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Suspected Canadian terrorists
thwarted in beheading attempt
NATHAN DENETTE | Associated Press
A Cheryfa Macaulay Jamal, wife of terror suspect Qayyum Abdul Jamal, arrives at a
Brampton, Ontario, Canada, courthouse Tuesday. A total of 17 people were arrested
Friday, accused of plotting to stage a massive terrorist attack in southern Ontario.
UGA TODAY
Thursday, June 8
First day of classes for
summer thru term and
short session I.
> CPR Healthcare
Provider Class. Sponsored
by the University Health
Center. Cost: $45. Contact:
706-542-8695.
>- Drop/add for summer
thru term and short ses
sion I. Drop/add closes at
noon, June 14.
Friday, June 9
>- Opening Reception:
Magic Carpet Ride.
6:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of
Art, Carlton Street. Reception
in honor of the opening of the
summer exhibitions.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Museum of Art. Contact: 706-
542-0830.
>- Public Policy Institute
and National Issues
Forum. 9 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Through June 10. Jimmy
Carter Library, Atlanta.
Sponsored by the University
of Georgia and Albany State
University. Requires advanced
registration. Cost: $25/day for
students, $35/day for non-stu
dents. Contact: 706-542-
0530, pkleiber@uga.edu
Saturday, June 10
>- Hang Gliding Trip.
7:45 a.m. Lookout Mountain,
Tenn. Through June 11.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Outdoor Recreation Program.
Contact: 706-542-5060, dwa-
ters@uga.edu. Web site:
www.recsports.uga.edu/out-
door
Tuesday, June 13
>- Bulldog Breakfast Club.
7:45 a.m. Wray-Nicholson
House. Sponsored by the
UGA Alumni Association.
Host: Dr. Michelle Garfield.
Cost: $10 members, $5 non
members. Contact: 706-542-
8199, wdarden@uga.edu
> Sunflower Music
Series. 7 p.m. International
Garden. Sponsored by the
Friends of the Garden. In
case of rain, concerts will be
held in the Visitor Center.
Cost: Members $10, non
members $15, children ages
6-12 $5. Contact: 706-542-
6014, sbgevent@uga.edu
Wednesday, June 14
>- Open Studio: Life
Drawing. 5:40 p.m.
- 8:30 p.m. Ed and Phoebe
Forio Studio Classroom.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Museum of Art. No instruction
offered. Cost: $3. Contact:
542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
> Foreign Film Series:
Gabbeh. 7 p.m. Georgia
Museum of Art. Sponsored by
the Georgia Museum of Art.
Contact: 706-542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
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BRAMPTON, Ontario —
Spectators and family mem
bers of some of the 17 Muslim
men accused of plotting ter
ror attacks in Canada were
stunned Tuesday when they
heard allegations of plans to
storm Parliament, take
hostages and behead the
prime minister.
The details of the charges
— notably the purported plot
to take political leaders
hostage and behead them if
Muslim prisoners were not
freed in Afghanistan — added
a chilling dimension to a case
that has led U.S. authorities
to toughen security along the
border and was unsettled
Canada’s large Muslim com
munity.
Police say they expect
more arrests, and intelligence
officers are probing whether
12 adults and five juveniles
arrested over the weekend
had any ties to Islamic terror
cells in the United States and
five nations in Europe and
Asia.
The Ontario Court of
Justice in Brampton, a small
city just west of Toronto, had
said earlier that the suspects
faced charges that included
participating in a terrorist
group, importing weapons
and planning a bombing. The
specific details were made
public Tuesday.
“They stepped in decisive
ly and I think helped defuse a
very dangerous situation. No
country is immune to terror
ism and we frankly applaud
their swift, decisive, heroic
WASHINGTON — The
Senate on Wednesday reject
ed a constitutional amend
ment to ban gay marriage,
dealing a defeat to President
Bush and Republicans who
hoped to use the measure to
energize conservative voters
on Election Day.
Supporters had predicted
they would gain votes this
year over the last time the
issue came up, in 2004, but
actually lost one vote for the
amendment in a procedural
test tally.
“I do not believe the spon
sors are going to fall back and
cry about it,” said Sen. Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah. “I think they
are going to keep bringing it
up.”
The defeat came despite
daily appeals for passage
from Bush, whose standing is
troubled by sagging poll num
bers and a dissatisfied con
servative base.
The amendment would
prohibit states from recogniz
ing same-sex marriages. To
become law, it would need
two-thirds support in the
Senate and House, and then
would have to be ratified by
at least 38 state legislatures.
Release of prisoners
eases Sunni tension
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki
released nearly 600 detainees
Wednesday, making good on a
pledge intended to ease feud
ing between Sunni Arabs and
Shiites.
The detainees were the
efforts,” U.S. Ambassador
David Wilkins said in
Montreal.
The U.S. Border Patrol,
meanwhile, put agents on
high alert along the 4,000-mile
border and stepped up
inspections of traffic from
Canada.
first of 2,000 prisoners whom
al-Maliki promised would be
freed from Iraq’s most notori
ous prisons in an effort to
ease anger among minority
Sunnis over allegations of
arbitrary detentions and mis
treatment of prisoners.
The government said 2,000
detainees will be released in
the coming days in batches of
about 500. The first 594 were
released Wednesday from
U.S.- and Iraqi-run prisons
around Iraq, including Abu
Ghraib.
Court to rule on
affirmative action
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court agreed
Monday to decide whether
skin color can be considered
in assigning children to public
schools, reopening the issue
Police say there is no evi
dence the suspect group had
ties to al-Qaida, but describe
its members as sympathetic
to al-Qaida’s violent jihadist
ideology. Officials are con
cerned that many of the 17
suspects are about 20 years
old and became radicalized in
of affirmative action.
The announcement puts a
contentious social topic on
the national landscape in an
election year and tests the
conservatism of President
Bush’s two new justices.
The outcome could mark a
new chapter for a court that
famously banned racial segre
gation in public schools in
Brown v. Board of Education
in 1954.
The court’s new interest is
in public schools, far more
sweeping than universities.
The justices will hear
appeals this fall from a
Seattle parents group and a
Kentucky mom, who argue
that race factors improperly
penalize white students.
Doug Kmiec, a Pepperdine
University law professor and
former Reagan administra
tion lawyer, said the case will
affect students everywhere.
a short amount of time.
Officials announced the
arrests Saturday, saying the
sweep was ordered after the
group acquired three tons of
ammonium nitrate, which can
be mixed with fuel oil to make
a powerful explosive.
—Associated Press
“This is not quite at the level
of Brown v. Board, but it will
be argued in the style of that
case,” Kmiec said.
At its heart, the court will
consider whether school lead
ers can promote racial diver
sity without violating the
Constitution’s guarantee
against discrimination.
Arrest made for
Clemson killing
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — A
sex offender described by
family members and authori
ties as an itinerant construc
tion worker was arrested
Tuesday night in connection
with the rape, kidnapping
and killing of a Clemson
University student.
Jerry Buck Inman, 35, was
taken into custody without
incident after sheriff’s
deputies spotted his car driv
ing past his parents’ home in
Dandridge, about 30 miles
east of Knoxville, Jefferson
County Sheriff David
Davenport said. Inman’s
DNA matched samples taken
from Tiffany Marie Souers’
off-campus apartment, South
Carolina State Law
Enforcement Division Chief
Robert Stewart said.
Souers, a 20-year-old civil
engineering junior from
Ladue, Mo., was wearing only
a bra when she was found on
her bedroom floor a few miles
from campus on May 26. The
bikini top was still around her
neck and her wrists and
ankles were bound.
—Associated Press
Doomed
cow tries
to escape
TOKYO — A cow being-
delivered to a Japanese
slaughterhouse tried to
bolt to freedom Sunday,
leading nearly two dozen
police on a 3.7-mile car
chase through town and
sending one man to the
hospital unconscious.
Security camera
footage of the wild escape
showed the frenzied 1,606-
pound animal zigzagging
across a parking lot and
then darting down a
street, hotly pursued by a
stream of patrol cars.
“The cow was being
delivered to the slaughter
house, and it was startled
by a loud sound and just
ran off,” said a police offi
cial in the central town of
Yakkaichi, where the inci
dent took place.
The 3-year-old cow
eventually crashed head
first into a metal fence, fell
down and died, but not
before attacking a render
ing plant worker who was
trying to recapture the
animal, Kitabayashi said.
The chase occurred at
6:50 a.m., and the 56-year-
old worker was still uncon
scious in the hospital by
late afternoon.
Slaughterhouse work
ers took the cow’s body
away.
“I don’t know whether
it will be processed into
meat or not,” Kitabayashi
said.
Baseball hits
rogue seagull
BUFFALO, N.Y. —
Seagulls shouldn’t fly
between Bisons and Bulls.
One of the birds had the
misfortune to learn that
during Sunday’s Triple-A
game between the Buffalo
Bisons and the Durham
Bulls. The seagull was
struck by a pitch, carried
off the field by a player and
later flew away.
The Bisons were bat
ting in the bottom of the
11th inning when the seag
ull flew between the
mound and home plate
just as Durham reliever
Jason Childers released
the ball.
The ball knocked the
seagull to the ground.
Ramon Vazquez swung
and missed, with the ball
getting away from the
catcher. Since it was a
third strike, Vazquez ran
to first and was thrown
out.
Umpires conferred on
the bizarre happenings
and ruled play should have
stopped as soon as the
bird was hit. The bird
beaning was captured on
videotape by the stadium’s
camera crew during the
Bisons’ 3-2 loss in 16
innings.
In 1983, Dave Winfield,
then with the New York
Yankees, threw a ball that
hit a seagull at Exhibition
Stadium in Toronto.
Winfield was charged with
cruelty to animals, a
charge that was dropped
the next day.
—Associated Press
Senate rejects gay marriage amendment
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS | Associated Press
A Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., center, accompanied by fel
low Republican senators, speaks during a news conference
Wednesday to discuss the gay marriage amendment.
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