The Californian from Salinas, California • 7

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 OPINION ON 43: Prop. 55 is ill-advised www.thecalifornian.com HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS Man executed for fire that killed children Spewing profanities at his ex-wife standing a few feet away, a man was executed Tuesday tor the deaths of his three i i i young aaugniers in a lire two l- 1 days before Christmas 199L Vfm "The onlv statement I want ALEXANDRIA, VA. Witness says men trained with militants Weeks after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, three Americans spent a month training with a militant Islamic group in hopes of fighting US. troops in Afghanistan, according to court testimony Tuesday. Khwaja Mahmood Hasan testified he and the other two Americans Yong Ki Kwon and Masoud Khan left the Pakistani training camp run by the group Lashkar-e-Taiba only after it became apparent they wouldn't be able to cross the border and fight alongside the Taliban.