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10:50 pm.
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hard drive was reportedly
stolen University Police
reported. The bag was
reportdly taken from a
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Hospital
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p.m.
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work near Willowtree
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three semi-finals, students
will show off their comedic
talents. Winners are
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person who fails a drugtest.
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Islamic militants suspected peace conference unlikely
Children among
those killed in
wedding day
celebration
CAIRO (AP) - The elderly,
silver-haired Christian could
hardly speak Monday, sitting
stunned in a church where
the evening before, susbected
Islamic militants on a motor-
cycle sprayed his family's
wedding party with automatic
weapons fire, killing his son,
his wife's sister and two grand-
daughters aged 8 and 12.
"It's God's will. They are
always beating us down. Every
other day now, they do this,"
the 75-year-old Fahmy Azer
Abboud said as he waited for
their funeral to start.
He spoke haltingly of his
dead granddaughters, both
named Mariam.
"They were pure angels.
They had the world's kindness
inside them. They helped me
and shared with me everything
they had," Abboud said.
The girls were waiting to
enter the Church of the Virgin
Mary in Cairo's Warraq district
for the wedding of another of
Abboud's granddaughters when
the gunmen struck about 9 p.m.
Sunday. The wounded included
seven relatives, with his other
son, Nabil, among them, he
said.
The shooting deepened
panic among Egypt's minority
Coptic Christians, already the
target of centuries of discrimi-
nation by the Muslim major-
ity. It also raised fears that an
insurgency by Islamic extrem-
ists in the strategic Sinai Penin-
sula and an increase in attacks
in rural areas maybe shifting to
the capital, a city of 18 million
people already beset by crime
and poverty.
The violence by Islamic radi-
cals has risen since the military
deposed President Moham-
med Morsi in July and cracked
down on his Muslim Brother-
hood and its allies. The attacks
have targeted mainly security
forces and Christians, whom
the Islamists blame because of
their strong support of Morsi's
ouster. In Sinai, suspected
jihadist fighters have stepped
up violence against soldiers and
police since the coup.
Sunday's shooting also
recalled an Islamic militant
insurgency in the 1980s and.
1990s, when extremists waged
a campaign against police,
Christians and foreign tourists,
trying to topple the govern-
ment of now-ousted autocrat
Hosni Mubarak. Many fear a
revival of that wave of violence.
High-profile attacks blamed
on militants have already
begun to creep into Cairo. In
September, the interior minis-
ter, who heads the police, sur-
vived an assassination attempt
by a suicide car bombing. Ear-
lier this month, militants fired
rocket-propelled grenades on
the nation's largest satellite
ground station, also in the capi-
tal.
8 9 5 6 Witnesses said a car blocked
traffic outside the Coptic
8 3 7 church minutes before the
shooting, allowing the gunmen
on the motorcycle the space
3 they needed and giving them a
relatively easy getaway.
6 8 5 1 The funeral of the four
victims was attended by sev-
eral thousand Christians who
spelled into the street. Their
grief was mixed with anger and
9 7 4 6 disbelief
"With our blood and souls,
2 5 we will redeem-the cross," they
chanted as the four coffins
were about to be brought into
the church.
Addressing the mourners,
6 4 1 9 a young member of the choir
said: "Even in these circum-
stances, we can only talkof the
heavens above and ask for the
help of Christ."
Crisis continues
with more than
100,000 killed,
2-million displaced
BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's presi-
dent cast doubt Monday on
the chances of holding a long-
delayed international peace
conference to end the country's
civil war, saying the factors that
would help such talks succeed
do not currently exist.
The United States and Russia
have been trying for months to
convene a conference in Geneva
to negotiate a political solution
to a conflict that has killed more
than 100,000 people and forced
some 2 million more to flee the
country. The U.N. chief has set
mid-November as a target for
the proposed gathering, but
both Damascus and the opposi-
tion are skeptical and no final
date has been announced.
President Bashar Assad
brushed aside the renewed
efforts to coax the government
and its opponents to the negoti-
ating table, telling Lebanon's Al-
Mayadeen TV in an interview
that "the factors that would help
in holding it (the conference) are
not in place if we want it to suc-
ceed."
He said it's not clear who
would represent the opposition,
or what credibility the opposi-
tion's representatives would
have inside Syria.
"Who are the groups that will
participate? What is their rela-
tion with the Syrian people? Do
they represent the Syrian people
or they represent the country
that made them?" Assad asked,
alluding to his government's
claim that the rebels are agents
of Western and Arab powers.
"There are many questions
about the conference."
For its part, Syria's fractured
opposition has yet to decide
whether to attend the proposed
Geneva conference.
The main Western-backed
in Istanbul to decide whether
to take part in the talks. One
prominent faction within the
Coalition, the Syrian National
Council, has said it has no faith
in negotiations with Assad's
regime and won't participate in
any Geneva negotiations.
The ability of the Turkey-
based Coalition to speak for the
broader rebellion has long been in
dispute, and fighters inside Syria
- many of whom reject nego-
tiations with the regime - have
accused the opposition leaders in
exile of being out of touch with
reality on the ground. The Coali-
tion's already strained credibility
took a major hit last month when
nearly a dozen prominent rebel
groups publicly broke with the
opposition umbrella group. More
rebel brigades have since fol-
lowed suit.
Assad, meanwhile, has man-
aged in the past six months to
restore a sense of stability to his
government's hold on power,
shaken by losing large chunks
of the country to the rebels in
2012.
Dressed in a blue suit and
exuding confidence, Assad
used much of the interview to
denounce Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and Turkey for supporting the
rebellion against him. But he also
addressed the issue of his future
in the country and presidential
elections planned for 2014."
"I don't see any reason that
prevents me from running for
the next elections," he said. "It is
still early to talk about it. We can
only discuss it at the time when
the presidential elections date is
announced."
Much of the opposition says
no peaceful transition is possible
unless Assad leaves power.
The president also said that he
is willing to take part in peace
talks, but reiterated his previ-
ously stated position that he will
not negotiate with the armed
opposition unless they give up
their arms first.
stumbled repeatedly, while the
violence inside the country has
raged on, exacting a terrible toll
on the civilian population.
Residents of one besieged
rebel-held suburb of Damascus
issued an urgent plea Monday
for the international commu-
nity to save them.from starva-
tion and constant bombardment
after efforts to evacuate civil-
ians from the area collapsed this
week.
For months, government
troops have blocked food and
supplies from entering the sub-
urb of Moadamiyeh west of the
capital, activists say. Around
3,000 residents of the suburb
were able to flee the area late last
month during a rare, temporary
cease-fire.
Aid agencies say Syrians
across the country face diffi-
culties getting food, but hun-
ger in the rebel-held suburbs of
Damascus, largely surrounded
by government territory, is par-
ticularly acute.
In an open letter circulated
by the opposition's Coalition,
Moadamiyeh residents pleaded
with the international commu-
nity for help.
"Save us from death. Save us
from the hell of Assad's killing
machine," the letter said.
The Coalition called on inter-
national organizations to estab-
lish a humanitarian corridor
to allow food into the area. On
Saturday, the United Nation's
humanitarian chief Valerie
Amos called for an "immediate
pause" in clashes to allow civil-
ians to leave.
A spokesman for the Moad-
amiyeh council, Qusai Zakarya,
confirmed that local residents
had sent the letter to the Coali-
tion asking for help.
"We are heading toward a
definite destiny: starvation," he
said via Skype, with the clap of
shelling and the thumping of a
helicopter audible in the back-
ground.
opposition umbrella group, International diplomatic
the Syrian National Coalition, , efforts to broker a political reso-
is scheduled to meet Nov. 1-2 lution to Syria's civil war have
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