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(CNN) -- Back in the day, Shakespeare enriched the English language by pumping out neologisms like a maniac. Fast forward 400-plus years, and we don't really have an official bard, per se -- at least not in corporeal form.

Nope, if you want to put your finger on the entity that's currently shaping and torquing our lexicon like a game of drunken Twister, you're already there: Look down at your keyboard, and then at the screen and down at your keyboard again. Yup. Our bard would be the internet, breeding ground of such gems as "BRB," "tweet," and, sadly, "OMG!!!!!"

Some may call the advent of internet-speak the demise of the English language, and to them we would say, "STFU."

Last year, "unfriend" was deemed the word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary. So, much like that tattoo of your initials you got emblazoned across your butt last summer after too many G&Ts, this new slang is here to stay.

Besides, Shakespeare coined the word "puke," so it wasn't all sunshine and roses back in the 1500s, anyway.

Still, there are some internet terms that don't quite translate when applied to real-life situations (or, OK, any situation other than the original and intended one), because they're too obtuse, redundant or just plain stupid.

Here's our take on three of the most awkward phrases and symbols to go from screen to scene:

#

Ah, the hashtag. First introduced into the Twitter lexicon by Chris Messina in 2007, the hashtag was originally a way to tie together common threads of conversation (e.g., Follow Friday, tweets relating to events, news about natural disasters).

Now, however, the hashtag has also become a way in which to emphasize certain ideas on the microblogging site ("This weekend has completely murdered my soul #whiskeyandheartache), and, more recently, to denote sarcasm and caustic wit ("Wow, I really enjoyed that show. Etch-a-Sketch art is totally dope. More free wine, however, would have made the experience much more tolerable. #JustSayin').

That's all well and good in the Twitterverse, but when taken into the real world, the hashtag is a bit harder to hash out.

You see, the majority of society -- you know, the people who don't sit in front of their computers tweeting about how "Eating pancakes makes me feel like death now that I'm 30 #notakidanymore" -- doesn't understand what the hell you're saying when you tack what amounts to a pound sign onto any given sentence/word in your correspondence (e-mails, etc.). In fact, they could get offended by what you think is an artfully punctuated joke.

Listen, we do not yet have a symbol that translates into sarcasm (despite lofty efforts by the folks over at Sarcmark), and the hashtag is no exception. So, for now, stick to being caustic and dry, and even then, watch your mouth. Not everyone is socially fluent enough to recognize superior wit when they see it. #JustSayin'...

@

MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design may have added the "@" sign to its collection in March, but the artfully looping symbol has yet to find any real foothold in the conversational realm.

Look, it makes sense to add an @ to your name on Twitter, and Facebook now has a handy tagging feature that works with the addition of that particular keystroke, but referring to your friends as "@Tom" or "@T-Bone" in digital parlance such as e-mail or chat is just ... well ... redundant. You already said their name, so why do you need a directive?

Even more egregious is rattling off your Twitter handle in any person-to-person situation (Exception: At tech and social media events this rule is a little less hard and fast, given that your Twitter handle is akin to your phone number).

Not only does it reek of self-promotion, it's just weird. And take it from us, tech and social-media experts' behavioral standards should not exactly be your yardstick of appropriateness.

LOL

Hey, did you know that before "LOL" came to mean "laughing out loud," it was code for "little old lady" in the medical world? Well, unless you're a doc alerting your compatriots to the arrival of a particularly ornery blue-haired broad, never should you stir your vocal cords to utter the phrase "LOL."

Why? Because you're not actually laughing.

The day that LOL becomes common parlance, my friends, will be the day that this whole internet Bard-penned comedy will become a complete and utter tragedy.

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(CNN) -- Now that Caylee Anthony's remains have been identified, the search for the Florida toddler turns into a prosecution of her mother.

Casey Anthony, 22, is accused of killing her daughter. Investigators say her alibi didn't check out.

Although Orange County, Florida, Medical Examiner Jan Garavaglia said Friday she could not determine how Caylee died, she concluded the death was a homicide.

The child's mother, Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including murder in the disappearance and death of Caylee, who was 2 when she vanished last summer.

The remains were found last week in woods about a half-mile from Anthony's parents' house and identified through DNA testing.  See where Caylee's skeleton was found Â»

On Saturday, investigators finished 10 days of sifting through the crime scene and served a warrant at the Anthony house for a third search for evidence, said Capt. Angelo Nieves of the Orange County sheriff's department. Cindy and George Anthony, the child's grandparents, were present for the search.

The mother's defense team had claimed since her October indictment that the child might still be alive, even claiming witnesses spotted Caylee since her disappearance.

The finding of the body "has really cut the legs out of the defense," Stacey Honowitz, an assistant Florida state's attorney, said Friday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."  Watch experts size up the legal case Â»

The lack of a cause of death and the absence of any soft tissue on the toddler's skeletal remains poses a challenge for prosecutors, forensic expert Lawrence Kobilinsky, a defense consultant for Casey Anthony, told Larry King.

"If you don't have a cause of death, isn't it possible that it might have been an accident?" Kobilinsky said.

A murder conviction would require proof the victim was killed intentionally. Legal experts say duct tape reportedly found on the body could convince a judge or jury that Caylee's death was not an accident.

Perhaps of greater significance, though, is Casey Anthony's behavior since -- and even before -- her child went missing.

According to earlier reports, Caylee was the result of an unintended pregnancy, and Anthony made an attempt to give her up after birth. She referred to Caylee as "the little snot head" and continued to maintain an active social life.  Follow a timeline of the case Â»

When Caylee went missing, Anthony did not tell her family for a month. It was the child's grandmother who called police. Anthony told conflicting stories at the beginning of the investigation, including a tale that Caylee was with a nanny. The name and address turned out to be bogus. As police searched for Caylee, they say Anthony's active social life continued -- including one memorable evening dancing at an Orlando bar that was hosting "Hot Body Contest."   Investigators said they found the scent of decomposing flesh and a trace of chloroform, a powerful knockout agent, in the trunk of a car Anthony drove at the time. Anthony's family offered various explanations, including a rotting pizza and a dead squirrel.  Watch a tribute to the little girl Â»

On the Anthonys' home computer, police found there had been searches for chloroform, missing children and "neck-breaking," although Garavaglia said Friday that she did not find evidence of trauma to the bones.

"The prosecution is going to have a great deal of circumstantial evidence, and this is a physical evidence case," Kobilinsky said. "This is not a question about credibility, although obviously a jury looks at credibility and contradictions, but the physical evidence will either include her or exclude Casey. It's an uphill battle for the defense."

Nevertheless, forensic expert Kathy Reichs, who also is working with Anthony's defense team, sees an opening.

"Given that there's no evidence as to the cause of death, ... you could have an accidental death and a mother that panics," she told King. "There are alternative explanations."

Perhaps not enough to save Anthony, said famed defense attorney Mark Geragos, who is not associated with the case.

"The defense will try to focus, I'm sure, on all of the forensic evidence and whatever else they can do," he told King. "But they're always going to be up against it with the 'She didn't act right' evidence, and that's the hardest thing to combat in this case."

Prosecutors don't need to show what killed Caylee, Geragos said. The defense needs to overcome Casey Anthony's statements and behavior.

"Somebody is going to have to give an explanation at some point as to when she last saw the child, who she gave the child to," he said. "And until that is done, I don't care what they put together, it's not going to carry any weight."

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question: What is the name of the defendant?

answer: Casey Anthony,

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question: What is the defense team's big challenge?

answer: nse needs to overcome Casey Anthony's statements and behavi

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question: What doesn't help the mother's defense?

answer: her alibi

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question: What could hinder the prosecution?

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question: Who vanished last summer?

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question: What is the mothers name?

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Federal officials said Monday they are probing allegations by a former investigator into the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history that he was kidnapped and tortured by men who said they were national intelligence agents.

Claudio Lifschitz shows off the scars he says kidnappers carved on his back.

Claudio Lifschitz, 43, said three hooded men threw him into the back of a truck on Friday night and put a plastic bag over his head.

They then questioned him on details of the probe into the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, he said.

Eighty-five people died and more than 200 were injured in one of the bloodiest anti-Semitic attacks in the world since World War II.

"The police are investigating [the alleged kidnapping] as we speak," said Miguel Ambrosio, legal secretary in the office of federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral. "Once the judge heard the details of the alleged incident, he ordered an investigation to the police via telephone."

Lifschitz said his abductors tortured him while asking about the AMIA investigation.

"I heard the noise of a blowtorch, and that's when the worst started, and I started to feel a burn on my left arm, and I could smell my hair on my arm burning," Lifschitz told CNN. "Then I felt them slicing my back with a knife."

Images of Lifschitz taken after the alleged kidnapping showed bloody marks on his back where the letters 'AMIA' had been scratched.

The assailants also carved numbers into his arm; the significance of the digits is unclear. Lifschitz said he was released a few hours after being abducted. He was treated for injuries in a hospital.

"They told me that I wouldn't die unless they wanted me to," he said Sunday.

Lifschitz, who has also worked as a lawyer for Argentine Federal Police, is the former legal secretary for Judge Juan Jose Galeano, who headed the investigation into local connections to the AMIA bombing until he was removed from the case.

Lifschitz has testified that Galeano mishandled the investigation, including allegedly making a $400,000 bribe to a key witness. Galeano was taken off the AMIA investigation in 2003 and was removed from his position as a judge in 2005.

The investigation in the AMIA bombing has dragged on for nearly 15 years, with no indictments and a series of accusations of cover-ups and corruption.

Argentina, Israel and the United States have blamed the Mideast-based Hezbollah terrorist organization for the attack.

In March 2007, Interpol issued arrest warrants for five Iranian officials and a Lebanese national in connection with the bombing. Tehran has repeatedly denied any involvement.

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem also has been investigated to see whether he was involved in a cover-up.

Menem appeared in federal court Monday on an issue related to the AMIA attack investigation but declined to testify. He did submit a written statement denying that he had any involvement in a cover-up.

Lifschitz said his alleged abductors were interested in the possible Iranian connection.

"They started to ask about information about the SIDE (State Intelligence Secretariat) related to the AMIA attack," Lifschitz told CNN.

"And then they asked me about cassettes of conversations between the Iranians. That shows that the SIDE doesn't deny that they had intercepted some phone lines with the help of some judges.

"They were afraid that I had copies of these tapes and I would present them to a judge, but I told them that I don't have any copies of the tapes."

Lifschitz, who said he is a non-practicing Jew, also told CNN the men were interested in his religion.

"I always wear a rosary around my neck, and they grabbed me by the neck and said, 'Why are you wearing this if you're a Jew?'"

In addition to the AMIA attack, a similar deadly anti-Semitic terrorist attack took place on March 17, 1992, when 29 people died and more than 250 were injured in a bombing at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. No one has been prosecuted in that case.

Argentina has one of the world's largest Jewish populations, estimated around 250,000.

Jewish leaders from around the world called for an investigation into the attack on Lifschitz.

"We trust Argentine authorities will quickly find those who carried out this brutal attack on Mr. Lifschitz," said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee. "This awful incident undermines Argentina's important progress to bring to justice those responsible for the murderous attack on AMIA's headquarters."

Earlier this month, an Argentine court ordered the seizure of property owned by a former Iranian diplomat in Buenos Aires sought for his role in the 1994 AMIA attack.

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text: Federal

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text: said

text: Monday

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text: are

text: probing

text: allegations

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text: a

text: former

text: investigator

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text: deadliest

text: terrorist

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text: history

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text: tortured

text: by

text: men

text: who

text: said

text: they

text: were

text: national

text: intelligence

text: agents

text: Claudio

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text: shows

text: off

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text: scars

text: he

text: says

text: kidnappers

text: carved

text: on

text: his

text: back

text: Claudio

text: Lifschitz

text: said

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text: hooded

text: men

text: threw

text: him

text: into

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text: back

text: of

text: a

text: truck

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text: Friday

text: night

text: and

text: put

text: a

text: plastic

text: bag

text: over

text: his

text: head

text: They

text: then

text: questioned

text: him

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text: probe

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text: bombing

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text: the

text: Argentine

text: Jewish

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text: Buenos

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text: on

text: July

text: he

text: said

text: Eighty

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text: more

text: than

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text: injured

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text: bloodiest

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text: world

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text: War

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text: speak

text: said

text: Miguel

text: Ambrosio

text: legal

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text: the

text: office

text: of

text: federal

text: Judge

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text: Canicoba

text: Corral

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text: judge

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text: details

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text: alleged

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text: investigation

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text: police

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text: telephone

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text: worst

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text: left

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text: I

text: could

text: smell

text: my

text: hair

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text: my

text: arm

text: burning

text: Lifschitz

text: told

text: CNN

text: Then

text: I

text: felt

text: them

text: slicing

text: my

text: back

text: with

text: a

text: knife

text: Images

text: of

text: Lifschitz

text: taken

text: after

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text: alleged

text: kidnapping

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text: bloody

text: marks

text: on

text: his

text: back

text: where

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text: letters

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text: been

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text: The

text: assailants

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text: numbers

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text: arm

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text: significance

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text: digits

text: is

text: unclear

text: Lifschitz

text: said

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text: was

text: released

text: a

text: few

text: hours

text: after

text: being

text: abducted

text: He

text: was

text: treated

text: for

text: injuries

text: in

text: a

text: hospital

text: They

text: told

text: me

text: that

text: I

text: would

text: n't

text: die

text: unless

text: they

text: wanted

text: me

text: to

text: he

text: said

text: Sunday

text: Lifschitz

text: who

text: has

text: also

text: worked

text: as

text: a

text: lawyer

text: for

text: Argentine

text: Federal

text: Police

text: is

text: the

text: former

text: legal

text: secretary

text: for

text: Judge

text: Juan

text: Jose

text: Galeano

text: who

text: headed

text: the

text: investigation

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text: local

text: connections

text: to

text: the

text: AMIA

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text: was

text: removed

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text: case

text: Lifschitz

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text: Galeano

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text: investigation

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text: was

text: removed

text: from

text: his

text: position

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text: a

text: judge

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text: The

text: investigation

text: in

text: the

text: AMIA

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text: on

text: for

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text: years

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text: no

text: indictments

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text: a

text: series

text: of

text: accusations

text: of

text: cover

text: ups

text: and

text: corruption

text: Argentina

text: Israel

text: and

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: have

text: blamed

text: the

text: Mideast

text: based

text: Hezbollah

text: terrorist

text: organization

text: for

text: the

text: attack

text: In

text: March

text: Interpol

text: issued

text: arrest

text: warrants

text: for

text: five

text: Iranian

text: officials

text: and

text: a

text: Lebanese

text: national

text: in

text: connection

text: with

text: the

text: bombing

text: Tehran

text: has

text: repeatedly

text: denied

text: any

text: involvement

text: Former

text: Argentine

text: President

text: Carlos

text: Menem

text: also

text: has

text: been

text: investigated

text: to

text: see

text: whether

text: he

text: was

text: involved

text: in

text: a

text: cover

text: up

text: Menem

text: appeared

text: in

text: federal

text: court

text: Monday

text: on

text: an

text: issue

text: related

text: to

text: the

text: AMIA

text: attack

text: investigation

text: but

text: declined

text: to

text: testify

text: He

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text: submit

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: denying

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: any

text: involvement

text: in

text: a

text: cover

text: up

text: Lifschitz

text: said

text: his

text: alleged

text: abductors

text: were

text: interested

text: in

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text: possible

text: Iranian

text: connection

text: They

text: started

text: to

text: ask

text: about

text: information

text: about

text: the

text: SIDE

text: State

text: Intelligence

text: Secretariat

text: related

text: to

text: the

text: AMIA

text: attack

text: Lifschitz

text: told

text: CNN

text: And

text: then

text: they

text: asked

text: me

text: about

text: cassettes

text: of

text: conversations

text: between

text: the

text: Iranians

text: That

text: shows

text: that

text: the

text: SIDE

text: does

text: n't

text: deny

text: that

text: they

text: had

text: intercepted

text: some

text: phone

text: lines

text: with

text: the

text: help

text: of

text: some

text: judges

text: They

text: were

text: afraid

text: that

text: I

text: had

text: copies

text: of

text: these

text: tapes

text: and

text: I

text: would

text: present

text: them

text: to

text: a

text: judge

text: but

text: I

text: told

text: them

text: that

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: copies

text: of

text: the

text: tapes

text: Lifschitz

text: who

text: said

text: he

text: is

text: a

text: non

text: practicing

text: Jew

text: also

text: told

text: CNN

text: the

text: men

text: were

text: interested

text: in

text: his

text: religion

text: I

text: always

text: wear

text: a

text: rosary

text: around

text: my

text: neck

text: and

text: they

text: grabbed

text: me

text: by

text: the

text: neck

text: and

text: said

text: Why

text: are

text: you

text: wearing

text: this

text: if

text: you

text: 're

text: a

text: Jew

text: In

text: addition

text: to

text: the

text: AMIA

text: attack

text: a

text: similar

text: deadly

text: anti

text: Semitic

text: terrorist

text: attack

text: took

text: place

text: on

text: March

text: when

text: people

text: died

text: and

text: more

text: than

text: were

text: injured

text: in

text: a

text: bombing

text: at

text: the

text: Israeli

text: Embassy

text: in

text: Buenos

text: Aires

text: No

text: one

text: has

text: been

text: prosecuted

text: in

text: that

text: case

text: Argentina

text: has

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: largest

text: Jewish

text: populations

text: estimated

text: around

text: Jewish

text: leaders

text: from

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: called

text: for

text: an

text: investigation

text: into

text: the

text: attack

text: on

text: Lifschitz

text: We

text: trust

text: Argentine

text: authorities

text: will

text: quickly

text: find

text: those

text: who

text: carried

text: out

text: this

text: brutal

text: attack

text: on

text: Mr.

text: Lifschitz

text: said

text: David

text: Harris

text: executive

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: American

text: Jewish

text: Committee

text: This

text: awful

text: incident

text: undermines

text: Argentina

text: 's

text: important

text: progress

text: to

text: bring

text: to

text: justice

text: those

text: responsible

text: for

text: the

text: murderous

text: attack

text: on

text: AMIA

text: 's

text: headquarters

text: Earlier

text: this

text: month

text: an

text: Argentine

text: court

text: ordered

text: the

text: seizure

text: of

text: property

text: owned

text: by

text: a

text: former

text: Iranian

text: diplomat

text: in

text: Buenos

text: Aires

text: sought

text: for

text: his

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: AMIA

text: attack

question: What the police investigating?

answer: investigator into the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history that he was kidnapped and tortured by men who said they were national intelligence agents.

text: investigator into the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history that he was kidnapped and tortured by men who said they were national intelligence agents.

question: Who does he say tortured him?

answer: said they were national intelligence agents.

text: said they were national intelligence agents.

question: What is the name of the lawyer?

answer: Lifschitz,

text: Lifschitz,

question: The bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires took place in which year?

answer: 1994,

question: What day was he abducted?

answer: Friday

text: Friday


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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (CNN)  -- World leaders gave thanks Saturday to military veterans for their efforts in the D-Day landings of 65 years ago at a ceremony in northwest France, warning that their legacy must not be forgotten as the world faces renewed threats of tyranny.

President Obama and Britain's Prince Charles were among those attending the ceremony.

President Obama joined Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a ceremony at the American Cemetary in Normandy, close where many died in the World War II offensive.

More than 150,000 allied troops, about half of them Americans, took part in D-Day on June 6, 1944, overwhelming German forces in an operation that proved a turning point in driving the Nazis out of France.

Allied forces secured the beaches at a cost of about 10,000 casualties in what was the first step in a campaign that would, in a matter of weeks, liberate Paris, which had been under Nazi occupation for more than four years.

Brown praised those who fought on that day, saying, "as long as freedom lives, their deeds will never die."

He said their sacrifices had put obligations on people living today in what he called "the great covenant of D-Day.

"We must be as if liberators for our day and our generation too," he said, citing Burma (renamed Myanmar) and Zimbabwe, as well as the "mortal threat of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and want."

Obama addressed the 288 veterans said to be attending the ceremony, telling them: "You are why we keep coming back."  Watch Obama deliver speech to veterans Â»

"You remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance.

"It has always been up to us," he said.  Watch Obama arrive in France Â»

He urged the world to remember what happened at nearby Omaha Beach, one of the main landing points for U.S. troops involved in the operation.

"Friends and veterans, what we cannot forget -- what we must not forget -- is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century."

Sarkozy described the horrors of the battle, where so many died before they were able to land that "those who did make it ashore waded through the bodies of the dead and wounded that floated in on the tide."

He cited a letter from a U.S. soldier who said the day "was like a waking nightmare. The ground was so strewn with bodies that you could practically cross the beach without touching the sand."

"Never, never will France forget," he vowed.

The speeches were followed by a 21-gun salute, a lone trumpter playing taps and a flyover by American, British and French jets.

Among veterans attending Saturday's remembrance ceremonies will be 86-year-old former British soldier Jim Tuckwell, who said the events will help those present to remember fallen comrades lost in the heat of battle.

"There was no time to mourn, you didn't have time to mourn," he said, recalling the events of 1944. Read Tuckwell's story

"And the worst thing about later battles was that when you lost people, you normally had to bury them yourself. You couldn't leave the bodies on the ground, there was nowhere else to put them."

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Saudi Prince and billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world's tallest building,  planned to be over a kilometer (3,281 feet) high. The tower will be built in the Saudi town of Jeddah and will be part of a larger project that will cost $26.7 billion, (100 billion Saudi riyals) said the Prince's firm, Kingdom Holding Company.

The planned Kingdom City project will be taller than Burj Dubai tower which is the world's tallest man-made structure.

The project, entitled Kingdom City, will span 23 million square meters (248 million square feet) and will include luxury homes, hotels and offices.

The booming city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has also joined the skyscraper race.

While the ever-growing Burj Dubai is already the tallest man-made structure in the world, the Nakheel Tower is set to go even higher.

Developers suggest the finished building will be at least 1 km tall.

While in Europe, Paris is leading the skyscraper revolution -- plans for a 50-story building have been given the green light, which will make it the first skyscraper to be built in the city for 30 years.

These buildings are part of a new generation of innovative, exciting skyscrapers set to appear all over the world over the next 10 years.

View the future skyscrapers Â»

Some truly mind-blowing structures are being planned for the Middle East.

Hot on its heels, the Burj Mubarak Al Kabir, proposed for the planned 'City of Silk' in Kuwait, could also break the 1000-meter barrier.

While they may be mere midgets compared to the mega structures of the Middle East, Russia Tower in Moscow and the Okhta Center Tower in St Petersburg promise to provide some stunning eye candy.

Spiraling its way through the Chicago skyline, the Chicago Spire will have a striking corkscrew design, while a gleaming Freedom Tower is to be the highlight of the rebuilt World Trade Center. And proving the skyscraper renaissance is a global phenomenon there are stylish giants planned for Panama, Pakistan and South Korea.

Anouk Lorie also contributed to this report

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN)  -- Police imposed a curfew in Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after near-simultaneous bomb attacks in the ancient Indian city killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 200.

Indian women mourn the death of their relatives in the May 13 serial blasts in Jaipur.

Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of Rajasthan -- the state of which Jaipur is the capital -- blamed an "unnamed international terror group" for the attack, but said it was too early in the investigation to specify which one.

H.G. Ragavendhra, Jaipur's superintendent of police, told CNN that police found nine newly-purchased bicycles at the scene, and think they were used to carry the explosives. The owner of the bike shop is helping police draw a sketch of the person who purchased them.

Police have also picked up six suspects and were questioning them.

Jaipur, known as the "pink city" for its rose-colored forts and palaces, is a popular tourist attraction. The majority Hindu city of 2.7 million people has a sizable Muslim population.

The day-long curfew, authorities said, was meant to prevent "communal violence."

It was intended to prevent large crowds from gathering at the blast site and hampering the investigation, said Jaipur police director Kanhaiya Lal. Also, tempers could flare as mourners spend the day carrying bodies to their home villages and to crematoriums, he said.

Home ministry officials suspect the Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJi) of being behind the attacks, according to CNN's sister network CNN-IBN and the Press Trust of India. No one has claimed responsibility.

In the past, officials have blamed attacks within its borders on "foreign" Islamic extremist groups fighting against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. It is a term that is commonly understood to refer to Pakistan.

Kashmir has been the source of bitter dispute and two wars between India and Pakistan. Both control parts of the region, which is predominantly Muslim.

Pakistan has denied any involvement in the attacks.  See the aftermath of the explosions. Â»

Raje told reporters Wednesday that the military had been placed on alert and security tightened around the borders of the state, the western edge of which lies next to Pakistan.

She also took to task the central government, saying it had provided no advance warning about the possibility of such an attack.

Furthermore, Raje said, the central government left a state-proposed organized crime bill unapproved for two years. The bill would have allowed local police more leeway to interrogate suspects plotting attacks, she said.

On Tuesday evening, eight bombs tore through crowded markets and a packed Hindu temple in Jaipur's walled city. The blasts went off within a 12-minute span and within 500 meters (0.3 miles) of each other. Police defused a ninth bomb.

The Jaipur blasts bear an eerie resemblance in its pattern to a deadly attack two years ago in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

In July 2006, more than 200 people were killed when seven explosions targeted commuter trains in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. In that incident, the explosions went off within a span of 11 minutes.

Both attacks used RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, and ammonium nitrate, an oxidizing agent in explosives.

And both attacks took place during the evening hours and on Tuesdays.

The Jaipur blasts occurred near the temple on a day when devotees pray to Hanuman, the Hindu monkey king. Nearby markets and bazaars that were also targeted were filled with tourists and locals.

In the Mumbai attack, the blasts were timed to go off during the height of rush hour. And authorities said the bombs all appeared to have been planted on trains that left the Churchgate station -- used daily by thousands of commuters in the metropolis of more than 11 million people.

Indian officials blamed Pakistan's intelligence services and a Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, for the attack. Pakistan, which banned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba in 2002, denied any involvement.

The Jaipur blast has one more element in common with yet another deadly attack: the use of bicycles.

Just as on Tuesday, assailants used bombs strapped to bicycles in an attack at a mosque in the western Indian city of Malegaon in September 2006.

At least 33 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in that explosion, which took place on a Friday -- when the mosque is filled with Muslim worshippers. That attack was also blamed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

Authorities have not connected the Jaipur blast to any previous attacks.

HuJi -- or the Movement of Islamic Holy War -- is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

It is banned in neighboring Bangladesh, where it is accused of carrying out several attacks, including a foiled plot to kill the country's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.

And it has been blamed for several attacks inside India, including one at the American Center in Calcutta that killed five policemen in 2002.

India ranks among the countries where terrorism is most common, the U.S. State Department said.

"The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, attacks by extreme leftist Naxalites and Maoists in eastern and central India, assaults by ethno-linguistic nationalists in the northeastern states, and terrorist strikes nationwide by Islamic extremists took more than 2,300 lives this year," the agency said.

CNN's Tess Eastment and Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report.

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text: bill

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text: Tuesday

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text: span

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text: within

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text: miles

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text: Jaipur

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text: financial

text: capital

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text: Mumbai

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text: height

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text: bombs

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text: metropolis

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text: people

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text: attack

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text: foiled

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text: country

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text: blamed

text: for

text: several

text: attacks

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text: India

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text: at

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text: American

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text: in

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text: the

text: countries

text: where

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text: most

text: common

text: the

text: U.S.

text: State

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text: Kashmir

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text: Maoists

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text: agency

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text: Tess

text: Eastment

text: and

text: Saeed

text: Ahmed

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text: to

text: this

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question: what local indian official blames?

answer: "unnamed international terror group" for the attack,

text: "unnamed international terror group" for the attack,

question: What do police impose?

answer: curfew

text: curfew

question: What did police suspect were used to carry the bombs?

answer: bicycles

text: bicycles

question: Was anyone wounded by the bombs?

answer: more than 200.

text: more than 200.

question: What number of people are wounded?

answer: more than 200.

text: more than 200.

question: what's the amount of peopole that wounded?

answer: more than 200.

text: more than 200.

question: Who is responsible for the bombing that killed 63 people?

answer: "unnamed international terror group"

text: "unnamed international terror group"

question: what police impose?

answer: curfew

text: curfew

question: Where did police impose a curfew?

answer: Jaipur

text: Jaipur

question: Whom does a local Indian official blame for the blasts?

answer: "unnamed international terror group"

text: "unnamed international terror group"


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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The BBC is refusing to broadcast a plea from leading British charities for aid to Gaza, saying the ad would compromise the public broadcaster's appearance of impartiality.

Demonstrators protest at the BBC's central London offices Saturday against the broadcaster's decision.

The decision prompted weekend protests in England and Scotland, with one group saying Sunday that 100 people had occupied the foyer of the BBC building in Glasgow, Scotland and would not leave until the BBC runs the ad.

The Disasters Emergency Committee, which includes the British Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children and 10 other charities, plans to launch the ad on Monday.

British broadcasters, led by the BBC, originally declined to air the appeal -- but in the face of criticism from government ministers and others, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 changed their minds. CNN was not approached to broadcast the ad, a DEC spokesman said.

About 5,000 people demonstrated in front of the BBC's Broadcasting House in central London on Saturday over the broadcaster's stance. Seven people were arrested.  Watch protest against BBC decision Â»

In Glasgow, the London-based Stop the War Coalition said Sunday its supporters had moved into the foyer of the BBC building in what the group described as a peaceful protest.

The group did not plan to move beyond the foyer but intended to stay there until the BBC changes its decision, said Keith Boyd, a coalition member who called CNN on Sunday.

"Primarily we are asking that the ad be shown," Boyd said.

The BBC press office would not confirm whether its Glasgow office was being occupied or if protesters were even there.

"We don't comment on individual demonstrations," a statement from the BBC press office said.

The BBC is standing by its decision to not air the ad, director general Mark Thompson wrote in a blog post on the corporation's Web site.

"We concluded that we could not broadcast a free-standing appeal, no matter how carefully constructed, without running the risk of reducing public confidence in the BBC's impartiality in its wider coverage of the story," he wrote Saturday.

"Inevitably an appeal would use pictures which are the same or similar to those we would be using in our news programs but would do so with the objective of encouraging public donations. The danger for the BBC is that this could be interpreted as taking a political stance on an ongoing story," Thompson said.

"Gaza remains a major ongoing news story, in which humanitarian issues -- the suffering and distress of civilians and combatants on both sides of the conflict, the debate about who is responsible for causing it and what should be done about it -- are both at the heart of the story and contentious," he added.

The BBC, which is funded by an obligatory license fee paid by every British household with a television, is required by its charter to be impartial. It does not carry commercial advertising but does broadcast charity appeals.

The DEC is "disappointed that the BBC declined to support the Gaza appeal," the spokesman told CNN. "It might limit the reach of our key message to the general public."

The spokesman, who asked not to be named, said the BBC had to make its own decision about impartiality.

"That is a decision they must make. We have no view on that subject," he said.

Many readers of Thompson's blog post did have a view, however. The statement got hundreds of comments, most of them critical of the BBC.

A commenter who signed in as "bully--baiter" said the BBC was taking a side, no matter what it did.

"Sorry Mr. Thompson but you cannot have it both ways. If deciding to accede to the DEC request would be seen as political then deciding not to accede to it is also political. Don't insult me with your disingenuous attempts to suggest it is otherwise," the commenter wrote.

Other commenters simply rejected Thompson's position out of hand.

"I think the reasons for blocking help for a grave humanitarian disaster are simply astounding," "brit--proud" wrote. "How can simply bringing food, medicines and homes to hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians be seen as political impartiality? How stupid do the BBC think the British public are?"

But the corporation had its defenders as well.

"The last thing I want to do, is fund the BBC to broadcast propaganda," "SternG" wrote: "There's no way I will pay the BBC to air the DEC's politically-motivated 'appeal' for Gaza. Gaza is run by a government which is internationally recognized as a terrorist group, including by the EU. There is no doubt that some aid/fund will be 'procured' by Hamas. ... Good decision BBC."

British broadcasters have refused to air some previous DEC appeals, the umbrella organization's spokesman said.

A planned 2006 appeal for aid to victims of the war in Lebanon was scrapped because "there were genuine concerns, shared by the aid agencies, about the deliverability of aid."

Thompson cited doubts about whether DEC members could get aid to Gaza as a secondary reason for declining to take the ad.

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question: Who refuses to broadcast ad?

answer: The BBC

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question: What is BBC funded by?

answer: an obligatory license fee paid

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question: What is the name of the charity group?

answer: British Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children and 10 other charities,

text: British Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children and 10 other charities,

question: What do the protesters occupy?

answer: Glasgow office

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question: Where did protestors occupy?

answer: the foyer of the BBC building in Glasgow, Scotland

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question: what is the ad about?

answer: aid to Gaza,

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question: on which date disasters emergency committee will launch appeal?

answer: Monday.

text: Monday.