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US Seeks Death Penalty for Six Guantanamo 9/11 Suspects |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 08:29 |
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11 February 2008 The U.S. Defense Department has charged six detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay detention center with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks. All six face the death penalty. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.
Guard Tower at Camp Delta
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon today, Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann announced the first sweeping charges brought against suspected conspirators in the September 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
General Hartmann, the legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system identified the six men facing charges.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (file photo)
The accused are Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi and Mohammed al Kahtani. Each of the defendants is charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects and terrorism, among other charges. The military is recommending that the six men be tried together before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is seeking the death penalty for all six defendants. Hartmann says the charges lay out a long-term, sophisticated plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States, coordinated by Khalid Sheik Mohammed. |
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US Seeks Death Penalty for Six Guantanamo 9/11 Suspects |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 08:29 |
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Download Audio By Cindy Saine
Washington
11 February 2008 The U.S. Defense Department has charged six detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay detention center with murder and war crimes in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks. All six face the death penalty. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington.
Guard Tower at Camp Delta
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon today, Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann announced the first sweeping charges brought against suspected conspirators in the September 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
General Hartmann, the legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system identified the six men facing charges.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (file photo)
The accused are Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi and Mohammed al Kahtani. Each of the defendants is charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects and terrorism, among other charges. The military is recommending that the six men be tried together before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is seeking the death penalty for all six defendants. Hartmann says the charges lay out a long-term, sophisticated plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States, coordinated by Khalid Sheik Mohammed. |
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White House Criticizes Burma Referendum Plan |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:24 |
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White House
11 February 2008 The White House says the Burmese government's plan for a constitutional referendum in May and general elections in 2010 is not sufficient. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the Bush administration says the plan is neither open nor fair.
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino answers questions during her daily briefing at the White House in Washington, 11 Feb 2008
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says the election plan is flawed. "The problem is not with the setting of a date for elections, but with the non-transparent and exclusive processes being promulgated by the regime," she said. Perino says Burma's military leaders have been drafting a new constitution in closed meetings without any input from opposition leaders or minority ethnic groups. |
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Thousands Gather in Lourdes to Celebrate 150th Anniversary of Apparition of Virgin Mary |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 07:42 |
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Paris
11 February 2008 Some 50,000 pilgrims are expected in the southwestern French town of Lourdes Monday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the reported sighting of the apparition of the Virgin Mary by a 14-year-old shepherd girl. Lisa Bryant reports from Paris the event will be celebrated throughout the year, with a visit by the Pope expected in September.
Bishops and priests gather at the Lourdes shrine during a ceremony, 11 Feb 2008
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Lourdes is usually filled with pilgrims year round. But many more are gathering now to mark the beginning of the months-long period in 1858 during which Bernadette Soubirous, 14, is said to have seen the Virgin Mary no less than 18 times.
The Roman Catholic Church was initially skeptical about the appearances, but Bernadette was eventually canonized in 1933. Today, the place where Bernadette is said to have seen the Virgin is a sanctuary run by the Catholic Church. Millions of pilgrims, and not only Christian ones, flock here each year to seek spiritual and physical healing. Because Lourdes is also considered the source of miraculous cures. |
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Pakistan: Top Taliban Commander Captured |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 06:16 |
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Islamabad
11 February 2008 Pakistani security forces say they have wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander and five other militants after a shootout near the border with Afghanistan. VOA Correspondent Meredith Buel has details from Islamabad.
Mullah Mansoor Dadullah talks during an interview at an unknown place (undated TV Grab taken from Aljazeera channel)
Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told VOA Mullah Mansoor Dadullah along with the other Taliban militants were caught entering Pakistan from Afghanistan at paramilitary check post in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
"They were challenged and thereafter a firefight took place between them. All six of them were injured and then they were apprehended by the Frontier Corps. Of course they were provided with first aid there and then they were brought back towards the camp," he said. Local officials reported a different version of Dadullah's capture. They say the Taliban militant was hiding in a compound that was raided by Pakistani security forces. Mansoor Dadullah is the brother of a former top military commander for the Taliban, Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in an Afghan and NATO military operation last May in southern Afghanistan. There has been growing pressure from Western nations on Pakistan to crack down on Islamic militants launching attacks inside Afghanistan and Pakistan. The arrest came days after a senior U.S. official said that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar were operating from inside Pakistan.
Pro-Taliban supporters listen to an audiotaped speech by cleric Dadullah Mansoor during a rally in Killi Nalai village, near the Afghan border (File Photo - 01 Jun 2007)
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