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7A Saturday, May 11, 2013 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING acquaintances have sketched a portrait of him as a man with a twisted sense of humor, a compulsion for secrecy and a towering, terrifying rage that led him to savagely beat, torment and control his common-law wife, Grimilda Figueroa. Benghazi attack: State Department pushed for changes WASHINGTON (AP) — Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. The latest disclosures Friday raised new questions about whether the Obama administration tried to play down any terrorist factor in the attack on a diplomatic compound just weeks before the November presidential election. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed when insurgents struck the U.S. mission in two nighttime attacks. The White House has insisted that it made only a ''stylistic'' change to the intelligence agency talking points from which Rice suggested on five Sunday talk shows that demonstrations over an anti-Islamic video devolved into the Benghazi attack. Numerous agencies had engaged in an email discussion about the talking points that would be provided to members of Congress and to Rice for their public comments. In one email, then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland worried about the effect of openly discussing earlier warnings about the dangers of Islamic extremists in Benghazi. Nuland's email said such revelations ''could be abused by members of Congress to beat the State Department for not paying attention to (central intelligence) agency warnings,'' according to a congressional official who reviewed the 100 pages of emails. IRS sorry for targeting conservative political groups WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was ''inappropriate'' targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words ''tea party'' or ''patriot'' in their exemption applications, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. In some cases, groups were asked for lists of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, 30 38,057 30 $ $ in Discount Coupons were published last week in the DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY … And that does not count all the ads offering percentage discounts, two-for-ones and Free-with-Purchase offers! Don't miss a day of it! Subscribe Today 527-2151 It pays for itself. Pakistan set for historic election she said. The agency — led at the time by a Bush administration appointee — blamed low-level employees, saying no high-level officials were aware. But that wasn't good enough for Republicans in Congress, who are conducting several investigations and asked for more. ''I call on the White House to conduct a transparent, government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not under way at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone, regardless of their political views,'' said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. White House spokesman Jay Carney declared it was indeed inappropriate for the IRS to target tea party groups. But he brushed aside questions about whether the White House itself would investigate. 'I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again' SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She rationed food and water. She banged a pipe to attract attention. She was fast losing hope of ever making it out alive. In the ruins of the collapsed eight-store garment factory building above her, the frantic rescue operation had long ago ended. It had turned instead into a grim search for the decaying bodies of the more than 1,000 people killed in the world's worst garment industry disaster. ''No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again,'' the seamstress, Reshma Begum, told Somoy TV from her hospital bed after her astonishing rescue on Fri- day. The miraculous moment came when salvage workers finally heard Begum's banging. They pulled her to safety. She was in shockingly good condition, wearing a violet outfit with a large, bright pink scarf. ''I heard her say, 'I am alive, please save me.' I gave her water. She was OK,'' said Miraj Hossain, a volunteer who crawled through the debris to help cut Begum free. Cleveland suspect had terrifying violent streak CLEVELAND (AP) — The mannequin was life-sized, with a mop-like wig and creepy, slanted eyes. Ariel Castro kept it propped against a wall of his house and liked to use it to scare people. Sometimes he drove around town with it in the back seat of his car. ''He threatened me lots of times with it,'' said Castro's nephew, 26-yearold Angel Caraballo, who was terrified of his uncle as a little boy and unnerved by him as an adult. ''He would say: 'Act up again, you'll be in that back room with the mannequin.''' Castro installed padlocks on every door leading into his dilapidated home on Seymour Avenue. He kept the basement bolted shut, too. When relatives showed up at his front door, he made them wait for half an hour before emerging, and nobody was ever allowed past the living room. ''He had told me to stay in the kitchen,'' said Elida Marie Caraballo, Castro's niece, who was at his house about seven years ago with Castro's daughter Rosie. ''I didn't know why.'' In the days since Castro's arrest on charges of keeping three women imprisoned in his home for a decade, relatives and ISLAMABAD (AP) — Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. The vote marks the first time in Pakistan's 65year history that a civilian government has completed its full term and handed over power in democratic elections. Previous governments have been toppled by military coups or sacked by presidents allied with the powerful army. Deadly violence struck again Friday, with a pair of bombings against election offices in northwest Pakistan that killed three people and a shooting that killed a candidate in the southern city of Karachi. More than 130 people have been killed in the run-up to the vote, mostly secular party candidates and workers. Most attacks have been traced to Taliban militants, who have vowed to disrupt a democratic process they say runs counter to Islam. The vote is being watched closely by Washington since the U.S. relies on the nucleararmed country of 180 million people for help in fighting Islamic militants and negotiating an end to the war in neighboring Afghanistan. The rise of former cricket star Imran Khan, who has almost mythical status in Pakistan, has challenged the dominance of the country's two main political parties, making the outcome of the election very hard to call. Boston bombing suspect buried in Virginia DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn't even know she lived near a burial ground. The secret interment this week at a small Islamic cemetery ended a frustrating search for a community willing to take the body, which had been kept at a funeral parlor in Worcester, Mass., as cemeteries in Massachusetts and several other states refused to accept the remains. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed April 19 in a getaway attempt after a gunbattle with police. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured later and remains in custody. They are accused of setting off two shrapnelpacked pressure-cooker bombs April 15 near the marathon finish line, an attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. 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