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ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013
INTERNATIONAL 14
World News Roundup
JFK
JFK assassination
‘It was not a
lone gunman’
DALLAS, Jan 12, (AP): Robert F.
Kennedy Jr is convinced that a
lone gunman wasn’t solely
responsible for the assassination
of his uncle, President John F.
Kennedy, and said his father
believed the Warren Commission
report was a “shoddy piece of
craftsmanship.”
Kennedy and his sister, Rory,
spoke about their family Friday
night while being interviewed in
front of an audience by Charlie
Rose at the
Winspear Opera
House in Dallas.
The event comes
as a year of
observances
begins for the
50th anniversary
of the president’s
death.
Kennedy Their uncle
was killed on
Nov 22, 1963, while riding in a
motorcade through Dallas. Five
years later, their father was assas-
sinated in a Los Angeles hotel
while celebrating his win in the
California Democratic presiden-
tial primary.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr said his
father spent a year trying to come
to grips with his brother’s death,
Owner of the MV Kearsarge, Peter Fenton (left), examines his sinking dinner cruise ship in Sunapee Harbor, Jan 11, in Sunapee, N.H. Authorities said the ship started to go under at about 7:45 pm
reading the works of Greek Thursday, and part of the lower deck at the back of the boat was under water Friday morning. It was not immediately known what caused the problem. The MV Kearsarge has been taking visitors around
philosophers, Catholic scholars, Lake Sunapee from May through October for over 30 years. (AP)
Henry David Thoreau, poets and
others “trying to figure out kind of ment.
the existential implications of why The review began after the medical
a just God would allow injustice to Storm examiner’s office discovered errors by an
happen of the magnitude he was unidentified laboratory technician, who
seeing.” was hired in 2001 and resigned in 2011,
Piece office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.
During a training session before her
He said his father thought the resignation, supervisors learned that her
Warren Commission, which con- Software underestimated threat “work wasn’t up to the standards we
cluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted expect,” Borakove said. (AP)
alone in killing the president, was ❑ ❑ ❑
a “shoddy piece of craftsman-
ship.” He said that he, too, ques-
tioned the report.
NJ Transit erred in modeling storm Three US soldiers punished: The
US military has punished three more sol-
diers for sleeping with prostitutes in a sex
“The evidence at this point I NEW YORK, Jan 12, (RTRS): New potential inundation of a large por- faced criticism over the decision scandal in Colombia
think is very, very convincing that Jersey Transit incorrectly used federal tion of the rail yard, mirroring the since Reuters published an investi- that overshadowed
it was not a lone gunman,” he said, government software that otherwise flooding that ultimately occurred. gation in November that showed two President Barack
but he didn’t say what he believed Tyamba Lamie, 22, cries as she lis- could have warned officials against a Other metro railroads in the federal agencies issued maps warn- Obama’s visit to a
may have happened. tens to her mother Ingrid Johnson disastrous decision to leave hundreds region moved their rolling stock to ing that rail yards in Kearny and summit last year.
Rose asked if he believed his speaking to a large gathering outside The three US Army
of millions of dollars worth of equip- rail lines and yards on higher Hoboken could flood. sergeants were found
father, the US attorney general at the New Jersey Statehouse in
Trenton, N.J. on Jan 11. Tyamba ment in a low-lying rail yard before ground. Damage guilty of violating the
the time of his brother’s death, Superstorm Sandy struck, a Reuters National Weather Service meteo-
felt “some sense of guilt because Lamie, who had run away from The agency sustained $100 mil- military’s code by hav-
home, was forced into prostitution examination has found. rologists in two different offices lion in damage to one-third of its ing “relations” with
he thought there might have been The agency based its decision, at with oversight of New Jersey agreed
shortly afterwards at the age of 13. locomotives and a quarter of its pas- prostitutes, US
a link between his very aggres- least in part, on software provided that the wrong settings were used. Obama Southern Command
Johnson and others want to raise senger cars, and there were several
sive efforts against organized awareness of human trafficking. by the National Weather Service that “The way they were using it was said in a statement in
crime.” weeks of service disruptions that Washington. Two of the soldiers also were
States around the country are pass- allows users to simulate an guaranteed to underestimate storm caused long delays and crowded
Kennedy replied: “I think that’s ing laws to vacate the criminal con- approaching hurricane and show surge,” said Gary Szatkowski, mete- found guilty of “indecent acts” and a third
true. He talked about that. He pub- victions of people found to have trains for New Jersey residents who of adultery, which is prohibited under mil-
areas vulnerable to flooding from orologist-in-charge at the National work in New York City.
licly supported the Warren engaged in illegal activity as victims storm surge, according to Sandy- Weather Service office in Mount itary law.
Commission report but privately of human trafficking. At least seven In testimony before New Jersey The soldiers received letters of repri-
states have passed such laws. related forecast documents obtained Holly, New Jersey. lawmakers last month, New Jersey mand and loss of some pay but were not
he was dismissive of it.” by Reuters from New Jersey Transit.
He said his father had investiga- Others, including New Jersey, are Decision Transit Executive Director James discharged under the “non-judicial punish-
considering similar legislation. (AP) Exactly how the agency used the Reuters provided New Jersey Weinstein said the rail yard decision ments” meted out by commanders, the
tors do research into the assassina- software is unclear because the
tion and found that phone records Transit with its findings and asked a was made based on “best available” statement said. (AFP)
of Oswald and nightclub owner agency declined to answer any spe- series of specific questions, such as weather forecasts.
Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald two cific questions. how the software models factored “I can tell you unequivocally: The ❑ ❑ ❑
days after the president’s assassi- Reuters asked for the documents into the agency’s decision to leave decisions on where to keep and Accused in shooting in court: A
nation, “were like an inventory” of that New Jersey Transit relied upon in trains at the yard and whether offi- move our rail cars and locomotives man suspected of killing a stagehand at a
mafia leaders the government had deciding to leave the trains at its cials were aware their models did were sound, based on the best rally following the election of Quebec’s
been investigating. Meadows Maintenance Complex in not match the surge predictions from weather models and forecasts, his- new separatist premier says he needs
He said his father, later elected Kearny, New Jersey. Among the docu- federal agencies. torical experience and other infor- someone to start a website on his behalf to
US senator in New York, was ments was a screen-shot of storm pre- John Durso Jr, a spokesman for mation we had at the time,” raise funds to fight those who want the
diction software that indicated the user New Jersey Transit, said in an email Weinstein told members of the New French-speaking province to separate
“fairly convinced” that others from the rest of Canada.
were involved. had the storm traveling northeast, away on Friday that the agency was Jersey General Assembly’s
Rubin Holder from the New York area, while moving Richard Henry Bain appeared in a
Memories reviewing the Reuters analysis, “but Transportation, Public Works and Montreal courtroom Friday and claimed a
at the wrong speed. it’s fair to say that we will have some Independent Authorities Committee.
The attorney and well-known psychiatric report declared him “75 per
As a result, the software predicted
environmentalist also told the ‘Not guilty’ surges that were about half the levels
very serious, substantive disputes After that hearing, Reuters asked cent fit” to stand trial. The psychiatric
audience light-hearted stories with your findings.” for the specific forecast documents. report Bain referred to was not officially
actually forecast - errors that under- Durso sent a statement two hours But the documents, released to filed in court on Friday because Bain
Friday about memories of his A woman who turned herself in after estimated the threat to the Meadows wants it written in English.
uncle. As a young child with an later that did not answer the specific Reuters under the New Jersey Open
a decade as a fugitive in the largest- complex. questions. It said: “NJ Transit used Public Records Act, show agency Denis Blanchette was killed and anoth-
interest in the environment, he ever US ecoterrorism investigation Issue er worker was wounded in an attack at a
said, he made an appointment with pleaded not guilty Friday to conspira- the most current weather forecasts officials had warnings that Sandy
New Jersey Transit takes issue and available data at that time, along could be different. Briefing slides Montreal club where the Parti Quebecois
his uncle to speak with him in the cy and arson charges in federal Leader Pauline Marois was celebrating
Oval Office about pollution. court. with the findings. But a Reuters with accepted analysis practices by from the National Weather Service her election victory last September. (AP)
With Canadian citizen Rebecca analysis shows that had the software emergency management profession- used by transit officials warned of
He’d even caught a salamander ❑ ❑ ❑
to present to the president, which Rubin, 39, sitting shackled in the jury been used to produce surge estimates als and historical experiences, to “major to record inland flooding
unfortunately died before the box, Magistrate Judge Thomas similar to forecasts, agency leaders inform and guide decisions up to and along rivers and streams” and pleas Judge approves ‘exhumation’: A
Coffin ordered her to remain in cus- could have seen a different picture. through Sandy.” to “plan for the worst and hope for judge in Chicago Friday granted prosecu-
meeting. tody and set trial to begin March 19 in tors permission to exhume the body of an
“He kept saying to me, ‘It does- The result would have pointed to New Jersey Transit leaders have the best.”
US District Court in Eugene, said Indian-born lottery winner who was fatal-
n’t look well,’” he recalled. Assistant US Attorney Steven Peifer. ly poisoned with cyanide just as he was
US Attorney General is Eric Holder. about to collect his $425,000 payout.
A federal indictment accuses ered evidence that resulted in an indictment reported in The New York Times, by say- “We cannot allow these women to won- Authorities want to do a fuller autopsy
Rubin of being a member of cells of on Urooj Khan to confirm earlier but less-
last year accusing a man of raping a minor ing it suggests more victims may have der if their attacker remains free or to go thorough toxicology tests, as well as to
the Earth Liberation Front and more than a decade ago in Brooklyn. been denied justice. The City Council one more day without knowing justice
North America Animal Liberation Front known as
The Family. Investigators blame the Local politicians responded to news of announced it would hold an oversight was served in their case,” City Council
rule out that natural causes contributed to
the 46-year-old’s sudden death, according
group based in Eugene for 20 fires the mishandled sex crimes evidence, first hearing later this month. Speaker Christine Quinn said in a state- to documents filed with the motion for an
across the West from 1996 to 2001 exhumation.
Ex-Marine gets 25 yrs: An ex- that did $40 million damage. Facing dozens of reporters and TV
Marine convicted of firing shots at the She turned herself in to the FBI cameras crowded around her outside court
Pentagon and other military targets in last November at the Canadian bor- after a judge signed off on the request,
2010 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in der with Washington state. At the Victims upset Khan’s sister said the thought of her
prison, despite a recent diagnosis of schiz- time, her lawyer said she wanted to brother’s body being unearthed and re-
ophrenia that raised some questions about get the case behind her. examined was disturbing - but that the
his sanity.
Prosecutors said in Alexandria Virginia,
Defense lawyer
Troberman, of Seattle, did not
Richard
respond to an email seeking com-
Delay in plea procedure was essential.
“It’s very hard,” a tearful Meraj Khan
said. “I wanted my brother to rest in
the sentence was appropriate. In court
papers, they ascribed Yonathan Melaku’s ment Friday. CENTENNIAL, Colorado, Jan 12, peace, but we have to have justice
motives not to mental illness but to anger Investigators blame the cells for (AP): An emotional outburst by the served.” She added about the exhumation,
at US foreign policy. They cited FBI inter- fires at a ski resort in Colorado, wild father of a woman killed in the “It has to be done.” (AP)
views with Melaku in which he said he horse corrals in Oregon and Colorado theater shootings ❑ ❑ ❑
wanted to send a message that the US Northern California, and lumber mills capped a week of often gruesome
should not engage in wars against and US Forest Service offices in testimony that ended with a judge Sexual assault in hostage drama:
Oregon. giving the defendant two months A woman was sexually assaulted and
Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. another victim was stabbed during a late-
At a sentencing hearing in US District Ten people pleaded guilty in 2007 to enter a plea. Steve Hernandez,
to conspiracy and arson charges and whose 32-year-old daughter night hostage-taking that lasted into the
Court, Melaku, 24, said he wanted to go early hours Friday at a department store
forward with a plea deal reached last year were sentenced to prison. Two oth- Rebecca Wingo was among those
ers indicted in the case remain at killed in the July 20 shooting, loud- near Los Angeles, police said.
that called for a 25-year sentence - even Officers were looking for two suspects
though the schizophrenia diagnosis, con- large. (AP) ly cursed James Holmes on
Friday, prompting a sympathetic over what initially appears to have started
firmed by government doctors, raised the but firm warning from a judge. out as an armed robbery, but which ended
possibility of an insanity defense. “Rot in hell, Holmes!” when 14 victims were rescued by SWAT
Melaku pleaded guilty last year to a NY looks at 800 rape cases: The Hernandez shouted. The court teams at the Nordstrom Rack store in
series of nighttime shootings, including at New York City medical examiner’s office hearing came as the United States Westchester, southwest of LA.
the Marine Corps museum in Quantico confirmed Friday that it is reviewing hun- debates gun control and struggles Police were alerted shortly after 11:00
and military recruiting stations in dreds of rape cases for possible errors in Steve Hernandez (right), the father of Rebecca Wingos who was killed in the to find ways to stop mass shoot- pm Thursday (0700 GMT Friday) when a
Chantilly and Woodbridge, which caused DNA analysis. Aurora theater, holds hands with an unidentified woman as they arrive for a ings following the latest such inci- female staff member reported that two
more than $100,000 in damage. No one Officials said it appears so far that the court proceeding for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes at the dent - last month’s massacre at an armed men had entered the store, said LA
was injured. (AP) testing in the vast majority of the cases was courthouse in Centennial, Colo, on Jan 11. Hernandez yelled out ‘Rot in Hell elementary school in Connecticut. Police Department (LAPD) spokesman
❑ ❑ ❑ valid. But in one instance, the review uncov- Holmes’ in court at the end of Friday’s proceedings. (AP) Andy Neiman. (AFP)
