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(CNN) -- Sharp-witted. Direct. In control. Loyal.

Jenny Sanford, here with her husband, was a Wall Street executive before she married Mark Sanford.

That's how friends describe Jenny Sanford, the wife of Gov. Mark Sanford, who confessed to the nation in a rambling news conference that he was having an affair with a woman in Argentina.

Jenny Sanford, unlike so many wives of cheating politicians, was not there facing the cameras, standing beside her husband.

A reporter asked the governor if he and his wife of 20 years were separated.

"I'm here, and she's there," he replied.

As romantic e-mails between her husband and his mistress were published by a local newspaper Thursday, the state's first lady, a former Wall Street executive, stayed far away from reporters. She was at the family's home on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina with her four sons and a few friends.

"Don't you know that is what Jenny Sanford is about? That is what is authentic about Jenny Sanford. She is not going to humiliate herself by standing next to a story," said Cyndi Mosteller, a friend of the Sanfords since 1992 and the former first vice chairwoman of the South Carolina GOP.

"She will stand next to Mark emotionally, but she cannot stand in the glare of others," Mosteller continued. "She is out there taking a dignified road, one that is defined by principle, even if her heart might have difficulty following that principle. But her overriding priority is to protect her children."

Jenny Sanford released a lengthy statement late Wednesday making clear she had learned of her husband's infidelity before his recent secret trip to Buenos Aires. His whereabouts were a mystery for six days, leaving his family in the dark and creating a power vacuum and considerable confusion in the Capitol, with aides telling reporters he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

"When I found out about my husband's infidelity I worked immediately to first seek reconciliation through forgiveness, and then to work diligently to repair our marriage," she wrote. "We reached a point where I felt it was important to look my sons in the eyes and maintain my dignity, self-respect, and my basic sense of right and wrong. I therefore asked my husband to leave two weeks ago.

"This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage. During this short separation it was agreed that Mark would not contact us. I kept this separation quiet out of respect of his public office and reputation, and in hopes of keeping our children from just this type of public exposure."

Mosteller's brother-in-law was with Jenny Sanford on Thursday as the e-mails penned to "Maria" became public. The messages from Mark Sanfordcompliment the woman on her "tan lines" and "gentle kisses."

The e-mails were published by The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina's capital, which said the governor's office confirmed they are authentic. When contacted by CNN, the governor's office would neither confirm nor deny their authenticity.

"[The e-mails] are almost like reading a novel that you would embarrassed to buy," Mosteller said. "To be one of his four children and know that is there for the world to see, it is incredible to all of us."

Jenny Sanford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and earned a degree in finance from Georgetown University. She met Mark Sanford when they worked for investment firms in New York, she at Lazard Freres and he at Goldman Sachs. The two married and moved to his native South Carolina, and she managed his campaign for Congress in 1994.

"Mark started out with five other opponents, and he didn't really have a shot. That was the opinion of most people," Mosteller said. "But she and Mark worked together and turned that thing around so that candidate three, four and five ended up throwing their support behind him, and he won."

The two are equals intellectually, according to people who know them.

She went on to manage his gubernatorial campaign in 2002, turning her home into campaign headquarters.

Jenny Sanford was more than a visible first lady of South Carolina; she was involved in the finances of her husband's office to an extent that drew heated criticism from his opponents.

She also took a $70,000 deficit from the operations of the governor's mansion and put its finances into the black.

"I pretty much am in his office in the mornings most days, and I do pretty much anything he wants me to do for him. I help to bridge the gap between things that have been commonplace themes in his life and make sure everybody in the office is on pace with his agenda," Jenny Sanford told Charleston's Post and Courier in June 2005.

The governor told the newspaper that his wife is "particularly good with financial analysis [and] working with numbers."

She took up health as a key issue in her role as first lady, advocating nutrition, exercise and cancer prevention, serving on major boards and speaking at various functions to raise funds for disease research.

"This is a classy woman who lacks pretension," Mosteller said. "I took a road trip with her last year, and she just automatically got into the back seat. When we were making a lot of appearances, and the schedules were hectic, she called and said, 'I've figured out that the key is changing your deodorant.'

"Jenny is someone you can talk politics with, you can talk about grand issues with, and you can also discuss deodorant," Mosteller said. "She's a remarkable, classy woman with a lot of integrity who is trying to keep it together."

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- The office of Muqtada al-Sadr accused Iraqi and U.S. forces of attacking Sadr City on Friday, just hours after the Shiite cleric called for calm in the wake of the assassination of one of his top aides in the southern city of Najaf.

Iraqi Sadrists march Friday in the Najaf funeral procession of Sayyed Riyadh al-Nuri, top aide to Muqtada al-Sadr.

Witnesses and media in the heavily Shiite Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, home to the cleric's power base in the capital, reported heavy fighting between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.

The witnesses said U.S. aircraft had been bombarding the area for hours, and media reported rockets slamming into houses and many casualties.

Witnesses and al-Sadr's office said mosques were making loudspeaker announcements about Mehdi Army attacks on U.S. military armored vehicles.

U.S. troops working in support of Iraqi soldiers killed two snipers, two other men firing rocket-propelled grenades and "multiple others from a nearby building where soldiers were taking RPG and machine gun fire," the U.S. military said in a statement.

At the same time -- about 9 p.m. -- at least six roadside bombs damaged vehicles in a U.S. Army convoy that was transporting barriers for a group of Iraqi Army soldiers establishing a checkpoint, the military said.

Afterward, the military said, the Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were attacked by small-arms, machine-gun and RPG fire from buildings overlooking the road.

The soldiers fired back at their attackers, killing at least four of them.

More explosions from the buildings indicated possible arms and munitions stored there, the military said. But the small-arms attack continued until the U.S. forces fired two rounds from an M1A2 Abrams tank, killing two more attackers.

Not long afterward, the U.S. Air Force, operating an unmanned aerial vehicle, fired a Hellfire missile at three men spotted setting roadside bombs, killing all three.

Maj. John Gossart, executive officer of the American unit involved, said that no U.S. or Iraqi troops were seriously hurt.

Earlier, al-Sadr issued remarks about the killing of Sayyed Riyadh al-Nuri, who was shot outside his house in Najaf's Adala neighborhood after returning from Friday prayers.

"The hands of the occupiers and their collaborators have treacherously reached our beloved martyr Sayyed Riyadh al-Nuri," al-Sadr wrote in a statement on the Web.

Al-Nuri is one of 17 people killed over 24 hours in airstrikes, fighting and attacks in areas wracked in recent weeks by fighting among Shiites.

The assassination prompted an immediate vehicle ban in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, anger among mourners and an intensification of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki issued a statement deploring the killing and ordering an investigation.

Al-Sadr issued remarks about the killing in a statement on a Web site. Spokesman Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi emphasized that the cleric is not accusing anyone in particular of the killing but believes that the killers "are the ones who are following the occupiers' steps and don't want stability for the country."

But al-Obeidi called the killing an "act of provocation" after the "siege of Sadr City."

He was referring to the battles since Sunday involving members of al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia and Iraqi security forces dominated by a rival Shiite political movement, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

That fighting started with an offensive in Basra and spread to other Shiite regions, including Sadr City and the Babil provincial capital of Hilla.

The al-Nuri assassination prompted officials to expand the daily curfew in Hilla. Police said a ban on all outside movement that usually begins at 11 p.m. and ends at 8 a.m. will instead start at 8:30 p.m.

Violence continued Friday in several places in Iraq.

Suicide bombings killed at least four people -- three of them police -- and wounded 15, officials said.

The first bombing was in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. At least three national police officers were killed and five wounded, the official said.

The second attack took place at a checkpoint about 20 km (12 miles) north of Baiji, according to police, who said the bomber and one other person were killed and 10 were wounded.

The casualties were members of a local Awakening Council who were manning the checkpoint, police said. The suicide bomber was driving a pickup carrying sheep.

Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, are made up of Sunnis who have turned on al Qaeda in Iraq.

Also, at least three people were killed and five wounded in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, an Interior Ministry official said.

The Palestine Hotel -- across the Tigris River from the International Zone, the heavily guarded seat of U.S. power in Baghdad -- is in the path of many of the rockets and mortars aimed at the zone.

The U.S. military has blamed Iranian-backed Shiite militants for recent mortar and rocket attacks in Baghdad and International Zone, also known as the Green Zone.

Unmanned aerial vehicles targeted and killed six suspected insurgents in Basra on Friday and six "heavily armed criminals" in northeastern Baghdad on Thursday night, the U.S. military said.  Watch the Baghdad drone attack Â»

The U.S. and Iraqi militaries have consistently said they have not been targeting specific groups in their recent battles in Shiite areas.

Iraqi and U.S. government officials say they differentiate between Mehdi Army members obeying al-Sadr's seven-month cease-fire pledge and "gangs," "criminals" or "outlaws" who aren't obeying al-Sadr's orders.

The intra-Shiite fighting in Iraq that has killed hundreds of people in the past two weeks has involved two main movements: members of the Mehdi Army militia loyal to al-Sadr, and Iraqi security forces dominated by the chief political rival of the Sadrists, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

Many of those security forces had been integrated into police and army units from the council's Badr Brigade militia. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Yousif Bassil and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

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text: heavily

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text: Sadr

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text: cleric

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text: power

text: base

text: in

text: the

text: capital

text: reported

text: heavy

text: fighting

text: between

text: U.S

text: backed

text: Iraqi

text: troops

text: and

text: al

text: Sadr

text: 's

text: Mehdi

text: Army

text: militia

text: The

text: witnesses

text: said

text: U.S.

text: aircraft

text: had

text: been

text: bombarding

text: the

text: area

text: for

text: hours

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text: reported

text: rockets

text: slamming

text: into

text: houses

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text: and

text: al

text: Sadr

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text: office

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text: making

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text: announcements

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text: Mehdi

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text: U.S.

text: military

text: armored

text: vehicles

text: U.S.

text: troops

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text: in

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text: Iraqi

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text: nearby

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text: gun

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text: U.S.

text: military

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text: statement

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text: same

text: time

text: about

text: p.m.

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text: least

text: six

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text: U.S.

text: Army

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text: was

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text: group

text: of

text: Iraqi

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text: establishing

text: a

text: checkpoint

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text: military

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text: military

text: said

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: and

text: U.S.

text: soldiers

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text: gun

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text: road

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text: military

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text: U.S.

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text: rounds

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text: U.S.

text: Air

text: Force

text: operating

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text: Hellfire

text: missile

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text: men

text: spotted

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text: roadside

text: bombs

text: killing

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text: Maj

text: John

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text: American

text: unit

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text: no

text: U.S.

text: or

text: Iraqi

text: troops

text: were

text: seriously

text: hurt

text: Earlier

text: al

text: Sadr

text: issued

text: remarks

text: about

text: the

text: killing

text: of

text: Sayyed

text: Riyadh

text: al

text: Nuri

text: who

text: was

text: shot

text: outside

text: his

text: house

text: in

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text: Adala

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text: after

text: returning

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text: Friday

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text: hands

text: of

text: the

text: occupiers

text: and

text: their

text: collaborators

text: have

text: treacherously

text: reached

text: our

text: beloved

text: martyr

text: Sayyed

text: Riyadh

text: al

text: Nuri

text: al

text: Sadr

text: wrote

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: on

text: the

text: Web

text: Al

text: Nuri

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: people

text: killed

text: over

text: hours

text: in

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text: fighting

text: and

text: attacks

text: in

text: areas

text: wracked

text: in

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text: weeks

text: by

text: fighting

text: among

text: Shiites

text: The

text: assassination

text: prompted

text: an

text: immediate

text: vehicle

text: ban

text: in

text: the

text: Shiite

text: holy

text: city

text: of

text: Najaf

text: anger

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text: mourners

text: and

text: an

text: intensification

text: of

text: fighting

text: in

text: Baghdad

text: 's

text: Sadr

text: City

text: neighborhood

text: Iraqi

text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Nuri

text: al

text: Maliki

text: issued

text: a

text: statement

text: deploring

text: the

text: killing

text: and

text: ordering

text: an

text: investigation

text: Al

text: Sadr

text: issued

text: remarks

text: about

text: the

text: killing

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: on

text: a

text: Web

text: site

text: Spokesman

text: Sheikh

text: Salah

text: al

text: Obeidi

text: emphasized

text: that

text: the

text: cleric

text: is

text: not

text: accusing

text: anyone

text: in

text: particular

text: of

text: the

text: killing

text: but

text: believes

text: that

text: the

text: killers

text: are

text: the

text: ones

text: who

text: are

text: following

text: the

text: occupiers

text: steps

text: and

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: stability

text: for

text: the

text: country

text: But

text: al

text: Obeidi

text: called

text: the

text: killing

text: an

text: act

text: of

text: provocation

text: after

text: the

text: siege

text: of

text: Sadr

text: City

text: He

text: was

text: referring

text: to

text: the

text: battles

text: since

text: Sunday

text: involving

text: members

text: of

text: al

text: Sadr

text: 's

text: Mehdi

text: Army

text: militia

text: and

text: Iraqi

text: security

text: forces

text: dominated

text: by

text: a

text: rival

text: Shiite

text: political

text: movement

text: the

text: Islamic

text: Supreme

text: Council

text: of

text: Iraq

text: That

text: fighting

text: started

text: with

text: an

text: offensive

text: in

text: Basra

text: and

text: spread

text: to

text: other

text: Shiite

text: regions

text: including

text: Sadr

text: City

text: and

text: the

text: Babil

text: provincial

text: capital

text: of

text: Hilla

text: The

text: al

text: Nuri

text: assassination

text: prompted

text: officials

text: to

text: expand

text: the

text: daily

text: curfew

text: in

text: Hilla

text: Police

text: said

text: a

text: ban

text: on

text: all

text: outside

text: movement

text: that

text: usually

text: begins

text: at

text: p.m.

text: and

text: ends

text: at

text: a.m.

text: will

text: instead

text: start

text: at

text: p.m.

text: Violence

text: continued

text: Friday

text: in

text: several

text: places

text: in

text: Iraq

text: Suicide

text: bombings

text: killed

text: at

text: least

text: four

text: people

text: three

text: of

text: them

text: police

text: and

text: wounded

text: officials

text: said

text: The

text: first

text: bombing

text: was

text: in

text: Ramadi

text: the

text: provincial

text: capital

text: of

text: the

text: predominantly

text: Sunni

text: Anbar

text: province

text: west

text: of

text: Baghdad

text: an

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: official

text: said

text: At

text: least

text: three

text: national

text: police

text: officers

text: were

text: killed

text: and

text: five

text: wounded

text: the

text: official

text: said

text: The

text: second

text: attack

text: took

text: place

text: at

text: a

text: checkpoint

text: about

text: km

text: miles

text: north

text: of

text: Baiji

text: according

text: to

text: police

text: who

text: said

text: the

text: bomber

text: and

text: one

text: other

text: person

text: were

text: killed

text: and

text: were

text: wounded

text: The

text: casualties

text: were

text: members

text: of

text: a

text: local

text: Awakening

text: Council

text: who

text: were

text: manning

text: the

text: checkpoint

text: police

text: said

text: The

text: suicide

text: bomber

text: was

text: driving

text: a

text: pickup

text: carrying

text: sheep

text: Awakening

text: Councils

text: or

text: Sons

text: of

text: Iraq

text: are

text: made

text: up

text: of

text: Sunnis

text: who

text: have

text: turned

text: on

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: in

text: Iraq

text: Also

text: at

text: least

text: three

text: people

text: were

text: killed

text: and

text: five

text: wounded

text: in

text: a

text: mortar

text: attack

text: on

text: Baghdad

text: 's

text: Palestine

text: Hotel

text: an

text: Interior

text: Ministry

text: official

text: said

text: The

text: Palestine

text: Hotel

text: across

text: the

text: Tigris

text: River

text: from

text: the

text: International

text: Zone

text: the

text: heavily

text: guarded

text: seat

text: of

text: U.S.

text: power

text: in

text: Baghdad

text: is

text: in

text: the

text: path

text: of

text: many

text: of

text: the

text: rockets

text: and

text: mortars

text: aimed

text: at

text: the

text: zone

text: The

text: U.S.

text: military

text: has

text: blamed

text: Iranian

text: backed

text: Shiite

text: militants

text: for

text: recent

text: mortar

text: and

text: rocket

text: attacks

text: in

text: Baghdad

text: and

text: International

text: Zone

text: also

text: known

text: as

text: the

text: Green

text: Zone

text: Unmanned

text: aerial

text: vehicles

text: targeted

text: and

text: killed

text: six

text: suspected

text: insurgents

text: in

text: Basra

text: on

text: Friday

text: and

text: six

text: heavily

text: armed

text: criminals

text: in

text: northeastern

text: Baghdad

text: on

text: Thursday

text: night

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: said

text: Watch

text: the

text: Baghdad

text: drone

text: attack

text: Â

text: The

text: U.S.

text: and

text: Iraqi

text: militaries

text: have

text: consistently

text: said

text: they

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: targeting

text: specific

text: groups

text: in

text: their

text: recent

text: battles

text: in

text: Shiite

text: areas

text: Iraqi

text: and

text: U.S.

text: government

text: officials

text: say

text: they

text: differentiate

text: between

text: Mehdi

text: Army

text: members

text: obeying

text: al

text: Sadr

text: 's

text: seven

text: month

text: cease

text: fire

text: pledge

text: and

text: gangs

text: criminals

text: or

text: outlaws

text: who

text: are

text: n't

text: obeying

text: al

text: Sadr

text: 's

text: orders

text: The

text: intra

text: Shiite

text: fighting

text: in

text: Iraq

text: that

text: has

text: killed

text: hundreds

text: of

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: two

text: weeks

text: has

text: involved

text: two

text: main

text: movements

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: Mehdi

text: Army

text: militia

text: loyal

text: to

text: al

text: Sadr

text: and

text: Iraqi

text: security

text: forces

text: dominated

text: by

text: the

text: chief

text: political

text: rival

text: of

text: the

text: Sadrists

text: the

text: Islamic

text: Supreme

text: Council

text: of

text: Iraq

text: Many

text: of

text: those

text: security

text: forces

text: had

text: been

text: integrated

text: into

text: police

text: and

text: army

text: units

text: from

text: the

text: council

text: 's

text: Badr

text: Brigade

text: militia

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Yousif

text: Bassil

text: and

text: Jomana

text: Karadsheh

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: where was this shooting?

answer: Najaf.

text: Najaf.

question: Where was the hotel?

answer: Baghdad

text: Baghdad

question: Where was the attack?

answer: City

text: City

question: Did the Iraqi patrol come under fire?

answer: Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were attacked by small-arms, machine-gun and RPG fire

text: Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were attacked by small-arms, machine-gun and RPG fire

question: What did the mortar attack do?

answer: at least three people were killed and five wounded

text: at least three people were killed and five wounded

question: What attack killed three Palestinians?

answer: mortar

text: mortar


text:
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Eight American tourists -- six women and two men -- were killed in a traffic accident Sunday while on a tour bus in Aswan, Egypt, the country's interior ministry said.

An additional 19 American tourists and two Egyptians -- the bus driver and a tour guide -- were injured.

A total of 116 American tourists were traveling in three tour buses. The interior ministry said the middle bus -- carrying 37 of the tourists -- crashed into a parked dump truck loaded with sand.

Video of the crash site showed one side of the bus completely sheared off, with some seats dangling from the vehicle's shell. Dried blood could be seen on some of the crumpled wreckage.

Twelve of those injured were taken to Nasser Medical Institute in Cairo, according to the hospital's head, Dr. Bahaa Al-deen Ziad.

Two of the crash victims are in the hospital's intensive care unit in critical but stable condition, Ziad said. The 10 others were admitted to the hospital in stable condition and are being examined by doctors with specialties in neurosurgery, orthopedics and plastic surgery, he said.

Aswan is a popular tourist site in Egypt located about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from Cairo.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued a statement Sunday saying it was "deeply saddened" by the accident.

"The embassy has confirmed that the injured are being moved by military transport to Cairo, and has mobilized staff to identify and to assist those Americans involved," the statement said. "Consular services will be provided to assist any American citizens who have been affected and their families, in coordination with the Egyptian government."

Embassy staff members in Egypt are available for questions or concerns.They can be reached in Cairo at 011 202 2797 3300.

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text: CNN

text: Eight

text: American

text: tourists

text: six

text: women

text: and

text: two

text: men

text: were

text: killed

text: in

text: a

text: traffic

text: accident

text: Sunday

text: while

text: on

text: a

text: tour

text: bus

text: in

text: Aswan

text: Egypt

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: interior

text: ministry

text: said

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text: additional

text: American

text: tourists

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text: two

text: Egyptians

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text: bus

text: driver

text: and

text: a

text: tour

text: guide

text: were

text: injured

text: A

text: total

text: of

text: American

text: tourists

text: were

text: traveling

text: in

text: three

text: tour

text: buses

text: The

text: interior

text: ministry

text: said

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text: middle

text: bus

text: carrying

text: of

text: the

text: tourists

text: crashed

text: into

text: a

text: parked

text: dump

text: truck

text: loaded

text: with

text: sand

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text: crash

text: site

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text: bus

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text: sheared

text: off

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text: seats

text: dangling

text: from

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text: vehicle

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text: shell

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text: seen

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text: of

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text: crumpled

text: wreckage

text: Twelve

text: of

text: those

text: injured

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text: Medical

text: Institute

text: in

text: Cairo

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: hospital

text: 's

text: head

text: Dr.

text: Bahaa

text: Al

text: deen

text: Ziad

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text: of

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text: crash

text: victims

text: are

text: in

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text: hospital

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text: intensive

text: care

text: unit

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text: but

text: stable

text: condition

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text: said

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text: others

text: were

text: admitted

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text: the

text: hospital

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text: stable

text: condition

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text: are

text: being

text: examined

text: by

text: doctors

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text: specialties

text: in

text: neurosurgery

text: orthopedics

text: and

text: plastic

text: surgery

text: he

text: said

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text: is

text: a

text: popular

text: tourist

text: site

text: in

text: Egypt

text: located

text: about

text: kilometers

text: miles

text: away

text: from

text: Cairo

text: The

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

text: in

text: Cairo

text: issued

text: a

text: statement

text: Sunday

text: saying

text: it

text: was

text: deeply

text: saddened

text: by

text: the

text: accident

text: The

text: embassy

text: has

text: confirmed

text: that

text: the

text: injured

text: are

text: being

text: moved

text: by

text: military

text: transport

text: to

text: Cairo

text: and

text: has

text: mobilized

text: staff

text: to

text: identify

text: and

text: to

text: assist

text: those

text: Americans

text: involved

text: the

text: statement

text: said

text: Consular

text: services

text: will

text: be

text: provided

text: to

text: assist

text: any

text: American

text: citizens

text: who

text: have

text: been

text: affected

text: and

text: their

text: families

text: in

text: coordination

text: with

text: the

text: Egyptian

text: government

text: Embassy

text: staff

text: members

text: in

text: Egypt

text: are

text: available

text: for

text: questions

text: or

text: concerns

text: They

text: can

text: be

text: reached

text: in

text: Cairo

text: at

question: to where they carried the injured?

answer: Nasser Medical Institute in Cairo,

text: Nasser Medical Institute in Cairo,

question: How many tourists are injured?

answer: 19


text:
FARGO, North Dakota (CNN)  -- Forecasters issued flash flood warnings for Bismarck and surrounding areas Wednesday, as volunteers rushed to fill sandbags ahead of expected record floods in the flat state of North Dakota.

Explosives are set off in the Missouri River on Wednesday to break up ice jams.

Areas of three counties -- Morton, Emmons and Burleigh, which includes the North Dakota capital of Bismarck -- were under a flash flood warning until 12:30 p.m. CT (1:30 p.m. ET), the National Weather Service said.

In an effort to alleviate the flooding, demolition crews blew up an ice jam Wednesday evening south of  Bismarck, according to CNN affiliate KXMB.

Mayor John Warford said that water appeared to be moving more freely in the Missouri River after the explosives were set off, KXMB reported. The plan is make sure water continues flow through the river channel and not spread out over land. Ice jams in rivers have been a major factor in the flooding there.

Most of the state, which endured a particularly harsh winter, remained under a flood warning Wednesday, with forecasters predicting possibly record flood levels on several rivers.

Snow, which continued to fall Wednesday, complicated preparations, city officials said. "I woke up this morning and looked outside, I guess I thought of the same thing everybody else did. ... [What] came to mind is what a revolting development this is," said Mark Voxland, the mayor of Moorhead, Minnesota, a city just outside of Fargo.  Watch flooded fields of snow Â»

More than 1,000 people were evacuated from an area near Bismarck on Tuesday night as the Missouri River flooded, Rick Robinson of the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services said Wednesday.  See a map of the affected area Â»

Emergency officials said they were particularly concerned about the Red River, which snakes through eastern portions of North and South Dakota and western Minnesota.

The river is expected to crest between 39 and 41 feet in Fargo on Friday, according to Cecily Fong of the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. The record for the Red River at Fargo was set in 1897 at 40.1 feet, according to Pat Slattery of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The threat of flooding prompted authorities to ask for volunteers to fill sandbags either to build temporary dikes or to bolster existing ones. In some areas, even at 3:30 a.m., hundreds of volunteers packed into individual sandbagging centers, an organizer said.  See images of flooding, preparation Â»

"There have been so many volunteers that we had to turn people away," said Ryan McEwan, a supervisor at one volunteer coordinating center. "It is very busy. They are filling sandbags as fast as they can."

As of late Tuesday, Fargo residents and out-of-town volunteers had filled more than 1 million sandbags out of the needed 2 million. Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney said he hoped that goal would be met by Thursday.

Fargo's mayor, Dennis Walaker, said Wednesday that his city was about 95 percent prepared for the flooding, which is expected later in the week.

"I went and looked at the dikes this morning, and they're significant, absolutely significant," he said in a briefing Wednesday morning.

However, he said, "We have some areas we need to shore up."

Just south of Fargo, authorities said they had rescued several people in Oxbow, a town of about 238 people, after a residential dike gave way.

In some places, water had reached halfway up residents' basement stairs, and in others, it had reached the main level of homes, Sgt. Gail Wichmann said.

CNN's Chris Welch contributed to this report.

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text: North

text: Dakota

text: CNN

text: Forecasters

text: issued

text: flash

text: flood

text: warnings

text: for

text: Bismarck

text: and

text: surrounding

text: areas

text: Wednesday

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text: volunteers

text: rushed

text: to

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text: sandbags

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text: record

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text: flat

text: state

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text: Dakota

text: Explosives

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text: counties

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(CNN) -- The woman who accused Herman Cain of groping her after a 1997 dinner says the Republican presidential candidate is "still in denial" about his conduct.

Sharon Bialek is the first woman to publicly accuse Cain of sexual harassment after last week's disclosure that the National Restaurant Association -- which Cain led in the late 1990s -- made payments to two other women who complained about his conduct. Cain has vehemently denied any allegation of misconduct.

Bialek told CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" that she came forward Monday "for the other women who couldn't or wouldn't."

"I really hope that what I did will enable other women to come forward in similar situations," Bialek said. "Unfortunately for Herman, he's still in denial."

Bialek told reporters Monday that she sought Cain's help finding a job after being laid off from the trade association's education foundation in 1997. She said Cain suggested meeting over dinner, then tried to reach up her skirt after the meal -- and when she protested, he told her, "You want a job, right?"

Read more about Bialek's allegation

Her attorney, Gloria Allred, told CNN her client described Cain's behavior at the time to her then-boyfriend and a longtime mentor, and both have given sworn statements supporting her account. Allred said her client is a registered Republican.

And Bialek said she expects to face public scrutiny following her accusations.

"I know that in the next two days is when everything is going to hit the fan, so to speak, and I'm prepared for it," she said.

She added, "I'm willing to handle it. I'm a tough girl."

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New York (CNN) -- Passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 could soon have a unique souvenir from their harrowing flight that ended in New York's Hudson River -- although it would be quite a large one.

The plane famously landed with 155 people aboard in the frigid river waters by Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger last January after a bird strike disabled its engines is up for auction.

The plane, an Airbus A320-214, is listed for sale "AS IS/WHERE IS" at a salvage yard in Kearny, New Jersey.

The wings, included in the sale, have been separated from the body of the aircraft and the bid site for the aircraft lists "severe water damage throughout the airframe" and "impact damage to underside of aircraft." The engines are not included.

The auction, managed by Dan Akers of Chartis Insurance, is set to end on March 27 at 4:30 p.m. ET and is open to the public. Chartis is a division of the larger American International Group Inc. and insures US Airways.

Marie Ali, a spokeswoman for Chartis, told CNN the plane is being auctioned "as salvage" but declined to provide further details about the auction.

A spokesperson for Sullenberger said the captain is aware the plane is at a salvage yard. US Airways did not immediately return calls for comment about the auction.

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question: Where is the Airbus plane listed for sale?

answer: at a salvage yard in Kearny, New Jersey.

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question: What safely landed in the Hudson?

answer: US Airways Flight 1549

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question: What is the name of the plane's pilot?

answer: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

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question: What have the wings been separated from?

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PLAYA DEL REY, California (CNN) -- The black sedan pulled up to the parking lot at Dockweiler State Beach in California, and the five members of The Lost Trailers stepped out -- no chauffeur, no publicist, no manager, no entourage.

From left to right, Jeff Potter, Stokes Nielson, Ryder Lee, Manny Medina and Andrew Nielson of The Lost Trailers.

But that's the way this rising country band rolls these days.

When they embarked on their current "Lean, Clean and Local" tour, they streamlined their operation in the greenest way possible.

Since September, they've reduced their carbon footprint by 132 tons.

That meant giving up their tour buses, as well as their road crew and traveling with their own equipment.

Their new buzz phrase is "hiring local" -- local roadies, local T-shirt vendors, local suppliers for amps and equipment. If they can't stuff it in a suitcase, they don't bring it.

The Lost Trailers have also partnered with Keep America Beautiful, a national organization dedicated to litter reduction and recycling.

On a recent day off in Los Angeles, singer Ryder Lee, guitarist Stokes Nielson, bassist Manny Medina, keyboardist Andrew Nielson and drummer Jeff Potter met up with a group of young adults from the L.A. Conservation Corps for a little coastal cleanup -- country style.  Watch the band at work on the beach Â»

Three of the band members sported cowboy boots as they sifted through the sand. The kids were from South Central Los Angeles, an inner-city area not generally known for its love of country music.

After the cleanup, we pulled the CNN van up to the beach, popped in The Lost Trailers' CD, and hit "play" on their hit single, "Holler Back." As the fiddle and banjo strains of the high-octane hillbilly tune blared through the speakers, there were blank stares all the way around from the students.

But after joining in the chorus of "heys" and "hos," one young man named Virgil LaFlora started rapping over the verses. It was the most unexpected country/hip-hop mash-up since Tim McGraw and Nelly joined forces for "Over and Over" in 2004.

All of a sudden, the two camps had discovered some common ground, and the song ended in cheers and hugs. One girl asked if she could have the CD.

CNN talked to the Trailers' members about their activism and their tour. The following is an edited version of the interview.

CNN: "Lean, Clean and Local" isn't just about recycling. You guys are actually going into the community and hiring local people.

Stokes Nielson: We did a show with Tim McGraw in New York at the end of last year. It was a fly date for us, so we hired local, and this guy came up to us and said, "Thank you so much for hiring local, 'cause I haven't had a check in three weeks." And we realized as the recession was heading into place, that one of the things we could do to benefit these communities is hire local, and not just bring in our own crews and just extract money form the locals and then leave, but we could also leave a small stimulus of our own.

CNN: As rising artists, you work hard to earn the right to have a tour bus. Now you're giving it up.

Stokes Nielson: Since we won't have a crew, we thought, "OK, we're not going to have the bus anymore, and we're just going to fly to dates," and that cut down our diesel consumption.

Andrew Nielson: We travel really light so that we can roll into town, hire the crew, and also hire local equipment. Potter's a drummer, and everywhere we go, we rent drums.

Jeff Potter: We were trying to figure out a way that was practical to get a drum set on a plane, but it didn't really work out. I like it because I get to show up, and somebody working there locally has already set it up for me, and I get to just sit down and play.

Ryder Lee: We were trying to get Potter some of those electric drum pads (which will fit into a suitcase), but that's just not as cool.

CNN: Or you could just get a drum machine and eliminate the problem altogether! That would save the most money.

Potter: I like being in the band.

Manny Medina: I'm afraid they're going to hire local bass players, and I'll be out of a job! (Laugh)

CNN: Do you save money by hiring local, or does it cost you more this way?

Stokes Nielson: No, it's about even. It's not about the money. Obviously, the government is putting a lot of money into trying to get this thing (the economy) kick-started. As small-business owners, we want to do our part as well. It's also really been great to realize that we actually can do something besides just writin' a song and singin' it.

Lee: We've set up a Web site: LeanCleanAndLocal.com, and that's become kind of a Yellow Pages for the local businesses we've hired. And we have videos on there, and a directory of the folks we've used, so if other acts were to hire this way, they could come in and use these same people.

CNN: Doesn't that lead to disaster sometimes?

Medina: So far, it's been great.

Potter: Either we've been very lucky, or we've really come up against some great people, but when you're a national act, there's a certain level of competence with the people you deal with, and that's great to see.

CNN: I'm sure there were a lot of organizations you looked at before partnering up with Keep America Beautiful. Why that organization?

Lee: I think as country artists, it's really important to preserve the things that we grew up with. We're naturally outdoors men because of where we grew up, and keeping the rivers and streams clean is part of being country, and we're really proud of that. And Keep America Beautiful and their efforts in recycling and litter cleanup was really fitting for us, so it was a natural place to reach out -- not to mention, at our shows, there tends to be a few bottles and cans that build up. (Laugh)

Stokes Nielson: This tour may not last forever. Maybe just until the recession is over. But definitely, we want to do our part to give back.

Medina: Plus you really get to know the towns better. You meet the people. You don't just stay on your bus, play a show and leave. You really get to know the towns.

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question: what will Band partners do

answer: partnered with Keep America Beautiful,

text: partnered with Keep America Beautiful,

question: What is the purpose of the band traveling  light?

answer: reduced their carbon footprint by 132 tons.

text: reduced their carbon footprint by 132 tons.

question: What did the guitarist say they wanted to do?

answer: hire local,

text: hire local,

question: what did the guitarist say

answer: This tour may not last forever. Maybe just until the recession is over. But definitely, we want to do our part to give back.

text: This tour may not last forever. Maybe just until the recession is over. But definitely, we want to do our part to give back.


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KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's new government has converted its deposed king's opulent palace into a museum and unfurled the national flag on Sunday as a symbolic move to signify the end of monarchy.

The Narayanthi Royal Palace has been converted into a museum.

"The national flag is fluttering in the hands of the people in the royal palace now," said Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at a ceremony at the former palace Sunday.

Ex-King Gyanendra, 60, left Narayanhiti Royal Palace on Wednesday. He will live as a civilian in a summer palace on a forested hilltop outside the capital.

Gyanendra's departure came following the declaration of the former Himalayan kingdom as a republic last month.

The monarchy's end after 239 years of rule was the culmination of a two-year peace process in which Maoist insurgents in Nepal gave up their armed struggle, joined mainstream politics and won the most seats in April's election for the Constituent Assembly.

The assembly is tasked with rewriting the constitution, deciding the country's future political system and governing the nation.

Gyanendra came to power in 2001 when his brother, King Birendra, and his family were massacred in the palace by the crown prince, who later shot himself. Gyanendra last week denied rumors that he had played a role in that event.

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answer: deposed king's opulent palace

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answer: 239 years of rule

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question: What kingdom was declared a republic?

answer: Nepal

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question: What was being ended?

answer: The monarchy's end after 239 years of rule

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question: what happened in nepal

answer: new government has converted its deposed king's opulent palace into

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