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
J ad a.
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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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