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Washington (CNN) -- The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and contractors and a Jordanian intelligence official in Afghanistan was within seconds of being searched by two security contractors when he detonated his explosives, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the incident told CNN on Tuesday.

On December 30, the two American guards, who worked for Xe Services -- formerly Blackwater USA -- approached the passenger side of the red 4-door sedan where bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was sitting, the official said.

Al-Balawi had been invited to the base to share information he claimed to have that would lead the United States directly to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command.

The sedan was waved through the normal security checkpoints to get onto the base, and pulled up just outside a one-story building -- a temporary space that was being used to interrogate people brought onto base.

Several CIA officers and contractors were standing on the driver's side of the car, opposite al-Balawi, and others were standing as far as 50 feet away, a U.S. intelligence official said.

Al-Balawi started to get out of the car, with one hand in his pocket, when he detonated the explosives, the source said.

"It was no accident that some of the CIA officers were standing on the opposite side," the former intelligence official said. The official observed it was the safest place to be, as "they waited for the Xe guys to do what they're paid to do and frisk him." Also, there could have been some cultural sensitivity, with an Arab man about to be searched in front of female CIA officers who were there. The official says that "there was no point going up to him until after the guards had patted him down."

Some of these details were first reported in The Washington Post earlier this week.

The official expressed surprise at how much shrapnel tore through the area, killing seven CIA officers and contractors -- including the two Xe Services guards -- as well as a Jordanian intelligence official.

Former CIA Agent Jack Rice told CNN that frequently, suicide bombers' explosive vests are wrapped in "things like nuts and bolts and ball bearings.

"So what you create is this massive amount of shrapnel that kills everybody in the entire area," he said.

Rice, who just returned from Afghanistan, said it was unusual to have so many officers present for a debriefing, but if they believed al-Balawi's claims that he had direct links to al Qaeda's top leadership, the excitement on the base would have been high.

"Remember, this is a career opportunity for all of these people. If you could take down al-Zawahiri, if you could take down Osama bin Laden, you are a hero for the rest of your career. Everybody wants to be in the room," Rice said.

Al-Balawi, a Jordanian doctor, was a promising potential source. U.S. and Jordanian intelligence agencies apparently believed he was a reformed extremist and were using him to hunt al-Zawahiri.

Al-Balawi had provided photographic evidence that helped establish his credibility, a U.S. intelligence official said. There were other things that also helped determine his authenticity, the official added, but would provide no further details.

The former intelligence official who spoke anonymously has been to Forward Operating Base Chapman, where the attack occurred, and said body armor was worn even within the base's inner perimeter, which is unusual, compared with military bases in Kabul or Kandahar.

"You have a real sense of the proximity to the Pakistan border. Perimeters don't have the same meaning," the official said.

While saying that a mistake was made by not searching al-Balawi before he got into the red car, the official defended the officers' decision to bring him on base.

"There's nowhere to frisk someone outside, and you don't have a whole lot of options. Let's assume they did have a safe house -- the exact same thing would have happened there," the official said.

In a rare public defense of the CIA officers' actions, CIA Director Leon Panetta said the officers did not ignore the potential dangers because of the potential for valuable information.

"This was not a question of trusting a potential intelligence asset, even one who had provided information that we could verify independently. It is never that simple, and no one ignored the hazards," Panetta wrote in an op-ed this weekend in The Washington Post. "The individual was about to be searched by our security officers -- a distance away from other intelligence personnel -- when he set off his explosives."

The official says the attack not only sheds light on the dangerous work CIA officials and contractors do in Afghanistan, but how their footprint is growing. FOB Chapman was used to conduct operations back and forth across the Pakistan border. But the official says it is just "one of many bases in Afghanistan" that operate outside U.S. military or NATO command.

Afghan contractors guard the outer perimeter of many of the bases. "Back in 2005, the CIA worked up an entire plan on how to increase its presence in Afghanistan," the official said. This effort was pursued "very aggressively" through the last several years of the Bush administration, and the official believed President Obama would have been briefed on that when he took office.

The official says the feeling in the intelligence community is that Obama has increased the frequency and intensity of aggressive actions around the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region. Since he took office, the United States has ramped up the use of pilotless drones to strike at al Qaeda targets in Pakistan, including at least seven strikes since the December 30 attack at FOB Chapman, and approximately 51 others previously in 2009.

In 2008, the last year of President George W. Bush's administration, there were approximately 34 drone strikes.

"I've seen no evidence that he's [Obama] diminished in any way the strategy of the previous administration. In fact, President Obama has not only continued what President Bush started, he's built on it," the official said.

CNN Intelligence Producer Pam Benson and Pentagon Supervising Producer Adam Levine contributed to this report.

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question: who detonated explosives as he left car, former intelligence official?

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(CNN) -- A Marine convicted for his role in the death of an Iraqi civilian was sentenced Friday to a reduction in rank and will be discharged.

Cpl. Trent D. Thomas was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit several offenses -- including murder, larceny, housebreaking, kidnapping, and making false official statements -- for his involvement in the April 2006 death in Hamdaniya, Iraq.

Thomas will be demoted to the rank of entry-level private and will receive a bad-conduct discharge.

The 25-year-old was among seven Marines and a Navy medic who were charged in connection with the death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52.

The Marines accused in the case were members of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. They reported at the time that Awad planned to detonate a roadside bomb targeting their patrol.

But several residents of Hamdaniya, including relatives of the victim, gave a different account, prompting a criminal investigation.

Prosecutors accuse the group's squad leader, Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III, of dragging Awad from his home, shooting him in the street and then making it look like he had planned to ambush American troops.

Hutchins has pleaded not guilty to murder, conspiracy and other charges in the case. He faces a sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Thomas changed his plea from guilty to not guilty in February, arguing that he had merely followed orders.

He told his attorneys that after reviewing the evidence against him, he realized "that what happened overseas happened as a result of obedience to orders, and he hasn't done anything wrong," defense attorney Victor Kelley said.

Thomas said in January, shortly after entering his guilty plea, that he was "truly sorry" for his role in the killing.

He could have been sentenced to life in prison under his original plea. E-mail to a friend

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question: What rank did the Marine get?

answer: entry-level private

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answer: kidnapping and conspiracy to commit several offenses

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question: What was Cpl. Trent D. Thomas found guilty of?

answer: kidnapping and conspiracy to commit several offenses

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question: Who did the Marine kill?

answer: Hashim Ibrahim Awad,

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question: Who gets rank of private, will be discharged for role in death of Iraqi civilian?

answer: Cpl. Trent D. Thomas

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question: What was Thomas guilty of?

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ASHLAND, Ohio (CNN)  -- An Ohio bakery shut down in October is bustling again, with 60 eager employees who had expected a Christmas on the unemployment rolls.

Cookie production has resumed and some workers are back on the job at the Archway factory in Ashland, Ohio.

Some 300 workers lost their jobs when the Archway cookie factory in Ashland, Ohio, was suddenly closed by the private equity firm that owned it. The workers also were left without benefits like health insurance.

But then Lance Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based snack food company, purchased Archway at a bankruptcy auction. And last week 60 workers were asked to return immediately, with perhaps more coming back in the months ahead.

Kathy Sexton, a worker at the bakery, had been preparing her children for a very modest holiday.  Watch the holiday brighten for workers Â»

"They said they understood," Sexton recalls. "They said, 'That's all right, Mom.' You always want to give them more, but ... I didn't think I would be able to."

Now she can.

Tiny Ashland has been  struggling. Ohio has lost 200,000 jobs over the past eight years. The recent presidential campaign saw both candidates visiting frequently.

The outlook in Ashland became especially bleak when the Archway plant closed. Workers at the bakery said they felt betrayed when Archway at first said there would be more work in a day or two, but then changed the locks.

Rita Devan remembers.

"They just kept taking and taking until there was nothing left to take," Devan says, "and they didn't care that they were putting 300 people out of work."

Things are different now.

When it promised to reopen the bakery, Lance gave all 300 former Archway workers a $1,500 prepaid debit card.

"I was crying," Devan says of the gift. "I am like, 'What are these people doing? They don't know me. They don't know us. They don't know any of the Archway people. And they are giving each and every one of us $1,500.' "

Sexton -- the woman who'd been preparing her kids for a meager holiday -- says of the $1,500 gift: "It was awesome. My first thought was, 'I can give my kids a Christmas.' "

David Singer, CEO of Lance, says the gift cards were a way of letting Ashland know the new owners are different. "We wouldn't do it willy-nilly," Singer says. "We do want to make money. But this is the pool of folks that we intend to hire. We just wanted to let them know who we were."

The 60 workers rehired so far are earning their previous salary and retained their seniority. They also were provided health insurance from day one.

The bakery now produces Lance cookies that are sold to big chains like Target and Wal-Mart. But production of Archway cookies is scheduled to resume soon. Lance has told the employees that it hopes to have the plant fully operational by the end of 2009 -- that is, five lines of cookies being produced simultaneously.

The new owners say that if new orders keep flowing in, more jobs will follow.

Terry Mowry is another worker rehired by Lance. He says what has happened is hard to describe: "You just saw life being breathed right back into the face of these people."

And Devan says with a laugh: "I walked into the garage last night, and my husband says, 'You actually smell like a cookie again.' "

"He said, 'Boy, I missed that smell.' "

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question: Which company purchased Archway at auction?

answer: Lance Inc.,

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question: How many people lost their jobs when Archway closed?

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question: When did the bakery suddenly close?

answer: October

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question: What were laid-off workers given?

answer: $1,500 prepaid debit card.

text: $1,500 prepaid debit card.

question: What did the new owners give the workers?

answer: a $1,500 prepaid debit card.

text: a $1,500 prepaid debit card.

question: Who closed doors in October?

answer: An Ohio bakery

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question: What company bought Archway?

answer: Lance Inc.,

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question: How much did the owner give ex-workers on a prepaid debit card?

answer: $1,500

question: Who stepped in and bought Archway?

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(CNN) -- Britons, Germans and other tourists on the Spanish island of Mallorca "can feel safe because they aren't targets of the ETA terrorist band," which recently bombed the popular resort, Spain's interior minister said Tuesday.

Police cordon off the route leading to the location of the blasts in Palma de Mallorca.

"People should feel safe because security forces are on top of this," Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told a nationally-televised news conference in Madrid.

Rubalcaba's comments followed the Sunday explosions on Mallorca of what he said were four small ETA bombs that caused no injuries, and two weeks after an ETA car bomb killed two Civil Guard officers on the same Mediterranean island.

But Rubalcaba said police aren't sure if the ETA militants behind the bombings remain in hiding on the island or have left, and he warned repeatedly that the Basque separatist group could attack again.

"We are on maximum alert in Mallorca and the rest of Spain," Rubalcaba said. "ETA, when it can, attacks, so you can't rule out that they won't attack again. We try to prevent them from doing so."  Watch background behind ETA's decades-long struggle Â»

The island's regional government told CNN on Monday that since the bombings, there have been no "significant" tourist cancellations.

Tens of thousands of Britons and Germans are vacationing on Mallorca, as is Spain's King Juan Carlos and the royal family.

ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths in its long fight for Basque independence.

Police initially attributed three small bombs on Sunday to ETA, which is listed as a terrorist group by Spain, the United States and the European Union.

But Tuesday, Rubalcaba confirmed that police believe a fourth bomb also was ETA's work. Some local authorities initially thought it might have been just an accidental gas explosion.

Three of the bombs exploded in the restrooms of restaurants and a bar in the main city, Palma de Mallorca, and the other was placed in the restroom of an underground commercial area beneath a main square.

Rubalcaba revealed that at least one of the bombs was in a male lavatory; previously it was reported they were all in women's restrooms.

Rubalcaba said one of the three warning calls on Sunday preceding the attacks came from near Bordeaux, France --- ETA's traditional rear-guard base. The warning calls, he added, provided only scant details about the bombs' locations to police.

The four small bombs were activated by timers, and one of them was hidden in a bar that had been closed since Friday.

Rubalcaba reiterated the government's position that "these attacks don't do anything but strengthen our determination. Those who placed the bombs will spend long years in jail and recent experience says they will."

ETA has been battered over the past 16 months by arrests of four suspected top ETA military chiefs and dozens of militants.

Hours before Sunday's bombs, ETA claimed responsibility for a series of bombings across Spain in June and July: the one that killed two Civil Guard officers, another that killed a police officer, and another that heavily damaged a Civil Guard barracks, slightly wounded dozens, including children.

In a statement released to the Basque newspaper Gara, ETA said those attacks were in retaliation for the Socialist government's crackdown on its ranks.

The group said, "What ETA has been looking for during long decades is a negotiated political solution."

But Rubalcaba recently ruled out a resumption of negotiations that his government tried without success in 2006 during an ETA cease-fire.

Spanish media last week cited numerous politicians and analysts who suggested that ETA's recent spate of violence might be trying to force the government back to the negotiating table.

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question: Who does Spanish officials say the ETA is not targeting?

answer: tourists

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answer: Sunday

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question: how many were killed?

answer: two

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question: how many bombs?

answer: four

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question: How many bombs detonated?

answer: four small ETA

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question: where were they killed?

answer: Mallorca

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question: Where did two civilian guards get killed?

answer: Palma de Mallorca.

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question: What detonated on Sunday?

answer: four small ETA bombs

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question: How many guards were killed?

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(CNN) -- Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who helped develop disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, died Saturday. He was 95.

Norman Borlaug received a Congressional Gold Medal from then President George W. Bush on July 17, 2007.

Borlaug died from cancer complications in Dallas, Texas, a spokeswoman for Texas A&M University said.

A 1970 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Borlaug was a distinguished professor of international agriculture at the university.

Borlaug started at Texas A&M in 1984, after working as a scientist in a program that introduced scientific techniques for preventing famine in Mexico, according to the university.

Until recently, he traveled worldwide working for improvements in agricultural science and food policy, said Kathleen Phillips, a university spokeswoman.

Borlaug was known as a champion of high-yield crop varieties, and other science and agricultural innovations to help fight hunger in developing nations. iReport.com: Tour Borlaug's boyhood farm

"We all eat at least three times a day in privileged nations, and yet we take food for granted," Borlaug said recently in an interview posted on the university's Web site.

"There has been great progress, and food is more equitably distributed. But hunger is a commonplace, and famine appears all too often."

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006, according to the university's Web site.

The agriculture institute at the university was named after him in 2006.

Borlaug also created the World Food Prize, which recognized the work of scientists and humanitarians who have helped fight world hunger through advanced agriculture, the university said.

A memorial service will be held at the university at a later date.

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(CNN) -- Luis Caplan served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office. His leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet he continued to work for another five years.

Luis Caplan, 71, asks of the stimulus package: "What happens to the real middle class?"

Now, his savings have nearly been wiped out because of the economic crisis. At the age of 71, he faces losing his apartment if things don't change soon. The government bailed out the big institutions, but "what happens to the little people?" he asks.

"What happens to the real middle class? What happens to me?" he says, choking back tears. "It's awful. It's really awful."

With Congress working to pass the $800 billion stimulus bill, millions of  Americans -- especially those with homes they're trying to sell or about to be foreclosed on -- are asking the same thing: What's in it for me?

Caplan says most of his equity is tied up in his 800-square-foot apartment that he purchased in 1985. He wants to sell it to move to Seattle, Washington, to be near his daughter, who was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

But his place has sat on the market for three months without an offer. Located in a tony neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper East Side, apartments used to sell in a matter of weeks. Caplan has dropped $50,000 from the original asking price of $625,000 and may have to drop the price again.

He says he can barely afford maintenance fees and other monthly costs associated with his place. He hopes to make enough money to pay off the reverse mortgage he took out to supplement his Social Security payments.

"I don't know how much more I can go through like this," he says, sobbing even more. "I'm going crazy with this."

His son, Danny Caplan, says, "He's collateral damage. He has equity and could sell it and walk away and have enough to live comfortably. But [he can't] because of the economic situation."

America's housing crisis has become a key issue for Washington policymakers. Millions of Americans are in foreclosure or facing foreclosure; others are out of work trying to sell their homes in a down economy. And there are elderly people, such as Caplan, who want to sell immediately to help stabilize their finances. Send us your thoughts on the stimulus plan

President Obama on Tuesday told people at a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, that he plans to announce in coming weeks "what our overall housing strategy is going to be."

Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner made the rounds in Washington on Tuesday to push the stimulus bill, including the need to jump-start America's housing market.  See stimulus bill provisions Â»

"Homeowners around the country are seeing the value of their homes fall because of forces they did not create and cannot control," he said. "This crisis in housing has had devastating consequences, and our government should have moved more forcefully to help contain the damage."

At one Senate hearing, Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, said "decisive action" is needed to address the housing crisis. "I think the message should come through clear from all of us, you have to move aggressively, clearly, and to start working," Reed said.

"I agree with you," Geithner responded. "Our objective is, and our hope is, that our program meets that test."

The stimulus bill does sweeten the pot for potential homebuyers, which supporters say could help spur the economy. Critics charge that letting housing prices stabilize on their own is healthy for the economy.

The Senate's version of the bill offers a $15,000 tax credit to anyone who purchases a home in the next year, more than double the tax credit offered by the House.

Dwight Jaffee, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of California-Berkeley, says the housing market is the "perfect instrument in leading the economy out of recession because housing is such a big-ticket item."

"We will not turnaround this economy until we start to turn around housing. I hope people in Washington are hearing it," he says.

In the case of Luis Caplan, Jaffee says, "What it means to him, if they did carry out this program, then the government would be stimulating the demand -- the buyers -- for his apartment to sell it at a fuller price and much sooner."

Caplan says that would be a good thing. He needs all the help he can get.

Born in Argentina, Caplan came to the United States as a legal immigrant in 1964 to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. He eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen and opened his medical office to help treat the Spanish-speaking poor of the South Bronx.

He believed his calling was to help "the poorest of the poor" get decent medical treatment, rather than pursue the more high-paying lifestyle of other doctors. Most of his patients were on Medicaid, so he got paid at a rate much less than other doctors. He beams with pride at the lives he saved.

"I caught cancers very early," he said. "I'm not the savior of humanity. ... I just did what I could to help poor people."

In June 1990 at the age of 53, Caplan started having pain in his left leg. It turned out to be a malignant tumor and his leg was amputated. Yet his passion and commitment to helping others kept him going.

Even after losing his leg, he went back to work for another five years. When he retired, he got another shocker: Social Security initially rejected him -- a man without a leg -- for disability.

He says he scraped and saved money along the way, "a very small amount that has practically disappeared." He now scoots around his apartment in his wheelchair hoping for better days. As far as he's concerned, the big Wall Street institutions can "burn in hell."

"I don't have a Rolls-Royce. I don't have a Cadillac," he says. "The government ... isn't trying to help everybody: People like me that went through this, people who did something good for the community, people who didn't buy an expensive painting for their office."

Caplan pauses. "This is what I'm left with: an apartment that can hardly sell."

His son is proud of his father's accomplishments, yet he's frustrated that his dad is in such a financial pinch during a time that's supposed to be the Golden Years of his life.

"He bought the American dream and paid for the American dream," says Danny Caplan.

CNN's Jackie Adams contributed to this report.

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text: poor

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text: South

text: Bronx

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text: bout

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text: stimulus

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text: real

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text: will

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text: turn

text: around

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text: I

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text: in

text: Washington

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text: hearing

text: it

text: he

text: says

text: In

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text: case

text: of

text: Luis

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text: means

text: to

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text: if

text: they

text: did

text: carry

text: out

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text: program

text: then

text: the

text: government

text: would

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text: the

text: demand

text: the

text: buyers

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text: his

text: apartment

text: to

text: sell

text: it

text: at

text: a

text: fuller

text: price

text: and

text: much

text: sooner

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text: says

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text: would

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text: a

text: good

text: thing

text: He

text: needs

text: all

text: the

text: help

text: he

text: can

text: get

text: Born

text: in

text: Argentina

text: Caplan

text: came

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: as

text: a

text: legal

text: immigrant

text: in

text: to

text: pursue

text: his

text: dream

text: of

text: becoming

text: a

text: doctor

text: He

text: eventually

text: became

text: a

text: naturalized

text: U.S.

text: citizen

text: and

text: opened

text: his

text: medical

text: office

text: to

text: help

text: treat

text: the

text: Spanish

text: speaking

text: poor

text: of

text: the

text: South

text: Bronx

text: He

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text: calling

text: was

text: to

text: help

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text: poorest

text: of

text: the

text: poor

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text: decent

text: medical

text: treatment

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text: than

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text: the

text: more

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text: paying

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text: of

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text: patients

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text: on

text: Medicaid

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text: got

text: paid

text: at

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text: rate

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text: 'm

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text: I

text: could

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text: people

text: In

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text: leg

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text: passion

text: and

text: commitment

text: to

text: helping

text: others

text: kept

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text: going

text: Even

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text: losing

text: his

text: leg

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text: went

text: back

text: to

text: work

text: for

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text: five

text: years

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text: retired

text: he

text: got

text: another

text: shocker

text: Social

text: Security

text: initially

text: rejected

text: him

text: a

text: man

text: without

text: a

text: leg

text: for

text: disability

text: He

text: says

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text: scraped

text: and

text: saved

text: money

text: along

text: the

text: way

text: a

text: very

text: small

text: amount

text: that

text: has

text: practically

text: disappeared

text: He

text: now

text: scoots

text: around

text: his

text: apartment

text: in

text: his

text: wheelchair

text: hoping

text: for

text: better

text: days

text: As

text: far

text: as

text: he

text: 's

text: concerned

text: the

text: big

text: Wall

text: Street

text: institutions

text: can

text: burn

text: in

text: hell

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text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: Rolls

text: Royce

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: Cadillac

text: he

text: says

text: The

text: government

text: is

text: n't

text: trying

text: to

text: help

text: everybody

text: People

text: like

text: me

text: that

text: went

text: through

text: this

text: people

text: who

text: did

text: something

text: good

text: for

text: the

text: community

text: people

text: who

text: did

text: n't

text: buy

text: an

text: expensive

text: painting

text: for

text: their

text: office

text: Caplan

text: pauses

text: This

text: is

text: what

text: I

text: 'm

text: left

text: with

text: an

text: apartment

text: that

text: can

text: hardly

text: sell

text: His

text: son

text: is

text: proud

text: of

text: his

text: father

text: 's

text: accomplishments

text: yet

text: he

text: 's

text: frustrated

text: that

text: his

text: dad

text: is

text: in

text: such

text: a

text: financial

text: pinch

text: during

text: a

text: time

text: that

text: 's

text: supposed

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: Golden

text: Years

text: of

text: his

text: life

text: He

text: bought

text: the

text: American

text: dream

text: and

text: paid

text: for

text: the

text: American

text: dream

text: says

text: Danny

text: Caplan

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jackie

text: Adams

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: what does he ask

answer: "What happens to the real middle class?"

text: "What happens to the real middle class?"

question: What has Luis Caplan committed his life to?

answer: served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office.

text: served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office.

question: what did he committed life to

answer: served the poor

text: served the poor

question: What does he face

answer: losing his apartment

text: losing his apartment

question: What does the stimulus plan offer?

answer: a $15,000 tax credit to anyone who purchases a home in the next year, more than double the tax credit offered by the House.

text: a $15,000 tax credit to anyone who purchases a home in the next year, more than double the tax credit offered by the House.

question: What kind of credit will homebuyers get?

answer: a $15,000 tax

text: a $15,000 tax

question: What was Luis Caplan committed to?

answer: served the poor of the South Bronx for decades

text: served the poor of the South Bronx for decades


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(CNN) -- A man who allegedly gagged and bound his toddler's arms and legs with tape and posted a photo of her on Facebook is "devastated by the situation," his attorney told CNN Thursday.

Andre Curry, 21, is charged with aggravated domestic battery, which is a felony, Chicago police said.

In court Wednesday, his bond was set at $100,000.

"It's our belief that after the investigation by the state and DCFS (the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services) is concluded, Andre Curry will be vindicated," said assistant public defender Anand Sundaram.

Curry has no history of child abuse and the girl has not shown injuries, Sundaram said, adding that the family is cooperating in the investigation.

The girl was being checked by a doctor Thursday for any injuries, whether old or new, he said.

With the photo "going viral on the Internet, things may have been blown out of proportion," Sundaram said.

Sundaram gave few details, saying he could not comment on specifics of the case.

The photo at issue shows the girl with painter's tape over her mouth and binding her wrists and ankles.

Above the photo on Curry's Facebook page were the words, "This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back. ;)"

The Facebook page appears to have been taken down. But the image was picked up by other websites. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office also told CNN that the caption was with the photo on Curry's Facebook page.

Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, told CNN Wednesday the girl in the photo is 22 months old.

"The photo itself does not tell the story of who our client is and how well he takes care of this child," said Sundaram.

He said his client will not face the felony charge if prosecutors cannot prove the girl suffered any injuries from the incident. If that's the case, he said, prosecutors could at most seek a charge of misdemeanor battery.

Conklin said the next court date will be December 27.

In the meantime, Curry remains behind bars. He would need to post $10,000 toward his bond to leave jail, Sundaram said.

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text: case

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text: Sundaram

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question: who posted a photo?

answer: Andre Curry,

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question: who is being examined by a doctor

answer: The girl

text: The girl

question: that day the child was examined

answer: Thursday

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question: what does andre says

answer: "devastated by the situation,"

text: "devastated by the situation,"

question: who was being examined?

answer: The girl

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question: who takes good care of the child?

answer: Andre Curry,

text: Andre Curry,

question: for what is he being charged

answer: aggravated domestic battery,

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Suspected Taliban militants blew up a bridge early Tuesday in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspending NATO supply lines.

A Pakistani policeman sits near a police check post in the tribal area of Khyber Agency on February 12, 2008.

The blast occurred about 6 a.m. Tuesday in the Khata Kushta area of Jamrod in the Khyber Agency in Pakistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The bridge connected Landi Kotal and Jamrod. Transport has been suspended, and authorities are assessing damages.

Engineers also are on location and work is under way to open a temporary route. Details were unclear on the size of the blast, but most of the iron bridge was destroyed, local officials said.

No deaths or injuries were immediately reported.

Authorities are looking for alternate supply routes for NATO supply trucks and traffic going from Pakistan to Afghanistan, because the route is the main one between the two countries. All vehicles must cross the bridge when going from Peshawar toward the crossing point into Afghanistan.

This is the first time militants have targeted a bridge or roadway in efforts to disrupt NATO supplies, a local official said.

Previously, militants have targeted truck depots where supply convoys wait to cross into Afghanistan or have attacked trucks on their way through Pakistan and into the Khyber Agency.

On Monday, at least 35 suspected militants were killed as part of ongoing operations in the Swat Valley, the Pakistan military confirmed to CNN.

Government security forces engaged 70 to 80 suspected militants with artillery and attack helicopters about 11 p.m., after observing their movements in the Khwaza Khela District of the Swat Valley, the military said.

Though only 35 militants were confirmed dead, many more were injured in the attack and the death toll was expected to rise, the military said.

Also on Monday, a Taliban FM radio sermon announced that militants had killed 16 Pakistan army soldiers in the Swat Valley. Officials at the Swat media center said that report was false.

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text: CNN

text: Suspected

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text: the

text: border

text: region

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question: who was killed

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question: where is Khyber Agency

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question: Where did the militants blow up a bridge?

answer: region between Pakistan and Afghanistan,

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question: who was blown up

answer: a bridge

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answer: No

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question: How many suspected militants were killed?

answer: 35

question: Where is the Khyber Agency located?

answer: Pakistan

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question: Where was the bridge blown up by Taliban militants?

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MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- A moderately strong earthquake rocked Mexico City on Friday afternoon, shaking the earth in the sprawling capital.

People in Mexico City stream into the street as a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.7, and placed the epicenter near the city of Puebla, about 85 miles southeast of Mexico City. It hit at 2:24 p.m. local time.

The Mexican seismological service measured the quake at 5.9.

People in the city reported the earth and buildings shaking. Thousands of panicked people streamed into the streets as stopped cars snarled traffic. Parts of the city were without electricity Friday afternoon but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Earthquakes are a frightening experience for the 20 million residents of Mexico City, where thousands of people perished in a massive quake in 1985. The city, built on volcanic ash and clay, is particularly vulnerable to temblors.

Aldo Pontecorvo of the humanitarian agency World Vision said the shaking lasted about 20 seconds. It came out of nowhere and "without any warning," said Pontecorvo, who said he was in his office when the quake struck.

Earlier this month, a moderate earthquake was measured off the coast of Mexico's western Baja California peninsula.

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text: cars

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text: traffic

text: Parts

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: were

text: without

text: electricity

text: Friday

text: afternoon

text: but

text: there

text: were

text: no

text: immediate

text: reports

text: of

text: injuries

text: or

text: damage

text: Earthquakes

text: are

text: a

text: frightening

text: experience

text: for

text: the

text: million

text: residents

text: of

text: Mexico

text: City

text: where

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: perished

text: in

text: a

text: massive

text: quake

text: in

text: The

text: city

text: built

text: on

text: volcanic

text: ash

text: and

text: clay

text: is

text: particularly

text: vulnerable

text: to

text: temblors

text: Aldo

text: Pontecorvo

text: of

text: the

text: humanitarian

text: agency

text: World

text: Vision

text: said

text: the

text: shaking

text: lasted

text: about

text: seconds

text: It

text: came

text: out

text: of

text: nowhere

text: and

text: without

text: any

text: warning

text: said

text: Pontecorvo

text: who

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: his

text: office

text: when

text: the

text: quake

text: struck

text: Earlier

text: this

text: month

text: a

text: moderate

text: earthquake

text: was

text: measured

text: off

text: the

text: coast

text: of

text: Mexico

text: 's

text: western

text: Baja

text: California

text: peninsula

question: How many were killed in the 1985 earthquake in Mexico city?

answer: thousands of people

text: thousands of people

question: What happened in 1985?

answer: thousands of people perished in a massive quake

text: thousands of people perished in a massive quake

question: What is the magnitude of the Quake?

answer: 5.7

question: What was the earthquake?

answer: moderately strong

text: moderately strong

question: How many were injured in this quake?

answer: no immediate reports of injuries

text: no immediate reports of injuries

question: What number panicked?

answer: Thousands

text: Thousands

question: which year was the quake

answer: 1985.