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WORLD 4B RI NO GAZETTE-JOURNAL RCiJ COM TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009 Emanuel Joseph J. LEBANON Obituaries PdHi Altai rtiwnwnl CECCARELLI NONEO 71 Explosion kills Fatah leader ip Jl IW'fiW' Palestinian men carry a dead body away from a burning car near the site of explosion where a senior Fatah official were killed outside the Mieh Mieh refugee camp near Sidon, Lebanon on Monday. crater, the officials said, was thrown off the road into speaking on condition of a valley, anonymity because they Madhat, 55, was visiting were not to talk the Mieh Mieh camp to of- to the media. The vehicle fer condolences to families of BY HUSSKIN DARKOIB ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT An explosion in southern Lebanon on Monday killed a senior Fatah official and three of his bodyguards as they were leaving a Palestinian refugee camp. The blast, apparently from a roadside bomb, struck a two-car convoy carrying Fa-tah's Kamal Madhat as they left the Mieh Mieh camp near the southern port city of Sidon, killing Madhat and the bodyguards, Lebanese and Palestinian security officials said.

A fourth bodyguard was wounded. Madhat's car was completely gutted in the explosion that left a 16-foot-wide 1 MEXICO Emanuel Nonco was bom to Frank Nonco and Emma Abraham Noneo, August 20, 1926 in Nixon, Nevada. Emanuel passed away on March 17, 2009 at the Veteran's Hospital in Reno, Nevada. Emanuel was a Veteran of the Korean War from January 22, 1945 to February 22, 1947. Surviving are his daughter, Linda Noneo; five grandchildren, Dorieana Dewey, Reno, Sidney Dewey, Destanie Dewey, Ashlie Leef, and Tyrel Noneo and nine greatgrandchildren.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2009, from 3 to 7 p.m., at the Truckee Meadows Funeral Home, 616 S. Wells Ave. Reno. Memorial Services at I p.m., at the Nixon Gym, Saturday, March 28, 2009. IN LOVING MEMORY David R.

Mayer March 24, 1947-August 16, 2007 Good Friends are like stars, You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. Happy Birthday Good Friend Rosalie and Terry Michael FIELD Michael E. Field, 72, passed away March 19, 2009 in a Reno hospital. He was born March 21, 1936 in Fort Lewis, WA to Virgil and Edith (Thomas) Field. Michael served 27 years in the U.S.

Air Force and retired as a Chief Master Sgt. He later worked at the Washoe County District Attorney's Office for 10 years in the family support division. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Elaine; sons, Kenneth and Kevin; brother, William; and nieces and nephews. An Inurnment is scheduled for 3 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2009 at Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Fernley. Walton Funeral Home, Reno was entrusted with arrangements.

nvn its, nil it. i fj i i A i i me V. It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Joseph J. Ceccarelli, beloved husband, father, brother, uncle and friend on March 19, 2009 after a courageous fight against Leukemia. Joe was born in Reno on February 18, 1931 to Pietro and Nina Ceccarelli.

He attended local schools, graduating from Reno High School in 1949. After graduation, Joe and a number of his friends joined the Nevada Air National Guard serving on active duty until 1952. In 1953 Joe became a full time civilian employee and remained with the guard until his retirement 32 years later. Joe is survived by his wife of 56 years, Sharon; his son, Jay; daughter, Gina MacLellan (Robb); grand niece, Arolyn Anderson; and mother-in-law, Sally York Also surviving are sisters, Lucille Morris, Mary McGettrick, Delores Browne and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceding him in death were his parents and sister, Pia Diaz.

A celebration of his life will take place on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the Wing Auditorium of the Nevada Air National Guard 152nd Airlift Wing, 1776 Guard Way, Reno. Reception to follow at Sanga. for the Sierra Pacific Power sister, Luella Shiffer both of i i MY A Today's obituaries can be viewed online at wmrgj.comobits All obituaries have an online guestbook available for you to place a condolence or share a memory with the family, A soldier walks past an abandoned house Thursday during a search for drugs and weapons in Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Mexico. Mexico has deployed thousands of soldiers and federal agents to drug strongholds as part of a nationwide crackdown on drug cartels.

Country targets most-wanted drug lords two Fatah members who were killed Saturday in a gunfight in a personal dispute in the camp. The blast was heard across Sidon. Witnesses said pieces of torn flesh were scattered near the bomb site, as ambulances and civil defense rushed to evacuate the victims. The Mieh Mieh camp and the nearby Ein el-Hilweh camp mainly are controlled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' mainstream Fatah group. Madhat was a military, political and security aide to Abbas Zaki, a close aide to Abbas and the top Palestinian official in the country.

Zaki described the killing as "cowardly." tion of the cartels more than two years into Calderon's military crackdown against them. The Beltran Leyva and Carrillo Fuentes gangs! once considered affiliated with the Sinaloa group under the Pacific cartel alliance, were listed as their own cartels. So was La Familia, which operates in central Mexico, and once was considered a gang that answered to the Gulf cartel. Calderon's government has attributed fractures in the cartels to the military crackdown, saying the arrest of drug kingpins has set off internal battles for control that have led to Mexico's sharp surge in violence. It dismisses suggestions by some U.S.

officials that Mexico is los-! ing control of some of its! territory. that had been seized by the former Marxist state, according to Muluka Miti, a researcher for Amnesty International. The London-based human rights group said people were detained and arrested arbitrarily, and subjected to torture in some cases. On Monday, the pope urged Angola's leaders to make "the fundamental aspirations of the most needy people" their main concern. "Our hearts cannot be at peace as long as there are brothers that suffer the lack of food, work, a house and other fundamental goods," the pontiff said in his airport departure speech.

When asked about Amnesty's appeal, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lom-bardi referred the question to Angolan Bishop Monsignor Jose Manuel Imbamba. The prelate denied anyone had been evicted, or houses de stroyed. $2 million reward for information is largest from country's government office. Some of the men, such as suspected Pacific cartel leaders Joaquin Guzman and Ismael Zambada, are targeted by separate $5 million reward offers from the U.S.

government. The new list appeared to be the first offering rewards for all the most-wanted cartel members at once. The government could be trying to signal its determination to take on the cartels at the same time, rather than one or two at a time as past administrations have done, said Andrew Selee, director of the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. "It tells you a little bit about Calderon's thinking," Selee said. "He really sees this as something he wants to eradicate.

He's willing to take them all on as a unit." The document offered insight into the reorganiza "1 4 v. The list offers 30 million pesos ($2 million) in rewards for 24 top members of the cartels and 15 million pesos ($1 million) for 13 of their lieutenants. Mexico's drug violence has killed more than 9,000 people since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 as gangs battle each other for territory and fight off a government crackdown. Some of that violence is spilling over into the United States, especially the Southwest, where kidnappings and killings are on the rise. The rewards are the largest Mexico has ever offered for top drug lords, said Ri-cardo Najera, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Suicide bomber hits Pakistan police ISLAMABAD A bomber blew himself up at a police station housing the country's terrorism intelligence offices late Monday, killing himself and one officer.

NATO: Taliban leader among 10 killed KABUL NATO troops killed a senior Taliban commander and nine other militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, striking a blow in the group's heartland where the U.S. plans to send thousands of additional troops to stem the growing violence. More than a dozen Afghan and coalition forces have been killed in the south in recent days, including eight Afghan police who were killed by Taliban fighters Monday in the Kandahar province. Compiled from wire reports BY ALEXANDRA OLSON ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY Mexico's government on Monday offered $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country. The list indicated that drug gangs have splintered into six main cartels under pressure from the U.S.

and Mexican governments. The two most powerful gangs, the Pacific and Gulf cartels, each suffered fractures that have given rise to new cartels, according to the list published by the Mexican Attorney General's Office. BRIEFLY 1 I J1I. j-juyu ixuuuipn aiuiuy Critics use pope's trip to highlight plight of Angolans SMITH 3a Lloyd Rudolph Smith a World War II veteran, passed away March 19, 2009, in Reno, NV. He was born in Sherebrook, North Dakota, December 18, 1919, to James and Frances (Staska) Smith.

Lloyd lived in Reno for the past 60 years, coming from U.S. military deaths As of Monday, March 23 At least 4,260 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. TheAP count is one fewer than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Monday at 10 a.m. EDI The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Poland, 21 Ukraine, 1 Bulgaria, 1 Spain, 11 Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.

The latest deaths reported by the military: No deaths reported. The latest identifications reported by the military: No identifications reported. mam HI Ji'fafcrtiiiwwri htVirn "AJiui Juliet, Illinois. He worked Many have been kicked off Catholic land in the country ASSOCIATED PRESS LUANDA, Angola Even as Pope Benedict XVI said Monday his heart cannot be at peace while people are homeless, critics used his Africa pilgrimage to highlight the plight of thousands whom the Angolan government has violently evicted from land owned by the Catholic church. Amnesty International appealed to Benedict during his visit to the southern Africa country to press the Angolan government for full compensation for the families who have been forced from church land since 2004.

More than 2,000 families have been evicted since Angolan authorities began returning land to the church Company for 30 years retiring in 1980. Lloyd was a member of The Masons Lodge Number 13, The Scottish Rite Bodies, The Kerak Shrine and The Royal Order Of Jesters. He also actively participated in the Stage Craft Of the bhnners and the Karavaners. Lloyd was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Elmer and sister, Marian. He is survived by the love of his life, Josephine with whom he would have celebrated 60 years of marriage; his brother, Kenneth Smith and Juliet, Illinois; as well as cousins, nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be made to the Children's Transportation Fund co Kerak Temple, 4935 Energy Way, Reno, NV, 89502. At Lloyd's request there will be no services at this time. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date in Juliet, Illinois. L3 1.