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www.teones8ean.com THE TENNESSEAN Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3A WORLD i Hr Brad About You -1 if)KS: sw. Who guitarist Townshend arrested in child porn case The Who in the early 1960s, said he believed he was "sexually abused between the age of five and six and a half." "I cannot remember clearly what happened, but my creative work tends to throw up nasty shadows particularly in Tommy. By ED JOHNSON Associated Press LONDON Pete Townshend, the legendary rock guitarist and co-founder of The Who, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, police said. Townshend has acknowledged using an Internet Web site advertising child pornography but has said he is not a pedophile and was only doing research for an autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood sexual abuse. Police said they arrested Townshend, 57, under the Protection of Children Act after executing two searches at a business and a home in Richmond, Surrey, the town outside London where he lives.

They said they took computers from the home and were examining them Townshend was not charged with a crime. Under British law, suspects are not charged immediately upon arrest and some people who are arrested are eventually released without charge. Townshend was being held at a southwest London police statioa In a statement Saturday, Townshend said that on one occasion he used a credit card to download pornographic images as part of his research and that he reported what he saw to police. Townshend, who helped form of an FBI-led operation, which traced 250,000 suspected pedophiles around the world through credit card details they used to pay for downloading child pornography. The names of British suspects were passed on to London police by U.S.

investigators. Townshend's friend, model Jerry Hall, said Sunday he was an "avid supporter" of child welfare groups and had spoken at length about the dangers of child pornography on the Internet Roger Daltrey, Townshend's bandmate from The Who, said: "My gut instinct is that he is not a pedophile, and I know him better than most." But Internet watchdogs have dismissed Townshend's explanation for entering an Internet site dealing with child pornography. Mark Stephens, a lawyer and vice chairman of the Internet Watch Foundation, said: "It is wrong-headed, misguided and illegal to look at or download or even to pay to download pedophiliac material, and if you do so, you are likely to go to prisoa" The Who, founded in London in the early 1960s, was part of the British rock invasion along with the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Their parade of hits included Can See For Miles, Pinball Wizard and Wont Get Fooled Again. borne of the things I have seen on the Internet have informed my book, which I hope will I I 1 1....

uc (juuu-Mieu later this year," he added. Townshend The title character in Town-shend's rock opera Tommy a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard is sexually abused by an uncle. Earlier yesterday, a group of police officers arrived at Town-shend's Richmond home, one carrying a plastic crate containing packaging to store potential evidence. His lawyer, John Cohen, told reporters the meeting with police was by "mutual agreement." The arrest came as part of Operation Ore, a crackdown on people who view child pornography on the Internet British police have arrested L300 suspects as part of the sweep. Operation Ore is the British arm W0 2 Palestinians killed after attacking bus JERUSALEM Two Palestinians threw grenades yesterday at an Israeli bus in the Gaza Strip and were shot dead by Israeli troops, and an Islamic Jihad activist was killed in an explosion in the West Bank in the latest incidents in escalating violence two weeks before Israel's electioa In the Gaza incident, the two attackers charged the bus as it left the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, a senior army officer said.

Troops opened fire, killing the assailants. A pistol and six more grenades were found on the bodies, said the officer, who gave only his first name, YoeL The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. In a valley near Nablus, Islamic Jihad fugitive Raami Abu Bakr was killed and another activist, Fuad Ahmed, was wounded in an explo-sioa Ahmed said they were hit by an Israeli missile, but he could not say where it came from. The Israeli military said the two were trying to fire a shoulder-mounted missile at an army fuel tanker, but it blew up. More arrested in poison case LONDON Four Algerians accused of plotting attacks that would use the lethal toxin ricin were formally charged with terror and chemical weapons offenses in a London court yesterday, and antiterror police officers arrested six more people in the English Channel city of Bournemouth, Scotland Yard said.

The police would not comment on whether the five men and a woman, who were arrested Sunday night, were connected to the ricin case. But they said a search of two premises in the area where the arrests took place had not turned up any chemical material. They were charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000, which pertains to people suspected of "possessing articles of value to a terrorist" The Algerians who were arrested last week were formally charged yesterday in Bow Street Magistrates Court with being "concerned in the development or production of a chemical weapon" and having materials "connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism." Strikers may change tactics CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan opposition leaders said yesterday they were considering asking doctors, teachers and small business owners to return to work, saying aspects of the 43-day-old walkout could become "counterproductive." But the strike will continue where it matters most, in the key oil industry, said Enrique Naime, a leader of the opposition political movement Democratic Coordinator. The industry provides half of government revenue and 80 of export earnings. The opposition is worried that suffering caused by the strike could lead to a popular backlash, even though it says it has taken measures to ensure there are no acute shortages of essential goods.

Most private schools and some public schools have been closed since the strike began Dec 2. Hospital workers supporting the strike are only attending emergencies. Many small businesses complain they can't sustain losses much longer. Gasoline and bank lines are long; gas shortages have disrupted commerce. TENNESSEAN NEWS SERVICES 1 yy i ir'iliv! 1 I I BradSchmitt you've taken in your life, and I'm looking for light and fun, not, "My dog died, and the biggest emotional gamble I ever took was to get a new dog, and it worked out great 'cause Barfi just loves to lick my face and make me smile." Here's a good example of what I'm looking for, from Steve Sloan of Hartsville: "Brad, one of the biggest gambles I have ever had was investing in the stock market about three years ago.

Now you know why I need to win the free tickets." Excellent! Send me your entries five sentences or less by noon Thursday, and please include your full name, town and daytime phone number. Did you think you could drive Dad's SUV up that steep hill without flipping? Did you eat that chili dog before you went on your first date with the high school cheerleading captain? You get the idea. The winner gets a great pair of tix to Kenny's concert at the Ryman, which has been switched from Sunday night to 730 March 20. (Even Kenny doesn't want to compete against the Titans' appearance in the AFC Championship game.) The winner also gets a brief meeting with Kenny Rogers and an autographed Hatch Show Print poster. Enter today! Can guys really survive without the women? Sure, everyone's making a big stink over Survivor casting its first deaf player.

Said player will be Christy Smith, 24, a children's adventure guide for the Aspen Camp School for the Deaf. But even more interesting Survivor. Amazon will for the first time in Survivor history have competing tribes split by gender. Will the women all claw each other to death in the first episode? Will the men spend the entire month hunting for ESPN and a couch? Find out the answer to all these pressing questions when Survivor comes back on CBS next month. Morsels Did you catch Jennifer Aniston Friends) using a cane while hobbling onto the stage Sunday night to accept her People's Choice award for best TV actress? Her daddy told reporters later that she broke her foot when she stubbed it on a piece of furniture.

(Doesn't that sound more Phoebe than Rachel?) Tortured rock chick Tori Amos plays the Ryman at 730 p.m. Feb. 23. Tix go on sale at 10 am Saturday through Ticket-master or Ryman outlets. They'll cost ya $42.50 for "gold circle" seats or $29.50 for the rest of the house.

Reminder Collin Raye is the headliner for a show at 730 tomorrow night at The Factory in Franklin. Collin, Sherrie Austin and Jeff Carson (The Car) will play the fund-raiser for Outlook Nashville, which helps adults and kids with developmental disabilities. Call 834-7570 to get $25 tix or the special $50 tix that get you into the pre-party with the stars and with Titans pass rusher Jevon "The Freak" Kearse. Gimme. Here's how: phone, 259-8073; fax, 259-8057; e-mail bradtennessean.com; address, 1100 Broadway, Nashville, Term.

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Click on celebrities. Do you think Jack needs speech help? Did you catch The Osboumes on the American Music Awards last night? I simply must know what you thought Please stop everything RIGHT NOW and e-mail me at bradtennessean.com. Naomi Judd recently ran into Ozzie Osboume son, Jack, when both were judges on one of last week's Star Search episodes. Naomi's thought: "I didn't have any contact with Jack Osboume, but I raised (famous daughters) Wy and Ashley to think that words are manifestations of our thoughts. So words are the N.

JUDO J. Osboume clothes, if you will, that our thoughts wear. And the kid needs a new wardrobe." Deep. "But," Naomi added, "I like the fact that he supports his mom through illness." Please e-mail me your thoughts of The Osboumes on the AMAs, and please include your full name and town so I can reprint some of your thoughts in tomorrow's column. Elizabeth Cook looks into other label options From Tennessean music writer Peter Cooper She's on CMT, she's on the Grand 0e Qpry, and lately she's been on Don iinus' show on MSNBC, but singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook is not on Warner Bros.

Records any more. "Due to different priorities at the label, Elizabeth Cook asked to be released from her contract at Warner Bros," COOK Elizabeth's manager, Bill Mayne, said. "The parting was amicable, and she is currently pursuing other label options." Released in late summer, Elizabeth's Hey Tall album was praised by critics. But the initial single, Stupid Things, never made it into heavy country radio rotation (either because the label didn't push or because radio didn't pull). Though sales and airplay didn't match expectations, Warner Bros, brass thought Elizabeth's substantial media exposure could lead to a successful second album.

"She asked to be released, they asked her not to go and (Warner Bros, boss) Jim Ed Norman was gracious enough to let her go forward," Mayne said. Mayne's take on the situation was corroborated by Warner Bros, senior VP of publicity, Jules Wortman. "That's exactly what happened," Jules said. Ouch! Steve takes big gamble and loses More than 100 of you have entered my Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" contest, and Yd like to encourage you, dear readers, to have more fun with this. I've asked you to tell me about the biggest gamble CBS commentator Andy Rooney, 84.

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, 63. Actress Faye Dunaway, 62. Today is Tuesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2003. There are 351 days left in the year.

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