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(CNN) -- The Saudi lawyer who represented a woman kidnapped and raped by seven men said his license to practice has been reinstated.

A protest appeared in India in November against the Saudi sentence.

Lawyer and human rights activist Abdul Rahman al-Lahem told CNN's Nic Robertson that the Justice Ministry has reinstated his license.

Al-Lahem had previously told CNN that the Saudi judge revoked his license as punishment for speaking to the media about his client's case, which attracted international attention.

His client, an engaged teenager, was raped by seven men who found her alone with a man unrelated to her. She has said she was meeting with the man to retrieve a photograph. The attack took place in Qatif in March 2006.

The seven rapists were sentenced to two to nine years in prison but she also was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for having violated the kingdom's strict Islamic law by being alone with an unrelated man.

The woman's sentence provoked outrage in the West and cast light on the treatment of women under Saudi Arabian law.

Under Saudi law, women are subject to numerous restrictions, including a strict dress code, a prohibition against driving and a requirement that they get a man's permission to travel or have surgery.

In challenging what he said were his suspension and disbarment, al-Lahem said he had received threats on his life from the religious right.

Last month, Minister of Justice Abdallah bin Mohammed al-Sheikh, in a phone call to a Saudi Television newscast, said the lawyer's license had never been revoked.

"Such decisions are made through institutions in the kingdom," he said. "The punishment of the lawyer or any lawyer does not come from a reaction; it comes from a carefully examined procedure within a special council in the ministry."

He said the council charged with deciding law license revocations had not issued any decisions in the case. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Officials said a British Airways jet had to be evacuated Friday at a Phoenix, Arizona, airport after smoke was reported in the cabin.

British Airways Flight 288, headed to London's Heathrow Airport, had departed the gate for the runway, but returned after passengers detected odors strong enough to cause alarm, said Capt. Shelly Jamison, spokeswoman of the Phoenix Fire Department.

The Boeing 747-400 was next to the terminal when emergency chutes flew open for the 298 passengers to evacuate, officials said.

About 100 firefighters and emergency medical personnel were dispatched to Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport about 8 p.m. (11 p.m. ET), she said.

Jamison said about 15 people suffered injuries, mainly cuts and bruises. She also said a person experiencing shoulder pain was taken to a local hospital.

Firefighters used a thermal imaging camera, but could not determine a source of a fire, Jamison said.

Jamison said the smoke may have been caused by electrical problems.

The airlines' engineering staff was examining the aircraft and the staff in Phoenix was assisting stranded passengers with hotel rooms, British Airways spokesman Richard Goodfellow said.

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(CNN) -- Following this week's tough talks on the global financial crisis, President Obama on Friday shifted his tone to reflect upon his regrets, his frustrations and his hopes for the younger generation.

"There's nothing more noble than public service," President Obama says.

Obama's remarks came after a woman from Heidelberg, Germany, asked if he ever regretted having run for president. The question yielded a lengthy response from Obama, who is participating in his first overseas trip in office.

"That's a good question," Obama said at a packed town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France. "Michelle definitely asked that question.

"You know, there have been times, certainly during the campaign, and there have been times over the last several months where you feel a lot of weight on your shoulders. There's no doubt about it," the president said.

With his wife, Michelle, looking on, Obama continued, "During the campaign, the biggest sacrifice -- the thing that was most difficult was that I was away from my family all the time."  Watch Obama weigh in on his regrets and sacrifices Â»

The president joked that he was jealous of not only Europe's high-speed rail but also the fact that campaigns there only last a few months.

Obama announced that he was running for president on February 10, 2007, and was inaugurated nearly two years later.

"So I was away from home all the time, and that was very difficult, because not only do I have a wonderful wife, but I have two perfect daughters, and so, you know, I missed them a lot," he said.

The president expressed disappointment about the lack of privacy and anonymity he's experienced since assuming office.

"You know, it's very frustrating now," he said. "It used to be when I came to Europe that I could just wander down to a cafe and sit and have some wine and watch people go by and go into a little shop and watch the sun go down.

"Now I'm in hotel rooms all the time. And I have security around me all the time. So just losing that ability to just take a walk, you know? That is something that is frustrating."  Take a look at Obama's European itinerary Â»

After a couple of minutes of going over his regrets, Obama paused.

"But -- having said all that, I truly believe that there's nothing more noble than public service," he said, adding that service doesn't mean one has to run for president.

Obama pointed to Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations and community work as examples of other ways to serve.

"But the point is that what I found at a very young age was that if you can only think about yourself -- 'How much money can I make? What can I buy? How nice is my house? What kind of fancy car do I have?' -- that over the long term, I think you get bored," he told the audience of mostly students.

"I think if you're only thinking about yourself, your life becomes diminished, and the way to live a full life is to think about what can I do for others, how can I be a part of this larger project of making a better world," he said.

Obama said with all the challenges facing the world now, the younger generation has an abundance of opportunities to make a difference.

"It would be a tragedy if all of you who are so talented and energetic -- if you let that go to waste, if you just stood back and watched the world pass you by," he said.

"Better to jump in, get involved -- and it does mean that sometimes you'll get criticized and sometimes you'll fail and sometimes you'll be disappointed -- but you'll have a great adventure. And at the end of your life, hopefully you'll be able to look back and say, 'I made a difference.' "

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answer: away from my family all the time."

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question: what does obama say?

answer: "There's nothing more noble than public service,"

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question: Where was Obama speaking?

answer: Strasbourg, France.

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question: what did obama say

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question: what was the question about

answer: if he ever regretted having run for president.

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question: What is frustrating for Obama?

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(CNN) -- An Iranian human-rights activist and Nobel laureate has joined the legal team of an Iranian-American journalist convicted of spying and jailed in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi, a civil rights leader in Iran, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

Shirin Ebadi, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, took up the case of Roxana Saberi at the request of Saberi's family, her father, Reza Saberi, told CNN Wednesday. Ebadi heads the Center for Defenders of Human Rights in Iran.

Saberi, 31, was sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison after a one-day trial that was closed to the public.  President Obama, as well as other U.S. and international officials sharply denounced the decision.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered to travel to Iran to help seek Saberi's release.

"If our voices are heard in Iran today, I would be anxious to travel with a delegation to Iran, if we are permitted, and make an appeal for her freedom," said the longtime civil rights activist, according to his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson, 67, spoke Tuesday at a peace conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

"Whenever we've brought people out of captivity, whether in Syria, Cuba, Iraq or Yugoslavia, or Liberia, it's always opened a diplomatic door to reduce tensions," he said.

Saberi's attorneys said they will appeal her conviction. Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi ordered the head of Tehran's Justice Department to make sure the appeals process is quick and fair.

Jackson has offered in the past to help release American hostages, most recently in 2005. At that time, he said he was willing to use his role as a religious leader to help secure the release of Roy Hallums, who was kidnapped along with five others in Baghdad in November 2004.

Hallums was freed in September 2005 when U.S.  troops raided the farmhouse where he being held outside Baghdad.

In 1984, Jackson secured the release of a Navy pilot held in Syria. In 1991, he helped secure the release of 500 "international guests" held in Iraq. And in 1999, he persuaded Yugoslavia to release three U.S. soldiers held there during the Kosovo conflict.

Obama has called for Saberi's release, saying he is "gravely concerned with her safety and well-being."  Watch how U.S.-Iranian relations are complicated Â»

"We are working to make sure that she is properly treated, and to get more information about the disposition of her case," Obama said Sunday.

"She is an American citizen, and I have complete confidence that she was not engaging in any sort of espionage."

Iranian officials initially said Saberi was held for buying a bottle of wine. The Foreign Ministry later said she was detained for reporting without proper credentials.

Saberi, who comes from North Dakota, has been living in Iran since 2003, said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a journalists' advocacy group.

She has freelanced for National Public Radio and other news organizations, and was writing a book about Iranian culture.

Iranian authorities revoked her press credentials in 2006, but Saberi continued to file short news items without permission, the journalists' group said.

Saberi was detained in January, although no formal charges were disclosed. On April 9, word emerged that Saberi had been charged with espionage.

"Without press credentials and under the name of being a reporter, she was carrying out espionage activities," Hassan Haddad, a deputy public prosecutor, told the Iranian Students News Agency.

Authorities also said Saberi had confessed. Her father said he thinks she was coerced into making damaging statements.

CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447 says he hopes his firm's 100 percent recovery record from air accidents will be maintained despite concerns the device may be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

A Brazilian diver floats on wreckage of Flight 447 spotted Wednesday.

Although some debris has been retrieved, air crash investigators remain in the dark about what caused the airliner to plunge into the sea off the coast of Brazil with 228 people onboard earlier this month. The wreckage is believed to be about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) deep, amid underwater mountains and mixed in with tons of sea trash.

A French nuclear submarine and other vessels are searching for the flight data recorder by attempting to trace its locator beacon, which sends acoustic pulses, or "pings," to searchers.

The U.S. Navy has contributed two high-tech acoustic devices -- known as towed pinger locators -- which have been attached to French tug boats and can search to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet.

Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- told CNN that retrieving the flight data could help solve the mystery of the plane's fate and said his company had never lost a black box involved in an accident.

"We believe that our technology is well-positioned to, in this case, contribute to solve the big question around this particular accident," Carmassi said.

"We have a 100 percent recovery rate of all the black boxes that we have installed that unfortunately may have been involved in accidents, so we hope that we will be able to maintain our record and be able to shed some light on what happened."  Watch what clues investigators are looking at Â»

But Carmassi acknowledged it was hard to estimate how much battery life the locator beacon had left.

"There is a certain duration which depends on the particular environmental conditions, whether it's underwater or on land, whether it's at 10 meters or 4,000 meters. So, it's very difficult to pinpoint exactly the duration," he said.

Yann Cochennec, an aviation expert with Air et Cosmos magazine, told CNN that a recorder had been retrieved from the seabed in 2004 after an Egyptian charter flight crashed into the Red Sea shortly after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh.

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The devices record virtually every detail about how an aircraft is working, including cabin pressure, speed and altitude, remaining fuel and whether that fuel is flowing properly. They have played a crucial part in air crash investigations since they were first fitted to commercial aircraft in the 1940s.

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(CNN) -- A man on trial for gunning down a Kansas abortion provider in church said he had no regrets because "abortion is murder."

Scott Roeder, 51, said he shot and killed Dr. George Tiller as services began on May 31 to save the lives of the unborn.

"There was nothing being done and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day," Roeder said. "I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children."

Roeder is charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of Tiller, who ran a women's clinic in Wichita where abortions were performed, including the controversial late-term procedure.

Roeder was the only witness for the defense, which rested its case Thursday. Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert told jurors closing arguments will be held Friday morning, depending on the weather.

After the jury left, Wilbert ruled that the jury could not consider convicting Roeder of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, which is defined as "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force" under Kansas statute.

Wilbert said testimony did not support the defense claim that Roeder's beliefs on abortion justified the use of deadly force against Tiller.

Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions. He had already survived one attempt on his life and a clinic bombing before he was slain.

During Roeder's testimony Thursday, Tiller's widow, Jeanne, and other family members sat in the gallery. Initially stoic, they began to dab at tears as Roeder described putting a gun to Tiller's head.

Asked if he regretted what he did, Roeder said, "No, I don't." Upon learning that Tiller's clinic was shut down after his death, he said he felt "a sense of relief."

Dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and a red patterned tie, Roeder calmly testified that he had a long-standing belief that Tiller should die.

He thought about different ways to kill the doctor -- driving a car into him, perhaps, or shooting him with a rifle. His main concern, Roeder said, was that he might harm others.

Under cross-examination by Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston, he said he also considered cutting Tiller's hands off with a sword, but decided that would not be effective, as Tiller would still be able to train others.

Roeder said that through the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue he learned that Tiller took measures to protect himself -- traveling in an armored car, using a security escort, wearing a bulletproof vest and living in a gated community.

He decided to kill Tiller at his church, he said, because "I felt that actually if he was to be stopped, that was probably the only place he could have been stopped. ... It was the only window of opportunity I saw."

Roeder said he visited the church four or five times before Tiller's death. The week before the shooting, on May 24, he carried a .22-caliber handgun with him, he testified, but Tiller did not attend church that day.

On May 31, though, the doctor was greeting congregants in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church before Roeder walked up to him and shot him at point blank range.

"The lives of those children were in imminent danger if someone did not stop George Tiller," Roeder said. "I shot him."

Under questioning from Foulston, Roeder acknowledged that he "somewhat" admired those who previously had committed violence against abortion providers.

He said his anti-abortion beliefs "go hand in hand" with his religious beliefs. He said he became born again in 1992 after watching an episode of "The 700 Club."

Asked if there are any circumstances in which he believes abortion is acceptable, Roeder said he thought it could be if the mother's life was in "absolute" danger.

"I struggle with that decision," he said, "because I believe that ultimately, it is up to our heavenly father. But if there was a time, that would be it."

He said he did not believe abortion was justified in the case of rape.

"You are taking the life of the innocent. You're punishing the innocent life for the sin of the father. Two wrongs don't make a right."

Asked about incest, he said his beliefs were the same: "It isn't our duty to take life, it's our heavenly father's."

Roeder's testimony was peppered with objections from prosecutors. Many objections were sustained by Wilbert, who has maintained he does not want the trial to become a forum on abortion.

In a conference out of the presence of jurors, Wilbert cautioned Roeder, saying specifics on medical procedures would not be allowed. Roeder's testimony would proceed, Wilbert said, "on a question-by-question basis."

Roeder recounted conducting what he called "sidewalk counseling" at Kansas City abortion clinics, handing pamphlets and other literature to women as they went inside. "Some of them did ultimately change their mind," he said.

In opening statements Thursday, defense attorney Steve Osburn told jurors Roeder "killed Dr. Tiller because he believed that was the only way, necessary to save the lives of the unborn."

Defense attorneys claim Roeder was also motivated by authorities' failure to punish him through the judicial system.

Wilbert refused to allow former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline to testify on behalf of the defense. On Wednesday, he refused to allow testimony from current Deputy Attorney General Barry Disney. Kline unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute Tiller in 2006. Disney charged Tiller with 19 misdemeanor counts, but a jury acquitted the doctor.

Wilbert said Roeder can testify about the cases and how they affected his beliefs, but to allow testimony from Kline would "get into legal matters that do not concern this jury."

And, the judge said, the cases do not give Roeder a basis to state absolutely that Tiller's actions were illegal, since the doctor had never been convicted.

Roeder testified he was "very frustrated" by Tiller's acquittal, saying it "seemed like that was the last attempt by the state of Kansas to find if there was anything at all going on illegally in George Tiller's clinic."

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, told reporters outside the courtroom the trial is "a railroad, a kangaroo court, where they are denying critical evidence about what was on Scott Roeder's mind when he pulled the trigger."

"Perhaps if the Sedgwick County prosecutors had done a better job prosecuting Tiller for how he illegally killed babies, he would still be alive," Terry said.

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SAMSON, Alabama (CNN) -- The man who killed 10 people, then himself, in a shooting rampage in southern Alabama had failed in his dreams both to become a U.S. Marine and a police officer, and was depressed and unhappy with his life, investigators said Thursday.

The shooter, Michael McLendon, killed his mother before killing others.

Michael McLendon, 28, fatally shot his mother in his hometown of Kinston on Tuesday before driving to nearby Samson and Geneva, killing nine more, then fatally shooting himself after a shootout with police.

Authorities are calling it the deadliest single assault in recorded Alabama history.

"He was going to go until he was stopped, by himself or someone else," said Col. Chris Murphy of the Alabama Department of Public Safety.

"He had obviously planned to go out in grand style."

McLendon left behind a letter, apparently after killing his mother, that described how he did so and saying that he planned to kill himself, according to Murphy. The letter "describes how McLendon harbored ill feelings toward family members due to a family dispute."

McLendon -- a self-proclaimed survivalist who was known to train with the rifles he used in the shooting spree -- enlisted in the Marines in 1999, but was kicked out one month later for "fraudulent enlistment," Murphy said.

He was hired as a police officer in 2003, but let go a month later for what Murphy called physical issues.

The nearly hourlong assault ended 24 miles from where it began at Reliable Metal Products plant in Geneva, where McLendon had worked in 2003.

"McLendon made statements of being depressed and was dissatisfied with his present position in life," Murphy said. "His dream was to become a Marine, and later a police officer. Both those dreams were unfulfilled."

McLendon was armed with two assault rifles -- an SKS and a Bushmaster -- and two pistols, and a shotgun was found in his car.

"At this time, we believe that he fired in excess of 200 rounds during the assaults," the Department of Public Safety said in a news release.

McLendon had no known criminal record before carrying out the rampage, officials said.

Coffee County district attorney Gary McAliley said neighbors and co-workers described McLendon as quiet and shy. Some neighbors complained that he was always shooting firearms behind his home, he said -- but feared only that McLendon would accidentally kill one of their cows.  Watch how the shaken towns are trying to cope Â»

Co-workers at Kelley Foods, where he unexpectedly resigned last week, said they had a nickname for him -- Doughboy -- that he didn't like.

"I don't think anybody could have anticipated this by looking at him and interacting with him," McAliley said. "But, certainly he had a volcano inside of him."

McLendon called the Samson City Hall about 1 p.m. Tuesday and asked whether the city council would be meeting in the evening, Michelle Flanery, magistrate and billing clerk, told CNN Radio. Flanery said she replied that there was no meeting scheduled that day and that McLendon thanked her before hanging up.

Authorities said McLendon also had a list of current and former co-workers, some whose names were accompanied by notes on ways he felt they'd wronged him. But the note was not a "hit list," as had been reported, and none of the people whose names were listed were attacked, they said.   View images from the rampage Â»

Among the dead were the wife and toddler of Geneva County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers, who was involved in the standoff with McLendon before he realized his own loss.

His 3-month-old daughter, Ella, was also wounded. She was rescued by a neighbor and released from a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, Thursday evening.

The shootings rattled Samson and Geneva, neither of which has a population beyond 4,500 people, and sent shock waves outside the small towns affected.

"This event formed the single deadliest crime recorded in Alabama," said Murphy of the Department of Public Safety.

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley arrived in Geneva County on Wednesday afternoon, pledging support to the community and members of law enforcement.

"I think it's a combination of just shock and disbelief," said Riley, a native of Ashland, Alabama, population 2,500, in east Alabama. "I live in a little small town about like this, and I know what it would be like in my community. It really is devastating to a community this size."  Watch the governor respond to the rampage Â»

"This doesn't happen in small towns, and all of a sudden you begin to understand that you really do have the same problems in some of these small towns you have in other parts of the country."

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text: of

text: the

text: Alabama

text: Department

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: He

text: had

text: obviously

text: planned

text: to

text: go

text: out

text: in

text: grand

text: style

text: McLendon

text: left

text: behind

text: a

text: letter

text: apparently

text: after

text: killing

text: his

text: mother

text: that

text: described

text: how

text: he

text: did

text: so

text: and

text: saying

text: that

text: he

text: planned

text: to

text: kill

text: himself

text: according

text: to

text: Murphy

text: The

text: letter

text: describes

text: how

text: McLendon

text: harbored

text: ill

text: feelings

text: toward

text: family

text: members

text: due

text: to

text: a

text: family

text: dispute

text: McLendon

text: a

text: self

text: proclaimed

text: survivalist

text: who

text: was

text: known

text: to

text: train

text: with

text: the

text: rifles

text: he

text: used

text: in

text: the

text: shooting

text: spree

text: enlisted

text: in

text: the

text: Marines

text: in

text: but

text: was

text: kicked

text: out

text: one

text: month

text: later

text: for

text: fraudulent

text: enlistment

text: Murphy

text: said

text: He

text: was

text: hired

text: as

text: a

text: police

text: officer

text: in

text: but

text: let

text: go

text: a

text: month

text: later

text: for

text: what

text: Murphy

text: called

text: physical

text: issues

text: The

text: nearly

text: hourlong

text: assault

text: ended

text: miles

text: from

text: where

text: it

text: began

text: at

text: Reliable

text: Metal

text: Products

text: plant

text: in

text: Geneva

text: where

text: McLendon

text: had

text: worked

text: in

text: McLendon

text: made

text: statements

text: of

text: being

text: depressed

text: and

text: was

text: dissatisfied

text: with

text: his

text: present

text: position

text: in

text: life

text: Murphy

text: said

text: His

text: dream

text: was

text: to

text: become

text: a

text: Marine

text: and

text: later

text: a

text: police

text: officer

text: Both

text: those

text: dreams

text: were

text: unfulfilled

text: McLendon

text: was

text: armed

text: with

text: two

text: assault

text: rifles

text: an

text: SKS

text: and

text: a

text: Bushmaster

text: and

text: two

text: pistols

text: and

text: a

text: shotgun

text: was

text: found

text: in

text: his

text: car

text: At

text: this

text: time

text: we

text: believe

text: that

text: he

text: fired

text: in

text: excess

text: of

text: rounds

text: during

text: the

text: assaults

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: news

text: release

text: McLendon

text: had

text: no

text: known

text: criminal

text: record

text: before

text: carrying

text: out

text: the

text: rampage

text: officials

text: said

text: Coffee

text: County

text: district

text: attorney

text: Gary

text: McAliley

text: said

text: neighbors

text: and

text: co

text: workers

text: described

text: McLendon

text: as

text: quiet

text: and

text: shy

text: Some

text: neighbors

text: complained

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: always

text: shooting

text: firearms

text: behind

text: his

text: home

text: he

text: said

text: but

text: feared

text: only

text: that

text: McLendon

text: would

text: accidentally

text: kill

text: one

text: of

text: their

text: cows

text: Watch

text: how

text: the

text: shaken

text: towns

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: cope

text: Â

text: Co

text: workers

text: at

text: Kelley

text: Foods

text: where

text: he

text: unexpectedly

text: resigned

text: last

text: week

text: said

text: they

text: had

text: a

text: nickname

text: for

text: him

text: Doughboy

text: that

text: he

text: did

text: n't

text: like

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: anybody

text: could

text: have

text: anticipated

text: this

text: by

text: looking

text: at

text: him

text: and

text: interacting

text: with

text: him

text: McAliley

text: said

text: But

text: certainly

text: he

text: had

text: a

text: volcano

text: inside

text: of

text: him

text: McLendon

text: called

text: the

text: Samson

text: City

text: Hall

text: about

text: p.m.

text: Tuesday

text: and

text: asked

text: whether

text: the

text: city

text: council

text: would

text: be

text: meeting

text: in

text: the

text: evening

text: Michelle

text: Flanery

text: magistrate

text: and

text: billing

text: clerk

text: told

text: CNN

text: Radio

text: Flanery

text: said

text: she

text: replied

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: meeting

text: scheduled

text: that

text: day

text: and

text: that

text: McLendon

text: thanked

text: her

text: before

text: hanging

text: up

text: Authorities

text: said

text: McLendon

text: also

text: had

text: a

text: list

text: of

text: current

text: and

text: former

text: co

text: workers

text: some

text: whose

text: names

text: were

text: accompanied

text: by

text: notes

text: on

text: ways

text: he

text: felt

text: they

text: 'd

text: wronged

text: him

text: But

text: the

text: note

text: was

text: not

text: a

text: hit

text: list

text: as

text: had

text: been

text: reported

text: and

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: whose

text: names

text: were

text: listed

text: were

text: attacked

text: they

text: said

text: View

text: images

text: from

text: the

text: rampage

text: Â

text: Among

text: the

text: dead

text: were

text: the

text: wife

text: and

text: toddler

text: of

text: Geneva

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: 's

text: Deputy

text: Josh

text: Myers

text: who

text: was

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: standoff

text: with

text: McLendon

text: before

text: he

text: realized

text: his

text: own

text: loss

text: His

text: old

text: daughter

text: Ella

text: was

text: also

text: wounded

text: She

text: was

text: rescued

text: by

text: a

text: neighbor

text: and

text: released

text: from

text: a

text: hospital

text: in

text: Pensacola

text: Florida

text: Thursday

text: evening

text: The

text: shootings

text: rattled

text: Samson

text: and

text: Geneva

text: neither

text: of

text: which

text: has

text: a

text: population

text: beyond

text: people

text: and

text: sent

text: shock

text: waves

text: outside

text: the

text: small

text: towns

text: affected

text: This

text: event

text: formed

text: the

text: single

text: deadliest

text: crime

text: recorded

text: in

text: Alabama

text: said

text: Murphy

text: of

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Public

text: Safety

text: Alabama

text: Gov.

text: Bob

text: Riley

text: arrived

text: in

text: Geneva

text: County

text: on

text: Wednesday

text: afternoon

text: pledging

text: support

text: to

text: the

text: community

text: and

text: members

text: of

text: law

text: enforcement

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: combination

text: of

text: just

text: shock

text: and

text: disbelief

text: said

text: Riley

text: a

text: native

text: of

text: Ashland

text: Alabama

text: population

text: in

text: east

text: Alabama

text: I

text: live

text: in

text: a

text: little

text: small

text: town

text: about

text: like

text: this

text: and

text: I

text: know

text: what

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: like

text: in

text: my

text: community

text: It

text: really

text: is

text: devastating

text: to

text: a

text: community

text: this

text: size

text: Watch

text: the

text: governor

text: respond

text: to

text: the

text: rampage

text: Â

text: This

text: does

text: n't

text: happen

text: in

text: small

text: towns

text: and

text: all

text: of

text: a

text: sudden

text: you

text: begin

text: to

text: understand

text: that

text: you

text: really

text: do

text: have

text: the

text: same

text: problems

text: in

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: small

text: towns

text: you

text: have

text: in

text: other

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: country

question: What made McLendon unhappy?

answer: "His dream was to become a Marine, and later a police officer. Both those dreams were unfulfilled."

text: "His dream was to become a Marine, and later a police officer. Both those dreams were unfulfilled."

question: Who left a note behind?

answer: Michael McLendon,

text: Michael McLendon,

question: Number of people that shooter killed?

answer: 10

question: Where did McLendon live?

answer: Alabama

text: Alabama

question: What did McLendon leave behind?

answer: a letter,

text: a letter,

question: Who killed McLendon?

answer: Michael

text: Michael

question: What was the death toll in the shootings?

answer: 10


text:
LOCKERBIE, Scotland (CNN) -- Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi's fate hangs in the balance. The Libyan man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombings has terminal prostate cancer and, according to his lawyers, just weeks to live.

Mourners at the 20th anniversary memorial service for the victims of the Lockerbie bombing.

Scotland's Justice Minister Frank MacAskill is weighing up whether to release him on compassionate grounds so he can die at home; to transfer him to a Libyan jail under a prisoner transfer agreement drawn up between Libya and the UK; or whether to keep him in a Scottish jail for the rest of his days.

That is certainly the preferred option of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who last week wrote to Mr MacAskill urging him not to send Al Megrahi home.

In Lockerbie itself, matters of politics seem far removed. George Stobbs was one of the first policemen on the scene when the Boeing 747 crashed into Sherwood Crescent.

"I've never talked about the politics of the thing because I had no interest," he says. "People here aren't interested in the politics, they just want to carry on with their lives."

Stobbs has vivid memories of the night of December 21, 1988 -- the "shortest and darkest night of the year," he says.

"The houses were just slowly burning and more houses were catching fire. The windows were popping, the gutters were burning, everything was burning. It was like hell. I remember seeing a wrought iron gate in the distance and I remember it was dripping like molten butter, drip drip dripping away."

At first Stobbs thought it was a military aircraft which had crashed into the town. Then he heard that the nose cone of a 747 had landed in a field three miles from Lockerbie and he knew that he was dealing with far greater numbers of dead.

"We were told about the 747," he says, "and we realized we weren't looking for twenty people but for 300. But where were they?"

There is a small memorial room beside the little church of Tundergarth, across the road from where the nose cone landed. Inside are inscriptions from visitors commemorating the huge loss of life and photographs of each of the 270 people who died in the Lockerbie bombing.

"Gentle Lockerbie" reads one of the inscriptions from a family member who lost a loved one. "Some say the land there is now tainted, I say it is blessed."

In the field itself there are no marks to suggest where the nose cone landed. The local farmer points to the horizon across the rolling Scottish hills.

"Between here and the top of the hill, here on my father's farm, we found 120 bodies," he says.

The force of the explosion and the wind that night blew bits of the plane, personal possessions and body parts across a vast area.

Stobbs, and hundreds of policemen and other volunteers combed 845 square meters of land looking for clues as to what brought the plane down. Documents from the plane were even discovered in the North Sea, 60 miles away.

The crucial piece of evidence that implicated Al Megrahi was a scrap of clothing wrapped around a part of the device used to detonate the suitcase bomb. It was traced back to a Maltese boutique whose shop-owner recognized Al Megrahi.

Lockerbie local John Gair said he was never entirely convinced of Al Megrahi's guilt. "I did feel that some of the evidence was circumstantial," he says. "I think partly out of compassion and partly out of a possible element of doubt, he should be allowed out."

As he looks down Sherwood Crescent at the neat rows of houses, not yet twenty years old, he says: "Life goes on and once a tragedy like this is over people pick up the threads of their lives. And they don't forget but they don't dwell on it. Because there's no earthly point in dwelling on any of this."

270 people from 21 nations lost their lives in the beautiful hills around Lockerbie. Some of them had been so badly incinerated no trace of them was ever found, just their personal belongings and the Pan Am passenger list which proved they'd been on board.

Twenty years later in the town of Lockerbie, the streets have been rebuilt, the past buried, but not forgotten.

text: LOCKERBIE

text: Scotland

text: CNN

text: Abdelbaset

text: Ali

text: Mohmed

text: al

text: Megrahi

text: 's

text: fate

text: hangs

text: in

text: the

text: balance

text: The

text: Libyan

text: man

text: convicted

text: for

text: the

text: Lockerbie

text: bombings

text: has

text: terminal

text: prostate

text: cancer

text: and

text: according

text: to

text: his

text: lawyers

text: just

text: weeks

text: to

text: live

text: Mourners

text: at

text: the

text: anniversary

text: memorial

text: service

text: for

text: the

text: victims

text: of

text: the

text: Lockerbie

text: bombing

text: Scotland

text: 's

text: Justice

text: Minister

text: Frank

text: MacAskill

text: is

text: weighing

text: up

text: whether

text: to

text: release

text: him

text: on

text: compassionate

text: grounds

text: so

text: he

text: can

text: die

text: at

text: home

text: to

text: transfer

text: him

text: to

text: a

text: Libyan

text: jail

text: under

text: a

text: prisoner

text: transfer

text: agreement

text: drawn

text: up

text: between

text: Libya

text: and

text: the

text: UK

text: or

text: whether

text: to

text: keep

text: him

text: in

text: a

text: Scottish

text: jail

text: for

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: his

text: days

text: That

text: is

text: certainly

text: the

text: preferred

text: option

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: who

text: last

text: week

text: wrote

text: to

text: Mr

text: MacAskill

text: urging

text: him

text: not

text: to

text: send

text: Al

text: Megrahi

text: home

text: In

text: Lockerbie

text: itself

text: matters

text: of

text: politics

text: seem

text: far

text: removed

text: George

text: Stobbs

text: was

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: first

text: policemen

text: on

text: the

text: scene

text: when

text: the

text: Boeing

text: crashed

text: into

text: Sherwood

text: Crescent

text: I

text: 've

text: never

text: talked

text: about

text: the

text: politics

text: of

text: the

text: thing

text: because

text: I

text: had

text: no

text: interest

text: he

text: says

text: People

text: here

text: are

text: n't

text: interested

text: in

text: the

text: politics

text: they

text: just

text: want

text: to

text: carry

text: on

text: with

text: their

text: lives

text: Stobbs

text: has

text: vivid

text: memories

text: of

text: the

text: night

text: of

text: December

text: the

text: shortest

text: and

text: darkest

text: night

text: of

text: the

text: year

text: he

text: says

text: The

text: houses

text: were

text: just

text: slowly

text: burning

text: and

text: more

text: houses

text: were

text: catching

text: fire

text: The

text: windows

text: were

text: popping

text: the

text: gutters

text: were

text: burning

text: everything

text: was

text: burning

text: It

text: was

text: like

text: hell

text: I

text: remember

text: seeing

text: a

text: wrought

text: iron

text: gate

text: in

text: the

text: distance

text: and

text: I

text: remember

text: it

text: was

text: dripping

text: like

text: molten

text: butter

text: drip

text: drip

text: dripping

text: away

text: At

text: first

text: Stobbs

text: thought

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: military

text: aircraft

text: which

text: had

text: crashed

text: into

text: the

text: town

text: Then

text: he

text: heard

text: that

text: the

text: nose

text: cone

text: of

text: a

text: had

text: landed

text: in

text: a

text: field

text: three

text: miles

text: from

text: Lockerbie

text: and

text: he

text: knew

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: dealing

text: with

text: far

text: greater

text: numbers

text: of

text: dead

text: We

text: were

text: told

text: about

text: the

text: he

text: says

text: and

text: we

text: realized

text: we

text: were

text: n't

text: looking

text: for

text: twenty

text: people

text: but

text: for

text: But

text: where

text: were

text: they

text: There

text: is

text: a

text: small

text: memorial

text: room

text: beside

text: the

text: little

text: church

text: of

text: Tundergarth

text: across

text: the

text: road

text: from

text: where

text: the

text: nose

text: cone

text: landed

text: Inside

text: are

text: inscriptions

text: from

text: visitors

text: commemorating

text: the

text: huge

text: loss

text: of

text: life

text: and

text: photographs

text: of

text: each

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: died

text: in

text: the

text: Lockerbie

text: bombing

text: Gentle

text: Lockerbie

text: reads

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: inscriptions

text: from

text: a

text: family

text: member

text: who

text: lost

text: a

text: loved

text: one

text: Some

text: say

text: the

text: land

text: there

text: is

text: now

text: tainted

text: I

text: say

text: it

text: is

text: blessed

text: In

text: the

text: field

text: itself

text: there

text: are

text: no

text: marks

text: to

text: suggest

text: where

text: the

text: nose

text: cone

text: landed

text: The

text: local

text: farmer

text: points

text: to

text: the

text: horizon

text: across

text: the

text: rolling

text: Scottish

text: hills

text: Between

text: here

text: and

text: the

text: top

text: of

text: the

text: hill

text: here

text: on

text: my

text: father

text: 's

text: farm

text: we

text: found

text: bodies

text: he

text: says

text: The

text: force

text: of

text: the

text: explosion

text: and

text: the

text: wind

text: that

text: night

text: blew

text: bits

text: of

text: the

text: plane

text: personal

text: possessions

text: and

text: body

text: parts

text: across

text: a

text: vast

text: area

text: Stobbs

text: and

text: hundreds

text: of

text: policemen

text: and

text: other

text: volunteers

text: combed

text: square

text: meters

text: of

text: land

text: looking

text: for

text: clues

text: as

text: to

text: what

text: brought

text: the

text: plane

text: down

text: Documents

text: from

text: the

text: plane

text: were

text: even

text: discovered

text: in

text: the

text: North

text: Sea

text: miles

text: away

text: The

text: crucial

text: piece

text: of

text: evidence

text: that

text: implicated

text: Al

text: Megrahi

text: was

text: a

text: scrap

text: of

text: clothing

text: wrapped

text: around

text: a

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: device

text: used

text: to

text: detonate

text: the

text: suitcase

text: bomb

text: It

text: was

text: traced

text: back

text: to

text: a

text: Maltese

text: boutique

text: whose

text: shop

text: owner

text: recognized

text: Al

text: Megrahi

text: Lockerbie

text: local

text: John

text: Gair

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: never

text: entirely

text: convinced

text: of

text: Al

text: Megrahi

text: 's

text: guilt

text: I

text: did

text: feel

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: evidence

text: was

text: circumstantial

text: he

text: says

text: I

text: think

text: partly

text: out

text: of

text: compassion

text: and

text: partly

text: out

text: of

text: a

text: possible

text: element

text: of

text: doubt

text: he

text: should

text: be

text: allowed

text: out

text: As

text: he

text: looks

text: down

text: Sherwood

text: Crescent

text: at

text: the

text: neat

text: rows

text: of

text: houses

text: not

text: yet

text: twenty

text: years

text: old

text: he

text: says

text: Life

text: goes

text: on

text: and

text: once

text: a

text: tragedy

text: like

text: this

text: is

text: over

text: people

text: pick

text: up

text: the

text: threads

text: of

text: their

text: lives

text: And

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: forget

text: but

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: dwell

text: on

text: it

text: Because

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: earthly

text: point

text: in

text: dwelling

text: on

text: any

text: of

text: this

text: people

text: from

text: nations

text: lost

text: their

text: lives

text: in

text: the

text: beautiful

text: hills

text: around

text: Lockerbie

text: Some

text: of

text: them

text: had

text: been

text: so

text: badly

text: incinerated

text: no

text: trace

text: of

text: them

text: was

text: ever

text: found

text: just

text: their

text: personal

text: belongings

text: and

text: the

text: Pan

text: Am

text: passenger

text: list

text: which

text: proved

text: they

text: 'd

text: been

text: on

text: board

text: Twenty

text: years

text: later

text: in

text: the

text: town

text: of

text: Lockerbie

text: the

text: streets

text: have

text: been

text: rebuilt

text: the

text: past

text: buried

text: but

text: not

text: forgotten

question: what is the retired police inspector's name

answer: George Stobbs

text: George Stobbs

question: How many square meters of land had to be combed?

answer: 845

question: did John Gair think Al Megrahl's guilty

answer: he was never entirely convinced of

text: he was never entirely convinced of

question: Who was never entirely convinced of Al Megrahi's guilt?

answer: John Gair

text: John Gair

question: Who recalls the scene of devastation?

answer: George Stobbs

text: George Stobbs

question: How many years has it been since the air tagedy?

answer: 20th