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• 1176+ US WMD-dead reported in Iraq * Antiwar.com
• Civilian cost of battle for Falluja emerges
  large numbers of wounded civilians were evacuated to hospitals
• S.C. Civilian Killed in Iraq

• Foreigners Stream Out of Ivory Coast
  In Paris, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Saturday that France had proof some of its citizens were raped
  during five days of rioting in Abidjan and other cities.
  
  
• Rapper O.D.B. Collapses, Dies in Studio
  O.D.B. also known as Ol' Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, Big Baby Jesus or his legal name of Russell Jones was a founding member of the seminal rap group the Wu-Tang Clan The cause of death was not immediately clear, but O.D.B. had recently finished a prison sentence for drug possession and escaping a rehab clinic.

• Netherlands: alleged Islamic terrorist leader Syrian Redouan al-Issar has disappeared without a trace.
  Amsterdam -- 13 young Muslims arrested on terrorism charges in the Netherlands after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh are members of a radical Islamic group with international links and a Syrian-born "spiritual" leader.
• Dutch Muslims Fear Backlash From Murder
• Mosque Burned Down in Dutch Village
  
  
• Trial Linking Professor Sami Al-Arian to Terror Delayed Al-Arian and co-defendants Sameeh Hammoudeh, Hatim Naji Fariz and Ghassan Zayed Ballut are accused of using a think tank Al-Arian started at the school and a Palestinian charity he funded as covers for supporting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
  

• Gay "Marriage" Fight Goes On, One Year Later
• Boston Archbishop Reveals Pain of Closings
  
  
• Pope Accepts Resignation Of Orlando's Bishop
• Kansas: Pope accepts Salina bishop's resignation
• Pope Accepts Resignation Of Ohio Bishop
  
  
• Anglican Church Is Rebuked Over Gay Unions and a Gay Bishop
  

• Kentucky: Presbyterian Church Receives Arson Threat
  The handwritten letter, received Wednesday at the church's Louisville headquarters, threatened to set churches on fire while people were inside in retaliation for "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes," The letter had no return address, but it was postmarked from Queens, N.Y.,

• Indian migrant Catholic Priest gets 16 years for homo-raping 9-year-old Milwaukee boy
  A New Jersey priest was sentenced Tuesday morning for having sex with a 9-year-old Milwaukee boy in 1990. The Rev. Simon Palathingal, 62, came face to face in court with his victim, 23-year-old Nick Janovsky. But the fact that he's eligible for parole after the first four years is not sitting well with the victim. The judge sentenced Palathingal to 16 years in prison. "It's disappointing to see. You can't take these years away from my life, and it is very disappointing to see a man who does these horrific things detailed in the criminal complaint get off with a slap on the wrist," Janovsky said. - (Gman)
  The priest has family in India and was ordered to surrender his passport.
  Palathingal is a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco religious order.

• 1155+ US WMD-dead reported in Iraq * Antiwar.com

• Ex-Somali Leader Sued for War Crimes
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Mohamed Ali Samatar, the former prime minister of Somalia, now a resident of Virginia, was sued Thursday for allegedly allowing war crimes and other human rights abuses to be committed in the 1980s. A similar lawsuit was filed against Yusuf Abdi Ali, a former Somali Army battalion commander who allegedly carried out and supervised killings, torture and beatings. He also lives in Virginia.
• Black Civil Rights Group SCLC in Turmoil Again

• House Leaders Shun Bush's Illegal Alien "Guest Worker" Program
  
  
• Hispandering Bush names Gonzales, son of migrant workers, attorney general
  
  
• Mexican Manuel Jubenal Ortiz-Gonzalez Dies After Holding Mexican Hostage
  Los Angeles, Mexifornia - A Mexican shot in the head by police as he held a Mexican consulate employee hostage has died, Mexican authorities said. The Mexican, Manuel Jubenal Ortiz-Gonzalez, 19, originally of Jalisco, Mexico, died Wednesday in a hospital.
• Robert Marquez, 26, confessed to stabbing and dismembering a teenage boy in 1998
  The classmate said he spoke up because Marquez was scheduled for release from prison in December on an unrelated conviction. Marquez, a former Walnut High School athlete, confessed during an interview at the prison where he was serving time for an unrelated extortion case, living in a cell he decorated with pictures of dismembered sheep and chickens.
• More States Consider Anti-Illegal Immigration Measures
  Proposition 200 requires people to produce proof of immigration status when obtaining certain government services and will punish government workers for failing to report illegal immigrants who try to get aid. It also requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote. "People are fed up with illegal immigrants breaking the law and not being penalized," said Rosemary Jenks of NumbersUSA Action, a group that advocates reducing immigration. "If the federal government won't deal with it, this is the only avenue."

• Dutch Lawmakers Say Islamic Terrorist Threat Underestimated
• Turkish Family's NYC Homes Sold at Auction
  The apartments, which brought about $11.5 million were put on the block in the wake of a federal court decision finding the Uzan family bilked Motorola Credit Corp and Nokia Corp. out of nearly $3 billion.

• Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower Arrested
  JERUSALEM -- Heavily armed police commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound and arrested nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu on Thursday, drawing harsh condemnation from the Anglican Church to which he belongs.

• La. Diocese Settles Bishop Homo Sex Abuse Claim
  The Roman Catholic diocese did not give details of the settlement involving Bishop Joseph Sullivan. But Bishop Robert Muench, who announced the deal said the accuser's allegations were credible. Sullivan was bishop in Baton Rouge from 1974 until his death in 1982. The accuser, now in his 40s, said he was 17 when Sullivan sexually abused him in 1975.

• 1137+ US WMD-dead reported in Iraq * Antiwar.com

• Court rules for Haitian immigrant in DUI case
  Ailing Blackrobe Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the court ruled unanimously in favor of Josue Leocal, a Haitian man fighting deportation in Florida after pleading guilty to a felony charge of drunk driving. - (The Bobster)
• Miami: Former Haitian Military Officer Marc Kernizan Arrested for 1993 Murder

• Hostages taken at Mexico consulate in L.A.
  At least one suspect took an unknown number of hostages Tuesday at the Mexican consulate, and a TV news camera later showed a man apparently being shot as he held a woman by the neck.
• Hispanic Vote Increased for Bush

• Dutch bid farewell to film maker Theo van Gogh stabbed to death - allegedly by an Islamic militant

• San Francisco: Astronaut's Son Held on Boy Sex Charges
  Walter Schirra, 54, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday morning just before he was to board a flight to Thailand where he allegedly intended to solicit sex from underage boys, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• Texas Band director James Allen Pelloat charged with homosexual assault of male students
    - (Panhead Bob)
  
  
• N.Y. Must Enforce Same-Sex Couple Benefits
• Bush Will Push For Gay Marriage Amendment: Rove
  
  
• Black Roman Catholic Bishop Reflects on Sex Abuse Crisis
  Expectations for Wilton Gregory were high when he took office in November 2001. He was the first black president of the conference, and his election was seen by black Catholics as long-awaited recognition of their presence in the church. Diana Hayes, a black Catholic and theologian at Georgetown University, compared it to "having an African-American president of the United States."
  

• Terror Lawyer Lynne Stewart Defends Violence
  A communist lawyer accused of conspiring to help terrorists testified at her trial that she believes only violence and a "popular revolution" can combat the evils of capitalism in the United States.
  

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