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NATION/WORLD Friday, August 13, 2010, Page A5

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AP PHOTO
Ala. attorney general suing BP
A oil cleanup worker rakes the sand in Or-
ange Beach, Ala., July 18. Alabama’s attor-
ney general is suing BP and others over the
Gulf oil spill because he says the company
has broken too many promises about
accepting responsibility.
Police nab stabbing suspect
Man arrested in connection with deaths of five men in three states
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Elias Abue-
lazam was about to board a
plane for Israel when police
arrested him in connection
with a three- month stabbing
spree that left five men dead,
13 others wounded and a
Michigan city in terror. In the
moments before the pudgy
man in flip- flops and shorts
was handcuffed, passengers
saw him nervously talking on
his cell phone, insisting he
wasn't violent.
The Israeli citizen and legal
U.S. resident was charged
Thursday in just one case out
of Flint, Mich., the battered in-
dustrial city where most of the
stabbings occurred, but au-
thorities said victim and speed away; in one not being violent and different
more charges case he used a hammer. The things like that,” passenger
are expected youngest victim was 15; the Eugene Williams said after the
there and in oldest 67. plane landed in Tel Aviv.
Ohio and Vir- Abuelazam, 33, was arrested In Michigan, Genesee
ginia. At least late Wednesday at a boarding County Prosecutor David Ley-
15 of the 18 gate at Hartsfield-Jackson At- ton said authorities don’t
victims were lanta International Airport know the motive for the stab-
black but it shortly before his plane to Tel bings, and that despite the fact
ABUELAZAM was unclear Aviv was to take off. Officers that most victims were black
whether the seized him after he was paged there is no evidence race
attacks were over the intercom and told to played a role.
racially motivated. report at a ticket counter. He Killed were David Motley,
Flint residents hope the ar- has been booked into the Ful- 31, Emmanuel A. Muhammad,
rest ends their summer of fear. ton County Jail awaiting an ex- 59, Darwin Marshall, 43, and
Roughly every four days since tradition hearing in the next Arnold R. Minor, 49, all of
late May on average, the killer few days. Flint, and Frank Kellybrew, 60,
approached men on lonely Passengers on the Delta Air of Flint Township. All died be-
roads at night, asking for di- Lines flight were stunned but fore Aug. 4, when Michigan
rections or help with a bro- said Abuelazam appeared authorities concluded the at-
ken-down car. Then he’d pull tense. He was talking to some- tacks were the work of one se-
out a knife, plunge it into his one on his cell phone “about rial killer.

Appeals court asked to block

start of gay weddings in Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO — The sponsors of Cali-
fornia’s gay marriage ban have asked an appeals
court to stop a federal judge’s order allowing
same- sex weddings to begin next week.
The lawyers defending Proposition 8 asked
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Thurs-
day to impose a stay that would halt gay mar-
riages while the court considers the judge’s
ruling that struck down the ban.
Judge Vaughn Walker last week found that
Prop. 8, passed by California voters in 2008, was
unconstitutional.
Walker then said same- sex couples could
begin marrying next Wednesday unless the ap-
peals court steps in.

Pressure tests under way to

determine if well is plugged
NEW ORLEANS — In the strongest indication
yet that BP’s broken oil well in the Gulf of Mex-
ico may be plugged for good, officials Thursday
said they’re conducting tests to determine if fur-
ther work to seal the well is needed.
A final decision is expected today on whether
crews need to go ahead with drilling relief wells
to allow for a so- called “bottom kill,” in which
mud and cement are pumped from deep under-
ground to permanently seal the well.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the
Obama administration’s point man on the oil
spill, said at a news conference that an earlier
effort to temporarily plug the well may have had AP PHOTOS
the unintended effect of creating a permanent Tourists wear surgical masks during a visit to Red Square Aug. 8 as smog from wildfires covers Moscow. The
seal.
However, he cautioned it’s more likely that World Meteorological Organization said this summer’s weather- related cataclysms fit predicted patterns.

Changing
drilling will continue on two relief wells, which
have long been said to be the only way to ensure
the blown- out well doesn’t leak again.

Blagojevich jurors tell judge

in message they are stalled

climate
CHICAGO — A new message from the jury
weighing the fate of Rod Blagojevich provided a
few clues Thursday about their deadlock in de-
liberations, stirring speculation that the panel's
struggles could be good news for the disgraced
former governor of Illinois.
In a note read in court by Judge James Zagel,
jurors said they had only managed to agree on
Long, hot summer of fire, floods
two of 24 counts against Blagojevich and had not
even begun discussing 11 of the counts.
fits some scientists’ predictions
The jurors did not say which two of the 24
counts they had agreed on, nor what their deci- ASSOCIATED PRESS discuss such tools in meet-
sions were. The judge instructed them to go ings this month and next in
NEW YORK — Floods, Europe and America, under
back and continue their work, which they fires, melting ice and feverish United Nations, U.S. and
planned to do Monday after taking today off. heat: From smoke- choked British government sponsor-
Blagojevich did not comment after the hear- Moscow to water- soaked
ship.
ing, but at least one of his attorneys, Aaron Iowa and the High Arctic, the
planet seems to be having a “There is no time to waste,” Residents boat down the street outside their home
Goldstein, suggested that the latest word from because societies must be
jurors could be good news for his client. midsummer breakdown. It’s as water from the South Skunk River floods neigh-
not just a portent of things to equipped to deal with global
warming, said British gov-
borhoods in Colfax, Iowa, Aug. 11.
come, scientists say, but a
Attorney: JetBlue attendant sign of troubling climate ernment climatologist Peter more frequent and intense stitute of Space Studies in
Stott. heat waves, and more intense New York, said it’s better to
wants to return to flying change already under way.
The weather-related cata- He said modelers of cli- rainfalls. In its latest assess- think in terms of odds:
NEW YORK — A flight attendant suddenly fa- clysms of July and August fit mate systems are “very keen” ment, in 2007, the Nobel Warming might double the
mous for his expletive-filled exit from a plane at patterns predicted by climate to develop supercomputer Prize-winning panel went chances for heat waves, for
scientists, the Geneva-based modeling that would enable beyond that. It said these example.
New York’s Kennedy Airport wants to return to
World Meteorological Or- more detailed linking of trends “have already been “That is exactly what’s
flying.
ganization said — although cause and effect as a warm- observed,” in an increase in
Steven Slater’s attorney, Howard Turman, said happening,” Schmidt said, “a
those scientists always shy ing world shifts jet streams heat waves since 1950, for ex-
at news conference Thursday outside his client’s and other atmospheric cur- ample. lot more warm extremes and
home that flying “is in his blood.” from tying individual disas- less cold extremes.”
ters directly to global warm- rents. Those changes can Still, climatologists gener-
Turman said the 38-year- old airline veteran is wreak weather havoc. ally refrain from blaming The WMO pointed out that
ing.
a likable man who enjoys people and did his job The experts now see an ur- The U.N.’s network of cli- warming for this drought or this summer’s events fit the
properly. Slater briefly thanked all the people gent need for better ways to mate scientists — the Inter- that flood, since so many international scientists’ pro-
who had sent him support and love since his forecast extreme events like governmental Panel on other factors also affect the jections of “more frequent
Monday meltdown aboard a JetBlue flight. Russia’s heat wave and wild- Climate Change — has long day’s weather. and more intense extreme
fires and the record deluge predicted that rising global Stott and NASA’s Gavin weather events due to
— Associated Press devastating Pakistan. They’ll temperatures would produce Schmidt, at the Goddard In- global warming.”

World
WikiLeaks may
release new files
LONDON — WikiLeaks
spokesman Julian Assange
said Thursday his organiza-
tion is preparing to release
the rest of the secret Afghan
war documents it has on file.
The Pentagon warned that
would be more damaging to
security and risk more lives
than the organization’s initial
release of some 76,000 war
documents.
That extraordinary disclo-
sure, which laid bare classi-
fied military documents
AP PHOTO covering the war in
Afghanistan from 2004 to
Brazil holds aviation exhibit 2010, has angered U.S. offi-
cials, energized critics of the
Planes and helicopters are shown at the Latin NATO-led campaign, and
American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibit, drawn the attention of the
LABACE, 2010 Annual Meeting at the Congonhas Taliban, which has promised
airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday. to use the material to track
down people it considers
traitors. The Pentagon said it
believes it has identified the
additional 15,000 classified
documents, and said Thurs-
day their exposure would be
even more damaging to the
military.
Trial opens for
Gitmo inmate
GUANTANAMO BAY
NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A
war-crimes trial for Guan-
tanamo’s youngest detainee
opened Thursday with pros-
ecutors showing an al-Qaida
video of him making — and
apparently planting —
bombs in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors and defense
lawyers offered competing
views of whether Omar
Khadr, who was 15 when he
was captured in 2002, was South America’s smallest
capable of acting independ- nation.
ently from the Islamic ex-
tremist father who took him
to Afghanistan. New monkey
species found
Ex-dictator back BOGOTA, Colombia — A
as president new Amazon monkey
species has been discovered
PARAMARIBO, Suriname in Colombia, and researchers
— A former coup leader, said Thursday they believe
convicted drug trafficker and the isolated population is at
accused murderer swore to risk due to the cutting of
uphold the country’s laws at forests that are its home.
his inauguration Thursday The find was announced
without mentioning con- by Conservation Interna-
cerns in Suriname and tional, a group that helped fi-
abroad about his return to nance the research in remote
power — this time through rain forests that until re-
the democratic process. cently were considered too
President Desi Bouterse dangerous for scientific
pledged in a speech to fight work due to the presence of
corruption and help impov- leftist rebels.
erished communities in the
rain forest hinterland of —Associated Press