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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The then-senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee urged the CIA in 2003 not to destroy videotapes it had made of the interrogations of terrorist detainees, according to the newly declassified letter.

Lawyers for several Guantanamo detainees say the government has defied orders to preserve evidence.

Rep. Jane Harman wrote in a letter dated February 10, 2003, that destruction of the tapes would "reflect badly on the agency."

The Democrat from California released the letter Thursday.

Last month, the CIA acknowledged videotapes were made in 2002 of two terrorist detainees but were destroyed in 2005. Some of the tapes showed the harsh interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

In the case of Zubaydah, the tactics captured on videotape included waterboarding, which simulates drowning, a controversial technique that critics consider a form of torture.

Shortly after becoming the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee in 2003, Harman was briefed on the CIA's interrogation and detention program, and the existence of the videotapes. She was told of the intention to destroy the tapes once an internal inquiry into the program was complete.

Harman wrote her letter to the CIA's chief lawyer urging the agency to reconsider its plan.

"Even if the videotape does not constitute an official record that must be preserved under the law, the videotape would be the best proof that the written record is accurate, if such record is called into question in the future," she wrote.

The release of the letter comes a day after the Justice Department announced there is enough evidence to warrant a criminal investigation into the destruction of the CIA tapes. The inquiry will look into whether the CIA or other government officials committed crimes in the handling of the tapes.

Congressional oversight committees are independently investigating the tape destruction.

The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA covert service who sources say ordered the destruction of the tapes, to testify before the panel January 16.

CIA General Counsel John Rizzo, who opposed the tape destruction, has agreed to voluntarily appear before the committee. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- A "faulty" flight instrument contributed to the crash of a Turkish plane last month in the Netherlands, an accident that killed nine people and injured more than 60 others, Dutch safety authorities said on Wednesday.

Turkish Airlines workers carry the coffins of four staff who died in the crash.

On February 25, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 from Istanbul to Amsterdam dropped from the sky on approach to the landing strip at Schiphol Airport, shattering into three pieces in a muddy field.

Pieter van Vollenhoven, head of the Dutch Safety Board, said the instrument was one of the plane's two altimeters, which measure altitude.

Because of the "faulty" left altimeter, the plane on automatic pilot reacted as if it were lower than it was and started to behave as if it was touching down.

The plane was at 700 meters but the instrument indicated that it was at ground level. This caused the automatic throttles to slow the plane down, leading to a loss of speed.

The plane was on automatic pilot when it crashed. Van Vollenhoven said there had been misty weather and if it were clearer then the pilots might have noticed how far up they were.

He said that if such instruments don't function, automatic pilots should not be used for landings. Investigators said there had been faulty meter readings on two other flights but the pilots were able to land.

Van Vollenhoven said that the pilots realized the problem but failed to appreciate what had been happening until it was too late.

In the immediate aftermath of the crash investigators said the plane fell almost vertically to the ground indicating the aircraft did not have enough forward speed.

The plane crash less than 500 yards short of the runway.

Passengers described feeling the plane suddenly drop before impact, and at least one passenger said he heard the pilot trying to give more power to the engines before it went down.

Four of the crew and three Boeing employees were among the nine people killed in the crash.

Turkey's flagship airline is well-rated internationally for its overall safety record and the Boeing 737-800 has a good safety record.

The last previous fatal incident at the Amsterdam airport happened in April 1994 when a KLM aircraft crashed as it tried to return to Schiphol shortly after takeoff.

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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The United States plans to appeal a federal judge's dismissal of charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 17 people in Baghdad in 2007, Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday.

Speaking at a joint appearance with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Biden said he was "disappointed" with the ruling, and that the Justice Department would file the appeal next week.

"The United States is determined to hold accountable anyone who commits crimes against the Iraqi people," Biden told reporters.

The September 2007 shootout in Baghdad's Nusoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and two dozen wounded. The killings led Iraq's government to slap limits on security contractors hired by Blackwater, now known as Xe, and other firms.

An attorney representing one of the five defendants in the case said he was disappointed by Biden's announcement in Iraq, saying it was motivated by "political purposes" as opposed to legal reasoning.

"This is not how the Justice Department announces its intentions in any case," said David Schertler, attorney for Dustin Heard. "We had no idea that the vice president was going to announce a political decision."

Last month, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina found that the government's case was built largely on "statements compelled under a threat of job loss in a subsequent criminal prosecution," a violation of the Fifth Amendment rights of the five men charged.

"In their zeal to bring charges against the defendant in this case, the prosecutors and investigators aggressively sought out statements the defendants had been compelled to make to government investigators in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and in the subsequent investigation," Urbina wrote in a 90-page decision.

Federal prosecutors "repeatedly disregarded the warnings of experienced, senior prosecutors assigned to the case" in doing so, he found.

Urbina also sharply criticized prosecutors and federal agents who developed the case, calling their explanations for using the guards' statements "all too often contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility."

"In short, the government has utterly failed to prove that it made no impermissible use of the defendants' statements or that such use was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt," he wrote.

Schertler, Heard's attorney, said Urbina's "reasoning is sound and will hold up in appeal."

The men were guarding a State Department convoy moving through western Baghdad when the shooting began. The company said its contractors came under attack, but Iraqi authorities called the gunfire unprovoked and indiscriminate.

Each of the now-former guards -- Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard, Donald Ball and Nicholas Slatten -- faced 14 counts of manslaughter, 20 counts of attempted manslaughter and one count of using a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.

Prosecutors requested that charges against Slatten be dropped in November, but Thursday's ruling dismisses the counts against all five.

"We're obviously pleased at the decision dismissing the entire indictment and are very happy that these courageous young men can begin the new year without this unfair cloud hanging over them," Slough's lawyer, Mark Hulkower, said at the time of the dismissal.

A sixth guard, Jeremy Ridgeway, pleaded guilty in 2008 to voluntary manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.

CNN's Dan Lothian and Samira Simone contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- She had many plans for the future: to go to college, start a career, meet the man of her dreams, raise a family -- when the time was right.

Expert: "There's a big disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families want and value."

It was all cut off by an unexpected pregnancy. The baby became her life, consuming her energy and forcing her dreams to the back burner of her life.

She is 19 or younger and Latina, and has had her first baby.

It's not what she wanted. Nor did her parents, who are the greatest influence on her decisions about sex, according to a wide-ranging survey released Tuesday by experts on the Hispanic community in the United States.

The survey also found that 84 percent of Latino teens and 91 percent of Latino parents believe that graduating from college or university or having a promising career is the most important goal for a teen's future.

Somewhere along the way, the aspirations fail to match up to reality. The survey attempts to examine some of the reasons for the disparity and why Latinas now have the highest teen birth rate among all ethnic and racial groups in the United States.

"There's a big disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families want and value," said Ruthie Flores, senior manager of the National Campaign's Latino Initiative.

According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 53 percent of Latinas get pregnant in their teens, about twice the national average.

After a period of decline, the birth rate for U.S. teenagers 15 to 19 years rose in 2007 by about 1 percent, to 42.5 births per 1,000, according to preliminary data in a March 2009 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

In 2007, the birth rate among non-Hispanic whites ages 15 to 19 was 27.2 per 1,000, and 64.3 per 1,000 for non-Hispanic black teens in the same age range. The teen birth rate among Hispanic teens ages 15 to 19 was 81.7 per 1,000.

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Three-quarters of Latino teens said their parents have talked to them about sex and relationships, but only half said their parents discussed contraception.

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â¢ 74 percent of Latino teens believe that parents send one message about sex to their sons and a different message altogether to their daughters, possibly related to the Latino value of machismo.

â¢ Latino teens believe that the most common reason teens do not use contraception is that they are afraid their parents might find out.

â¢ 72 percent of sexually experienced teens say they wish they had waited.

â¢ 34 percent of Latino teens believe that being a teen parent would prevent them from reaching their goals, but 47 percent say being a teen parent would simply delay them from reaching their goals.

â¢ 76 percent said it is important to be married before starting a family.

Flores said it is crucial to understand the beliefs and attitudes that influence teen behavior in order to reduce the high rates of Hispanic teen pregnancy. The survey, co-sponsored by the Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza, was an attempt to to do just that.

She said that despite a rich culture and the growing influence of Hispanics in America, the Latino community disproportionately suffers from troubling social indicators.

Consider that fewer than six in 10 Latino adults in the United States have a high school diploma. Latino teens are more likely to drop out than their non-Hispanic counterparts, and of all the children living in poverty, 30 percent are Latino.

"Teen pregnancy is not an isolated issue," Flores said. "It's related to poverty, to dropout rates. That's going to have an impact on our national as a whole."

Flores said 69 percent of Latino teen moms drop out of high school, and the children of teen mothers are less likely to do well in school themselves and often repeat grades.

"That has a big economic impact," Flores said.

It's an impact that is sure to be noticed. The nation's 45 million Latinos constitute the largest minority group in the United States with a growth rate twice that of the general population.

That means by 2025, one-quarter of all American teens will be Latinos.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Two days after the death of Michael Jackson, the family of the pop superstar thanked his fans for their condolences and support in "one of the darkest moments of our lives."

A girl holds up signs in memory of Michael Jackson outside New York's Apollo Theater on Saturday.

"Please do not despair, because Michael will continue to live on in each and every one of you," family patriarch Joseph Jackson said in a statement to People magazine obtained by CNN.

"Continue to spread his message, because that is what he would want you to do. Carry on, so his legacy will live forever," the statement told fans.

"Our beloved son, brother and father of three children has gone so unexpectedly, in such a tragic way and much too soon," the statement said. "It leaves us, his family, speechless and devastated to a point, where communication with the outside world seems almost impossible at times."  Watch how one fan mourns pop star Â»

Family members including Jackson's mother, Katherine, were at the estate Jackson had rented in Holmby Hills.

Around midday, two moving vans pulled up. One left empty, and the other apparently contained objects from the house. Other vehicles came and went, including a silver Range Rover driven by a plain clothes police officer.

Meanwhile, the doctor who may have been the last person to see Michael Jackson alive was expected to meet with police Saturday along with his lawyer, an associate of attorney Ed Chernoff said.

Matthew Alford, an associate of Stradley, Chernoff and Alford law firm in Houston, Texas, said Dr. Conrad Murray, who is represented by Chernoff, was upset but willing to cooperate.  Watch what Alford said about doctor's involvement Â»

The ongoing meeting could spill into Sunday, according to the firm.

"It's a human tragedy, and he's upset obviously over the loss of Mr. Jackson. But he is not a suspect in the death of Mr. Jackson," Alford said. "We intend to cooperate fully."

Los Angeles police, who met briefly with Murray after Michael Jackson's death, had been trying to set up an interview, Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Charlie Beck said.

"Is important to interview everybody that was in contact with Mr. Jackson immediately prior to his demise particularly anyone involved in his medical care," Beck said. "So it's extremely important to talk to his doctor."

Police said the doctor has been cooperating.

Jackson's family suspects that Murray can answer some questions about the singer's death, but they have been unable to contact him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told CNN on Saturday.

The parents need to know what happened in the last hours of Michael Jackson's life, Jesse Jackson said.

"The routine inquiry is now an investigation," Jesse Jackson said. "They (Jacksons) didn't know the doctor. ... He should have met with the family, given them comfort on the last hours of their son."

Alford said Murray has "not been hiding out. He's just being prudent."

Detectives impounded Murray's car, which was parked at the singer's rented home, because it may contain evidence related to Jackson's death, possibly prescription medications.

Police have released no information on what they may have found.

Alford said he did not have any details.

"I have no information as to what if any treatment, or course of treatment he was doing for Mr. Jackson at all," he said.

Michael Jackson died Thursday, and an autopsy was performed the following day. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office told reporters Friday that more tests must be conducted before a cause of death can be determined. That could take four to six weeks.

The coroner said there was no indication of external trauma or foul play.  Watch the coroner's spokesman discuss the autopsy Â»

The 50-year-old pop star was discovered unconscious Thursday by paramedics at his home, where Murray apparently had tried to revive him. He was rushed to a Los Angeles medical center, where he was pronounced dead.

"They need an independent autopsy to get even more answers to questions that are now being driven by the gap between when Michael was last seen alive and was pronounced dead day before yesterday," Jesse Jackson said.  Watch Jesse Jackson detail the family's concerns Â»

There are lingering questions, such as: "How long had he stopped breathing? How long had he been unconscious?" he said.

Jackson had been preparing for a comeback tour -- aimed at extending his legendary career and helping him to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

Jackson is survived by his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.

CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report

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text: Sunday

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: firm

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: human

text: tragedy

text: and

text: he

text: 's

text: upset

text: obviously

text: over

text: the

text: loss

text: of

text: Mr.

text: Jackson

text: But

text: he

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: suspect

text: in

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: Mr.

text: Jackson

text: Alford

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text: We

text: intend

text: to

text: cooperate

text: fully

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: police

text: who

text: met

text: briefly

text: with

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text: after

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: death

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text: trying

text: to

text: set

text: up

text: an

text: interview

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: Deputy

text: Police

text: Chief

text: Charlie

text: Beck

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text: Is

text: important

text: to

text: interview

text: everybody

text: that

text: was

text: in

text: contact

text: with

text: Mr.

text: Jackson

text: immediately

text: prior

text: to

text: his

text: demise

text: particularly

text: anyone

text: involved

text: in

text: his

text: medical

text: care

text: Beck

text: said

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text: 's

text: extremely

text: important

text: to

text: talk

text: to

text: his

text: doctor

text: Police

text: said

text: the

text: doctor

text: has

text: been

text: cooperating

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: family

text: suspects

text: that

text: Murray

text: can

text: answer

text: some

text: questions

text: about

text: the

text: singer

text: 's

text: death

text: but

text: they

text: have

text: been

text: unable

text: to

text: contact

text: him

text: the

text: Rev.

text: Jesse

text: Jackson

text: told

text: CNN

text: on

text: Saturday

text: The

text: parents

text: need

text: to

text: know

text: what

text: happened

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: hours

text: of

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: 's

text: life

text: Jesse

text: Jackson

text: said

text: The

text: routine

text: inquiry

text: is

text: now

text: an

text: investigation

text: Jesse

text: Jackson

text: said

text: They

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text: did

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text: doctor

text: He

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text: family

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text: them

text: comfort

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text: the

text: last

text: hours

text: of

text: their

text: son

text: Alford

text: said

text: Murray

text: has

text: not

text: been

text: hiding

text: out

text: He

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text: just

text: being

text: prudent

text: Detectives

text: impounded

text: Murray

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text: car

text: which

text: was

text: parked

text: at

text: the

text: singer

text: 's

text: rented

text: home

text: because

text: it

text: may

text: contain

text: evidence

text: related

text: to

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text: death

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text: prescription

text: medications

text: Police

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text: released

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text: information

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text: they

text: may

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text: Alford

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text: did

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text: details

text: I

text: have

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text: information

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text: to

text: what

text: if

text: any

text: treatment

text: or

text: course

text: of

text: treatment

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text: was

text: doing

text: for

text: Mr.

text: Jackson

text: at

text: all

text: he

text: said

text: Michael

text: Jackson

text: died

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text: an

text: autopsy

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text: performed

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text: following

text: day

text: A

text: spokesman

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text: the

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: County

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: told

text: reporters

text: Friday

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text: more

text: tests

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text: be

text: conducted

text: before

text: a

text: cause

text: of

text: death

text: can

text: be

text: determined

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text: six

text: weeks

text: The

text: coroner

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text: was

text: no

text: indication

text: of

text: external

text: trauma

text: or

text: foul

text: play

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text: coroner

text: 's

text: spokesman

text: discuss

text: the

text: autopsy

text: Â

text: The

text: old

text: pop

text: star

text: was

text: discovered

text: unconscious

text: Thursday

text: by

text: paramedics

text: at

text: his

text: home

text: where

text: Murray

text: apparently

text: had

text: tried

text: to

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text: him

text: He

text: was

text: rushed

text: to

text: a

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: medical

text: center

text: where

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text: was

text: pronounced

text: dead

text: They

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text: an

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text: autopsy

text: to

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text: even

text: more

text: answers

text: to

text: questions

text: that

text: are

text: now

text: being

text: driven

text: by

text: the

text: gap

text: between

text: when

text: Michael

text: was

text: last

text: seen

text: alive

text: and

text: was

text: pronounced

text: dead

text: day

text: before

text: yesterday

text: Jesse

text: Jackson

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text: Jesse

text: Jackson

text: detail

text: the

text: family

text: 's

text: concerns

text: Â

text: There

text: are

text: lingering

text: questions

text: such

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text: How

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text: had

text: he

text: stopped

text: breathing

text: How

text: long

text: had

text: he

text: been

text: unconscious

text: he

text: said

text: Jackson

text: had

text: been

text: preparing

text: for

text: a

text: comeback

text: tour

text: aimed

text: at

text: extending

text: his

text: legendary

text: career

text: and

text: helping

text: him

text: to

text: pay

text: off

text: hundreds

text: of

text: millions

text: of

text: dollars

text: in

text: debt

text: Jackson

text: is

text: survived

text: by

text: his

text: three

text: children

text: Prince

text: Michael

text: I

text: Paris

text: and

text: Prince

text: Michael

text: II

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ted

text: Rowlands

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

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question: What did rev jesse jackson say?

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text:
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- A desperate Zimbabwean farmer fighting to hold onto his land -- a year after the country's political rivals pledged to govern jointly -- fears he will eventually lose to politics and violence.

Ben Freeth's farm was gutted by fire, as was his father-in-law's.

The power-sharing agreement included an undertaking by both parties to ensure property rights are upheld but farm attacks and invasions continue unabated in Zimbabwe.

Charles Lock is one of an estimated 400 farmers who have remained in the country despite President Robert Mugabe's policy of redistributing white-owned farms to landless blacks.

"Why do they want to remove me when I've complied with everything they want? What more do they want other than for me to pack my bags and leave and if that's the case, then admit that that is the policy. Pass a law: no whites are allowed to farm. Then it makes it clear," Lock said.

Since 2000, Mugabe's controversial land reform program has driven more than 4,000 commercial farmers off their land, destroying Zimbabwe's once prosperous agricultural sector.

"When the land reform program began, we decided we were not going to have a confrontational attitude; that we would actually go along with this program because it was the only way that this whole thing would be sorted out. So I voluntarily gave away my own farm and moved onto my father-in-law's farm," Lock said.

That was in 2002. A year later the government came knocking on his door again, he said, demanding more land.

Lock told CNN he eventually gave up 70 percent of his father-in-law's farm, which he then owned. Now an army general is demanding Lock's remaining 30 percent.

When Zimbabwe's new unity government was formed -- with Mugabe's ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change -- in February this year, the general allegedly posted soldiers on Lock's farm. The farmer said he stopped farming and trade at gun point.

When CNN visited Lock's farm this month, workers were standing idle. Maize and tobacco, which Lock said is worth more than U.S. $1 million, lay in storage.

"They've switched off our irrigation system, taken out keys and stop our trucks if we want to deliver maize," he told CNN.

So Lock had to sneak into his own property like a thief by cutting open the gate leading to his store room. He took a few valuables from his workshop suspecting that his whole place will soon be looted.

With the formation of a unity government farmers were hoping for some protection but Lock said: "Nothing is happening here. There is no land audit happening, no one comes out here to check, to see. We are just left vulnerable."

On another farm, Ben Freeth's fight for his land has just escalated to another level.

Freeth has been repeatedly beaten, arrested and harassed. Now his farmhouse and that of his father-in-law have been gutted by a mysterious fire. See the destruction the fire caused

Freeth could not say for sure that this is arson but told CNN that the group of ZANU-PF youths who have occupied his farm have repeatedly threatened to burn his house.

"One time they came round with burning sacks at night and they started making a huge noise and ringing a great big bell and shouting and screaming. They were going underneath the thatch saying we are going to burn your house down if you don't get out," he said.

Freeth and his father-in-law Mike Campbell are among a group of Zimbabwean farmers who won the right to remain on their land at a southern African tribunal.

But Mugabe has declared the ruling null and void and pulled out of the tribunal. Farmers cannot contest land issues in Zimbabwe and approaching international courts has thus far not worked either.

When CNN interviewed Mugabe's minister of state, Didymas Mutasa, about the disregard for human and property rights on the farms, he blamed the farmers for the violence, saying landless blacks are getting frustrated with their refusal to relinquish their land.

"Human rights are beginning to be seen now because they benefit the whites, and when they were affecting blacks badly as they did the likes of us, it didn't matter and nobody raised anything about those human rights.

"And sometimes we say, good heavens, if that is the kind of human rights you are talking about, you better keep them away from us; we don't want to see them," he told CNN.

But it is black farm workers who are caught in the cross fire. They continue to bear the brunt of the land reform program by repeatedly being beaten and intimidated. Some have even been killed.

Tractor driver William Kale said it is farm laborers working for white farmers who are targeted.

"They actually say you the workers, you are ones that are supporting the white farmer. That is why he is carrying on farming and we refuse to go because we have nowhere to go," Kale told CNN.

Many farmers and farm workers we spoke to say they are in a worse position now under the unity government than they were before.

Lock said: "When ZANU-PF was in power, you had hawks and doves in government and the doves were approachable and often helped us. But now that these positions are being shared with Mr. Tsvangirai's MDC, Mr. Mugabe has only appointed hawks to his cabinet who insist on continuing the land reform program. And when it comes to the MDC, the land issue seems to be a hot potato they do not want to touch. I have asked Mr. Tsvangirai to intervene but nothing is happening."

Prime Minister Tsvangirai refuted that. "That is not true," he said. "We initiated to find out who is being affected, the few remaining white farmers. Let's be frank here, we are talking of farmers as being white, but to me any destruction of farm production affects the whole viability of agriculture. There should be no disruption of any farm activity."

To those under siege these words are little comfort as they continue to fight a battle they are unlikely to win.

text: HARARE

text: Zimbabwe

text: CNN

text: A

text: desperate

text: Zimbabwean

text: farmer

text: fighting

text: to

text: hold

text: onto

text: his

text: land

text: a

text: year

text: after

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: political

text: rivals

text: pledged

text: to

text: govern

text: jointly

text: fears

text: he

text: will

text: eventually

text: lose

text: to

text: politics

text: and

text: violence

text: Ben

text: Freeth

text: 's

text: farm

text: was

text: gutted

text: by

text: fire

text: as

text: was

text: his

text: father

text: in

text: law

text: 's

text: The

text: power

text: sharing

text: agreement

text: included

text: an

text: undertaking

text: by

text: both

text: parties

text: to

text: ensure

text: property

text: rights

text: are

text: upheld

text: but

text: farm

text: attacks

text: and

text: invasions

text: continue

text: unabated

text: in

text: Zimbabwe

text: Charles

text: Lock

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: an

text: estimated

text: farmers

text: who

text: have

text: remained

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: despite

text: President

text: Robert

text: Mugabe

text: 's

text: policy

text: of

text: redistributing

text: white

text: owned

text: farms

text: to

text: landless

text: blacks

text: Why

text: do

text: they

text: want

text: to

text: remove

text: me

text: when

text: I

text: 've

text: complied

text: with

text: everything

text: they

text: want

text: What

text: more

text: do

text: they

text: want

text: other

text: than

text: for

text: me

text: to

text: pack

text: my

text: bags

text: and

text: leave

text: and

text: if

text: that

text: 's

text: the

text: case

text: then

text: admit

text: that

text: that

text: is

text: the

text: policy

text: Pass

text: a

text: law

text: no

text: whites

text: are

text: allowed

text: to

text: farm

text: Then

text: it

text: makes

text: it

text: clear

text: Lock

text: said

text: Since

text: Mugabe

text: 's

text: controversial

text: land

text: reform

text: program

text: has

text: driven

text: more

text: than

text: commercial

text: farmers

text: off

text: their

text: land

text: destroying

text: Zimbabwe

text: 's

text: once

text: prosperous

text: agricultural

text: sector

text: When

text: the

text: land

text: reform

text: program

text: began

text: we

text: decided

text: we

text: were

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: confrontational

text: attitude

text: that

text: we

text: would

text: actually

text: go

text: along

text: with

text: this

text: program

text: because

text: it

text: was

text: the

text: only

text: way

text: that

text: this

text: whole

text: thing

text: would

text: be

text: sorted

text: out

text: So

text: I

text: voluntarily

text: gave

text: away

text: my

text: own

text: farm

text: and

text: moved

text: onto

text: my

text: father

text: in

text: law

text: 's

text: farm

text: Lock

text: said

text: That

text: was

text: in

text: A

text: year

text: later

text: the

text: government

text: came

text: knocking

text: on

text: his

text: door

text: again

text: he

text: said

text: demanding

text: more

text: land

text: Lock

text: told

text: CNN

text: he

text: eventually

text: gave

text: up

text: percent

text: of

text: his

text: father

text: in

text: law

text: 's

text: farm

text: which

text: he

text: then

text: owned

text: Now

text: an

text: army

text: general

text: is

text: demanding

text: Lock

text: 's

text: remaining

text: percent

text: When

text: Zimbabwe

text: 's

text: new

text: unity

text: government

text: was

text: formed

text: with

text: Mugabe

text: 's

text: ZANU

text: PF

text: and

text: Morgan

text: Tsvangirai

text: 's

text: Movement

text: for

text: Democratic

text: Change

text: in

text: February

text: this

text: year

text: the

text: general

text: allegedly

text: posted

text: soldiers

text: on

text: Lock

text: 's

text: farm

text: The

text: farmer

text: said

text: he

text: stopped

text: farming

text: and

text: trade

text: at

text: gun

text: point

text: When

text: CNN

text: visited

text: Lock

text: 's

text: farm

text: this

text: month

text: workers

text: were

text: standing

text: idle

text: Maize

text: and

text: tobacco

text: which

text: Lock

text: said

text: is

text: worth

text: more

text: than

text: U.S.

text: million

text: lay

text: in

text: storage

text: They

text: 've

text: switched

text: off

text: our

text: irrigation

text: system

text: taken

text: out

text: keys

text: and

text: stop

text: our

text: trucks

text: if

text: we

text: want

text: to

text: deliver

text: maize

text: he

text: told

text: CNN

text: So

text: Lock

text: had

text: to

text: sneak

text: into

text: his

text: own

text: property

text: like

text: a

text: thief

text: by

text: cutting

text: open

text: the

text: gate

text: leading

text: to

text: his

text: store

text: room

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text: a

text: few

text: valuables

text: from

text: his

text: workshop

text: suspecting

text: that

text: his

text: whole

text: place

text: will

text: soon

text: be

text: looted

text: With

text: the

text: formation

text: of

text: a

text: unity

text: government

text: farmers

text: were

text: hoping

text: for

text: some

text: protection

text: but

text: Lock

text: said

text: Nothing

text: is

text: happening

text: here

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: land

text: audit

text: happening

text: no

text: one

text: comes

text: out

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text: to

text: check

text: to

text: see

text: We

text: are

text: just

text: left

text: vulnerable

text: On

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text: farm

text: Ben

text: Freeth

text: 's

text: fight

text: for

text: his

text: land

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text: just

text: escalated

text: to

text: another

text: level

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text: repeatedly

text: beaten

text: arrested

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text: harassed

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text: farmhouse

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text: that

text: of

text: his

text: father

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text: a

text: mysterious

text: fire

text: See

text: the

text: destruction

text: the

text: fire

text: caused

text: Freeth

text: could

text: not

text: say

text: for

text: sure

text: that

text: this

text: is

text: arson

text: but

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: the

text: group

text: of

text: ZANU

text: PF

text: youths

text: who

text: have

text: occupied

text: his

text: farm

text: have

text: repeatedly

text: threatened

text: to

text: burn

text: his

text: house

text: One

text: time

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text: came

text: round

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text: burning

text: sacks

text: at

text: night

text: and

text: they

text: started

text: making

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text: ringing

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text: great

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text: bell

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text: shouting

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text: screaming

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text: thatch

text: saying

text: we

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: burn

text: your

text: house

text: down

text: if

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: get

text: out

text: he

text: said

text: Freeth

text: and

text: his

text: father

text: in

text: law

text: Mike

text: Campbell

text: are

text: among

text: a

text: group

text: of

text: Zimbabwean

text: farmers

text: who

text: won

text: the

text: right

text: to

text: remain

text: on

text: their

text: land

text: at

text: a

text: southern

text: African

text: tribunal

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text: Mugabe

text: has

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text: the

text: ruling

text: and

text: void

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text: pulled

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text: the

text: tribunal

text: Farmers

text: can

text: not

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text: land

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text: and

text: approaching

text: international

text: courts

text: has

text: thus

text: far

text: not

text: worked

text: either

text: When

text: CNN

text: interviewed

text: Mugabe

text: 's

text: minister

text: of

text: state

text: Didymas

text: Mutasa

text: about

text: the

text: disregard

text: for

text: human

text: and

text: property

text: rights

text: on

text: the

text: farms

text: he

text: blamed

text: the

text: farmers

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text: the

text: violence

text: saying

text: landless

text: blacks

text: are

text: getting

text: frustrated

text: with

text: their

text: refusal

text: to

text: relinquish

text: their

text: land

text: Human

text: rights

text: are

text: beginning

text: to

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text: seen

text: now

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text: they

text: benefit

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text: whites

text: and

text: when

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text: were

text: affecting

text: blacks

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text: as

text: they

text: did

text: the

text: likes

text: of

text: us

text: it

text: did

text: n't

text: matter

text: and

text: nobody

text: raised

text: anything

text: about

text: those

text: human

text: rights

text: And

text: sometimes

text: we

text: say

text: good

text: heavens

text: if

text: that

text: is

text: the

text: kind

text: of

text: human

text: rights

text: you

text: are

text: talking

text: about

text: you

text: better

text: keep

text: them

text: away

text: from

text: us

text: we

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: see

text: them

text: he

text: told

text: CNN

text: But

text: it

text: is

text: black

text: farm

text: workers

text: who

text: are

text: caught

text: in

text: the

text: cross

text: fire

text: They

text: continue

text: to

text: bear

text: the

text: brunt

text: of

text: the

text: land

text: reform

text: program

text: by

text: repeatedly

text: being

text: beaten

text: and

text: intimidated

text: Some

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question: What does the policy do?

answer: redistributing white-owned farms to landless blacks.

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question: How many commercial farmers were driven off their land since 2000?

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapons charge stemming from a shooting incident at a nightclub last year, the Manhattan district attorney said.

Former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress will serve two years in prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges.

Burress, 32, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and will serve two years in prison, according to Alicia Maxey Greene, spokeswoman for district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau's office. Two years of supervised release will follow his jail term, she said.

Burress is free on bail and will be sentenced September 22.

A grand jury indicted the former New York Giants football player earlier this month on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and a single count of reckless endangerment in the second degree.

He pleaded not guilty to those charges earlier this year.

Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg November 29, 2008, with a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol he was carrying in the waistband of his jeans. The incident occurred in the VIP area of the Latin Quarter nightclub in Manhattan.

A teammate who was with Burress, linebacker Antonio Pierce, drove him to a hospital and arranged to have the pistol delivered to Burress' New Jersey home, according to an August 3 statement from the district attorney's office. The district attorney also sought charges against Pierce, but the grand jury did not indict him.

Burress was not licensed to carry a pistol in either New York or New Jersey.

No one, including employees of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the NFL, called the police to report the gunshot wound, as required by law. One of the hospital workers was suspended after the incident.

Burress became a hero to New York Giants fans in the 2008 Super Bowl when he caught the game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Eli Manning with 35 seconds remaining in the game.

In the following year, however, Burress' career with the Giants was marred by a series of incidents in addition to the shooting. He was suspended from the team in early October for missing a practice, and later that month the NFL fined him $45,000 after he argued with a referee and threw a football into the stands during a game.

Burress was suspended from the Giants immediately after the shooting incident. The team released him in April.

CNN's Chloe Melas contributed to this report

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question: What date did the ex New York Giant accidentally shoot himself?

answer: November 29, 2008,

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question: Who pleaded not guilty to other charges this year?

answer: Plaxico Burress

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question: Plaxico Burress will serve how many years in prison?

answer: two

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Rome, Italy (CNN)  -- The Italian government plans to participate in the international troop buildup in Afghanistan by sending 1,000 more troops there next year.

The Italian Defense Ministry confirmed the troops would be deployed in the second half of 2010, a complement to the nearly 2,800 Italians already in the western part of the country.

Italy is one of 43 countries serving under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

Based in Herat, the Italian military is the lead nation in ISAF's Regional Command West. 22 Italian service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict.

The Italian escalation would be part of the troop buildup of 5,000 extra non-U.S. service members ISAF intends to commit to the country.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that new troop pledges could be announced at a conference of NATO foreign ministers Thursday and Friday in Brussels, Belgium, where the alliance is based.

There are currently 42,000 non-U.S. NATO troops in Afghanistan at present. 28 NATO allies and 15 non-NATO members are contributing to the U.S.-led coalition.

The added NATO troop deployment would complement the nearly 100,000 Americans expected to be in the fight once the 30,000 troops U.S. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday night are in place.

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question: What does Italy serve under?

answer: NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

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question: How many Italian service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict?

answer: 22

question: How many members have been killed?

answer: 22

question: Where are there currently 42,000 non-U.S. NATO troops?

answer: Afghanistan

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question: How many non-NATO troops are there?

answer: 42,000

question: How many non-U.S. NATO troops are in Afghanistan at present?

answer: 42,000

question: How many service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict?

answer: 22

question: How many countries are serving under the NATO-led ISAF contingent?

answer: 43