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Obma apologizes for NATO
Q uran burning.incident

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at the London Conference on
Somalia, Thursday Feb. 23, 2012.
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disperse the crowds.
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with Afghan security forces
tUL, Afghanistan (AP) - that left at least five demonstra-
rnt Barack Obama apolo- tors dead. A Norwegian soldier
:o Afghans yesterday for was wounded by a hand grenade
rning of Qurans at a U.S. hurled into a coalition compound.
y base, trying to assuage On Wednesday, six people
anti-American sentiment died in protests in Kabul and
Afghan soldier gunned three other provinces.
wo American troops dur- The civil unrest comes at a
other day of angry pro- time when Afghan President
Hamid Karzai is trying to nego-
U.S.-led military coalition tiate a long-term partnership
e Muslim holy books were agreement with the United
y mistake to a garbage States to govern the activities of
it at Bagram Air Field and U.S. forces in Afghanistan after
te is under investigation. 2014, when most foreign combat
xplanation and multiple troops will have left or taken on
es from U.S. officials have support roles.
alm outrage over the inci- Karzai called for calm until an
vhich has also heightened investigation is completed, but
between international the incident highlighted the fit-
and their Afghan part- ful and often strained relation-
ship of the two nations.
usands of protesters, some White House press secretary
xg "Long live Islam!" and Jay Carney told reporters aboard
to America!" staged Air Force One that Obama's apol-
strations across Afghani- ogy to Karzai was "appropri-
r a third day. Protesters ate given the sensitivity" of the
d the walls of a U.S. base issue. He said the apology was
east, threw stones inside part of a three-page letter to the
dorned an outside wall Afghan leader. Presidential apol-
he Taliban's trademark ogies are rare, but he noted that

former White House press sec-
retary Dana Perino apologized
on behalf of President George W.
Bush in 2008 after a U.S. service-
man shot a Quran.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman
for the National Security Coun-
cil at the White House, said
Obama's letter, which addressed
issues being negotiated in the
partnership document, was
delivered by Ryan Crocker, the
U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
In the letter, Obama expressed
"regret and apologies over the
incident in which religious mate-
rials were unintentionally 'mis-
handled." Vietor said
Karzai met Thursday with
parliamentarians - many of
whom had been particularly
vitriolic Wednesday in calling
for Afghans to wage a holy war
against international forces. The
Afghan president told the law-
makers they were right to raise
their voices against the desecra-
tion of Islam's holy book, but said
a government investigation was
the appropriate way to handle
the case, according to a state-
ment issued by his office.
The statement said Karzai
told the lawmakers that a U.S.
officer responsible for the burn-
ing "didn't understand" what he
was doing and that the United
States had "accepted the mistake
of its officer."

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Leaders demand
progress from East
African cocntry
LONDON (AP) - World lead-
ers pledged new help to tackle
terrorism and piracy in Somalia,
but insisted yesterday that the
troubled East African nation must
quickly form a stable government
and threatened penalties against
those who hamper its progress.
Nations pledged new fund-
ing, additional training for sol-
diers and coast guards, increased
cooperation over terrorism and a
new drive to root out those who
finance and profit from piracy,
after the shipping industry paid
out $135 million in ransoms last
year.
"For two decades Somalia
has been torn apart by famine,
bloodshed and some of the worst
poverty on earth," British Prime
Minister David Cameron said,
as 55 nations and international
organizations, including Somalia's
United Nations-backed transi-
tional government, U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
and U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon attended the talks.
"If the rest of us just sit back
and look on, we will pay a price for

doingso," he added.
Cameron warned that Somalia's
al-Qaida linked militant group al-
Shabab could export terrorism
to Europe and the United States,
with dozens of British and Ameri-
can citizenstraveling to Somaliato
train and fight with the Islamists.
Somalia has had transitional
administrations for the past seven
years, but has not had a function-
ing central government since 1991,
when warlords overthrew a long-
time dictator and turned on each
other, plunging the nation into
chaos.
In a joint communique, leaders
hailed tentative signs of progress
- with pirate attacks in decline
and al-Shabab largely driven out
of the capital Mogadishu by an
African Union peacekeeping mis-
sion.
Despite differences expressed
over the role of al-Shabab in
Somalia's political future, the
summit conclusions called for "all
those willing to reject violence to
join" the country's U.N.-led peace
process. Nations also agreed to
"develop a defectors' program to
support those who leave armed
groups."
Clinton insisted the mandate of
Somalia's transitional government
must end as planned in August,
and warned travel bans and asset

freezes could be imposed against
anyone who attempts to stall polit-
ical progress.
Both a new president and new
legislators are due to be elected,
although the details of how elec-
tions will be carried out have not
yet been agreed. Somalia's bloated
Parliament, currently over 500
legislators, is due be cut in half to
form an upper and lower house
with 225 members and 54 sena-
tors.
"It's time to buckle down and
do the work that will bring stabil-
ity to Somalia for the first time in
tmatny of its people's lives," Clinton
told the conference.
Somalia's weak transitional
administration - which holds
Mogadishu with the support of
about 10,000 African Union sol-
diers - has been boosted after
the U.N. on Wednesday approved
an increase in the size of the AU
peacekeeping mission, known as
AMISOM, to about 17,700.
Al-Shabab, which earlier this
month formalized its relationship
with al-Qaida, is being hit from
three sides in Somalia: Pressed
out of Mogadishu by AMISOM
soldiers, while Kenyan forces who
moved into Somalia in October
pressure the militants from the
south and Ethiopian forces sweep
in from the west.

Palin before resignation: I
ust can't take it anymore

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Former Alaska
governor's e-mails
released
JUNEAU, Alaska(AP)-- In the
final months before she resigned
as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin
displayed growing frustration
over deteriorating relationships
with state lawmakers and their
perceived efforts to "lame duck"
her administration, along with
outrage over ethics complaints

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her and prompted her to write: "I
can't take it anymore."
The details are included
in more than 17,000 records
released yesterday by state offi-
cials - nearly 3 1/2 years after
citizens and news organizations,
including The Associated Press,
first requested Palin's emails.
By the spring of 2009, the
emails show, Palin was regularly
butting heads with lawmakers
of both parties over her absences
from the Capitol and over her
picks for vacancies in the state
Senate and her own cabinet. The
emails she sent to staff illustrate
Palin's growing suspicion that
those legislators were seeking
to undermine her administra-
tion by harping on how often she
was away from Juneau, the state
capitol.
She asked her aides to tally
how many days she was out of
Alaska in 2008. The staff came
up with 94 days, but 10 less if you
count travel days when she was
in the state part of the day, The
absences included all of October
and mostof September while she
was on the campaign trail as the
GOP vice presidential candidate.
"It's unacceptable, and there
must be push back on their
attempts to lame duck this
administration," Palin wrote to
her top aides on April 9. "That's
only going to get worse as they
try to pull more bs and capital-
ize on me being out of the capitol
building for 36 hours."
Palin also asked her aides to
see if they could hold certain
legislators' "feet to the fire" and
hold votes on her nominees. She
wrote words of encouragement
to Wayne Anthony Ross, her
nominee for attorney general,
tellinghim to "stay strong."
"Those who want to turn this
into a kangaroo court will soon
see you confirmed as Alaska's
AG," Palin wrote.
Ross was not confirmed, the
first ever cabinet level candidate
rejected by the Alaska Legisla-
ture. Palin traveled to an anti-
abortion rally in Indiana the day
he was defeated.
Tim Crawford, treasurer of
Sarah Palin's political action
committee, encouraged every-
one to read the emails. "They
show a governor hard at work for.
her state," he said.
The emails are the last of her
emails from her time as gover-
nor, according to Alaska state
officials. Citizens and news
organizations, including the AP,
first requested Palin's emails in
September 2008, as part of her
vetting as the Republican vice
presidential nominee. The state
released a batch of the emails

last June, a lag of nearly three
years that was attributed to the
sheer volume of the records and
the flood of requests stemming
from Palin's tenure.
The 24,199 pages of emails that
were released last year left off in
September 2008. When it became
clear that the June release would
not include all the emails from
Palin's tenure last June, 'equests
were then made for the remain-
ing emails. Thursday's release
includes 17,736 records, or 34,820
pages, generally spanning from
October 2008 until Palin's res-
ignation, in July 2009. Of those,
13,791 records were released
without redactions, according
to the governor's office. Another
965 documents were withheld.
Several media organizations,
including msnbe.com, said they
were not informed of Thursday's
release.
Sharon Leighow; a spokes-
woman for the current governor,
Sean Parnell, said records in the
governor's office indicated that
MSNBC.com did not request the
second group of emails but she
said a CD containing the docu-
ments was being sent to their
offices because it contained
emails inadvertently omitted
fromthe first release.
Palin's frustration over a series
of ethics complaints filed against
her, one of the issues she cited
when stepping down, emerges in
a series of e-mails on March 24,
2009.
"These are the things that
waste my time and money, and
the state's time and money," she
wrote to then-Lt. Gov. Parnell.
In an April 2009 email, she
commiserated over a story indi-
cating another ethics complaint
was to be filed: "Unflippinbeliev-
able... I'm sending this because
you can relate to the bullerap con-
tinuation of the hell these people
put the family through," she
wrote to Ivy Frye, an aide during
the first part of her term, and to
Frank Bailey.
Later that day, in an email to
her husband and two top aides,
on the issue, she said: "I can't take
it anymore."
The first batch of emails
released last June, before she
announced she would not run for
president, showed that Palin was
angling for the vice presidential
slot months before John McCain
picked her to be his running
mate. Those records produced
no bombshells, while painting a
picture of an image-conscious,
driven leader, struggling with the
gossip about her family and mar-
riage, involved in the day-to-day
duties of running the state and
keeping tabs on the signature
issues of her administration.

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