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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Staff Sgt. Cody Reeves has survived harrowing conditions and stared down enemies on the battlefield during two tours in the military hotspots of Iraq.

Staff. Sgt. Cody Reeves works out with his fellow Old Guard soldiers.

Now he is stationed near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, trained to carry the remains of fellow soldiers who perished in that same conflict.

Before,"it was all about catching the bad guy," Reeves said. "When you come here, it's all about honoring your brothers who are fallen for catching the bad guys, for their service."

Reeves serves in the Army's Old Guard, a tight-knit group of soldiers of similar height and size who physically bear the weight of the Army's fallen veterans. The Old Guard conducts a 15-minute ceremony called a dignified transfer.

A recent decision by Defense Secretary Robert Gates gives families the choice to allow media to film the solemn event. It's the first time in 20 years the ceremony has been open to the press.  Watch members of the Old Guard in action Â»

Every detail of the transfer is precise. When an American soldier dies overseas, the Old Guard is called into action. They travel from their base to Dover, where they meet the aircraft carrying the soldier's body. The six men receive the flag-draped casket, which can weigh 500 pounds, and carry the soldier's body to a waiting vehicle.

Women serve as officers in charge on the Army transfer teams, but do not carry the caskets. For Air Force transfers, which use eight people, women help carry the coffin.

Despite the cold or the heat, the late hour when the planes often arrive and the physical and emotional strain of their job, the soldiers keep their faces blank.

"There's definitely times where your mind goes off, even in the ceremony," said Spc. Wilbert Steinborn, another member of the Old Guard. "You say, 'This guy might have a wife or kids or mother or father who's never going to see him again.'

"You can't let it show. Inside you might feel it, and definitely a human's going to feel that -- they're going to feel that emotion. But you can't show that on the outside," Steinborn said.

The men stifle sneezes, learn to yawn through their noses and betray no sign of the burden they carry. And -- what they say makes keeping their composure even more important -- the team performs its duties in front of the soldiers' families.

"We're soldiers too. We're infantrymen. We could easily be in their place," Steinborn said. "It's hard because you honestly think you see your wife or your girlfriend sitting where the next-of-kin is. You can imagine yourself being there.... So I think that's why we try to be as precise and exact, and look as good, and make them look as good as possible."

Some of the Old Guard choose to learn about the lives of the soldiers they've carried. Reeves asks for information about the fallen after having participated in the ceremonies, but never before he greets the soldier's body.

"It's 'take care of business' and then afterwards I like to know a little bit about the soldier," he said. "That way you can keep emotions at bay and you're just focused on doing the soldier part."

Strikingly, the men, who head to their barracks' gym for intense weight training twice a day and take five-mile runs as a team, seem to be able to communicate without speaking. After drilling for countless hours on the base's grounds, they can feel if another man is even minutely out of step in the ceremony. Sometimes they'll whisper corrections so discreetly no onlooker would ever notice.

The nature of their job means the men also share a tighter, unspoken bond.

"When I was walking through the aircraft and saw the transfer case with the American flag draped over it, it was -- it was very emotional," Steinborn said. "I don't know if it sadness or pride or what, but -- it was honestly the most difficult and touching thing that I have ever done."

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN)  -- Pakistani forces in the last month foiled a planned attack on the parliament building, the intelligence agency and other federal institutions, the country's interior minister told CNN Sunday.

Pakistan's parliament building was one target of a planned attack, an official says.

In the last four weeks, authorities arrested three men with suicide vests who were plotting to carry out the attacks, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Malik would not say exactly when the men were caught.

Pakistan is in the midst of an intense military offensive against Taliban militants. The militants are suspected of launching attacks inside Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan from their haven in the mountainous tribal region along the northwestern border.

On Sunday, a suicide bomber in volatile northwestern Pakistan killed at three people and wounded 15 others, police said.

The bombing rocked the Pakistani city of Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province.

The incident took place when police approached a man acting suspiciously. The man ran away, police chased him and a gunfight ensued. The man ran out of bullets and blew himself up.

Two women and seven children were among the injured. Remains of the alleged attacker were found, police said. Five houses were destroyed.

The incident follows a car bombing on Saturday in Peshawar that killed two people, including the spokesman for an extremist group called Ansar ul Islam. Two suspects are in custody.

Malik said Sunday the government's anti-Taliban operations will continue during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month considered to be a time of peace.

Militants in North Waziristan, part of the tribal region, have said they will observe a unilateral ceasefire throughout the month.

"There will not be a ceasefire during Ramadan. We are not interested in a ceasefire," Malik said. "They haven't kept their commitment in the past. We will continue targeted actions against the Taliban."

Malik also said the Taliban killed the father-in-law of its leader Baitullah Mehsud and several other relatives, accusing them of leaking information about his whereabouts.

Pakistan and U.S. officials contend Mehsud was killed in an August 5 drone attack in Waziristan at his father-in-law's house.

The Taliban claims Mehsud is alive but ill.

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(CNN)  -- Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk was granted an emergency stay late Tuesday to block what appeared to be his imminent deportation to Germany.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents remove John Demjanjuk from his home Tuesday.

The ruling, handed down by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, came less than two hours after federal immigration officials took Demjanjuk into custody at his home near Cleveland, Ohio.

Demjanjuk, 89, is wanted by German authorities for his alleged involvement during World War II in killings at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland.

The Justice Department would not immediately comment on the stay, saying officials needed to review the order.

The last-minute legal maneuvering leading to the order was the latest chapter in one of the longest-running pursuits of an alleged Holocaust perpetrator in history.

The deportation of Demjanjuk, who had been transported to an Ohio detention facility when the stay was issued, would set the stage for what would likely prove to be an extraordinary German war crimes trial.

"Upon due consideration of the motion for a stay and the opposition by the attorney general, we conclude that a stay of removal is warranted," the circuit court wrote.

Representatives of Attorney General Eric Holder argued in response to an emergency motion filed by Demjanjuk's attorney that the circuit court does not have jurisdiction over the case.

But the court acted anyway.

"Because it is our understanding that the government may remove the petitioner later today, we are compelled to rule on the motion for a stay prior to addressing the jurisdictional concerns raised by the government," the court said.

On Friday, a federal immigration board rejected an emergency appeal for a stay of Demjanjuk's deportation. His attorney, John Broadley, had argued that deporting him would constitute torture because of his health problems.

Broadley has said Demjanjuk suffers from pre-leukemia, kidney problems, spinal problems and "a couple of types of gout."

When Broadley filed another appeal with the 6th Circuit Court, Justice Department officials said they believe that his chances of getting the board's ruling overturned are slim.

"Looking at what's going on in Cleveland ... is truly appalling," Broadley said shortly after Demjanjuk was taken into custody.

"You have an 89-year-old man with various physical ailments, and you have eight guys from [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] trying to stuff him into a wheelchair to send him to Germany. This looks like something taking place in Germany and not in the United States."

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center found irony in Broadley's argument for his client.

"He wants to plead the sense of fairness that he regularly denied all of the victims at Sobibor," Hier said.

He called Demjanjuk's comparison of his planned deportation to torture "preposterous coming from a person that served the [Nazi organization] S.S. in a death camp. It is a preposterous argument and insulting to the survivors of the Holocaust."

Hier said that 250,000 Jews were killed at the camp and that none of the guards who worked there was blameless.

"You were there for one job: kill the Jews," he said. "And that's what they did full-time."

He called the evidence against Demjanjuk "overwhelming."

German authorities issued an arrest warrant for Demjanjuk on March 10, accusing him of being an accessory to 29,000 counts of murder as a guard at Sobibor from March to September 1943.

The warrant was issued after the authorities concluded that an identification card provided by the U.S. Office of Special Investigations was genuine.

Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker, has been fighting charges of Nazi war crimes for more than two decades.

He was previously extradited from the United States to Israel, where he was convicted in 1986 of being "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the notorious Treblinka extermination camp. The conviction was overturned by Israeli courts on appeal, and he returned to the United States.

The United States filed new charges against him in 1999, again alleging that he had been a concentration camp guard. He was stripped of U.S. citizenship and has been awaiting deportation since 2005, after fighting his case all the way to the Supreme Court.

Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian, says he saw action in the Soviet army and later was a prisoner of war held by the Germans.

CNN's Terry Frieden contributed to this report.

text: CNN

text: Nazi

text: war

text: crimes

text: suspect

text: John

text: Demjanjuk

text: was

text: granted

text: an

text: emergency

text: stay

text: late

text: Tuesday

text: to

text: block

text: what

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: his

text: imminent

text: deportation

text: to

text: Germany

text: Immigration

text: and

text: Customs

text: Enforcement

text: agents

text: remove

text: John

text: Demjanjuk

text: from

text: his

text: home

text: Tuesday

text: The

text: ruling

text: handed

text: down

text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Circuit

text: Court

text: of

text: Appeals

text: came

text: less

text: than

text: two

text: hours

text: after

text: federal

text: immigration

text: officials

text: took

text: Demjanjuk

text: into

text: custody

text: at

text: his

text: home

text: near

text: Cleveland

text: Ohio

text: Demjanjuk

text: is

text: wanted

text: by

text: German

text: authorities

text: for

text: his

text: alleged

text: involvement

text: during

text: World

text: War

text: II

text: in

text: killings

text: at

text: Sobibor

text: a

text: Nazi

text: death

text: camp

text: in

text: Poland

text: The

text: Justice

text: Department

text: would

text: not

text: immediately

text: comment

text: on

text: the

text: stay

text: saying

text: officials

text: needed

text: to

text: review

text: the

text: order

text: The

text: last

text: minute

text: legal

text: maneuvering

text: leading

text: to

text: the

text: order

text: was

text: the

text: latest

text: chapter

text: in

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: longest

text: running

text: pursuits

text: of

text: an

text: alleged

text: Holocaust

text: perpetrator

text: in

text: history

text: The

text: deportation

text: of

text: Demjanjuk

text: who

text: had

text: been

text: transported

text: to

text: an

text: Ohio

text: detention

text: facility

text: when

text: the

text: stay

text: was

text: issued

text: would

text: set

text: the

text: stage

text: for

text: what

text: would

text: likely

text: prove

text: to

text: be

text: an

text: extraordinary

text: German

text: war

text: crimes

text: trial

text: Upon

text: due

text: consideration

text: of

text: the

text: motion

text: for

text: a

text: stay

text: and

text: the

text: opposition

text: by

text: the

text: attorney

text: general

text: we

text: conclude

text: that

text: a

text: stay

text: of

text: removal

text: is

text: warranted

text: the

text: circuit

text: court

text: wrote

text: Representatives

text: of

text: Attorney

text: General

text: Eric

text: Holder

text: argued

text: in

text: response

text: to

text: an

text: emergency

text: motion

text: filed

text: by

text: Demjanjuk

text: 's

text: attorney

text: that

text: the

text: circuit

text: court

text: does

text: not

text: have

text: jurisdiction

text: over

text: the

text: case

text: But

text: the

text: court

text: acted

text: anyway

text: Because

text: it

text: is

text: our

text: understanding

text: that

text: the

text: government

text: may

text: remove

text: the

text: petitioner

text: later

text: today

text: we

text: are

text: compelled

text: to

text: rule

text: on

text: the

text: motion

text: for

text: a

text: stay

text: prior

text: to

text: addressing

text: the

text: jurisdictional

text: concerns

text: raised

text: by

text: the

text: government

text: the

text: court

text: said

text: On

text: Friday

text: a

text: federal

text: immigration

text: board

text: rejected

text: an

text: emergency

text: appeal

text: for

text: a

text: stay

text: of

text: Demjanjuk

text: 's

text: deportation

text: His

text: attorney

text: John

text: Broadley

text: had

text: argued

text: that

text: deporting

text: him

text: would

text: constitute

text: torture

text: because

text: of

text: his

text: health

text: problems

text: Broadley

text: has

text: said

text: Demjanjuk

text: suffers

text: from

text: pre

text: leukemia

text: kidney

text: problems

text: spinal

text: problems

text: and

text: a

text: couple

text: of

text: types

text: of

text: gout

text: When

text: Broadley

text: filed

text: another

text: appeal

text: with

text: the

text: Circuit

text: Court

text: Justice

text: Department

text: officials

text: said

text: they

text: believe

text: that

text: his

text: chances

text: of

text: getting

text: the

text: board

text: 's

text: ruling

text: overturned

text: are

text: slim

text: Looking

text: at

text: what

text: 's

text: going

text: on

text: in

text: Cleveland

text: is

text: truly

text: appalling

text: Broadley

text: said

text: shortly

text: after

text: Demjanjuk

text: was

text: taken

text: into

text: custody

text: You

text: have

text: an

text: old

text: man

text: with

text: various

text: physical

text: ailments

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: eight

text: guys

text: from

text: Immigration

text: and

text: Customs

text: Enforcement

text: trying

text: to

text: stuff

text: him

text: into

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: to

text: send

text: him

text: to

text: Germany

text: This

text: looks

text: like

text: something

text: taking

text: place

text: in

text: Germany

text: and

text: not

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Rabbi

text: Marvin

text: Hier

text: of

text: the

text: Simon

text: Wiesenthal

text: Center

text: found

text: irony

text: in

text: Broadley

text: 's

text: argument

text: for

text: his

text: client

text: He

text: wants

text: to

text: plead

text: the

text: sense

text: of

text: fairness

text: that

text: he

text: regularly

text: denied

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: victims

text: at

text: Sobibor

text: Hier

text: said

text: He

text: called

text: Demjanjuk

text: 's

text: comparison

text: of

text: his

text: planned

text: deportation

text: to

text: torture

text: preposterous

text: coming

text: from

text: a

text: person

text: that

text: served

text: the

text: Nazi

text: organization

text: S.S.

text: in

text: a

text: death

text: camp

text: It

text: is

text: a

text: preposterous

text: argument

text: and

text: insulting

text: to

text: the

text: survivors

text: of

text: the

text: Holocaust

text: Hier

text: said

text: that

text: Jews

text: were

text: killed

text: at

text: the

text: camp

text: and

text: that

text: of

text: the

text: guards

text: who

text: worked

text: there

text: was

text: blameless

text: You

text: were

text: there

text: for

text: one

text: job

text: kill

text: the

text: Jews

text: he

text: said

text: And

text: that

text: 's

text: what

text: they

text: did

text: full

text: time

text: He

text: called

text: the

text: evidence

text: against

text: Demjanjuk

text: overwhelming

text: German

text: authorities

text: issued

text: an

text: arrest

text: warrant

text: for

text: Demjanjuk

text: on

text: March

text: accusing

text: him

text: of

text: being

text: an

text: accessory

text: to

text: counts

text: of

text: murder

text: as

text: a

text: guard

text: at

text: Sobibor

text: from

text: March

text: to

text: September

text: The

text: warrant

text: was

text: issued

text: after

text: the

text: authorities

text: concluded

text: that

text: an

text: identification

text: card

text: provided

text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Office

text: of

text: Special

text: Investigations

text: was

text: genuine

text: Demjanjuk

text: a

text: retired

text: auto

text: worker

text: has

text: been

text: fighting

text: charges

text: of

text: Nazi

text: war

text: crimes

text: for

text: more

text: than

text: two

text: decades

text: He

text: was

text: previously

text: extradited

text: from

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: to

text: Israel

text: where

text: he

text: was

text: convicted

text: in

text: of

text: being

text: Ivan

text: the

text: Terrible

text: a

text: guard

text: at

text: the

text: notorious

text: Treblinka

text: extermination

text: camp

text: The

text: conviction

text: was

text: overturned

text: by

text: Israeli

text: courts

text: on

text: appeal

text: and

text: he

text: returned

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: filed

text: new

text: charges

text: against

text: him

text: in

text: again

text: alleging

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: a

text: concentration

text: camp

text: guard

text: He

text: was

text: stripped

text: of

text: U.S.

text: citizenship

text: and

text: has

text: been

text: awaiting

text: deportation

text: since

text: after

text: fighting

text: his

text: case

text: all

text: the

text: way

text: to

text: the

text: Supreme

text: Court

text: Demjanjuk

text: a

text: Ukrainian

text: says

text: he

text: saw

text: action

text: in

text: the

text: Soviet

text: army

text: and

text: later

text: was

text: a

text: prisoner

text: of

text: war

text: held

text: by

text: the

text: Germans

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Terry

text: Frieden

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Where did immigration agents pick up John Demjanjuk?

answer: from his home

text: from his home

question: Who claimed the court has no jurisdiction?

answer: Demjanjuk's attorney

text: Demjanjuk's attorney

question: How long has he been fighting charges?

answer: more than two decades.

text: more than two decades.

question: What did the Attorney general's representatives say?

answer: of

text: of

question: What age is Demjanjuk?

answer: 89,

question: What is Demjanjuk accused of by German authorities?

answer: Nazi war crimes

text: Nazi war crimes

question: Who has been fighting war crime charges?

answer: Nazi

text: Nazi

question: Where was the person arrested?

answer: Cleveland

text: Cleveland

question: Where was he living?

answer: Cleveland, Ohio.

text: Cleveland, Ohio.


text:
(CNN)  -- Somalia said a senior al Qaeda operative tied to several attacks in East Africa was killed Monday in a U.S. strike in southern Somalia.

Saleh ali Saleh Nabhan, pictured on the FBI's Web site, reportedly was tied to al Qaeda's East Africa operations.

Intelligence sources have confirmed to the Somali government that Saleh ali Saleh Nabhan was killed, Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Gelle said Tuesday.

"We welcome that attack because those people targeted were murderers, and they are unwanted and unwelcome in Somalia," Gelle said.

Nabhan's death will have "a major impact" on al Qaeda's operations in the Horn of Africa, according to one regional analyst.

U.S. special operations forces used a helicopter to fire on a car Monday in southern Somalia, killing several people, including one they believed was Nabhan, U.S. officials told CNN earlier.

Nabhan, 30, was born in Kenya and had been tied to attacks that included the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, according to the sources. More than 200 were killed, and 4,000 wounded in those attacks, most of them Kenyans.

The United States targeted Nabhan in an airstrike in southern Somalia near the Kenyan border in March 2008, U.S. officials said at the time.

In February 2006, the FBI announced that Nabhan was wanted for questioning in connection with the 2002 suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel and the unsuccessful attack on an Israeli charter jet in Mombasa, Kenya.

Ten Kenyans and three Israelis -- including two children -- were killed when three suicide bombers detonated a car bomb outside Mombasa's Paradise Hotel in November 2002.

The bombing took place within minutes of an unsuccessful missile attack on an Israeli charter jet, which was taking off with 261 passengers and 10 crew members.

President Obama signed off on Monday's operation, a senior U.S. official said. The United States had been monitoring the situation for days and had intelligence that Nabhan was in the area, the U.S. officials said.

The officials who talked to CNN are familiar with the latest information on Monday's strike but did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

The U.S. helicopter flew from a U.S. Navy warship offshore, while the ship kept watch on the operation, one of the sources said. The warship was ready to rescue the American troops if they got into trouble.

Farmers in the southeastern town of Barawe, Somalia, said they witnessed the assault. They said helicopters attacked a car and its occupants and that at least two people died. The witnesses said some helicopters landed and that some of the injured or dead were pulled into at least one helicopter.

A U.S. official said the troops landed to take away the body believed to be that of Nabhan for positive identification.

Nabhan is believed to be an associate of al Qaeda member Harun Fazul, who was indicted in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies.

The U.S. military has long sought Nabhan because he is believed to be deeply involved in al Qaeda's East African operations, a senior U.S. official said last year.

"He was certainly one of the leading al Qaeda figures in East Africa," said Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst for the International Crisis Group, an independent advisory and analysis organization.

Nabhan "has been living in the shadows" in Somalia and not much is known about his recent activity, Abdi said.

"The fact that he is now out of the picture will have a bigger impact on al Qaeda than on Al-Shabaab," he said, referring to the Islamist militia in Somalia that has ties to al Qaeda. "He is a man with an important organizational memory, and if a key figure like him is killed, it always has a major impact."

Al-Shabaab is waging a bloody battle against Somalia's transitional government and is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations because of its al Qaeda ties.

There are growing concerns that Somalia could be the next base for al Qaeda as U.S. forces pound their positions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

CIA Director Leon Panetta recently said the intelligence agency is keeping tabs on the region as a possible destination for fleeing al Qaeda operatives.

Journalist Mohammed Amiin Adow and CNN's David McKenzie, Barbara Starr and Ed Henry contributed to this report.

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text: Somalia

text: said

text: a

text: senior

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: operative

text: tied

text: to

text: several

text: attacks

text: in

text: East

text: Africa

text: was

text: killed

text: Monday

text: in

text: a

text: U.S.

text: strike

text: in

text: southern

text: Somalia

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text: ali

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text: FBI

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text: Web

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text: tied

text: to

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text: Qaeda

text: 's

text: East

text: Africa

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text: Intelligence

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text: have

text: confirmed

text: to

text: the

text: Somali

text: government

text: that

text: Saleh

text: ali

text: Saleh

text: Nabhan

text: was

text: killed

text: Information

text: Minister

text: Dahir

text: Mohamud

text: Gelle

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: We

text: welcome

text: that

text: attack

text: because

text: those

text: people

text: targeted

text: were

text: murderers

text: and

text: they

text: are

text: unwanted

text: and

text: unwelcome

text: in

text: Somalia

text: Gelle

text: said

text: Nabhan

text: 's

text: death

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text: have

text: a

text: major

text: impact

text: on

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: 's

text: operations

text: in

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text: Horn

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text: Africa

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text: regional

text: analyst

text: U.S.

text: special

text: operations

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text: on

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text: car

text: Monday

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text: Somalia

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text: people

text: including

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text: they

text: believed

text: was

text: Nabhan

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text: officials

text: told

text: CNN

text: earlier

text: Nabhan

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text: born

text: in

text: Kenya

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text: sources

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text: United

text: States

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text: airstrike

text: in

text: southern

text: Somalia

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text: Kenyan

text: border

text: in

text: March

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text: officials

text: said

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text: the

text: time

text: In

text: February

text: the

text: FBI

text: announced

text: that

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text: wanted

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text: questioning

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text: hotel

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text: unsuccessful

text: attack

text: on

text: an

text: Israeli

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text: Mombasa

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text: three

text: Israelis

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text: children

text: were

text: killed

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text: bombers

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text: 's

text: Paradise

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text: November

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text: bombing

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text: minutes

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text: charter

text: jet

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text: taking

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text: passengers

text: and

text: crew

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text: President

text: Obama

text: signed

text: off

text: on

text: Monday

text: 's

text: operation

text: a

text: senior

text: U.S.

text: official

text: said

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: had

text: been

text: monitoring

text: the

text: situation

text: for

text: days

text: and

text: had

text: intelligence

text: that

text: Nabhan

text: was

text: in

text: the

text: area

text: the

text: U.S.

text: officials

text: said

text: The

text: officials

text: who

text: talked

text: to

text: CNN

text: are

text: familiar

text: with

text: the

text: latest

text: information

text: on

text: Monday

text: 's

text: strike

text: but

text: did

text: not

text: want

text: to

text: be

text: identified

text: because

text: they

text: were

text: not

text: authorized

text: to

text: talk

text: to

text: the

text: media

text: The

text: U.S.

text: helicopter

text: flew

text: from

text: a

text: U.S.

text: Navy

text: warship

text: offshore

text: while

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text: ship

text: kept

text: watch

text: on

text: the

text: operation

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: sources

text: said

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text: warship

text: was

text: ready

text: to

text: rescue

text: the

text: American

text: troops

text: if

text: they

text: got

text: into

text: trouble

text: Farmers

text: in

text: the

text: southeastern

text: town

text: of

text: Barawe

text: Somalia

text: said

text: they

text: witnessed

text: the

text: assault

text: They

text: said

text: helicopters

text: attacked

text: a

text: car

text: and

text: its

text: occupants

text: and

text: that

text: at

text: least

text: two

text: people

text: died

text: The

text: witnesses

text: said

text: some

text: helicopters

text: landed

text: and

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: injured

text: or

text: dead

text: were

text: pulled

text: into

text: at

text: least

text: one

text: helicopter

text: A

text: U.S.

text: official

text: said

text: the

text: troops

text: landed

text: to

text: take

text: away

text: the

text: body

text: believed

text: to

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text: that

text: of

text: Nabhan

text: for

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text: identification

text: Nabhan

text: is

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: an

text: associate

text: of

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: member

text: Harun

text: Fazul

text: who

text: was

text: indicted

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text: the

text: bombings

text: of

text: the

text: U.S.

text: embassies

text: The

text: U.S.

text: military

text: has

text: long

text: sought

text: Nabhan

text: because

text: he

text: is

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: deeply

text: involved

text: in

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: 's

text: East

text: African

text: operations

text: a

text: senior

text: U.S.

text: official

text: said

text: last

text: year

text: He

text: was

text: certainly

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: leading

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: figures

text: in

text: East

text: Africa

text: said

text: Rashid

text: Abdi

text: a

text: Somalia

text: analyst

text: for

text: the

text: International

text: Crisis

text: Group

text: an

text: independent

text: advisory

text: and

text: analysis

text: organization

text: Nabhan

text: has

text: been

text: living

text: in

text: the

text: shadows

text: in

text: Somalia

text: and

text: not

text: much

text: is

text: known

text: about

text: his

text: recent

text: activity

text: Abdi

text: said

text: The

text: fact

text: that

text: he

text: is

text: now

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: picture

text: will

text: have

text: a

text: bigger

text: impact

text: on

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: than

text: on

text: Al

text: Shabaab

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(CNN) -- Most of us know we shouldn't be talking on a handheld cell phone while driving. But recent studies suggest that hands-free devices are just as dangerous on the road.

Studies suggest that talking on a hands-free cell phone while driving is just as dangerous as a handheld one.

Engaging in a phone conversation on a mobile device while driving distracts the brain and delays reaction times, experts said. Drivers are more likely to swerve between lanes, slow down and miss important signs.

"When you're on a call, even if both hands are on the wheel, your head is in the call," said Janet Froetscher, president of the National Safety Council, which in January urged legislators in all 50 states to pass laws prohibiting motorists from using cell phone devices.

A recent University of Utah study found that drivers engaging in a cell phone conversation on a headset were more likely to make errors behind the wheel than a driver talking to a front-seat passenger.

"It doesn't matter what kind of cell phone device they are using, because the impairments are so large," said University of Utah professor David Strayer, who used a high-tech driving simulator for his experiment.

Strayer's study, published in December, concluded that conversations with a front-seat passenger can actually mitigate accidents, because the passenger can help observe road conditions and warn the driver of possible hazards.

In Strayer's previous studies, he found driving while talking on a mobile device is "just as bad as driving drunk."

The risk of getting into a car accident while talking on a wireless device -- including headsets and vehicles with built-in communication systems -- is growing as the number of cell phone subscribers increases.

There are 270 million cell phone subscribers in the United States, up from 76 million in 1999, according to CTIA -- The Wireless Association, an organization representing the wireless communications industry.

In a survey by Nationwide Insurance, 80 percent of people admitted to talking on their cell phones while driving. About 45 percent of drivers said they have been hit or nearly hit by someone using a cell phone, according to Nationwide's survey, conducted in 2006.

Some experts said drivers talking on cell phones are four times more likely to get into a crash than those who don't talk on their phones behind the wheel.

One study from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated that 636,000 traffic accidents each year -- about 6 percent of all accidents -- are caused by drivers using their cell phones, resulting in an estimated 2,600 deaths.

Elderly and younger drivers are most at risk of getting into an accident when they talk on a mobile device while driving, said Arthur Kramer, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"I don't think legislation alone is the answer," Kramer said. "Education needs to go along with the legislation to encourage people that these are risky habits for yourself and for others."

There is no federal law against using handheld devices on the road, but six states and the District of Columbia have such laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a group that tracks legislative data trends. No states ban the use of hands-free or wireless communication devices, experts said.

Some private industries, such as trucking and bus companies, prohibit their employees from using cell phones on the road. Other states restrict teenagers from talking on cell phones while driving.

Anne Teigen, a policy specialist on transportation issues for the National Conference of State Legislatures, says states are moving to ban handheld cell phone use. Almost all states have debated the issue, but many governments are reluctant to pass restrictions because they say there isn't enough research.

They point out that talking on a mobile device isn't the only distraction. Other distractions, such as reaching for the glove compartment, changing the radio station or putting on makeup, also can cause accidents.

The popularity of smart phones equipped with Internet, text messaging and e-mail present drivers with even more distractions. Such new technology also makes it difficult for states to keep their laws updated.

"Then there is the final question of whether these laws are enforceable or not," Teigen said.

Some members of the cell phone industry are advising drivers to stop using cell phones on the road, but few have taken a stance on hands-free devices, because research has been limited.

Verizon Wireless was one of the first cellular phone companies to support hands-free driving laws in the early 2000s. The company is focusing on promoting laws against text-messaging while driving. So far, only a handful of states ban the practice.

Aegis Mobility, a Vancouver, Canada, company, has created a device that would reduce cell phone usage in cars. The product, DriveAssist, set to launch this fall with a major network carrier in the United States, will enable cell phones to automatically detect when a mobile user is driving.

Users can subscribe to DriveAssist's service, which manages incoming and outgoing calls, text messages and e-mails electronically. Callers get a message that the recipient is driving but can leave an emergency message alerting the driver to pull over and return the call.

"People find it hard to stop talking on their cell phones because we've been conditioned our entire life to answer the phone," said David Teater of Spring Lake, Michigan, one of the product's backers.

Five years ago, Teater's seventh-grade son died in a daytime car accident after a woman talking on her cell phone ran a red light.

"Her life was ruined as well," Teater said. "She had no idea what she was doing was so dangerous. The vast majority of drivers have no idea that it's dangerous."

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MODESTO, California (CNN)  -- Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy are the youngest. Almost 2 million children nationwide have had or will have their lives disrupted by home foreclosures, according to one study.

There are more empty desks in Suzell Tougas's fourth grade classroom after 10 students have stopped coming.

These are the children whose families have had to move, sometimes more than once. The youngsters are pulled out of school, often leaving their friends behind without even saying goodbye.

Nine-year-old Kenia, who is in the fourth grade at Fairview Elementary School in Modesto, California, said that is what happened to her. She is new to the school, having moved to the area just a few months ago. She said it is really hard and she misses her friends.

Her classmate Bethany said her best friend since kindergarten just left without saying goodbye.

Heather Sharp, the principal at Fairview, said her school has been the one most affected by the bad economy in the Modesto City School system.

"We have, over the last couple of months, 50 students coming new to the school and 50 students leaving," Sharp said.

It was so bad that the school conducted a door-to-door search for missing students, she said.

"We had our community aide going out to houses. And they were boarded up, windows boarded, yard brown. She had to go to neighbors to find out where the kids were."

In terms of raw numbers, California had the most foreclosures of any state from 2007 through January 2009. More than 57,000 homes entered foreclosure. Many of those were in Stanislaus County, where home prices have declined 65 percent since December 2005, according to the Modesto Bee.

Fourth-grade teacher Suzell Tougas said she has lost 10 kids from her class so far this year and is braced to lose more. She usually has a room full of children with every desk occupied. Now, it "looks empty ... it's like a "ghost town".

She said constant moving is hard on kids.

"Just having to start over and start over is really hard on a child," Tougas said. "It takes six weeks for a child to adjust ... at least."

While children are in that period of adjustment, she said, they aren't learning and their studies suffer.

"The biggest issue is that when [children have to move] when there are other stressors going on, we know it puts these kids at greater risk for being behind in their academics," said Pat Popp, a past president of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

That is borne out in a recent study by a nonpartisan group in Washington called First Focus. It said that children who move twice in one year are only half as likely as others to be able to read proficiently, and may have a greater chance of being held back. It also found that  moving a lot reduces the student's chance of graduating from high school by half. Read the report here

The report, published in May, estimated that 1.95 million children will be affected by foreclosure over the next two years.

The number of homeless students is increasing dramatically. A study by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children reported that more than 450 school districts across the nation had an increase of at least 25 percent in the number of identified homeless students between the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years. Read the report here (pdf)

A student who moves "may hear the same information again that you learned in your previous classroom or miss information that has already been covered in your class but wasn't taught in your previous school," Popp said.

The fallout from the rash of foreclosures likely will have a long-term impact on education, especially in California. Schools get much of their funding from property tax revenues. Real estate values are spiraling downward and so is the revenue.

At Fairview Elementary, Principal Sharp worries about students like 9-year-old Eunice, who has moved twice in the last year. Her parents told her that after they pay their mortgage this month, they won't have any money for a week.

But, Sharp said, children are resilient.

"We don't give them credit for what they can handle but, at the same time, the flip side is it's sad -- they shouldn't have to handle it. They should be able to know they can go to school and focus on reading and math and recess."

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question: What life change is this article about?

answer: home foreclosures,

text: home foreclosures,

question: Where is Modesto?

answer: California

text: California

question: Which grade were the students in the reading in?

answer: fourth

text: fourth

question: What did the teacher say?

answer: she has lost 10 kids from her class so far this year and is braced to lose more.

text: she has lost 10 kids from her class so far this year and is braced to lose more.

question: What has happened to California?

answer: most foreclosures of any state

text: most foreclosures of any state

question: Children are what?

answer: Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy

text: Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy

question: Children are what according to a teacher?

answer: resilient.

text: resilient.

question: What has hit California hard?

answer: bad economy

text: bad economy

question: What are children who move twice in a year less likely to do?

answer: read proficiently,

text: read proficiently,

question: California is hit hard by what?

answer: bad economy

text: bad economy

question: 4th graders in what city miss friends?

answer: Modesto, California,

text: Modesto, California,


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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed and 31 others wounded in two rocket attacks Sunday afternoon in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Mehdi Army militiamen celebrate after attacking an Iraqi Army vehicle in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday.

Earlier Sunday, fighting between U.S. troops and the Mehdi Army militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr left at least 20 dead and 52 wounded in Baghdad's Sadr City, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

The U.S. military said it had no information about the Sadr City fighting.

Sunday's violence came as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded al-Sadr disband his Mehdi Army and threatened to bar al-Sadr's followers from the political process if the cleric refused.  Watch a report from the front line in Sadr City Â»

"A decision was taken yesterday that they no longer have a right to participate in the political process or take part in the upcoming elections unless they end the Mehdi Army," al-Maliki said.

Sunday's American fatalities bring the death toll of U.S. troops in the Iraq war to 4,022; that toll includes eight civilian contractors working for the Pentagon. Nearly 30,000 others have been wounded in action.

An attack involving a "couple of rounds" of fire on the International Zone, also known as the Green Zone, killed two soldiers and wounded 17 others about 3:30 p.m., a military official said, declining to give the specific location of the attack for security reasons.

A separate attack about 30 minutes earlier killed one soldier and wounded 14 at a U.S. military outpost in Rustamiya in southeastern Baghdad, the military said.

Responding to al-Maliki's comments, a spokesman for al-Sadr, Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, said that any effort to bar Sadrists from participation in politics would be unconstitutional -- and that any decision to disband the Mehdi Army is not the government's to make.

"It is up to the side that established it," he said.

Al-Maliki spoke in an exclusive interview with CNN after a weeklong military offensive against what Iraqi officials called gangs and militia members in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

Hundreds were killed or wounded in the fighting across Iraq, which reportedly ended when Iranian and Iraqi Shiite officials held talks in Iran with al-Sadr.

Asked about Iran's role in ending the Basra conflict, al-Maliki attributed the cease-fire to the work of his security forces. Haidar al-Abadi, an Iraqi lawmaker who belongs to al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said last week that Iranian officials participated in the discussions, and another source close to the talks said the Iranians pressured al-Sadr to craft an agreement.

"I am not aware of such an attempt," al-Maliki said Sunday. "What happened on the ground and the breakdown in the structure of this militia is what made Muqtada al-Sadr issue his statement to withdraw his militants from the streets. What happened was something to save Muqtada, not to help us."  Watch al-Maliki talk about issues that concern Iraq Â»

In northern Iraq, security forces detained a suspect Sunday and were searching for others in connection with the kidnapping of 42 college students, authorities said.

Gunmen seized the male students in northern Iraq before releasing them several hours later, according to a military spokesman and police in Nineveh province.

None was harmed, according to the U.S. military.

Gunmen stopped two buses loaded with students who were on their way to college, but one bus managed to escape, police said.  Four students on the bus that escaped were wounded by gunfire, police said.

Students on the other bus were released Sunday afternoon after coalition military forces spotted the bus during an air patrol on the western outskirts of Mosul, according to a U.S. military news release.

The kidnappers fled the vehicle after it was stopped, according to a military press release.

Other developments

â¢ A Christian priest was shot and killed in eastern Baghdad's Wihda neighborhood around noon Saturday, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official. The priest was identified as Father Yousif Adel. He belonged to St. Peter and Paul's Assyrian Orthodox Church.

â¢ At least two people were killed Saturday and 16 others wounded when a bomb exploded in a minibus in eastern Baghdad's Beirut Square, the official said.

â¢ President Bush is planning to address the nation Thursday morning about the Iraq war, sources said. Bush is expected to address the administration's decision to reduce combat tours of duty from 15 months to 12 months, Republican and Democratic sources said.  E-mail to a friend

CNN's Nic Robertson, Jomana Karadsheh and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report.

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question: Where are militia fighting U.S. troops?

answer: Baghdad's Sadr City,

text: Baghdad's Sadr City,

question: What killed 3 U.S. troops, wounded 31?

answer: two rocket attacks

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question: What killed 3 U.S. troops?

answer: two rocket attacks

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question: who was killed in the attack?

answer: Three U.S. soldiers

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question: Who was arrested for kidnapping?

answer: d a suspec

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question: Who bans Sadrists from politics if Mehdi Army not disbanded?

answer: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki

text: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki

question: What is the prime minister to ban?

answer: bar al-Sadr's followers from the political process

text: bar al-Sadr's followers from the political process