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8A Daily News – Friday, October 19, 2012 Scout 1959-1985 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Again and again, decade after decade, an array of authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others accused of molesting chil- dren, a newly opened trove of confidential papers shows. "perversion" files from At the time, those authorities justified their actions as necessary to protect the good name and good works of Scout- ing, a pillar of 20th centu- ry America. But as detailed in 14,500 pages of secret ''perversion files'' released Thursday by order of the Oregon Supreme Court, their maneuvers allowed sexual predators to go free while victims suffered in silence. The files are a window on a much larger collec- tion of documents the Boy Scouts of America began collecting soon after their founding in 1910. The files, kept at Boy Scout headquarters in Texas, consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents and newspaper clippings about legal cases. The files contain details about proven molesters, but also unsubstantiated allega- tions. Said Omar after deliberat- ing for about eight hours over two days. Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis did not set a sen- tencing date. Omar, 46, nodded qui- etly as an interpreter gave him the bad news. As he was being led from the courtroom, he held up his hands and smiled at his brothers and other sup- porters of his in the court- room gallery. attorneys, Jon Hopeman, said outside of court after- ward that Omar will appeal the verdict. He said he plans to scrutinize secretly recorded wiretaps of conversations involv- ing Omar that weren't made available to the defense team. Omar, a mosque jani- One of his defense tor, was the first man to stand trial in the govern- ment's investigation into what it says was the recruitment of more than 20 men who have left Minnesota since 2007 to join al-Shabab, a U.S.- designated terrorist group linked to al-Qaida that's blamed for much of the violence that has plagued the East African country. Depiction of Beirut in TV series The allegations stretch across the country and to military bases overseas, from a small town in the Adirondacks to down- town Los Angeles. At the news conference Thursday, Portland attor- ney Kelly Clark blasted the Boy Scouts for their continuing legal battles to try to keep the full trove of files secret. Minnesota man irks some BEIRUT (AP) — Mili- tants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world's No. 1 jihadi has arrived for a meeting with top Hezbol- lah commanders. On rooftops, U.S. snipers crouch unseen, the king- pin in their crosshairs at last. 'Homeland' convicted of helping send men to Somalia MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man accused of helping send young men through a ter- rorist pipeline from Min- nesota to Somalia was convicted Thursday on all five charges he faced, includ- ing one that could land him in prison for life. The jury returned its verdict against Mahamud terrorism-related The scene, from a recent episode of the hit U.S. Showtime series ''Homeland,'' is supposed to be Beirut. But it is real- ly in Israel, a country sim- ilar enough in some areas to stand in for Lebanon, yet a world away in most other respects. The show about Arab terrorists and American turncoats has inadvertent- ly become a tale of two cities. Some Beirutis are angry because the depic- tion of their city as swarming with militia- men is misleading and because they see Israel as the enemy. And in Israel, some are peeved that Haifa and even Tel Aviv — a self-styled nightlife capital and high-tech hub — apparently appear, to outsiders at least, to be Middle Eastern after all. Lebanese Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud WORLD BRIEFING stylists and patrons at a hair salon, police said. Scott Dekraai is also accused of killing a man in the parking lot. He is awaiting trial on murder charges. told The Associated Press on Thursday that he's so upset about the portrayal of Beirut that he's consid- ering a lawsuit. ''The information min- ister is studying media laws to see what can be done,'' he said. Texas judge rules for over Bible AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge stopped an East Texas school district on Thursday from barring cheerleaders from quoting Bible verses on banners at high school football games, saying the policy appears to violate their free speech rights. District Judge Steve Thomas granted an injunction requested by the Kountze High School cheerleaders allowing them to continue display- ing religious-themed ban- ners pending the outcome of a lawsuit, which is set to go to trial next June 24, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said. Thomas previously grant- ed a temporary restraining order allowing the prac- tice to continue. School officials barred the cheerleaders from dis- playing banners with reli- gious messages such as, ''If God is for us, who can be against us,'' after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained. The advocacy group says cheerleaders in lawsuit the messages violate the First Amendment clause barring the government — or a publicly funded school district, in this case — from establishing or endorsing a religion. Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Abbott spoke out in support of the cheerleaders on Wednes- day. Perry appointed Thomas to fill a vacancy on the 356th District Court, and he is running for election to continue in the post as a Republican. ''The Constitution has sister. Ayala said he had a daughter with Santiago and the girl lived with him. Police identified two other victims as 52-year- old Gladys Cabrera, a customer and 29-year-old Noelia Gonzalez-Brito, a salon employee. Authori- ties did not immediately identify the fourth woman who died. never demanded that stu- dents check their religious beliefs at the schoolhouse door,'' Abbott said in a statement issued after the ruling. ''Students' ability to express their religious views adds to the diversi- ty of thought that has made this country so strong.'' Gunman kills 3, self in shooting CASSELBERRY, Fla. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a central Florida beauty salon Thursday, killing three women and wounding the manager, who had asked for a restraining order against him, police said. After the rampage, the gunman went to a friend's house and killed himself. Authorities said the shooting was part of a domestic dispute, but did not elaborate. The gun- man, identified by police as Bradford Baumet, was served with a domestic violence injunction Oct. 9 and scheduled to be in court Thursday for a hear- ing with the salon's man- ager, Marcia Santiago. Their relationship was not immediately clear. About two hours before the hearing, Baumet, 36, entered Las Dominicanas M & M Salon in Casselberry and started shooting, police spokeswoman Sara Brady said. Two women hid inside a bathroom and one ran outside through a back door. Florida salon Shortly after the shoot- ing, about two dozen mourners gathered near the salon, located in a strip mall. Police taped off the parking lot and officers stood guard out- side the business. Yellow paper covered up much of the glass windows. A Dominican Republic flag hung in the storefront along with a neon sign that read: Hair Cut. Color. Perm. A witness to the salon shooting told the Orlando Sentinel he heard gun- shots before seeing the gunman flee. ''We saw the guy with the gun in his hand ... coming this way ... on foot with the gun in his hand,'' said Juan Diaz, who was at a nearby store at the time of the shoot- ing. He said he went into the salon once the gun- man left and saw ''a bunch of dead bodies.'' When Baumet went to his friends' house, he did not threaten them, but said ''he had some prob- lems, problems he could not remedy,'' Seminole County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Heather Smith said. Baumet was jailed in Orange County on Oct. 14 after an arrest for driving on a suspended license. He was released the fol- lowing day after posting $250 bond and sentenced to time-served. owner also went unan- swered. A video posted on the salon's website shows a woman explain- ing in Spanish the ser- vices offered at the salon for men and women. Casselberry is about 15 miles northeast of Orlan- do. Calls to the salon's Santiago, 44, was in serious condition at a hos- pital. She was shot five times, according to her ex-husband, William Ayala, who spoke to her A phone number listed for Baumet was discon- nected. A year ago in Orange County in Southern Cali- fornia, an angry ex-hus- band donned a bulletproof vest before killing his ex- wife and six of her fellow Harvest of Hearts 5th Annual Benefit Dinner COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES All makes and models. We perform dealer Smog Check starting at$ (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. +$ 825 certificate 2595 Homes of Hope for Victims in Domestic Violence Sat. 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''It's not the law-abid- ing citizens stacking bod- ies like cordwood in Chicago; it's the bad guys,'' he said. fend off that argument during her remarks Thurs- day. She said nearly a third of the guns recov- ered by police after being used in Chicago crimes had been purchased legal- ly, initially at least, in sub- urban Cook County. Earlier this week dur- ing a meeting with a newspaper editor board, Preckwinkle called the county's legal gun shops ''a conduit for crimes in Chicago,'' according to a transcript released by her office. Preckwinkle sought to spokeswoman Kristen Mack nor a National Rifle Association spokesman knew of any other local jurisdiction in the nation that has imposed a tax on bullets, even though some have considered it. Legis- lation on such a tax was previously introduced by state lawmakers in Springfield, but it was never been voted on, Mack said. 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