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MAKING THE HOLIDAY CUT A list of area Christmas tree farms El Today: Sunny pleasant this afternoon High: 65 Low 37 Details: B2 FAREWELL PERFORMANCE Kicker James Wilhoit is among the UT seniors who'll play their last home game Saturday VR1 KnoxNcwscom YOUR GUIDE TO ENTERTAINMENT i i COVER STORY: Christmas in the City begins to light up downtown Skating rink is back at A Market Square Full page of seasonal events MUSIC: Mofrn Carey Ott and 'Hie Aftermath NEW ON CD: Damien Kiev and Cany Ott HAPPENINGS: headlines thanksgiving Weekend Comedy Explosion attacks At least 160 Iraqis die in trolled Health Ministry The attackers were repulsed after a three- Top officials held an emergency meeting at the home of Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim apparently to discuss deteriorating security President Jalal Talabam a Kurd Vice President Thriq al-Hashimi a Sunni and US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad attended an aide to al- 5 car bombs 2 mortar strikes were deadliest in Sadr City since war began BY THOMAS WAfiKI Associated Pres BAGHDAD Five car bombs and two mortar rounds struck the Shiite Sadr City slum Thursday killing at least LSI people and wounding 257 police said The attack by suspected Sunni Arab militants was the deadliest on a sectarian enclave since the war began and Shiites quickly struck back Soon after the onslaught Shiite Hakim said militants fired 10 mortar rounds at the holiest shrine in Baghdad the Abu Hanifa mosque in die Azamiya neighborhood killing one person and wounding 14 A 3-foot hole was blown in the dome and some inside roams sustained severe damage Eight mortar rounds later slammed into the top Sunni organization in Iraq the Association of Muslim Scholars but caused no casualties police said Fighting also flared in another part of Baghdad when 30 Sunni insurgents armed with machine guns and mortals attacked the Shiitex3n- hour battle during which Iraqi soldiers and US military helicopters intervened At least seven ministry guards were wounded police 1st li Maitham Abdul-Razaq said The government ordered a curfew in Baghdad beginning at 8 pan Thursday saying all people and vehicles must stay off the streets of the city until further notice The government also closed Baghdad International Airport to allcom-mercial flights said Brig Abdul-KarinKhalaf the spokesman for the Interior Ministry Afterward the three Iraqi officials appeared on national televi sion wan al-Hashimi reading a statement urging calm and calling on politicians to work hard to reduce tensions that have brought a surge See IRAQ on A8 Board likely to discuss moratorium on selling of federal land Nov 30 BY MICHAEL SILENCE silence a-knewvcom Tennessee Valley Authority board chairman Bill Sansom believes his colleagues could vote next week to make permanent the ban of selling federal land for private development jsqbc think the board is prob ably close to where this North committee is They recom-attomey general is mended no residential and pressing forward with no commercial" be sold a lawsuit that accuses s-ywncairi TVA of causing a Sansom was referring to nuisance" by the recommendation earli- failing to reduce er tins year that a morato- pollution from its coal- num be placed on selling fired power plants B7 federal land for residential or commercial use ON KNOXNEWSXOM The board subsequently More about TVA did that while it fbrmulat- iand use policy ed a permanent policy In May one of the first moves by TVAs new part- time board was to suspend die sale of land or change certam deed restrictions on previously sold land until a policy was developed The move was sparked by two controversial land olw the transfer of property in 2003 to local developer Mike Ross for a high-end golf course community on Tellieo Lake and another land transfer last year along Nickajack Lake to Chattanooga business- See TVA on A9 PHOTOS BY AMY SMOTHERMAN-BUHGESVNEWS SENTINEL Mofaie Meab volunteer Fritz Massaquoi left delivers Thanksgiving dinner to resident Dorothy Chesney at Summit Towers on Thursday rr 1 i' i Dinner rolls NO SUCH THING AS HOLIDAY FOR MOBILE MEALS VOLUNTEER IYDABXH DUNLAP dunlapda'knswsxom MORE Tent of Hope: Knox Area Rescue Ministries' meals for 2000 people provide additional Thanksgiving cheer 1-40 Kingston Pike lanes open in time for holiday traffic BYDONIACOBS After nearly four years of construction workers have opened all lanes of Interstate 40 between Gallaher fiew Road and Eapennill Drive: And smooth sailing for motorists on Kingston Pike near WfestTbwnMaH where J400 feet of the road has been widened to at least three lanes of travel in each direction not finished but said TVavis Brickey spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation Since January 2003 Charks Blalock and Sons Inc crews have been widening a 36-mile section of 1-40 and widening a portion of Kingston Pike The S624 million contract induded reconfiguring interchanges at West Hills Papermill Drive and Weisgartw Road The project was slated for completion by Dec 31 After a push last week by construction crews to beat the beginning ofthe Christmas shopping season workers opened all lanes of travel "You can really tell the difference the way the traffic is said Chad WoodrooC project manager See TRAFFIC on A8 'f I break from his routine Thursday I do he said every Thanksgiving and every Christmas" After taking care of Chesney he delivered meals to Charles and Gladys Newcomb who watched a Thanksgiving Day parade on television The walls of the couple apartment were covered with pictures but there probably wasn't room enough for photos of all their grandchUdren "We got a whole mob of said Gladys Newcomb 891 I think" They didn't estimate the number of great-grandchildren hovv- See MEALS on A7 a a small gray cart laden 8Dyear-old Fritz Massaquoi stepped on to the elevator at Summit Tbwers an Thursday morning On die cart he carried a large ted cooler an insulated bag with hot meals andabas with small bags of fruit He had meals tor nine people He stopped first at the apartment of 67-year-old Dorothy Chesney A stroke left her unable to food as she once did i Knoxville and has been at Summit TbwesaEtde more than a year she said and raised here" said Chesney a Ttemessee gaL" Massaquoi who also lives in Summit Throes is a volunteer for the Knoxville-KnraGomSy Community Action Committee's Mobile Meals program For more than 10 years delivered hot meals once a week to fellow residents who are unable to get out or cook for themselves and Thanksgiving Day he did not Mobde Meats volunteer Fritz Massaquoi who delivers hot meals once a week to fellow Summit Towers residents is at his post on Thanksgiving Day Inside: Business a Classified FI Comics E4 Crossword IS Editorials B4 Home Garden El Local II Movies Preview I Obituaries Bfi Sam Venable B1 I Sports D1 TVE3 piiiipir "493771 10030 1 i rej ct Giti or Everyone On Ycur List! 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