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• U.S. Iraq military casualties reported to date - 1513
• US, UK face new pressure to commission inquiry into Iraqi deaths
  The Lancet journal said last October that about 98,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion began in March 2003.
• Poland foresees cutting several hundred troops in Iraq in summer
• Dismissal of Agent Orange suit draws fire
  a historic class-action lawsuit claiming American chemical companies had committed war crimes by making the defoliant Agent Orange
• Fire and boiling death A Williamsburg veteran recalls the 1945 Tokyo bombing raid that killed about 100,000 in one night.
• Calif. anti-war memorial stirs passions

Breaking News: White judge and three others shot and killed by Black rape suspect gunman in court
Atalanta Georgia -- Judge shot and killed. Predator gunman is at large. Rape suspect takes gun from Deputy to shoot four persons. Judge and his Court Reporter have been confirmed deceased. All four victim are deceased (there is some controversy as to the fourth fatality). Swat team has surrounded the home of the suspect. Multiple vehicles have been hi-jacked after gunman flees from Courthouse. Denoscription has been provided by law enforcement. Brian Nichols black male, age 34, 210 pounds and is 6 feet 1 inch tall with thinning hair, brown eyes, black hair. Last seen wearing wearing dark pants.Victims have been taken to Grady Hospital. - There was a hung jury on charges of kidnap, rape and sodomy.
Hospital confirmed Judge, Rowland Barnes, has passed away from wounds from the shooting. Open fire 09:00 killing the Judge Rowland Barnes and wounding two deputies. Courthouse was in lock down for about an hour. Confussion turned into triage to save lives then EMTs transported the victims of the shootings to local hospital. Officials are withholding the names of the victims until the next of kin are notified. - (Tyrone N. Butts)

• LIVE VIDEO: Three killed in Atlanta courthouse shooting - 25 Atlanta public schools locked down during suspect manhunt.
  Carjacked 1997 green Honda accord with Georgia plates - one of the deputies has died...
  - reporter beaten during one of at least four carjackings. Several streets blocked off. Suspect lived in 'gated community'.
• Court TV: Courthouse shooting suspect was on trial for rape
  ("White supremacists are NOT suspect in this case)

• Boy describes sexual molestation in Michael Jackson's bed
• Rwanda launches phase of genocide trials
• DR Congo: Tens of Thousands Raped, Few Prosecuted
• Kobe Bryant Bobblehead Doll Accused of Rape



• Questions Arise As Friends, Family Remember Black Teen shot and killed by a rookie police officer
• Public inquest in shooting death of teen by Delray Beach officer. "The community has been asking for a thorough investigation into the death of Jerrod Miller, so we're very happy," said Romaine Martin, the NAACP's South Palm Beach Branch President.

• Update: Bus stop rapist surprised by arrest
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A week-long search for the man who kidnapped and raped a 16-year-old Olympic High School student last week ended early Friday morning when police arrested Eric Jason Washington. - (Rasp)
• Ref: Suspect sought in kidnap-rape bus stop attacks
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Since police released Eric Jason Washington's picture Wednesday night, several people have called 911 and said they saw the wanted man. Washington, 37, is suspected of abducting and raping a 16-year-old Olympic High School student. Authorities think Washington might also be connected to two similar attacks at public bus stops on Jan. 29. He has been charged with five separate counts of rape, kidnapping and sexual assault.

• Arenas gets life in prison - Hispanic Teen who killed CHP officer draws maximum sentence
  Calling her husband's killer an ignorant coward, an angry Heidi Steiner wiped away tears and asked a judge to send the teen to prison for life. Steiner's wish was granted when Judge Gutierrez sentenced 16- year-old Valentino Mitchell Arenas to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He received another 25-years-to-life sentence for using a firearm.
• "This was the ultimate hate crime -- the assassination of a police officer,"
  Heidi Steiner said during the sentencing hearing. "I miss my Tom. I miss my best friend. You've taken a part of my soul that cannot be replaced."
• Mexifornia: Where Valentino grew up 'everybody packs a gun'
• In Remembrance: Officer Thomas Steiner - CHP – Santa Fe Springs

• Survivor of Illegal Mexican Alien Smuggling Attempt Testifies
  they found half-naked bodies piled 4 feet high on the floor of an abandoned tractor-trailer and bloody claw marks on its doors. The officials testified Wednesday in the trial of Tyrone Williams, who is accused of abandoning the truck in south Texas
• Trucker Tyrone Williams could get the death penalty
  
  
• Lou Dobbs of CNN is doing a pretty good job reporting on 'Broken Borders' and Free trade at all costs?
  The Bush administration is trying to push the Central American Free Trade Agreement through Congress quickly and quietly.

• Mohammed Sharif, a native of Bangladesh charged with rape of 6-year-old girl in daycare
  MOHAMMED SHARIF, A NATIVE OF BANGLADESH AND CHARGED HIM WITH THREE COUNTS OF HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE 6-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL, AND ANOTHER COUNT OF COMMITTING FORCIBLE SODOMY.
  
• Spanish Muslims issue fatwa against bin Laden

• The global outlook on outsourcing - by Lou Dobbs
• Trade deficit soars
  The U.S. trade deficit climbed to $58.3 billion in January, the second-highest level in history, as Americans' appetite for foreign consumer products and automobiles hit record highs. The deficit with China was pushed higher by a surge in textile shipments, reflecting the end of global quotas. - (Not so much "Americans' appetitie" for cheap foreign goods as international corporations appetite for cheap slave labor.)

• Ala. Lawmakers OK Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
• Allen Webb is under arrest for allegedly raping an eleven-year-old girl

• DNA Proves Bart Ross Killed Judge's Kin - Letters show a failed medical lawsuit triggered rage
  Ross, whose rambling lawsuit over his cancer treatment was dismissed by Lefkow, had claimed responsibility for the killings in a suicide note found in his minivan and in letters sent to NBC not a white supremacist as had earlier been believed
  (Not secret orders from 'white supremacist' - nor the 'Mossad' or Jewish Defense League as Matt Hale's mother had speculated.)
  
  
• Germany beefs up anti-Nazi laws
  Germany's parliament has tightened restrictions on neo-Nazi marches to keep them away from sensitive memorials such as former concentration camps. Last month, thousands of neo-Nazis marched through Dresden on the 60th anniversary of the allied bombing of the city. On Thursday, Germany's highest court upheld a ruling that a neo-Nazi rock band was a criminal organisation whose songs spread racial hatred.
• Calif. taxpayers must pay millions in Holocaust case
  Taxpayers are on the hook for what could be millions of dollars in legal fees owed to insurance companies that successfully challenged a state law requiring them to make public their overseas, Holocaust-era records. California taxpayers might have to pay from $5 million to $10 million. The Bush administration argued, and a divided Supreme Court agreed, the law amounted to unconstitutional meddling in foreign affairs by a state.
• Reputed klansman Edgar Ray Killen injured in logging mishap
  
  
• Kansas Supreme Court Lifts Gag Order on Abortion-Sexual Abuse Case
  
  
• Bart Ross "Weird recluse" - was Polish immigrant whose name originally was Bartilomiej Ciszewski  - (reader link)
  Reader comments: "Will the ADL and SPLC be hating themselves now?"
• Bart Ross, assumed killer of Judge Lefkow's relatives claimed he "a victim of a "Nazi-style system dominated by a terrorist network"
• Bart Ross Called Judges 'Nazi Style Criminals'
  Ross had contacted CBS 2’s Dave Savini years ago claiming conspiracy and that a tracking device -- some kind of transmitter -- was implanted in his mouth.
• Bart Ross said the U-S judicial system was a "Nazi-style" violator of his civil rights - (forum)
  
  
• MOM WINS 5th CIRCUIT APPEAL - She Fought Public Schools Over Race-Based Admissions Policy
  Julie and her husband, Kevin, sued in 2002 on behalf of their son Hunter after he was denied admittance to Caddo Middle Magnet School in Shreveport. Hunter’s achievement test scores were much higher than those of many black students accepted to the school, but they were not as high as those of the white student applicants admitted to the sixth grade class. The Cavaliers contended the race-conscious admissions policy violated the 14th Amendment. The Caddo Parish school board justified the system on the basis of a 1981 consent decree entered into by the board in a school desegregation case. - (reader link)

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