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8A Daily News – Friday, October 12, 2012 Intercepted plane carrying ammunition to Syria ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Escalating ten- sions with Russia, Turkey defended its forced land- ing of a Syrian passenger jet en route from Moscow to Damascus, saying Thursday it was carrying Russian ammunition and military equipment des- tined for the Syrian Defense Ministry. Syria branded the inci- dent piracy and Russia called the search illegal, saying it endangered the lives of Russian citizens aboard the plane. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan contradicted denials by both Russia and Syria that anything illegal had been aboard the Airbus A320 that was intercepted over Turkish airspace late Wednesday. ''Equipment and ammunitions that were being sent from a Russian agency ... to the Syrian Defense Ministry,'' were confiscated from the jet- liner, Erdogan told reporters in Ankara. ''Their examination is continuing and the neces- sary (action) will follow.'' He did not provide The accusation by details, but Turkish media said the seized cargo included missile parts as well as radio receivers, antennas and other mili- tary communications equipment. US takes financial action against street gang WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama adminis- tration declared the ultra- violent street gang MS-13 to be an international criminal group on Thurs- day, an unprecedented crackdown targeting the finances of the sprawling U.S. and Central Ameri- can gang infamous for hacking and stabbing vic- tims with machetes. The Treasury Depart- ment formally designated MS-13, or Mara Salva- trucha, a transnational criminal organization. The aim is to freeze it out of the U.S. financial sys- tem and seize what are estimated to be millions of dollars in criminal profits from drug and human smuggling and other crimes committed in this country. The gang was founded by immigrants fleeing El Salvador's civil war more than two decades ago. Its founders took lessons learned from that brutal conflict to the streets of Los Angeles and built a reputation as one of the most ruthless and sophis- ticated street gangs, according to Immigration and Customs Enforce- ment Special Agent Jason Shatarsky. With as many as 10,000 members in 46 states, the gang has expanded far beyond its initial roots. Members are accused of major crimes including murder, kidnap- ping, prostitution, drug smuggling and human trafficking. WORLD BRIEFING The 40-year-old man accused of placing the ad was among 21 people arrested in an attempt by the New York Police Department to make an example out of some of the smallest of small-time drug dealers: students, young professionals and others who clean out the medicine cabinet and then are brazen enough — and foolish enough — to offer the pills for up to $20 a pop over the Internet. ''Whether the drug deal occurs on the street corner or on the Internet, it's a crime,'' Bridget Brennan, special narcotics prosecu- tor for New York City, said Thursday in a statement announcing the arrests. Undercover narcotics investigators answered the ads and ended up buying handfuls of powerful pre- scription painkillers and other pills for a few hun- dred dollars, typically in broad daylight and in pub- lic settings such as coffee shops, Penn Station or Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The group established itself in Los Angeles before spreading across the U.S., said Shatarsky, an MS-13 expert assigned to ICE's national gang unit. The group's violence — using a machete to hack a victim to death or shooting someone in the head in broad daylight, for instance — surprised authorities and even rival gangs. 21 arrested, accused of selling pills via Craigslist NEW YORK (AP) — The Craigslist ad offered black-market Percocet pills for sale but warned poten- tial customers: ''No LE please.'' Meaning: No law enforcement. Like that made a differ- ence. ritual NEW YORK (AP) — A group of rabbis are clashing with New York City health officials over the safety of an ancient circumcision rit- ual. NYC health officials, rabbis clash over safety of circumcision Jewish groups asked a fed- eral court Thursday to block enforcement of a new regu- lation requiring written parental consent for a rite called ''metzitzah b'peh,'' in Hebrew, which city health experts said can spread infection and has killed two children since 2004. Three rabbis and three Department said it has doc- umented 11 cases of the infection since 2000 among children believed to have undergone the ritual. Ten required hospitalization. Two developed brain dam- age. Two died. Police: Search continues for missing During the ritual, the person performing the cir- cumcision attempts to cleanse the wound by suck- ing blood from the cut and spitting it aside. The saliva contact puts the infant at increased risk of getting herpes simplex, a virus that is carried harm- lessly by a large majority of adults but that can be dead- ly in newborns. New York City's Health Colorado girl WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado police looking for a 10-year-old girl who disappeared on her walk to school have found a body in a park, but are not saying whether it is linked to the case and noted Thurs- day that officers are still searching for her. 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