expenditure.
“There is no need anymore
to continue spending on the
military field,” he said. “Instead,
we will direct such spending to
development.”
The conference opened a day af
ter the European Union ended 12
years of sanctions against Libya
and eased an arms embargo to re
ward the North African country for
giving up efforts to develop
weapons of mass destruction.
Hussein underwent
hernia operation
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam
Hussein underwent an operation
to repair a hernia about 10
days ago but has made a full
recovery, Iraqi sources said Tues
day. The ousted dictator was tak
en to the Ibn Sina hospital near
the U.S.-controlled Green Zone for
the procedure, which was per
formed by Iraqi doctors, according
to sources close to the Human
Rights Ministry.
CDC flu plan aims to
guard those at risk
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment moved Tuesday to direct
scarce remaining flu shots straight
to pediatricians, nursing homes
and other places that care for the
patients who need them most. But
only a fraction of the 22.4 million
doses that maker Aventis Pasteur
has yet to ship can be diverted to
areas with the biggest shortages.
And officials acknowledged Tues
day that even if planned rationing
goes well, there will be high-risk
patients who struggle to get shots
but can't find them.
Students hospitalized
after school bus accident
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France
— Fifteen high school students
were hospitalized Tuesday, two in
serious condition, after their
school bus veered off the road to
avoid an oncoming car and over
turned in central France, authori
ties said.
Police were investigating, the
bus was carry 20 students. Two
were seriously injured, and 13 oth
ers, aged between 11 and 15, were
under observation in hospitals.
Jean-Yves Fraquet, a local official
in the Puy-de-Dome region, said the
accident could have been worse be
cause the bus came to a stop just
before a ravine.
U.S. steps up attacks
before Ramadan
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops
went on the offensive from the
gates of Baghdad to the Syrian bor
der TUesday, pounding Sunni in
surgent positions from the air and
supporting Iraqi soldiers in raids
on mosques suspected of harbor
ing extremists. American and Iraqi
forces launched the operations
ahead of Ramadan, expected to
start at week's end, in an apparent
attempt at preventing a repeat of
the insurgent violence that took
place at the start of last year's Mus
lim holy month.
The Associated Press
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Iraqi militant tape
of beheading
found on Internet
Insurgents release unverified video footage of two
gunmen decapitating an Arab Shiite Muslim
BY MAGGIE MICHAEL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO, Egypt — A videotape sur
faced on the Internet Ttiesday show
ing what was said to be the confes
sion and beheading of an Arab Shiite
Muslim, presumably Iraqi, whom the
insurgents accused of working with
the U.S. military.
The video’s authenticity could not
be verified, but it was posted in the
name of the Ansar al-Sunnah Army,
on a Web site where such militant
content is often released. It showed a
man, who identified himself as Al
Sayed Alaa al-Malki, kneeling in front
of two masked gunmen.
TWo identification cards were hang
ing from the man’s gray shirt. One of
them bore the name al-Malki and said
“local sheik." It also had a photograph
that showed him wearing a black robe
and a white turban similar to those
worn by Shiite clerics.
The bearded, heavyset man, his
face bruised and dark circles under
his eyes, spoke in a shaky voice of
ties to a Shiite militia and to a former
U.S. military commander in Iraq.
Then, he was shown held down on
his back, his face covered with a
white sheet and his head being cut
off. Afterward, the sheet was re
moved to show his face.
The death was part of an upsurge
in decapitations of both foreigners
and Iraqis that have swept Iraq since
last spring.
Insurgents in Iraq have kiunapped
more than 150 foreigners in their
campaign to drive out coalition
forces and hamper reconstruction.
Many Iraqis also have been killed on
suspicion of cooperating with U.S.
led forces in Iraq, but Internet videos
of beheadings generally have been
of foreigners abducted to pressure
foreign governments or companies
to stop doing business with the
Americans.
In the video posted Tuesday, the
man, whose accent was Iraqi, said he
was a follower of Iraqi Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr. He said he “had close
relationship with the Sadr army... and
relations with political leaders such as
(Lt. Gen. Ricardo) Sanchez.”
Sanchez was replaced as head of
U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq on
July 1 by Gen. George Casey. He re
mains commander of the Army’s V
corps, based in Germany.
In Baghdad, an al-Sadr aide, Ab
dul Hadi al-Daraji, told The Associ
ated Press he couldn’t immediately
verify that the cleric belonged to al
Sadr’s camp.
“I have not heard of him before,
but I am contacting other al-Sadr fol
lowers,” he said.
Al-Daraji condemned those who
carry out beheadings, regardless of
al-Malki’s affiliation.
“These people do not serve Islam.
They blemish the reputation of Is
lam,” he said. “This is proof that they
do not represent resistance to occupa
tion, but rather aim at inciting strife. ”
The video showed the man saying
he worked with an American mili
tary officer named Paul, with whom
he allegedly established a “Citizens
Claims Office” that was used as a
cover “to collect and buy weapons
from the street, and sell them to the
American army. ”
A statement purportedly from the
Ansar al-Sunnah Army that accom
panied the video said al-Malki was
killed because “he used the Citizens
Claims Office as an underground tun
nel — during his work with the
American forces — to assassinate a
number of Sunni leaders.”
The statement was more of a
message showing the group’s antag
onism toward the Shiite religious
sect; the same message was con
veyed in an audio tape posted on
another Islamic Web site in July by
the spiritual adviser of Tawhid and
Jihad, Abu Anas al-Shami. In the
audio, he attacked Shiites, cursed
and accused them of attacks on
Sunnis and said they are allied with
the U.S.-led forces.
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