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只看该作者 190 发表于: 2007-08-08
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) -- A group of 75 Taliban militants tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack that left more than 20 militants dead, the coalition said in a statement.


Taliban fighters in February at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

The insurgents attacked Firebase Anaconda from three sides, using gunfire, grenades and 107 mm rockets, the coalition said. A joint Afghan-U.S. force repelled the attack with mortars, machine guns and air support.

"Almost two dozen insurgents were confirmed killed in the attack," the statement said. Two girls and two Afghan soldiers were wounded during the fight in Uruzgan province, it said.

A firebase like Anaconda is usually a remote outpost staffed by as few as several dozen soldiers.

"The inability of the insurgent forces to inflict any severe damage on Firebase Anaconda, while being simultaneously decimated in the process, should be a clear indication of the ineffectiveness of their fighters," said Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a coalition spokeswoman.

A direct attack on a U.S. or NATO base by insurgents on foot is relatively rare. More often insurgents fire rockets at bases and flee. Military officials say that Taliban fighters know they can't match Western militaries in a heads-up battle, which leads the insurgents to more often rely on roadside and suicide bombs.

Meanwhile, South Korean officials and Taliban leaders were expected to agree Tuesday on a meeting place to negotiate the release of 21 South Korean hostages, an Afghan politician said.

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The South Koreans and Taliban representatives have been talking by phone for several days and planned to determine a location for their first face-to-face talks by the end of the day, said Gov. Marajudin Pathan, the leader in Ghazni province, where the Koreans were kidnapped.

"There will be one of our government officials in the talks as well," Pathan told The Associated Press.

Pathan said that the meeting is likely to take place in Ghazni province, but could not provide any further details. South Koreans embassy officials were not immediately available for comment.

In South Korea, relatives of the hostages expressed disappointment Tuesday that meetings Sunday and Monday at Camp David between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush failed to produce concrete measures to bring the captives home.

The Afghan and U.S. presidents ruled out making any concessions to the Taliban militants during their meetings.

South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon cautioned that the country should be prepared for a protracted ordeal, noting that other hostages in Afghanistan had been held an average of 35 days.

Song also said none of the captives were suffering from critical health problems.

A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the meeting between Karzai and Bush had "no result," and that militant prisoners must be released in exchange for the lives of South Korean hostages or there will be a "bad result."

The militants kidnapped 23 Korean aid workers traveling by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Two male hostages have been killed.

Taliban militants clashed with police in two separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, leaving five militants and two officers dead, officials said Tuesday.

The militants attacked police at a checkpoint in Zabul province on Monday, and the ensuing clash left five suspected militants dead, said Ali Kheil, the spokesman for Zabul's governor.

Also Monday, militants attacked a police vehicle just outside Kandahar city, killing two officers and wounding eight others, said provincial police chief Syed Agha Saqib. The attackers escaped and police are hunting for them, he said.

Insurgent attacks and military operations have killed more than 3,600 people so far this year, most of them militants. Much of the violence has been concentrated in the former Taliban stronghold in the south.


Also in southern Afghanistan, Dutch soldiers fatally shot a motorcyclist who approached their convoy and failed to heed warning signals and shots, the Dutch Defense Ministry said.

International forces are often the targets of suicide bombers, and they repeatedly warn Afghan civilian motorists to slow down or steer clear of convoys so they are not mistaken for attackers. Several civilians have been killed in such incidents
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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只看该作者 191 发表于: 2007-08-08
-- As the Taliban and South Korean officials negotiated over a possible face-to-face meeting, a South Korean diplomat in Afghanistan spoke by telephone to one of the 21 captives being held by the militant group, an official said Monday.

South Koreans attend a candlelight vigil and anti-war rally Saturday in Seoul, South Korea.

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The Foreign Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, declined to give further details about the conversation, citing safety concerns.
The Taliban has agreed to meet face-to-face with a South Korean delegation, but has not agreed on a venue. A purported Taliban spokesman expressed concerns that militants could be detained by the Afghan military and proposed either a meeting in Taliban territory or a United Nations-hosted meeting elsewhere.
The spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the militants had talked to the Korean officials "many times" over the phone the last three days but that there had been "no results."
"We gave them two choices: either come to Taliban-controlled territory or meet us abroad," Ahmadi said from an unknown location. "They accepted these options and told us, 'We are trying to persuade the U.N. to give you a guarantee to meet us in another country."'
"The Koreans also said if the U.N. did not agree to give the Taliban a guarantee we will come to your areas to meet. They have not done any of the above promises yet," he said.
A U.N. spokesman said the international body was "fully supporting" efforts by the South Korean and Afghan governments to resolve the crisis.
"We are obviously aware of the unconfirmed reports suggesting that those holding the aid workers have requested our assistance to meet with the South Korean delegation at a neutral venue, but we have not been approached directly on this issue," said Dan McNorton of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Twenty-three South Koreans from a church group were kidnapped by the Taliban on July 19 while traveling from Kabul to Kandahar to work on medical and other aid projects. Two of the male hostages have been executed. Among the remaining 21 hostages, 16 are women.
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The Taliban have demanded that 23 militant prisoners held by Afghanistan and at the U.S. base at Bagram be freed in exchange for the Koreans' lives, but the Afghan government has all but ruled out that option, saying it would encourage more kidnappings.
An official at the Korean Embassy in Kabul said the location of a potential meeting between the Koreans and the Taliban was not important. Asked if paying a ransom is an option, he declined to comment. He spoke on condition he not be identified in line with embassy rules.
South Korea has appealed to the United States to get more involved in the negotiation process, and the Koreans are expected to be on the agenda for Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush when they meet at Camp David on Sunday and Monday.
The Afghan government has all but ruled out the hostage-prisoner swap after it came under strong criticism earlier this year for making a deal to secure the release of an Italian citizen.
"We will not do anything that will encourage hostage-taking, that will encourage terrorism. But we will do everything else to have them released," Karzai said in a CNN interview broadcast Sunday.
Meanwhile in Seoul, relatives of the hostages planned to stage rallies at the U.S. and Afghan embassies.

Ahmadi said the Taliban have been waiting for negotiations to start and have extended many deadlines for the Koreans' lives.
If an agreement is not reached for in-person negotiations, then the Taliban will not be responsible for "anything bad" that happens to the hostages, Ahmadi said.
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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只看该作者 192 发表于: 2007-08-09
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Afghan doctors delivered medicines on Sunday for 21 South Koreans kidnapped by Taliban rebels in Afghanistan more than two weeks ago.

The head of a private Afghan clinic said his team had dropped more than $1,200 worth of antibiotics, pain killers, vitamin tablets and heart pills in an area of desert in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province as instructed by the rebels.
"This is a big achievement. Among the Koreans are doctors who know how to use these medicines," Mohammad Hashim Wahaj told reporters in Ghazni, the main town of the province where 23 South Korean church volunteers were snatched from a bus on July 20.
"It was a big risk, but we had to take the risk because it is a humanitarian issue," he said.
The Taliban have killed two of their captives and are threatening to kill the rest if the Afghan government fails to release rebel prisoners. Kabul has refused to free jailed Taliban, saying that would just encourage more kidnappings.
The hostage issue is likely to cast a shadow over two days of security talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President George W. Bush due to begin at the U.S. presidential retreat, Camp David, later on Sunday.
Wahaj said he had been in contact with the kidnappers who told him two of the remaining hostages were seriously ill. The Taliban were willing to free those two hostages, he said, but only if two Taliban prisoners were also freed.
The insurgent demand for prisoners to be released has proved a sticking point in all negotiations so far.
A woman who identified herself as Lim Hyun-joo, a 32-year-old nurse and the group's guide who speaks the local Dari language, pleaded for help from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, himself a South Korean.
"Every day it's really hard to survive. We really want to go home. We are all sick and weak," she told Voice of America radio. "We are innocent people. We came here to help the people, but now we are all sick ... Dear Mr. General Secretary Ban Ki-moon please save us ... We don't want to die."
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The South Korean government is under intense domestic pressure to secure the release of the hostages, but Seoul has told the insurgents there is a limit to what it can do, as it has no power to free prisoners in Afghan jails.
A South Korean delegation was in Ghazni seeking face-to-face talks with the kidnappers to try to break the deadlock.
But the Taliban said on Sunday there was no agreement on where to hold direct talks with the Korean diplomats.
The Taliban want negotiations in areas they control or with U.N. guarantees for their safety if held elsewhere.
"Talks and contacts are still going on to decide on a venue for talks, but there has been no agreement," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said by telephone from an unknown location.
A day before the Koreans were seized, Taliban rebels in Wardak province, north of Ghazni, kidnapped two German engineers and five Afghans.

One of the Germans suffered a heart attack and was shot dead and one of the Afghans managed to escape. The rest are being held by the Taliban who are demanding Berlin withdraw its 3,000 troops from Afghanistan. Germany refused to do so.
Yousuf said he was surprised that no one was actively seeking the German's release and said the man was suffering from diabetes and was unable to receive the right medication.
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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只看该作者 193 发表于: 2007-08-09
Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, will skip a highly anticipated Thursday meeting with his Afghan counterpart and tribal leaders along the mountainous border region between their two countries, his government announced on the eve of the conference.
An Afghan worker passes a billboard advertising peace between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Kabul Tuesday.

The Pakistani leader, whose nearly eight-year rule is being challenged by opposition activists and Islamic militants, cited "engagements in the capital" for his decision to skip the meeting.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will lead the Pakistani delegation to the Joint Peace Jirga, Musharraf's office announced Wednesday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the planned meeting Sunday, as he prepared to meet with President Bush at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.
Relations between Musharraf and Karzai have been chilly for some time, as Afghan officials have accused Pakistan of allowing Taliban and al Qaeda fighters to regroup and carve out a new safe haven along Pakistan's largely lawless northwestern frontier.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Musharraf "has good reason" for staying in Islamabad. He refused to elaborate, but said Karzai and Musharraf had discussed the matter and "the process is moving forward."
"Both of them have an interest in seeing this process succeed," he said. "And they both have an interest in seeing greater cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan in fighting violent extremism. It's important to the future of both countries."
Taliban fighters and their al Qaeda allies were driven from power in Afghanistan after al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. But the Islamic fundamentalist movements continue to battle U.S. and allied troops and attack Afghan schools and government installations in an ongoing insurgency.
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Karzai praised Musharraf earlier this week for taking "some very strong measures" against extremists within Pakistan, such as his recent crackdown on militants holed up in Islamabad's Red Mosque.
But he stopped short of saying the Musharraf regime was doing everything in its power to prevent militants from crossing into Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the United States is relying on Musharraf to fight radical Islam and promote a moderate agenda in nuclear-armed Pakistan. But his government has been criticized at home and abroad for curtailing democracy since he seized power in a 1999 military coup.
That criticism came to a boiling point in March, when Musharraf suspended the country's top judge, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. Critics blasted Musharraf for overreaching his powers and trying to influence the Supreme Court, which is scheduled to rule on whether Musharraf can run for another five-year term under Pakistan's constitution.
After months of protests and court hearings on Chaudhry's status, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled last month that the suspension was illegal, and had him reinstated.
In late July, Musharraf met with exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in Abu Dhabi, according to senior officials on each side of the talks. Analysts say that Musharraf is contacting opposition leaders to buttress support for his power because he has been getting weaker politically.
Bhutto served as prime minister twice between 1988 and 1996, when her government was dismissed amid allegations of corruption. She has been living in self-imposed exile since then, fearing arrest if she returns to Pakistan.
Despite her opposition to Musharraf, she told CNN this week that she would be open to serving as prime minister under his government if he resigns his post as chief of the country's powerful military.
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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只看该作者 194 发表于: 2007-08-09
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A powerful earthquake shook buildings and caused panic on the densely-populated Indonesian island of Java, but there have been no reports of injuries and no tsunami alert.

The quake, measured at magnitude 7.5 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck shortly after midnight in a part of the sea dotted with oil rig platforms, Financial Times journalist John Aglionby told CNN International.
He described feeling the quake in his house in a suburb of the Indonesian capital.
"I was just getting into bed on the second floor of my house. You rarely feel these things in Jakarta so I knew something was wrong immediately," he told CNN.  Watch Aglionby describe what he felt »
According to CNN's Kathy Quiano, the shaking caused many in the capital to flee their homes. "We felt the earthquake in Jakarta, it was pretty strong and went on for at least a minute," Quiano said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a tsunami, because the quake was too deep.
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Jakarta, at a depth of 289 kilometers (180 miles). It occurred about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from shore.
"Earthquakes of 7.5 and over happen approximately 18 times a year," said John Bellini of the USGS, "and in the area around Indonesia that varies. You might see one or two a year, or you might not see any."
About 15 minutes after the quake struck, Quiano drove through Jakarta, and said she saw no signs of damage. She said residents -- especially those living in high-rises, ran from their homes when they felt the quake, but returned fairly quickly.

"The earthquake went on for at least a minute here. It was pretty strong and scary," Quiano said. "People are shaken, that's for certain."
And Aglionby said there were still concerns for the many oil rigs exploiting the resource rich waters off the north coast of Java.
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
smy
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只看该作者 195 发表于: 2007-08-09
转自,新闻日记:
如何突破英语口语
http://www.cycnet.com/englishcorner/info/spoken1.htm
一般来说,衡量一个人口语水平高低主要看以下几个方面:
1.    语音、语调是否正确,口齿是否清楚;
2.    流利程度;
3.    语法是否正确,用词是否恰当,是否符合英语表达习惯;
4.    内容是否充实,逻辑是否清楚。
这些是衡量会话能力的主要标准。

针对以上标准,采取相应的训练方法,大致可分作两个阶段。
第一阶段:准备阶段,主要是进行模仿、背诵、复述练习。
目的是训练正确的语音、语调。提高流利程度,培养英语语感。同时,通过各种方式,如阅读。做练习题,听英语磁带,看英语录像和电影等,来扩大词汇量。掌握英语的习惯表达方式,扩大知识面和训练英语逻辑思维能力,准备会话前,要对常用的词(组)、短语等熟练掌握,“熟练”是与人会话的前提,只有熟练,在会话时才能流利。熟练的标准就是要达到不加思索地脱口而出。
第二阶段:实践阶段。
主要进行大量的会话练习,与他人对话、讨论,基础好的可练习口译,自己讲英语故事等等。

具体方法如下:
(一)模仿
模仿是学习外语主要方法之一,
模仿的原则:
一要大声模仿。这一点很重要,模仿时要大大方方,清清楚楚,一板一眼,口形要到位,不能扭扭捏捏,小声小气地在嗓眼里嘟嚷。刚开始模仿时,速度要慢些,以便把音发到位,侍把音发准了以后,再加快速度。直到能用正常语速把句子轻松他说出来,脱口而出。大声模仿的目的是使口腔的肌肉充分活动起来,改变多年来形成的肌肉的习惯运动模式(汉语发音的运动模式),使嘴与大脑逐渐协调起来,建立起新的口腔肌肉的运动模式(英语发音的运动模式)。若在练习时总是小声在嗓眼里嘟嗓,一旦需要大声说话时,就可能发不准音,出现错误。
二要随时都准备纠正自己说不好的单词。短语等。有了这种意识,在模仿时就不会觉得单调。枯燥,才能主动。有意识,有目的地去模仿,这种模仿才是真正的模仿,才能达到模仿的目的,也就是要用心揣摩、体会。
三要坚持长期模仿。一般来说,纯正。优美的语音、语调不是短期模仿所能达到的,对于有英国英语基础的人学说美国英语是如此,对于习惯于说汉语的人学说英语更是如此。过度需要一段时间,时间的长短取于自学者的专心程度。练习模仿是件苦差事,常常练得口干舌燥,此时一定要坚持,喝口水继续练。练模仿和烧水是一个道理、今天烧把火,水刚热,就把火撤了,明天又是如此,水永远也烧不开。

模仿的标准:模仿要达到什么程度才算模仿好了呢?简单他说就是要“像”,如果能够达到“是”就更好了,但不一定要达到“是”。
“像”是指模仿者的语音,语调等都很接近所模仿的语言。
“是”就是不仅在语音。语调等方面都很接近所模仿的声音,而且非常逼真。连嗓音也基本一样,简直可以以假乱真。我们不要求也不可能达到这种程度。

模仿的具体方法:
第一步,模仿单词的语音,对于自己读不准或较生疏的单词要反复多听几遍,然后再反复模仿,一个单词一个单词地练,在那些常用词上下功夫,尽量模仿得像一些。
第二步,模仿词组的读法,有了第一步的基础,这一步就容易多了。 重点要放在熟练程度和流利程度上,要多练一下连读。失去爆破、不完全爆破,同化等语音技巧。
第三步,句子的模仿,模仿时要一板一眼,口形要正确,口腔肌肉要充分调动起来,刚开始模仿时,速度不要过快,用慢速模仿,以便把音发到位,待把音发难了以后,再加快速度,用正常语速反复多说几遍,直到达到不用想就能用正常语速把句子轻松他说出来(脱口而出)。
第四步,段落及篇章模仿,重点在于提高流利程度。打开录音机或收音机跟着模仿,“他”说你模仿,同步进行。目的要提高口腔肌肉的反应速度,使肌肉和大脑更加协调起来。

模仿练习时要注意一个问题,就是害羞心理。
害羞心理一方面源于性格,一般性格内向的人,讲话时易小声小气,这对学习英语语音语调很不利,要注意克服。
另一方面是源于自卑心理,总以为自己英语水平太差,不敢开口,尤其是当与口语水平比自己高的人对话时,更易出现这种情况。克服这种心理障碍,是学好口语的前提。


(二)复述
学英语离不开记忆,记忆不是死记硬背,要有灵活性。复述就是一种很好的自我训练口语,记忆单词。句子的形式。
复述有两种常见的方法。
一是阅读后复述,
二是听磁带后复述。我认为后种方法更好些,这种方法既练听力,又练口语表达能力。同时,可以提高注意力的集中程度,提高听的效果,而且还可以提高记忆力,克服听完就忘的毛病。

具体方法:
要循序渐进,可由一两句开始,听完后用自己的话(英语)把所听到的内容说出来,一遍复述不下来,可多听几遍,越练重听的遗数就越少。在刚开始练习时,因语言表达能力、技巧等方面原因,往往复述接近于背诵。
但在基础逐渐打起来后,就会慢慢放开,由“死”到“活”。在保证语言正确的前提下,复述可有越来越大的灵活性,如改变句子结构,删去一些不大有用或过难的东西,长段可以缩短,甚至仅复述大意或作内容叙要。

复述的内容要有所选择:
一般来说,所选资料的内容要具体生动,有明确的情节,生词量不要太大。可选那些知识性强的小短文。开始时可以练习复述小故事。
有了基础后,复述的题材可扩展开些。复述表面看慢,实际上对英语综合能力的培养很有帮助。
如果时间较充足,可以在口头复述的基础上,再用笔头复述一下,这样做可以加深掌握语言的精确程度,提高书面表达能力。
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
smy
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只看该作者 196 发表于: 2007-08-10
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Changing attitudes about Iraq among Republican voters may explain President Bush's approval rating boost, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Thursday.

Bush's approval rating in the latest poll was 36 percent, an increase from 32 percent in June -- an all-time low for the president. Bush saw a drop in his disapproval rating as well, dipping to 61 percent from 66 percent.
CNN Polling Director Keating Holland says the rise has everything to do with a turnaround among Republicans.
"The gain in Bush's approval is due entirely to Republicans coming home," Holland said. "There was no change in the approval rating among Democrats or independents between this poll and the last one, but Bush's approval rating went up 16 points among Republicans since June."
The uptick echoes a USA/Gallup Poll released earlier this week that put the president's approval rating at 34 percent, up 6 points from a July poll. Bush's job approval increased 3 percentage points to 31 percent between June and July, according to a recent AP-Ipsos poll.
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Part of Bush's gains among his base over the last six weeks may have something to do with the news coming out of Iraq and how well the White House has been delivering that message. Success connected to a surge in troops has garnered some positive media attention.
"The administration is aggressively engaged in shifting [public] attitudes. And our side has been less aggressive than it needs to be," Democratic pollster Celinda Lake told The Associated Press. "The administration has been making inroads on their Iraqi argument, particularly linking it to terrorism."
Even Bush critics have also expressed optimism. On Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, told National Public Radio from Baghdad that American-led forces were "making some measurable progress, but it's slow going."
"What is clear, whatever the message from the White House, it has fallen on deaf ears among Democrats and independents, but found a receptive audience with Republicans," Holland said.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll is based interviews with 1,029 adults August 6-8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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只看该作者 197 发表于: 2007-08-10
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fourteen suspected terrorists listed as "high-value detainees" at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been designated as enemy combatants, placing them in line to be charged and put on trial by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
The detainees -- including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States -- were moved to Guantanamo Bay by the president last September after being held in secret CIA prisons around the world.
All 14 detainees went through closed hearings before a military panel to determine whether they would be eligible for a military tribunal.
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England approved their designation as enemy combatants by the panels, paving the way for military prosecutors to charge them, Pentagon officials said.
Among the other high-value detainees are Ramzi bin al-Shibh, alleged to be another key 9/11 planner; and Abu Faraj al-Libi, allegedly a top al Qaeda planner.
In transcripts released from the hearings, Mohammed said he was responsible for the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and acknowledged he planned the 9/11 attacks.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed said through a military representative at his hearing in March.
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The U.S. military has run into some barricades in moving forward with the military tribunals this year.
Two military judges refused to start trials this spring because they believed they had no jurisdiction over the detainees. Their rulings were based on the language identifying the detainees as enemy combatants.
The judges said Congress had set rules saying detainees must be called "unlawful enemy combatants," but the military lists them as "enemy combatants."
A decision by a Defense Department review panel on the judges' decisions is pending.
If the panel agrees, all the detainees listed as "enemy combatants" could have to go through another round of hearings to give them the alternate designation, according to Pentagon officials.
努力不一定成功,但放弃一定失败.
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NEWARK, N.J. - A 28-year-old man and a teenage boy were charged Thursday in the execution-style schoolyard killings of three college students and the wounding of another, a crime that has outraged this violence-marred city.

The arrests came within hours of each other, with police taking the 15-year-old boy into custody Wednesday night and the man, Jose Carranza, surrendering to the mayor on Thursday.
"We believe that others were involved in this heinous crime," Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow said. "We're looking for them."
Community activists, meanwhile, urged racial calm after the arrest of a Hispanic man — Carranza — in the slayings of the three young black students.
"The kind of violence that happens in Newark is random. There has never been any animosity between blacks and Latinos," said Ras Baraka, principal of Central High School in Newark and the son of New Jersey's former poet laureate, Amiri Baraka.
"We're all in the same conditions in this town," he said.
The killings ratcheted up anger in New Jersey's largest city, where overall crime has declined but where the number of killings continued at last year's pace with 60 homicides so far this year. The killings have prompted billboards in the downtown area that scream, "HELP WANTED: Stop the Killings in Newark Now!"
During a news conference Thursday announcing the arrest of the teenager and the search for Carranza, Mayor Cory A. Booker learned that Carranza wanted to surrender.
When reached by Carranza's lawyer, "I said simply, let's find a spot," Booker said at a second news conference. The surrender took place at a police office next to City Hall. When he surrendered, "He said no words whatsoever," Booker said.
In turn, "I had absolutely nothing to say to this individual."
Hours later, Carranza, handcuffed behind his back and wearing a black "Hulkamania" T-shirt and light-colored shorts, was escorted into police headquarters via a back door. He did not respond to questions as he was taken inside.
Officials declined Thursday to speculate on a motive, but Police Director Garry McCarthy said: "There is still no indication of a gang angle in this particular endeavor." Authorities have said robbery appeared to be the motive, and robbery charges were brought against the two suspects.
Authorities do not believe the four victims knew the assailants. Carranza and the teen are unrelated, Dow said, but she didn't elaborate on how they knew each other.
Carranza had at least three prior arrests and was facing an aggravated assault charge in a separate case at the time of the killings, Booker said.
According to court records obtained by The Star-Ledger of Newark, Carranza was indicted twice this year — in April on aggravated assault and weapons charges; and in July on 31 counts including aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 13. He was free on bail on the indictments.
The four victims, friends ages 18 to 20 who were planning to attend Delaware State University this fall, were shot while visiting in a schoolyard not far from their homes Saturday night.
Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20, and Iofemi Hightower, 20, were forced to kneel against a wall and were shot at close range. The fourth victim, 19-year-old Natasha Aeriel, Terrance Aeriel's sister, survived a wound to her head and is hospitalized. Natasha Aeriel was able to help authorities identify the suspects, the mayor said.
Officials said fingerprints on a bottle found at the shooting scene and ballistics evidence tied Carranza to the crime. Carranza and the teen were charged with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and other charges.
Dow said they would seek an adult trial for the teen, whose name was not released because of his age. The teen was being held pending a detenion hearing.
Carranza was being held in lieu of $1 million bail. A message left for Carranza's lawyer, Felix Lopez Montalvo, was not immediately returned.
"I want justice. The right justice for my child, for T.J., for Natasha and for Deshon," said Hightower's mother, Shalga Hightower, from her Irvington home Thursday. "They took three angels away from their families, but one angel survived, so the story could get told."
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Associated Press writers David Porter and Janet Frankston Lorin in Newark, and Daniela Flores and Angela Delli Santi in Trenton contributed to this report.
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