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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate's request that his execution be delayed as he attempts to prove his innocence.

Troy Davis has always maintained his innocence in the 1989 killing of Officer Mark MacPhail.

The inmate, Troy Davis, has gained international support for his long-standing claim that he did not murder a Savannah police officer nearly two decades ago.

Justice John Paul Stevens on Monday ordered a federal judge to "receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at trial clearly establishes petitioner's innocence."

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer supported the decision. Sonia Sotomayor, who was sworn in August 8 as the newest member of the high court, did not take part in the petition.

Davis' case has had a dramatic series of ups and downs in the past year. He was granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court two hours before he was to be put to death last fall.

A month later, the justices reversed course and allowed the execution to proceed, but a federal appeals court then issued another stay.

The high court's latest ruling means Davis will continue to sit on death row.

Stevens said the risk of putting a potentially innocent man to death "provides adequate justification" for another evidentiary hearing.

His supporters in June delivered petitions bearing about 60,000 signatures to Chatham County, Georgia, District Attorney Larry Chisolm, calling for a new trial. Chisolm is the county's first African-American district attorney. Davis is also African-American.

Davis has always maintained his innocence in the 1989 killing of Officer Mark MacPhail. Witnesses said Davis, then 19, and two others were harassing a homeless man in a Burger King restaurant parking lot when the off-duty officer arrived to help the man. Witnesses testified at trial that Davis then shot MacPhail twice and fled.

But since his 1991 conviction, seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted their testimony. No physical evidence was presented linking Davis to the killing of the policeman.

The Georgia Pardons and Parole Board last year held closed-door hearings and reinterviewed the witnesses and Davis himself. The panel decided against clemency.

MacPhail's mother, Annaliese, told CNN at the time, "This is what we were hoping for, and I hope pretty soon that we will have some peace and start our life, especially my grandchildren -- my grandson and granddaughter. It has overshadowed their lives."

After the justices in October refused to grant a stay of execution, Davis' sister, Martina Correia, told CNN she was "disgusted" by the decision.

"It doesn't make any sense," she said. "We are praying for a miracle or some kind of intervention. We will regroup and fight. We will never stop fighting. We just can't be discouraged. The fight is not over till it's over."

Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas objected to the court's decision Monday, calling it a "fool's errand."

"Petitioner's claim is a sure loser," wrote Scalia. "Transferring his petition to the [federal] District Court is a confusing exercise that can serve no purpose except to delay the state's execution of its lawful criminal judgment."

Ten days after the high court refused last October to intervene, a federal appeals court in Georgia granted a temporary stay of execution. Since then, further appeals by Davis' legal team have dragged on for nearly a year.

Prominent figures ranging from the pope to the musical group Indigo Girls have asked Georgia to grant Davis a new trial. Other supporters include celebrities Susan Sarandon and Harry Belafonte; world leaders such as former President Jimmy Carter and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and former and current U.S. lawmakers Bob Barr, Carol Moseley Braun and John Lewis.

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AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN)  -- Josef Fritzl, who Austrian police say has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven of her children, twice holidayed in Thailand while she remained trapped in a cellar below his house, according to German media reports.

Josef Fritzl appeared in court after admitting raping his daughter and fathering her seven children.

Germany's Bild newspaper quoted a holiday companion, identified only as Paul H, who said he and 73-year-old Fritzl traveled to Thailand together twice and spent time in each other's homes.

"He went [to Thailand] without his wife; apparently she had to look after the children. ... Once he had a very long massage from a young Thai girl at the beach. He really loved that," Paul H told the newspaper, which featured video of Fritzl laughing and receiving a massage in Thailand on its Web site.

"Once I saw how Josef bought an evening dress and racy lingerie for a very slim woman in Pattaya [Thailand] on the beach. He got really angry when he realized I saw him. Then he told me that he has a girlfriend on the side. The items were meant for her. He told me not to tell his wife."  Watch footage of Fritzl on vacation at a Thai beach resort Â»

The pair had also ventured to Oktoberfest.

Paul H said he had visited Fritzl's house three times, the last in 2005.

"We sat out on the terrace and had a really nice evening. ... The kids were well-behaved, however; they had a great respect for their father. They were never allowed downstairs into the cellar, but we never thought anything of it," he told Bild.

"Now that I think of the dungeon down there, I feel really sick in the stomach."

Paul H said Fritzl was a DIY "genius," constantly extending and building on to the house.

Meanwhile, family members at the center of the incest and imprisonment case have held an "astonishing" reunion, medical officials said.

"They met each other on Sunday morning," clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said Tuesday. "And it is astonishing how easy it worked, that the children came together, and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and the mother came together."

Investigators say Fritzl held his daughter, Elisabeth, captive in a cellar for 24 years. He raped her repeatedly, they say, and eventually fathered seven of her children.

Elisabeth and two of her children were reunited Sunday with three of her other children and her mother, Kepplinger said Tuesday. The three children and her mother lived in the home above the cellar.

Elisabeth's eldest child, 19-year-old Kerstin Fritzl, remains in hospital.

A seventh child died years ago, shortly after birth. Fritzl told police he burned the infant's body in a furnace.

The story of the family's imprisonment began to unravel a week ago, when Kerstin fell seriously ill with convulsions and was hospitalized.

Austrian police Wednesday denied reports that they were investigating possible links between Fritzl and the unsolved murder of a woman.

Franz Polzer, director of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, said Fritzl had owned an Austrian hotel near where a woman was found murdered decades ago. However, they were not investigating the incident at this stage.

Meanwhile, an Austrian girl who was held prisoner in a basement for eight years said the family faced a long period of adjustment.  See how Austrians are troubled by the case Â»

Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped on her way to school in March 1998.

She escaped from a bunker below the house of Wolfgang Priklopil in a suburb of Vienna in August 2007. Priklopil killed himself by throwing himself under a train only hours later.

"Although they are now in a secret location, I believe it might have been even better to leave them where they were, but that was probably impossible," she said of the Fritzl family Tuesday.

"Yes, because that was of course the environment they were used to, and now they're somewhere else. Pulling them abruptly out of this situation, without transition, to hold them and isolating them to some extent, it can't be good for them."

Officials said Tuesday that DNA testing had confirmed Fritzl fathered the children.

His DNA also was found on a letter sent to the Fritzl family that was made to look like it was from his daughter, Elisabeth, Polzer said.  See inside the 'House of horrors' Â»

Authorities said Fritzl sent other letters over the years, leading the family to believe that Elisabeth was a runaway who had abandoned three of her children on their doorstep. He dictated at least one of the letters to his daughter, they said.

Authorities said it did not appear that Fritzl's wife, Rosemarie, knew about her husband's activities.

Reports have surfaced in The Times of London and Austria's Presse that Fritzl was convicted of sexual assault in the 1960s, but there is nothing in his record to confirm this, said District Governor Hans Heinz Lenze. He added, however, that records were expunged after a certain number of years.

Prosecutors were checking archives to find the information, said Gerhard Sedlacek, prosecutor for the state of Poelten.

The Times of London quoted a 50-year-old neighbor who said that when he was 10, he remembered "how we children were afraid to play near Mr. Fritzl's house because of the rumors that he had raped a woman and spent some time in jail for it."  Watch a report of how the case unfolded. Â»

Fritzl led police to the cellar Sunday. A day later, he confessed to raping his daughter, now 42, and keeping her and their children in captivity, police said.

Fritzl was able to convince social service workers, friends and family that Elisabeth had run away in 1984, when she was about 18. The father, who police described as an authoritarian figure, forbade anyone from entering the cellar.

In the cellar with Elisabeth were Kerstin and two sons, aged 5 and 18. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Phil Black, Nadine Schmidt and Eileen Hsieh contributed to this story.

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text: they

text: were

text: investigating

text: possible

text: links

text: between

text: Fritzl

text: and

text: the

text: unsolved

text: murder

text: of

text: a

text: woman

text: Franz

text: Polzer

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Lower

text: Austrian

text: Bureau

text: of

text: Criminal

text: Affairs

text: said

text: Fritzl

text: had

text: owned

text: an

text: Austrian

text: hotel

text: near

text: where

text: a

text: woman

text: was

text: found

text: murdered

text: decades

text: ago

text: However

text: they

text: were

text: not

text: investigating

text: the

text: incident

text: at

text: this

text: stage

text: Meanwhile

text: an

text: Austrian

text: girl

text: who

text: was

text: held

text: prisoner

text: in

text: a

text: basement

text: for

text: eight

text: years

text: said

text: the

text: family

text: faced

text: a

text: long

text: period

text: of

text: adjustment

text: See

text: how

text: Austrians

text: are

text: troubled

text: by

text: the

text: case

text: Â

text: Natascha

text: Kampusch

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: when

text: she

text: was

text: kidnapped

text: on

text: her

text: way

text: to

text: school

text: in

text: March

text: She

text: escaped

text: from

text: a

text: bunker

text: below

text: the

text: house

text: of

text: Wolfgang

text: Priklopil

text: in

text: a

text: suburb

text: of

text: Vienna

text: in

text: August

text: Priklopil

text: killed

text: himself

text: by

text: throwing

text: himself

text: under

text: a

text: train

text: only

text: hours

text: later

text: Although

text: they

text: are

text: now

text: in

text: a

text: secret

text: location

text: I

text: believe

text: it

text: might

text: have

text: been

text: even

text: better

text: to

text: leave

text: them

text: where

text: they

text: were

text: but

text: that

text: was

text: probably

text: impossible

text: she

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: Fritzl

text: family

text: Tuesday

text: Yes

text: because

text: that

text: was

text: of

text: course

text: the

text: environment

text: they

text: were

text: used

text: to

text: and

text: now

text: they

text: 're

text: somewhere

text: else

text: Pulling

text: them

text: abruptly

text: out

text: of

text: this

text: situation

text: without

text: transition

text: to

text: hold

text: them

text: and

text: isolating

text: them

text: to

text: some

text: extent

text: it

text: ca

text: n't

text: be

text: good

text: for

text: them

text: Officials

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: that

text: DNA

text: testing

text: had

text: confirmed

text: Fritzl

text: fathered

text: the

text: children

text: His

text: DNA

text: also

text: was

text: found

text: on

text: a

text: letter

text: sent

text: to

text: the

text: Fritzl

text: family

text: that

text: was

text: made

text: to

text: look

text: like

text: it

text: was

text: from

text: his

text: daughter

text: Elisabeth

text: Polzer

text: said

text: See

text: inside

text: the

text: House

text: of

text: horrors

text: Â

text: Authorities

text: said

text: Fritzl

text: sent

text: other

text: letters

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: leading

text: the

text: family

text: to

text: believe

text: that

text: Elisabeth

text: was

text: a

text: runaway

text: who

text: had

text: abandoned

text: three

text: of

text: her

text: children

text: on

text: their

text: doorstep

text: He

text: dictated

text: at

text: least

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: letters

text: to

text: his

text: daughter

text: they

text: said

text: Authorities

text: said

text: it

text: did

text: not

text: appear

text: that

text: Fritzl

text: 's

text: wife

text: Rosemarie

text: knew

text: about

text: her

text: husband

text: 's

text: activities

text: Reports

text: have

text: surfaced

text: in

text: The

text: Times

text: of

text: London

text: and

text: Austria

text: 's

text: Presse

text: that

text: Fritzl

text: was

text: convicted

text: of

text: sexual

text: assault

text: in

text: the

text: but

text: there

text: is

text: nothing

text: in

text: his

text: record

text: to

text: confirm

text: this

text: said

text: District

text: Governor

text: Hans

text: Heinz

text: Lenze

text: He

text: added

text: however

text: that

text: records

text: were

text: expunged

text: after

text: a

text: certain

text: number

text: of

text: years

text: Prosecutors

text: were

text: checking

text: archives

text: to

text: find

text: the

text: information

text: said

text: Gerhard

text: Sedlacek

text: prosecutor

text: for

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Poelten

text: The

text: Times

text: of

text: London

text: quoted

text: a

text: old

text: neighbor

text: who

text: said

text: that

text: when

text: he

text: was

text: he

text: remembered

text: how

text: we

text: children

text: were

text: afraid

text: to

text: play

text: near

text: Mr.

text: Fritzl

text: 's

text: house

text: because

text: of

text: the

text: rumors

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: raped

text: a

text: woman

text: and

text: spent

text: some

text: time

text: in

text: jail

text: for

text: it

text: Watch

text: a

text: report

text: of

text: how

text: the

text: case

text: unfolded

text: Â

text: Fritzl

text: led

text: police

text: to

text: the

text: cellar

text: Sunday

text: A

text: day

text: later

text: he

text: confessed

text: to

text: raping

text: his

text: daughter

text: now

text: and

text: keeping

text: her

text: and

text: their

text: children

text: in

text: captivity

text: police

text: said

text: Fritzl

text: was

text: able

text: to

text: convince

text: social

text: service

text: workers

text: friends

text: and

text: family

text: that

text: Elisabeth

text: had

text: run

text: away

text: in

text: when

text: she

text: was

text: about

text: The

text: father

text: who

text: police

text: described

text: as

text: an

text: authoritarian

text: figure

text: forbade

text: anyone

text: from

text: entering

text: the

text: cellar

text: In

text: the

text: cellar

text: with

text: Elisabeth

text: were

text: Kerstin

text: and

text: two

text: sons

text: aged

text: and

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Phil

text: Black

text: Nadine

text: Schmidt

text: and

text: Eileen

text: Hsieh

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: story

question: How long was the daughter imprisoned for?

answer: 24 years

text: 24 years

question: How long dif Fritzl keep his daughter imprisoned?

answer: 24 years

text: 24 years

question: Where was the daughter when the father was in Thailand?

answer: trapped in a cellar below his house,

text: trapped in a cellar below his house,

question: Where did the incestuous father vacation?

answer: Thailand

text: Thailand

question: Where did the dad holiday twice?

answer: Thailand

text: Thailand

question: Where was his daughter located?

answer: cellar

text: cellar

question: Who kept his own daughter captive for over two decades?

answer: Josef Fritzl,

text: Josef Fritzl,

question: How long was she imprisoned?

answer: 24 years

text: 24 years

question: Where did incest dad holiday?

answer: Thailand

text: Thailand


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MIAMI, Florida (CNN)  -- Florida Law enforcement officials said Monday they had launched an investigation into a tragic boating accident near St. Augustine, Florida, that took the lives of five people and seriously injured seven others.

CNN affiliate WJXT shows the scene of the deadly boating accident near Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has taken over as the lead agency involved in the investigation.

The incident took place on Sunday around 7:15 p.m., in the intracoastal waterway in St. Johns County, Florida, about 20 miles north of St. Augustine.

According to FWC investigators, a 22-foot boat with 12 people on board rammed into the rear and right side of a 25-foot tugboat.

"We are still investigating and haven't come to any conclusions yet," said Carol Pratt, spokeswoman for FWC. She said they still do not know who was driving the boat. They also are waiting for victims' next of kin to be notified before releasing any of their names and ages.

The tugboat was at a dock and boat launch under construction on the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Valley, said Jeremy Robshaw, a spokesman for St. Johns County Fire and Rescue.

Robshaw said rescuers couldn't initially reach the end of the unfinished dock, but laid plywood sheets on the structure to get to crash victims.

No one was onboard the tugboat, which is registered to F&A Enterprises in St. Augustine.

The seven injured were taken to Shands Jacksonville Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Two patients remain in critical condition, one is considered serious and three are in fair condition. A hospital spokesman did not have information on the seventh victim.

FWC told CNN that they hope to release more information on the incident and on their investigation.

As in any accident, toxicology studies will be done on the driver of the boat, to determine whether he or she was impaired, spokesman Carol Pratt told CNN.

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text: launched

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text: deadly

text: boating

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text: and

text: Wildlife

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text: agency

text: involved

text: in

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text: investigation

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text: waterway

text: in

text: St.

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text: County

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text: miles

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text: of

text: St.

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text: boat

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text: conclusions

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text: FWC

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text: said

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text: not

text: know

text: who

text: was

text: driving

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text: boat

text: They

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text: for

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text: kin

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text: notified

text: before

text: releasing

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text: on

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text: Valley

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text: spokesman

text: for

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text: County

text: Fire

text: and

text: Rescue

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text: said

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text: end

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text: structure

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text: tugboat

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text: registered

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text: Enterprises

text: in

text: St.

text: Augustine

text: The

text: seven

text: injured

text: were

text: taken

text: to

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text: Jacksonville

text: Hospital

text: in

text: Jacksonville

text: Florida

text: Two

text: patients

text: remain

text: in

text: critical

text: condition

text: one

text: is

text: considered

text: serious

text: and

text: three

text: are

text: in

text: fair

text: condition

text: A

text: hospital

text: spokesman

text: did

text: not

text: have

text: information

text: on

text: the

text: seventh

text: victim

text: FWC

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: they

text: hope

text: to

text: release

text: more

text: information

text: on

text: the

text: incident

text: and

text: on

text: their

text: investigation

text: As

text: in

text: any

text: accident

text: toxicology

text: studies

text: will

text: be

text: done

text: on

text: the

text: driver

text: of

text: the

text: boat

text: to

text: determine

text: whether

text: he

text: or

text: she

text: was

text: impaired

text: spokesman

text: Carol

text: Pratt

text: told

text: CNN

question: How many people were taken to hospital?

answer: seven

text: seven

question: What did the researchers use to reach passengers?

answer: plywood sheets

text: plywood sheets

question: What  did the rescue workers  use to reach the passengers?

answer: plywood sheets

text: plywood sheets

question: What is being investigated/

answer: a tragic boating accident near St. Augustine, Florida,

text: a tragic boating accident near St. Augustine, Florida,

question: who is leading the investegation?

answer: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has taken over as the lead agency involved in the investigation.

text: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has taken over as the lead agency involved in the investigation.

question: What did they use to save them?

answer: plywood sheets

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Tuwaitha, Iraq (CNN) -- The shell of former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's efforts to produce a nuclear bomb is being slowly dismantled along the banks of the Tigris River, but its radioactive legacy lingers on.

The Tuwaitha research complex, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, was bombed by Israel in its 1981 airstrike on Iraq's Tammuz 1 research reactor. It was bombed again during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and it was looted extensively after the 2003 U.S. invasion that ousted Hussein.

Now, engineers and technicians are working to dismantle the laboratories and equipment at the site, but the extensive contamination left behind complicates their work.

"It is difficult because of the destruction," said Anwar Ahmed, the project manager at Tuwaitha. "This facility was bombed in 1991. Now, finally the decision was made to decommission all the destroyed facilities."

Workers and visitors have to wear protective suits and masks around the facility, where about 20 people are at work so far. Iraq's ministry of Science and Technology said it is training more specialists to decommission the facility, but acknowledged the cleanup could take decades.

"We have 18 facilities in Tuwaitha," said Fuad al Musawi, Iraq's deputy science and technology minister. "We have another 10 facilities around the country. So you can imagine how long it will take."

Iraq's nuclear ambitions date back to the 1960s, when it obtained a Soviet-built research reactor. It built another, French-designed reactor in the 1970s. Israel's concerns about the program led to the 1981 raid, in which Israeli pilots flew across then-hostile Jordan and a corner of Saudi Arabia to strike the facility.

Despite the damage inflicted by that attack, Iraq began attempting to produce enriched uranium -- a step toward producing a nuclear weapon -- during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group reported in 2004. It accelerated that program after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait left it facing an international military coalition that ultimately drove out the Iraqi forces.

The bombardment that accompanied the 1991 war inflicted extensive damage to the Tuwaitha plants. The U.N. sanctions and inspections imposed after 1991 forced Hussein's government to abandon its nuclear program, the ISG concluded.

After the 2003 invasion, which was launched after the United States incorrectly accused Iraq of having restarted its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, nearby Iraqis inflicted further damage by looting the unguarded facility. Villagers nearby complained of symptoms that local doctors attributed to radiation sickness, particularly from using containers taken from the plant to store drinking water.

The Iraq Survey Group found basements full of radioactive water in some of the buildings, and the U.S. military later spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of non-weapons grade uranium oxide -- known as "yellowcake" -- to Canada.

Some Iraqi scientists still hope to start a civilian nuclear energy program in the future. But for now, Iraq is still grappling with the shadow of its past.

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text: of

text: former

text: Iraqi

text: strongman

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: 's

text: efforts

text: to

text: produce

text: a

text: nuclear

text: bomb

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text: being

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text: dismantled

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text: banks

text: of

text: the

text: Tigris

text: River

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text: radioactive

text: legacy

text: lingers

text: on

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text: Tuwaitha

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text: miles

text: southeast

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(CNN) -- At least 30 people died and 70 were wounded in shelling on a marketplace in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Thursday, according to journalists and emergency services.

Members of Islamist militia Al-Shaabab patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, earlier this month.

A local journalist called the rocket fire on Bakara market "unprecedented."

"This was the most brutal shelling," according to an ambulance service representative who said they had picked up 61 wounded, but expect the number to climb. Other victims were being brought to hospitals by family and friends.

The source of the shelling could not immediately be determined.

Journalists saw shell fire coming from AMISOM -- the African Union Mission in Somalia -- strongholds in a fortified district of the capital and from near the airport. AMISOM is the only force in the area believed to have the firepower capable of such an intense attack. However, AMISOM denied any involvement in the incident.

The African Union has a 3,400-member peacekeeping force in Somalia, made up of troops from Burundi and Uganda. It operates under a U.N. mandate to support Somalia's transitional federal government.

The peacekeeping force is charged with protecting key government and strategic installations in Mogadishu, including the port, airport and presidential palace. It is the de facto military force of the weak, transitional Somali government.

African Union forces have been battling an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in Somalia called Al-Shaabab.

The United States is supporting the Somali government's fight against the insurgents, including providing weapons to government forces. Al-Shaabab is on the U.S. list of terror organizations because of its ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

The United States is concerned that Somalia's weak government could fall to the Islamist insurgency, as it did in 2006 before Ethiopian forces ousted the militants from power in early 2007. Ethiopia invaded Somalia with the support of Somalia's weak transitional government.

Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Given a cast of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and the guiding hand of director and writer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), perhaps there is no more appropriate title than simply "Funny People."

Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow get together at the "Funny People" premiere in Hollywood.

Which is saying something, since "Funny People" frequently treads into the darker realms of comedy.

Sandler leads the cast as George Simmons, an A-list Hollywood comedian whose fame and fortune has brought him a beautiful mansion on the beach, lots of luck with the ladies and, as the audience soon discovers, a life of loneliness.

Sandler is quick to point out that he and his character have little in common.

"I can't really say this guy is me; he's not living my life," says Sandler, who is married with two children. "The movie star thing we have in common; we have a few mood swings in common. ... But the lifestyle and the attitude is not really me."

George's biggest problem isn't his desolation, however. He's been diagnosed with a leukemia-like terminal disease, prompting him to get back to his roots and do more stand-up comedy.

Along the way, he hires struggling comedian Ira Wright, played by Rogen, to pen jokes for him and act as his personal assistant. Despite hurling an occasional insult at Ira, George learns to trust his new, eager-to-please sidekick.

The feeling isn't always mutual. Ira is forced to adapt to his boss' constant mood swings, erratic behavior as he deals with the fear of dying and deep regret at losing Laura (Leslie Mann), the only woman he ever loved. However, Ira does earn a steady paycheck -- and gets a taste of show business.

Rogen, who says he wouldn't be in comedy if he never saw Sandler's movies while he was growing up, says "Funny People" paints an accurate picture of the ups and downs of comedians who are just starting out.

"It's an incredibly realistic representation," Rogen says. "Those scenes where you're backstage at the comedy club and you're all sitting around pitching jokes to each other. It's exactly like that."

Apatow, who performed stand-up comedy earlier in his career, says, "It is an ode to stand-up. I've always been a crazy fan of stand-up comedians. Jonathan Winters ... Don Rickles, things like that."

Apatow, who knows he's taking a risk with "Funny People's" mix of light and darkness, made a wisecrack about his hopes for the film at the Los Angeles premiere.

"Well, I think there's 10 movies that are going to be up for best picture this year, and we definitely are shooting for No. 16," he says.

The cast also took some risks, performing stand-up in front of live audiences for the film -- and, occasionally, watching their jokes fall flat.

Hill says he had never done stand-up before and calls the experience "terrifying."

"It can be brutal out there," Rogen adds.

Sandler, the most seasoned comedian by far, remembers his first days onstage and can relate.

"It's all about your last set," he recalls. "If I did good Wednesday ... all day Thursday, I was in a good mood.

"Then Thursday night comes around and I go onstage and if I did bad, Friday was a miserable time for everyone."

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- City officials in New York have denied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center next week, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to visit ground zero, but New York city officials said no.

The controversial, outspoken president wanted to "pay his respects" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks during his visit to the U.N. General Assembly, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, citing Iranian officials.

But workers are rebuilding the foundations of the site, "and it would not be possible for him to go where other people don't go," Kelly told CNN.

Iranian officials have not put in any additional requests to visit the public platforms at ground zero, police spokesman Paul Browne told CNN. But, he said, "If there were a further request, we'd reject it" because of security fears.  Watch why New York said no to Iranian leader Â»

The Iranian mission to the U.N. said it had not been told of the decision, but in a statement issued Wednesday evening, it called the rejection "unfortunate."

Iran is ruled by a Shiite Muslim government hostile to the fundamentalist Sunni al Qaeda.

Ahmadinejad's predecessor at the time of the September 11 attacks, Mohammed Khatami, condemned them, and Tehran cooperated with the U.S.-led campaign to topple al Qaeda's Taliban allies in Afghanistan that followed.

The United States and Iran have not had formal diplomatic relations since 1980 after Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage for 444 days.

The United States considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism and has accused the country of meddling in Iraq and in Afghanistan where U.S. troops are battling Taliban and al Qaeda remnants more than six years after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

More than 2,700 people died in the attack on the World Trade Center, when al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked passenger jets into the twin towers. A third jet hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers resisted their hijackers.

"It is appalling that President Ahmadinejad, one of the world's leading sponsors of terror, would find it appropriate to visit this hallowed ground," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.

Several presidential candidates also condemned the requested visit. Hillary Clinton, the New York senator and Democratic front-runner, called the request "unacceptable." Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a leading Republican, called it "shockingly audacious."

And former Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- whose leadership after the attacks is the cornerstone of his GOP presidential bid -- said that "under no circumstances" should Ahmadinejad be allowed to visit the World Trade Center site.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the site should not be "used as a photo op."

Numerous critics have attacked Ahmadinejad's hard-line anti-Israel stance and his insistence that Iran will defy U.N. demands that it halt its production of enriched uranium. Iran insists it is producing nuclear fuel for civilian power plants, but Washington accuses Tehran of trying to produce a nuclear bomb. E-mail to a friend

CNN Correspondent Deborah Feyerick contributed to this report.

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question: who are the persons who said no because the site is under construction?

answer: New York city officials

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question: who wanted to visit ground zero?

answer: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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question: what did US consider about Iran?

answer: a state sponsor of terrorism

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question: which country considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism?

answer: United

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question: which country is NYC in?

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question: did the Iranian president actually visit ground zero

answer: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to visit ground zero, but New York city officials said no.

text: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to visit ground zero, but New York city officials said no.

question: what did the president want to visit?

answer: the site of the destroyed World Trade Center

text: the site of the destroyed World Trade Center

question: what was the cause for no from new york city officials?

answer: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to visit ground zero,

text: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked to visit ground zero,


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(CNN) -- A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over the island and leaving at least 22 people dead.

The tsunami wave hit right in the middle of the harbor of Pago Pago, the capital.

American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked "right up there with some of the worst" disasters on the island. He said about 50 people had been treated for injuries so far but he expected that number to rise.

The quake hit the small cluster of South Pacific islands early Tuesday morning. By evening, Laumoli, standing outside the LBJ Tropical Medican Center morgue in the capital of Pago Pago, confirmed 22 deaths.

"I thought it was the end of the world," said Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services. "I have never felt an earthquake like that before."

Laumoli feared more fatalities would turn up as rescue workers were still trying to access parts of the island severed by damaged infrastructure.

Laumoli said people in outlying villages on one end of the main island have been cut off because the main bridge was washed away.

"Two or three villages have been badly damaged," he told CNN International.  Listen to Laumoli speak about the impact of the quake and tsunami Â»

Tulafono cited extensive damage to roads, buildings and homes, and said he had spoken to the military about mobilizing reserve forces for assistance.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, canceled tsunami watches and warnings for American Samoa about four hours after the earthquake hit. However, a tsunami advisory is still in effect for for the coastal areas of California and Oregon.  Watch report on end of tsunami warning Â»

The Japan Meteorological Agency also activated a tsunami advisory along its eastern coast. The precautionary alert means that the height of a possible tsunami wave would be less than a foot and a half.

President Barack Obama "declared a major disaster exists in the Territory of American Samoa" late Tuesday and ordered federal aid to supplement local efforts. The declaration makes federal funding available to affected individuals.

The tsunami waves hit right in the middle of the Pago Pago harbor, the capital, said Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center. The water devastated the village of Leone.  Watch a resident talk about what happened Â»

"The wave came onshore and washed out people's homes," Brown said.

The same happened on the hard-hit east and west sides of American Samoa, she said.

The quake generated three separate tsunami waves, the largest measuring 5.1 feet from sea level height, said Vindell Hsu, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Preliminary data had originally reported a larger tsunami.

Officials in the U.S. territory issued a clear call and were focusing on assessing the damage, Brown said.

Reports of damage were still emerging, but a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the waves "may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts. Authorities should take appropriate action in response to this possibility."

Tulafono, the governor, was on his way back home Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport planes flying to American Samoa with aid.

The Coast Guard also will transport more than 20 officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to American Samoa, said John Hamill, external affairs officer for FEMA in Oakland, California.

The FEMA team will include a variety of debris experts, housing experts, members of the Corps of Engineers, and other disaster relief specialists, Hamill said.

Tulafono told reporters Tuesday that it was hard being away from home when disaster came calling. It was a time, he said, for families to be together.

Those who experienced the massive quake described it as a terrifying event.

Brown was standing in a parking lot when her sports utility vehicle began rocking left and right.

"You could hear the rattling of the metal" of a large chain link fence around the lot, Brown said.

"It shakes you because you know something else is coming," she said.

CNN's Augie Martin, Mariano Castillo, Moni Basu, Tess Eastment and Nick Valencia contributed to this report

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