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6B – Daily News – Monday, June 7, 2010 Israel says Turkish activists on Gaza aid ship prepared in advance to fight JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister claimed Sunday that the Turkish activists who battled Israeli naval commandos in a deadly clash last week prepared for the fight ahead of time, before boarding the ship in a different city from the rest of the passen- gers. Benjamin Netanyahu’s charges highlight Israel’s fran- tic efforts to portray the activists as terrorists and counter a wave of harsh inter- national condemnation that has left the Jewish state isolated and at odds with some of its closest allies. Last Monday’s operation, in which nine activists were killed aboard a ship headed to the blockaded Gaza Strip, dam- aged Israel’s ties with Turkey — its main Muslim ally — and brought heavy pressure on Israel to lift the 3-year closure of Hamas-ruled Gaza. Netanyahu told his Cabinet that ‘‘dozens of thugs’’ from ‘‘an extremist, terrorism-sup- porting’’ organization had readied themselves for the arrival of the naval comman- dos. ‘‘This group boarded sepa- rately in a different city, orga- nized separately, equipped itself separately and went on deck under different proce- dures,’’ he said. ‘‘The clear intent of this hostile group was to initiate a violent clash with (Israeli) soldiers.’’ Vatican charges international community ignores plight of Christians in the Middle East WORLD BRIEFING Blasts kill 6 in Baghdad BAGHDAD (AP) — A car NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Chris- tians in the Middle East, and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon have forced thou- sands to flee the region. A working paper released during Pope Benedict XVI’s pilgrimage to Cyprus to pre- pare for a crisis summit of Middle East bishops in Rome in October also cites the ‘‘extremist current’’ unleashed by the rise of ‘‘political Islam’’ as a threat to Christians. The paper said that the line between religion and politics is blurred in Muslim coun- tries, ‘‘relegating Christians to the precarious position of being considered non-citizens, despite the fact that they were citizens of their countries long before the rise of Islam.’’ ‘‘The key to harmonious living between Christians and Muslims is to recognize reli- gious freedom and human rights,’’ it said. In his final Mass in Cyprus on Sunday, Benedict said he was praying that the October meeting will focus the atten- tion of the international com- munity ‘‘on the plight of those Christians in the Middle East who suffer for their beliefs.’’ bomb exploded outside a Bagh- dad police station Sunday in the deadliest of a pair of attacks that killed six people in the Iraqi capital, security and hos- pital officials said. A suicide attacker drove the bomb-rigged car up to a gate protecting the police post in western Baghdad’s al-Amil neighborhood during an early morning shift change when officers were gathered outside its blast walls. The blast killed four police officers and one civilian, and wounded 15 people, according to emergency security and hos- pital officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Though violence has declined dramatically from just a few years ago, when the coun- try teetered on the brink of civil war, attacks around the capital continue. The violence is a seri- ous challenge for Iraq’s police and military forces as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw. Adding to the sense of insta- bility, Iraq’s political leaders are still wrangling over who will control the next govern- ment three months after a par- liamentary election. Many Gulf federal judges have oil links MIAMI (AP) — More than half of the federal judges in dis- tricts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pend- ing have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, com- plicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows. Thirty-seven of the 64 active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy indus- tries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP PLC, Halliburton or Transocean — and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells, according to the reports judges must file each year. The AP reviewed 2008 disclosure forms, the most recent available. Those three companies are named as defendants in virtual- ly all of the 150-plus lawsuits seeking damages, mainly for economic losses in the fishing, seafood, tourism and related industries, that have been filed over the growing oil spill since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Attorneys for the companies and those suing them are pushing for consolida- tion of the cases in one court, with BP recommending Texas and others advocating for Louisiana and other states. A Washington-based federal judicial panel is scheduled to meet next month to decide whether to consolidate the cases and, if so, which judge should be assigned the monumental task. The job would include such key pretrial decisions as certifying a large class of plain- tiffs to seek damages, a poten- tial multibillion-dollar settle- ment, whether to dismiss the cases and what documents BP and the other companies might be forced to produce in court. The AP review of disclosure statements shows the oil and gas industry’s roots run as deep in the Gulf Coast’s judiciary as they do in the region’s econo- my. For example, one federal judge in Texas is a member of Houston’s Petroleum Club, an ‘‘exclusive, handsome club of, and for, men of the oil indus- try.’’ Video captures deadly hillside fall of porn actor charged with murder in LA sword attack LOS ANGELES (AP) — Surrounded by a SWAT team on a rocky cliff, a porn actor sus- pected of killing a colleague last week moved to the edge of the outcropping and fell some 40 feet to his death, ending a dramatic, daylong standoff with police outside Los Angeles. Video of the apparent suicide captured by news cameras Sat- urday shows Stephen Clancy Hill in Chatsworth, talking to police negotiators, with a crowd of media watching. Hill tum- bled down the hillside after scooting to the ledge from a seated position. Police said Hill had repeat- edly threatened suicide in the hours leading up to the fall, which came a day after murder and attempted murder charges had been filed against 34-year- old porn actor. ‘‘He was bent on taking his own life,’’ Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said. ‘‘It’s very unfor- tunate. We wanted this to end a different way.’’ HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY $7900 Runs Every Monday - Wednesday - Friday $8900 with a 3 month commitment Blinds Need Blinds? 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