The only sovereignty that Gbagbo has to fall back on is the power over his own actions. He should exercise that self-control in a constructive way and step down. If not, other countries must continue to up the pressure, quite justifiably.
The stakes in Ivory Coast are considerable: Ray Ban Sunglasses for the war-scarred people who live there; for the region, which is now starting to absorb fleeing refugees; and for upcoming African elections elsewhere.
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and African Development bank have frozen lending. The United States announced Dec. 21 travel bans on Gbagbo, members of his family, and his illegitimate government; the EU announced travel bans and an asset freeze on Gbagbo.
The world is responding – interfering – with unusual and commendable unity. The UN Security Council on Monday agreed to extend its 10,000-strong forces in Ivory Coast for another six months. The members of the seven-member West African currency union are considering giving control of Ivory Coast finances to the real winner, Mr. Ouattara.
Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo lost to longtime rival Alassane Ouattara,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale who is now being protected by United Nations peacekeepers. Mr. Gbagbo refuses to concede, despite widespread recognition of his loss, including by his fellow African leaders. Gbagbo has unleashed security forces and violence, amid fears that this once bright spot will dim under another civil war.
The circumstances – and consequences – are even more serious in Ivory Coast in Western Africa. That country, the world’s largest producer of cocoa, suffered a civil war in 2002-03, and the presidential run-off elections last month were part of an arduous negotiated process.
Belarus was offered an EU aid package of $3.6 billion if Mr. Lukashenko delivered free and fair elections. He didn’t, Coach outlet and the offer should be rescinded – if it hasn’t been already.
And yet, for a country that itself has sought closer ties to the West, and is in a a€?partnershipa€
Despite the arrest and beating of opposition demonstrators and their leaders in the Belarusan capital of Minsk, Mr. Medvedev has declared the elections to be the a€?internal affaira€
Thus it is that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev –Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses the supposed modernizer of Russia – can defend the clearly fraudulent election on Dec. 19 of Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusan president, known as Europe’s last dictator, is disdained by Russian leaders. But not for his strong grip on power.
But the democratic “color revolutions” of the early 2000s – in Ukraine, Georgia, and elsewhere – united autocrats around the sovereignty defense. These leaders, from Iran to Venezuela, feared the advice, funds, and pressure from foreign supporters of budding democracy movements that could shake things up at home.
Terrorism acted as another catalyst, with George W. Bush on a democracy tear, attempting to spread freedoms in the Middle East that would dry up the appeal of Islamist jihad. That fervor has been tempered under President Obama – as seen in his weak response to Egypt’s recent sham elections.
A kind of global consensus formed that a severe humanitarian or human rights crisis could justify diplomatic, economic, and even military intervention – especially if it threatened to destabilize an entire region. The tragedy of nonintervention in the 1994 Rwanda genocide reinforced that view.
World attitudes about trespassing on other nationsa€? sovereignty coalesced after the cold war,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale prompted by the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and before that, the spread of democracy in Latin America and Asia during the a€?80s.
But meddle, outsiders did – and still must.
Outsiders must not meddle with “internal matters” such as elections, warn supporters of autocrats in Belarus and Ivory Coast – two distant points on the globe that are joined in their recent defiance of honoring free and fair democratic elections.
Once again, in the global struggle over democracy, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses the sovereignty card is being played in defense of election fraud.
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US teen birth rate at all-time low, economy cited
The U.S. teen birth rate in 2009 fell to its lowest point in almost 70 years of record-keeping — Ray Ban Sunglasses a decline that stunned experts who believe it's partly due to the recession.
Still, news of the large decline was a stunning and exciting surprise for advocates, Brown noted. "This is like a Christmas present," she said.
Also, there's reason to rein in celebration of the 2009 numbers. The U.S. teen birth rate continues to be far higher than that of 16 other developed countries, according to a 2007 United Nations comparison that Brown cited.
None of the experts was able to explain an uptick in the teen birth rate in Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale 2006 and 2007.
"If girls do get pregnant, they're probably looking more into getting abortions" than teens may have in years past, she said.
Because teens generally don't plan pregnancies, she doubts the recession as an explanation. When financial considerations do creep into a teen's conversation about pregnancy, it most likely involves a bleak assessment of their ability to support a child, Johnson said.
Abortion could be a factor, said Jaqui Johnson, 17, a senior in Des Moines, Iowa.
But experts acknowledge they are speculating. Hogue noted a lack of key data for 2009 that would answer questions about whether teens are having the same amount of sex, whether their use of contraception changed,Coach outlet or whether they were getting pregnant just as often as in earlier years but were having more abortions.
For decades, health educators have been emphasizing the hazards of teen pregnancy, including higher dropout rates and other problems for these young mothers and their kids. The cumulative effect of such campaigns may have played an important role in pushing down the teen birth rate, Ventura said.
"It's something that I still keep with me. It forced you to really ponder that thought" and think about the consequences, she said.
Briela recalled one of her eighth grade teachers telling students to write down how they would tell their parents if they became pregnant.
Gabriela Briela, 17, a high school senior in Chicago,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses believes TV shows like that one are a big factor. She also credits sex education that goes beyond abstinence and advises birth control for teens who have sex.
CDC officials said the most striking change was the decline among teens, and some experts credited popular culture as playing a role. The issue of teen pregnancy got a lot of attention through Bristol Palin, the unmarried daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bristol Palin had a baby boy in December 2008. Teen pregnancy is also cast in a harsh light by "16 and Pregnant," a popular MTV reality show which first aired in 2009 and chronicles the difficulties teen moms face.
"If women feel they are up against a biological clock, that is a counterbalance to 'I can't afford to have a baby right now,'" she said.
The drop in birth rates was less pronounced in women in their 30s than women in their 20s, noted Carol Hogue, an Emory University professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology.
The one exception was women older then 40 — a group that may be more concerned with declining fertility than the economy. The birth rate for women ages 40-44 was up 3 percent from 2008, to about 10 births per 1,000 women. That's the highest rate for that group since 1967.
Birth rates were down from 2008 in almost every age group of women of childbearing. The birth rate for women in their early 20s plummeted 7 percent, the largest decline for that age group since 1973.
The pre-term birth rate, for infants delivered at less than 37 weeks of pregnancy,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale dropped for the third straight year to about 12 percent of all births. It had been generally increasing since the early 1980s.
The cesarean delivery rate rose yet again, to about 33 percent of births. The C-section rate has been rising every year since 1996.
Other findings in the new report include:
A decline in immigration to the United States, blamed on the weak job market, is another factor cited for the lower birth rate. A large proportion of immigrants are Hispanic, and Hispanics accounted for nearly 1 in 4 births in 2009. The birth rate among Hispanic teens is the highest of any ethnic group with 70 births per 1,000 girls in 2009. However, that rate, too, was down from the previous year.
The trend may continue: A preliminary count of U.S. births through the first six months of this year suggests a continuing drop, CDC officials said.
Overall, about 4.1 million babies were born in 2009, down almost 3 percent from 2008. It's the second consecutive drop in births, which had been on the rise since 2000.
For comparison look to the peak year of teen births — 1957. There were about 96 births per 1,000 teen girls that year,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses but it was a different era, when women married younger, said Stephanie Ventura, a co-author of the report issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC births report is based on a review of most birth certificates for 2009.
Teenage moms, who account for about 10 percent of the nation's births, are not unique. The total number of births also has been dropping, as have birth rates among all women except those 40 and older.
"But I think they are living in families that experience that stress. They are living next door to families that lost their jobs. ... The recession has touched us all," Brown said.
"I'm not suggesting that teens are examining futures of 401(k)s or how the market is doing," said Sarah Brown, chief executive of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Experts say the recent recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — was a major factor driving down births overall, and there's good reason to think it affected would-be teen mothers.
The birth rate for teenagers fell to 39 births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 through 19, according to a government report released Tuesday. It was a 6 percent decline from the previous year, and the lowest since health officials started tracking the rate in 1940.
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Still, news of the large decline was a stunning and exciting surprise for advocates, Brown noted. "This is like a Christmas present," she said.
Also, there's reason to rein in celebration of the 2009 numbers. The U.S. teen birth rate continues to be far higher than that of 16 other developed countries, according to a 2007 United Nations comparison that Brown cited.
None of the experts was able to explain an uptick in the teen birth rate in Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale 2006 and 2007.
"If girls do get pregnant, they're probably looking more into getting abortions" than teens may have in years past, she said.
Because teens generally don't plan pregnancies, she doubts the recession as an explanation. When financial considerations do creep into a teen's conversation about pregnancy, it most likely involves a bleak assessment of their ability to support a child, Johnson said.
Abortion could be a factor, said Jaqui Johnson, 17, a senior in Des Moines, Iowa.
But experts acknowledge they are speculating. Hogue noted a lack of key data for 2009 that would answer questions about whether teens are having the same amount of sex, whether their use of contraception changed,Coach outlet or whether they were getting pregnant just as often as in earlier years but were having more abortions.
For decades, health educators have been emphasizing the hazards of teen pregnancy, including higher dropout rates and other problems for these young mothers and their kids. The cumulative effect of such campaigns may have played an important role in pushing down the teen birth rate, Ventura said.
"It's something that I still keep with me. It forced you to really ponder that thought" and think about the consequences, she said.
Briela recalled one of her eighth grade teachers telling students to write down how they would tell their parents if they became pregnant.
Gabriela Briela, 17, a high school senior in Chicago,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses believes TV shows like that one are a big factor. She also credits sex education that goes beyond abstinence and advises birth control for teens who have sex.
CDC officials said the most striking change was the decline among teens, and some experts credited popular culture as playing a role. The issue of teen pregnancy got a lot of attention through Bristol Palin, the unmarried daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bristol Palin had a baby boy in December 2008. Teen pregnancy is also cast in a harsh light by "16 and Pregnant," a popular MTV reality show which first aired in 2009 and chronicles the difficulties teen moms face.
"If women feel they are up against a biological clock, that is a counterbalance to 'I can't afford to have a baby right now,'" she said.
The drop in birth rates was less pronounced in women in their 30s than women in their 20s, noted Carol Hogue, an Emory University professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology.
The one exception was women older then 40 — a group that may be more concerned with declining fertility than the economy. The birth rate for women ages 40-44 was up 3 percent from 2008, to about 10 births per 1,000 women. That's the highest rate for that group since 1967.
Birth rates were down from 2008 in almost every age group of women of childbearing. The birth rate for women in their early 20s plummeted 7 percent, the largest decline for that age group since 1973.
The pre-term birth rate, for infants delivered at less than 37 weeks of pregnancy,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale dropped for the third straight year to about 12 percent of all births. It had been generally increasing since the early 1980s.
The cesarean delivery rate rose yet again, to about 33 percent of births. The C-section rate has been rising every year since 1996.
Other findings in the new report include:
A decline in immigration to the United States, blamed on the weak job market, is another factor cited for the lower birth rate. A large proportion of immigrants are Hispanic, and Hispanics accounted for nearly 1 in 4 births in 2009. The birth rate among Hispanic teens is the highest of any ethnic group with 70 births per 1,000 girls in 2009. However, that rate, too, was down from the previous year.
The trend may continue: A preliminary count of U.S. births through the first six months of this year suggests a continuing drop, CDC officials said.
Overall, about 4.1 million babies were born in 2009, down almost 3 percent from 2008. It's the second consecutive drop in births, which had been on the rise since 2000.
For comparison look to the peak year of teen births — 1957. There were about 96 births per 1,000 teen girls that year,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses but it was a different era, when women married younger, said Stephanie Ventura, a co-author of the report issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC births report is based on a review of most birth certificates for 2009.
Teenage moms, who account for about 10 percent of the nation's births, are not unique. The total number of births also has been dropping, as have birth rates among all women except those 40 and older.
"But I think they are living in families that experience that stress. They are living next door to families that lost their jobs. ... The recession has touched us all," Brown said.
"I'm not suggesting that teens are examining futures of 401(k)s or how the market is doing," said Sarah Brown, chief executive of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Experts say the recent recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — was a major factor driving down births overall, and there's good reason to think it affected would-be teen mothers.
The birth rate for teenagers fell to 39 births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 through 19, according to a government report released Tuesday. It was a 6 percent decline from the previous year, and the lowest since health officials started tracking the rate in 1940.
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Argentine ex-dictator sentenced to life in prison
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About 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the dirty war, according to a government count. Human rights group estimate the figure is actually 30,000.
Videla "represents the most absolute evil," Alfonsin told Radio Continental on Wednesday. It was Videla, he said, who "ordered them to torture, who ordered them to rape, who ordered them to kill or who tolerated them doing all of these aberrant things."
Ricardo Alfonsin — son of the late President Raul Alfonsin, who helped put Videla and other junta leaders on trial 25 years ago and created the "Never Again" commission that documented thousands of crimes against humanity — said such arguments are meaningless coming from men who lack all moral authority.
Videla and Menendez accepted responsibility for the Coach outlet crackdown but claimed they had to act as they did to prevent what they considered would be a greater tragedy — the transformation of Argentina from a conservative Christian society to a Marxist state.
"They were combatants who took on certain risks," Menendez said. "It's not a crime against humanity to fight an armed combatant."
Menendez told the court that it is historically revisionist to present armed leftist groups as passive victims with no responsibility for criminal acts. The Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army were already committing violent acts before the coup,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale he reminded the judges.
The 31 victims in this case — many of them university students with links to armed leftist revolutionary movements — were taken to a clandestine center in Cordoba and tortured with methods including electric shock, rape, simulated asphyxiation with water and nylon bags and mock executions. They were left naked in cold wet cells through the winter, and were told their families would be killed if they didn't confess, survivors said.
It was the fifth life sentence for former Gen. Luciano Benjamin Menendez, who directed the early war against leftist subversives across much of northern Argentina.
Some of his co-defendants received lesser terms, and seven minor defendants whose cases were joined to Videla's were found not guilty.
This was the first of dozens of trials coming up for Videla, now 85.
After a concerted campaign to reform a judicial system packed with dictatorship-era judges, the Supreme Court overturned those amnesties in 2007, and current President Cristina Fernandez has encouraged a wave of new trials of former military and police figures involved in the clandestine torture centers where thousands of the regime's opponents disappeared.
Videla must serve his sentence in a civilian prison,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses the judges decided, ruling out the privileges he enjoyed after he was first convicted of crimes against humanity in 1985, as Argentina was struggling to return to democracy. Videla served just five years of a life sentence in a military prison before former President Carlos Menem granted him and other junta leaders amnesty.
Videla told the court that Argentine society demanded the crackdown to prevent a Marxist revolution and complained that "terrorists" now run the country.
The judges found Videla "criminally responsible" for the deaths of the prisoners, who were transferred from civilian jail cells to a clandestine prison where they were repeatedly tortured under interrogation before being killed.
Videla, who led the military coup that installed Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale is considered the architect of a dirty war that eliminated thousands of people in a crackdown on armed leftist guerrillas and their supporters.
The conviction was Videla's first in 25 years for crimes against humanity, thrilling relatives who packed the courtroom, holding up grainy black-and-white pictures of the victims and shouting "murderers" at the defendants. Most of the two-dozen former military and police officials who were tried with Videla also received life sentences.
Former dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the torture and murder of 31 prisoners, most of whom who were "shot while trying to.
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About 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the dirty war, according to a government count. Human rights group estimate the figure is actually 30,000.
Videla "represents the most absolute evil," Alfonsin told Radio Continental on Wednesday. It was Videla, he said, who "ordered them to torture, who ordered them to rape, who ordered them to kill or who tolerated them doing all of these aberrant things."
Ricardo Alfonsin — son of the late President Raul Alfonsin, who helped put Videla and other junta leaders on trial 25 years ago and created the "Never Again" commission that documented thousands of crimes against humanity — said such arguments are meaningless coming from men who lack all moral authority.
Videla and Menendez accepted responsibility for the Coach outlet crackdown but claimed they had to act as they did to prevent what they considered would be a greater tragedy — the transformation of Argentina from a conservative Christian society to a Marxist state.
"They were combatants who took on certain risks," Menendez said. "It's not a crime against humanity to fight an armed combatant."
Menendez told the court that it is historically revisionist to present armed leftist groups as passive victims with no responsibility for criminal acts. The Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army were already committing violent acts before the coup,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale he reminded the judges.
The 31 victims in this case — many of them university students with links to armed leftist revolutionary movements — were taken to a clandestine center in Cordoba and tortured with methods including electric shock, rape, simulated asphyxiation with water and nylon bags and mock executions. They were left naked in cold wet cells through the winter, and were told their families would be killed if they didn't confess, survivors said.
It was the fifth life sentence for former Gen. Luciano Benjamin Menendez, who directed the early war against leftist subversives across much of northern Argentina.
Some of his co-defendants received lesser terms, and seven minor defendants whose cases were joined to Videla's were found not guilty.
This was the first of dozens of trials coming up for Videla, now 85.
After a concerted campaign to reform a judicial system packed with dictatorship-era judges, the Supreme Court overturned those amnesties in 2007, and current President Cristina Fernandez has encouraged a wave of new trials of former military and police figures involved in the clandestine torture centers where thousands of the regime's opponents disappeared.
Videla must serve his sentence in a civilian prison,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses the judges decided, ruling out the privileges he enjoyed after he was first convicted of crimes against humanity in 1985, as Argentina was struggling to return to democracy. Videla served just five years of a life sentence in a military prison before former President Carlos Menem granted him and other junta leaders amnesty.
Videla told the court that Argentine society demanded the crackdown to prevent a Marxist revolution and complained that "terrorists" now run the country.
The judges found Videla "criminally responsible" for the deaths of the prisoners, who were transferred from civilian jail cells to a clandestine prison where they were repeatedly tortured under interrogation before being killed.
Videla, who led the military coup that installed Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale is considered the architect of a dirty war that eliminated thousands of people in a crackdown on armed leftist guerrillas and their supporters.
The conviction was Videla's first in 25 years for crimes against humanity, thrilling relatives who packed the courtroom, holding up grainy black-and-white pictures of the victims and shouting "murderers" at the defendants. Most of the two-dozen former military and police officials who were tried with Videla also received life sentences.
Former dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the torture and murder of 31 prisoners, most of whom who were "shot while trying to.
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US medicines for Afghan soldiers disappear
"Today's health department is modern and we have access to everything. This was because of the efforts of Gen. Yaftali. He is a star," said Rahimi, Ray Ban Sunglasses adding that Yaftali helped arrange for him to get his master's degree in Turkey.
But Rahimi, the army clinic director, insisted Yaftali is not to blame, saying he is "doing his best to provide with all these shortages."
"There was a problem that we have identified," he said. "Now the ministry is responsible for delivering."
Wardak said the defense ministry has gotten serious about tracking and punishing misconduct.
Taking issue with Geller, Yaftali insisted that U.S. Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale medical donations had stayed the same or even decreased as the size of the Afghan military grew.
"If we had this kind of leakage from our side, we would know," he said.
Yaftali said he had investigated in his department and had not found significant diversions.
"I found this medication in the market myself," Yaftali said, showing a shrink-wrapped package of three vials of morphine, with a bar code and a Hospira-brand label. "This is U.S. medication. This is right now in the open market in Kabul." He said he gave the samples to U.S. advisers several weeks ago and they haven't come back with any information on where it came from.
Speaking to the AP, Yaftali denied the accusations of corruption, saying medicines disappeared before making it to his department and have shown up in pharmacies. He suggested contractors providing the supplies could be to blame, along with U.S. advisers who he said help make the contracts.
It is not clear whether Yaftali was involved in misappropriating medicines or "if it is more on the negligence side," Wardak said. "Once the investigation is finalized, we will know."
Wardak, the defense minister, expressed surprise Yaftali was still in his office. He did say Yaftali,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who has held the surgeon general post for seven years, would likely be reassigned to a new position, but said it was too soon for any talk of a promotion.
But despite those statements, Yaftali's status was unclear. On Tuesday during an AP interview, he said he was still in his post and working from his office. He said he had been informed he would be moving to a new position but that he considered it a promotion and had been told his rank would be raised from a two-star general to a three-star.
The U.S. military official who spoke on anonymity about the quantity of U.S. donations said that he had been told that Karzai had approved an order removing Yaftali from his post.
Wardak told The Associated Press that Yaftali has been removed from his job because of accusations that he neglected his duties to protect Dawood Hospital. He said Yaftali also was under a ministry investigation on a broader accusation of embezzling funds or medicines meant for soldiers, and that this was also part of the reason he was being dismissed.
The U.S. donated $42 million worth of medicines and pharmaceutical supplies in 2010, according to Maj. Richard Zavadil, who oversees medical contracting logistics for U.S. forces training the Afghan army. The medicines are accounted for up to the point they are turned over to Afghan regional supply depots, he said. Zavadil and Geller would not comment on the investigations into Yaftali, the top medical officer in the Afghan military.
Geller said it is "very likely" that the drugs are being sold on the side.
American provisions of medicines for the Afghan army have kept pace with the growth from 70,000 soldiers in 2008 to 147,000 today, said Col. Schuyler Geller, commander of a U.S. medical training advisory group for Afghan forces. But, he said,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses poor tracking once the supplies are given to the Afghan army makes it hard to know where it has all gone.
"If a patient comes here with a high fever we just guess what medicine we should give him," he said.
Rahimi showed off an X-ray machine that cannot be used because its battery is broken and a lab full of modern equipment where his staff cannot do blood tests because of missing chemicals.
"Shortages of medicine are not only a problem in this clinic, but throughout the entire army," he said. In other parts of the country, commanders say soldiers often buy medicine in the local market.
So he rations. A patient who normally should get a course of four drugs gets three instead, or the period of treatment is shortened, Rahimi said. He has set aside a stock of lifesaving drugs for emergencies that he said he sometimes replenishes out of his own pocket.
"We request about 120 different kinds of medicines, but at the end we get something like 30," he said. His clinic hasn't had metronidazole — a key antibiotic for treating gastrointestinal infections — for two months despite repeated requests.
Nasar Ahmad Rahimi, the director of an army clinic in Kabul, said the Afghan army health department delivers far fewer types of medicine and in far smaller quantities than he requests for his clinic, which sees some 200 patients a day.
Expensive equipment also has disappeared, an Afghan army official familiar with the investigation said. In at least one case, diagnostic machines meant for the army have ended up in private clinics in Kabul, said the official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
However, Afghan army units around the country complain of shortages of medicines, Coach outlet including morphine and antibiotics. Officials say patients at Dawood Hospital often go without adequate medicine, don't get their dressings changed and are left unattended by doctors who skip rounds to work at private clinics.
A U.S. military official said that American-supplied medicines, along with additional donated funds, should have been enough for the entire Afghan army. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said any announcement should come from the Afghan government.
Embezzlement of army funds, if proven, would be particularly worrying because the rapidly expanding military is seen as key to the NATO exit strategy. The U.S. is focused on training Afghans so they can take over authority for securing the country in 2014.
The Americans have repeatedly urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to root out government corruption to show that his administration can be a true partner in re-establishing control over the country. However, many anti-corruption campaigns have stalled. And last summer, Karzai blocked an investigation into high-level aides supposedly accepting bribes.
It's unclear just how much has gone missing of the $42 million worth of medical goods the U.S. has donated this year, and whether any Afghan soldiers have died as a result. U.S. officials say they do not account for the supplies after delivering them to the Afghans.
Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak told The Associated Press that Surgeon General Ahmad Zia Yaftali was being removed from his post as part of the inquiry. Three officials from the country's top medical facility, Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul, have been fired, he said.
U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale and the government said it is removing the army's top medical officer from his post as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
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"Today's health department is modern and we have access to everything. This was because of the efforts of Gen. Yaftali. He is a star," said Rahimi, Ray Ban Sunglasses adding that Yaftali helped arrange for him to get his master's degree in Turkey.
But Rahimi, the army clinic director, insisted Yaftali is not to blame, saying he is "doing his best to provide with all these shortages."
"There was a problem that we have identified," he said. "Now the ministry is responsible for delivering."
Wardak said the defense ministry has gotten serious about tracking and punishing misconduct.
Taking issue with Geller, Yaftali insisted that U.S. Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale medical donations had stayed the same or even decreased as the size of the Afghan military grew.
"If we had this kind of leakage from our side, we would know," he said.
Yaftali said he had investigated in his department and had not found significant diversions.
"I found this medication in the market myself," Yaftali said, showing a shrink-wrapped package of three vials of morphine, with a bar code and a Hospira-brand label. "This is U.S. medication. This is right now in the open market in Kabul." He said he gave the samples to U.S. advisers several weeks ago and they haven't come back with any information on where it came from.
Speaking to the AP, Yaftali denied the accusations of corruption, saying medicines disappeared before making it to his department and have shown up in pharmacies. He suggested contractors providing the supplies could be to blame, along with U.S. advisers who he said help make the contracts.
It is not clear whether Yaftali was involved in misappropriating medicines or "if it is more on the negligence side," Wardak said. "Once the investigation is finalized, we will know."
Wardak, the defense minister, expressed surprise Yaftali was still in his office. He did say Yaftali,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who has held the surgeon general post for seven years, would likely be reassigned to a new position, but said it was too soon for any talk of a promotion.
But despite those statements, Yaftali's status was unclear. On Tuesday during an AP interview, he said he was still in his post and working from his office. He said he had been informed he would be moving to a new position but that he considered it a promotion and had been told his rank would be raised from a two-star general to a three-star.
The U.S. military official who spoke on anonymity about the quantity of U.S. donations said that he had been told that Karzai had approved an order removing Yaftali from his post.
Wardak told The Associated Press that Yaftali has been removed from his job because of accusations that he neglected his duties to protect Dawood Hospital. He said Yaftali also was under a ministry investigation on a broader accusation of embezzling funds or medicines meant for soldiers, and that this was also part of the reason he was being dismissed.
The U.S. donated $42 million worth of medicines and pharmaceutical supplies in 2010, according to Maj. Richard Zavadil, who oversees medical contracting logistics for U.S. forces training the Afghan army. The medicines are accounted for up to the point they are turned over to Afghan regional supply depots, he said. Zavadil and Geller would not comment on the investigations into Yaftali, the top medical officer in the Afghan military.
Geller said it is "very likely" that the drugs are being sold on the side.
American provisions of medicines for the Afghan army have kept pace with the growth from 70,000 soldiers in 2008 to 147,000 today, said Col. Schuyler Geller, commander of a U.S. medical training advisory group for Afghan forces. But, he said,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses poor tracking once the supplies are given to the Afghan army makes it hard to know where it has all gone.
"If a patient comes here with a high fever we just guess what medicine we should give him," he said.
Rahimi showed off an X-ray machine that cannot be used because its battery is broken and a lab full of modern equipment where his staff cannot do blood tests because of missing chemicals.
"Shortages of medicine are not only a problem in this clinic, but throughout the entire army," he said. In other parts of the country, commanders say soldiers often buy medicine in the local market.
So he rations. A patient who normally should get a course of four drugs gets three instead, or the period of treatment is shortened, Rahimi said. He has set aside a stock of lifesaving drugs for emergencies that he said he sometimes replenishes out of his own pocket.
"We request about 120 different kinds of medicines, but at the end we get something like 30," he said. His clinic hasn't had metronidazole — a key antibiotic for treating gastrointestinal infections — for two months despite repeated requests.
Nasar Ahmad Rahimi, the director of an army clinic in Kabul, said the Afghan army health department delivers far fewer types of medicine and in far smaller quantities than he requests for his clinic, which sees some 200 patients a day.
Expensive equipment also has disappeared, an Afghan army official familiar with the investigation said. In at least one case, diagnostic machines meant for the army have ended up in private clinics in Kabul, said the official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
However, Afghan army units around the country complain of shortages of medicines, Coach outlet including morphine and antibiotics. Officials say patients at Dawood Hospital often go without adequate medicine, don't get their dressings changed and are left unattended by doctors who skip rounds to work at private clinics.
A U.S. military official said that American-supplied medicines, along with additional donated funds, should have been enough for the entire Afghan army. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said any announcement should come from the Afghan government.
Embezzlement of army funds, if proven, would be particularly worrying because the rapidly expanding military is seen as key to the NATO exit strategy. The U.S. is focused on training Afghans so they can take over authority for securing the country in 2014.
The Americans have repeatedly urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to root out government corruption to show that his administration can be a true partner in re-establishing control over the country. However, many anti-corruption campaigns have stalled. And last summer, Karzai blocked an investigation into high-level aides supposedly accepting bribes.
It's unclear just how much has gone missing of the $42 million worth of medical goods the U.S. has donated this year, and whether any Afghan soldiers have died as a result. U.S. officials say they do not account for the supplies after delivering them to the Afghans.
Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak told The Associated Press that Surgeon General Ahmad Zia Yaftali was being removed from his post as part of the inquiry. Three officials from the country's top medical facility, Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul, have been fired, he said.
U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale and the government said it is removing the army's top medical officer from his post as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
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But Rahimi, the army clinic director, insisted Yaftali is not to blame, saying he is "doing his best to provide with all these shortages."
"There was a problem that we have identified," he said. "Now the ministry is responsible for delivering."
Wardak said the defense ministry has gotten serious about tracking and punishing misconduct.
Taking issue with Geller, Yaftali insisted that U.S. Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale medical donations had stayed the same or even decreased as the size of the Afghan military grew.
"If we had this kind of leakage from our side, we would know," he said.
Yaftali said he had investigated in his department and had not found significant diversions.
"I found this medication in the market myself," Yaftali said, showing a shrink-wrapped package of three vials of morphine, with a bar code and a Hospira-brand label. "This is U.S. medication. This is right now in the open market in Kabul." He said he gave the samples to U.S. advisers several weeks ago and they haven't come back with any information on where it came from.
Speaking to the AP, Yaftali denied the accusations of corruption, saying medicines disappeared before making it to his department and have shown up in pharmacies. He suggested contractors providing the supplies could be to blame, along with U.S. advisers who he said help make the contracts.
It is not clear whether Yaftali was involved in misappropriating medicines or "if it is more on the negligence side," Wardak said. "Once the investigation is finalized, we will know."
Wardak, the defense minister, expressed surprise Yaftali was still in his office. He did say Yaftali,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who has held the surgeon general post for seven years, would likely be reassigned to a new position, but said it was too soon for any talk of a promotion.
But despite those statements, Yaftali's status was unclear. On Tuesday during an AP interview, he said he was still in his post and working from his office. He said he had been informed he would be moving to a new position but that he considered it a promotion and had been told his rank would be raised from a two-star general to a three-star.
The U.S. military official who spoke on anonymity about the quantity of U.S. donations said that he had been told that Karzai had approved an order removing Yaftali from his post.
Wardak told The Associated Press that Yaftali has been removed from his job because of accusations that he neglected his duties to protect Dawood Hospital. He said Yaftali also was under a ministry investigation on a broader accusation of embezzling funds or medicines meant for soldiers, and that this was also part of the reason he was being dismissed.
The U.S. donated $42 million worth of medicines and pharmaceutical supplies in 2010, according to Maj. Richard Zavadil, who oversees medical contracting logistics for U.S. forces training the Afghan army. The medicines are accounted for up to the point they are turned over to Afghan regional supply depots, he said. Zavadil and Geller would not comment on the investigations into Yaftali, the top medical officer in the Afghan military.
Geller said it is "very likely" that the drugs are being sold on the side.
American provisions of medicines for the Afghan army have kept pace with the growth from 70,000 soldiers in 2008 to 147,000 today, said Col. Schuyler Geller, commander of a U.S. medical training advisory group for Afghan forces. But, he said,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses poor tracking once the supplies are given to the Afghan army makes it hard to know where it has all gone.
"If a patient comes here with a high fever we just guess what medicine we should give him," he said.
Rahimi showed off an X-ray machine that cannot be used because its battery is broken and a lab full of modern equipment where his staff cannot do blood tests because of missing chemicals.
"Shortages of medicine are not only a problem in this clinic, but throughout the entire army," he said. In other parts of the country, commanders say soldiers often buy medicine in the local market.
So he rations. A patient who normally should get a course of four drugs gets three instead, or the period of treatment is shortened, Rahimi said. He has set aside a stock of lifesaving drugs for emergencies that he said he sometimes replenishes out of his own pocket.
"We request about 120 different kinds of medicines, but at the end we get something like 30," he said. His clinic hasn't had metronidazole — a key antibiotic for treating gastrointestinal infections — for two months despite repeated requests.
Nasar Ahmad Rahimi, the director of an army clinic in Kabul, said the Afghan army health department delivers far fewer types of medicine and in far smaller quantities than he requests for his clinic, which sees some 200 patients a day.
Expensive equipment also has disappeared, an Afghan army official familiar with the investigation said. In at least one case, diagnostic machines meant for the army have ended up in private clinics in Kabul, said the official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
However, Afghan army units around the country complain of shortages of medicines, Coach outlet including morphine and antibiotics. Officials say patients at Dawood Hospital often go without adequate medicine, don't get their dressings changed and are left unattended by doctors who skip rounds to work at private clinics.
A U.S. military official said that American-supplied medicines, along with additional donated funds, should have been enough for the entire Afghan army. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said any announcement should come from the Afghan government.
Embezzlement of army funds, if proven, would be particularly worrying because the rapidly expanding military is seen as key to the NATO exit strategy. The U.S. is focused on training Afghans so they can take over authority for securing the country in 2014.
The Americans have repeatedly urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to root out government corruption to show that his administration can be a true partner in re-establishing control over the country. However, many anti-corruption campaigns have stalled. And last summer, Karzai blocked an investigation into high-level aides supposedly accepting bribes.
It's unclear just how much has gone missing of the $42 million worth of medical goods the U.S. has donated this year, and whether any Afghan soldiers have died as a result. U.S. officials say they do not account for the supplies after delivering them to the Afghans.
Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak told The Associated Press that Surgeon General Ahmad Zia Yaftali was being removed from his post as part of the inquiry. Three officials from the country's top medical facility, Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul, have been fired, he said.
U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale and the government said it is removing the army's top medical officer from his post as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
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Man who killed Angel pitcher gets 51 years to life
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Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said his office has won 49 convictions for drunk driving homicides since 2008. With the holidays approaching, he urged residents to remember this case as they celebrate.
"I don't think he should be treated like a cold-blooded killer," she said after the hearing. "I don't think he's irredeemable."
Defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman had asked that Gallo be given just one sentence of 15 years to life, Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale saying he never intended to hurt anybody.
Prosecutors said Gallo drank beer and shots at three different bars with his stepbrother before driving off in the family minivan. Jurors saw a videotaped interview in which he told police he didn't remember driving that night and apologized to the victims' families.
"There is no balancing of the scales. There is no justice so long as Mr. Gallo is drawing breath," the letter said.
Adenhart's family sent a letter saying his parents hoped the sentence would bring some peace to their dead son, but justice could never be achieved.
"I am hollow inside. I will never be the same," said Stewart's mother, Carrie Stewart-Dixon. "I pray to God every day to bring her back."
Scores of people attended the hearing, including relatives of the victims who clutched giant,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses smiling photos of their loved ones. They pleaded with Toohey to sentence Gallo to life.
"Enjoy your life in that cage in which you belong, because you are no longer here on Earth," Wilhite said in a letter to Gallo that was read aloud in court. "I can assure you are headed to a much darker place."
Also killed were 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. A fourth passenger, Jon Wilhite had his spine separated from his skull by the impact and survived.
Prosecutors said Gallo, who was on parole for a felony DUI conviction, had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit when he blew through a red light at 65 mph on April 9, 2009,Coach outlet and T-boned the car carrying pitcher Nick Adenhart and three friends.
Judge Richard A. Toohey gave Gallo 15 years to life on each of the murder counts and six additional years for the other crimes.
Gallo was convicted in September of three counts of second-degree murder and single counts of drunken driving,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses hit-and-run driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol and causing great bodily injury.
"You're right. I am a horrible person, a drunk driver who took your beautiful kids away," he said.
"I know whatever I say will not change anything or the way you think or feel about me," said Gallo, who faced the judge because he was not permitted to look at the courtroom audience.
Andrew Gallo, 24, acknowledged his deadly mistake to the grieving relatives of his victims and said he expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars before a judge sentenced him to 51 years to life in prison.
A construction worker Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale who killed a promising rookie pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels and two other people in a horrific drunken driving crash said Wednesday he had all but ended his own life that night by getting behind the wheel after drinking.
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Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said his office has won 49 convictions for drunk driving homicides since 2008. With the holidays approaching, he urged residents to remember this case as they celebrate.
"I don't think he should be treated like a cold-blooded killer," she said after the hearing. "I don't think he's irredeemable."
Defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman had asked that Gallo be given just one sentence of 15 years to life, Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale saying he never intended to hurt anybody.
Prosecutors said Gallo drank beer and shots at three different bars with his stepbrother before driving off in the family minivan. Jurors saw a videotaped interview in which he told police he didn't remember driving that night and apologized to the victims' families.
"There is no balancing of the scales. There is no justice so long as Mr. Gallo is drawing breath," the letter said.
Adenhart's family sent a letter saying his parents hoped the sentence would bring some peace to their dead son, but justice could never be achieved.
"I am hollow inside. I will never be the same," said Stewart's mother, Carrie Stewart-Dixon. "I pray to God every day to bring her back."
Scores of people attended the hearing, including relatives of the victims who clutched giant,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses smiling photos of their loved ones. They pleaded with Toohey to sentence Gallo to life.
"Enjoy your life in that cage in which you belong, because you are no longer here on Earth," Wilhite said in a letter to Gallo that was read aloud in court. "I can assure you are headed to a much darker place."
Also killed were 20-year-old Courtney Stewart and 25-year-old Henry Pearson. A fourth passenger, Jon Wilhite had his spine separated from his skull by the impact and survived.
Prosecutors said Gallo, who was on parole for a felony DUI conviction, had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit when he blew through a red light at 65 mph on April 9, 2009,Coach outlet and T-boned the car carrying pitcher Nick Adenhart and three friends.
Judge Richard A. Toohey gave Gallo 15 years to life on each of the murder counts and six additional years for the other crimes.
Gallo was convicted in September of three counts of second-degree murder and single counts of drunken driving,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses hit-and-run driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol and causing great bodily injury.
"You're right. I am a horrible person, a drunk driver who took your beautiful kids away," he said.
"I know whatever I say will not change anything or the way you think or feel about me," said Gallo, who faced the judge because he was not permitted to look at the courtroom audience.
Andrew Gallo, 24, acknowledged his deadly mistake to the grieving relatives of his victims and said he expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars before a judge sentenced him to 51 years to life in prison.
A construction worker Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale who killed a promising rookie pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels and two other people in a horrific drunken driving crash said Wednesday he had all but ended his own life that night by getting behind the wheel after drinking.
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Jury recommends death for dad, son in bank bombing！
"We are grateful to the men and women who served on the jury for their attention to the facts that led to the decisions they were asked to make during this difficult trial," Brown said.
Oregon State Police Superintendent Chris Brown said in a statement following the verdict that the bombing has forever changed the victims' families and the police forces that employed them.
Since 1962, Ray Ban Sunglasses only two condemned inmates have been executed in Oregon — both were men who gave up their appeals. The state has 34 men on death row, including some who were sentenced more than 20 years ago.
"It's really an attack on every citizen because they're the ones we protect," Russell said after the jury's decision was announced.
Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell, who lost a leg in the explosion,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said it was terrible that the plot ended with the murder of two police officers.
Joshua Turnidge testified that he bought two cell phones and materials used to build the bomb without knowing his father planned to use them to rob a bank. He said he only figured out what happened after hearing his father muttering that no one was supposed to get hurt.
Bruce Turnidge did not take the stand, but family members denied he hated police or held extremist political views.
Witnesses testified that Bruce Turnidge, who grew up in a farming family in the Willamette Valley but could not make a go of farming himself, wanted to live in a tent city with people who shared his political beliefs but couldn't get money to build an arms stockpile for a militia.
The men were convicted after prosecutors argued that the Turnidges had fantasies of building bombs, robbing banks and starting an anti-government militia. They hatched the bank robbery plan because they needed money to keep their struggling biodiesel company afloat, prosecutors said.
The defense also argued that Joshua Turnidge would not be revered in Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses prison but rather reviled as a snitch for testifying against his father.
"No child should be left without a parent," defense attorney Steven Gorham said in his closing argument. "Not the survivors' children, not Joshua Turnidge's children."
Defense attorneys said the men would want to behave well in prison so they could continue seeing visitors. Evelyn Knight, Bruce Turnidge's mother and Joshua's grandmother, testified that a death sentence would be devastating for Joshua's 12-year-old daughter, who is in the custody of her grandparents.
According to testimony, father and son exulted in the Oklahoma City bombing, and Bruce Turnidge viewed Timothy McVeigh as a hero.
Jail Sgt. Megan Gonzalez said Joshua Turnidge drew a swastika over a U.S. flag on a postcard that shows the jail facility and wrote other things including "pigs for sale!" "human rights?" and "gas chamber" on the card before trying to send it. The postcard was deemed a violation of policy.
Jail staff testified that the younger Turnidge made rude, "hateful" and disrespectful comments that resulted in him losing privileges, the Salem Statesman Journal reported.
Prosecutors portrayed Joshua Turnidge, 34, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses as selfish and hostile to jail staff.
Witnesses testified that Bruce Turnidge, 59, had previously hatched detailed plans to kill people he didn't like and once fantasized about killing then-President Bill Clinton. Prosecutor Courtland Geyer told jurors that a death sentence would mean "safety from crimes that lurk inside the mind of Bruce Turnidge."
Prosecutors urged jurors to sentence the men to death to prevent them from endangering prison staff or preaching their hatred for authorities to young prisoners who will someday be released. As convicted cop killers, the Turnidges will be popular in prison, they said.
Both men have maintained their innocence. Father and son turned on each other in trial, each pointing the finger at the other for building and planting the bomb, which prosecutors said was part of a plan to rob the bank.
"This is a murderer with no remorse," prosecutor Matt Kemmy said in his closing argument of the penalty phase Tuesday.
The same jury convicted the men Dec. 8 on 18 counts each of aggravated murder and other charges in the December 2008 bombing at the West Coast Bank in Woodburn, about 30 miles south of Portland. The homemade bomb killed state police bomb technician William Hakim,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale who was trying to dismantle it, and Woodburn Police Capt. Tom Tennant, who was helping.
"It's all in God's hands. We don't know what's going to happen eventually," said Janet Turnidge, who is Bruce Turnidge's wife and Joshua Turnidge's mother. "We want to express our deep, deep sorrow for the loss that the victims' families have endured. We have been praying for them."
Both defendants stood with their lawyers and stared straight forward, showing no emotion as Marion County Circuit Judge Tom Hart read the jury's decisions. Sheriff's deputies handcuffed them and led them away to be jailed until Hart formally sentences them Jan. 24. The judge is bound by the jury's death sentence and cannot impose a lesser penalty. However, Coach outlet because the case involves capital punishment, it automatically will be appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court.
In a trial that spanned three months, prosecutors portrayed Bruce and Joshua Turnidge as bigoted men who hated authorities, were desperate for money and feared that newly elected President Barack Obama would take away their guns.
A jury Wednesday recommended that a father and his son be sentenced to death for planting a bomb that exploded inside an Oregon bank two years ago, killing two police officers and maiming a third.
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Oregon State Police Superintendent Chris Brown said in a statement following the verdict that the bombing has forever changed the victims' families and the police forces that employed them.
Since 1962, Ray Ban Sunglasses only two condemned inmates have been executed in Oregon — both were men who gave up their appeals. The state has 34 men on death row, including some who were sentenced more than 20 years ago.
"It's really an attack on every citizen because they're the ones we protect," Russell said after the jury's decision was announced.
Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell, who lost a leg in the explosion,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said it was terrible that the plot ended with the murder of two police officers.
Joshua Turnidge testified that he bought two cell phones and materials used to build the bomb without knowing his father planned to use them to rob a bank. He said he only figured out what happened after hearing his father muttering that no one was supposed to get hurt.
Bruce Turnidge did not take the stand, but family members denied he hated police or held extremist political views.
Witnesses testified that Bruce Turnidge, who grew up in a farming family in the Willamette Valley but could not make a go of farming himself, wanted to live in a tent city with people who shared his political beliefs but couldn't get money to build an arms stockpile for a militia.
The men were convicted after prosecutors argued that the Turnidges had fantasies of building bombs, robbing banks and starting an anti-government militia. They hatched the bank robbery plan because they needed money to keep their struggling biodiesel company afloat, prosecutors said.
The defense also argued that Joshua Turnidge would not be revered in Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses prison but rather reviled as a snitch for testifying against his father.
"No child should be left without a parent," defense attorney Steven Gorham said in his closing argument. "Not the survivors' children, not Joshua Turnidge's children."
Defense attorneys said the men would want to behave well in prison so they could continue seeing visitors. Evelyn Knight, Bruce Turnidge's mother and Joshua's grandmother, testified that a death sentence would be devastating for Joshua's 12-year-old daughter, who is in the custody of her grandparents.
According to testimony, father and son exulted in the Oklahoma City bombing, and Bruce Turnidge viewed Timothy McVeigh as a hero.
Jail Sgt. Megan Gonzalez said Joshua Turnidge drew a swastika over a U.S. flag on a postcard that shows the jail facility and wrote other things including "pigs for sale!" "human rights?" and "gas chamber" on the card before trying to send it. The postcard was deemed a violation of policy.
Jail staff testified that the younger Turnidge made rude, "hateful" and disrespectful comments that resulted in him losing privileges, the Salem Statesman Journal reported.
Prosecutors portrayed Joshua Turnidge, 34, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses as selfish and hostile to jail staff.
Witnesses testified that Bruce Turnidge, 59, had previously hatched detailed plans to kill people he didn't like and once fantasized about killing then-President Bill Clinton. Prosecutor Courtland Geyer told jurors that a death sentence would mean "safety from crimes that lurk inside the mind of Bruce Turnidge."
Prosecutors urged jurors to sentence the men to death to prevent them from endangering prison staff or preaching their hatred for authorities to young prisoners who will someday be released. As convicted cop killers, the Turnidges will be popular in prison, they said.
Both men have maintained their innocence. Father and son turned on each other in trial, each pointing the finger at the other for building and planting the bomb, which prosecutors said was part of a plan to rob the bank.
"This is a murderer with no remorse," prosecutor Matt Kemmy said in his closing argument of the penalty phase Tuesday.
The same jury convicted the men Dec. 8 on 18 counts each of aggravated murder and other charges in the December 2008 bombing at the West Coast Bank in Woodburn, about 30 miles south of Portland. The homemade bomb killed state police bomb technician William Hakim,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale who was trying to dismantle it, and Woodburn Police Capt. Tom Tennant, who was helping.
"It's all in God's hands. We don't know what's going to happen eventually," said Janet Turnidge, who is Bruce Turnidge's wife and Joshua Turnidge's mother. "We want to express our deep, deep sorrow for the loss that the victims' families have endured. We have been praying for them."
Both defendants stood with their lawyers and stared straight forward, showing no emotion as Marion County Circuit Judge Tom Hart read the jury's decisions. Sheriff's deputies handcuffed them and led them away to be jailed until Hart formally sentences them Jan. 24. The judge is bound by the jury's death sentence and cannot impose a lesser penalty. However, Coach outlet because the case involves capital punishment, it automatically will be appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court.
In a trial that spanned three months, prosecutors portrayed Bruce and Joshua Turnidge as bigoted men who hated authorities, were desperate for money and feared that newly elected President Barack Obama would take away their guns.
A jury Wednesday recommended that a father and his son be sentenced to death for planting a bomb that exploded inside an Oregon bank two years ago, killing two police officers and maiming a third.
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After 25 years, King is giving up his CNN throne！
He has estimated that he's conducted 50,000 interviews during his half-century-long broadcasting career. Maybe so. And maybe he should have stopped a couple thousand earlier. But that doesn't mean King (and his nightly suspenders and the safe space he created for his thousands of guests) Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale won't be missed after Thursday, when he's gone.
The end of "Larry King Live" is undeniably a cultural milestone, the end of a remarkable run. King, the suspenders-sporting everyman, is a pioneer in cable and a TV institution.
After Thursday's show, he's flat-out calling it a day. The points of light that form his dotted world-map backdrop will be dark.
Then in 1997 he moved to Los Angeles, Ray Ban Sunglasses which seemed a nod to show biz over substance — not to mention a more convenient routine for King. A man who once had hosted a nationwide radio program in the wee hours of the night, now he was done with "Larry King Live" at 7 p.m. local time.
At its start, "Larry King Live" was based in Washington, which gave the show an air of gravitas. King, too. He was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show the reputation of a place where things happened, where news was made.
King's famous avoidance of over-preparation — he has always opted to approach each interviewee fresh, unburdened by too many facts — has begun to catch up with him in recent years. His occasional flubs have made him seem out of touch. Or worse. (A prime example from three years ago found King asking Jerry Seinfeld if he had voluntarily left his sitcom or been canceled by his network, which, as everybody else knows, had been ready to hand him the keys to the treasury to stay. "I was the No. 1 show in television, Larry," replied Seinfeld with a flabbergasted look. "Do you know who I am?")
As recently as last week, he landed Wesley Snipes for an interview just days before the actor began serving a three-year Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses prison sentence for failure to file income tax returns. But the ponderous interlude served mostly as a platform for Snipes to complain about his mistreatment at the hands of the media and the judicial system. King was ill-equipped to cut to the heart of the matter: How Snipes could have gotten himself into such a jam.
It has become easy for the viewer to lose patience with King's accommodating, hunched-at-his-desk Q-and-A's with his guests.
Fascinating, until it seems sluggish or toothless or like automatic pilot.
"I ask short questions, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses have no pretense at intellectuality, I don't pretend to know it all," King said years ago in explaining his style. "Not, 'What about Geneva or Cuba?' I ask, 'Mr. President, what don't you like about this job?' Or 'What's the biggest mistake you made?' That's fascinating."
Wide-eyed and nonconfrontational, King's regular-guy approach to interviewing feels dated in an era of edgy, pushy or loaded questioning by other hosts.
Once the leader in cable TV news, he now ranks third in his time slot behind Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. His show was seen by 700,000 viewers this year, less than half the nightly audience his peak year, 1998, when "Larry King Live" drew 1.64 million viewers. As recently as 2003, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale was averaging 1.54 million.
Sure, it would be easy to argue that the 77-year-old King waited too long to hang up those suspenders.
King, who has never been exciting or dangerous (nor tried to be), is clearly seen by CNN as yesterday's news.
The focus is on Piers Morgan, whom CNN named as the new guy in September. It is busily promoting his January debut. Morgan, a 45-year-old British journalist and TV personality known mainly in the U.S. as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," promises that "Piers Morgan Tonight" will be "exciting and slightly dangerous." He is the future — or so CNN hopes.
But until now, it's been an oddly subdued leave-taking. The promotion machine at a network can make noise over most anything. Or try. CNN isn't bothering. Having paid King his tribute last June, before he even said he would be stepping down, CNN now is treating him as a lame-duck star,Coach outlet a chapter the network is rushing to move past.
The lineup for this farewell hour should be stellar, though no names have been announced. The mood should be spirited and flowing with emotion.
After Thursday's edition, King will indeed hang it up, suspenders and all.
Then, at the end of June, King suddenly announced he was retiring from his show —Ray Ban Power Sunglasses a weeknight fixture at 9 p.m. Eastern since June 1, 1985. He told viewers, "It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders."
It was hyped to the hilt and suitably eventful, even as King and Lady Gaga regarded each other with the bemusement of a human encountering an alien life form.
Early last June, CNN celebrated 25 years of "Larry King Live" with a week of shows whose A-list guests included President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Bill Gates and Lady Gaga.
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The end of "Larry King Live" is undeniably a cultural milestone, the end of a remarkable run. King, the suspenders-sporting everyman, is a pioneer in cable and a TV institution.
After Thursday's show, he's flat-out calling it a day. The points of light that form his dotted world-map backdrop will be dark.
Then in 1997 he moved to Los Angeles, Ray Ban Sunglasses which seemed a nod to show biz over substance — not to mention a more convenient routine for King. A man who once had hosted a nationwide radio program in the wee hours of the night, now he was done with "Larry King Live" at 7 p.m. local time.
At its start, "Larry King Live" was based in Washington, which gave the show an air of gravitas. King, too. He was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show the reputation of a place where things happened, where news was made.
King's famous avoidance of over-preparation — he has always opted to approach each interviewee fresh, unburdened by too many facts — has begun to catch up with him in recent years. His occasional flubs have made him seem out of touch. Or worse. (A prime example from three years ago found King asking Jerry Seinfeld if he had voluntarily left his sitcom or been canceled by his network, which, as everybody else knows, had been ready to hand him the keys to the treasury to stay. "I was the No. 1 show in television, Larry," replied Seinfeld with a flabbergasted look. "Do you know who I am?")
As recently as last week, he landed Wesley Snipes for an interview just days before the actor began serving a three-year Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses prison sentence for failure to file income tax returns. But the ponderous interlude served mostly as a platform for Snipes to complain about his mistreatment at the hands of the media and the judicial system. King was ill-equipped to cut to the heart of the matter: How Snipes could have gotten himself into such a jam.
It has become easy for the viewer to lose patience with King's accommodating, hunched-at-his-desk Q-and-A's with his guests.
Fascinating, until it seems sluggish or toothless or like automatic pilot.
"I ask short questions, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses have no pretense at intellectuality, I don't pretend to know it all," King said years ago in explaining his style. "Not, 'What about Geneva or Cuba?' I ask, 'Mr. President, what don't you like about this job?' Or 'What's the biggest mistake you made?' That's fascinating."
Wide-eyed and nonconfrontational, King's regular-guy approach to interviewing feels dated in an era of edgy, pushy or loaded questioning by other hosts.
Once the leader in cable TV news, he now ranks third in his time slot behind Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. His show was seen by 700,000 viewers this year, less than half the nightly audience his peak year, 1998, when "Larry King Live" drew 1.64 million viewers. As recently as 2003, Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale was averaging 1.54 million.
Sure, it would be easy to argue that the 77-year-old King waited too long to hang up those suspenders.
King, who has never been exciting or dangerous (nor tried to be), is clearly seen by CNN as yesterday's news.
The focus is on Piers Morgan, whom CNN named as the new guy in September. It is busily promoting his January debut. Morgan, a 45-year-old British journalist and TV personality known mainly in the U.S. as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent," promises that "Piers Morgan Tonight" will be "exciting and slightly dangerous." He is the future — or so CNN hopes.
But until now, it's been an oddly subdued leave-taking. The promotion machine at a network can make noise over most anything. Or try. CNN isn't bothering. Having paid King his tribute last June, before he even said he would be stepping down, CNN now is treating him as a lame-duck star,Coach outlet a chapter the network is rushing to move past.
The lineup for this farewell hour should be stellar, though no names have been announced. The mood should be spirited and flowing with emotion.
After Thursday's edition, King will indeed hang it up, suspenders and all.
Then, at the end of June, King suddenly announced he was retiring from his show —Ray Ban Power Sunglasses a weeknight fixture at 9 p.m. Eastern since June 1, 1985. He told viewers, "It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders."
It was hyped to the hilt and suitably eventful, even as King and Lady Gaga regarded each other with the bemusement of a human encountering an alien life form.
Early last June, CNN celebrated 25 years of "Larry King Live" with a week of shows whose A-list guests included President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Bill Gates and Lady Gaga.
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Authorities said they have not identified which of the injured victims might be suspects.
A 39-year-old man also suffered a grazing wound to the ankle and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
A 37-year-old man who was wounded in the leg and a 20-year-old man who was shot in the chest were treated and released. They were only associated with the shootout later Tuesday, Curran said, after leaving the strip mall and being dropped off at separate hospitals.
A 28-year old man who was wounded in the shoulder and leg,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses and a 46-year-old man who was shot in the stomach remained hospitalized Wednesday, Curran said.
One man who was arrested early Wednesday as part of the investigation into the shooting was found not directly involved in the shooting. Curran said the man had other outstanding issues.
"We believe there are many people out there who were involved in the shooting and they will be held accountable. We need people withholding information to know that they can come forward," Curran said. "Bottom line: we have a completely innocent victim who was shot."
Curran said Nelson had visited a one-hour photo shop in the shopping center before briefly stopping into the barber shop to say hello to people she knew there. Curran described the barbershop as a "social gathering place" for many people and said Nelson would bring her son there to get his hair cut.
Detectives say they believe Mitchell was involved in the shooting but cannot say whether he was responsible for firing the shots that killed Nelson or Barksdale. He faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and parole violation.
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A number of homicides have occurred in south Sacramento, the site of Tuesday's shooting, but there is no known history of violence at the barber shop, Curran said. Authorities were still investigating the crime Wednesday, and said they had no motive for it.
Curran said the ensuing gunbattle transitioned into the parking lot. Detectives have recovered bullets from four firearms, including one rifle, he told reporters Wednesday. One handgun was recovered but police aren't sure if it was used in the shooting.
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"All about her son. She loved her son dearly," he said. "She was a good mother."
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Nelson's brother, Richard Nelson, told the newspaper his sister was "bubbly,Coach outlet outgoing, always had a smile on her face."
Family members did not immediately return a phone message left Wednesday at their bookstore, where Nelson worked as a supervisor, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Nelson died at the scene, where Metro Fire and sheriff department personnel attempted to entertain her son following the shooting. The child was unharmed and has been reunited with family members, according to authorities.
A second victim, 20-year-old Marvion Barksdale, also died from injuries suffered in the shootout after being taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery for a chest wound, Curran said Wednesday. Five other men were injured in the gunfight. All are expected to survive.
"She was found with her body over the young child," he said. "So we believe she did hear the gunfire."
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A mother loading her 2-year-old son into an SUV used her body to protect the toddler before she was shot and killed in an ensuing midday gunbattle at a Sacramento strip mall, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
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"(Detectives) are getting variations of the same story," Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said.
Curran said two dozen people were playing games in a back room of the shop when the shooting occurred. He said detectives have spoken to about 20 people and they are not cooperating as much as they should for fear of retaliation.
"There were undoubtedly people involved that were gang members. But as far as this being a classic gang shooting ... that's not what this was at all," he said.
Although it's likely gang members were involved,Ray Ban Sunglasses authorities do not believe the shooting was directly related to gang activity, Curran said.
Authorities said they have not identified which of the injured victims might be suspects.
A 39-year-old man also suffered a grazing wound to the ankle and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
A 37-year-old man who was wounded in the leg and a 20-year-old man who was shot in the chest were treated and released. They were only associated with the shootout later Tuesday, Curran said, after leaving the strip mall and being dropped off at separate hospitals.
A 28-year old man who was wounded in the shoulder and leg,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses and a 46-year-old man who was shot in the stomach remained hospitalized Wednesday, Curran said.
One man who was arrested early Wednesday as part of the investigation into the shooting was found not directly involved in the shooting. Curran said the man had other outstanding issues.
"We believe there are many people out there who were involved in the shooting and they will be held accountable. We need people withholding information to know that they can come forward," Curran said. "Bottom line: we have a completely innocent victim who was shot."
Curran said Nelson had visited a one-hour photo shop in the shopping center before briefly stopping into the barber shop to say hello to people she knew there. Curran described the barbershop as a "social gathering place" for many people and said Nelson would bring her son there to get his hair cut.
Detectives say they believe Mitchell was involved in the shooting but cannot say whether he was responsible for firing the shots that killed Nelson or Barksdale. He faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and parole violation.
The sheriff's department identified its first suspect as 24-year-old Lonnie Orlando Mitchell of Sacramento and Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses warned residents to consider him armed and dangerous.
A number of homicides have occurred in south Sacramento, the site of Tuesday's shooting, but there is no known history of violence at the barber shop, Curran said. Authorities were still investigating the crime Wednesday, and said they had no motive for it.
Curran said the ensuing gunbattle transitioned into the parking lot. Detectives have recovered bullets from four firearms, including one rifle, he told reporters Wednesday. One handgun was recovered but police aren't sure if it was used in the shooting.
Detectives believe at least one gunman entered the Fly Cuts & Styles barber shop just before 1 p.m. Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale and began shooting. At least one person inside the shop returned fire.
"All about her son. She loved her son dearly," he said. "She was a good mother."
He said her biggest passion was her son.
Nelson's brother, Richard Nelson, told the newspaper his sister was "bubbly,Coach outlet outgoing, always had a smile on her face."
Family members did not immediately return a phone message left Wednesday at their bookstore, where Nelson worked as a supervisor, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Nelson died at the scene, where Metro Fire and sheriff department personnel attempted to entertain her son following the shooting. The child was unharmed and has been reunited with family members, according to authorities.
A second victim, 20-year-old Marvion Barksdale, also died from injuries suffered in the shootout after being taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery for a chest wound, Curran said Wednesday. Five other men were injured in the gunfight. All are expected to survive.
"She was found with her body over the young child," he said. "So we believe she did hear the gunfire."
Monique Nelson, 30, had just strapped her son into his car seat when she was struck in the chest Tuesday,Ray Ban Noblest Sunglasses and detectives believe she positioned herself to protect her son, Sacramento County Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Curran said.
A mother loading her 2-year-old son into an SUV used her body to protect the toddler before she was shot and killed in an ensuing midday gunbattle at a Sacramento strip mall, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
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One of the deadliest incidents in the region occurred on Oct. 19, 2001, when 374 people died — most of them believed to be asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Iraq — in the sinking of a refugee boat en route from Indonesia to Australia.
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International Organization for Migration spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy said asylum seekers pay $6,000 to $7,000 to people smugglers,Ray Ban Sunglasses only to be told to pay another $1,000 to $1,500 for the last stretch from Indonesia to Australia.
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Richard Towle, regional representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, called the incident "a tragic reminder of the danger faced by people fleeing persecution and human rights violations in their home countries, and the desperate measures they will resort to in search of safety."
Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan said the vessel was a people smuggler's boat.
A temporary morgue has been established and a disaster victim identification team was arriving later Thursday. Most of the injured are being treated in the local hospital, but two women with the most severe injuries have been flown to Perth in mainland Australia for treatment.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service sent doctors to the island to treat 30 injured victims,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses said Joeley Pettit-Scott, the group's spokeswoman.
Resident Michael Foster watched in horror as women and children screamed for help in the churning seas. "They had lifejackets on them, but the water was just pushing them up ... and throwing them towards the rocks," Foster said. "It was a pretty horrible situation."
Prince called police and soon there were dozens of locals standing on the cliff, wondering how they could help despite the storm and crashing waves. He said the boat tossed for an hour before it finally hit the rocks.
"The engine had failed," Prince told the AP. "They were washing backward and forward very close to the cliffs here,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale which are jagged limestone cliffs, very nasty."
Prince, who lives next to the cliff where the boat crashed, said he was awakened early Wednesday by what he thought were cheers. When he walked to the cliff, he realized they were cries for help from a boat just offshore.
Women and children were among the dead, Western Australia state Premier Colin Barnett said.
Bowen said that up to 100 people could have been aboard the vessel, although O'Connor said the exact number is still unknown and a rescue effort would resume at dawn Thursday for any survivors.
"Rescuers will be doing their best over the course of the morning to salvage and rescue any person still in the water and to get any bodies we can get out of the water," Bowen told Sky News.
Rescuers were returning to treacherous seas Thursday to hunt for any possible survivors, Coach outlet though sea conditions were still dangerous as a cyclone hovered northwest of the island.
In Canberra, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said 28 people died and 44 have been rescued. Of those saved, 11 were children.
Some of those aboard were from Iraq, Home Minister Brendan O'Connor said from Christmas Island, which is closer to Indonesia than the Australian mainland.
"It was just horrible," he said. "People getting crushed. Bodies, dead children, Ray Ban Gentlest Sunglasses the whole thing was pretty awful."
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Photos and video from witnesses showed the boat crashing into jagged rocks and breaking apart, as well as people floating in the water amid the wreckage. The boat was about 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters) long, with a cabin covered by a sheet of fabric or plastic.
The deaths off Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory, underscored the dangers faced by hundreds of refugees who have tried to sail from Indonesia to Australia in recent years — often in cramped, barely seaworthy boats — to start new lives after escaping from poor, war-ravaged countries.
Australians on a high cliff watched helplessly Wednesday as a wooden boat smuggling as many as 100 would-be migrants was smashed against the jagged rocks by monstrous waves, dumping screaming men, women and children into the stormy surf. At least 28 people died and 44 were rescued.
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One of the deadliest incidents in the region occurred on Oct. 19, 2001, when 374 people died — most of them believed to be asylum-seekers from Afghanistan and Iraq — in the sinking of a refugee boat en route from Indonesia to Australia.
"Indonesia has been a stepping stone for economic migrants. ... Many become stranded in Indonesia when they run out of money, are cheated by people smugglers, or are intercepted by the Indonesian authorities," Chauzy said.
International Organization for Migration spokesman Jean-Philippe Chauzy said asylum seekers pay $6,000 to $7,000 to people smugglers,Ray Ban Sunglasses only to be told to pay another $1,000 to $1,500 for the last stretch from Indonesia to Australia.
In recent years, many asylum seekers have come from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Myanmar. Generally, they first fly to Indonesia and then continue on to Australia by sea.
Christmas Island is a frequent target of refugee hopefuls, Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who are housed in a detention center there.
Richard Towle, regional representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, called the incident "a tragic reminder of the danger faced by people fleeing persecution and human rights violations in their home countries, and the desperate measures they will resort to in search of safety."
Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan said the vessel was a people smuggler's boat.
A temporary morgue has been established and a disaster victim identification team was arriving later Thursday. Most of the injured are being treated in the local hospital, but two women with the most severe injuries have been flown to Perth in mainland Australia for treatment.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service sent doctors to the island to treat 30 injured victims,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses said Joeley Pettit-Scott, the group's spokeswoman.
Resident Michael Foster watched in horror as women and children screamed for help in the churning seas. "They had lifejackets on them, but the water was just pushing them up ... and throwing them towards the rocks," Foster said. "It was a pretty horrible situation."
Prince called police and soon there were dozens of locals standing on the cliff, wondering how they could help despite the storm and crashing waves. He said the boat tossed for an hour before it finally hit the rocks.
"The engine had failed," Prince told the AP. "They were washing backward and forward very close to the cliffs here,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale which are jagged limestone cliffs, very nasty."
Prince, who lives next to the cliff where the boat crashed, said he was awakened early Wednesday by what he thought were cheers. When he walked to the cliff, he realized they were cries for help from a boat just offshore.
Women and children were among the dead, Western Australia state Premier Colin Barnett said.
Bowen said that up to 100 people could have been aboard the vessel, although O'Connor said the exact number is still unknown and a rescue effort would resume at dawn Thursday for any survivors.
"Rescuers will be doing their best over the course of the morning to salvage and rescue any person still in the water and to get any bodies we can get out of the water," Bowen told Sky News.
Rescuers were returning to treacherous seas Thursday to hunt for any possible survivors, Coach outlet though sea conditions were still dangerous as a cyclone hovered northwest of the island.
In Canberra, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said 28 people died and 44 have been rescued. Of those saved, 11 were children.
Some of those aboard were from Iraq, Home Minister Brendan O'Connor said from Christmas Island, which is closer to Indonesia than the Australian mainland.
"It was just horrible," he said. "People getting crushed. Bodies, dead children, Ray Ban Gentlest Sunglasses the whole thing was pretty awful."
"When the boat hit the cliff, there was a sickening crack. All the people on board rushed to the land side, which is the worst thing they could do, but I don't think anybody could swim," island resident Simon Prince told The Associated Press.
Photos and video from witnesses showed the boat crashing into jagged rocks and breaking apart, as well as people floating in the water amid the wreckage. The boat was about 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters) long, with a cabin covered by a sheet of fabric or plastic.
The deaths off Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory, underscored the dangers faced by hundreds of refugees who have tried to sail from Indonesia to Australia in recent years — often in cramped, barely seaworthy boats — to start new lives after escaping from poor, war-ravaged countries.
Australians on a high cliff watched helplessly Wednesday as a wooden boat smuggling as many as 100 would-be migrants was smashed against the jagged rocks by monstrous waves, dumping screaming men, women and children into the stormy surf. At least 28 people died and 44 were rescued.
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Some Russia experts noted links between nationalist groups and some part of officialdom. Opposition groups claim that pro-Kremlin youth organizations have hired soccer fans and racists to carry out attacks on Kremlin critics.
Hate attacks in Russia peaked in 2008, Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale when 115 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded, according to Sova, an independent watchdog.
On Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev urged police not to hesitate to use force to put down riots, saying that leaving hate crimes unpunished would jeopardize stability.
"They don't respect our traditions," the slogans said in reference to the Caucasus natives. "Now is the time to show them who's in charge. They went too far."
A video in which anti-Caucasus slogans were interlaced with footage of ethnic minorities from southern Russia beating up policemen and Slavic men was posted on the website of the Spartak fan club Wednesday.
Anxieties about what would happen Wednesday were palpable hours before protesters starting gathering. A shopping mall just outside the train station shut down hours ahead of schedule, and most stands at a nearby flower market — Ray Ban Sunglasses operated mostly by people from the Caucasus — were closed. Authorities towed cars in anticipation of possible clashes and helmeted police were on standby on a square and around the mall early in the morning.
Russian media have been abuzz with rumors that some people from the Caucasus could try to take revenge for Saturday's riots, even as community leaders described the allegations as a provocation and called for calm.
Moscow police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev acknowledged Monday that investigators had made a mistake and said three more suspects have been arrested.
The weekend rally began as a protest against the killing of a member of the Spartak Moscow soccer team's fan club,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who was shot with rubber bullets during clashes with Caucasus natives at a bus stop earlier this month. Spartak fans claimed corrupt policemen detained one suspected killer following the fight, but released others because they had powerful backers in the Caucasus.
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Authorities sought to prevent the kind of rioting that took place outside the Kremlin on Saturday, when mainly soccer fans chanted "Russia for Russians!" during clashes in which dozens of people were injured. Many soccer fans are linked with neo-Nazis and other radical racist groups that mushroomed in Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse.
"Police will severely punish any provocations and violence," he said in televised remarks.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no injuries were reported.
"Police will ride them around town and let them go;Ray Ban Fashion Sunglasses they won't find enough place for them in police stations," Alexander Verkhovsky of the Sova center told the Gazeta.ru online daily.
An expert on hate crimes predicted, however, that most of them would be released shortly.
Police declined immediate comment on when those detained would be released or whether they would face charges.
The Kievsky train station, where most of the detentions took place, is popular with street merchants from the Caucasus. The majority of those detained were Slavic Russians, although some ethnic minorities from the Caucasus were also taken into custody.
Despite poverty and instability, the Caucasus region has Russia's highest birth rate, and tens of thousands of young people flee home for central Russia and Siberian oil towns in search of jobs and a better future.
Analysts say it was the Chechen conflict, with atrocities and killings of civilians committed by both Russian federal forces and militant Islamists, that triggered the rise of xenophobia and neo-Nazism in Russia —Coach outlet and the growing resentment of Caucasus natives to ethnic Russians and Moscow's rule.
While ethnic Russians amount to about four-fifths of Russia's population of 142 million, the country is also home to some 180 ethnic groups. The Caucasus region with its mountainous terrain and isolated valleys is home to at least 100 ethnicities including Chechens, who waged two separatist wars against Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Riot police prevented clashes in Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, southern Russian cities with large non-Slavic populations where ethnic clashes have been frequent in recent years, officials said. Dozens of mostly young men have been detained in central Russia and Siberia, Russian news agencies reported.
Police rounded up about 60 protesters in St. Petersburg, where radical groups also planned a gathering Wednesday.
Hundreds of riot police outside the Kievsky station in central Moscow hauled into police vans mostly young men and teenagers who were shouting racist slogans and raising their hands in Nazi salutes. Some were lined up against buses and searched by police. Officers confiscated an arsenal of weapons, including traumatic guns, knives and metal bars, police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said.
Fearing more clashes between racist hooligans and mostly Muslim ethnic minorities, police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and several other Russian cities Wednesday, after weekend rioting in the capital left dozens injured.
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Hate attacks in Russia peaked in 2008, Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale when 115 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded, according to Sova, an independent watchdog.
On Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev urged police not to hesitate to use force to put down riots, saying that leaving hate crimes unpunished would jeopardize stability.
"They don't respect our traditions," the slogans said in reference to the Caucasus natives. "Now is the time to show them who's in charge. They went too far."
A video in which anti-Caucasus slogans were interlaced with footage of ethnic minorities from southern Russia beating up policemen and Slavic men was posted on the website of the Spartak fan club Wednesday.
Anxieties about what would happen Wednesday were palpable hours before protesters starting gathering. A shopping mall just outside the train station shut down hours ahead of schedule, and most stands at a nearby flower market — Ray Ban Sunglasses operated mostly by people from the Caucasus — were closed. Authorities towed cars in anticipation of possible clashes and helmeted police were on standby on a square and around the mall early in the morning.
Russian media have been abuzz with rumors that some people from the Caucasus could try to take revenge for Saturday's riots, even as community leaders described the allegations as a provocation and called for calm.
Moscow police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev acknowledged Monday that investigators had made a mistake and said three more suspects have been arrested.
The weekend rally began as a protest against the killing of a member of the Spartak Moscow soccer team's fan club,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses who was shot with rubber bullets during clashes with Caucasus natives at a bus stop earlier this month. Spartak fans claimed corrupt policemen detained one suspected killer following the fight, but released others because they had powerful backers in the Caucasus.
The violence over the weekend had raised new doubts about the government's ability to control the rising tide of xenophobia, which poses a serious threat to Russia's existence as a multiethnic state. It also embarrassed the Kremlin just days after FIFA awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia, Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses and raised questions about Russia's ability to safely stage international sporting events, including the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Authorities sought to prevent the kind of rioting that took place outside the Kremlin on Saturday, when mainly soccer fans chanted "Russia for Russians!" during clashes in which dozens of people were injured. Many soccer fans are linked with neo-Nazis and other radical racist groups that mushroomed in Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse.
"Police will severely punish any provocations and violence," he said in televised remarks.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no injuries were reported.
"Police will ride them around town and let them go;Ray Ban Fashion Sunglasses they won't find enough place for them in police stations," Alexander Verkhovsky of the Sova center told the Gazeta.ru online daily.
An expert on hate crimes predicted, however, that most of them would be released shortly.
Police declined immediate comment on when those detained would be released or whether they would face charges.
The Kievsky train station, where most of the detentions took place, is popular with street merchants from the Caucasus. The majority of those detained were Slavic Russians, although some ethnic minorities from the Caucasus were also taken into custody.
Despite poverty and instability, the Caucasus region has Russia's highest birth rate, and tens of thousands of young people flee home for central Russia and Siberian oil towns in search of jobs and a better future.
Analysts say it was the Chechen conflict, with atrocities and killings of civilians committed by both Russian federal forces and militant Islamists, that triggered the rise of xenophobia and neo-Nazism in Russia —Coach outlet and the growing resentment of Caucasus natives to ethnic Russians and Moscow's rule.
While ethnic Russians amount to about four-fifths of Russia's population of 142 million, the country is also home to some 180 ethnic groups. The Caucasus region with its mountainous terrain and isolated valleys is home to at least 100 ethnicities including Chechens, who waged two separatist wars against Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Resentment has been rising among Slavic Russians over the growing presence in Moscow and elsewhere of people from the southern Caucasus region, most of them Muslims. People from other parts of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia, Armenia and Azerbaijan,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale also face ethnic discrimination and are frequent victims of hate crimes.
Riot police prevented clashes in Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, southern Russian cities with large non-Slavic populations where ethnic clashes have been frequent in recent years, officials said. Dozens of mostly young men have been detained in central Russia and Siberia, Russian news agencies reported.
Police rounded up about 60 protesters in St. Petersburg, where radical groups also planned a gathering Wednesday.
Hundreds of riot police outside the Kievsky station in central Moscow hauled into police vans mostly young men and teenagers who were shouting racist slogans and raising their hands in Nazi salutes. Some were lined up against buses and searched by police. Officers confiscated an arsenal of weapons, including traumatic guns, knives and metal bars, police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said.
Fearing more clashes between racist hooligans and mostly Muslim ethnic minorities, police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and several other Russian cities Wednesday, after weekend rioting in the capital left dozens injured.
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House votes again to lift restrictions on gay！
The Obama administration, while supporting the repeal, is appealing the ruling of a California federal judge that the ban on gays serving openly in the military is unconstitutional. The administration says Congress should overturn the policy. Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale but gay rights groups say they will shift their focus back to the courts if Congress fails to act.
More than 13,500 service members have been dismissed under the 1993 law.
A major hurdle has been a Republican pledge to block all legislation until the Senate completes work on tax cut and government funding. The Senate on Wednesday passed the compromise on extending tax cuts worked out by the White House and Republicans.
"It is now the Senate's turn to take the final step toward overturning this discriminatory policy," Collins and Lieberman said in a statement. "We are out of excuses."
The House, in introducing the stand-alone bill, sought to avoid the Ray Ban Sunglasses complications of combining it with a general defense bill. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., also promoted a stand-alone bill in the Senate. Supporters say they have the 60 votes for passage if they can get it to the Senate floor.
"It is up to the Senate to consign this failed and discriminatory law to the dustbin of history," Solmonese said.
Joe Solmonese, the president of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said Wednesday's vote means the House has confirmed for the second time what military leaders, most troops and the American public have been saying,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses that "the only thing that matters on the battlefield is the ability to do the job."
The White House, in a statement in support of repeal, stressed that the change would go into effect only after the president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that implementation is consistent with military readiness, recruiting and retention and unit cohesion.
"I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction," Amos said.
The issue also has split the military. Gates and other senior military leaders support lifting the restrictions on gay service, pointing to a recent Pentagon study showing that most people in uniform don't object to serving with gays. But the head of the Marine Corps, Commandant Gen. James Amos,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses repeated his opposition this week, saying that lifting the ban during wartime could cost lives.
Implementation of any new policy should begin "when our singular focus is no longer on combat operations or preparing units for combat," said Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of California, top Republican on the Armed Services Committee.
Many Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, argue that it would be a mistake for the military to undergo a major cultural change while the nation is fighting two wars.
"This vote," said Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., the Iraq war veteran who sponsored the bill, Ray Ban Sunglasses Limited Sale "is about whether we're going to continue telling people willing to die for our freedoms that they need to lie in order to do so."
Gaveling the end of the vote was Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of the House's few openly gay members. Frank, in his floor speech, said it was "bigoted nonsense" that "the presence of someone like me will so destabilize our brave young men and women that they will be unable to do their duty."
"Now is the time for us to act," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, and "close the door on a fundamental unfairness in our nation."
Last May the House voted 234-194 in favor of repeal legislation as part of a larger defense bill. The measure has stalled twice in the Senate, where Republicans have objected to taking up the defense bill laded with contentious issues, including "don't ask, don't tell."
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said in a statement after the House vote that Defense Secretary Robert Gates encourages the Senate to lift the ban and thus enable the Defense Department "to carefully and responsibly manage a change in this policy instead of risking an abrupt change resulting from a decision in the courts."
"Moving forward with the Ray Ban Classic Sunglasses repeal is not only the right thing to do, it will also give our military the clarity and certainty it deserves," Obama said. "We must ensure that Americans who are willing to risk their lives for their country are treated fairly and equally by their country."
President Barack Obama, in a statement Wednesday night, said he applauded the House vote. In reiterating his support for ending the ban,Coach outlet he pointed to backing for repeal from the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
No time has been set for a Senate vote on repealing "don't ask, don't tell." Failure to overturn the policy this year could relegate the issue to the back burner next year when Republicans, who are far less supportive of allowing openly gay individuals to serve in the military, take over the House and gain strength in the Senate.
Democratic leaders in the Senate say they are committed to bringing the bill to the floor before Congress adjourns for the year. But they are challenged by opposition from some Republicans and a daunting agenda that includes finishing work on legislation to fund the government and ratifying a nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
The strong 250-175 House vote Wednesday propels the issue to the Senate, where supporters of repeal say they have the votes but perhaps not the time to get the bill to the floor. It could be the last chance for some time to end the 1993 law that forbids recruiters from asking about sexual orientation and troops from acknowledging that they are gay.
For the second time this year the House voted to dismantle the military's "don't ask,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale don't tell" policy, giving the Senate a final shot in the waning days of this Congress at changing a law requiring thousands of uniformed gays to hide their sexual identity.
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More than 13,500 service members have been dismissed under the 1993 law.
A major hurdle has been a Republican pledge to block all legislation until the Senate completes work on tax cut and government funding. The Senate on Wednesday passed the compromise on extending tax cuts worked out by the White House and Republicans.
"It is now the Senate's turn to take the final step toward overturning this discriminatory policy," Collins and Lieberman said in a statement. "We are out of excuses."
The House, in introducing the stand-alone bill, sought to avoid the Ray Ban Sunglasses complications of combining it with a general defense bill. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., also promoted a stand-alone bill in the Senate. Supporters say they have the 60 votes for passage if they can get it to the Senate floor.
"It is up to the Senate to consign this failed and discriminatory law to the dustbin of history," Solmonese said.
Joe Solmonese, the president of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said Wednesday's vote means the House has confirmed for the second time what military leaders, most troops and the American public have been saying,Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses that "the only thing that matters on the battlefield is the ability to do the job."
The White House, in a statement in support of repeal, stressed that the change would go into effect only after the president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that implementation is consistent with military readiness, recruiting and retention and unit cohesion.
"I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction," Amos said.
The issue also has split the military. Gates and other senior military leaders support lifting the restrictions on gay service, pointing to a recent Pentagon study showing that most people in uniform don't object to serving with gays. But the head of the Marine Corps, Commandant Gen. James Amos,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses repeated his opposition this week, saying that lifting the ban during wartime could cost lives.
Implementation of any new policy should begin "when our singular focus is no longer on combat operations or preparing units for combat," said Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of California, top Republican on the Armed Services Committee.
Many Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, argue that it would be a mistake for the military to undergo a major cultural change while the nation is fighting two wars.
"This vote," said Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., the Iraq war veteran who sponsored the bill, Ray Ban Sunglasses Limited Sale "is about whether we're going to continue telling people willing to die for our freedoms that they need to lie in order to do so."
Gaveling the end of the vote was Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of the House's few openly gay members. Frank, in his floor speech, said it was "bigoted nonsense" that "the presence of someone like me will so destabilize our brave young men and women that they will be unable to do their duty."
"Now is the time for us to act," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, and "close the door on a fundamental unfairness in our nation."
Last May the House voted 234-194 in favor of repeal legislation as part of a larger defense bill. The measure has stalled twice in the Senate, where Republicans have objected to taking up the defense bill laded with contentious issues, including "don't ask, don't tell."
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said in a statement after the House vote that Defense Secretary Robert Gates encourages the Senate to lift the ban and thus enable the Defense Department "to carefully and responsibly manage a change in this policy instead of risking an abrupt change resulting from a decision in the courts."
"Moving forward with the Ray Ban Classic Sunglasses repeal is not only the right thing to do, it will also give our military the clarity and certainty it deserves," Obama said. "We must ensure that Americans who are willing to risk their lives for their country are treated fairly and equally by their country."
President Barack Obama, in a statement Wednesday night, said he applauded the House vote. In reiterating his support for ending the ban,Coach outlet he pointed to backing for repeal from the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
No time has been set for a Senate vote on repealing "don't ask, don't tell." Failure to overturn the policy this year could relegate the issue to the back burner next year when Republicans, who are far less supportive of allowing openly gay individuals to serve in the military, take over the House and gain strength in the Senate.
Democratic leaders in the Senate say they are committed to bringing the bill to the floor before Congress adjourns for the year. But they are challenged by opposition from some Republicans and a daunting agenda that includes finishing work on legislation to fund the government and ratifying a nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
The strong 250-175 House vote Wednesday propels the issue to the Senate, where supporters of repeal say they have the votes but perhaps not the time to get the bill to the floor. It could be the last chance for some time to end the 1993 law that forbids recruiters from asking about sexual orientation and troops from acknowledging that they are gay.
For the second time this year the House voted to dismantle the military's "don't ask,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale don't tell" policy, giving the Senate a final shot in the waning days of this Congress at changing a law requiring thousands of uniformed gays to hide their sexual identity.
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Embalmed head of France's King Henri IV found！
"It will be a beautiful ceremony," he told Reuters.
Jacques Perot, director of the Societe Henri IV in France,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said the head will be buried next year in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
He was assassinated in Paris at the age of 57 by Catholic fanatic Francois Ravaillac.
In 1598, nine years after ascending the throne, he enacted the Edict of Nantes which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants and brought to a close over 30 years of fighting between French Protestants and Catholics.
Henri IV was one of the most popular French kings, known as "the good King Henry" and as "the green gallant," because of his attractiveness to women.
In addition, a digital facial reconstruction of the skull was fully consistent with all known representations of the king and the plaster mold of his face made just after his death.
Radiocarbon dating also gave a date of between 1450 and 1650, Ray Ban Sunglasses"nicely bracketing the year of his death," the report said.
Charlier said three "cutting wounds" were also visible, corresponding to the separation of the head from the body by a revolutionary in 1793.
Head hairs and remnants of a mustache and beard, colored red and white, Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses on the mummified head fit with the known characteristics of the king's hair at the time of his death. Many features matched those in portraits of the king, the team said.
The king is known to have sported an earring, along with others from the Valois court.
Charlier said features consistent with those of the king's face were found including "a dark mushroom-like lesion" near the right nostril,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses a healed facial stab wound and a pierced right earlobe.
The multi-disciplinary team, led by forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier, announced the discovery in the British Medical Journal.
But a team of experts using advanced scientific techniques say they have conclusively identified the head,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale passed down over the centuries by private collectors, as that of the monarch.
Few remains of those bodies have ever been found and positively identified since.
The head was Ray Ban Gentlest Sunglasses apparently lost after revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris in 1793.
A team of scientists say they have positively identified an embalmed head,Coach outlet presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France who was assassinated in 1610.
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Jacques Perot, director of the Societe Henri IV in France,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said the head will be buried next year in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
He was assassinated in Paris at the age of 57 by Catholic fanatic Francois Ravaillac.
In 1598, nine years after ascending the throne, he enacted the Edict of Nantes which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants and brought to a close over 30 years of fighting between French Protestants and Catholics.
Henri IV was one of the most popular French kings, known as "the good King Henry" and as "the green gallant," because of his attractiveness to women.
In addition, a digital facial reconstruction of the skull was fully consistent with all known representations of the king and the plaster mold of his face made just after his death.
Radiocarbon dating also gave a date of between 1450 and 1650, Ray Ban Sunglasses"nicely bracketing the year of his death," the report said.
Charlier said three "cutting wounds" were also visible, corresponding to the separation of the head from the body by a revolutionary in 1793.
Head hairs and remnants of a mustache and beard, colored red and white, Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses on the mummified head fit with the known characteristics of the king's hair at the time of his death. Many features matched those in portraits of the king, the team said.
The king is known to have sported an earring, along with others from the Valois court.
Charlier said features consistent with those of the king's face were found including "a dark mushroom-like lesion" near the right nostril,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses a healed facial stab wound and a pierced right earlobe.
The multi-disciplinary team, led by forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier, announced the discovery in the British Medical Journal.
But a team of experts using advanced scientific techniques say they have conclusively identified the head,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale passed down over the centuries by private collectors, as that of the monarch.
Few remains of those bodies have ever been found and positively identified since.
The head was Ray Ban Gentlest Sunglasses apparently lost after revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris in 1793.
A team of scientists say they have positively identified an embalmed head,Coach outlet presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France who was assassinated in 1610.
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