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CLARENCE CENTER, New York (CNN) -- President Obama on Friday praised Beverly Eckert, the widow of a September 11 victim and a prominent post-9/11 activist, who was one of the passengers who died in a plane crash outside Buffalo, New York.

Sean Rooney and wife Beverly Eckert in an undated photograph.

"Beverly lost her husband on 9/11," Obama said, "and became a tireless advocate for the families whose lives were forever changed on that September day."

A resident of Stamford, Connecticut, Eckert was the widow of Buffalo native Sean Rooney, who died at the World Trade Center.

Obama's words underscored the shock and grief from friends, family and acquaintances over the news that Eckert was aboard the Continental Connection Flight 3407. The turboprop plane crashed Thursday, killing all 49 aboard and one person on the ground.

"Tragic events such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day. And one person who understood that well was Beverly Eckert, who was on that flight and who I met with just a few days ago," Obama said in brief remarks.

Obama met Eckert at a gathering of September 11 victims' families on Friday.

Valerie Lucznikowska, a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, said she, Eckert and another woman traveled to Washington for the meeting.

Lucznikowska said Eckert asked Obama whether the group would have ongoing meetings with his administration. Obama said there would be, even though they wouldn't necessarily be with him.

After the 2001 terrorist attacks, Eckert co-founded Voices of September 11, an advocate group for survivors and families.

Eckert had a reputation as a strong campaigner of September 11 families, involved in protests leading to more land for a ground zero memorial, working on the September 11 Commission's Family Steering Committee and pushing for a victims' families compensation fund.

She was traveling to Buffalo for a celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday.

Eckert planned to take part in presenting a scholarship award at Canisius High School that was established in honor of her late husband, who was an alumnus, according to the school's president, John Knight.

Obama mentioned the scholarship plans in his remarks Friday.

"In keeping with that passionate commitment, she was on her way to Buffalo to mark what would have been her husband's birthday and launch a scholarship in his memory. She was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead," Obama said.

Lucznikowska, whose nephew died in the World Trade Center attacks, said she was "horribly saddened by this news."

"I would very much like to honor her. She was truly a wonderful person. She was someone who was trying to make society better."

Eckert backed Peaceful Tomorrows' effort to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and end the military commissions there, Lucznikowska said.

The group elaborated on this stance in a signed letter to Obama, and Eckert gave a presidential aide a separate letter listing her own concerns, Lucznikowska said.

Knight said Canisius High postponed the scholarship presentation, set to occur at noon Friday, for two students entering the high school next fall.

He said Eckert also had been active in a capital campaign fundraising effort.

"She struck me as a wonderful, beautiful person who clearly wanted to do something to remember her husband in a way that would have an everlasting impact on our community," Knight said.

Gordon Felt, president of the Families of Flight 93 Inc., the plane that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, also expressed his grief.

"We note with deep sorrow the passing of Beverly Eckert in the Buffalo plane crash. She was a 9/11 family member who brought to light issues of importance to all of us -- and to all Americans. We extend our condolences to her family and to all those who loved her. She will be missed."

Jay Winuk, a September 11 organizational leader who lost his brother in the World Trade Center, said that although he did not know Eckert personally, "it is clear that she was a terrific advocate for the 9/11 family community."

CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Food fanatics may recognize John Besh from his stints on TV shows like "The Next Iron Chef" and "Top Chef Masters," but New Orleans residents know the Louisiana-raised chef and ex-Marine as an evangelist for local food culture.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated his city in 2005, Besh rallied the teams at his flagship restaurant August to feed the Police Department, National Guard troops, evacuees, refugees and medical personnel. He also set up field kitchens for rural parish residents after hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008.

Besh's 2009 love letter to his city's distinctive cuisine, a nearly 400-page volume of recipes, photographs, stories and field guides to local ingredients entitled "My New Orleans" was recently named best cookbook of the year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

With his region's foodways again in peril, Besh spoke with CNN about what's at risk from the Gulf Coast oil spill and what U.S. eaters can do to help.

CNN: From a food perspective, what's at stake?

John Besh: We have a rig that's about 45 miles off the southern tip of Louisiana -- that little bit of land that just happens to be some of the most incredibly rich marshland, which feeds an enormous ecosystem. So, some of the most fragile land on the face of the earth -- at least in North America.

Two-thirds of the production of seafood from the lower 48 states comes from this ecosystem. It all begins with the micro-organisms in the marsh grasses at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

There are other rivers there, too, but it's the mighty Mississippi that feeds it all. We have to act swiftly, as if we were going to war. We have to protect this coastline. There are not just jobs; there are communities and cultures.

Family-owned restaurant fears 'devastating glob'

CNN: How will this affect the local economy -- especially the shrimpers?

Besh: One thing in particular that's been a real slap in the face to the American shrimper is the rapid importation, unchecked, of foreign shrimp flooding our market. We don't know what waters they come from, we don't know what they were fed.

We really know very little about their origin. Yet we accept them with open arms in our country -- a lot of time using slave labor to process these things that we're feeding our children and eating in our massive chain restaurants.

These shrimpers, these communities have been through hurricane after hurricane. They really got back on their feet themselves -- very resilient people.

And now we're dragging our feet -- this slow, very delayed response to the waters. We're talking about this ecosystem that's a source, that's a $2.9 billion  a year industry just in our region for shrimp and oysters and crab -- along with some fin fish production. This whole industry [is] on the verge of collapse if we do not act swiftly.

CNN: What can Americans outside the Gulf Coast do to help?

Besh: We need people to really be unified about this. It's more than just about a job. Because it's really about a culture. We need to preserve our environment.

[President] Obama was put in office for the very things he claims to have espoused, yet now we're seeing that administration really dragging their feet with this one -- and that's a huge shock to all of us.

And that's why we're asking everybody out there -- call your representatives, call your senator, call whoever. Make noise.

One thing you can do right now is eat American shrimp.

CNN: How can diners make sure it's domestic?

Besh: Each state has its own laws, but in many, grocery stores have to label the origin of the shrimp. Demand domestic shrimp. Demand great domestic oysters.

Demand, demand, demand, and they will have to supply it in order to pay their bills.

CNN: What can chefs do?

Besh: Chefs should be very mindful of the origin of their seafood. We still have a lot to work on. We have a lot to clean up. But perhaps we can still salvage that culture and the industry. Not to mention all the environmental effects.

CNN: What are you doing at your own restaurants like August, La Provence and LÃ¼ke?

Besh: We're focused on supporting oyster families -- like P&J Oysters -- and local shrimpers by buying from our shore -- at least stabilizing as best we can the few people who are out there and able to make a living at it.

And we have an active feeding arrangement going on. We're taking food down to the mouth of the river when the mitigation stabilizes.

Like just when we were rebuilding after Katrina, we'll come and rebuild the restaurants -- we're going to feed you. You want to come save our environment? We're going to feed you.

CNN: What does the future hold for Gulf Coast cuisine in light of this disaster?

Besh: We have no idea what we're dealing with yet because BP tells us one thing, the government tells us another. Even those reports have been skewed -- it may be up to five times worse than what our government is even saying. Right now, there's just this big question and our question is not to cast blame right now. Let's just deal with it.

Let's bring in all of our resources -- the Department of Defense if need be -- because we're an incredible country. We can do so much.

I love America and I'm not against oil. But we've got to figure out how to handle crises like this before they become crises. That's my plea to everybody. Get out there and get involved. Make it known that we've got to save the Gulf.

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answer: domestic shrimp.

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question: He says not just jobs are at stake, but also what?

answer: cultures.

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question: who is urging the campaign?

answer: John Besh

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question: What are we saving the Gulf Coast from?

answer: oil spill

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question: what feeds ecosystem?

answer: the most incredibly rich marshland,

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question: What is Besh's first name?

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(CNN) -- 10:44 p.m. -- The family of Anaika St. Louis lays the 11-year-old to rest in a tearful ceremony. The girl spent 48 hours trapped under rubble that killed more than two dozen friends and neighbors, her leg crushed by a steel beam. She died after she was unable to receive proper medical treatment. Watch her story

10:31 p.m. -- Sixteen members of the joint NYPD-FDNY Urban Rescue Team in Haiti are attempting to rescue five people trapped alive in a collapsed grocery store in Port-au-Prince, the New York Police Department said Saturday. The five are in verbal communication with the NYPD and FDNY rescuers who are cutting through concrete blocks to reach them.

10:09 p.m. -- CNN's Errol Barnett talks about how to make sure Haiti relief donations go to the right place. Watch

9:35 p.m. -- Authorities say a woman trapped under the rubble of a bank is sending text messages pleading for help. Watch

9:26 p.m. -- Earthquake survivor Tarmo Joeveer, who was rescued from the rubble at the U.N. mission in Haiti, recalls the chaos on CNN's Larry King Live: "It happened very fast, the buildings started shaking and then all of the sudden, it collapsed down."

8:17 p.m. -- A rescue swimmer helped deliver a Haitian newborn aboard a Coast Guard helicopter on Saturday, the Coast Guard said. The woman went into labor as the helicopter was refueling aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma. The mother and child were taken to a hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti for further medical treatment and were in good condition.

7:41 p.m. -- Musician Wyclef Jean denounces allegations that he has profitted personally from donations to his charity, YÃ©le Haiti. "It is impossible for me to even comprehend the recent attacks on my character and the integrity of my foundation, YÃ©le Haiti. The fact that these attacks come as we are mobilized to meet the greatest human tragedy in the history of Haiti only serves to perplex me even further."

7:18 p.m. -- Emergency visas and passports could help speed up adoptions that stalled after the quake, and open up beds for children who lost their parents, said Dixie Bickel, director of God's Littlest Angels orphanage, outside Port-au-Prince.

7:04 p.m. -- U.S. Embassy employee Victoria J. DeLong, a foreign service officer, is among the dead, State Department officials say. Additionally, 14 American private citizens were killed, but the State Department did not provide names.

6:31 p.m. -- HaitiMission, a pair of Christian missionaries living in Haiti, are posting ongoing updates on iReport.com on the situation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. See their updates

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5:54 p.m. -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Saturday a united stance with Haitian President Rene Preval during her visit to the quake-battered capital. "We are here at the invitation of your government to help you." Watch

5:32 p.m. -- U.S. troops hand out some 2,500 meals in Port-au-Prince in the first American food aid distributed in Haiti since Tuesday's earthquake.

5:18 p.m. -- The top two civilian officials at the U.N. mission in Haiti -- HÃ©di Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti and Principal Deputy Special Representative Luiz Carlos da Costa -- were killed in Tuesday's earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirms. Acting U.N. Police Commissioner in Haiti Doug Coates of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police also died, he said. Read more

5:04 p.m. -- Haitian President Rene Preval emerges from tent after nearly an hour of talks with Secretary of State Clinton and other U.S. officials, CNN's Elise Labott reports. The officials go to a neighboring tent to visit a man who was pulled from the rubble around the time Clinton arrived, state officials said.

4:17 p.m. -- Every inch of floor space at De La Paz Hospital is occupied with individuals suffering from traumatic, severe injuries, CNN Radio's Steve Kastenbaum reports. Spain is facilitating medical supplies, but they are in desperate need of anesthetic, sutures, plaster of paris, gauze and water.

3:02 p.m. -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has landed in Port-au-Prince. Clinton will meet with the Haitian President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

2:23 p.m. -- The U.S. Navy ship Comfort is on its way to Haiti. The floating hospital left Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday morning. It is fully staffed with doctors and nurses. Watch more

1:50 p.m. -- The stench of decomposing bodies grows stronger every hour in Haiti, CNN Radio's Steve Kastenbaum reported. Many survivors remain trapped, and the injured can't reach hospitals because there is no gas.

1:20 p.m. -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that crowded "airspace over Haiti is like gold" as nations work to deliver aide.

12:57 p.m. -- Vice President Joe Biden said people affected by Hurricane Katrina are organizing to help earthquake victims. Biden spoke at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida, where relief supplies are being shipped to Haiti.

11:50 a.m. -- Frustration with the pace of aid is mounting. "The sky has already fallen, and now you come," bemoaned a teary man in French with his arms outstretched. Time: Full story

11:35 a.m. -- People looking for loved ones in Haiti are posting their pictures on CNN.com's iReport page dedicated to them. Likewise, people in Haiti are sending messages out to say they're OK.

11:24 a.m. -- Tennis star Roger Federer has organized a charity event to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, to be joined by other top players in the sport. Full story

11:02 a.m. -- President Obama emerged from the White House and announced that former Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush will lead an effort to raise funds for Haiti. ClintonBushHaitiFund.org

10:25 a.m. -- A U.N. spokesman denied Saturday that U.N. officials had ordered doctors to abandon a field hospital Friday night. Full story

10:04 a.m. -- Obama received an update on the Haiti situation Saturday morning, then met with top staff to discuss relief efforts.

9:48 a.m. -- Programmers, Web developers and other technical experts will meet Saturday in Washington and other cities to brainstorm ways computer technology can help in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. Full story

9:40 a.m. --The Israel Defense Forces have set up a field hospital with 220 workers, including doctors and nurses, at a soccer field in Port-au-Prince, according to the IDF's Haiti Twitter site.

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9:21 a.m. -- The dumping of bodies into mass graves in Haiti is unnecessary from a public health standpoint, experts said. "The reality is that most of the diseases that live in us -- once our body is dead they can't survive very long," said Oliver Morgan, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.

7:33 a.m. -- U.N. doctors returned Saturday morning to a field hospital they were forced to abandon Friday night, reported Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent. Gupta stayed through the night as the only physician caring for patients. "The patients are all doing great, and they're all going to get great care," Gupta said.

7:12 a.m. -- Reacting to the abandonment of a U.N. field hospital overnight, retired U.S. Army Gen. Russel Honore said American soldiers are ready and eager to provide security. "The soldiers on the [USS] Carl Vinson, when they saw that report -- they want to go," Honore said Saturday morning on CNN. "Let's unleash the U.S. military and let them get in there. ... They got to throw caution to the wind, they got to take some risks, they got to adapt and overcome. They need to let the military go and let them do their job."

5:35 a.m. Saturday, January 16, 2010 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to arrive Saturday in Haiti with USAID chief Rajiv Shah. The focus is speeding relief and recovery effort.

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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- A glimpse of something shiny on the ocean floor nine years ago led a Welsh diver to uncover a piece of local history that had been forgotten for more than a century.

The silver pocket watch was found off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales.

Diver Rich Hughes was exploring a shallow shipwreck off the Pembrokeshire coast in April 2000 when he noticed the object embedded in sediment. He thought at first that he had found a coin, but he found it was actually an intact silver pocket watch, still bearing the inscription of its owner.

Hughes said he was determined to trace the history of the watch, believing such a prized object deserved to belong to family members or a local museum. But that led Hughes on a nine-year search with lots of dead ends and few leads.

Now, months after enlisting the help of a local researcher, Hughes has finally tracked down a family member and will be presenting the watch to him next week.

"I'm very happy and satisfied that we found out who he was," Hughes told CNN by phone Wednesday. "It sort of brings the story to a close. It's quite rewarding that it hasn't just sat in the back of somebody's garage."

The watch inscription reads "Richard Prichard, Abersoch, North Wales, 1866." That was the only information Hughes had to go on for most of the past nine years; even the name of Prichard's ship was a mystery at the time.

Over the years, Hughes searched records in person and online, contacting everyone from county records offices to Lloyd's of London. Nothing turned up any information about Richard Prichard.

"It becomes a bit of a bug, really," Hughes said. "It's hard to describe. If you find something like that -- it's a very personal item, and one of my biggest bugbears is if somebody pulls something off a shipwreck and it just sits in the back of their garage.

"It's just a lost opportunity and it's tragic when that happens, that history is just put in a corner," Hughes said. "You're obligated to find something out about it. It's your duty to do it."

Earlier this year, out of frustration, Hughes said he turned his attention again to the place name inscribed on the pocket watch, Abersoch, a coastal town in north Wales.

"I just kept doing searches on Google to find out whether any historical societies at all had any information on it," he said.

That led Hughes to a couple that runs the Web site for a nearby village, Rhiw, and they put Hughes in touch with researcher and historian David Roberts.

Roberts searched the graveyards of local churches and found two references to Richard Prichard. He also found a reference to Prichard on the Welsh Mariners' Web site, showing that Prichard was captain of an iron-clad barque called the Barbara.

The pocket watch was probably a gift to Prichard when he was promoted to mate in 1866, from his fellow sailors or his parents.

Prichard became captain of the ship and died in 1881 while the Barbara was en route to Rangoon, which is modern-day Yangon, in Myanmar. He was buried at sea.

The watch was lost on the Barbara's return trip to Wales with a cargo of rice later that year. Roberts believes the man who took over from Prichard, Captain Jones, was probably bringing the watch home in order to present it to Prichard's widow.

Jones probably intended to sail through St. George's Channel, between Ireland and Wales, on his way to Liverpool, Hughes said. But on a dark November night, in driving rain and gale-force winds, Jones took a wrong turn and found himself stuck in the Bristol Channel, along Wales' south coast.

"These ships couldn't turn around -- they could only go 90 degrees to the winds," Hughes said. "He wouldn't have known where he was."

Hughes said the captain would probably have been filled with fear to see the cliffs of the Pembrokeshire coastline in front of him, where waves that night were probably at heights of 30 to 40 feet. With no way to turn around, the Barbara crashed into the cliffs and sank.

Everyone on board the ship was saved, with the exception of Captain Jones, who went down along with Prichard's pocket watch.

While that solved the mystery of the unidentified shipwreck, tracing Prichard's descendants proved a tougher task. Though Prichard had a son, he died with no heirs, and Roberts found no descendants from Prichard's three sisters.

Prichard's only surviving relative is Owen Cowell, a retired dentist living in Pwllheli, North Wales -- incidentally, not far from Abersoch. Cowell's grandmother was Prichard's cousin.

Hughes now plans to present the pocket watch next week to Cowell, who in turn plans to present it to the Abersoch village hall for display in an annual exhibition. This year's display will open a week from Saturday, he said.

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text: Bristol

text: Channel

text: along

text: Wales

text: south

text: coast

text: These

text: ships

text: could

text: n't

text: turn

text: around

text: they

text: could

text: only

text: go

text: degrees

text: to

text: the

text: winds

text: Hughes

text: said

text: He

text: would

text: n't

text: have

text: known

text: where

text: he

text: was

text: Hughes

text: said

text: the

text: captain

text: would

text: probably

text: have

text: been

text: filled

text: with

text: fear

text: to

text: see

text: the

text: cliffs

text: of

text: the

text: Pembrokeshire

text: coastline

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: him

text: where

text: waves

text: that

text: night

text: were

text: probably

text: at

text: heights

text: of

text: to

text: feet

text: With

text: no

text: way

text: to

text: turn

text: around

text: the

text: Barbara

text: crashed

text: into

text: the

text: cliffs

text: and

text: sank

text: Everyone

text: on

text: board

text: the

text: ship

text: was

text: saved

text: with

text: the

text: exception

text: of

text: Captain

text: Jones

text: who

text: went

text: down

text: along

text: with

text: Prichard

text: 's

text: pocket

text: watch

text: While

text: that

text: solved

text: the

text: mystery

text: of

text: the

text: unidentified

text: shipwreck

text: tracing

text: Prichard

text: 's

text: descendants

text: proved

text: a

text: tougher

text: task

text: Though

text: Prichard

text: had

text: a

text: son

text: he

text: died

text: with

text: no

text: heirs

text: and

text: Roberts

text: found

text: no

text: descendants

text: from

text: Prichard

text: 's

text: three

text: sisters

text: Prichard

text: 's

text: only

text: surviving

text: relative

text: is

text: Owen

text: Cowell

text: a

text: retired

text: dentist

text: living

text: in

text: Pwllheli

text: North

text: Wales

text: incidentally

text: not

text: far

text: from

text: Abersoch

text: Cowell

text: 's

text: grandmother

text: was

text: Prichard

text: 's

text: cousin

text: Hughes

text: now

text: plans

text: to

text: present

text: the

text: pocket

text: watch

text: next

text: week

text: to

text: Cowell

text: who

text: in

text: turn

text: plans

text: to

text: present

text: it

text: to

text: the

text: Abersoch

text: village

text: hall

text: for

text: display

text: in

text: an

text: annual

text: exhibition

text: This

text: year

text: 's

text: display

text: will

text: open

text: a

text: week

text: from

text: Saturday

text: he

text: said

question: When did Prichard die at sea?

answer: 1866."

question: Who did the watch belong to?

answer: "Richard Prichard,

text: "Richard Prichard,

question: How long was the watch underwater?

answer: more than a century.

text: more than a century.

question: What kind of things can be found in the sea?

answer: silver pocket watch,

text: silver pocket watch,

question: To whom did the watch originally belong?

answer: "Richard Prichard,

text: "Richard Prichard,

question: When did the watch get lost?

answer: Barbara's return trip to Wales with a cargo of rice later that year.

text: Barbara's return trip to Wales with a cargo of rice later that year.

question: What does a diver find off the Welsh coast?

answer: silver pocket watch

text: silver pocket watch

question: What did the diver find off the sea floor?

answer: silver pocket watch

text: silver pocket watch


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LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- More than 400 people have been killed in a spate of violence in northern Nigeria, the president of a human rights group said Tuesday.

More than 150 alleged militants were arrested by Nigerian police after clashes.

The violence has pitted Islamic militants against government police and troops in the north-central part of the nation, officials said.

Attacks continued Tuesday in the suburbs of the northern city of Maiduguri, said Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress, a human rights organization based in northern Nigeria. People there are seeking refuge in police and military barracks and in hospitals, he said.

Police and troops were dispatched to the militants' hideouts after they began attacks on government establishments Sunday, said police spokesman Moses Anegbode. As authorities exchanged fire with the militants, 41 people, including a soldier and a policeman, were killed, Anegbode said Monday. In addition, some 176 people were arrested in Bauchi, he said.

Besides Bauchi, militants also staged attacks on the nearby states of Yobe and Borno on Sunday and Monday, said Emmanuel Ojukwu, spokesman for the national police.

Yobe's police commissioner, Alhaji Muhammed Abbas, said that 23 suspected militants were arrested in connection with a bomb attack at a police station in Potiskum that killed a policeman and a civilian and wounded seven people.

The official News Agency of Nigeria reported that as many as 100 members of a religious sect led by Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf may have been killed in a confrontation with police.

In Borno, police spokesman Isa Azare said that two policemen were killed in an attack on police headquarters late Monday.

"The religious fanatics took the police unawares," Azare told the government-affiliated New Nigerian newspaper. "That was why they succeeded in killing all the officers on night duty."

Panicked residents stayed inside in all three states, and businesses shut down, even though officials said the situation was under control.

The militants used guns, bows and arrows and machetes in the attacks, officials said.

The militants disagree with the government's teaching of Islam in the region, maintaining that the government allows itself to be influenced by Western values, and have been attacking government offices and Islamic clergy.

There is a history of religious violence in central Nigeria, where majority-Muslim north Africa meets largely Christian sub-Saharan Africa. Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 1,000 people were killed in riots in 2001.

The human rights organization alleged last week that police and soldiers killed at least 133 people during two days of riots between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria last year. Most of the victims were young Muslim men, often unarmed, the group charged in testimony before a state commission examining the riots and in a separate report. More than 700 people died in the violence, the organization said, citing local religious authorities on both sides of the divide.

CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report.

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text: president

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text: suburbs

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text: of

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text: Civil

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text: on

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text: Moses

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text: fire

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text: militants

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text: people

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text: national

text: police

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text: police

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text: Muhammed

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text: people

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text: official

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text: Nigeria

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text: that

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text: of

text: a

text: religious

text: sect

text: led

text: by

text: Sheikh

text: Mohammed

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text: have

text: been

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text: in

text: a

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text: police

text: In

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text: spokesman

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text: policemen

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text: killed

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text: attack

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text: police

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text: Monday

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text: fanatics

text: took

text: the

text: police

text: unawares

text: Azare

text: told

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text: government

text: affiliated

text: New

text: Nigerian

text: newspaper

text: That

text: was

text: why

text: they

text: succeeded

text: in

text: killing

text: all

text: the

text: officers

text: on

text: night

text: duty

text: Panicked

text: residents

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text: inside

text: in

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text: states

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text: businesses

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text: down

text: even

text: though

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text: said

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text: situation

text: was

text: under

text: control

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text: used

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text: bows

text: and

text: arrows

text: and

text: machetes

text: in

text: the

text: attacks

text: officials

text: said

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text: with

text: the

text: government

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text: of

text: Islam

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text: region

text: maintaining

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text: government

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text: and

text: Islamic

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text: a

text: history

text: of

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text: Muslim

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text: Saharan

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text: Rights

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text: estimates

text: that

text: more

text: than

text: people

text: were

text: killed

text: in

text: riots

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text: human

text: rights

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text: week

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text: and

text: soldiers

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text: days

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text: and

text: Christians

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text: victims

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text: group

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text: Christian

text: Purefoy

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text: to

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text: report

question: Who was arrested?

answer: More than 150 alleged militants

text: More than 150 alleged militants

question: What number has been killed?

answer: -- More than 400 people have

text: -- More than 400 people have

question: What religion do the militants adhere to?

answer: Islamic

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question: How many Nigerians have been died in recent violence?

answer: More than 400 people

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question: How many have been killed in Nigerian violence?

answer: 400 people

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(CNN) -- "A calculated, cold-blooded predator." That was how Connecticut Judge James Bentivegna described a then 22-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky on December 20, 2002, when the defendant was sentenced after being convicted on 12 counts of burglary.

Today, Komisarjevsky -- now 31 -- sits in a Connecticut courtroom, where a jury will weigh his guilt on murder charges, and potentially pave the way for a death sentence.

Prosecutors say that on July 23, 2007, Komisarjevsky and an accomplice, Steven Hayes, invaded the home of Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, molested one of their daughters, and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.

Hawke-Petit and her daughters -- 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit -- died in the invasion of their Cheshire, Connecticut, home. Dr. William Petit, although severely beaten, managed to escape and crawl to a neighbor's residence.

Hayes was sentenced to death in December, after being convicted of 16 out of the 17 charges related to the three deaths.

Both suspects had lengthy criminal records when they were arrested for the Petit invasion. Komisarjevsky's long rap sheet, in particular, suggest that he was a troubled young man with a penchant for nighttime burglary and crystal meth.

Officials with the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to speak with CNN, citing a gag order in the case. But over 200 pages of Komisarjevsky's parole records have been released, which -- along with previous court testimony -- help paint a picture of the accused.

One of his former attorneys, William Gerace, said that Komisarjevsky came from a close, religious family. But at the age of 14, he began using drugs -- the same year, he claims, that he found out that he was adopted.

By 18, Komisarjevsky had found his drugs of choice: crystal meth and cocaine. He told the parole board that he stole money and electronics from upscale homes to feed his drug habit.

Yet a transcript from his 2002 sentencing paints Komisarjevsky as more than just the average thief. According to a police statement read aloud in court that day, Komisarjevsky admitted that he broke into his first house when he was 14 years old.

"I always wore gloves, with the exception of one incident when I was 14. I always acted alone. Approximately a year and a half ago, I acquired night vision goggles... I used the night-vision equipment during the burglaries (over) the past year," he said, according to the transcript.

Gerace, who was Komisarjevsky's defense attorney at the time, stressed that a need for money, to pay for drugs, drove his client. But he admitted that the way he went about it was unusual.

"Ninety-nine percent of burglaries are (committed by) junkies -- there's nothing romantic about what they do," said Gerace. "That was the first time I'd seen something as exotic as that."

Komisarjevsky confessed that he only broke into homes at night and never during the day -- a point stressed by prosecutors in the 2002 trial. They said his affinity for breaking into people's homes at night showed that he wanted a confrontation, since that was the time when the residents were the most likely to be at home.

Speaking during his December 2002 sentencing, Komisarjevsky appeared repentant. He addressed the court saying, "I've turned my back on my faith in God and my family. And in doing so, I fell flat on my face and deep into hard drugs...the crimes I committed was weighing so heavily on my shoulders."

But the judge was not moved by Komisarjevsky's show of remorse, sentencing him to nine years in prison plus six years of special parole, which has greater restrictions than typical probation.

In April 2007, he was paroled. And three months later, Komisarjevsky was arrested for the Petit home invasion and murders.

What happened then, and what may have driven Komisarjevsky, remains a mystery to Gerace, his former attorney.

"He was a very complex young man. I don't think I've met anyone quite that complex, and I sensed there was an abundance of issues that had to be dealt with," Gerace said. "I wish him well, and I hope the jury makes the right decision."

text: CNN

text: A

text: calculated

text: cold

text: blooded

text: predator

text: That

text: was

text: how

text: Connecticut

text: Judge

text: James

text: Bentivegna

text: described

text: a

text: then

text: old

text: Joshua

text: Komisarjevsky

text: on

text: December

text: when

text: the

text: defendant

text: was

text: sentenced

text: after

text: being

text: convicted

text: on

text: counts

text: of

text: burglary

text: Today

text: Komisarjevsky

text: now

text: sits

text: in

text: a

text: Connecticut

text: courtroom

text: where

text: a

text: jury

text: will

text: weigh

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text: guilt

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text: potentially

text: pave

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text: way

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text: a

text: death

text: sentence

text: Prosecutors

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text: that

text: on

text: July

text: Komisarjevsky

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text: an

text: accomplice

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text: Hayes

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text: the

text: home

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text: William

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text: strangled

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text: wife

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text: house

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text: Petit

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text: invasion

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text: William

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text: escape

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text: crawl

text: to

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text: neighbor

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text: charges

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text: troubled

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text: the

text: Connecticut

text: Board

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text: Pardons

text: and

text: Paroles

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text: to

text: speak

text: with

text: CNN

text: citing

text: a

text: gag

text: order

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: But

text: over

text: pages

text: of

text: Komisarjevsky

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text: been

text: released

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text: court

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text: a

text: picture

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text: the

text: accused

text: One

text: of

text: his

text: former

text: attorneys

text: William

text: Gerace

text: said

text: that

text: Komisarjevsky

text: came

text: from

text: a

text: close

text: religious

text: family

text: But

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text: age

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text: began

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text: year

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text: found

text: out

text: that

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text: parole

text: board

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text: and

text: electronics

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text: drug

text: habit

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text: transcript

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text: just

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text: transcript

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text: defense

text: attorney

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text: time

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text: need

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text: client

text: But

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text: way

text: he

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question: In what year was he convicted?

answer: 2002,

question: who did he kill

answer: Hawke-Petit and her daughters

text: Hawke-Petit and her daughters

question: WHat was Joshua convicted of?

answer: 12 counts of burglary.

text: 12 counts of burglary.

question: when was he convicted

answer: 2002,

question: What was Joshua Komisarjevsky accused of five years later?

answer: home invasion and murders.

text: home invasion and murders.

question: Where wsa the woman from?

answer: Connecticut

text: Connecticut

question: When was Joshua Komisarjevsky convicted?

answer: December 20, 2002,

text: December 20, 2002,

question: What was he convicted of?

answer: 12 counts of burglary.

text: 12 counts of burglary.