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(CNN) -- Bangladesh police have detained or arrested more than 18,000 people in the last 11 days in a crackdown on crime they say is aimed at improving security ahead of December elections.

People arrested by Bangladesh police in their latest round-up arrive at a jail in Dhaka.

Human rights groups decry the actions as politically motivated.

The round-ups began May 28, days after the two main political parties said they would not cooperate with the military-backed caretaker government on organizing the elections.

Police told CNN that by Saturday 16,916 arrests had been made, while local media reported another 1,548 were arrested Sunday.

The Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said hundreds of their party members had been taken into custody.

"The timing and targets of the arrests are a dead giveaway they are politically motivated," Brad Adams of the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement. "It's obvious that they are paying the price for the political parties' refusal to accept the government's conditions to participate in the elections."

The government rejects the allegations. The detentions, it said, are part of a planned sweep to rid the country of criminals.

"Our IGP [Inspector General of Police, or chief of police] categorically said this special drive was being conducted to create a congenial atmosphere before the general election," said Kamrul Ahsan, a spokesman for Bangladesh Police.

"It is not politically motivated," he said. "The intention is not to harass anybody politically."

The crackdown began after the Awami League and the BNP said they would not cooperate with the government to develop a roadmap toward democracy unless it first releases the parties' leaders.

The two women who head the parties -- Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League and Khaleda Zia of the BNP -- are in police custody on corruption-related charges.

Hasina is charged with bribe-taking. Zia is being held on charges of graft for improperly awarding a multi-million dollar government contract.

The current political crisis in the Muslim-majority South Asian country of 150 million can be traced, in large part, to the lingering animosity between the two women, political observers say.

Their rivalry runs so deep that the women are known in the country as the "Battling Begums." Begum is an honorific given to women of rank in the country.

Since the country's independence in 1972, the Awami League or the BNP has ruled Bangladesh for all but eight years. Both women have served as prime minister at one point or another.

After its last stint in power ended in 2006, the BNP handed over rule to a caretaker government to conduct elections, as mandated by the country's constitution.

But the Awami League refused to recognize the neutrality of the interim government. Hasina accused Zia of stocking it with BNP backers.

Supporters and party members took to the streets in months of deadly clashes.

To stem the tide of violence, a military-backed government took control in January 2007 and imposed an indefinite state of emergency. It also postponed elections until it said it could clean up the country's graft-ridden politics.

The caretaker government adopted the Emergency Powers Rules. The rules allowed authorities to arrest people without a warrant as long as there was reasonable suspicion that he or she was connected to a crime, Human Rights Watch said.

A wave of detentions followed. By some estimates more than 90,000 people were detained before some were released and others charged with crimes.

Among those arrested were more than 150 top politicians, including Hasina and Zia -- leading to the current political stalemate.

The government wants to hold elections in the third week of December, and said the crusade on crime is part of its plan to ensure trouble-free balloting.

The political parties allege the arrests are intended to pave the way for the election of pro-government candidates.

They want their leaders set free before they sit down and talk with the government about a roadmap toward a successful election. They also threatened to organize mass movements to secure their leaders' release.

"It's kind of an impasse," said Taleya Rehman, founder and executive director of the Bangladesh-based non-profit Democracy Watch. "The government is conducting political dialogue with small parties. But they are of no significance. They need the two major parties."

On Monday, the government announced it was releasing Hasina from custody on medical grounds so she can go abroad for treatment. A similar release for Zia was also expected.

Party members say the government's move is a ploy to sideline the pair from the elections by sending them out of the country.

Hasina has a damaged ear resulting from a bombing attack that targeted her four years ago. Zia is believed to have arthritis.

Meanwhile, the detentions continue -- almost 1,800 a day.

In addition to political party members, the crackdown has also swept up several journalists.

"That actually makes the arrests suspicious in some people's minds," said Sultana Kamal, executive director of the legal aid group, Ain o Salish Kendro (Law and Adjudication Center).

"If you just arrest any Tom, Dick and Harry saying this person may have arms, then people will legitimately raise questions about the mode of the whole operation."

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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures.

Commuters drive along a road in downtown Beijing, China, on Thursday.

The Chinese government revised its growth figures for 2007 from 11.9 percent to 13 percent this week, bringing its estimated gross domestic product to $3.4 trillion -- about 3 percent larger than Germany's $3.3 trillion for the same year, based on World Bank estimates. Beijing is expected to release its 2008 GDP figures next week.

Although the world's top economies, the United States and Japan, are in recession, the most pessimistic estimates for China's growth in upcoming years runs about 5 percent. That could allow China's GDP to overtake Japan's, currently $4.3 trillion, within a few years.

The U.S. economy, the world's largest, was about $13.8 trillion in 2007.

The World Bank's estimate of China's economic growth is about 7.5 percent. But China has seen a sharp decline in exports in November and December as other major economies struggle, and the bank's analysts say rates below 6 percent could worsen the rest of the world's slump.  Watch how China was able to overtake Germany Â»

And Michael Santoro, author of the 2008 book "China 2020," said China will have other problems to overcome if it is to maintain its rapid expansion.

"It's no longer sufficient for China to become a manufacturer of sneakers or toys and the like," Santoro said. "Now they're looking to become players in the area of pharmaceuticals and foods and other high value-added products, where safety and quality are important characteristics for improving in the global economy."

China recently announced a $600 billion economic stimulus package, and its State Council on Wednesday laid out a new plan to boost its steel and auto industries -- including about $1.5 billion to develop alternative-fuel vehicles.

CNN's John Vause and Judy Kwon contributed to this report.

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answer: 13 percent

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answer: China

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question: What was the value of the stimulus package?

answer: $600 billion economic

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answer: $600 billion

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question: What is China's economic growth?

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question: What country announced a huge stimulus plan?

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(CNN) -- A celebrity gossip Web site has caught Maria Shriver a third time apparently violating California's law against using a cell phone while driving.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says "swift action" will be taken on wife Maria Shriver's driving "violations."

Web site TMZ posted a 17-second video Tuesday showing the California first lady apparently speaking into a cell phone while turning a corner in Brentwood in a black SUV. She puts the phone down part way through the video, but it's not clear whether she did so because she had finished her conversation or because she noticed cameras following her.

The site also photographed Shriver allegedly chatting while driving on Sunday and on June 12.

Shriver's husband, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, last year supported and signed into law a ban on using handheld communication devices while driving. Enforcement of the ban began July 1, 2008; it carries a $20 fine for a first violation; $50 for each subsequent offense. A similar law banning texting while driving took effect January 1 this year. Watch Shriver driving while on her cell phone

By the end of September, the California Highway Patrol had issued tickets for about 150,000 cell phone infractions, said Chris Cochran, spokesman for the California Office of Traffic Safety. No one keeps track of infractions cited by county and local departments, he said.  See where laws limit cell phone use in cars Â»

Shriver has not been cited. In Los Angeles County, where Brentwood is, the Superior Court has set the cost at about $93 for the first ticket and $201 for the next one, meaning Shriver would owe at least $300 in fines and court fees had she been caught by police, CNN affiliate KTLA-TV reported.

On Tuesday, Schwarzenegger sent a Twitter message to TMZ editor Harvey Levin: "Thanks for bringing her violations to my attention. There's going to be swift action." What that action might entail was not specified.

Shriver on Wednesday issued an apology:

"I'm sorry," she said in a statement. "I will be donating my favorite old cell phone to my Women's Conference partner Verizon through their HopeLine program that helps domestic violence shelters. I invite anyone else who wants to recycle their old phone to join me. That's my version of swift action with a higher purpose."

The traffic office referred questions about Shriver to the governor's office, which declined to comment.

"We don't really think that hand-held bans have a whole lot of impact," said Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington. The association urges drivers not to use phones, including hands-free devices, while driving, but does not support laws banning them, he said.

The attention to Shriver "alludes to a bigger problem, and that's the fact that everybody does it," Adkins said. "Not only are public officials doing it, but we have to educate the highway safety community. ... Cops frequently are on their cell phones when they drive.

"The Shriver case really underscores the scope of the problem. We have a lot of educating to do."

Shriver's most recent alleged violations come on the heels of AAA Northern California's "Heads Up Driving Week," during which the auto club urged motorists to get in the habit of driving without distractions such as cell phones, fast food and tuning the stereo.

"We hope that by driving distraction-free for a week, people can pick up the habit for life," AAA spokesman Matt Skryja said in a news release.

Seven states and the District of Columbia ban all handheld cell phone use by drivers. Several other states allow localities to set their own limits on cell phone use.

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Washington (CNN)  -- An American lawyer has been holding secret negotiations with Iran for the release of an Iranian-American being detained for two years.

Reza Taghavi, a retired businessman from Orange County, California, has been held in Iran's notorious Evin prison since his arrest in May 2008 without ever being charged, his lawyer said.

Los Angeles-based attorney Pierre Prosper told CNN he has been talking to the Iranian government since September 2009 and traveled to Tehran in December to seek the release of Taghavi, a retired businessman accused of supporting an anti-regime group.

Taghavi, 71, traveled frequently to Iran to visit family and friends without incident, according to Prosper. In April 2008, he went to Tehran with his wife. Before he left, he was asked by an acquaintance in Los Angeles to take $200 for a friend in Tehran "who was down on his luck." Los Angeles has a large Persian community.

Taghavi did not know the individual to whom he was asked to deliver the money, Prosper said. He handed over the money and two weeks later was detained by Iranian authorities, after the recipient of the money was arrested on charges of association with an anti-regime group called Tondar.

The group, which seeks to restore the monarchy in Iran, claimed responsibility for the April 12, 2008, bombing of the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada mosque in the city of Shiraz.

Prosper declined to name the man, who he said has since been tried and convicted.

Taghavi has a rag-to-riches story, his 36-year old daughter, Leila Taghavi, told CNN. He brought his family to the United States in 1979, before the revolution, and stayed on in California to keep his family safe. Leila Taghavi said her father taught himself English, started a video game company in his garage and grew it into a successful corporation, which he handed over to his son when he retired 10 years ago.

"His life was the American dream," Leila said. "He learned everything the hard way, sacrificed for his children and taught us to be grateful for the good things. He is wonderful, honest and generous, the kind of father every daughter would want."

Taghavi's family was silent for more than a year about his arrest, fearful his arrest would be politicized in Tehran and Washington by getting the American government involved.

"It was blind faith, really," Leila said, explaining the silence. "Not knowing it would take this long, and fear of the system. There was never a doubt of his innocence."

In September 2009, with no movement on the case and losing hope he would be released, they hired Prosper to contact the State Department and initiate a dialogue with the Iranian government.

Prosper said he contacted the State Department about seeking a consular visit by Swiss diplomats, which was denied because Iran does not recognize the dual citizenship of Iranian-Americans.

The United States and Iran do not have formal relations, and Switzerland serves as the "protecting power" for the U.S. in Tehran.

A U.S. State Department spokesman urged Iran to allow Swiss diplomats to be granted consular access to Taghavi.

"We are adamant that we believe he should be released on humanitarian grounds along with all the Americans who are unjustly held there," Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, told CNN Wednesday.

A senior government official who met with Prosper said the lack of information makes it difficult to help Taghavi.

"As far as we are concerned, there are no facts in the case," the official said. "Our concern is that he should get due process."

Taghavi is one of several Americans in prison in Iran. American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were detained on July 31, 2009. According to their families, they accidentally strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while on a hiking trip in Iraq's Kurdistan region. They are being held on espionage charges.

Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar who spent four months in jail in 2007, was arrested in July after the disputed presidential election and sentenced to 15 years in jail for spying. His sentence was later reduced by an appeals court to five years, and a State Department official tells CNN he has been released for two weeks from jail to celebrate the Persian New Year.

The United States has no information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran almost three years ago.

After being hired by Taghavi family last September, Prosper said he contacted the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and was granted a meeting with the ambassador, who eventually put him in touch with Iran's foreign ministry.

After several months of weekly contact with Iranian officials in New York and Tehran, Prosper was invited to Iran in December for talks about Taghavi's case. Prosper said he was briefed on the Iranian view of the case but was told the authorities were still investigating the matter.

"It's still not clear what the accusations actually are," he said.

Prosper left Tehran without being allowed to see Taghavi, but he was taken to visit victims of the 2008 mosque bombing by Tondar in an Iranian effort to show him the threat the regime says it's facing from "terrorist groups" being financed from sources abroad.

"I think they had me meet with victims and survivors of the bombing to let it be known that they, too, in their eyes had experienced terrorism," Prosper said.

It is unclear why the Iranian government invited Prosper, who served as the ambassador-at-large for war crimes under the Bush administration and as a prosecutor for the Rwanda tribunal at the Hague, for talks in Iran.

Beyond talking about the case and attacks at the hand of the Tondar group, Prosper said his Iranian hosts made no effort to broaden the discussions to include the nuclear standoff between Iran and the West or the Obama administration's offer of engagement.

The facts of the case remain a mystery.

Taghavi's family maintains he is innocent and has never been involved in political activism against the Iranian regime. Prosper acknowledged the case has been a challenge to investigate because of his inability to question people in Iran and the lack of information from the government or Taghavi's Iranian lawyers in Tehran, who don't speak English.

But based on his discussions with the family and his own "due diligence," Prosper said he believes Taghavi is an innocent man, whose only crime is guilt by association.

As a former prosecutor, Prosper said he believes if the Iranians had a case against Taghavi, they would have already tried him.

He's seeking a humanitarian release for Taghavi, who suffers from diabetes and whose health is deteriorating in prison, according to his family.

The political upheaval in Iran after the disputed presidential election and subsequent violent crackdown on demonstrators has complicated his efforts, the lawyer said.

"It casts a shadow over our efforts," Prosper acknowledged. "What I've been doing to my best ability is to cut through that, cut through the fog that has been created, focus on Mr. Taghavi and work with the Iranian authorities on the substance of what happened in 2008."

Leila Taghavi traveled to Iran last year and was allowed a brief visit with her father in prison.

"I saw him behind a window," she said, choking back tears. "It was painful to see your father, an innocent man, behind a window."

"We are chipping away at this," Prosper said. "I want to give them credit for the dialogue, but the proof will be in the results. We are holding out hope because that is the only thing we can do. ... Effectively his life is at stake."

Leila spoke with her father by phone Wednesday morning and said he sounded tired and anxious.

"My biggest hope is that this message reaches people and somebody can do something," Leila added. "Not just for my father, but for the many people that are trying to get their loved ones out of Iran."

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text: the

text: State

text: Department

text: and

text: initiate

text: a

text: dialogue

text: with

text: the

text: Iranian

text: government

text: Prosper

text: said

text: he

text: contacted

text: the

text: State

text: Department

text: about

text: seeking

text: a

text: consular

text: visit

text: by

text: Swiss

text: diplomats

text: which

text: was

text: denied

text: because

text: Iran

text: does

text: not

text: recognize

text: the

text: dual

text: citizenship

text: of

text: Iranian

text: Americans

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: Iran

text: do

text: not

text: have

text: formal

text: relations

text: and

text: Switzerland

text: serves

text: as

text: the

text: protecting

text: power

text: for

text: the

text: U.S.

text: in

text: Tehran

text: A

text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: spokesman

text: urged

text: Iran

text: to

text: allow

text: Swiss

text: diplomats

text: to

text: be

text: granted

text: consular

text: access

text: to

text: Taghavi

text: We

text: are

text: adamant

text: that

text: we

text: believe

text: he

text: should

text: be

text: released

text: on

text: humanitarian

text: grounds

text: along

text: with

text: all

text: the

text: Americans

text: who

text: are

text: unjustly

text: held

text: there

text: Mark

text: Toner

text: a

text: State

text: Department

text: spokesman

text: told

text: CNN

text: Wednesday

text: A

text: senior

text: government

text: official

text: who

text: met

text: with

text: Prosper

text: said

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: information

text: makes

text: it

text: difficult

text: to

text: help

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text: as

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text: are

text: concerned

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text: facts

text: in

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text: case

text: the

text: official

text: said

text: Our

text: concern

text: is

text: that

text: he

text: should

text: get

text: due

text: process

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text: of

text: several

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text: in

text: prison

text: in

text: Iran

text: American

text: hikers

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text: Fattal

text: Shane

text: Bauer

text: and

text: Sarah

text: Shourd

text: were

text: detained

text: on

text: July

text: According

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text: families

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text: across

text: an

text: unmarked

text: border

text: into

text: Iran

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text: on

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text: hiking

text: trip

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text: Iraq

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text: Kurdistan

text: region

text: They

text: are

text: being

text: held

text: on

text: espionage

text: charges

text: Kian

text: Tajbakhsh

text: an

text: Iranian

text: American

text: scholar

text: who

text: spent

text: four

text: months

text: in

text: jail

text: in

text: was

text: arrested

text: in

text: July

text: after

text: the

text: disputed

text: presidential

text: election

text: and

text: sentenced

text: to

text: years

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text: jail

text: for

text: spying

text: His

text: sentence

text: was

text: later

text: reduced

text: by

text: an

text: appeals

text: court

text: to

text: five

text: years

text: and

text: a

text: State

text: Department

text: official

text: tells

text: CNN

text: he

text: has

text: been

text: released

text: for

text: two

text: weeks

text: from

text: jail

text: to

text: celebrate

text: the

text: Persian

text: New

text: Year

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: has

text: no

text: information

text: about

text: Robert

text: Levinson

text: a

text: former

text: FBI

text: agent

text: who

text: disappeared

text: in

text: Iran

text: almost

text: three

text: years

text: ago

text: After

text: being

text: hired

text: by

text: Taghavi

text: family

text: last

text: September

text: Prosper

text: said

text: he

text: contacted

text: the

text: Iranian

text: Permanent

text: Mission

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: and

text: was

text: granted

text: a

text: meeting

text: with

text: the

text: ambassador

text: who

text: eventually

text: put

text: him

text: in

text: touch

text: with

text: Iran

text: 's

text: foreign

text: ministry

text: After

text: several

text: months

text: of

text: weekly

text: contact

text: with

text: Iranian

text: officials

text: in

text: New

text: York

text: and

text: Tehran

text: Prosper

text: was

text: invited

text: to

text: Iran

text: in

text: December

text: for

text: talks

text: about

text: Taghavi

text: 's

text: case

text: Prosper

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: briefed

text: on

text: the

text: Iranian

text: view

text: of

text: the

text: case

text: but

text: was

text: told

text: the

text: authorities

text: were

text: still

text: investigating

text: the

text: matter

text: It

text: 's

text: still

text: not

text: clear

text: what

text: the

text: accusations

text: actually

text: are

text: he

text: said

text: Prosper

text: left

text: Tehran

text: without

text: being

text: allowed

text: to

text: see

text: Taghavi

text: but

text: he

text: was

text: taken

text: to

text: visit

text: victims

text: of

text: the

text: mosque

text: bombing

text: by

text: Tondar

text: in

text: an

text: Iranian

text: effort

text: to

text: show

text: him

text: the

text: threat

text: the

text: regime

text: says

text: it

text: 's

text: facing

text: from

text: terrorist

text: groups

text: being

text: financed

text: from

text: sources

text: abroad

text: I

text: think

text: they

text: had

text: me

text: meet

text: with

text: victims

text: and

text: survivors

text: of

text: the

text: bombing

text: to

text: let

text: it

text: be

text: known

text: that

text: they

text: too

text: in

text: their

text: eyes

text: had

text: experienced

text: terrorism

text: Prosper

text: said

text: It

text: is

text: unclear

text: why

text: the

text: Iranian

text: government

text: invited

text: Prosper

text: who

text: served

text: as

text: the

text: ambassador

text: at

text: large

text: for

text: war

text: crimes

text: under

text: the

text: Bush

text: administration

text: and

text: as

text: a

text: prosecutor

text: for

text: the

text: Rwanda

text: tribunal

text: at

text: the

text: Hague

text: for

text: talks

text: in

text: Iran

text: Beyond

text: talking

text: about

text: the

text: case

text: and

text: attacks

text: at

text: the

text: hand

text: of

text: the

text: Tondar

text: group

text: Prosper

text: said

text: his

text: Iranian

text: hosts

text: made

text: no

text: effort

text: to

text: broaden

text: the

text: discussions

text: to

text: include

text: the

text: nuclear

text: standoff

text: between

text: Iran

text: and

text: the

text: West

text: or

text: the

text: Obama

text: administration

text: 's

text: offer

text: of

text: engagement

text: The

text: facts

text: of

text: the

text: case

text: remain

text: a

text: mystery

text: Taghavi

text: 's

text: family

text: maintains

text: he

text: is

text: innocent

text: and

text: has

text: never

text: been

text: involved

text: in

text: political

text: activism

text: against

text: the

text: Iranian

text: regime

text: Prosper

text: acknowledged

text: the

text: case

text: has

text: been

text: a

text: challenge

text: to

text: investigate

text: because

text: of

text: his

text: inability

text: to

text: question

text: people

text: in

text: Iran

text: and

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: information

text: from

text: the

text: government

text: or

text: Taghavi

text: 's

text: Iranian

text: lawyers

text: in

text: Tehran

text: who

text: do

text: n't

text: speak

text: English

text: But

text: based

text: on

text: his

text: discussions

text: with

text: the

text: family

text: and

text: his

text: own

text: due

text: diligence

text: Prosper

text: said

text: he

text: believes

text: Taghavi

text: is

text: an

text: innocent

text: man

text: whose

text: only

text: crime

text: is

text: guilt

text: by

text: association

text: As

text: a

text: former

text: prosecutor

text: Prosper

text: said

text: he

text: believes

text: if

text: the

text: Iranians

text: had

text: a

text: case

text: against

text: Taghavi

text: they

text: would

text: have

text: already

text: tried

text: him

text: He

text: 's

text: seeking

text: a

text: humanitarian

text: release

text: for

text: Taghavi

text: who

text: suffers

text: from

text: diabetes

text: and

text: whose

text: health

text: is

text: deteriorating

text: in

text: prison

text: according

text: to

text: his

text: family

text: The

text: political

text: upheaval

text: in

text: Iran

text: after

text: the

text: disputed

text: presidential

text: election

text: and

text: subsequent

text: violent

text: crackdown

text: on

text: demonstrators

text: has

text: complicated

text: his

text: efforts

text: the

text: lawyer

text: said

text: It

text: casts

text: a

text: shadow

text: over

text: our

text: efforts

text: Prosper

text: acknowledged

text: What

text: I

text: 've

text: been

text: doing

text: to

text: my

text: best

text: ability

text: is

text: to

text: cut

text: through

text: that

text: cut

text: through

text: the

text: fog

text: that

text: has

text: been

text: created

text: focus

text: on

text: Mr.

text: Taghavi

text: and

text: work

text: with

text: the

text: Iranian

text: authorities

text: on

text: the

text: substance

text: of

text: what

text: happened

text: in

text: Leila

text: Taghavi

text: traveled

text: to

text: Iran

text: last

text: year

text: and

text: was

text: allowed

text: a

text: brief

text: visit

text: with

text: her

text: father

text: in

text: prison

text: I

text: saw

text: him

text: behind

text: a

text: window

text: she

text: said

text: choking

text: back

text: tears

text: It

text: was

text: painful

text: to

text: see

text: your

text: father

text: an

text: innocent

text: man

text: behind

text: a

text: window

text: We

text: are

text: chipping

text: away

text: at

text: this

text: Prosper

text: said

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: give

text: them

text: credit

text: for

text: the

text: dialogue

text: but

text: the

text: proof

text: will

text: be

text: in

text: the

text: results

text: We

text: are

text: holding

text: out

text: hope

text: because

text: that

text: is

text: the

text: only

text: thing

text: we

text: can

text: do

text: Effectively

text: his

text: life

text: is

text: at

text: stake

text: Leila

text: spoke

text: with

text: her

text: father

text: by

text: phone

text: Wednesday

text: morning

text: and

text: said

text: he

text: sounded

text: tired

text: and

text: anxious

text: My

text: biggest

text: hope

text: is

text: that

text: this

text: message

text: reaches

text: people

text: and

text: somebody

text: can

text: do

text: something

text: Leila

text: added

text: Not

text: just

text: for

text: my

text: father

text: but

text: for

text: the

text: many

text: people

text: that

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: their

text: loved

text: ones

text: out

text: of

text: Iran

question: When did Taghavi come to the United States?

answer: 1979,

question: Who has been talking to Iranian officials since 2009 ?

answer: Los Angeles-based attorney Pierre Prosper

text: Los Angeles-based attorney Pierre Prosper

question: When did Taghavi came to the U.S ?

answer: 1979,

question: When did Pierre Prosper begin talking to Iranian officials?

answer: September 2009

text: September 2009

question: How long has Taghav been held in Iran?

answer: two years.

text: two years.

question: Since when did Taghavi been held in Iran ?

answer: May 2008

text: May 2008

question: who came to the united states in 1979

answer: Reza Taghavi,

text: Reza Taghavi,

question: what attorney says he's been talkin to iranian officials

answer: Pierre Prosper

text: Pierre Prosper

question: what businessman of california has been in iran

answer: Reza Taghavi,

text: Reza Taghavi,


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(CNN) -- Mourners gathered Saturday in a California church to remember slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, whose body was found on the day she was to be married.

Yale student Annie Le's family said in a statement that "her laughter was infectious."

"You were born in my loving embrace," said Le's mother, Vivian Van Le, reading a poem she'd written in Vietnamese to those gathered for the funeral at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, California.

Chris Le -- her son and Annie Le's brother -- provided a translation.

"The most wonderful gift that God had sent to me. ... You left life at too young an age, at the beginning of many great things. All the dreams and hopes of your future gone with you to your resting place," Vivian Van Le said, according to her son.

Le, a pharmacology graduate student, was last seen alive on September 8, the day she appeared in a surveillance video as she entered the four-story lab at 10 Amistad St., about 10 blocks from Yale University's campus.

Her body was found inside the basement wall of the building on September 12, the day she was to be married.

Authorities have charged Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, 24, with Le's murder. Bond has been set at $3 million, according to police.   See timeline of case Â»

Vivian Van Le addressed her daughter's fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, on Saturday at the funeral, saying, "Even now, Annie is gone. But I still have you and love you very much, like my son, Christopher."

Widawsky is a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, according to  Yale.  Watch loved ones say goodbye to Le Â»

Monsignor James C. Kidder told the mourners that "the worth of Annie's life was not its length, it was its intensity of love."

Yale released a statement Friday, saying that a university memorial service would be held on October 12. The university is also establishing a scholarship in Le's memory.

It released a statement from her family, saying "Annie was loved by everyone who knew her and special to all those who came in contact with her. ... Her laughter was infectious and her goodness was ingenuous. ... We will always remember her beautiful smile, her fun-loving spirit, and the joy that she brought to us all."

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text: a

text: California

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text: Yale

text: graduate

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text: day

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question: who was slain at yale

answer: graduate student Annie

text: graduate student Annie

question: Where did the slain student study?

answer: Yale

text: Yale

question: Who has been charged with the murder?

answer: Yale lab technician Raymond Clark,

text: Yale lab technician Raymond Clark,

question: what did the mom say

answer: "You were born in my loving embrace,"

text: "You were born in my loving embrace,"

question: Where are mourners gathering?

answer: Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, California.

text: Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, California.

question: At what school did the victim study?

answer: Yale

text: Yale

question: Where have mourners gathered?

answer: California church

text: California church

question: who was charged

answer: Raymond Clark,

text: Raymond Clark,

question: Who has been charged with the murder of Le?

answer: Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, 24,

text: Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, 24,


text:
(CNN) -- President Obama authorized the killing of an American citizen because he had declared war on the United States and encouraged others to bring harm to America. Whatever Anwar al-Awlaki's wrongs -- and there were many -- when America kills its own without a trial, it not only demeans itself but it hands over a propaganda victory to its enemies.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's leader since the death of Osama bin Laden, will chide this great country again for abandoning its values and principles. The White House's authorization of this killing also tells American Muslims that a precedent has been set by their government to kill American citizens abroad without trial if they oppose their country.

This cannot be right -- and is counterproductive to defeating terrorism in the long term because it demolishes the very values that America stands for: the rule of law and trial by jury.

It is abandoning these very same principles of human dignity, underpinned by free and fair trials that led to al-Awlaki's decisive shift after being released from a Yemeni prison in 2007: From being anti-American rabble-rouser, he went to advocating direct violence against the United States. Prison experiences in the Arab world -- being arrested and detained without legal representation and exposed to the worst forms of torture at the hands of fellow Muslims -- change nonviolent extremists to violent extremists. Al-Awlaki's transformation from extremism to violence comes in this context.

His alleged links to 9/11 terrorists were not as significant as some argue. If he was known to be involved in the 9/11 attacks, why was he a guest of the Pentagon, of all places, in 2002?

Al-Awlaki is not alone. Before him, al-Zawahiri was tortured in Egyptian prisons, and during his trial in 1982, he addressed a gallery of Western journalists in English and declared, "So where is democracy? Where is freedom? Where is human rights? Where is justice? We will never forget!"

Without a doubt, al-Awlaki and al-Zawahiri were already radicalized before prison, but the tipping point toward violence came with their prison experiences. And before al-Zawahiri, the intellectual framework for al-Qaeda's destructive worldview was put in place by Syed Qutb in Mazra Tora in prison in Nasser's Egypt. Again, it was torture and the absence of humane treatment that led to Qutb declaring war on the Egyptian government. Qutb's prison writings have inspired every jihadist movement around the globe.

This same movement sees al-Awlaki as a lightweight, not least because he never set foot on the battlefield and his scholarly credentials are open to question. In Egypt or Pakistan, al-Awlaki is not well-known. Little wonder, then, that Al Jazeera Arabic is not as excited by al-Awlaki's killing as Western media outlets.

Al-Awlaki was important among Muslims in the West -- from Yemen, he used the Internet to reach this constituency. But even before the launch of his blog in 2008, al-Awlaki was popular among Muslims in England, Canada and America because of his audiotapes about the history of early Muslim personalities. These tapes were, and many still are, in circulation in mosques and bookshops.

Al-Awlaki could have been discredited before his prison experiences or, now, his perceived martyrdom. By killing al-Awlaki, his message gains new life as words from an American Muslim martyr, the first to join the iconography of underground Muslim culture since Malcolm X.

An easier, cheaper and more effective way of discrediting al-Awlaki and countering his message would have been to disclose his three arrests for the solicitation of prostitutes in San Diego and the Washington, D.C., area between 1996 and 1997. He had even pleaded guilty to the 1997 charge, and was subsequently sentenced to three years' probation and a fine. Among his socially conservative Muslim following in Europe and America, immediately after 9/11, such information would have been dynamite.

The United States cannot kill its way out of terrorism. Just as with the Cold War, the challenge from Islamist extremism and jihadist violence urgently needs a cultural, intellectual and informational response. Violence breeds more violence and, in this case, literally creates martyrs out of al Qaeda's murderers.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Husain.

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question: Who could have been discredited before being radicalized?

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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.

A shopper displays a $500 million Zimbabwean bank note.

The bills officially come into circulation Monday, although they were on the foreign currency dealers market Saturday.

As high as they are, though, the bills still aren't enough to buy a loaf of bread. They can buy only four oranges.

The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar.

Once-prosperous Zimbabwe has seen an unprecedented economic meltdown since it gained independence in 1980, with the official inflation rate now at 2.2 million percent.

Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, said the new notes are for "the convenience of the banking public and corporate sector" in light of price hikes.

"The RBZ has noted with concern the unjustifiable and incessant general increases in prices of goods and services. It is therefore appealing to the business community to follow ethical business practices as well as take an interest in the plight of the general public," Gono said in a statement dated Friday.

Zimbabwe started issuing large bank notes in December, starting with denominations of $250,000.

In January, the government issued bills in denominations of $1 million, $5 million, and $10 million -- and in May, it issued bills from $25 million and $50 million up to $25 billion and $50 billion.

The new bills are actually bearer checks and have an expiration date of December 31. Zimbabwe has not had formal currency since the introduction of bearer checks as a temporary measure in 2003.

"The RBZ is fighting a losing battle," economist John Robertson said in Harare. "As long as the inflation remains high, cash shortages will persist. There is need to address the inflation by increasing production so that too goods do not [cost] a lot of money."

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