Egyptian wanted by U.S. is killed in Pakistan

Egyptian wanted by U.S.is killed in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani forces killed an Egyptian al-Qaida terrorist wanted by the United States over the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, a Cabinet minister said Thursday. Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, was killed late Wednesday in a Pakistani military raid led by helicopter gunships on a hide-out in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai, near the Afghan border, the minister said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Another senior Pakistani intelligence official said military reports from the field indicated that Atwah had been killed in the attack, in which at least six other militants and two children were believed killed. The intelligence official also declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the case.
IRA apologizes for killinginnocent civilian in 1974
DUBLIN, Ireland -- The Irish Republican Army admitted Thursday it killed a Catholic civilian during a botched 1974 attempt to ambush British troops, and it apologized to the man's family. In a statement accompanying the group's traditional Easter policy statement, the outlawed IRA said its members were responsible for killing Eugene McQuaid, 35, whom security forces long suspected of being an IRA activist responsible for his own death. But the IRA, which has been silent on the matter for the past three decades, said its own internal investigation had concluded that McQuaid was killed when an IRA roadside bomb "detonated prematurely" as the victim innocently passed the spot on his motorcycle. "Eugene McQuaid was not a member of the IRA. He was not involved in the IRA operation," the IRA said. "At the time, the IRA did not acknowledge its involvement in the incident. The IRA leadership offers its sincere apologies to the McQuaid family for the death of Eugene and for the heartache and trauma that our actions have caused."
Man confesses killing6 relatives, police say
LEOLA, Pa. -- A young man was charged Thursday with bludgeoning or strangling six relatives whose bodies were found wrapped in sheets and blankets in the basement of his grandmother's home. Authorities said Jesse Dee Wise, 21, confessed, but they would not comment on a motive. The victims spanned three generations of the same family; the youngest was just 5 years old. Three of the victims were hit in the head with a blunt metal object, and three others were strangled, police said in an affidavit. Wise was arraigned on six counts of criminal homicide. As a judge recited the charges, Wise seemed to read along with a listing of the victims. "When will I get a lawyer?" he asked. Wise was ordered held without bail. The judge set a preliminary hearing for Thursday. Authorities said that his parents were both dead and that he lived with his grandparents.
Family: Boy killed selffor fear of punishment
LOS ANGELES -- A suicide note left by a 14-year-old indicates he feared punishment for leaving school on the day of an immigration protest, attorneys for the teen's family said Thursday. Anthony Soltero shot and killed himself with a .22-caliber rifle March 30. Before he committed suicide, Soltero called his mother and said the vice principal at De Anza Middle School claimed he could be jailed, banished from his graduation and that his parents could be fined, said Sonia Mercado, a lawyer hired by the family. School officials have disputed the assertion that the vice principal threatened the eighth-grader. They agree he wasn't in class but questioned his family's claims that he attended one of the many immigration rallies by Southern California students.
U.S. to screen birds for fluas they arrive in Alaska
WASHINGTON -- In about three weeks, waterfowl, shorebirds and songbirds will start arriving in the Alaska Peninsula, the Yukon Delta and the westernmost Aleutian Islands to begin mating. That's when and where government scientists expect the first case of bird flu to show up in the Unites States. To screen the birds for the deadly virus, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Alaska's Fish and Game Department are setting up more than 50 remote backcountry camps accessible mainly by float planes or boats. More than 40 species of waterfowl and shorebirds are considered susceptible to infection by a highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus that's killed more than 100 people, mostly in Asia. It also has killed or led to the slaughter of more than 200 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other domestic fowl in Asia, Europe and Africa. Species migrating from Asia across the Bering Strait -- considered the most likely carriers of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus -- include eiders, pintails, geese, long-tailed ducks, dunlins, sandpipers and plovers.
Associated Press