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(CNN) -- Stringent restrictions remain in place Monday on about 100 soldiers at a large military base in Washington state after the theft of "sensitive" and valuable "military-grade" equipment.

Members of the Army Criminal Investigation Command are at Joint Base Lewis-McChord trying to find out who is responsible for the missing items, said Maj. Chris Ophardt, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's I Corps that is headquartered at the base and includes the affected unit.

"Hundreds of items" are missing from a vault that is inside a building on the base, the spokesman said. They include things such as scopes and night-vision goggles but no guns or ammunition.

"There are no weapons, and there's no danger to the public," Ophardt said.

After learning of the thefts, the Army decided on Wednesday to put members of the Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division on lockdown, preventing soldiers from making phone calls or leaving the unit's barracks or unit office.

The unit has been home from Iraq since September 2010.

These measures were relaxed somewhat on Saturday, with some supervised visits allowed on a case-by-case basis to deal with personal issues and permission granted to eat at the base's dining facility. Division members, who live either on or off the base, still must sleep at the barracks.

There is no timetable as to when all the restrictions will be lifted, Ophardt said, adding that decision will depend on the investigation.

"(This will) go on as long as we can gain information about the person or persons involved in the theft," said Ophardt, noting no timetable has been set for when the restrictions will be lifted. "This is being taken seriously, so (the military) can get back the equipment that taxpayers paid for."

Military officials did their monthly inventory of the vault in December. They then did another after the holiday vacation and determined that "large amounts" of items were missing -- "immediately" precipitating the lockdown, said Ophardt.

A $10,000 reward has been offered by the Army in the case.

He explained that every unit has its own vault, which in this case has two locks -- one on the vault, and another on the door to an abutting office. It has not been determined whether the missing items were stored properly or if someone was able to get into a properly locked vault and made off with the equipment.

"There are a zillion possibilities," Ophardt said of what might have happened.

The missing items could all "be bought on the civilian market, just one or two generations older," the spokesman said. He added that they have limited use to the public, given the challenges in knowing how to use them and having the right kind of weapon to attach them to.

The restrictions on the soldiers affect only a fraction of those at the expansive Joint Base Lewis-McChord, as none of the other roughly 50,000 people on the grounds about 13 miles southwest of Tacoma are directly affected.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Brandon Boyd blends into his Venice, California, neighborhood like any other resident.

Brandon Boyd, front man for Incubus, is going on the road with the band in July.

He surfs. Shuns Starbucks in favor of the local smoothie shop. Walks his French bulldog, Bruce.

Oh, he also paints and makes music with his multiplatinum rock band, Incubus.

The quintet hits the road on a North American summer tour in July, and just released a greatest hits collection called "Monuments and Melodies." The packaging features artwork by Boyd, who held his first solo art exhibit at Mr. Musichead Rock Art Gallery in Los Angeles last fall.

The showroom is on the Sunset Strip, a stone's throw from the clubs that were host to Incubus' first gigs. The most spectacular paintings are large, fantasy-inspired pieces drenched in burgundy or aqua.

Usually, the artwork springs to life in a corner of the singer's kitchen, where an easel permanently resides. It's a zen-like space, with high ceilings, glossy concrete floors and warm, burnished wood. But instead of the requisite Buddha statue, there's a rubber rabbit's head for inspiration. The muse seems ironic and appropriate, especially since Boyd swears his home was a brothel back in the 1900s.

CNN talked to Boyd about collaboration, the fulfillment of art and finding the perfect wave. The following is an edited version of the interview.

CNN: Isn't it ironic that you had your first solo art show before your first solo album?

Brandon Boyd: I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process. We meet in the middle for a lot of the songs, and I think that's why we sound the way we do -- because it's sort of five minds meeting in the middle.

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CNN: So what does art fulfill in you that you don't get out of music?

Boyd: To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible -- it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. ...

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music -- and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. I didn't go around looking for it. It kind of found me.

CNN: Your parents always encouraged you to explore your artistic side.

Boyd: My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky -- but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I. And she also instilled in us from a very young age the importance of visualization -- visualization as a tool towards manifestation in your life.

And so, from a very young age, if I didn't feel well, she's like, "Well, draw what's happening and draw a solution." If I had a stomach ache, I would draw a picture of my stomach, and I would draw what I thought the bad germs looked like -- and, you know, they had little robber masks on and stuff. And then I would draw a good germ, and of course it had a cape, and some tights, and he had a washcloth in his hands, and he could fly around and clean up the bad germs. And for some reason, I would always feel better afterwards.

CNN: Did you ever visualize and draw what you wanted to achieve in terms of your music career, too?

Boyd: Sometimes, yeah. But the guys in the band -- we kind of grew up together, and when they were like, "We want to play music, let's start a band. You should be the singer," I was like, "OK." I'd never written anything before, I had never even really sang, but they knew that I knew how to draw, so it seemed logical that maybe I could write lyrics or carry a tune.

So I always just sort of visualize lines, I would visualize a melody, and then sound it out to them, and they would help me sort of guide it through the instruments. And eventually, I got good enough at it that I was able to do it completely on my own.

CNN: When you finish a painting, is it very much like finishing a song or finishing an album?

Boyd: Yeah, there is definitely a sense of accomplishment. Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. Someone wise once said when they were asked the question, "How do you know when you're done with a painting?" And they said, "How do you know when you're done making love?" I always thought that was a great analogy.

CNN: Did you ever think, "I need a fall-back job, like being an accountant, or a lawyer, or someone who works for IBM?"

Boyd: I feel very blessed, but no. I knew from a very young age that these were the things that I was supposed to do, and I actually made some very adult decisions when I was a teenager based on the knowledge that this is what I was going to do. There was really no question about it.

CNN: What else do you want to do?

Boyd: Painting and art are obviously in my focus, but I dream about getting a really big tube at the Bonsai Pipeline sometime in the near future.

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(CNN) -- A lawyer who left a videotape saying Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him masterminded his own death last year, a special United Nations commission said Tuesday after an eight-month investigation.

Colom had nothing to do with the killing, said Carlos Castresana, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala.

"Rodrigo Rosenberg, for some reason, decided to put an end to his life," Castresana said at a televised news conference.

Rosenberg was shot from behind in a brazen daylight attack while riding his bicycle in Guatemala City, the nation's capital. He was shot three times in the head, once in the neck and once in the back, Castresana said.

Prominent Guatemalan brothers Francisco Jose Valdez Paiz and Jose Estuardo Valdez Paiz hired hit men at the behest of Rosenberg, who told them he was being threatened by someone, Castresana said.

The two brothers, who own a pharmaceutical company, had been cousins of Rosenberg through a previous marriage and did not know that he was the target of the assassination, Castresana said.

Rosenberg fed information to the hit squad leader that led to his own death, giving descriptions of what the target looked like and where he would be.

"It was the two brothers and no one else," Castresana said. "Not a politician. Not a [government] minister. Not a police chief. No one. Just these two brothers."

About 300 investigators from 11 nations reached their conclusion after an exhaustive examination of 100,000 telephone calls, 9,500 documents, surveillance videotapes, and 135 interviews with 11 suspects and others, Castresana said.

Colom had maintained since the May 10 slaying that he was innocent despite Rosenberg's explosive videotape, which was made public the day after his death.

Guatemalan authorities have arrested 11 men on suspicion that they carried out the killing, but the Valdez Paiz brothers remain at large.

Their lawyer, Alexis Calderon, denied last week that his clients were involved.

"This is a story being made up to implicate people who didn't have anything to do with it," Calderon said.

He also said that he did not know where the brothers were but that they would surrender after Tuesday's conference.

Calderon did not answer calls seeking comment Tuesday.

Arrest warrants for the brothers were issued December 10, Castresana said, noting that the suspects were already out of the country by then.

Rosenberg recorded the tape blaming Colom three days before his death.

He said Colom wanted him dead because the lawyer had been blaming the president and some of his top associates for the slaying of a prominent businessman and his daughter the previous month.

Businessman Khalid Musa and his daughter, Marjorie, were killed, Rosenberg said, because they had refused to participate in acts of corruption as the president wanted.

Rosenberg was Musa's attorney.

Castresana indicated Rosenberg staged his own killing to get back at Colom and high-level members of his government, whom he could not prove were responsible for the Musa killings.

"He wanted to open a box of lightning and thunder," said Castresana, a Spanish judge.

Castresana pointed to several indicators of Rosenberg's state of mind: His mother had died; he was going through a second divorce, and his wife had taken their young children to Mexico; he was bereft at the slaying of Marjorie Musa, with whom he had a close relationship; and he felt a sense of powerlessness because he could not prosecute the people he believed were responsible for the Musa slayings.

May 10, the date of his killing, was Mother's Day.

In two April 21 e-mails, seven days after the Musa killings, Rosenberg wrote, "I can't stop crying" and "I feel like I'm disintegrating," Castresana said.

Rosenberg made out his last will and testament on April 24 and started going public with his accusations against Colom regarding the Musa slayings on May 3.

On May 4, he called a meeting at his law office and said he would be leaving the firm, in which he was a partner.

The next day, Castresana said, Rosenberg asked a friend to buy two cell phones anonymously. Those cell phones, the lead investigator said, were crucial to cracking the case.

Rosenberg used one of the phones to call threats to his personal cell phone and had the other delivered to the Valdez Paiz brothers, who gave it to the hit squad leader. Rosenberg then used the new cell phone he kept to give instructions to the hit squad leader through the second phone, Castresana said.

Castresana detailed how the slaying apparently was meant to be paid through a $40,000 check.

According to the investigator, Rosenberg told his secretary before his death that she would be receiving a check from Panama that should be delivered to the Valdez Paiz brothers. The check had been made out by Luis Alejos, a Rosenberg friend and business associate who at the time was Guatemala's minister of communication, Castresana said. Alejos resigned from office in June, a few weeks after the slaying.

After receiving the check, Francisco Jose Valdez Paiz destroyed it, Castresana said. The businessman paid the 300,000 quetzales ($35,900) for the assassination out of his own pocket, Castresana said.

The investigator said Rosenberg sent Alejos the money to pay for the killing.

Alejos is the brother of Roberto Alejos, the president of the Guatemalan Congress, and a cousin of Gustavo Alejos, who is President Colom's private secretary.

In his videotape, Rosenberg said Gustavo Alejos would be among those responsible for the lawyer's death if it happened.

"If you are reading this message, it means that I, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, was murdered by the president's private secretary, Gustavo Alejos, and his associate Gregorio Valdez, with the approval of Mr. Alvaro Colom and [first lady] Sandra de Colom," Rosenberg said.

After the tape surfaced, Colom went on national TV with a vehement denial that he or anyone mentioned in the video was involved.

He expressed his sense of vindication in a televised speech Tuesday afternoon.

"I don't have any rancor in my heart," Colom said. "Just immense gratitude for those who waited patiently with us."

The United Nations established the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala in 2006 to investigate corruption and political violence. More than 200,000 people have been killed in the nation since 1970, mostly as a result of organized crime, drug-trade violence and a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.

There were 6,451 slayings in Guatemala last year, of which only 230 verdicts were achieved, Castresana said. That means, he said, that more than 96 percent of the killings in 2009 were not solved.

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text: calls

text: documents

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text: wife

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text: slaying

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text: could

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text: prosecute

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text: people

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text: date

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text: 's

text: Day

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text: mails

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text: days

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text: Musa

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text: ca

text: n't

text: stop

text: crying

text: and

text: I

text: feel

text: like

text: I

text: 'm

text: disintegrating

text: Castresana

text: said

text: Rosenberg

text: made

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text: last

text: will

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text: testament

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text: accusations

text: against

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text: Musa

text: slayings

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text: On

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text: meeting

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text: leaving

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text: firm

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text: was

text: a

text: partner

text: The

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text: day

text: Castresana

text: said

text: Rosenberg

text: asked

text: a

text: friend

text: to

text: buy

text: two

text: cell

text: phones

text: anonymously

text: Those

text: cell

text: phones

text: the

text: lead

text: investigator

text: said

text: were

text: crucial

text: to

text: cracking

text: the

text: case

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text: of

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text: phones

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text: personal

text: cell

text: phone

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text: had

text: the

text: other

text: delivered

text: to

text: the

text: Valdez

text: Paiz

text: brothers

text: who

text: gave

text: it

text: to

text: the

text: hit

text: squad

text: leader

text: Rosenberg

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text: new

text: cell

text: phone

text: he

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text: to

text: give

text: instructions

text: to

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text: hit

text: squad

text: leader

text: through

text: the

text: second

text: phone

text: Castresana

text: said

text: Castresana

text: detailed

text: how

text: the

text: slaying

text: apparently

text: was

text: meant

text: to

text: be

text: paid

text: through

text: a

text: check

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text: investigator

text: Rosenberg

text: told

text: his

text: secretary

text: before

text: his

text: death

text: that

text: she

text: would

text: be

text: receiving

text: a

text: check

text: from

text: Panama

text: that

text: should

text: be

text: delivered

text: to

text: the

text: Valdez

text: Paiz

text: brothers

text: The

text: check

text: had

text: been

text: made

text: out

text: by

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text: Alejos

text: a

text: Rosenberg

text: friend

text: and

text: business

text: associate

text: who

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: was

text: Guatemala

text: 's

text: minister

text: of

text: communication

text: Castresana

text: said

text: Alejos

text: resigned

text: from

text: office

text: in

text: June

text: a

text: few

text: weeks

text: after

text: the

text: slaying

text: After

text: receiving

text: the

text: check

text: Francisco

text: Jose

text: Valdez

text: Paiz

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text: it

text: Castresana

text: said

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text: businessman

text: paid

text: the

text: quetzales

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text: the

text: assassination

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text: of

text: his

text: own

text: pocket

text: Castresana

text: said

text: The

text: investigator

text: said

text: Rosenberg

text: sent

text: Alejos

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text: money

text: to

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text: for

text: the

text: killing

text: Alejos

text: is

text: the

text: brother

text: of

text: Roberto

text: Alejos

text: the

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: Guatemalan

text: Congress

text: and

text: a

text: cousin

text: of

text: Gustavo

text: Alejos

text: who

text: is

text: President

text: Colom

text: 's

text: private

text: secretary

text: In

text: his

text: videotape

text: Rosenberg

text: said

text: Gustavo

text: Alejos

text: would

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text: among

text: those

text: responsible

text: for

text: the

text: lawyer

text: 's

text: death

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text: it

text: happened

text: If

text: you

text: are

text: reading

text: this

text: message

text: it

text: means

text: that

text: I

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate approved a controversial nuclear deal with India on Wednesday, clearing the way for the United States to export nuclear know-how to India after a ban lasting decades.

President Bush, who supports the deal, meets with India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week.

Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said the deal would not only "set the stage for a stronger U.S.-India relationship," but also would promote stability in India's troubled neighborhood.

"This agreement is indicative of a new era in Indian foreign policy, an era in which India will see all the world's powers as potential partners in efforts to address its own needs and the needs of others," Dodd said. "I believe that this new era will bring increased stability and progress in South Asia."

India and Pakistan have fought several wars since they became independent in 1947, and both countries have tested nuclear weapons.

Wednesday's vote was 86-13.

Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, spoke against what he called flawed legislation before the vote.

"If we pass this legislation, we will reward India for flouting the most important arms control agreement in history, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and we will gravely undermine our case against hostile nations that seek to do the same," Harkin said.

Before he voted against the bill, he said Congress had not debated the legislation properly.

"It was hustled through [the House of Representatives] without any hearings and without a vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee," he said. "Here in the Senate, the Foreign Relations Committee held just one hearing with just one witness who spoke in support of the agreement."

Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain voted for the bill.

President Bush urged the Senate to pass the bill in a statement released before the vote. The bill "represents a major milestone in the transformation of our nation's important relationship with India," the statement said.

One senator had anonymously been using parliamentary rules to prevent the bill from coming to a vote, but the leaders of the Senate announced Tuesday night the vote would go ahead.

The House of Representatives passed the bill without debate on Saturday. The next step is for Bush to sign it into law.

The Indian nuclear market is a rich prize, and the agreement could open the way for U.S. companies to earn billions of dollars building nuclear power plants in India. The French government clinched its own nuclear trade deal with India on Wednesday when President Nicolas Sarkozy signed an agreement in Paris. That puts French companies in the running for some of the same contracts U.S. companies want.

In exchange for access to U.S. nuclear technology, India would allow international inspections of its civilian -- but not military -- nuclear power plants. It would also promise not to resume testing of nuclear weapons.

The United States banned nuclear trade with India after India exploded a nuclear device in 1974 and refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

In an informal agreement between the two nations, the United States said it would halt any nuclear cooperation should India resume testing.

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YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi took the stand for the first time Tuesday and told a Myanmar court that she did not violate her house arrest when she offered temporary shelter to an American man who swam to her lakeside home.

People of Myanmar living in Japan protest for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi on May 24, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.

"She was very confident, very firm, very clear," said Mark Canning, the British ambassador to Myanmar, who was among diplomats and journalists allowed to watch the proceedings.

"In a strange way, she commanded the courtroom," he said.

Suu Kyi, who is being tried on subversion charges, said she did not learn immediately that John William Yettaw swam nearly two miles and snuck into her crumbling, colonial-era bungalow on May 3.

She was told about the visitor the next day by one of two housekeepers who are her sole companions in the heavily guarded residence, where she was under house arrest.

Suu Kyi's two helpers are also on trial, as is Yettaw.

"I didn't know," she said. "I was upstairs."

Under questioning by a judge for half an hour, Suu Kyi said she provided Yettaw food but allowed him only to "stay temporarily."

Yettaw left late May 5, she said.

"He walked to the lakeside. But I don't know which way he went, because it was very dark," Suu Kyi said.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate also acknowledged that Yettaw, a 53-year-old former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri, had visited her once before last November.

"Did you report to the authority about his arrival?" the judge asked.

"No," she replied.

Suu Kyi had earlier told supporters that she did not tell authorities about the latest intrusion because she didn't want Yettaw or anyone else to get in trouble.

But it is this silence that the Myanmar's military junta is trying her for.

The government said Yettaw's presence violated the conditions of Suu Kyi's house arrest.

The country's regime rarely allows Suu Kyi any visitors, and foreigners are not allowed overnight stays in local households without government permission.

Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years -- a confinement the military junta has regularly extended.  Watch the U.N. secretary general explain what he is doing for Suu Kyi Â»

Her latest round of home detention -- after five years of confinement -- expires Wednesday, according to her supporters at home and abroad.

Last week, the military began prosecuting Suu Kyi on allegations of subversion at a prison compound near Yangon.

Her supporters say the move is meant to keep her confined even longer -- beyond the general elections that the junta has scheduled for next year.

If convicted, Suu Kyi, 63, could be sentenced to three to five years in prison.

Before the proceedings got under way at the Insean Prison compound Tuesday, the junta said Suu Kyi's house arrest did not expire for six more months.

And though the government said it considered releasing her at the end of the term, it said it had no choice but to try her after she met with Yettaw.

"As Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Gen. Aung San, the leader of our country, we were deeply thinking whether to extend her detention or not," Police Brigadier General Myint Thein told reporters Tuesday. "Unfortunately, a U.S. citizen entered her house for two days. She allowed and made conversation with him, gave him food.

"These kind of actions broke the law," he added. "This is why we have no way but to open a case. And we are very sad about this case."

Gen. Aung San played an instrumental role in bringing about the country's independence from British colonial rule. He was assassinated in 1947 and is still revered in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi's lawyers rejected the junta's explanation, saying the United Nations had already deemed the opposition leader's continuing detention unlawful under Myanmar's state protection laws.

"The U.N. has said her house arrest expired a year ago," said Jared Genser, her U.S.-based lawyer. "They are out of time, and they cannot detain her any longer under their own law."

Thein told reporters that the pro-democracy advocate had actually been under house arrest for four-and-a-half years.

The official said Suu Kyi's house arrest officially went into effect on November 28, 2004. That gives the government six more months to restrict her movement, he said.

Genser countered the government's account, citing the conclusion of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The law is unclear whether detention begins from the time a person is arrested or when a detention order is issued, the council said.

"This would suggest an interpretation that you start counting from the day you begin to detain her," Genser said.

In Suu Kyi's case, she was put under house arrest in May 2003.

"You can't issue an order months later and use that as your starting point. That creates an unfair period of detention," he said.

After Suu Kyi's testimony Tuesday, the court asked the diplomats and journalists to leave. It denied a defense request to consult with Suu Kyi privately.

The court then questioned Yettaw.

He is charged with violating immigration laws and trespassing. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

A lawyer selected by the U.S. Embassy is representing him.

According to Yettaw's testimony in court Friday, he made the unauthorized trip because he had a vision that Suu Kyi would be assassinated and he wanted to warn her.

He muttered to himself during the proceedings, including utterances that Suu Kyi is innocent, said Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

Suu Kyi's prosecution has prompted international criticism, with nine Nobel laureates -- including Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa -- calling it a "mockery."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the charges against Suu Kyi "baseless" and accused the junta of "continuing resistance to a free and open electoral process."

The Nobel laureate has been the face of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and the focus of a global campaign to free her.

Her party won over 80 percent of the legislative seats in 1990. But she was disqualified from serving because of her house arrest, and the military junta ignored the results.

The government has said next year's scheduled elections will reintroduce democracy in Myanmar.

But its plan includes a clause that forbids citizens who bore children with foreigners from running for office. That makes Suu Kyi ineligible. She married a British man and has two sons with him.

CNN's Kocha Olarn in Bangkok, Thailand, and Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report.

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text: with

text: Suu

text: Kyi

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text: court

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text: Yettaw

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text: charged

text: with

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text: immigration

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text: and

text: trespassing

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text: charges

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text: a

text: maximum

text: sentence

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text: years

text: in

text: prison

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text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

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text: representing

text: him

text: According

text: to

text: Yettaw

text: 's

text: testimony

text: in

text: court

text: Friday

text: he

text: made

text: the

text: unauthorized

text: trip

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text: he

text: had

text: a

text: vision

text: that

text: Suu

text: Kyi

text: would

text: be

text: assassinated

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text: he

text: wanted

text: to

text: warn

text: her

text: He

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text: himself

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text: the

text: proceedings

text: including

text: utterances

text: that

text: Suu

text: Kyi

text: is

text: innocent

text: said

text: Nyan

text: Win

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text: for

text: Suu

text: Kyi

text: 's

text: National

text: League

text: for

text: Democracy

text: Suu

text: Kyi

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text: prosecution

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text: prompted

text: international

text: criticism

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text: Nobel

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text: Desmond

text: Tutu

text: of

text: South

text: Africa

text: calling

text: it

text: a

text: mockery

text: U.S.

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: called

text: the

text: charges

text: against

text: Suu

text: Kyi

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text: junta

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text: continuing

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text: a

text: free

text: and

text: open

text: electoral

text: process

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text: laureate

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text: face

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text: democracy

text: movement

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text: the

text: focus

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text: global

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text: Her

text: party

text: won

text: over

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: legislative

text: seats

text: in

text: But

text: she

text: was

text: disqualified

text: from

text: serving

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text: of

text: her

text: house

text: arrest

text: and

text: the

text: military

text: junta

text: ignored

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text: results

text: The

text: government

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text: said

text: next

text: year

text: 's

text: scheduled

text: elections

text: will

text: reintroduce

text: democracy

text: in

text: Myanmar

text: But

text: its

text: plan

text: includes

text: a

text: clause

text: that

text: forbids

text: citizens

text: who

text: bore

text: children

text: with

text: foreigners

text: from

text: running

text: for

text: office

text: That

text: makes

text: Suu

text: Kyi

text: ineligible

text: She

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text: a

text: British

text: man

text: and

text: has

text: two

text: sons

text: with

text: him

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Kocha

text: Olarn

text: in

text: Bangkok

text: Thailand

text: and

text: Saeed

text: Ahmed

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who's house arrest does not expire for six more months?

answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

text: Aung San Suu Kyi

question: What is she charged with?

answer: subversion charges,

text: subversion charges,

question: Who is on trial?

answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

text: Aung San Suu Kyi

question: Who is she on trial with?

answer: Suu Kyi's two helpers

text: Suu Kyi's two helpers

question: What is Yettaw charged with?

answer: violating immigration laws and trespassing.

text: violating immigration laws and trespassing.

question: What is the name of the American that Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial with?

answer: John William Yettaw

text: John William Yettaw

question: Who is under house arrest?

answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

text: Aung San Suu Kyi

question: Who was charged with violating the conditions of Suu Kyi's house arrest?

answer: Aung San

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(CNN) -- Two words, delivered with index finger punctuating the air and directed at the president of the United States, made a little-known South Carolina congressman one of the most controversial men on the Internet -- at least Wednesday heading into Thursday.

Many Facebook and Twitter users condemned Rep. Joe Wilson for his outburst toward President Obama.

As soon as Rep. Joe Wilson was identified as the person whose angry and audible outburst disrupted President Obama's health care speech to Congress, condemnation was swift -- and brutal.

Within minutes, someone had altered Wilson's entry on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia:

"He is a [expletive] that called the president of the United States a liar on national television and has no respect for the office he holds."

When the Web site scrubbed the sentence, an even more offensive entry wormed its way in. iReport.com: "You are disrespectful, sir"

Soon, the site disabled edit options for Wilson's entry, chalking it up to "vandalism."

On Twitter, post after post urged users to condemn Wilson's breach of protocol, listing his Web site address and his congressional office phone number.

Web surfers who visited http://www.joewilson.house.gov/ were greeted with the message: "This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon."

Those who called his office number either could not get through because the line was busy, or could not leave a message because the phone continued to ring without activating voice mail.

"If he's the face of the GOP, we'll have public option by Columbus Day!" wrote Andisheh Nouraee, a columnist for Creative Loafing, an alternative weekly in Atlanta, Georgia.

Democrats on Capitol Hill piled on the condemnation as well.

"Biggest disappointment of evening, the total lack of respect show by one member for the president," wrote Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri. "Never acceptable to behave like a jerk."

As "Joe Wilson" trended on Twitter as the most popular conversation topic -- and on Google among the most searched terms -- the lawmaker's supporters fought back.

Many set up Twitter accounts and posted their first tweets Wednesday night and early Thursday.

"You have nothing to apologize for. You should be applauded for standing up and speaking the truth," said Jamie Sawyer of Madison, Wisconsin.

"Good for him! Too bad he had to apologize" was a comment on the Lonely Conservative blog.

"At last the little man found his voice tonight and called Obama what he surely is, a liar," said another blog, Sunlit Uplands.

By early Thursday, genuine tweets about Wilson were interspersed with ads for male erectile dysfunction: "Joe Wilson Cialis $1.9 Viagra $1.1 (Web site address)"

Though Wilson issued an apology, saying his emotions got the best of him, few online bought it.  Watch Obama react to the "You lie!" outburst Â»

On the Internet, where speculation runs rife, tweeters pointed to a comment Wilson posted on Labor Day as evidence that his outburst was planned:

"Happy Labor Day! Wonderful parade at Chapin, many people called out to oppose Obamacare which I assured them would be relayed tomorrow to DC," the tweet from Wilson's account said.

On Facebook, where users aren't impeded by Twitter's 140-character limitation, a prolonged and nasty war of words dominated Wilson's page.

"I have no problem being called a liberal hack by illogical, fear filled, unintelligent people. and actually, I will take it as a complement," wrote Janine Feczko.

Name-calling was met by ad hominem attacks: "Janine, I'm sure in the trailer park where you live they gush over your incredible intellect and witty commentary. After all that toothless grin and tripple chin screams Harvard Law," wrote Dan Colgan.

Nine hundred and 10 comments later, the battle raged on early Thursday.

Amid all this, the campaign of Democrat Rob Miller, who hopes to unseat the Republican Wilson in next year's midterm elections, raked in the dough: more than $200,000 from 5,000 individuals overnight and Thursday morning after Obama's speech, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Finally, there were those who found humor in Wilson's heckle.

A hastily created Web site, JoeWilsonIsYourPreExistingCondition, hurled a new insult at the politician with every click of the refresh button.

"Joe Wilson poured salt on your lawn," said one.

Refresh. "Joe Wilson traded the dead batteries in walkman for the fresh ones in your TV remote."

Refresh. "Joe Wilson yells 'Freebird' at concerts."

Not everyone, however, was busy assigning blame to Wilson. Los Angeles actor and comic Paul Scheer decided to shoulder it.

"I apologize 4 yelling 'liar' during Obama's speech," he jokingly wrote. "Sen McCain ate my Kit Kat while I was in the bathroom & he pretended like he didn't."

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question: What did South Carolina congressman shout at Obama?

answer: "You lie!"

text: "You lie!"

question: what did wikipedia do

answer: the site disabled edit options for Wilson's entry,

text: the site disabled edit options for Wilson's entry,

question: What did the congressman shout?

answer: "You lie!"

text: "You lie!"

question: Whose Wikipedia page was being edited?

answer: Rep. Joe Wilson

text: Rep. Joe Wilson

question: What happened to his Wikipedia account?

answer: someone had altered Wilson's entry on the online encyclopedia

text: someone had altered Wilson's entry on the online encyclopedia

question: what did the south carolina congressman shout

answer: "You lie!"

text: "You lie!"