Archive for February 4th, 2010

Missionary Stumbles on Road to Haiti – Wall Street Journal

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Missionary Stumbles on Road to Haiti
Wall Street Journal
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from ...
Lawyer: Missionary leader to blame for kidnap caseWashington Post

Haiti's Baby Lift: Save the Children, Don't Just Take ThemTIME
Haiti charges US missionaries with child kidnappingXinhua
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North Korea to free ‘repentant’ US missionary (AFP)

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US detainee Robert Park during an interview by KCNA in Pyongyang. North Korea has announced it will release the US missionary who crossed into North Korea last Christmas Day on a lone campaign to publicise human rights abuses.(AFP/KCNA via KNS)AFP - North Korea announced Friday it would release a US missionary who entered the communist country on Christmas Day to urge leader Kim Jong-Il to resign for human rights abuses.


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American 10 face jail in Haiti after kidnapping charge (AFP)

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Laura Silsby, the head of a group of Christian missionaries from the US climbs into a police van. Ten US missionaries were charged with child abduction and conspiracy and may face a long wait behind bars for trial after seeking to smuggle 33 children out of quake-hit Haiti.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)AFP - Ten American Christians charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy faced lengthy jail times in a Haitian prison Friday after trying to take 33 children out of the country.


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Obama’s aunt makes case to stay in the US – Boston Globe

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Obama's aunt makes case to stay in the US
Boston Globe
Zeituni Onyango fears her life will be endangered if she is forced to return to Kenya, her attorney said outside a hearing yesterday that ended without a decision. “She's arguing she could be a target of tribal violence,'' said ...
Judge delays ruling on Obama's aunt's asylum requestCNN International

White House Claims No Involvement With Onyango, HearingABC News
Obama not involved in deportation hearing of auntUSA Today
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US missionaries face long Haiti jail terms (AFP)

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Laura Silsby, the head of a group of Christian missionaries from the US climbs into a police van. Ten US missionaries were charged with child abduction and conspiracy and may face a long wait behind bars for trial after seeking to smuggle 33 children out of quake-hit Haiti.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)AFP - Ten US missionaries charged with child abduction and conspiracy faced Friday a long wait behind bars for trial over seeking to smuggle 33 children out of quake-hit Haiti.


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Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric (AP)

Posted by Yahoo in Politics on February 4, 2010

This Dec. 2009 photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 on charges accusing him of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by trying to use a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service)AP - The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday.


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