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• 1341 U.S. Military Fatalities reported so far for Iraq invasion/occupation
• U.S. wounded: 10,000 plus
• White House May Submit $100 Billion (taxpayer debt) War Request
  
  
• Man Charged Under Patriot Act for Laser
• Calif. City Copes With Iraq War Casualties
• Syrian Driver Alleges Torture by U.S.
• Navy SEAL Lieutenant Faces Hearing said he first witnessed prisoner abuse a week after his arrival in Iraq in October 2003.
• Marine Jailed for Refusing to Pick Up Gun
  

• Ethiopian Migrant Torture Suspect Arrested in Ga. - Deportation hearing scheduled for next week
  ATLANTA -- An Ethiopian immigrant suspected of torturing and murdering dissidents in a military dictatorship in Ethiopia during the 1970s was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and faces deportation. Kelbessa Negewo, 54, remains in federal custody and will face a deportation hearing before an immigration judge. In 1993, a U.S. district judge ordered Negewo to pay $1.5 million to three women who testified that he tortured them during Ethiopia's "Red Terror" campaign of 1977-78. The women said they were stripped, hung upside down from a pole and beaten. - (Crusader)
  
  
• Court Rules Against Haitian-American Man
  The U.S. government can revoke a Haitian-American man's citizenship even though he was convicted of drug charges after becoming a citizen, an appeals court has ruled. The government argued that Lionel Jean-Baptiste, of Miami, "illegally procured" his citizenship because he committed a crime while awaiting approval of his application.
• N. Orleans to Probe Black Student's Death
  
  
• Bond Denied For Alleged Wrigleyville Black Serial Rapist John Cruikshank
• Three recent rapes by a black in North and East Toledo may be linked
  In the latest attack 53-year-old woman was assaulted in her home. In all three cases, the assailant was described as a black male.
  
  
• Georgia: New Black Sheriff Fires White Employees, Deploys Snipers
  The firings had a racial overtone. Victor Hill was among a spate of black candidates elected last year in the county once dominated by rural whites. The county seat was the setting for the fictional plantation Tara in "Gone With The Wind." The fired employees included four of the highest-ranking officers, all of them white. Hill told the newspaper their replacements would be black. - (reader link) - (Tyrone N. Butts)
  

• Sports: Ex-LaSalle basketballer ordered to stand trial on rape charges
  A former member of the LaSalle University men's basketball is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 18 on charges of raping a former member of the women's team. Dzaflo Larkai was ordered to stand trial by a judge following a recent preliminary hearing in which the woman testified that he had sex with her while she was asleep. Larkai is charged with rape, simple assault and indecent assault.
  
  
  
  
• Sports: BYU football players accused of gang rape will have to wait six more months
  Ibrahim Rashada is one of four former BYU football players accused of giving alcohol to a 17-year old girl, showing her a pornographic movie, and then raping her in an off-campus apartment. Defense attorneys are just beginning to sort through all of the evidence that prosecutors plan to use at trial, and plan to file numerous motions challenging some of that evidence. For now Rashada, BJ Mathis, and Karland Bennett will all be tried together, but at least one attorney may ask for separate trials. - (more sports)

• Missile Smuggling Trial Opens in N.J.
  Hemant Lakhani, a "British" businessman plotted to bring 200 shoulder-fired missiles into the United States, and told a federal informant posing as a terrorist how the weapons could be used to shoot down airplanes, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday. - (Svejk)
• FBI Probes Man on Ties to Islamic Charity
  Prosecutors have asked a judge to halt citizenship proceedings for a businessman who headed an Islamic charity so the FBI can continue investigating whether he lied about his ties to organizations that include one linked to Osama bin Laden. A U.S. Attorney asked to postpone Emadeddin Z. Muntasser's naturalization hearing.
• Iraqis Living in U.S. Eager to Vote
  

• Roman Catholic Church in California is to pay $100m to the alleged victims of sexual abuse by pedo-priests
  
• Indiana Roman Catholic Bishop defends handling of Florida case of homosexual abuse of 11-year-old boy
  A Roman Catholic bishop said he did not act sooner against a priest accused of sexual misconduct with a minor in Florida because police and church investigators had trouble contacting the alleged victim. Bishop Dale Melczek also said the Rev. Richard Emerson, suspended last month as pastor of Notre Dame Church in Long Beach, Ind., has denied any sexual misconduct with his accuser. A Florida man now 29 notified the Catholic Diocese of Orlando on May 25 that he had been abused by Emerson when the priest worked there from 1987 to 1991. The alleged victim said the sexual acts occurred in Florida when he was between the ages of 11 and 18.
  
  
• Media Can't Name Ex-Priest's Accusers - Shanley accused of homo pedophile child rape of boy
  BOSTON -- Acting at the request of prosecutors, a judge issued an order Tuesday barring the news media from disseminating the names of the alleged victims in the upcoming child rape trial of defrocked priest Paul Shanley. Superior Court Judge Charles Spurlock's order bars the publication of the names of Shanley's accusers, one man is expected to testify at his trial on child rape charges later this month and has spoken publicly about his allegations.
  

• Baby Found Dead in L.A. Washing Machine
• Eric Rudolph Defense Disputes Fugitive Claim
  attorneys are disputing the government's claim that he planned to turn fugitive after a 1998 Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
• San Francisco: Gun Bans on Ballot
• Court OKs Wis. Ten Commandments Monument
  

• Police Search for Evidence in Satanic Murder Rape of 15-year-old White girl
  Police arrested Kenneth Ray O'Neal Jr., 19, and charged him with first-degree burglary, forcible sex offense and first-degree murder in the death of Amanda R. Maynard.
  "I cannot fathom what would encourage or motivate someone to do what happened here," said Officer Jon Blum of the Garner Police Department. - (Tyrone N. Butts)
  New Details Revealed in Murder of Garner Teenager
  Kenneth O'Neal, confessed that he entered Amanda's house with a knife and walked up the stairs. When Amanda saw him, she started screaming and he ran to her and started stabbing her. After he killed Amanda and then returned to a party at a house just up the road where he played the piano and told jokes.
  
• "She was just a nice, sweet girl," said Catherine Johnson, principal of Garner Senior High School
• Satanic Black Devil Murdered White Girl then raped the corpse

• Invasion! Hispanic births pass Anglos' in Arizona - (Ricketts)
• Mortgages Made Easier For Wisconsin's Illegal Immigrants
  Brokers Welcome Move; Some Lawmakers Riled - (Brewski)

• Mr. President, "Disaster Relief" Is Not Yours to Give - by Michael A. Peroutka

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