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...night and four nights later Cloyd and Moseley set fire to four more churches to divert law enforcement. Two firefighters were injured battling the blazes. The young men were found after a massive manhunt tracked a mysterious SUV that left tracks from Cloyd?s specially purchased off-road tires. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Cloyd and Moseley to eight years and 11 months; DeBusk got seven years. The trio have been ordered to pay the $3.1 million cost to rebuild all nine churches. Proctor ordered participation in a federal substance abuse rehabilitation program to be part of their sentence...
...Rice hopes to use forum to rally regional powers and push Iran onto the defensive, according to a State Department official, by repeating U.S. charges that Iran is sending materials for armor-piercing road-side bombs to Shi'ite militias in Iraq. But Iraqi leaders are wary of being drawn into a U.S.-Iran conflict, and while they support calls for Iran to stop the flow of weapons into their country, they have also pressed the U.S. on the case of five Iranians arrested by the U.S. military in Erbil in January. Washington has thus far rebuffed calls for their...
...road to the Talpiyot tombs dips down from the Hill of Evil Council (the name a source of amusement for many Israelis, since it houses local U.N. headquarters), veers around a traffic circle, and then heads into a suburb of limestone apartment buildings on a hillside with pines and rose gardens. There were no tour buses, nobody hawking candles or postcards, just a few Israelis out for a stroll with their kids and dogs. I asked one dog-walker if he could direct us to the Jesus Family tomb, and he shrugged...
...Negroponte. Lozano says it was raining that night and the wind was too strong for the helicopter to fly Negroponte to his destination, requiring the ambassador to travel by car to a dinner meeting at Camp Victory outside of Baghdad. Route Irish, regarded by many as the most dangerous road in Iraq, was the only way to the base, says Lozano, whose company was ordered to set up a temporary checkpoint to ensure a safe passage for Negroponte's convoy. After the ambassador's party had passed, Lozano and the other soldiers maintained their position with two Humvees, one blocking...
...says he and his men followed the standard rules of engagement established by the military. He put down the flashlight, took hold of his mounted M-240 machine gun and commenced the warning shots. He says he fired first into the grassy area on the other side of the road, straight across the driver's field of vision, each bullet followed by a bright red tracer round so that they could be heard and also seen in the dark. When the car did not slow down, Lozano says he fired at the ground in front of it, then into...