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6B Daily News – Monday, July 4, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Casey Anthony's attorney finishes closing argument ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony's lead defense attorney has fin- ished his closing argument insisting that the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee was an "accident snowballed out of control." Jose Baez spent most of his four-hour argument Sunday concentrating on holes in the prosecution's forensic evidence, saying it was based on a "fantasy." The judge overseeing the case indi- cated that the jury will begin deliberat- ing on Monday. Prosecutors contend Caylee was suf- focated with duct tape by her mother, who then crafted elaborate lies to mis- lead investigators and her parents. Baez says the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool and that her father made the death look like a murder, which he denies. Los Alamos evacuation lifted LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — A smattering of summer rain gave a boost to firefighters battling a huge forest fire near Los Alamos, giving authorities enough confidence to allow about 12,000 people to return home for the first time in nearly a week. Residents rolled into town Sunday morning, honk- ing their horns and waving to firefighters as the word got out that the roadblocks were lifted and the narrow two lane highway cut into the side of a mesa lead- ing to Los Alamos was open. They had fled en masse on Monday as the fast- moving fire approached the city and its nuclear laboratory. "Thank, you! Thank, You! Thank, you!," yelled Amy Riehl, an assistant manager at the Smith's grocery store as she arrived in Los Alamos to help keep the store open for returning residents. "It's scary, but all of the resources here this time, they were ready. They did a magnificent job," said Michael Shields, eyes tearing up as he returned home to his apartment in the heart of the town. The town was last evacuated because of the 2000 Cerro Grande fire. That time, residents returned to a town that had lost 200 homes, several businesses and had to cope with damaged utilities and other county enterprises. This time around, residents were returning to a town that is completely intact, although the fire destroyed 63 homes west of town. Pakistani shelling along Afghan border SIRKANAY, Afghanistan (AP) — On a mountain trail toward the border with Pakistan, the explosions became louder, more constant and finally visible as puffs of smoke on distant peaks and rising from valleys. Families escaping the fusillade led donkeys strapped with mat- tresses and bags of clothes the other way, down the steep footpaths. They passed crippled trees, cratered houses, empty villages. Some of the villagers had shrapnel scars and described seeing rela- tives blown apart during a five-week artillery barrage from Pakistan. "My grandson was nine years old," said Juma Gul, a 60-year-old village elder in the Sirkanay district in eastern Afghanistan. "He and three other chil- dren were herding our goats when a rocket came. All four were killed. We could not find most of their bodies." A loud crack sounded and rolled over the peaks. Gul swept his hand toward the mountain range rising toward Pakistan. "Still the rockets are landing here," he said. The shelling in Kunar province is tak- ing place along one of the most strategi- cally important fronts of the war — a haven for hardcore insurgent groups fighting in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Military hopes new type commander will avert chaos PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort. The officers, called dual-status com- manders, would be able to lead both active-duty and National Guard troops — a power that requires special training and authority because of legal restric- tions on the use of the armed forces on U.S. soil. No one commander had that authority in the aftermath of Katrina, and military and civilian experts say the lack of coordination contributed to the night- marish delays, duplications and gaps in the huge rescue effort. "It was just like a solid wall was between the two entities," said Georgia National Guard Col. Michael Scholes, who was part of the Katrina response. Top Defense Department officials believe dual-status commanders are the key to reducing at least some of those failures. With turn in Strauss- Kahn case, some experts say DA will have to drop it NEW YORK (AP) — At first, prose- cutors said their sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was growing more formidable by the day. Six weeks later, they said his accuser's histo- ry of lying raised major red flags, but they weren't dropping the case, at least for now. With the former International Monetary Fund leader freed from house arrest because the case has weakened, prosecutors aren't saying what their next move may be. Some legal experts say prosecutors will all but have to abandon the case because of the damage to the accuser's overall credibility, even if they believe Strauss-Kahn attacked the woman, a housekeeper at a New York City hotel where he was staying. Still, at least one former high-level prosecutor thinks the case isn't doomed. For now, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is saying only that prosecutors will keep investigating "until we have uncovered all relevant facts." "Sometimes the road to get to the truth has twists and turns in it, which are not always apparent at the outset," he said in a statement Sunday. 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