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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Angered by what he perceived as the systemic discrimination of the minority Tamils by successive Sri Lankan governments, 18-year-old Velupillai Prabhakaran, armed with just a revolver, set out in 1972 to right the perceived wrongs by forming a militant group.

Sri Lanka's defense ministry says this handout photo shows troops with a captured Tamil Tiger craft.

That group eventually morphed into the Tamil Tigers, who have engaged in a brutal 25-year insurgency for an independent Tamil state that has left more than 70,000 dead.

Along the way, the group has been declared a terrorist organization in 32 countries, pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks and, according to the FBI, invented the suicide belt.

It was also behind the assassination of two world leaders -- the only terrorist organization to do so.

Over the weekend, the militants offered to "silence" their guns after an intense military offensive decimated their ranks, usurping them from their stronghold in the north and east of the country, and cornered the remaining rebels on a small stretch of land.  Watch more on the possible end to the conflict Â»

On Monday afternoon, the Sri Lankan government said it had killed Prabhakaran. If the rebels now follow through on their announcement, the action will potentially mark the end of the longest-running civil war in Asia.

Who are the Tamils?

The Tamils are an ethnic group that makes up about 12 percent of Sri Lanka's population of about 20 million. They mostly dominate the northern and eastern part of the country.

Tamils are mostly Hindu and speak Tamil.

That sets them apart from Sri Lanka's majority group, the Sinhalese, who make up 74 percent of the population. They are Buddhists and speak Sinhala.

The tension between the two ethnic groups date to the British colonization of the country -- an island in the Indian Ocean, south of India.

At the time, the country was known as Ceylon. Many Sri Lankans regarded the Tamils as British collaborators and resented the preferential treatment they received.

The tables turned when the country achieved independence in 1948 and the Sinhalese majority dominated government. It was the Tamils then who claimed they were being discriminated against in politics, employment and education.

By the 1970s Tamil politicians were demanding a separate Tamil state. It would be called Tamil Eelam.

In this climate Prabhakaran emerged with his militant group, formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Who is Prabhakaran?

Prabhakaran operated from a secret jungle base in the northeastern part of the country, granting few media interviews and remaining an elusive figure to even many Tigers.

He was reputed to wear a cyanide capsule around his neck -- to swallow rather than risk capture. And he reportedly expected the same dedication from his troops. As a result, few Tigers have been captured alive.

To Prabhakaran's supporters he was a hero fighting for the rights of his people. The Sri Lankan government deemed him a war criminal with disregard for civilian casualties. He was wanted by Interpol on charges including terrorism and organized crime.

In 1975, three years after forming his group, Prabhakaran was accused of fatally shooting the mayor of Jaffna, his birthplace.

Prabhakaran was also accused of masterminding the killing of then-Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 in the Tamil-dominated Indian state of Tami Nadu. Sri Lankan authorities allege that Prabhakaran was avenging Gandhi's decision to send Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka.

Two years later, a Tigers' suicide bomber, allegedly acting under Prabhakaran's orders, detonated explosives that killed Sri Lanka's then-president, Ranasinghe Premadasa, during a rally.  Watch aid agencies fear for Sri Lanka Â»

Who are the Tamil Tigers?

The Tigers reportedly number about 10,000, recruited from villagers in Tamil-dominated areas and unemployed Tamil youths who think they were passed over for jobs because of their ethnicity.

Their armed struggle began in July 1983 when the Tigers killed 13 Sinhalese soldiers. It led to, what was until then, the largest outburst of violence in the island's history. Hundreds of Tamils were killed, thousands left homeless and more than 100,000 fled to south India.

Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Tigers have -- until now -- shown no signs of being overpowered by the Sri Lankan military.

The Tigers are infamous for suicide bombings, with men and women strapping on suicide vests for more than 200 attacks against Sri Lankan citizens and dozens of high-profile political leaders.

In addition to perpetrating the attacks that killed Gandhi and Premadasa, the rebels have carried out the assassinations of two lawmakers and four ministers. A suicide bomber targeted Sri Lankan then-President Chandrika Kumaratunga in December 1999 while she was campaigning for re-election. She was wounded but survived.

The Tigers, however, have refrained from targeting Western tourists out of fear that foreign governments would crack down on Tamil expatriates who raise money for them abroad, the U.S. State Department said.

Have there been peace talks?

Periodically fighting has briefly halted because of a handful of peace agreements.

By February 2002 the Tigers had dropped their demands for a separate homeland in exchange for a power-sharing deal with the government. Norway and some other countries agreed to monitor the ceasefire.

A year later the rebels dropped out of the negotiations, saying they were being marginalized. They launched a suicide bombing campaign soon after.

What led to renewed fighting?

In January 2008 the Sri Lankan government announced it was annulling the nearly six-year-old truce with the rebels, declaring that it would crush the rebels.

The fighting intensified with security forces driving the rebels from their strongholds in the east and north of the country.

The government asked the rebels to lay down arms; the rebels vowed to continue.

Caught in the crossfire were civilians, thousands of whom were displaced and hundreds killed.

International aid groups expressed concern that both the government and the rebels disregarded civilian safety even in no-fire zones and hospitals.

Both sides blamed the other for civilian casualties and exaggerated accounts of their victories. With journalists not allowed into the battle zones, their claims could not be independently confirmed.

On Sunday, the Tigers posted an "urgent statement" on a pro-rebel Web site, saying the battle had reached "its bitter end."

"We have decided to silence our guns," the statement said.

Euphoria gripped the war-wracked nation. And Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa readied to announce to Tuesday that military operations had ended.

But one last order of business awaited: The capture, dead or alive, of Prabhakaran. In the past, the Tigers have emerged from near-defeat. But if Prabhakaran's death is confirmed, the government is optimistic that it can write off the Tigers.

CNN's Melissa Gray contributed to this report, which includes information from various sources. They include the U.S. State Department, the FBI, Interpol, Human Rights Watch, the Council on Foreign Relations, the CIA Factbook, and previous CNN reports.

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question: What did the Tamil leader wear around his neck?

answer: cyanide capsule

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question: For how many years has the insurgency been going on?

answer: 25-year

question: What type of capsule did the leader wear?

answer: cyanide

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question: How many people have been killed?

answer: more than 70,000 dead.

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question: What did the leader wear

answer: a cyanide capsule

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question: Approximately how many people has the insurgency killed?

answer: more than 70,000

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question: what did the fbi say

answer: invented the suicide belt.

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question: How long has the insurgency been going on?

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(CNN) -- Adventurer and TV show host Bear Grylls injured his shoulder in Antarctica during an expedition to raise money for an international charity, the Discovery Channel said Sunday.

Bear Grylls, host of "Man vs. Wild," was injured in Antarctica during an expedition to raise money for charity.

Grylls was injured Friday night after falling during the expedition, which was not for the Discovery Channel, according to the network's statement.

The statement said that Grylls is returning to the UK to receive medical attention.

"Once he sees a doctor, we will have a better sense of the level of seriousness of his shoulder injury and the recovery time needed to get him back to his full physical activity," according to the statement.

Grylls, 34, is the host of Discovery's "Man vs. Wild" in which he demonstrates extreme measures -- including eating snakes and insects -- used to survive in harsh environmental conditions.

In his blog, Grylls said the aim of his expedition in Antarctica -- sponsored by Ethanol Venture -- is "to promote alternative energies and their potential."

"We will be using lots of different forms of alternative power, including wind-powered kite-skiing, part bio-ethanol powered jetskis and inflatable boats, electric-powered paragliders, solar- and wind-powered base camps -- and good old foot work," Grylls wrote in a November 14 entry.

Grylls is a former member of the British Special Forces and has broken his back in several places during his service. In his blog, he said he and his wife Shara are expecting their third child in January.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- Actor Henry Gibson, who played roles ranging from loopy poets to vengeful Illinois Nazis and cranky judges during a 40-year film and television career, has died at age 73, his representatives said Wednesday.

Henry Gibson had a role as a neo-Nazi in the cult movie classic "The Blues Brothers."

Gibson was a regular on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," where he was known for popping up to read short, humorous poems during the show's 1968-71 run.

He was a frequent guest star on television shows from the 1970s through the mid-2000s, with a recurring role as a judge on ABC's "Boston Legal" as late as 2008.

His movie roles included turns in two of director Robert Altman's 1970s films, "Nashville" and "The Long Goodbye," and as the neo-Nazi leader pursuing John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in "The Blues Brothers."

No details of his death were immediately available, said Peter Gross, a spokesman Talentworks LA, which represented Gibson.

CNN's Doug Ganley contributed to this report.

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GLASGOW, Scotland -- Scottish Premier League leaders Celtic suffered another setback in their bid for a third successive title after being held 1-1 by managerless Hibernian on Saturday.

David Murphy's goals have earned Hibernian four points against the Auld Firm this season.

Gordon Strachan's team head the table by three points from Glasgow rivals Rangers, who have three games in hand ahead of Sunday's trip to Aberdeen.

Visiting Hibernian, whose manager John Collins surprisingly resigned on Thursday citing a lack of financial backing from the Edinburgh side's board, took the lead in the 20th minute through left-back David Murphy.

The Englishman played a one-two with Abdessalam Benjelloun before crashing a shot from the edge of the box past goalkeeper Mark Brown and in off the crossbar.

Murphy's only other goal this season came in Hibs' 1-0 win at Rangers on October 6.

Brown did well to keep out Merouane Zemmama's audacious shot from just inside the Celtic half soon after, and also tipped over Brian Kerr's looping header three minutes after half-time.

Substitute Jiri Jarosik rescued Celtic from a first home SPL defeat this season in the 78th minute after being teed up by Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, who then headed against the post with two minutes to play.

Hibernian held on despite having to play the final few minutes with 10 men, after Benjelloun was stretchered off with their three substitutes already used.

The victory lifted the visitors up into fifth place, while Celtic have taken just six points from the last five games.

Strachan, who confirmed he is hoping to sign Brazilian defender Coelho next month, said: "We need to cut out the silly mistakes because if you look at some of the goals we have let in away from home this season, they are silly mistakes.

"We could have definitely done something with every one of them. I'm happy with the number of chance we've made in the last few weeks, but unhappy with individual mistakes.

"It's not been great to look at, and we need to cut it out. We have honest lads walking in to the dressing room and saying, 'That was my fault.'

"I said to them, 'It's very commendable lads but we can't keep doing this.' There has been a lot going right for us, but one or two things going wrong. We have to deal with that, and then I will look forward to the rest of the season."

Third-placed Motherwell missed the chance to move above Rangers after being beaten 3-0 at home by Falkirk, who climbed to ninth with two goals in the second half to Michael Higdon and then another from Patrick Clegg on 65 minutes.

Fourth-placed Dundee United failed to take advantage, losing 2-1 at home to bottom club Gretna -- whose only two wins this season have come against the Tangerines.

Kenny Deuchar put the visitors ahead in the 12th minute before striker Noel Hunt leveled on 29, and Nicky Deverdics scored the eventual winner for the Borders outfit three minutes before half-time.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle followed up last weekend's shock 3-2 victory against Celtic by also winning at Hearts by the same scoreline.

The visitors led through Russell Duncan after 22 minutes and John Rankin made it 2-0 with a 53rd-minute penalty before Christophe Berra pulled one back on 62 and Lithuanian striker Andrius Velicka leveled from the spot (90).

However, Graham Bayne scored a dramatic injury-time winner to lift Caley into the top six.

In Saturday's other game, second-bottom St Mirren drew 0-0 at home to fellow strugglers Kilmarnock to be left seven points ahead of Gretna. E-mail to a friend

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question: What was the score for the Celtics?

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question: Was the match a draw?

answer: In Saturday's other game, second-bottom St Mirren drew 0-0 at home to fellow strugglers Kilmarnock to be left seven points ahead of Gretna.

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question: Who leads by 3 points

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A leader of the Sons of Iraq anti-al Qaeda group was killed Saturday when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

U.S. soldiers arrive on the scene of a suicide bombing Saturday in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Two civilians were wounded in the explosion in southern Baghdad's Dora district, the official said.

The Sons of Iraq, or Awakening Councils, are mainly composed of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq. They are considered a major factor in the reduction of violence in Iraq over the past two years and are frequently targeted by al Qaeda.

In other violence across Iraq on Saturday:

Ã¢â¬Â¢ At least 19 people were wounded in a bombing at a coffee shop in Baquba, a security official in Diyala province said. The coffee shop is frequented by U.S.-backed anti-al Qaeda fighters. The explosion wounded 17 group members and two civilians, the official said. Baquba is about 35 miles north of Baghdad.

Ã¢â¬Â¢ At least seven people, including three Iraqi Army soldiers, were wounded when a roadside bomb struck an army patrol in northern Baghdad's Qahaira neighborhood, the Interior Ministry official said.

Ã¢â¬Â¢ At least one police officer was killed and nine people -- seven police and two civilians -- were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest near a police academy in Kirkuk, according to a police official. Kirkuk is located in oil-rich northern Iraq, about 150 miles north of Baghdad.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Yousif Bassil contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Over the past month, we've watched from distant shores as Greece has plunged into a debt crisis. Mounting pressure from global financial markets forced Greece to begin a drastic austerity program.

With a fiscal deficit of 8.1 percent of GDP and government debt of 115 percent of GDP expected this year, Greece has promised to turn itself around by 2013.

To do this, the government has adopted an ambitious fiscal consolidation program that would reduce the annual deficit by 7 percent of GDP this year, 4 percent next year, and 2 percent in 2012 and 2013. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have announced an extraordinary $1 trillion package to support the plan, and the European Central Bank has announced its own extraordinary measures.

Are there lessons the United States can or should draw from the Greek situation?

First, we are not Greece. The United States is by far the world's largest single economy.  Our economy is competitive, diversified and rich in human capital and natural resources. While the rest of the world is important for our growth, our domestic market is vast, which means that, unlike Greece, we can usually rely on domestic demand to drive the economy.

At their best, our financial markets are dynamic, have deep pockets and provide the liquidity for our innovative economy. We issue the world's reserve currency, which minimizes our currency market risk. And unlike Greece, because we have currency flexibility, we can adjust the value of the dollar to improve our underlying economic performance, if necessary.

But we are facing very serious fiscal challenges, too -- and for many of the same reasons as Greece.

Like Greece, our fiscal path is unsustainable for as far as the eye can see. Our debt has surged far above what we have normally been able to manage. And unless fiscal policy changes, it is projected to continue heading up indefinitely.

Our debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to exceed 60 percent this year, well above our average for the past 40 years (around 40 percent) and close to a peacetime high. And it's projected to keep on rising.

Like Greece (and all advanced industrial countries), we can expect our fiscal situation to get worse in about 10 years, as the baby boomers' retirement accelerates. In a generation, the debt is expected to be well over 150 percent of GDP. By 2050, it's projected to be over 300 percent and still heading upward.  We cannot sustain this much debt without a crisis.

While the United States may have more fiscal running room than Greece, we won't be able to outrun our creditors if they think we can't manage our fiscal affairs. The impasse in Washington is giving rise to jitters that we can't politically solve our problems, no matter how wealthy our economy. And as the past few weeks illustrate, if we lose credibility with creditors, they may downgrade our debt, demand higher interest rates, and in the worst case refuse to hold our debt because of fear of default.

Maintaining the confidence of our creditors is critical for the United States: We depend on capital inflows to close our fiscal gap because our savings rate is so low. It is harder to rebuild confidence than to lose it.

Finally, as Greece so vividly illustrates, it is better act on your own timetable and according to your own priorities, rather than have actions forced upon you by financial markets. If the United States can make fiscal changes sooner rather than later, once the economy is on a stronger footing, adjustment can be more gradual and less costly. Then our citizens will be able to manage change more easily.

What will it take for the United States to get its fiscal house in order?  We need a plan. As we've seen in Athens -- and even on Wall Street over the past week -- uncertainty sows fear, panic and unrest.  But our fiscal future does not have to look like this. There is a way forward.

America's first fiscal challenge is political will, not ability to pay. In partnership with the American people, U.S. policymakers need to settle on a reasonable and sensible fiscal recovery plan soon that is credible to both the markets and the ultimate financier: the U.S. taxpayer.

It should be multiyear to reassure creditors and taxpayers that we can indeed manage our affairs over time and that it will not force draconian austerity, if done correctly. We need to know where we want to go and how we can get there.

A clear road map for fiscal change will allow everyone to plan and manage, in contrast to the cold shower the Greeks are being forced to take.

In broad economic terms, the answer is simpler than most people realize. As most experts agree, we need to put the budget on track for stabilizing the debt at no more than 60 percent of GDP when we can realistically manage change. (The 60 percent threshold still has credibility for advanced industrial countries in the global marketplace.)

Although our debt is below that now, commitments already in place will put us on a higher path, even before the baby boomers start to retire. But we need to start phasing in policy changes soon to shift to a more sustainable debt path.

Much like a household budget, a fiscal recovery package also needs to be fair to succeed. Any plan needs to reflect shared sacrifice. Our fiscal problems are so big, everything has to be on the table. Just cutting spending will savage government and prevent it from delivering the things we all rely upon to live our lives and to make them better. Just raising taxes will take money from the poorest and the middle class and rob the country of needed incentives for the investments that boost higher growth.

But within budget limits, we also must make sure that any fiscal package promotes our key values and needs: protecting the weakest among us and raising living standards through increasing human capital (including education), promoting innovation and providing basic infrastructure.

Ultimately, getting our fiscal house in order is about shared sacrifice -- and shared hope. Putting a fiscal recovery plan in place will hasten the recovery and make living standards higher than they would otherwise be. We don't have to look like Greece does now.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Anne Vorce.

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text: shores

text: as

text: Greece

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text: a

text: debt

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text: pressure

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text: global

text: financial

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text: eye

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text: manage

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text: United

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text: impasse

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text: weeks

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text: confidence

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text: United

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text: past

text: week

text: uncertainty

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text: unrest

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text: fiscal

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text: like

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text: a

text: way

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text: fiscal

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text: ability

text: to

text: pay

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text: American

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text: and

text: sensible

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text: both

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text: markets

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text: financier

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text: multiyear

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text: creditors

text: and

text: taxpayers

text: that

text: we

text: can

text: indeed

text: manage

text: our

text: affairs

text: over

text: time

text: and

text: that

text: it

text: will

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text: force

text: draconian

text: austerity

text: if

text: done

text: correctly

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text: need

text: to

text: know

text: where

text: we

text: want

text: to

text: go

text: and

text: how

text: we

text: can

text: get

text: there

text: A

text: clear

text: road

text: map

text: for

text: fiscal

text: change

text: will

text: allow

text: everyone

text: to

text: plan

text: and

text: manage

text: in

text: contrast

text: to

text: the

text: cold

text: shower

text: the

text: Greeks

text: are

text: being

text: forced

text: to

text: take

text: In

text: broad

text: economic

text: terms

text: the

text: answer

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text: simpler

text: than

text: most

text: people

text: realize

text: As

text: most

text: experts

text: agree

text: we

text: need

text: to

text: put

text: the

text: budget

text: on

text: track

text: for

text: stabilizing

text: the

text: debt

text: at

text: no

text: more

text: than

text: percent

text: of

text: GDP

text: when

text: we

text: can

text: realistically

text: manage

text: change

text: The

text: percent

text: threshold

text: still

text: has

text: credibility

text: for

text: advanced

text: industrial

text: countries

text: in

text: the

text: global

text: marketplace

text: Although

text: our

text: debt

text: is

text: below

text: that

text: now

text: commitments

text: already

text: in

text: place

text: will

text: put

text: us

text: on

text: a

text: higher

text: path

text: even

text: before

text: the

text: baby

text: boomers

text: start

text: to

text: retire

text: But

text: we

text: need

text: to

text: start

text: phasing

text: in

text: policy

text: changes

text: soon

text: to

text: shift

text: to

text: a

text: more

text: sustainable

text: debt

text: path

text: Much

text: like

text: a

text: household

text: budget

text: a

text: fiscal

text: recovery

text: package

text: also

text: needs

text: to

text: be

text: fair

text: to

text: succeed

text: Any

text: plan

text: needs

text: to

text: reflect

text: shared

text: sacrifice

text: Our

text: fiscal

text: problems

text: are

text: so

text: big

text: everything

text: has

text: to

text: be

text: on

text: the

text: table

text: Just

text: cutting

text: spending

text: will

text: savage

text: government

text: and

text: prevent

text: it

text: from

text: delivering

text: the

text: things

text: we

text: all

text: rely

text: upon

text: to

text: live

text: our

text: lives

text: and

text: to

text: make

text: them

text: better

text: Just

text: raising

text: taxes

text: will

text: take

text: money

text: from

text: the

text: poorest

text: and

text: the

text: middle

text: class

text: and

text: rob

text: the

text: country

text: of

text: needed

text: incentives

text: for

text: the

text: investments

text: that

text: boost

text: higher

text: growth

text: But

text: within

text: budget

text: limits

text: we

text: also

text: must

text: make

text: sure

text: that

text: any

text: fiscal

text: package

text: promotes

text: our

text: key

text: values

text: and

text: needs

text: protecting

text: the

text: weakest

text: among

text: us

text: and

text: raising

text: living

text: standards

text: through

text: increasing

text: human

text: capital

text: including

text: education

text: promoting

text: innovation

text: and

text: providing

text: basic

text: infrastructure

text: Ultimately

text: getting

text: our

text: fiscal

text: house

text: in

text: order

text: is

text: about

text: shared

text: sacrifice

text: and

text: shared

text: hope

text: Putting

text: a

text: fiscal

text: recovery

text: plan

text: in

text: place

text: will

text: hasten

text: the

text: recovery

text: and

text: make

text: living

text: standards

text: higher

text: than

text: they

text: would

text: otherwise

text: be

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: to

text: look

text: like

text: Greece

text: does

text: now

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Anne

text: Vorce

question: What did Vorce say about the debt?

answer: we have normally been able to manage.

text: we have normally been able to manage.

question: What does the US need to do?

answer: sensible fiscal recovery plan

text: sensible fiscal recovery plan

question: What is our debt compared to normal?

answer: surged far above

text: surged far above

question: What is our fiscal path according to Anne Vorce?

answer: is unsustainable for as far as the eye can see.

text: is unsustainable for as far as the eye can see.

question: Which country does Vorce compare the U.S. to?

answer: Greece,

text: Greece,

question: What type of plan does Vorce claim is needed?

answer: reasonable and sensible fiscal recovery

text: reasonable and sensible fiscal recovery


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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson feared his father so much he would faint or vomit sometimes when his father entered the room -- even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Jackson confidant.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson's confidant, sat down with the King of Pop and taped 30 hours of interviews.

"The Michael Jackson Tapes" includes Jackson talking about his fear of growing old, his relationship with children, his friendships with Madonna and Brooke Shields, and his remarkable shyness around people that made his surround himself with mannequins.

Jackson opened up to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for 30 hours of interviews, which were taped nine years ago and intended for a book Jackson wanted written, Boteach said.

"He was trying to reclaim his life," Boteach said Friday in an NBC "Today Show" interview.

Jackson, who died on June 25 of what the coroner found to be a deadly combination of drugs, "lost the will to live, I think he was just going through the motions of life toward the end," Boteach told NBC.

CNN has not independently confirmed Jackson's quotes in the book, but Boteach was known to be a spiritual adviser to Jackson for several years beginning about 1999.

Ken Sunshine, spokesman for the family, including the singer's father, Joe, issued a statement on the book. "We are not going to dignify this with a comment," he said.

The book was not published during Jackson's lifetime because of the pop star's child molestation trial, which ended with an acquittal in 2005, the author said. The author said Jackson's arrest ended any interest in a book about him.

"I don't want to grow old," Jackson is quoted as saying in one interview with Boteach.

"When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad," Jackson said.

Jackson talked to Boteach about why he was drawn to children, especially those who were sick.

"I love them. I love them," he said.

Helping children enjoy their childhood is his mission, Jackson said.

"I feel that this is something really, really in my heart that I am supposed to do, and I feel so loved by giving my love, and I know that's what they need," he said.

Jackson said that while adults "appreciate me artistically as a singer and a songwriter and a dancer and a performer," children "just want to have some fun and to give love and have love and they just want to be loved and held."

Boteach, in an interview about two years before Jackson's November 2003 arrest, asked Jackson about the young cancer patient who would later become his main accuser.

"He's special," Jackson said.

Boteach asked Jackson whether by speaking to people like the boy "part of the pain goes away for them."

"Absolutely," Jackson said. "Because every time I talk to him he is in better spirits. When I spoke to him last night he said, 'I need you. When are you coming home?' I said, 'I don't know.' He said, 'I need you, Michael.' Then he calls me 'Dad.'"

Michael Jackson's taped statements about his father's treatment of him as a child echoed what he has said previously.

"He was rough, the way he would beat you, you know, was hard," Jackson said. "He would make you strip nude first. He would oil you down. It would be a whole ritual. He would oil you down so when the flip of an ironing cord hit you, you know, and, it was just like me dying, and you had whips all over your face, your back, everywhere. And I always hear my mother like, 'No, Joe, you're gonna kill him. You're gonna kill him. No.' And I would just give up, like there was nothing I could do. And I hated him for it. Hated him."

Joe Jackson has denied physically abusing his son. "Now, Michael was never beaten by me, I've never beaten at all," he told CNN's Larry King in July. He did suggest he used spankings for disciplining his children.

Another Michael Jackson quote from the book alleged emotional abuse by Joe Jackson:

"God bless my father because he did some wonderful things and he was brilliant, he was a genius, but one day he said, 'If you guys ever stop singing I will drop you like a hot potato.' It hurt me. You would think he would think, 'These kids have a heart and feelings.' Wouldn't he think that would hurt us? If I said something like that to Prince and Paris, that would hurt. You don't say something like that to children and I never forgot it. It affects my relationship with him today."

Jackson told Boteach he was still "scared of my father to this day."

"My father walked in the room -- and God knows I am telling the truth -- I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble. He is so different now. Time and age has changed him and he sees his grandchildren and he wants to be a better father. It is almost like the ship has sailed its course, and it is so hard for me to accept this other guy that is not the guy I was raised with. I just wished he had learned that earlier."

In the excerpts provided to CNN by the book's publisher, there were no quotes from Jackson discussing his drug use, but Boteach does write about what he saw during the several years he was Jackson's spiritual adviser, starting in 1999.

While Boteach said he never personally saw Jackson use drugs, he did suspect it. "In the time that I knew him, he always seemed intent on me having a positive view of him and nothing untoward was ever done in my presence," he wrote.

While their close relationship ended around the time of the molestation charges, Boteach said Jackson's parents reached out to him later for help in convincing him to enter drug rehab.

"Perhaps I could inspire Michael to make that decision, and his parents thought I could at least help," Boteach said. "But I knew they were wrong. Michael had long since ceased taking my counsel. He found my advice too demanding. I was an irritant and was treated as such."

He said he told Joe and Katherine Jackson that "it was imperative for them to save their son's life by becoming available parents in his greatest hour of need."

Sometimes those closest to Jackson were not people -- but mannequins, the book said. Jackson said he was so shy at times he surrounded himself with dummies.

"Because I felt I needed people, someone, and I didn't have," he said. "I was too shy to be around real people."

Boteach, in the NBC interview Friday, said it made his skin crawl to hear that.

"His celebrity had created a degree of isolation where he could not simply feel comfortable around other people," Boteach said. "He thought that everybody wanted something from him. He felt that he was trapped in this cocoon of fame and that there was some exploitative relationship with virtually everyone that he met."

The book does offer insight into Jackson's dating of celebrity women, including actress Brooke Shields.

"That was one of the loves of my life," Jackson said. "I just wished she loved me as much as I loved her, you know."

He told Boteach one problem he had with women was their jealousy of his fame.

"They admire you and know you're wonderful and great, but just they're jealous because they wish they were in your place, with they were in your shoes. And 'M' is one of them -- Madonna. Hate to say that on tape."

CNN asked Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg for a response:

"Madonna was very fond of Michael Jackson (as she clearly expressed in her tribute to him at the VMA's) and I doubt anything in the book will change her mind," Rosenberg said.

CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report.

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question: What did Jackson tell Rabbi Shmuley Boteach?

answer: "I don't want to grow old,"

text: "I don't want to grow old,"

question: Jacskon told the Rabbi what?

answer: "He was trying to reclaim his life,"

text: "He was trying to reclaim his life,"

question: Was Michael Jackson molested?

answer: 'No,

text: 'No,

question: What did the King of Pop say?

answer: "I don't want to grow old,"

text: "I don't want to grow old,"

question: When did Michael JAckson die?

answer: June 25

text: June 25

question: Former confidant's books is based on how many hours of interviews?

answer: 30

question: What was name of the Rabbi Jackson confided in?

answer: Shmuley Boteach,

text: Shmuley Boteach,