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8A Daily News– Wednesday, June 6, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING Al-Qaida No. 2 dies in US drone strike in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pak- istan (AP) — A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed al- Qaida's second-in-com- mand, officials from both countries confirmed Tues- day, the most significant victory so far in the con- troversial bombing cam- paign and the biggest set- back to the terror network since the death of Osama bin Laden. Abu Yahya al-Libi was considered a media- savvy, charismatic leader with religious credentials who was helping preside over the transformation of a secretive group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan into a global movement aimed at winning converts — and potential attackers — from Somalia to the Philippines. This was not the first time the U.S. had al-Libi in its sights: He was orig- inally captured a decade ago and held by American forces at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan until he escaped in 2005 in an embarrassing security breach. Soon thereafter, he began appearing in videos in which he talked about the lessons he learned while watching his captors, whom he described as cowardly, lost and alienated. spokesman Jay Carney called al-Libi's death a ''major blow'' to the group. Carney described al-Libi as an operational leader and a ''general manager'' of al-Qaida. He said al-Libi had a range of experience that will be hard for al-Qaida to repli- cate and brings the terror White House network closer to its ulti- mate demise than ever before. ''His death is part of the degradation that has been taking place to core al-Qaida during the past several years and that degradation has depleted the ranks to such an extent that there's no clear suc- cessor,'' Carney said. Wisconsin holds recall targeting Gov. Walker MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After a brief but bruis- ing campaign that fol- lowed a more than year- long fight over union rights and Wisconsin's cash-strapped budget, voters in the narrowly divided state began cast- ing ballots Tuesday on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker. The first-term Republi- are just happy to have the election over,'' he said. ''I think most voters of the state want to have all the attack ads off. They want to have their TVs back. They want to have their lives back.'' Senate GOP blocks Dems' can was back on the ballot just a year and a half after his election. Enraged Democrats and labor activists gathered more than 900,000 signatures in support of the recall after they failed to stop Walker and his GOP allies in the state Legislature from stripping most public employees of their union right to collectively bar- gain. Walker faces a rematch with Democratic Milwau- kee Mayor Tom Barrett, whom he beat in 2010 by 5 percentage points, as he tries to become the first U.S. governor to success- fully fend off a recall. At an elementary school in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa where he cast his ballot not long after polls opened at 7 a.m., Walker said voting day almost came as a relief. ''I think most people equal pay bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Demo- cratic bill calling for equal pay in the work- place. But President Barack Obama and his congressional allies aren't finished appealing to women on the No. 1 con- cern for all voters: the cash in their wallets on the heels of recession. As expected, the pay equity bill failed along party lines, 52-47, short of the required 60-vote threshold. But for majori- ty Democrats, passage wasn't the only point. The debate itself was aimed at putting Republicans on the defensive on yet another women's issue, this one overtly economic after a government report showing slower-than- expected job growth. ''It is incredibly disap- pointing that in this make- or-break moment for the middle class, Senate Republicans put partisan politics ahead of Ameri- can women and their fam- ilies,'' Obama said in a statement after the vote. ''Even Mitt Romney has refused to publicly oppose this legislation,'' added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. ''He should show some leader- ship.'' Unlike past taunts over access to contraception and abortion, Republicans this time didn't take the bait. box at the National Archives late last month. The Army surgeon, who sat 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford's Theater that night in April 1865, saw assassin John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage, brandishing a dagger. Thinking Lincoln had been stabbed, Leale pushed his way to the vic- tim but found a different injury. ''I commenced to exam- ine his head (as no wound near the shoulder was found) and soon passed my fingers over a large firm clot of blood situated about one inch below the superior curved line of the occipital bone,'' Leale reported. ''The coagula I easily removed and passed the lit- tle finger of my left hand through the perfectly smooth opening made by the ball.'' covered the report believe it was filed, packed in a box, stored at the archives and not seen for 147 years. While it doesn't add much new information about the tragedy, ''it's the first draft'' of history, said Daniel Stow- ell, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. The historians who dis- 9 jurors picked for Sandusky sex abuse trial BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Connections to Penn State weren't enough to keep prospec- tive jurors from being chosen to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate on child sexual abuse charges. The start of jury selec- tion Tuesday showed the strength of Sandusky's and Penn State's links to their rural central Penn- sylvania community, but the presiding judge indi- cated that those connec- tions weren't necessarily enough to keep them from being one of the 12 jurors or four alternates. tion to Canada. Authorities said Luka Magnotta, 29, could be returned to Canada as early as this week. He is wanted by Canadian authorities on suspicion of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year- old Chinese student he dated. Video footage of what authorities believe to be the killing seems to show the suspect eating the body, Canadian police said Tuesday — the latest gruesome detail in a case that emerged when a package containing a sev- ered foot was opened at Canada's ruling Conserva- tive Party Headquarters on May 29. Nine jurors were selected Tuesday, includ- ing a longtime Penn State football season tick- etholder. In the first questioning of 40 prospective jurors, about half said they or immediate family mem- bers worked at Penn State or were university retirees. One woman rent- ed apartments to college students. Four knew San- dusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach. Two knew his wife. won the right to have jurors chosen from the local community, and prosecutors had concerns that Centre County might prove to be nearly syn- onymous with Penn State. Sandusky had helped build the football team's reputation as a defensive powerhouse known as ''Linebacker U,'' his arrest toppled Joe Paterno from the head coaching position just months before his death from can- cer, and some of the alleged attacks on chil- dren occurred inside uni- versity showers. Sandusky's lawyer Canadian body parts suspect may have eaten victim MONTREAL (AP) — The Canadian porn actor suspected of dismember- ing and eating his former lover partied in Paris and evaded police for days before he was caught in Berlin, authorities said Tuesday. The suspect told German authorities he would not fight extradi- Shortly after the killing, authorities say, Magnotta flew from Mon- treal to Paris. Scores of French police hunting for him were inundated with hundreds of tips and alleged sightings of the suspect, whose photo was splashed in newspaper papers, TV screens and websites worldwide, thanks to an Interpol alert. The suspect monitored news reports about what police knew and took steps to evade authorities. Witnesses contacted French police with claims of having seen Magnotta partying in the Bastille area of east Paris, said Christophe Crepin, a police union official who shared details about the manhunt in a phone inter- view with The Associated Press. One tipster said Magnotta drank a late- night Coca-Cola at a bar in the northwestern Batig- nolles quarter, which police collected for finger- prints. Pornography mag- azines and an air-sickness bag from the plane he had taken from Montreal to Paris were found in a dingy hotel room where he stayed in Bagnolet, northeast of Paris. Report of first doctor to reach Lincoln found SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought imme- diately. of efforts to help the mortal- ly wounded president, writ- ten just hours after his death, was discovered in a First lady walks fine line on NYC plan to ban sugary drinks WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama says banning big servings of sugary drinks isn't anything she'd want to do at the federal level, but she offered some kind words Tuesday for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to do just that. She later issued a statement backing away from taking a stand on New York's controversial pro- posed ban. It was a telling example of the fine line the first lady walks as she tries to improve Americans' health and eating habits without provoking complaints that she's part of any ''nanny state'' telling people how to eat or raise their children. Asked about Bloomberg's proposal dur- ing an interview with The Associated Press, Mrs. Obama said there's no ''one-size-fits-all'' solution for the country's health challenges. But she said, ''We applaud anyone who's stepping up to think about what changes work in their communities. New York is one example.'' And asked whether the nation's obesity epidemic warrants taking a more aggressive approach, such as Bloomberg's, she said: ''There are people like Mayor Bloomberg who are, and that is perfectly fine.'' Mrs. Obama later issued a statement saying that she hadn't intended to weigh in on the Bloomberg plan ''one way or the other.'' cannibalism BALTIMORE (AP) — A victim left partially blinded by a baseball bat attack at a Maryland uni- versity now believes a cannibalism suspect in another case may have been planning to eat his organs, too, his attorney said Tuesday. Bat attack victim now suspects Leale's long-lost report When 22-year-old Joshua Ceasar regained consciousness after the attack last month at a Morgan State University dormitory apartment, he saw Alex Kinyua standing over him with a knife, said attorney Steve Silver- man. Days later, Kinyua told investigators that he had eaten the heart and brain of a family friend he is charged with killing at his family's home in Jop- patowne, according to charging documents.