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Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and forced her to drive to an abortion clinic, police said. Burgess, who was 26 at the time, did not go through with the procedure but instead passed a note to a clinic employee, who called police. Prosecutors had brought their case against Holt-Reid using the state's 1996 law that ...
Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth amid criticism over his treatment and confinement. Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said the media tour of the military's medium-security prison at Fort Leavenworth would show the conditions under which the Army holds Manning as he ...
US Envoy Says Human Rights Talks With China Yield Little
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- An American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months. Hundreds of lawyers, activists, and other intellectuals have been questioned, detained, confined to their homes or have simply disappeared, apparently to squelch any chances of the kind of popular uprisings roiling the Middle East and North Africa. The clampdown on dissent is the broadest and harshest in years by China's Communist government. Michael Posner, ...
WikiLeaks: 9/11 Mastermind Says He Killed Daniel Pearl Against al-Qaida Warnings
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA senior al-Qaida military commander instructed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that Pearl should "be returned back to one of the previous groups who held him, or freed." But Mohammed, the supposed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, says he killed Pearl anyway, according to military documents released by WikiLeaks on Monday and published by the Los Angeles Times, The Australian and other news organizations. AP Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is shown after his capture in 2002. Military documents released ...
Leaked Files Show Gitmo Inmate Released After Informing on 123 Others
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- Leaked U.S. military documents reveal that a Guantanamo Bay detainee was freed after informing on 123 other prisoners, despite concerns about the reliability of his evidence, a British newspaper reported Tuesday. The Guardian, The New York Times and El Pais are publishing details of more than 750 leaked U.S. military dossiers on terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo. They reveal that the detainees ranged from close associates of Osama bin Laden to seemingly innocent men held even though they were judged to pose little threat. The Guardian said the prolific informer, a Yemeni man ...
Leaked Files Shed Light on Gitmo Detainees
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released by several American and European newspapers. The U.S. government criticized the publication as "unfortunate." The military detainee assessments were made public Sunday night by U.S. and European newspapers after the WikiLeaks website obtained the files. The records contain details of the more than 700 detainee interrogations and evidence the U.S. had collected against these ...
Syria Targets Activists in Pinpoint Raids
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIRUT - Syrian security forces detained dozens of opposition activists and fired from rooftops in a seaside town Sunday as authorities turned to pinpoint raids after days of bloodshed brought international condemnation and defections from President Bashar Assad's regime. The strategy, described by a rights activist, appeared aimed at rattling the opposition's leadership and showing that the state's ability to conduct arrest sweeps has not changed despite abolishing nearly 50-year-old emergency laws last week. The rising level of violence - more than 120 people dead since Friday - ...
32 More Corpses Found in Mexico Pits, Total at 177
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say another 32 bodies have been exhumed from clandestine graves in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, bringing the total to 177 this month. Tamaulipas prosecutors say in a statement that the latest bodies were found in eight pits discovered during the past week. Authorities began exhuming corpses early this month in the town of San Fernando after reports that people were being kidnapped from passenger buses in the area. It is the same region where authorities say the Zetas drug gang killed and buried 72 Central American migrants in August. The ...
83-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Finally Celebrates Bar Mitvah
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsWhen he was just 11 years old, Morris Glass's childhood was ripped away from him when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. This past Saturday, the 83-year-old Glass was able to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah, an important Jewish rite of passage that was denied him because at 13 years old he was living in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto. "In the ghetto, I had no chance for a bar mitzvah," Glass told CNN. "We were not allowed to have any books." Now a resident of Raleigh, N.C., Glass has made it his mission to speak about his experiences during the Holocaust to schools and community ...
WikiLeaks Suspect Transferred to Fort Leavenworth
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Army private suspected of giving troves of classified information to the WikiLeaks website has arrived at a detention facility in Kansas where he will await the government's decision on whether to put him on trial. Pfc. Bradley Manning was transferred to the facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., from a Marine brig at Quantico, Va., where he had been confined since last summer. An Army spokesman at the Pentagon, Col. Tom Collins, said Manning arrived safely at Leavenworth's Joint Regional Correctional Facility at about 2:50 p.m. Eastern Time and over the coming five to seven ...
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