2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 15, 2006 NATION/WORLD Google may be forced to turn over its Internet records 0 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. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 0 0 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. be Abw at 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com DoNN M. FIUEsARD Editor in Chief fresard@michigandaily.com 647-3336 . 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