The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 4

NATION --V- SC- $1 billion verdict POWs won from Saddam is voided Bulldozer rampage smashes buildings jka 1 tF Jf By Hyoung ChangAP A battered police vehicle and City Hall in Granby Colo mark the path of a fortified bulldozer driven by a muffler shop owner said to be angry over zoning and code disputes we cannot ignore its impact on the United conduct of foreign policy where the law is indisputably clear that appellees were not legally The POWs in the lawsuit which also named the Iraqi Intelligence Service say they endured severe beatings starvation electric shock threats of amputation and dismemberment and continual death threats A default judgment was issued against the Iraqi government in July But die Justice Department intervened after the POWs sought to be paid from frozen Iraqi assets in the United States saying the money was needed to rebuild Iraq Government lawyers had argued that huge legal judgments against foreign governments would hamper diplomacy efforts as the United States wages its war on terror They also argued that the POWs weren't entitled to the money because President Bush determined in May 2003 that a statute allowing payment from frozen assets wasn't applicable to Iraq because it no longer supported terrorism after Saddam was The Associated Press WASHINGTON An appeals court panel threw but a 5959 million verdict Friday for US prisoners of war who say they were tortured by die Iraqi military during the 1991 Persian Gulf War ruling Congress never authorized such lawsuits against foreign governments The US Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that said 17 former POWs and 37 family members were entitled to damages under a federal statute allowing suits involving countries which financed or aided terrorists The three-judge panel said the statute only allows lawsuits for pain and suffering if they are filed against agents and officers of those foreign states responsible for the torture who are not acting on behalf of their government Thus even though the lawsuit also names Saddam Hussein he is immune because the POWs sued him for his alleged activities as president the panel said are mindful of the gravity of the allegations in this case That appellees endured this suffering while acting in service to their country is all the more Judge Harry Edwards stated He also had been fined $2500 in a separate case for not having a septic tank and other city code violations at his business Hale said When he paid the fine he enclosed a note with his check saying Hale said felt he was venting his frustration that he get his way" Hale said of the note didn't think he was going to do something like this" Gov Bill Owens traveled to Granby Friday night to assess die damage The cab of the yellow bulldozer was protected with black metal plates apparently welded on over a period of weeks in his muffler shop WAREHOUSEIOUTUET! 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"1 If Hall damaging a truck and part of a utility service center Xcel Energy spokesman Mark Stutz said Granby some 50 miles west of Denver is a town of about 2200 at nearly 8000 feet It is near the Winter Park ski resort and not far from the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park The scene was reminiscent of a 1998 rampage in Alma another town in the Colorado Rockies Authorities said Tbm Leask shot a man to death then used a town-owned front-end loader to heavily damage die post office fire department water department and town hall normally Pale Male is the first to nest on a building lit Manhattan experts say He took up residence in 1995 Pale Male also has his own Web site wwiupalemalecom Pit hawk can make it anywhere time and $50000 worth of telescopes and cameras to Red-tailed hawks nest in trees and Hundreds of CORDOVA CARPET 1 COM PAN wef locat)oni'rvy rmantown Parkway (In front (901) 756-5064 pan MorvFrt 6-0 Sat 9-B 8 rlnlty Road (Waat 1 (901) 750-8717 pan MotvFri 9-0: Sat O- if rWm' pn "It looked like a futuristic said Rod Moore speaking by phone from his auto garage and towing company He said the bulldozer rumbled past within 15 feet of his hop with an officer perched on top firing shots into the top County manager Lurline Curran said at least some of the wrecked buildings belonged to people involved in one or both of the disputes Ian Daugherty a bakery owner said the driver was upset a concrete plant had been built too close to his business The bulldozer knocked out natural gas service to a cement plant and City recording every aspect of Pale Main family life "I fell in love with Pale said Karim who came to New York from Trinidad 16 years aga a philosopher a very deep wise Mary Booth an ecologist who helps Karim manage the visitors ai and schoolchildren who cluster around his command post also finds essential truth and purity in Pale Male's natural existence amid the dtyk concrete and steel just life providing and being with his mate with grace economy and no Booth said Pale Male so-named for his unusual beige plumage has had his highs and lows His first four mates perished before he hooked up with Lola three years aga was thrown out was flown to an Orlando hospital where he later died Highway Patrol spokesman Larry Coggins aid TWo Minneapolis police officers accused of putting a toilet plunger in a drug rectum were desired in a federal investigation officials said Friday The Justice Department found no evidence of of dvil rights laws police Chief William McManus aid at a press conference Compiled by Henry Bailey from our press services The Of Covington Pike Up to 2004 MR The Associated Press GRANBY Cola A muffler hop owner reportedly angry at officials over a zoning dis- In an armored bulldozer bashing buildings and firing hots as police tried to stop the slow-motion rampage Authorities were trying to blast their way into the steel-plated cab of the machine with explosives late Friday Grand County Emergency Management Director Jim Holihan said The siege left a trail of splintered structures in this mountain tourist town but there were no reports of injuries was just ringing out everywhere said Sandra 'nicker who saw the bulldozer begin the rampage from her office on Main Street sounded to me like an automatic By late afternoon the bulldozer had come to a stop tuck in the nibble of a metal warehouse Officers clambered on top apparently trying to talk to the man identified as Marvin Heemeyer 52 Heemeyer was angry after losing a zoning dispute over land near his muffler shop town manager Tbm Hale said High-rise Fifth Ave pad draws devoted bird-watchers The Associated Press NEW YORK If location is everything as they say in the New York real estate market Pale Male has the best of it a 12th-floor love nest with a posh Fifth Avenue address and a stunning view of the Manhattan skyline also plenty of fast food in nearby Central Part some of it not quite fast enough to escape the redtailed hawk as he or his current mate Lola swoop in to pick up meals for their latest brood of three fledglings The only thing Pale Male doesn't have is privacy Since he was discovered by some of birdwatch- NEW YORK 7 states ask curb on TVA pollution ALBANY Seven states in the Northeast and die Midwest asked President Bush on Friday to force the Tennessee Valley Authority to reduce air pollution from its coal-burning power plants The attorneys general of New York Connecticut Illinois Massachusetts New Jersey Rhode Island and Vermont complained in a letter that pollution from 11 plants in the Southeast is drifting into their states The Knoxville-based TVA said in a statement that it is already spending $56 billion to reduce air pollution The TVA provides electricity to 83 million people in Tten- PENNSYLVANIA Legionnaire ills strike same home NORRISTOWN Three new cases of disease have been reported at a suburban Philadelphia nursing home that had an outbreak almost two years ago that caused two deaths authorities said Friday The ailment is a form of pneumonia caused by a bug that occurs naturally in water the elderly and people with weak immune systems can be susceptible The bacterial infection was reported at the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life ILLINOIS Flashlight hero ends knifing spree MIDLOTHIAN A man stabbed five people at a suburban strip mall killing a 1-yearold girl before a by- Cafpet Rolls i noonng ing Availabl ismrk m- i Every day scores of sensibly hod binocular-necklaced avian aficionados gather on sidewalks or at the Central Park boat pond to stare at the building hoping to see baby hawks take wing for the first time In recent days they got their wish At 5:20 pm local time last Saturday one fledging was blown off the nest and managed to stay airborne at am Thursday the second one took flight to a nearby rooftop leaving the third sibling sitting upright in the nest wondering where everybody went All of this was caught on videotape by Lincoln Karim 43 an engineer at Associated Press Television News who since 2001 has devoted his vacations most of his spare BRIEFLY stander clubbed him over the head with a flashlight and restrained him until police arrived authorities said Brett Carlson 26 was charged with murder and four counts of attempted murder and attempted robbery Friday Cook County State's Attorney spokeswoman Matey Jensen said A man ran out of a nearby hair salon and charged the attacker hitting him in the head with a flashlight and tackling him witnesses said saw him stab two people and ran over and hit him with said Suparak Rat-tananarkin 18 holding a red flashlight FLORIDA Toothpick DNA bites inmate LAKE ALFRED An inmate expecting to get out of prison in July was charged in a 1991 murder after police linked him to die crime using DNA on a discarded toothpick James Arthur Holloway 51 was the last person seen with 80-year-old Maple Rigsbee before she was found strangled with an electrical cord on her bedroom floor in Lake Alfred Earlier 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