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(CNN) -- Richard Strandlof said he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. He said he survived again when a roadside bomb went off in Iraq, killing four fellow Marines. He'd point to his head and tell people he had a metal plate, collateral damage from the explosion.

Richard Strandlof says he didn't mean to cause harm when he lied about being a military veteran.

None of it was true. On Friday, the FBI arrested him on the rare charge of "stolen valor."

Strandlof, 32, was held "for false claims about receipt of military decorations or medals," an FBI news release said. Charges had been filed in Denver, Colorado, the week before, the bureau said.

"The penalty for his crime is up to one year incarceration and a $100,000 fine," it said.

Before his deception was revealed, crowds ate up his story. He canvassed Colorado appearing at the sides of politicians. Inspiring and seemingly authentic, he spoke on behalf of veterans at the state Capitol.

He formed a group called the Colorado Veterans Alliance.

The whole thing was a lie, he admitted to CNN's Anderson Cooper earlier this year.  Watch Strandlof discuss case in June. Â»

He wasn't at the Pentagon. He was never a Marine. He never served his country. He never graduated from the Naval Academy. He claimed his real name was Rick Duncan.

Where was he on 9/11, the day he said he witnessed heroism firsthand?

"I was in San Jose, California, watching it in horror on TV with a few other people," Strandlof told CNN.

He was at a homeless shelter at the time.

Strandlof denies being a pathological liar. He says he suffered from "some severely underdiagnosed mental illness" and he got caught up in the moment around "people who are passionate and loved what they did."

He told CNN he had put on a "production, which I'm sorry for."

"Hopefully the people that I hurt can in some way gain closure from that, and I myself don't know what I can do, short of leaving them alone and not being in their lives, to make that happen," Strandlof said.

He said he's not sure exactly how he's hurt people. "It's not for me to say, and time will tell," he said.

Hal Bidlack, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, is one of those people. He ran for Congress as a Democrat and had Strandlof appear with him. Bidlack -- who lost to incumbent Republican Doug Lamborn -- isn't too happy.

"Once one lie fell apart, the whole series of things ... just cascaded into an ocean of lies," he said.

Bidlack was at the Pentagon when it came under attack on September 11, 2001. He now realizes that Strandlof stole portions of his own story.

"Now that we know he's a lying fraud," Bidlack said, "I think he was just parroting my own story back to me."

"There are an awful lot of things that he kept straight to try to fool an awful lot of people for an awful long time."

Doug Sterner has catalogued hundreds of people claiming to be military veterans who never served in the military. He says it's typical for those perpetuating the hoaxes to claim mental illness.

"I don't buy that," Sterner said. "What he was doing was looking for a cause to promote himself. I see this repeatedly. I've had a hundred cases just this year like Rick Strandlof's. ... What they're doing is building a kingdom of self and feeding their own ego."

Sterner has pushed for a federal database listing the names and citations of all decorated military veterans to help put an end to such cases. He said Strandlof has robbed true veterans of their veracity.

"Doing good does not take away from the bad that he did," he said. "Because of Rick Strandlof, the next global war on terrorism veteran that speaks in a school or talks to the media or gets involved in politics is going to be questioned."

Ryan Gallucci, a spokesman for AMVETS, agreed.

"Strandlof's actions dishonor the actual sacrifices of veterans," he told CNN Monday.

"Second, by commissioning his own advocacy group, Strandlof diverted philanthropy dollars for legitimate causes within the veterans community," Gallucci said.

"Personally, it just sickens me," Gallucci added. "As a veteran of the war in Iraq, it's unfathomable that someone would propagate such a lie at a time when American men and women are actually putting their lives on the line, and American families are coping with the loss of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice."

According to the Denver Post, Strandlof came to authorities' attention first in 1997, when he was sentenced to five years on forgery and bad-check charges.

The FBI was investigating him for fraud when he spoke to CNN -- a charge he denied.

"We did not take money to use on non-veterans projects. I did not enrich myself on this. I did not gain any money from this," he said.

He has not been charged with fraud.

That's not the point, said Sterner. "The one thing he robbed from every veteran that comes out now is credibility."

Gallucci called Strandlof a "con man" and the case "morally repugnant."

"Strandlof's actions are exploitation plain and simple, and AMVETS is eager to see justice served," Gallucci said.

CNN's Joe Johns contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- As the National Tea Party Convention concluded this weekend, it's clear that the Tea Partiers are propelled by two competing claims -- a principled commitment to fiscal conservatism and a serious case of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

The first group remains true to the roots of the movement as it emerged almost one year ago amid bailout backlash. They feel like modern Paul Reveres, warning their fellow citizens about the unsustainable nature of our government's deficit spending and unprecedented debt.

They still have an important civic role to play in our national debate.

The second group reflects the overheated, hyperpartisanship that emerged over the August town halls and the 9/12 march on Washington.

Oddly enough, this group embraced the tactics of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and applied them to the conservative cause, with angry confrontation and street theater protests. They ascribe to Obama every sinister characteristic imaginable -- often a secret plot to undermine our constitutional republic and put in a socialist, one-world government in its place.

This is the crowd that carries the signs comparing Obama to Hitler and communists, while proclaiming themselves patriots. Their extremism will ultimately lead the movement to self-destruct unless it is clearly repudiated.

The weekend's controversial and much-covered Tea Party ended up being more of a conference than a convention. It offered speeches and seminars to a relatively small group of attendees. While Tax Day 2009 Tea Parties attracted some 300,000 people nationwide, this convention accommodated just 600 people, who paid nearly $500 each for the privilege of attending the populist conference.

While the crowds at 2009's protests were generally angrier than the speakers who climbed up onto platforms at last weekend's conference, the dynamic was reversed. The crowd was generally more civil than the selected speakers.

Former congressman Tom Tancredo accused the president of being a "committed socialist ideologue" and proposed a civic literacy test for voting.

WorldNet Daily founder Joseph Farah used his post-dinner speech, covered by C-Span, to repeat inane "Birther" claims.

Alabama gubernatorial candidate and former state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore said Obama had "ignored our history and our heritage, arrogantly declaring to the world that we are no longer a Christian nation." He also compared Obama to King George III by quoting the Declaration of Independence: "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Sarah Palin was the most cautious by far, saying simply "America is ready for another revolution."

Where will the Tea Party movement go from here?

The for-profit conference organizers declared that "we absolutely do not support a third party" and instead announced the creation of a new corporation and concurrent PAC to support conservative candidates, primarily in the South. This is still very much a leaderless movement with divergent tributaries. There's no shortage of anger at the GOP for starting the path of deficit spending last decade and then backing the first round of Wall Street bailouts under Bush.

There is a rejection of politics as usual, the feeling that both parties are captive of their respective special interests -- big business and big government.

What's your take? Share your thoughts on the Tea Party movement

For the Tea Party momentum to continue in a constructive way, it will need to take at least two further steps: First, repudiate the unhinged Obama-haters and then focus its anger at fiscal irresponsibility into policy proposals instead of bumper-sticker platitudes.

With a growing number of conspiracy entrepreneurs trying to profit off populist anger in a recession, it's also worth keeping the conservative virtue of healthy skepticism in mind.

Remember what the author Eric Hoffer warned in his book "The True Believer:" "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket."

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(CNN) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres said he had an amicable phone conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after Erdogan stormed offstage during an angry exchange with Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan leaves the stage Thursday, as Israeli President Shimon Peres sits, left.

Peres said he and Erdogan did not take the spat personally.

"I called him up and said, yes, it's nothing against you, nothing against Turkey. We consider you as a friend," Peres said. He said Erdogan reciprocated.

Although there was no mention of an apology, Peres said there was a polite exchange between the two leaders.

"I didn't take it personally. I didn't go for a personal fight. I answered unfounded accusations. It was my duty. And they didn't change my mind," he said.  Watch Shimon Peres on the Gaza conflict ÃÂ»

Turkey, a predominantly Muslim nation, has long been the Jewish state's closest military and economic partner in the region, and Turkey recently mediated indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria.

But many Turks have been incensed with Israel over its three-week military operation that ended there earlier this month.

And in Davos, Erdogan was angered after Peres said that Israel is committed to peace and blamed Hamas for the fighting in Gaza, where Israel staged a three-week military operation that ended earlier this month.

When Erdogan began responding, a moderator cut him off, saying the debate had run over its allotted time. Erdogan patted the moderator on the arm until he was granted one more minute to respond.  Watch commentary on Erdogan's angry exchange ÃÂ»

"I know the reason behind raising your voice is because of the guilty psychology," he said to Peres. "My voice will not be that loud. You must know that. When it comes to killing -- you know killing very well. I know how you hit, kill children on the beaches."

He then left the stage, complaining that Peres was receiving preferential treatment.

"From now on, Davos is finished for me," Erdogan said. "I will not come back. You won't let people talk. You gave him 25 minutes, but you gave me 12 minutes. This is not right."

Erdogan had described the military campaign against Hamas fighters in Gaza as "barbaric" and accused Israel of using excessive force.

He said: "The Palestinian Territories are like an open-air prison, isolated from the world. I have always been a leader who said anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity. But so is anti-Islamism."

Peres had said Hamas was responsible for the "tragedy," accusing the Islamist militants of creating a "dangerous dictatorship."

"Israel left Gaza completely -- no occupation," Peres said. "I want to understand why they throw rockets at us."

On Friday, after his outburst, Erdogan returned home to a hero's welcome. Thousands of people lined up at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, cheering and waving signs. A large banner read, "You Will Never Walk Alone," and smaller signs bore phrases including "Davos Conqueror." People also were seen waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and throwing flowers on the road leading to Erdogan's home.

Despite the glowing response at the airport, there has been some criticism in the Turkish media of Erdogan's exchange with the Israeli president.

CNN Turk's Deniz Bayramoglu said the issue was still "hot" with Erdogan's secularist political opponents speaking out against the prime minister.

"They also say that Israel's behavior in Gaza is unacceptable but they are very critical of Prime Minister Erdogan's behavior," Bayramoglu said.

"Some are saying they are really proud of Prime Minister Erdogan and some are saying it is a diplomatic scandal."

Erdogan explained whom he was directing his anger at during a news conference at the airport. "My words were only to the Israeli government, not the Israeli people," he said.

CNN's Simon Hooper and Talia Kayali contributed to this report.

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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Japanese scientists have produced clones of mice that have been dead and frozen for 16 years -- a feat that could lead researchers to one day resurrect long-extinct species, such as the mammoth.

Dolly was cloned using cells from live animals. Now scientists believe they can resurrect extinct species.

Until now, scientists have only been able to produce clones using cells from live animals. This is how researchers created Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult animal.

Researchers had thought that frozen cells were unusable because ice crystals would have damaged the DNA. That belief would rule out the possibility of resurrecting extinct animals from their frozen remains.

But the latest research -- published in the journal, Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences -- shows that scientists may have overcome the obstacle.

Researchers at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, used cells from mice that had been frozen for 16 years at -20 Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit).

They extracted the nucleus and injected it into eggs whose DNA had been removed. Several steps later, the scientists were able to clone the mice.

"This is the first time a mammal has been cloned from a sample stored at conditions reasonably close to what might be expected in permafrost," Teruhiko Wakayama, who led the study, said in a statement.

"(It) gives some hope for those who might seek to clone extinct species from frozen carcasses."

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Washington (CNN) -- The departure of U.S. troops left many questions lingering in Iraq Sunday, analysts told CNN's "State of the Union."

"There are a lot of things here that are not finished. There are activities in the region that are still sitting on the edge of potential conflict," said retired Gen. James Cartwright, former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Paul Bremer, a former envoy to Iraq under President George W. Bush, said President Barack Obama had "placed a very big bet" by pulling out troops.

"The definition of victory actually was given by the president when he made the announcement we were pulling out. He said a democratic Iraq can be a model for the region. That's right. That's what President Bush also said. And the question is, can a democratic Iraq survive if America pulls out before the job is done?" he said.

Another key question, analysts said, is what neighboring Iran will do next.

"Iran's clearly one of the strategic winners out of this. The United States managed to eliminate one of the two arch-rivals that Iran faced, and so Iran has gained a much stronger position," said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.

"At the same time," she added, "I think that once the United States withdraws, that the historic tensions between Arabs and Persians along the strategic border are likely to resurface, and that the Iranians will have influence with many of the top leaders in... Iraq, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the Iraqis are going to become the next Iranian province."

The last U.S. troops in Iraq crossed the border into Kuwait Sunday, marking the end of an almost-nine year war. According to the defense department, 4,487 service members were killed in the war; more than 30,000 were wounded.

It is impossible to know with certainty the number of Iraqis who have died in Iraq since 2003. But the independent public database Iraq Body Count has compiled reports of more than 150,000 between the invasion and October 2010, with four out of five dead being civilians.

Obama said Monday that the end of the Iraq war means a new chapter in U.S.-Iraq relations, with a focus now on a "normal relationship between sovereign nations."

He told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the two nations would build "a comprehensive partnership" that includes trade relations, support for building up Iraq's democratic capacity and military-to-military ties aimed at helping Iraq rebuild its air force, which was destroyed in the war against Saddam Hussein's regime.

"Our goal is simply to make sure Iraq succeeds," he said.

Debate was raging about the nation's political future Sunday, as a political crisis erupted in Baghdad that raised fears of more sectarian strife to come.

Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that draws support largely from Sunni and more secular Iraqis, said it was boycotting parliament, a move that threatens to shatter Iraq's fragile power-sharing government.

The political bloc contends that al-Maliki is trying to amass dictatorial power, and many believe that the prime minister was simply waiting for the Americans to leave before making his move.

"These old sectarian divides are in many ways deeper than they were even under Saddam Hussein, and the United States can play a certain kind of role in that," Wright said, pointing to the importance of diplomatic involvement even after U.S. troops leave.

Cartwright said U.S. troops may return to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces.

"It will be interesting to see," he said. "I think the opportunity is there for us to bring forces back in."

CNN's Moni Basu, Arwa Damon and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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question: Who said  "Old sectarian divides are in many ways deeper than they were"?

answer: Wright

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question: What does Paul Bremer say?

answer: President Barack Obama had "placed a very big bet" by pulling out troops.

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question: What does Gen. James Cartwright say?

answer: "There are a lot of things here that are not finished.

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question: Who said "Can a democratic Iraq survive if America pulls out before the job is done?"

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(CNN) -- Four days after Haiti's massive earthquake, efforts are under way to bury the dead as thousands of bodies crumpled in the streets of Port-au-Prince lay exposed to the sun or draped in sheets and cardboard.

Throughout the city, people covered their noses from the stench and some resorted to face masks. CNN correspondents in Haiti reported efforts to remove the bodies, including the creation of a mass grave. It's still unclear how many people have been killed in Tuesday's earthquake; the prime minister suggested there could be several hundreds of thousands.

CNN's Anderson Cooper, reporting Friday from a mass grave on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, described seeing hundreds of bodies mixed with garbage in open pits. Some bodies were bulldozed into the half-filled pits.

"These people will vanish," Cooper said in a phone report. "No one will know what happened to them. That's one of the many horrors.

"There's no system in place here. Literally these people here are being collected off the streets, dumped into a dump truck, then brought out here and dumped in the pits," he said.

The fear of disease is frequently the reason for rapidly burying bodies in mass graves. But contrary to popular belief, bodies do not cause epidemics after natural disasters, experts said.

"The reality is that most of the disease that live in us -- once our body is dead they can't survive very long," said Oliver Morgan, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fecal matter from the deceased could contaminate the water supply, posing a risk, but "it's nowhere near the risk of all the survivors living in the streets with no sanitation," said Morgan, who contributed to the World Health Organization's guidelines on managing bodies after a natural disaster.

There has never been an epidemic after a natural disaster that was traced to exposure to bodies, according to the WHO.

The chief priority must lie with the living, experts said.

"Body collection is not the most urgent task after a natural disaster," according to the WHO's 2006 guidance on the Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters. "The priority is to care for survivors. There is no significant public health risk associated with the presence of bodies. Nevertheless, bodies should be collected as soon as possible and taken away for identification."

Mass graves, it warned, are "not justified on public health grounds. Rushing to dispose of bodies without proper identification traumatizes families and communities and may have serious legal consequences."

"There's always talks about mass graves because that's always the easiest solution," said Frank Ciaccio, vice president of commercial services at Kenyon International Emergency Services, a disaster management company that responds to mass fatality accidents. "We don't strongly recommend them. However, sometimes in situations in very developing nations, that's the only thing to do."

In cases of mass graves, teams should at least document or photograph the individual for future identification, he said. Kenyon has deployed an emergency response assessment team to Haiti. Ciaccio was part of the crew that responded to the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004 and New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Having bodies on the street is very distressing to survivors.

"That's going to be very stressful," Ciaccio said. "It's hot temperatures and that's not a pleasant sight. There's decomposed bodies. And the hotter the weather, the quicker the decomposition."

Decomposition starts as early as the day of death, bringing stench and pests.

"When you have bodies on the street that begin to decompose, you eventually get maggot infestation because of flies and you have a potential of rats," said Vernie Fountain, the disaster task force leader of the National Funeral Directors Association.

At one of the capital city's cemeteries, people opened up old crypts and shoved corpses of quake victims into them before resealing them. Workers loaded bodies -- piled on the sides of roads -- into the basket of a front-loader tractor, which then deposited them into blood-stained dump trucks, according to CNN correspondents in Haiti.

"There's little dignity in death in Port-au-Prince these days," Cooper said in his report.

The United States is deploying mortuary teams to identify and bury the dead in a public safety rescue mission, Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, said Thursday.

After huge disasters, mortuary teams often face logistical nightmares, working with little resources, thousands of bodies, collapsed infrastructure, language barriers and different cultural and religious views.

After working in the aftermath of landslides, cyclones, hurricanes and tsunamis with mass fatalities, Morgan realized the lack of a guidelines for handling the bodies was a recurring problem.

"What we often see are these pictures of mass graves which are dug three feet deep with hundreds of bodies thrown into this large hole," Morgan said. "That's discouraged in preference to having a more organized situation with a long trench grave and putting bodies in an ordered way, or marked graves so people know where the victims are buried."

One possible solution is to move the bodies to a temporary, organized collection point and to gather as much information to help with future identification, said Fountain, who served as a national officer for Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a national response team designed to provide mortuary assistance in mass fatality incidents.

After the tsunami killed 225,000 people in 2004, various Southeast Asian countries handled the dead differently based on location and available resources.

While none of the countries affected by the tsunami had enough refrigerated storage to handle the corpses, many found alternatives by burying the dead in temporary, shallow graves with the intent to exhume them later. Other bodies were hastily buried within 24 hours in mass graves.

"The parallels are mass fatalities and catastrophic events," Ciaccio said. "We have a significant loss of life; we have people that are unknown; we have a significant number of missing people. The one minor difference in Thailand was that it was isolated to shoreline about a mile in. Here you have total destruction of an infrastructure system."

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text: possible

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text: taken

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text: Mass

text: graves

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text: public

text: health

text: grounds

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text: to

text: dispose

text: of

text: bodies

text: without

text: proper

text: identification

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text: families

text: and

text: communities

text: and

text: may

text: have

text: serious

text: legal

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text: always

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text: about

text: mass

text: graves

text: because

text: that

text: 's

text: always

text: the

text: easiest

text: solution

text: said

text: Frank

text: Ciaccio

text: vice

text: president

text: of

text: commercial

text: services

text: at

text: Kenyon

text: International

text: Emergency

text: Services

text: a

text: disaster

text: management

text: company

text: that

text: responds

text: to

text: mass

text: fatality

text: accidents

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: strongly

text: recommend

text: them

text: However

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text: situations

text: in

text: very

text: developing

text: nations

text: that

text: 's

text: the

text: only

text: thing

text: to

text: do

text: In

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text: of

text: mass

text: graves

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text: should

text: at

text: least

text: document

text: or

text: photograph

text: the

text: individual

text: for

text: future

text: identification

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text: said

text: Kenyon

text: has

text: deployed

text: an

text: emergency

text: response

text: assessment

text: team

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text: Haiti

text: Ciaccio

text: was

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: crew

text: that

text: responded

text: to

text: the

text: tsunami

text: in

text: Southeast

text: Asia

text: in

text: and

text: New

text: Orleans

text: Louisiana

text: after

text: Hurricane

text: Katrina

text: in

text: Having

text: bodies

text: on

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text: street

text: is

text: very

text: distressing

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text: That

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text: going

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text: very

text: stressful

text: Ciaccio

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text: 's

text: hot

text: temperatures

text: and

text: that

text: 's

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text: a

text: pleasant

text: sight

text: There

text: 's

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text: the

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text: bodies

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text: street

text: that

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text: eventually

text: get

text: maggot

text: infestation

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text: of

text: flies

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: a

text: potential

text: of

text: rats

text: said

text: Vernie

text: Fountain

text: the

text: disaster

text: task

text: force

text: leader

text: of

text: the

text: National

text: Funeral

text: Directors

text: Association

text: At

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: city

text: 's

text: cemeteries

text: people

text: opened

text: up

text: old

text: crypts

text: and

text: shoved

text: corpses

text: of

text: quake

text: victims

text: into

text: them

text: before

text: resealing

text: them

text: Workers

text: loaded

text: bodies

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text: on

text: the

text: sides

text: of

text: roads

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text: basket

text: of

text: a

text: front

text: loader

text: tractor

text: which

text: then

text: deposited

text: them

text: into

text: blood

text: stained

text: dump

text: trucks

text: according

text: to

text: CNN

text: correspondents

text: in

text: Haiti

text: There

text: 's

text: little

text: dignity

text: in

text: death

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: these

text: days

text: Cooper

text: said

text: in

text: his

text: report

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: is

text: deploying

text: mortuary

text: teams

text: to

text: identify

text: and

text: bury

text: the

text: dead

text: in

text: a

text: public

text: safety

text: rescue

text: mission

text: Kathleen

text: Sebelius

text: secretary

text: of

text: Health

text: and

text: Human

text: Services

text: said

text: Thursday

text: After

text: huge

text: disasters

text: mortuary

text: teams

text: often

text: face

text: logistical

text: nightmares

text: working

text: with

text: little

text: resources

text: thousands

text: of

text: bodies

text: collapsed

text: infrastructure

text: language

text: barriers

text: and

text: different

text: cultural

text: and

text: religious

text: views

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text: working

text: in

text: the

text: aftermath

text: of

text: landslides

text: cyclones

text: hurricanes

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text: tsunamis

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text: mass

text: fatalities

text: Morgan

text: realized

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: a

text: guidelines

text: for

text: handling

text: the

text: bodies

text: was

text: a

text: recurring

text: problem

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text: we

text: often

text: see

text: are

text: these

text: pictures

text: of

text: mass

text: graves

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text: dug

text: three

text: feet

text: deep

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text: hundreds

text: of

text: bodies

text: thrown

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text: large

text: hole

text: Morgan

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text: 's

text: discouraged

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text: to

text: having

text: a

text: more

text: organized

text: situation

text: with

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text: long

text: trench

text: grave

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text: putting

text: bodies

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text: way

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text: graves

text: so

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text: know

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text: the

text: victims

text: are

text: buried

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text: possible

text: solution

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text: the

text: bodies

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text: temporary

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text: point

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text: to

text: gather

text: as

text: much

text: information

text: to

text: help

text: with

text: future

text: identification

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text: Fountain

text: who

text: served

text: as

text: a

text: national

text: officer

text: for

text: Disaster

text: Mortuary

text: Operational

text: Response

text: Team

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text: national

text: response

text: team

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text: to

text: provide

text: mortuary

text: assistance

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text: mass

text: fatality

text: incidents

text: After

text: the

text: tsunami

text: killed

text: people

text: in

text: various

text: Southeast

text: Asian

text: countries

text: handled

text: the

text: dead

text: differently

text: based

text: on

text: location

text: and

text: available

text: resources

text: While

text: of

text: the

text: countries

text: affected

text: by

text: the

text: tsunami

text: had

text: enough

text: refrigerated

text: storage

text: to

text: handle

text: the

text: corpses

text: many

text: found

text: alternatives

text: by

text: burying

text: the

text: dead

text: in

text: temporary

text: shallow

text: graves

text: with

text: the

text: intent

text: to

text: exhume

text: them

text: later

text: Other

text: bodies

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text: hastily

text: buried

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text: hours

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text: mass

text: graves

text: The

text: parallels

text: are

text: mass

text: fatalities

text: and

text: catastrophic

text: events

text: Ciaccio

text: said

text: We

text: have

text: a

text: significant

text: loss

text: of

text: life

text: we

text: have

text: people

text: that

text: are

text: unknown

text: we

text: have

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text: significant

text: number

text: of

text: missing

text: people

text: The

text: one

text: minor

text: difference

text: in

text: Thailand

text: was

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: isolated

text: to

text: shoreline

text: about

text: a

text: mile

text: in

text: Here

text: you

text: have

text: total

text: destruction

text: of

text: an

text: infrastructure

text: system

question: Who does Anderson Cooper work for?

answer: CNN's

text: CNN's

question: What is frequently the reason for rapidly burying bodies in mass graves?

answer: fear of disease

text: fear of disease

question: Who reported on a mass grave with hundreds of bodies?

answer: Anderson Cooper,

text: Anderson Cooper,

question: What is the reason for rapidly burying bodies in mass graves?

answer: The fear of disease

text: The fear of disease

question: What is not justified on public health grounds?

answer: Mass graves,

text: Mass graves,


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(CNN)  -- An angry Phil Mickelson hinted at legal action for being accused of "cheating" by fellow PGA Tour professional Scott McCarron.

The world number two carded a two-under 70 to be four shots behind third round leader Ryuji Imada at the Farmers Insurance Open, but for the second day in a row his post-round press conference centered on his use of a 20-year-old wedge with square grooves.

McCarron was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, saying that Mickelson and others who had opted to play with the Ping-Eye 2 wedge were exploiting a loophole in PGA Tour rules.

"It's cheating, and I'm appalled Phil has put it in play," he said.

New rules introduced this year only allow for irons with V-shaped grooves, but because of a lawsuit filed by manufacturers Ping an exception has been made for wedges, with square grooves, which were made before April 1, 1990.

Mickelson is using one of those wedges at Torrey Pines this week and on Friday he was grilled about his use and McCarron reported comments.

Mickelson declined then to get into what he called "name calling" but mounted a stout defense of his use of the club, saying it was within the rules.

But after his fine third round on the South Course, Mickelson appeared to up the ante.

"We all have our opinions on the matter, but a line was crossed and I just was publicly slandered," Mickelson told the official PGA Tour Web site.

"And because of that, I'll have to let other people handle that."

Asked he was mounting a lawsuit, Mickelson said, "I'm not going into specifics what that meant."

Meanwhile, the PGA Tour has issued a statement to explain why the controversial Ping-Eye 2 wedges were approved for play, appearing to criticize McCarron for his comments.

"Because the use of pre-1990 Ping Eye 2 irons is permitted for play, public comments or criticisms characterizing their use as a violation of the Rules of Golf as promulgated by the USGA are inappropriate at best," read the final paragraph of the statement.

Mickelson said that it was "cool if they put that out there."

On the course, Imada shot a two-under 70 for a 13-under 203 and had a two-shot lead over Ben Crane (69) and Michael Sim of Australia.

U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover carded a 68 and was three shots behind with Mickelson a further stroke behind on his season-debut on the PGA Tour.

text: CNN

text: An

text: angry

text: Phil

text: Mickelson

text: hinted

text: at

text: legal

text: action

text: for

text: being

text: accused

text: of

text: cheating

text: by

text: fellow

text: PGA

text: Tour

text: professional

text: Scott

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text: second

text: day

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text: a

text: row

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text: post

text: round

text: press

text: conference

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text: use

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text: a

text: old

text: wedge

text: with

text: square

text: grooves

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text: quoted

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text: the

text: San

text: Francisco

text: Chronicle

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text: saying

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text: Mickelson

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text: others

text: who

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text: play

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text: Ping

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text: Tour

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text: cheating

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text: lawsuit

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text: Pines

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text: on

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text: use

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text: McCarron

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text: comments

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text: he

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text: club

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text: was

text: within

text: the

text: rules

text: But

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text: fine

text: third

text: round

text: on

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text: South

text: Course

text: Mickelson

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text: ante

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text: opinions

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text: matter

text: but

text: a

text: line

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text: crossed

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text: I

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text: publicly

text: slandered

text: Mickelson

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text: official

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text: Tour

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text: people

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text: mounting

text: a

text: lawsuit

text: Mickelson

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text: I

text: 'm

text: not

text: going

text: into

text: specifics

text: what

text: that

text: meant

text: Meanwhile

text: the

text: PGA

text: Tour

text: has

text: issued

text: a

text: statement

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text: controversial

text: Ping

text: Eye

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text: to

text: criticize

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text: comments

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text: use

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text: Eye

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text: Rules

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text: paragraph

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text: statement

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text: course

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text: under

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text: and

text: had

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text: two

text: shot

text: lead

text: over

text: Ben

text: Crane

text: and

text: Michael

text: Sim

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text: Australia

text: U.S.

text: Open

text: champion

text: Lucas

text: Glover

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text: and

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text: shots

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text: further

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text: behind

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text: season

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text: on

text: the

text: PGA

text: Tour

question: What has the row centered on?

answer: his use of a 20-year-old wedge with square grooves.

text: his use of a 20-year-old wedge with square grooves.

question: Who says he was 'publicly slandered'?

answer: Phil Mickelson

text: Phil Mickelson

question: Who is world number two?

answer: Phil Mickelson

text: Phil Mickelson

question: What does Phill Mickelson hint at?

answer: legal action

text: legal action

question: Who says they have been publicly slandered?

answer: Phil Mickelson

text: Phil Mickelson