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A4 www.philly.com THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ABCDEFGHI Thursday, July 8, 2004 Attorneys allege U.S. torture News in Brief KlUKWIMtMH1 1 HIDAJET DELIC Associated Press The 1995 Bosnian massacre continues to take a toll on survivors. A morgue worker in Visoko, north of Sarajevo, counted caskets yesterday in preparation for Sunday's funeral of 335 newly identified bodies. As many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica at the hands of Bosnian Serbs nine years ago. the Sept.

11 terror attacks in the United States. The laws allow police to arrest and continue to hold people they have "reasonable grounds to suspect" of having links to terror groups. The laws also allow officials to keep the allegations secret from both the prisoners and their attorneys. The written statement by defense lawyers said none of the men were arrested for suspected involvement in planning or carrying out acts of terrorism. They were instead detained for their suspected membership in or support of international terrorist groups.

The eight men are joined in the legal action by two others who were arrested as terror suspects at the same time but chose deportation. Jamal Ajouaou, a Moroccan who is accused of links to a man suspected of plotting to blow up Los Angeles Airport during celebrations marking the year 2000, returned to his home country in December 2001, several days after he was detained. Another unidentified man, a joint Algerian French national, returned to France in March 2002, two months after he was detained. Only one other of the 10 suspects has been identified Palestinian asylum-seeker Mah-moud Abu Rideh, who is accused of ties to associates of Osama bin Laden. They said that's how information was gotten that led to their clients' detention in Britain.

By Jane Wardell ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Attorneys for eight terror suspects told a court yesterday that they feared the men may have been jailed on evidence obtained through the torture of suspects at U.S. detention camps. The attorneys made their arguments before the Court of Appeal in an attempt to free the men, who have been held in British prisons and a psychiatric hospital for up to 212 years without trial. At the start of a five-day hearing, they sought permission from the court to present evidence of torture in U.S. camps.

"It is an affront to the public conscience for the state to rely in judicial proceedings on evidence obtained by torture," defense attorney Ben Emmerson said. The suspects are fighting a decision by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which ruled in October that there was "sound material" the men were a risk to national security. The commission has been publicly criticized for relying on secret evidence and restricting access for the attorneys. "There is no question but that British officials were present in RICHARD LEWIS Associated Press Two London tourists watch a protester at the Royal Court of Justice. Demonstrators picketed the hearing of eight terror suspects held without trial at two British prisons and a psychiatric hospital.

state then choosing to use the product of torture." The suspects were detained in Britain in December 2001 and February 2002 under antiterrorism laws introduced after Guantanamo Bay during some of the interrogations that took place. That is a fact," Emmerson told the panel of three senior judges. "The underlying moral repugnance lies in this African Union blasts tf Forest Service offers plan to limit off-road vehicles The U.S. Forest Service yesterday proposed restricting many off-road vehicles to designated roads and trails in federal forests and grasslands. The proposal is part of an effort to curb environmental damage and ease conflict between visitors.

Each forest and grasslands district would work with the public to identify routes, trails, and other areas suitable for off-road vehicles. Federal cigarette lawsuit can proceed, judge rules A federal judge ruled yesterday in Washington that the legal settlement reached between the tobacco industry and states in 1998 does not shield cigarette-makers from the federal government's $280 billion lawsuit. The ruling was a victory for prosecutors, who asked U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler to prevent the cigarette-makers from arguing that the settlement with the states made the federal racketeering case moot. The trial is set to begin in September.

Coast Guard chief: Attack by small boats still possible The United States remains vulnerable to attacks by small, fast boats like the one that killed 17 sailors on the U.S. warship Cole in 2000, despite tough new global security laws, the head of the Coast Guard said yesterday. Adm. Thomas Collins said the new U.N. International Ship and Port Facility Security Code and the related U.S.

Maritime Transportation Security Act focused on large commercial ships, not the roughly 60 million U.S. recreational vessels. Former FBI linguist's lawsuit is dismissed A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by a former linguist for the FBI who alleged security lapses in the FBI's translator program. U.S. District Judge Reggie B.

Walton ruled Tuesday in Washington that he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the civil lawsuit by Sibel Edmonds could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments. Jackson's attorneys seek dismissal of indictment Michael Jackson's attorneys asked a judge to throw out his grand jury indictment on charges of child molestation, saying prosecutors bullied and argued with witnesses and "ran the proceedings as if they employed the grand jurors." Filed Tuesday, the motion was released by the court yesterday after being heavily edited by Santa Barbara County Judge Rodney Melville to remove names of witnesses and references to the specifics of the indictment. KAREL PRINSLOO Associated Press Sudanese refugee children try to lift a dying donkey to its feet. Yesterday, they were outside Bahai, Chad, on the Sudan border. At least 200,000 Sudanese have fled the Darfur violence into Chad.

Sudan on Council issued a statement in Addis Ababa demanding that Sudan immediately arrest those responsible for the violence and destruction in Darfur and compensate the victims. "The crisis should be ad ico after Donaldson went to the manager's house Tuesday and discovered an "obvious crime scene," Sullivan said. Deputies searched the area and found the three bodies in a shallow grave. No other details of the slayings were released. The dead were identified as Delbert Paul Posey, the teen's father; stepsister Mary Lee Schmid, 14; and stepmother Try-one Posey.

Cody Posey was detained on three counts of murder and It told the government to arrest Arabs accused of killing blacks, who are fleeing the region. By Anthony Mitchell ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia The African Union demanded yesterday that Sudan arrest and prosecute Arab militiamen accused of committing atrocities in western Sudan, but it said the violence in the Darfur region did not constitute genocide. The demand came as Sudan agreed to allow the deployment of 300 AU troops in Darfur, where thousands of people have been killed and more than one million black Africans have fled attacks by Arab militiamen known as janjaweed. The AU troops are to protect civilians who have fled to camps to escape the violence. At the United Nations, the United States said Sudan had only days to stop atrocities in Darfur or face sanctions imposed by the Security Council.

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U.S. Ambassador John Dan-forth said council members would begin negotiations today on a U.S.-drafted resolution that would impose an arms and travel ban on militia leaders. The AU's Peace and Security House opposes rules to halt some items sent to Cuba The U.S. House voted yeterday to overturn new Bush administration rules banning items including clothing, seeds and soap from being sent in parcels to Cuba. The House voted, 221-194, to add the measure to a $40 billion bill funding the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce for 2005.

The Senate has yet to write its version of the bill. Supporters of the legislation argued that Cuban Americans were being punished by the rules, which they said would do little to bring down Cuban President Fidel Castro. Suicide bomber kills five, injures 11 in Sri Lanka At least five people were killed and 11 were wounded yesterday when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up inside a police station in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, shattering more than two years of relative peace. Police said the woman detonated the bomb as she was being frisked. No group claimed responsibility, and the rebel Tigers offered no comment on the blast.

U.S. returns Colombian it extradited last year The only suspected Marxist guerrilla extradited from Colombia to the United States has been sent home after U.S. authorities decided he was not the man they were seeking, Colombian police said yesterday. Nelson Vargas was freed last week, a year after he was extradited to the United States based on accusations he was a Marxist rebel involved in the 1999 killings of three Americans in eastern Colombia, police said. For third year in row, Vatican reports a deficit The Vatican yesterday reported a deficit for the third consecutive year.

It said the shortfall for 2003 was about $11.8 million a decline of nearly 30 percent from 2002 despite the costs for the expansion of the Holy See's diplomatic missions. Bush extends sanctions against Myanmar President Bush signed a measure yesterday that will maintain trade sanctions on Myanmar for an additional year, punishing its military rulers for detaining opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Senate approved the measure last month. Mubarak leaves hospital two weeks after surgery Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left for home yesterday after more than two weeks in Munich, Germany, where he underwent back surgery. Mubarak, 76, has been recovering well from the June 26 operation to repair a slipped disc, his surgeon said.

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four counts of tampering with evidence, Sullivan said. In a statement, Donaldson said he and his wife, Jan, hired Paul Posey to work at the ranch in October 2001. "Jan and I are so very, very sorry about the loss of these fine people," he said. The Donaldsons were in Santa Fe in northern New Mexico during the Fourth of July weekend, when the slayings apparently occurred. Donaldson grew up on a cotton farm in New Mexico.

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