U.S. Deaths Reach 3,000 in Iraq
Farewell to
a President
con tin u ed
Unwelcome
milestone for
President
George W. Bush
bishop. S everal p ro m in en t V ir­
g in ia p a rish e s h av e rec en tly
broken aw ay from the church in
p ro te st.
F ord died at 93 on D ec. 26 at
his hom e in R an ch o M irage,
Calif.
T he national funeral service
ca p p ed W a sh in g to n 's portion
o f a state funeral th at co n clu d es
w ith a final pu b lic v isitatio n in
G rand R apids, a p rivate service,
and interm ent on a hillside o v er­
looking his m useum .
F o rd w as a p p o in te d v ic e
p resid en t by N ixon to replace
S p iro A gnew , w ho resig n ed in
a bribery scandal stem m ing from
his d ays as M ary lan d g o v er­
nor. A fter N ixon resig n ed . Ford
assu m ed the p resid e n cy for 2 1/
2 years.
A month after taking office,
Ford pardoned Nixon for any
W atergate crim es he might have
committed.
fro m Front
the fra c tio u s d e b a te in th e
church over its grow ing accep­
tance o f hom osexual relation­
ships, and said Ford did not think
the issue should be splitting
Episcopalians. He w as Ford’s
pastor at St. M argaret's Church
in Palm D esert,C alif.
"H e asked me if w e w ould
face schism afte r w e d iscu ssed
the vario u s issues w e w ould
c o n s id e r , p a r tic u la r ly c o n ­
ce rn s ab o u t hum an sexuality
and the le ad ersh ip o f w om en."
C e rtain said. "H e said that he
did not th in k they should be
d iv isiv e fo r an y o n e w ho lived
by the g reat co m m an d m en ts
and the g reat com m ission to
love G od and to love neighbor.
T he E piscopal C hurch has
been u n d er p ressu re from tra ­
d itio n alists fo r its 2003 c o n se ­
cra tio n o f the first o penly gay
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As 2(X)6 cam e to an end, the toll
o f U.S. troops in Iraq hit another
grim m ilestone, 3,(XM)dead.
T he m ost recen tly an n ounced
d eath s w ere typical o f the killings
th is y e a r. T h e P e n ta g o n a n ­
n o u n c e d th a t S p c. D u stin R.
D onica, 22, o f S pring, T exas, had
been k illed T h u rsd ay by sm all
arm s fire in B aghdad and that
another, still unid en tified , soldier
died in a so u th eastern n eig h b o r­
hood o f the city w hen a ro adside
bom b ex p lo d ed near his patrol.
O v erall, the rate o f m ilitary fa­
ta lities has rem ain ed relen tlessly
stead y sin ce the 1,000th death
w as an n ounced in Sept. 2004. But
ro ad sid e bom bs — w hat the m ili­
tary ca lls im p ro v ised ex p lo siv e
d ev ice s - have b eco m e m uch
m o re d e a d ly , a c c o u n tin g fo r
about h alf o f the last thousand
U.S. tro o p d eath s, co m p ared to
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Coffins o f U.S. military personnel are offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, the
first stop for the bodies of troops being sent home, in this undated file photo.
sand d eath s.
T h e m ost d an g ero u s p art o f
Iraq for U.S. troops rem ains A nbar
p ro v in ce in the w estern d eserts,
but d eath s in B aghdad have in ­
cre ase d sh arp ly sin ce th is su m ­
m er, w hen the m ilitary increased
p atro ls there in hopes o f d am p en ­
ing the sectarian civil w ar that
has g rip p ed the cap ital and su r­
rou n d in g areas.
At least 111 A m erican troops
have been killed in December, m ak­
ing it the deadliest month for U.S.
forces since the battle for Fallouja
in Nov. 2(X)4. O verall, at least 820
U.S. m ilitary personnel w ere killed
in 2006.
The 3(XX)th death com es in the
w ake o f the execution o f deposed
p resid e n t S addam H u ssein , an
event that m ilitary leaders believe
will lead to more attacks against
U.S. troops, at least in the short run.
Officers Surrender for Katrina Murders
A P - Seven policem en charged
in a d ead ly brid g e sh o o tin g in the
ch ao tic afterm ath o f H urricane
K a trin a tu rn e d th e m se lv e s in
T u esd ay at the N ew O rlean s C ity
Jail.
E ach o f the in d icted m en faces
at least one ch arg e o f m urder or
attem p ted m u rd er in the Sept. 4.
2005, sh o o tin g s on the D an zig er
B ridge less than a w eek afte r the
h u rrican e hit N ew O rlean s. T w o
people d ied and fo u r people w ere
w o u n d ed .
Defense attorneys say the seven
officers are innocent o f the charges.
As the men arrived at the jail,
supporters lined the street, step­
ping forw ard to em brace the seven
men and shake their hands. One
sign in the crow d read “Support the
D anziger 7.”
O ne protester shouted “Police
killings must stop" and "R acism
must go” but was shouted down by
the crow d yelling: “ Heroes, H e­
roes.”
The Rev. Raym ond Brown, o f
New Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie J. Jordan Jr.: "We cannot allow our police officers to
the New O rleans chapter o f the
shoot and kill our citizens without justification like rabid dogs."
National Action Netw ork, said rac­
Six o f the officers were sus­ Faulcon, has left the departm ent
“W e see the black officers as
ism w as a factor in the shootings,
even though four o f the officers, ju st follow ing their m aster,” Brown pended w ithout pay pending the and is now a truck driver in H ous­
outcom e o f the case. The seventh. ton. said his lawyer, Franz.Zibilich.
said.
like the tw o victims, are black.
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Vigil Begins For Groom Fatally Shot
A P -T h e fa m ily o fS e a n Bell, the
groom fatally shot by police on his
w edding day, has begun a round-
the-clock 50-day vigil in front o f a
police precinct to press for indict­
m ents in the case and the appoint­
m ent o f a special prosecutor.
B ell’s mother, Valerie, began the
vigil at 4:56 a.m. M onday — ap ­
proxim ately the sam e tim e that her
Sean Bell,
pictured with
fiancée Nicole
Paultre-Bell
and daughter
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son was k i I led i n a barrage o f pol ice
gunfire outside a club with strip­
pers — outside a police precinct in
the Jam aica section o f the borough
o f Q ueens w here the shooting o c­
cu rre d . B e ll’s fian c ee , N ico le
Paultre-Bell, joined the vigil M on­
day night, the fam ily’s attorney
said.
Sean Bell, 23, was killed by police
on Nov. 2 5 ,2(X)6, after celebrating
w hat would have been his last night
o f bachelorhood at the club. Tw o
friends w ere also w ounded in the
hail o f 50 bill lets fired by a group o f
plainclothes detectives w ho police
later said were staking out the strip
club because o f alleged crim inal
activity there. Bell and his friends
were unarmed.
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Taunting Execution
Fuels Mideast Anger
continued
fro m Front
allow ed by guards and police to
enterthe holy place carrying a mock
coffin and photos o f the form er
dictator.
The proles, took place at the
G o ld en D om e, a S h iite shrine
bom bed by Sunni extrem ists 10
m onths ago. That attack triggered
the current cycle o f retaliatory at­
tacks between Sunni and Shiite
Muslims, in the form of daily bom b­
ings. kidnappings and murders.
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