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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The United Arab Emirates has refused to grant a visa to a female Israeli tennis player, preventing her from competing in the Sony Ericsson World Tennis Association Tour in Dubai, the WTA said in a statement Sunday.

The UAE has refused to grant a visa allowing Shahar Peer to compete in Dubai.

Shahar Peer would have been the first Israeli athlete to participate in a professional sporting event in the UAE, CNN Sports correspondent Pedro Pinto said.

The UAE has no diplomatic ties with Israel.

Peer told CNN on Sunday evening she was "very, very disappointed" to be denied access to the tournament.

"Any player that qualifies should attend, and I was prevented," she said from Israel. "I'm glad the WTA support me. A red line was crossed for every athlete in the world -- politics should be kept separate from sports."

The governing body of women's tennis said it was "deeply disappointed" that Peer was being denied entry to the country hosting the tournament, but it did not cancel the competition, which began Sunday.

The move runs counter to WTA policy, which says no player should be barred from competing in a tournament for which she has qualified.

Dubai could lose its membership in the WTA tour next year over the ban on Peer, according to WTA rules. That would mean professional players could compete only in exhibition matches in Dubai, the results of which would not count in pro rankings.

Government officials in Dubai have not responded to CNN's request to comment over their refusal to allow Peer to compete in the event.

"Ms. Peer has earned the right to play in the tournament, and it is regrettable that the UAE is denying her this right," said Larry Scott, chairman and chief executive of the tour.  Watch Scott express disappointment Â»

"Following various consultations, the tour has decided to allow the tournament to continue to be played this week, pending further review by the tour's board of directors."

The patron of the Dubai Tennis Championships is Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Makhtoum. Two million dollars in prize money is on the line.

Al-Makhtoum told CNN in 2004 that Dubai would accept Israeli students to a school dedicated to students from the Middle East who are talented at sports.

In 2003, Dubai hosted World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, which Israeli government officials attended. The Israeli flag -- among other member states' flags -- is still part of a globe monument in Dubai.

Peer, 21, is ranked 48th in the world among female tennis players. She was allowed to compete at the Doha tournament in Qatar last year, where she received a warm welcome, according to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.

Qatar, another Gulf Arab state, froze diplomatic ties with Israel after Israel's military offensive in Gaza last month.

Peer downplayed the political undertones of her participation in last year's Doha tournament, telling Haaretz that she didn't come to Qatar "to help the politics of course." But she added that if her playing in the tournament "can help for peace or anything, I'd be really happy."

Scott said the tour will "review appropriate remedies for Ms. Peer" as well as "appropriate future actions with regard to the future of the Dubai tournament."

Peer was advised Saturday by tournament and WTA officials of the denial of her visa while she was participating in a tournament in Pattaya, Thailand, according to a WTA statement.

The Dubai Tennis Championships runs through February 28.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- The man who, dressed as Santa Claus, killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party planned to flee to Canada the next day, but California police believe he decided to kill himself instead because of severe burn injuries.

Pardo rigged his rental car so that if someone tried to remove the Santa suit, the car would explode.

During a news conference on Friday, Covina Police Chief Kim Raney said Bruce Jeffrey Pardo had purchased a ticket for an early Christmas Day flight from Los Angeles to Canada.

Raney said that while police do not know why Pardo, 45, decided against his plan to flee, they speculate it may have been due to the burn injuries Pardo received after setting fire to the home where the slayings occurred.

Pardo's body was covered in third-degree burns, Raney said, and part of the Santa suit the gunman wore to the massacre burned and melted into his legs.

Police believe Pardo's injuries came after he set fire to the home using a homemade device used to spread fuel.

Raney also said Pardo came to his former in-laws' home with $17,000 strapped to his legs and inside a girdle, indicating he may have wanted quick access to his money as he fled the country.  Watch police talk about what was found on the gunman's body Â»

Police said that after leaving the home, Pardo changed out of the Santa suit and into regular clothes.

Raney also spoke about a pipe bomb that exploded in Pardo's rental car Thursday night. He said Pardo had rigged the rental car so that if someone tried to remove the Santa suit, the car would explode. The car was packed with ammunition and black powder, he said.

Police said that inside Pardo's home in Montrose, California, they also found five empty boxes for semiautomatic handguns, two high-powered shotguns and "racing fuel," which they believe was used to help set fire to the home.

Police also said they found Pardo's resume, which said he had a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, but they could not verify if it was accurate. The resume also indicated Pardo had worked in the aerospace field.

The news conference Friday came after officials said a ninth body was found in the rubble at the home.  Watch investigators at the burned-out home Â»

Police said about 25 people attended the holiday party where Pardo, dressed in a full Santa Claus outfit, came in the front door and then moved through the house, firing two semiautomatic handguns.

Covina police Friday released a recording of a chaotic 911 call.

Voices are heard on the recording yelling, "Stay away from the window!" and pleading, "Please come immediately ... he's shooting! He's shooting!"

Later a voice gasps, "He's left the house -- my mom's house is on fire!"

A distraught woman cries, "My daughter's been shot! She was shot in the face on the side, and she's bleeding!"

Police said Pardo brought four handguns to the home.

The first victim was an 8-year-old girl who ran to the door after hearing a knock, police said. She was shot in the face but survived.

"She has a very, very severe injury to her face. It's not life-threatening, but she's got a very tough road ahead of her," Lt. Pat Buchanan of the Covina Police Department said at a news conference Thursday.  Watch police describe girl's injuries Â»

Raney said Friday that witnesses, who may have caught only glimpses of what was happening because of the chaos, thought Pardo may have targeted some victims. He said witnesses at the party said Pardo may have stood over some of the victims and executed them.

Raney said people at the party were jumping out of windows on both floors of the house trying to escape the gunfire and flames.

"The information we have so far is that Mr. Pardo was married to the daughter of the resident of the house," Raney said. "They'd been married for possibly one year, had recently divorced and a settlement was reached apparently last week. It sounds like that might have been a very contentious divorce."

Investigators have yet to identify the charred bodies recovered from the burned house, which belonged to Pardo's ex-in-laws.  Watch how the massacre unfolded Â»

In addition to the nine people killed, police said three people were injured, including the 8-year-old girl. A 16-year-old girl was wounded by gunfire and was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said, and a woman who jumped out of a second-floor window suffered a broken leg and was hospitalized.

Police said they have not accounted for three people: Pardo's ex-mother-in-law, ex-father-in-law and ex-wife.

Pardo's neighbors talked to KABC on Thursday as they watched police search his home.

"He's very nice, very sociable," Cindy Keenan said. She said Pardo always decorated his home for the holidays.

Patrick Guzman said when he encountered Pardo in his yard about two hours before the attack, "He seemed normal."

"He said 'Merry Christmas' to me," Guzman said.

Ed Winter, assistant chief Los Angeles County coroner, said the bodies recovered were "severely burned and charred" and dental and medical records and X-rays will be necessary to establish identities.

Winter said the intense fire caused the top floor of the two-story house to collapse onto the first floor.

Pardo's body was discovered about 30 miles from the shooting scene at his brother's house in the Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar, dead from "a self-inflicted gunshot wound," police said. Relatives returning to the house found Pardo's body, police said.

Buchanan said police received several 911 calls at 8:27 p.m. Wednesday. When officers arrived at the house three to four minutes after the first call, the dwelling was engulfed in flames.

The fire was so intense that firefighters battled the blaze for an hour and a half before knocking the flames down so that officers "were able to look into the house from the outside, and initially saw three bodies in the front portion of the house," he said.

As uninjured people were trying to escape, Buchanan said, "that's when he (Pardo) lit the accelerant in some manner -- we do not know how at this point -- and he fled the scene."

Buchanan said the device that spread accelerant was "nothing that we or the arson-explosives unit has ever seen before. It appears to be homemade."

A Christmas Eve party at the house was a family tradition, Raney said, and the party had often featured a visit from a neighbor who was dressed as Santa Claus. He said that neighbor has moved out of the neighborhood and was not at the party Wednesday night.

Referring to Pardo, Buchanan said, "We don't know at this point whether he was aware that there was a Santa Claus in years past. We're assuming that he did, and that's the reason for the outfit."

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text: point

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text: that

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text: the

text: reason

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question: What was heard on the 911 call?

answer: g yelling, "Stay away from the window!" and pleading, "Please come immediatel

text: g yelling, "Stay away from the window!" and pleading, "Please come immediatel

question: What was the suspect wearing when they found his body?

answer: Santa suit

text: Santa suit

question: What did police say the flight locations were?

answer: Canada.

text: Canada.

question: What suit melted?

answer: Santa

text: Santa

question: Where was the suspect trying to fly to?

answer: Canada

text: Canada

question: Who said that the ninth person's body was found in ashes?

answer: officials

text: officials

question: Where did this shooting occur?

answer: California

text: California

question: Where was the suspect flying from?

answer: Los Angeles

text: Los Angeles

question: What was the suspect's scheduled route?

answer: flight from Los Angeles to Canada.

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London (CNN) -- A top executive at the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal left Dow Jones this week amid allegations that the paper's European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures, the newspaper itself reported Thursday.

Andrew Langhoff, the executive, left on Tuesday, following an internal probe which found he had pushed for two articles favorable to a company involved in the alleged circulation subterfuge, the paper said.

The Guardian, a rival newspaper, alleged that the Journal's publisher secretly directed funds to the company that was buying copies of the paper in bulk.

In an official statement, Dow Jones rejected the Guardian's characterization of the arrangements.

Wall Street Journal Europe "circulation programs were fully disclosed and certified," the company said in a statement.

The controversy comes on the heels of another scandal surrounding another newspaper in the British newspaper empire of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The News of the World, the company's flagship Sunday British tabloid, was closed in July on the orders of Murdoch's son James, following accusations that it had illegally eavesdropped on the phone of a missing girl and many others to get stories.

The girl, Milly Dowler, later turned out to have been murdered.

News Corp. owns both Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal, and News International, which published News of the World and continues to publish the Sun and the Times of London.

The Wall Street Journal Europe scandal centers on the allegation that the paper arranged for 12,000 copies a day to be sold, for one European cent each, to a company called Executive Learning Partnership, the Journal reported.

That boosted the daily circulation of the paper to 75,000 -- meaning the bulk sales to ELP made up more than 15% of daily circulation.

The number of copies a newspaper sells is important in determining how much advertisers are willing to pay for ads, among other factors.

The British agency that audits circulation figures does not differentiate between papers that are sold at face value and those distributed in bulk -- unlike the American agency, the Journal said.

Dow Jones said its circulation reports were above board.

"The practice of sponsored distribution to business schools and universities is common in the industry and clearly identified in all WSJE publisher statements. ELP was paid for legitimate services rendered," the company said.

Langhoff and a Journal circulation department employee named Gert Van Mol also directed thousands of euros to ELP in side deals, the newspaper said Thursday, citing unnamed "people familiar with the matter."

Van Mol's job has since been eliminated, the paper said.

Dow Jones said the payments were for legitimate services rendered, but that the manner in which they were paid was "admittedly complex."

It said it canceled the deal because it was uncomfortable with it, the Journal reported, also noting that ELP denied that account and that the company was "not pleased that our name appears in this context."

ELP partner Nick Van Heck said the company had invoiced for services it had actually provided, but that the invoices went to "different organizations and not to the Wall Street Journal Europe," the paper reported.

The firm said in a statement that Langhoff had "never promised us editorial coverage," the Journal said.

The internal probe found that Langhoff had advocated for two articles favorable to ELP, the Journal said.

The Dutch company describes itself as "strategy and learning architects."

An ELP representative told CNN the company would respond to a request for comment as soon as possible.

The accusations against Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal Europe were first reported by Nick Davies, a reporter for the Guardian who has been investigating scandals at News Corp. newspapers for several years.

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question: who closed in july

answer: The News of the World,

text: The News of the World,

question: Who is the dow Jones executive

answer: Andrew Langhoff,

text: Andrew Langhoff,

question: What closed in July amid a scandal over phone hacking?

answer: The News of the World, the company's flagship Sunday British tabloid,

text: The News of the World, the company's flagship Sunday British tabloid,

question: who is accused

answer: Andrew Langhoff,

text: Andrew Langhoff,

question: When did the news of the world close

answer: in July

text: in July

question: what does the wall street journal say

answer: European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures,

text: European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures,

question: Who said their circulation is properly audited?

answer: Wall Street Journal Europe

text: Wall Street Journal Europe

question: What is the paper accused of

answer: used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures,

text: used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures,


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(Entertainment Weekly) -- Jaden Smith is getting a small taste of what it's like to walk in dad Will's action-blockbuster shoes.

Keanu Reeves stars in the remake of the 1951 sci-fi flick "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

As expected, the remake of the 1951 sci-fi flick starring Keanu Reeves easily replaced "Four Christmases" atop the box office leader board with an opening weekend gross of $31 million, according to Sunday's estimates.

Despite mediocre reviews, the film held fairly steady throughout the weekend, falling slightly shy of our $36 million estimate.

The Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon yuletide comedy came in second with $13.3 million, bringing its three-week total to just under $88 million, while "Twilight" faded to the third spot during its fourth week with just over $8 million.

The teen vampire romance managed to reach one milestone, however, grossing a total of $150 million -- the amount director Catherine Hardwicke surmised the movie would have to suck in for sequel "New Moon" to get the go ahead. Obviously, Summit executives saw the writing on the wall weeks ago and have hired Chris Weitz ("About a Boy," "American Pie") to direct next fall's follow-up.

Rounding out the top five are Disney's doggie flick "Bolt" with $7.5 million and Baz Luhrmann's underperforming "Australia" with $4.3 million.

The weekend's other new major release -- "Nothing Like the Holidays," starring John Leguizamo and Debra Messing -- got coal in its stocking with a measly $3.5 million during its first weekend.

Also of note is the Clint Eastwood-starring "Gran Torino" (rumored to be the actor-director's last turn in front of the camera).

Although it opened in only six theaters (three in New York, three in L.A.), the film scored the best per screen average, $47,333, with a gross of only $284,000.

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Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The current squabbling between the House and the Senate on the payroll tax cut extension perfectly epitomizes why congressional approval is in the single digits. Highlighting this debacle, Newt Gingrich ends his first television ad in Iowa proclaiming that by "working together, we can and will rebuild the America we love."

Expecting Newt Gingrich to work together with Democrats and Republicans to end the partisan deadlock in Washington is a bit like asking the fox to guard the chicken coop.

When Gingrich entered the House of Representatives in 1979, he quickly became the leader of a group of insurgent conservatives whose chief aim was a Republican Party majority. Gingrich's partisan antics not only transformed the House, but the Senate as well. Washington has not been the same since.

Even from his first term, when he tried to get Rep. Charles Diggs kicked out of the House (despite his re-election after being convicted of 29 felonies), it became clear that Gingrich would use every Democratic misstep and every legislative opportunity to portray the House in the worst possible light. It was only in tearing down the House that Gingrich thought that it could be rebuilt in the Republicans' -- or perhaps, his -- own image.

To Gingrich's credit, the Democratic leadership was always ready to misstep and then meet him in the partisan mud. Whether it was his fight with Speaker Tip O'Neill about who controlled the television cameras in the House or his relentless pursuit of Speaker Jim Wright's sweetheart book deal, Gingrich would not back down from a fight even if at first it appeared the evidence was against him.

Gingrich became a master at using the legislative process to achieve his political goals. This strategy from Gingrich's House days is, of course, well known. What is less well known is that members who previously served with Gingrich in the House spread these highly partisan tactics to the Senate.

I am writing a book about these senators, who I call "Gingrich senators," because they so seamlessly infected the Senate with the same hyper-partisanship that pervaded the House. Since Gingrich's first election to the House, 40 Republicans have entered the House and then moved on to the Senate. Twenty-two of them continue to serve in the Senate, including Jim DeMint, John McCain, Jim Inhofe and David Vitter. Their alumni include Rick Santorum, Phil Gramm and George Allen.

These senators learned well the lessons that Gingrich taught them in the House. Jon Kyl, the first Gingrich senator to rise to an important party leadership position, had been a supporter of any and all tax cuts until Obama announced his desire to extend the payroll tax reduction. Kyl was among the first Senate Republicans to announce his opposition, not just to how Obama wanted to fund the extension of the tax reduction, but the tax cut extension itself.

This, incidentally, is the same Jon Kyl who said in an earlier debate: "If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does." When confronted with the fact that abortions account for only 3% of the organization's work, Kyl's spokesperson claimed that his floor statement "was not intended to be a factual statement."

When the Gingrich senators don't have the votes to get their way, they will use all aspects of the legislative process to bring the rest of the chamber to its knees. In the last Congress, the Senate took 419 votes on roll call amendments. The 19 Gingrich senators who were serving at the time introduced more than half of these amendments. Seven of the top 10 senators who introduced the most amendments that resulted in roll call votes were Gingrich senators.

Endlessly introducing amendments has become another form of filibustering, which previously involved making speeches rather than introducing amendments. But when a stream of amendments couldn't defeat the health care bill, the Republicans offered up a "stunt" amendment, its sole purpose to create a perception that Democrats were voting against preventing sex offenders from buying Viagra in the insurance markets established by the bill. Tom Coburn, a Gingrich senator, introduced the amendment.

Gingrich's strategy was successful in 1994 when the Republicans won a majority in the House and the Senate. The strategy was also successful in 2010 after John Boehner and Eric Cantor implemented it in the Pelosi-run House. The Gingrich senators are once again using it to try and take back the Senate in the 2012 elections.

The chambers and parties may resolve their differences over the payroll tax cut extension, but it is unlikely that they will do so through the methods that Gingrich made popular during his congressional days. Furthermore, if we can predict the future from their past record, the solution is not likely to come from the Gingrich senators.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of Sean Theriault.

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question: What did Gingrich use the legislative process for?

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ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN)  -- Fethiye Cetin was 25 years old when she discovered her beloved grandmother's secret.

Fethiye Cetin, with her grandmother, said she felt deceived when she learned her origins.

The little old lady in the white headscarf was Armenian. Her real name was not Seher, but Heranus Gadarian.

Cetin says at the age of nine, a Turkish gendarme captain ripped Heranus from the arms of her mother while they were on a brutal death march into the desert. A Turkish couple later adopted the Armenian girl, and gave her a Muslim name.

When Cetin first learned about her grandmother's Armenian origins, she was shocked.

"I felt deceived," she says. "I felt like going out into the street and screaming 'they are lying to us.'"

Instead Cetin, a Turkish human rights lawyer, wrote a book titled my "My Grandmother." It describes the atrocities that Cetin's grandmother witnessed and suppressed since childhood. It also recounts Cetin's reunion, after her grandmother died, with Armenian relatives in the United States.

The book, which has been translated into six languages, is helping chip away at a taboo in modern-day Turkey about what happened to the Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire.

According to the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, in 1914 there were more then 2,000 Armenian churches scattered across what is now Turkey. Today, there are fewer then 50.

Between 1915 and 1918, as Europe and the Middle East plunged head-long into World War I, Ottoman authorities organized mass deportations that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians living in eastern and central Anatolia.  Watch more on this story Â»

Every April 24, Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary of what they call the "Armenian genocide." They say more then a million Armenians were killed in the massacres.

The Turkish government vehemently rejects the figure.

"The people of Turkey do not believe that their ancestors were criminals, were killers," says Onur Oymen, a former ambassador who is now a member of the Turkish parliament. "The historical fact says that the Armenians killed during this period more then 500,000 Ottoman citizens, Turkish citizens."

"Regardless of whether 1,000 people were killed or one person was killed, it was still a human" says Cetin. "I wrote this book to say that people felt pain, people suffered in 1915 -- to look at the events from a humanitarian perspective."

The battle over history continues to claim victims.

On January 19, 2007, Cetin's friend and client, Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink, stepped out of his office on to a busy boulevard in Istanbul to go to a nearby bank. He was gunned down in broad daylight by a 17-year-old Turkish ultra nationalist. Television cameras filmed Dink's body that afternoon, lying on the sidewalk covered with newspapers.

"Hrant Dink was defending democratization. Hrant Dink was supporting dialogue. And at the same time Hrant Dink was destroying the taboos of the system," Cetin said. "Therefore Hrant Dink was dangerous for them and he was an important target."

Before his murder, Dink received a six-month suspended jail sentence for "insulting Turkishness," after he wrote an essay urging Armenians and Turks to overcome their mutual distrust. He was battling another court case at the time of his death, after he labeled the massacres of 1915 "genocide" in an interview. He was quoted by the Reuters news agency saying: "Of course I'm saying it's a genocide, because its consequences show it to be true and label it so. We see that people who had lived on this soil for 4,000 years were exterminated by these events."

An estimated 100,000 Istanbul residents poured into the streets in solidarity after Dink's murder, some of them chanting "We are all Hrant Dink." But today, his surviving son is still defending himself in court for his father's genocide comments.

During his visit to Turkey this month, President Obama was asked whether he would follow through on a campaign pledge to recognize what happened to the Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide. Obama said his views had not changed on the subject, but added: "What I want to do is not focus on my views right now but focus on the views of the Turkish and the Armenian people. If they can move forward and deal with a difficult and tragic history, then I think the entire world should encourage them."

Twenty-eight-year-old Aris Nalci, one of the new generation of Armenian journalists in Turkey inspired by Hrant Dink, said he opposed a proposed resolution in the U.S. Congress to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, arguing it would only hurt U.S.-Turkish relations.

"People and politicians in other countries are using this in a political way," says Nalci.

"It will not change the minds of the people walking in the streets and the people living here."

But there is one area where the tiny -- and shrinking -- community of some 70,000 Armenians still living in Turkey is praying for American help.

During a short meeting with Obama, Armenian Orthodox Archbishop Aram Atesyan urged him to do everything in his power to help Turkey and its northern neighbor Armenia normalize diplomatic relations.

Borders between the two countries have been shut since 1993, but the two countries have recently engaged in a diplomatic rapprochement. On April 16, Turkey's foreign minister traveled to the Armenian capital to attend a regional summit.

"Turkey is our motherland and Armenia is our fatherland," Atesyan explained. "And we are like orphans, stuck in between."

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text: Turkey

text: CNN

text: Fethiye

text: Cetin

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: when

text: she

text: discovered

text: her

text: beloved

text: grandmother

text: 's

text: secret

text: Fethiye

text: Cetin

text: with

text: her

text: grandmother

text: said

text: she

text: felt

text: deceived

text: when

text: she

text: learned

text: her

text: origins

text: The

text: little

text: old

text: lady

text: in

text: the

text: white

text: headscarf

text: was

text: Armenian

text: Her

text: real

text: name

text: was

text: not

text: Seher

text: but

text: Heranus

text: Gadarian

text: Cetin

text: says

text: at

text: the

text: age

text: of

text: nine

text: a

text: Turkish

text: gendarme

text: captain

text: ripped

text: Heranus

text: from

text: the

text: arms

text: of

text: her

text: mother

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text: they

text: were

text: on

text: a

text: brutal

text: death

text: march

text: into

text: the

text: desert

text: A

text: Turkish

text: couple

text: later

text: adopted

text: the

text: Armenian

text: girl

text: and

text: gave

text: her

text: a

text: Muslim

text: name

text: When

text: Cetin

text: first

text: learned

text: about

text: her

text: grandmother

text: 's

text: Armenian

text: origins

text: she

text: was

text: shocked

text: I

text: felt

text: deceived

text: she

text: says

text: I

text: felt

text: like

text: going

text: out

text: into

text: the

text: street

text: and

text: screaming

text: they

text: are

text: lying

text: to

text: us

text: Instead

text: Cetin

text: a

text: Turkish

text: human

text: rights

text: lawyer

text: wrote

text: a

text: book

text: titled

text: my

text: My

text: Grandmother

text: It

text: describes

text: the

text: atrocities

text: that

text: Cetin

text: 's

text: grandmother

text: witnessed

text: and

text: suppressed

text: since

text: childhood

text: It

text: also

text: recounts

text: Cetin

text: 's

text: reunion

text: after

text: her

text: grandmother

text: died

text: with

text: Armenian

text: relatives

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: The

text: book

text: which

text: has

text: been

text: translated

text: into

text: six

text: languages

text: is

text: helping

text: chip

text: away

text: at

text: a

text: taboo

text: in

text: modern

text: day

text: Turkey

text: about

text: what

text: happened

text: to

text: the

text: Armenians

text: in

text: the

text: final

text: days

text: of

text: the

text: Ottoman

text: Empire

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: Armenian

text: Patriarchate

text: in

text: Istanbul

text: in

text: there

text: were

text: more

text: then

text: Armenian

text: churches

text: scattered

text: across

text: what

text: is

text: now

text: Turkey

text: Today

text: there

text: are

text: fewer

text: then

text: Between

text: and

text: as

text: Europe

text: and

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

text: plunged

text: head

text: long

text: into

text: World

text: War

text: I

text: Ottoman

text: authorities

text: organized

text: mass

text: deportations

text: that

text: led

text: to

text: the

text: deaths

text: of

text: hundreds

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: Armenians

text: living

text: in

text: eastern

text: and

text: central

text: Anatolia

text: Watch

text: more

text: on

text: this

text: story

text: Â

text: Every

text: April

text: Armenians

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: commemorate

text: the

text: anniversary

text: of

text: what

text: they

text: call

text: the

text: Armenian

text: genocide

text: They

text: say

text: more

text: then

text: a

text: million

text: Armenians

text: were

text: killed

text: in

text: the

text: massacres

text: The

text: Turkish

text: government

text: vehemently

text: rejects

text: the

text: figure

text: The

text: people

text: of

text: Turkey

text: do

text: not

text: believe

text: that

text: their

text: ancestors

text: were

text: criminals

text: were

text: killers

text: says

text: Onur

text: Oymen

text: a

text: former

text: ambassador

text: who

text: is

text: now

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: the

text: Turkish

text: parliament

text: The

text: historical

text: fact

text: says

text: that

text: the

text: Armenians

text: killed

text: during

text: this

text: period

text: more

text: then

text: Ottoman

text: citizens

text: Turkish

text: citizens

text: Regardless

text: of

text: whether

text: people

text: were

text: killed

text: or

text: one

text: person

text: was

text: killed

text: it

text: was

text: still

text: a

text: human

text: says

text: Cetin

text: I

text: wrote

text: this

text: book

text: to

text: say

text: that

text: people

text: felt

text: pain

text: people

text: suffered

text: in

text: to

text: look

text: at

text: the

text: events

text: from

text: a

text: humanitarian

text: perspective

text: The

text: battle

text: over

text: history

text: continues

text: to

text: claim

text: victims

text: On

text: January

text: Cetin

text: 's

text: friend

text: and

text: client

text: Armenian

text: newspaper

text: editor

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: stepped

text: out

text: of

text: his

text: office

text: on

text: to

text: a

text: busy

text: boulevard

text: in

text: Istanbul

text: to

text: go

text: to

text: a

text: nearby

text: bank

text: He

text: was

text: gunned

text: down

text: in

text: broad

text: daylight

text: by

text: a

text: old

text: Turkish

text: ultra

text: nationalist

text: Television

text: cameras

text: filmed

text: Dink

text: 's

text: body

text: that

text: afternoon

text: lying

text: on

text: the

text: sidewalk

text: covered

text: with

text: newspapers

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: was

text: defending

text: democratization

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: was

text: supporting

text: dialogue

text: And

text: at

text: the

text: same

text: time

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: was

text: destroying

text: the

text: taboos

text: of

text: the

text: system

text: Cetin

text: said

text: Therefore

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: was

text: dangerous

text: for

text: them

text: and

text: he

text: was

text: an

text: important

text: target

text: Before

text: his

text: murder

text: Dink

text: received

text: a

text: six

text: month

text: suspended

text: jail

text: sentence

text: for

text: insulting

text: Turkishness

text: after

text: he

text: wrote

text: an

text: essay

text: urging

text: Armenians

text: and

text: Turks

text: to

text: overcome

text: their

text: mutual

text: distrust

text: He

text: was

text: battling

text: another

text: court

text: case

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: of

text: his

text: death

text: after

text: he

text: labeled

text: the

text: massacres

text: of

text: genocide

text: in

text: an

text: interview

text: He

text: was

text: quoted

text: by

text: the

text: Reuters

text: news

text: agency

text: saying

text: Of

text: course

text: I

text: 'm

text: saying

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: genocide

text: because

text: its

text: consequences

text: show

text: it

text: to

text: be

text: true

text: and

text: label

text: it

text: so

text: We

text: see

text: that

text: people

text: who

text: had

text: lived

text: on

text: this

text: soil

text: for

text: years

text: were

text: exterminated

text: by

text: these

text: events

text: An

text: estimated

text: Istanbul

text: residents

text: poured

text: into

text: the

text: streets

text: in

text: solidarity

text: after

text: Dink

text: 's

text: murder

text: some

text: of

text: them

text: chanting

text: We

text: are

text: all

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: But

text: today

text: his

text: surviving

text: son

text: is

text: still

text: defending

text: himself

text: in

text: court

text: for

text: his

text: father

text: 's

text: genocide

text: comments

text: During

text: his

text: visit

text: to

text: Turkey

text: this

text: month

text: President

text: Obama

text: was

text: asked

text: whether

text: he

text: would

text: follow

text: through

text: on

text: a

text: campaign

text: pledge

text: to

text: recognize

text: what

text: happened

text: to

text: the

text: Armenians

text: nearly

text: a

text: century

text: ago

text: as

text: genocide

text: Obama

text: said

text: his

text: views

text: had

text: not

text: changed

text: on

text: the

text: subject

text: but

text: added

text: What

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: is

text: not

text: focus

text: on

text: my

text: views

text: right

text: now

text: but

text: focus

text: on

text: the

text: views

text: of

text: the

text: Turkish

text: and

text: the

text: Armenian

text: people

text: If

text: they

text: can

text: move

text: forward

text: and

text: deal

text: with

text: a

text: difficult

text: and

text: tragic

text: history

text: then

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: entire

text: world

text: should

text: encourage

text: them

text: Twenty

text: eight

text: year

text: old

text: Aris

text: Nalci

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: new

text: generation

text: of

text: Armenian

text: journalists

text: in

text: Turkey

text: inspired

text: by

text: Hrant

text: Dink

text: said

text: he

text: opposed

text: a

text: proposed

text: resolution

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Congress

text: to

text: formally

text: recognize

text: the

text: Armenian

text: genocide

text: arguing

text: it

text: would

text: only

text: hurt

text: U.S

text: Turkish

text: relations

text: People

text: and

text: politicians

text: in

text: other

text: countries

text: are

text: using

text: this

text: in

text: a

text: political

text: way

text: says

text: Nalci

text: It

text: will

text: not

text: change

text: the

text: minds

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: walking

text: in

text: the

text: streets

text: and

text: the

text: people

text: living

text: here

text: But

text: there

text: is

text: one

text: area

text: where

text: the

text: tiny

text: and

text: shrinking

text: community

text: of

text: some

text: Armenians

text: still

text: living

text: in

text: Turkey

text: is

text: praying

text: for

text: American

text: help

text: During

text: a

text: short

text: meeting

text: with

text: Obama

text: Armenian

text: Orthodox

text: Archbishop

text: Aram

text: Atesyan

text: urged

text: him

text: to

text: do

text: everything

text: in

text: his

text: power

text: to

text: help

text: Turkey

text: and

text: its

text: northern

text: neighbor

text: Armenia

text: normalize

text: diplomatic

text: relations

text: Borders

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: countries

text: have

text: been

text: shut

text: since

text: but

text: the

text: two

text: countries

text: have

text: recently

text: engaged

text: in

text: a

text: diplomatic

text: rapprochement

text: On

text: April

text: Turkey

text: 's

text: foreign

text: minister

text: traveled

text: to

text: the

text: Armenian

text: capital

text: to

text: attend

text: a

text: regional

text: summit

text: Turkey

text: is

text: our

text: motherland

text: and

text: Armenia

text: is

text: our

text: fatherland

text: Atesyan

text: explained

text: And

text: we

text: are

text: like

text: orphans

text: stuck

text: in

text: between

question: What were killed in genocide?

answer: Armenians

text: Armenians

question: Who rejects claims?

answer: Turkish government

text: Turkish government

question: who says one million killed

answer: Armenians

text: Armenians

question: What killed one million?

answer: "Armenian genocide."

text: "Armenian genocide."

question: who rejects claim

answer: The Turkish government

text: The Turkish government


text:
WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- The U.S. military plans to help the Afghanistan government recruit, train and arm local Afghans to fight a resurgent Taliban, U.S. military officials say.

U.S. soldiers patrol near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

U.S. officials describe the proposal as a "community-based" security effort.

The main job of the local units is to be an "early warning system" and be armed mainly for defensive operations, a U.S. military official said.

Participants will get uniforms so they can be readily identified, officials said.

The first phase of the program is expected to begin next year in Wardak province, where the Taliban have overrun many local government institutions.

For the United States, the most sensitive part of the proposal will be the use of American military funds to purchase small arms, most likely AK-47 rifles, that will be given to local Afghans, according to a U.S. military official.

U.S. commanders acknowledge concerns that arming local groups is risky, as it could lead to new armed conflicts between tribes, putting American troops in the middle of unexpected firefights.

The Afghan government will select men for the new security program. It will train them and technically arm them, although the funds will come from the U.S. military.

The Afghans will be responsible for ensuring the loyalty of people in the program, but the United States will oversee the effort and collect biometric information, such as eyeprints and fingerprints, on all participants, according to the U.S. military official.

U.S. officials are emphasizing that because of tribal diversity, the Afghan program differs from the Awakening Councils in Iraq, which include tens of thousands of Sunni gunmen and was credited with helping reduce violence there.

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text: The

text: U.S.

text: military

text: plans

text: to

text: help

text: the

text: Afghanistan

text: government

text: recruit

text: train

text: and

text: arm

text: local

text: Afghans

text: to

text: fight

text: a

text: resurgent

text: Taliban

text: U.S.

text: military

text: officials

text: say

text: U.S.

text: soldiers

text: patrol

text: near

text: Bagram

text: Air

text: Base

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text: Afghanistan

text: on

text: Wednesday

text: U.S.

text: officials

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text: proposal

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text: a

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text: Participants

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text: can

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text: readily

text: identified

text: officials

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text: first

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text: program

text: is

text: expected

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text: begin

text: next

text: year

text: in

text: Wardak

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text: where

text: the

text: Taliban

text: have

text: overrun

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text: local

text: government

text: institutions

text: For

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text: United

text: States

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text: most

text: sensitive

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text: proposal

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text: use

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text: commanders

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text: local

text: groups

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text: U.S.

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text: responsible

text: for

text: ensuring

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text: loyalty

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text: program

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text: United

text: States

text: will

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text: effort

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text: Awakening

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text: Sunni

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text: was

text: credited

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text: violence

text: there

question: Who will be "early warning system?"

answer: local units

text: local units

question: What are locals to be?

answer: "early warning system"

text: "early warning system"

question: When is the program to begin?

answer: next year

text: next year

question: Where is the program to begin in?

answer: Wardak

text: Wardak

question: When will the program begin?

answer: next year

text: next year