2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 15, 2006
NATION/WORLD
Google may be forced to
turn over its Internet records
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ALEXANDRIA,Va.
Death penalty possible for Moussaoui
Bush hopes records will
help revive law meant
to shield children from
Internet pornography
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A fed-
eral judge said yesterday he intends to
order Google Inc. to turn over some of
its Internet records to the U.S. Justice
Department, but expressed reservations
about requiring the company to divulge
some of its most sensitive data - the
actual requests that people enter into its
popular search engine.
U.S. District Judge James Ware told
the Justice Department it can expect
to get at least some of the informa-
tion sought from Google as part of
the Bush administration's effort to
revive a law meant to shield children
from online pornography.
But Ware stressed he was "particular-
ly concerned" about the Justice Depart-
ment's demand for a random sample of
search requests entered into Google's
Internet-leading search engine.
The judge said he didn't want to
do anything to create the perception
that Internet search engines and other
large online databases could become
tools for government surveillance. He
seemed less concerned about requir-
ing Google to supply the govern-
ment with a random list of Web sites
indexed by the company.
Ware said he planned to issue a writ-
ten ruling quickly.
After the 90-minute hearing,
Google attorney Nicole Wong said
the company was pleased with Ware's
thoughtful questions. A Justice
Department lawyer wasn't immedi-
ately available after the hearing and
an agency spokesman didn'timmedi-
ately return calls.
During the hearing, another
Google attorney, Albert Gidari, tried
to persuade Ware that the government
could get virtually all the informa-
tion it wanted from publicly accessi-
ble services offered by Amacon.com
Inc.'s Alexa.com and InfoSpace Inc.'s
Dogpile.com.
Yesterday marked the first time
that Google and the Justice Depart-
ment have faced off in court over
a government subpoena issued
nearly seven months ago. The Jus-
tice Department initially wanted a
breakdown of search requests and
website addresses from Google
for a study that the government
believes will prove filtering soft-
ware doesn't prevent children from
viewing sexually explicit material
on the Internet.
Google refused to hand over the
information, even as three other major
search engines turned over some of the
requested data. Mountain View-based
Google maintained the government's
request would intrude on its users' pri-
vacy and its trade secrets.
Google's protests prompted the govern-
ment to scale back its requests dramatically.
Justice Department attorney Joel McElvain
told Ware yesterday that the government
now wants a random sampling of 50,000
website addresses indexed by Google and
the text of 5,000 random search requests.
McElvain said just 10,000 of the
Web sites and 1,000 of the search
requests would be used in a study
for a Pennsylvania case revolving
around the online child pornogra-
phy law that has been blocked by the
U.S. Supreme Court. That case is
scheduled for an Oct. 23 trial.
The Justice Department plans to use
the search requests to show how easy its
for online pornographers to fool Inter-
net filters, hoping that it will help dem-
onstrate the need for a tougher law to
protect children from the material.
Iraq edges doser to open civil warfae
*87 corpses found in
Baghdad appear to be
retaliation for a mortar
attack earlier this week
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi authorities
discovered at least 87 corpses - men
shot to death execution-style - as Iraq
edged closer to open civil warfare.
Twenty-nine of the bodies, dressed only
in underwear, were dug out of a single
grave yesterday in a Shiite neighbor-
hood of Baghdad.
The bloodshed appeared to be retali-
ation for a bomb and mortar attack in
the Sadr City slum that killed at least 58
people and wounded more than 200 two
days earlier.
Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan
Jabr, meanwhile, told The Associated
Press security officials had foiled a
plot that would have put hundreds of
al-Qaida men at critical guard posts
around Baghdad's heavily fortified
Green Zone, home to the U.S. and
other foreign embassies, as well as
the Iraqi government.
A senior Defense Ministry official
said the 421 al-Qaida fighters were
recruited to storm the U.S. and British
embassies and take hostages. Several
ranking Defense Ministry officials
have been jailed in the plot, said the
official, speaking on condition of ano-
nymity because of the sensitivity of
the information.
Police began unearthing bodies early
Monday, although the discoveries were
not immediately reported. The grue-
some finds continued throughout the
day yesterday, police said, marking the
second wave of sectarian retribution
killings since bombers destroyed an
important Shiite shrine last month.
In the mayhem after the golden
dome atop the Askariya shrine in
Samarra was destroyed on Feb. 22,
more than 500 people have been
killed, many of them Sunni Muslims
and their clerics. Dozens of mosques
were damaged or destroyed.
Underlining the vast unease in the
capital, Interior Ministry officials
announced another driving ban, from 8
The judge in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing case decided yesterday to allow
the government to continue to seek the death penalty against the confessed al-
Qaida conspirator.
But, exasperated by mounting government missteps, Judge Leonie Brinkema
ruled that no testimony about aviation security measures would be allowed during
the trial into whether Moussaoui is executed or spends life in prison.
Prosecutors had said previously that testimony from aviation officials would
comprise half their case.
The judge postponed resumption of the trial until Monday to give prosecutors
time to decide whether to appeal her order.
The government's case originally had two parts. Prosecutors intended to show
active steps the FBI could have taken and defensive measures aviation officials
could have taken to thwart the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks if Moussaoui had not lied
about his terroristconnections when he was arrested a month earlier.
JERICHO, West Bank
Israeli troops try to seize militant leader
Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run
prison in the West Bank yesterday to seize a Palestinian militant leader and his
accomplices in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister.
The dramatic 10-hour standoff ignited an unprecedented spasm of violence
against foreigners across the Palestinian areas. Aid workers, teachers and journal-
ists took refuge at Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza as militants attacked
offices linked to the U.S. and Europe, burning cars and torching the British Coun-
cil building in Gaza City.
Gunmen kidnapped at least 10 foreigners, including an American teacher; after
nightfall, three were still in captivity - two French citizens and a South Korean
journalist. Three Palestinians were killed in the prison raid.
It was the most widespread violence since Hamas militants swept Palestinian
parliamentary elections Jan. 25 - and could foreshadow broader confrontations
between Israel and the Palestinians.
TAMPA, Fla.
Autopsy: Boot camp boy's death not natural
A second autopsy indicates that a 14-year-old boy who was punched and
kicked by guards at a juvenile boot camp may not have died of natural causes
as a medical examiner initially ruled, prosecutors said yesterday.
Martin Lee Anderson was sent to the Bay County Sheriff's Office boot camp on
Jan. 5 for a probation violation. A surveillance video showed guards kicking and
punching him after he collapsed while exercising on his first day at the camp, and he
died at a hospital early the next day.
The second autopsy was ordered after his parents questioned the findings of Bay
County's medical examiner, who concluded the teenager died from complications of
sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder.
The new autopsy was conducted Monday by Hillsborough County Medical Examiner
Vernard Adams and observed on behalf of Anderson's family by Dr. Michael Baden, a
noted pathologist. Baden said it was clear the teen did not die from sickle cell trait, or from
any other natural causes.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.
Mine owner blames lighting for Sago blast
An explosion that killed 12 workers at the Sago Mine likely was caused
by a massive lightning strike that ignited methane gas in a sealed-off area,
the mine's owner said yesterday.
The company's own investigation turned up three pieces of compelling evidence of a
lightning strike, all from 6:26 am. on Jan. 2, said Ben Hatfield, chief executive officer of
International Coal Group Inc.
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Unidentified masked gunmen fire at a government building in Ramadi,
Iraq yesterday.
p.m. today to 4 p.m. tomorrow to protect
against car and suicide bombs while the
Iraqi parliament meets for the first ses-
sion since the Dec. 15 election.
After the driving ban was announced,
the Cabinet said tomorrow will be a hol-
iday in the capital, presumably because
residents would not be able to get to
work. Restrictions on movement also
had been put in place on the two week-
ends after the Samarra bombing in an
attempt to quell the violence.
New report says Milosevic had access to drugs
Former Serb President
took, drugs to undermine
medications he was
prescribed for his heart
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -
Slobodan Milosevic had regular access to
drugs and alcohol smuggled into his prison'
cell, yet the U.N. war crimes tribunal failed
to take action despite warnings, tribunal
officials said yesterday.
Two officials told The Associated
Press the unit's prison warden had cau-
tioned the tribunal president and registrar
that as a result, Milosevic's health could
not be guaranteed.
Nevertheless, they said, no action was
taken to tighten supervision. The officials
spoke on condition of anonymity because
of the tribunal's strict confidentiality rules.
The officials, who had access-to con-
fidential reports on Milosevic's incar-
ceration, were countering allegations by
Milosevic's loyalists that the former Serb
president was poisoned or unwittingly
given harmful drugs. They said two
doctors had concluded that Milosevic
intentionally took drugs that undermined
the medicine prescribed for his heart ail-
ments, in order to slow the pace of his
war crimes trial.
Hours earlier, Milosevic's son alleged
his father was murdered in custody. "He
got killed. He didn't die. He got killed.
There's a murder," Marko Milosevic told
AP Television News aboard a flight to the
Netherlands to claim the body.
Prison warden Timothy McFadden
refused interview requests, and U.N.
tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Mile-
nov said the court could not comment
"because the investigation into Milose-
vic's death is ongoing."
Milosevic, who presided over four Bal-
kan wars and the breakup of Yugoslavia
that cost some 250,000 lives, died of a
heart attack in bed in his jail cell, accord-
ing to preliminary autopsy findings. His
body was found Saturday.
Milosevic's body was handed over to
his son yesterday evening. The family
lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, and Milorad
Vucelic, vice-president of the Socialist
Party of Serbia, said the burial would be
held in Serbia - an announcement that
appeared to end a day of confusion over
whether Milosevic's funeral would be in
Belgrade or in Moscow, where his son and
widow, Mirjana Markovic, live.
A Belgrade court suspended an arrest
warrant for Milosevic's widow but also
ordered her passport seized if she returns
to Serbia. Markovic, considered the power
behind the throne during Milosevic's auto-
cratic rule in the 1990s, faces charges of
abuse of power.
Four Russian medical experts came to
the Netherlands yesterday to examine the
autopsy results, saying they distrusted the
findings and the care Milosevic received.
Milosevic, who was defending him-
self against 66 counts of war crimes, was
allowed to work in a private office where
he could meet with witnesses and legal
advisers unsupervised, making it impos-
sible to monitor material they may have
smuggled in to him, one of the officials
told the AP.
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