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NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A police officer chasing a theft suspect was fatally shot Thursday night by another officer after he failed to drop his weapon when ordered to, authorities said.

Officer Omar Edwards, 25, was not wearing a bulletproof vest and did not fire a shot, authorities say.

Authorities said Officer Omar Edwards, 25, was shot three times. The incident is under investigation.

Edwards was in plainclothes and carrying a handgun as he chased the suspect past a police car.

Authorities said the officer who shot him said he didn't realize Edwards was a police officer.

Edwards had just left the Housing Bureau Station House on East 124th Street, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a news conference Friday. As Edwards approached his vehicle, he saw a man rummaging through it.

Edwards took out his gun -- a Smith and Wesson 9 mm -- and chased the alleged thief, 43-year-old Miguel Santiago, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

Meanwhile, a police cruiser with a sergeant and two officers, including Officer Andrew Dunton, had just turned onto 125th Street from 1st Avenue.

Santiago ran in front of the unmarked vehicle as it approached halfway up the block and the vehicle stopped.

The officer in the front passenger seat got out of the vehicle and shouted for Edwards to stop running and drop his weapon.

According to Kelly, the officers reported that, after the command was given, Edwards turned toward Dunton with his gun in his hand.  Watch Commissioner Kelly describe the shooting Â»

Dunton fired his Glock 9 mm six times, hitting Edwards three of those times -- once in the left arm, once in the left side and once in the back, according to police. Emergency crews responding to the scene found Edwards wearing a police academy T-shirt under his clothes and found his police shield and ID in his front left pants pocket, according to Browne.

Edwards, who lived in Brooklyn, was recently married and had two small children, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV in New York.

On Friday, his relatives remembered him as a good person who achieved what he set out to do.

"He was a wonderful, wonderful child from when he was small," his father, Ricardo Edwards, told WABC.

"His desire was always to be a policeman and to play football," his uncle, Jerome Harding told the New York TV station. "And he did accomplish both, because he plays for the Police Department."

Edwards was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital at 11:21 p.m. Thursday, according to Kelly.

"Tragic accidents like this are another reminder of the dangers our police officers often face as they keep our city the safest big city in the nation," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday.

"Rest assured we will find out exactly what happened here, see what we can learn from it so it may never happen again. All the city's prayers are with Omar Edwards and his family."

Five eyewitnesses, along with 20 people who reported hearing gunshots, were interviewed by police.

The officer who fired the shots has 4Â½  years' experience, authorities said.

The officers involved have been placed on administrative duties while the shooting is investigated. Police later arrested the alleged thief on suspicion of breaking into Edwards' car.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Health officials expect more than 3 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to be available in the first week of October.

Three flu shot manufacturers were licensed by the FDA last week.

"3.4 million doses of vaccines will be available," said Dr. Jay Butler, who heads the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Task Force at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"All of that vaccine is the inhalable vaccine," he said Friday.

That form of vaccine is marketed in the United States as FluMist and is approved only for healthy individuals between the ages of 2 and 49. Pregnant women are not allowed to get this type of vaccine because it contains a live virus.

Butler added that he thinks there some flu shots may be available in early October as well, but he had a hard number only for the inhalable vaccine. Flu shots contain an "inactivated," or dead, virus.  Take a quiz about the H1N1 flu Â»

The 3.4 million doses of vaccine that will be shipped at the beginning of October are the first of 195 million doses the U.S. government has purchased from five vaccine manufacturers, Butler said.

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration licensed the vaccine from four of those companies. Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis and CSL Limited all manufacture flu shots, and MedImmune manufactures the inhalable vaccine. GlaxoSmithkline, which also is producing injectable flu vaccine, still needs to have its vaccine approved by the agency.

Health officials report that the new H1N1 flu virus has not changed from what was seen earlier this year, so they are expecting the vaccine to be very effective.

In some parts of the country, the vaccine can't some soon enough. The deputy director of the CDC's Influenza Division, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, said 21 states are now reporting widespread flu activity.

"It's a very strange thing for us to see that amount of influenza at this time of year" rather than much later in the flu season.

Jernigan said there's been only a small an increase in hospitalizations, mainly among young children and adults. But there has been a lot of activity in outpatient settings.  Watch a report on the surprising spread of flu Â»

Until the vaccine becomes available, health officials have recommended steps that people can take to cut their chance of getting sick or, for those already sick, prevent the spread of the flu, including frequent handwashing, sneezing into a tissue or sleeve rather than into one's hand, and staying home when sick.

Those who are at the highest risk of getting seriously ill -- pregnant women, children, young adults and people with chronic lung or heart disease or diabetes -- should be the first to get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. Health care workers and emergency medical personnel are also encouraged be vaccinated early.

"Our goal is to ultimately make the vaccine available to every American who wishes to be vaccinated," Butler said. "The vaccine demand is hard to predict." Learn more about the H1N1 flu from the CDC

According to a CNN/Opinion Corp. poll conducted in late August, 66 percent of Americans plan to be vaccinated against H1N1 flu.

Health care workers may not necessarily be among them. In the past, only about 40 percent of health care workers have been vaccinated against flu, according to the CDC.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China has refused nine U.S. Navy ships and one Air Force jet entry to Hong Kong in the past month, U.S. military officials said Friday.

China has refused the USS Reuben James, seen in a 1989 photo, a Christmas port call in Hong Kong.

Senior Navy officials said that Beijing denied permission for the USS Reuben James, a Navy frigate, to make a holiday port call for sailors at the end of December.

The rejection occurred last week, at the same time China refused to allow the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group into Hong Kong for a Thanksgiving holiday port call.

A U.S. Air Force C-17 flight that had been scheduled for a routine resupply of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong also was denied permission to enter, Navy officials said.

The Kitty Hawk battle group was eventually granted permission to enter, but by then the ships were well on their way to port in Japan.

Days earlier, China refused to give two U.S. Navy minesweepers safe harbor in Hong Kong during a storm on the high seas.

The United States has filed a formal protest with China over the decisions.

U.S. officials are baffled about the reason or reasons for the port call refusals. China recently has expressed concerns about U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and President Bush's October presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.  Watch China put the blame on the U.S. Â»

There is speculation that the Chinese may have been conducting military exercises that they didn't want the U.S. Navy to see. Others think the refusals may have been the result of a misunderstanding.

Officials could not explain why the rejection of the Reuben James had not been disclosed before, even though reporters had repeatedly asked if there were any other pending port calls. One senior Navy official expressed dismay that the information had not been made public by the Pentagon.

White House deputy spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters the White House is "aware" of the latest refusals and referred reporters to the Pentagon. Stanzel said a "clarification" on the matter was being sought from Beijing.

White House and other Bush administration officials have sought to defuse tensions with China, saying the United States wants to move ahead on broader issues of military cooperation.

Navy officials, meanwhile, say Japan is tightening approvals for Chinese navy visits into its ports. Crew members from a Chinese ship making a port call in Japan may not be allowed to tour a Japanese Aegis warship.

The U.S.-designed Aegis weapons system enables coordinated operations against threats from aircraft and missiles, surface ships and submarines.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- During the 1960 presidential election, Theodore Sorensen helped then-Sen. John F. Kennedy draft a speech addressing Kennedy's Catholicism and the separation between church and state. At the time, many questioned whether Kennedy, who would go on to become the nation's first Roman Catholic president, would be influenced by the Catholic church.

Theodore Sorensen helped write John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on Catholicism.

Speaking to CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider, Sorensen discussed Kennedy's famous 1960 speech and compared it to the speech on faith in politics delivered Thursday by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who would be the first Mormon in the White House if he is elected.

Question: Did Kennedy's 1960 speech win him the presidency?

Sorensen: Well, he obviously didn't lose it, nor did he free the country from the curse of anti-Catholicism. The hate mail still poured into his office. The vicious picket signs were still seen out on the campaign trail, and, indeed, on Election Day. According to a University of Michigan survey, more people voted against Kennedy because of his religion than any other reason. Nevertheless, that speech, which was nationally broadcast and frequently rebroadcast, certainly took a lot of the poison out of the anti-Catholic issue and reassured all reasonable people.  Watch Sorensen discuss why Kennedy gave his speech Â»

Q. Could President Kennedy have delivered the speech Romney gave on Thursday?

Sorensen: No. Mr. Romney's position on many of the issues are very different than JFK's. JFK wanted to particularly stress that he believed in the separation between church and state. He believed that no one needed to worry about a Catholic bishop or a cardinal dictating to him as a president, and that freedom of religion included freedom for those to go to any church or not to go to any church at all. So, Romney emphasized the role of religion in public life more strongly than JFK did or would have.

Q. Romney seemed to differ quite strongly with Kennedy on the privacy of religion, didn't he?

Sorensen: Yes, he did. In fact, Romney felt compelled for some reason to define his personal views of Jesus Christ. Kennedy said, as you noted, his personal views of religion were totally his business and not the business of the American people.

Q. Romney made the statement "freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom." Do you think Kennedy would have agreed with that?

Sorensen: I don't think anyone would disagree strongly with that. There were some lines in the Romney speech that echoed the Kennedy speech. As an old speechwriter, I would congratulate Mr. Romney. It was a pretty good speech. I think he touched all the bases he wanted to touch.

Q. Romney discussed his views of Jesus Christ, something that Kennedy avoided. Why did Kennedy avoid discussing his religious views?

Sorensen: Because [Kennedy] began the speech by saying his private religious beliefs -- his relationship with God or Jesus Christ or anything else -- was not a matter of public discussion. He did not think the election should be based on -- as he said, it's not what kind of church I believe in, the question is what kind of country do I believe in.

Q. Kennedy's speech in 1960 is widely viewed as being successful. Do you think Romney's speech is likely to be viewed as a success?

Sorensen: I assume so. I don't think Mr. Romney should be denied the presidency because of his religion. Just as I don't think Senator [Barack] Obama should be denied because of his race. Or that Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton should be denied the presidency because of her gender. This country is in deep, serious trouble, and thoughtful citizens surely are going to make up their minds based on the major issues confronting the country and the major qualities of the candidates and not on such superficial tests as religion, race, or gender. E-mail to a friend

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question: Who delivers speech on faith politics?

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question: What was Kennedy's speech on Roman Catholicism?

answer: JFK wanted to particularly stress that he believed in the separation between church and state. He believed that no one needed to worry about a Catholic bishop or a cardinal dictating to him as a president, and that freedom of religion included freedom for those to go to any church or not to go to any church at all.

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question: What did Romney speak about?

answer: emphasized the role of religion in public life

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question: What did Sorensen say Kennedy viewed religion as?

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question: Who helped draft Kennedy's 1960 speech?

answer: Theodore Sorensen

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question: Which views did Kennedy and Romney differ greatly on?

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question: Which GOP candidate delivered a speech on faith in politics?

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question: What does Kennedy view religion as?

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(CNN) -- Nearly 2,000 miles from Haiti, there's a ripple effect from the earthquake that devastated the country on January 12. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have arrested 140 Haitian men and women who have crossed the border from Canada into Vermont since late January.

Many had gone to Canada well before the earthquake to seek asylum, and thought they could take advantage of a relaxed U.S. policy on deporting Haitians.

"One of the things that's happening is that some of these individuals that have previously been either deported or ordered deported and are looking for refuge in Canada, have entered Canada illegally, are now looking to come back into the U.S. and possibly take advantage of the temporary protected status that our government has given," said David Aguilar, acting deputy commissioner at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That temporary protected status allows Haitians who were in the United States at the time of the earthquake to stay longer, regardless of whether they were in the country legally or not.

But the policy does not protect Haitians illegally entering the country now. "We are going to apprehend them," said Aguilar. "These are people that should not have come into this country and applied for a program that they do not benefit from."

That message was likely lost in translation,  said David Watts, a court-appointed attorney for three Haitians charged with illegal entry and jailed.

"I think there's no doubt that there was some confusion," Watts said. "None of them have immigration lawyers, they're relying on the word on the street and the word in the community."

One of the men Watts represents is Arry Seguin, whose story is not uncommon. Seguin was living in the Haitian community in Montreal after going to Canada in 2008 to seek asylum. Until then, he had been living in Florida with his wife and two children, now ages 6 and 2.

Seguin left the United States after losing appeals to stay. His wife, Louizette, a naturalized citizen, lives in a cramped apartment in Lantana, Florida, and doesn't understand why her husband can't join her.

"You see, everything is a mess without him. Nothing is working well without him," she says.

She says she struggles to take care of her children, but she is also getting calls from relatives in Haiti who are desperate for help. It's the reason she believes her husband tried to return to Florida. He never made it far beyond the Canadian-Vermont border and was arrested in the early morning hours of March 21.

Because Seguin doesn't have a criminal record, his lawyer was able to reach a settlement with prosecutors. For now, Seguin will be eligible to stay in the United States under supervised release, checking in with immigration authorities. It will be up to a judge to decide if that happens.

Watts expects his client will released from jail soon. While Seguin will eventually face deportation, Watts says the goal is to return him to his family to weather their immediate personal crisis.

"So he will have achieved his goal, but for the fact that he's spent an awful lot of time in jail," Watts said. "It would have been better, given what actually happened, if he had been able to come back and help sooner."

Taking the risk of getting caught was in the cards, says Chrissy Etienne, who works as an interpreter for the Haitian men and women who've been arrested. Etienne is a Haitian native living in Burlington, Vermont, having recently graduated from Middlebury College. Because she speaks Creole, she had signed up to be a translator and was stunned when attorneys called in February asking for help.

Since then, her phone hasn't stopped ringing and she's met with dozens of Haitians who've been arrested, meeting them either in prison or in court.

"I think some thought there is a great chance I will get caught," says Etienne. "I think some expected to get caught. I think it was get to the U.S. at all costs, get to my family at all costs."

"I think that it is connected to the earthquake," says Etienne. "When you lose your home, when you lose Haiti as a whole. What is left?"

Giving a voice to the arrested Haitians, she said, has been tough since she is restrained in what she can do.

Etienne describes a common scenario with the men and women she deals with, saying, "There is that, that wish for a system that is more personal. Couldn't I just explain this to a judge? To someone? That I am not a criminal. That I have no background or criminal background. I am just trying to get to my family. Isn't there someone who is going to believe that story? And who is going to hear me?

"And there is that moment where ... I know what the attorney is going to say and I have to relate it with that same sort of calm, collected feeling, but I am also watching someone fall apart."

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text: Protection

text: agents

text: have

text: arrested

text: Haitian

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: who

text: have

text: crossed

text: the

text: border

text: from

text: Canada

text: into

text: Vermont

text: since

text: late

text: January

text: Many

text: had

text: gone

text: to

text: Canada

text: well

text: before

text: the

text: earthquake

text: to

text: seek

text: asylum

text: and

text: thought

text: they

text: could

text: take

text: advantage

text: of

text: a

text: relaxed

text: U.S.

text: policy

text: on

text: deporting

text: Haitians

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: things

text: that

text: 's

text: happening

text: is

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: individuals

text: that

text: have

text: previously

text: been

text: either

text: deported

text: or

text: ordered

text: deported

text: and

text: are

text: looking

text: for

text: refuge

text: in

text: Canada

text: have

text: entered

text: Canada

text: illegally

text: are

text: now

text: looking

text: to

text: come

text: back

text: into

text: the

text: U.S.

text: and

text: possibly

text: take

text: advantage

text: of

text: the

text: temporary

text: protected

text: status

text: that

text: our

text: government

text: has

text: given

text: said

text: David

text: Aguilar

text: acting

text: deputy

text: commissioner

text: at

text: U.S.

text: Customs

text: and

text: Border

text: Protection

text: That

text: temporary

text: protected

text: status

text: allows

text: Haitians

text: who

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: of

text: the

text: earthquake

text: to

text: stay

text: longer

text: regardless

text: of

text: whether

text: they

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: legally

text: or

text: not

text: But

text: the

text: policy

text: does

text: not

text: protect

text: Haitians

text: illegally

text: entering

text: the

text: country

text: now

text: We

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: apprehend

text: them

text: said

text: Aguilar

text: These

text: are

text: people

text: that

text: should

text: not

text: have

text: come

text: into

text: this

text: country

text: and

text: applied

text: for

text: a

text: program

text: that

text: they

text: do

text: not

text: benefit

text: from

text: That

text: message

text: was

text: likely

text: lost

text: in

text: translation

text: said

text: David

text: Watts

text: a

text: court

text: appointed

text: attorney

text: for

text: three

text: Haitians

text: charged

text: with

text: illegal

text: entry

text: and

text: jailed

text: I

text: think

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: doubt

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: some

text: confusion

text: Watts

text: said

text: of

text: them

text: have

text: immigration

text: lawyers

text: they

text: 're

text: relying

text: on

text: the

text: word

text: on

text: the

text: street

text: and

text: the

text: word

text: in

text: the

text: community

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: Watts

text: represents

text: is

text: Arry

text: Seguin

text: whose

text: story

text: is

text: not

text: uncommon

text: Seguin

text: was

text: living

text: in

text: the

text: Haitian

text: community

text: in

text: Montreal

text: after

text: going

text: to

text: Canada

text: in

text: to

text: seek

text: asylum

text: Until

text: then

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: living

text: in

text: Florida

text: with

text: his

text: wife

text: and

text: two

text: children

text: now

text: ages

text: and

text: Seguin

text: left

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: after

text: losing

text: appeals

text: to

text: stay

text: His

text: wife

text: Louizette

text: a

text: naturalized

text: citizen

text: lives

text: in

text: a

text: cramped

text: apartment

text: in

text: Lantana

text: Florida

text: and

text: does

text: n't

text: understand

text: why

text: her

text: husband

text: ca

text: n't

text: join

text: her

text: You

text: see

text: everything

text: is

text: a

text: mess

text: without

text: him

text: Nothing

text: is

text: working

text: well

text: without

text: him

text: she

text: says

text: She

text: says

text: she

text: struggles

text: to

text: take

text: care

text: of

text: her

text: children

text: but

text: she

text: is

text: also

text: getting

text: calls

text: from

text: relatives

text: in

text: Haiti

text: who

text: are

text: desperate

text: for

text: help

text: It

text: 's

text: the

text: reason

text: she

text: believes

text: her

text: husband

text: tried

text: to

text: return

text: to

text: Florida

text: He

text: never

text: made

text: it

text: far

text: beyond

text: the

text: Canadian

text: Vermont

text: border

text: and

text: was

text: arrested

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: morning

text: hours

text: of

text: March

text: Because

text: Seguin

text: does

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: criminal

text: record

text: his

text: lawyer

text: was

text: able

text: to

text: reach

text: a

text: settlement

text: with

text: prosecutors

text: For

text: now

text: Seguin

text: will

text: be

text: eligible

text: to

text: stay

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: under

text: supervised

text: release

text: checking

text: in

text: with

text: immigration

text: authorities

text: It

text: will

text: be

text: up

text: to

text: a

text: judge

text: to

text: decide

text: if

text: that

text: happens

text: Watts

text: expects

text: his

text: client

text: will

text: released

text: from

text: jail

text: soon

text: While

text: Seguin

text: will

text: eventually

text: face

text: deportation

text: Watts

text: says

text: the

text: goal

text: is

text: to

text: return

text: him

text: to

text: his

text: family

text: to

text: weather

text: their

text: immediate

text: personal

text: crisis

text: So

text: he

text: will

text: have

text: achieved

text: his

text: goal

text: but

text: for

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: he

text: 's

text: spent

text: an

text: awful

text: lot

text: of

text: time

text: in

text: jail

text: Watts

text: said

text: It

text: would

text: have

text: been

text: better

text: given

text: what

text: actually

text: happened

text: if

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: able

text: to

text: come

text: back

text: and

text: help

text: sooner

text: Taking

text: the

text: risk

text: of

text: getting

text: caught

text: was

text: in

text: the

text: cards

text: says

text: Chrissy

text: Etienne

text: who

text: works

text: as

text: an

text: interpreter

text: for

text: the

text: Haitian

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: who

text: 've

text: been

text: arrested

text: Etienne

text: is

text: a

text: Haitian

text: native

text: living

text: in

text: Burlington

text: Vermont

text: having

text: recently

text: graduated

text: from

text: Middlebury

text: College

text: Because

text: she

text: speaks

text: Creole

text: she

text: had

text: signed

text: up

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: translator

text: and

text: was

text: stunned

text: when

text: attorneys

text: called

text: in

text: February

text: asking

text: for

text: help

text: Since

text: then

text: her

text: phone

text: has

text: n't

text: stopped

text: ringing

text: and

text: she

text: 's

text: met

text: with

text: dozens

text: of

text: Haitians

text: who

text: 've

text: been

text: arrested

text: meeting

text: them

text: either

text: in

text: prison

text: or

text: in

text: court

text: I

text: think

text: some

text: thought

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: great

text: chance

text: I

text: will

text: get

text: caught

text: says

text: Etienne

text: I

text: think

text: some

text: expected

text: to

text: get

text: caught

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: was

text: get

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: at

text: all

text: costs

text: get

text: to

text: my

text: family

text: at

text: all

text: costs

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: it

text: is

text: connected

text: to

text: the

text: earthquake

text: says

text: Etienne

text: When

text: you

text: lose

text: your

text: home

text: when

text: you

text: lose

text: Haiti

text: as

text: a

text: whole

text: What

text: is

text: left

text: Giving

text: a

text: voice

text: to

text: the

text: arrested

text: Haitians

text: she

text: said

text: has

text: been

text: tough

text: since

text: she

text: is

text: restrained

text: in

text: what

text: she

text: can

text: do

text: Etienne

text: describes

text: a

text: common

text: scenario

text: with

text: the

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: she

text: deals

text: with

text: saying

text: There

text: is

text: that

text: that

text: wish

text: for

text: a

text: system

text: that

text: is

text: more

text: personal

text: Could

text: n't

text: I

text: just

text: explain

text: this

text: to

text: a

text: judge

text: To

text: someone

text: That

text: I

text: am

text: not

text: a

text: criminal

text: That

text: I

text: have

text: no

text: background

text: or

text: criminal

text: background

text: I

text: am

text: just

text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: to

text: my

text: family

text: Is

text: n't

text: there

text: someone

text: who

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: believe

text: that

text: story

text: And

text: who

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: hear

text: me

text: And

text: there

text: is

text: that

text: moment

text: where

text: I

text: know

text: what

text: the

text: attorney

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: say

text: and

text: I

text: have

text: to

text: relate

text: it

text: with

text: that

text: same

text: sort

text: of

text: calm

text: collected

text: feeling

text: but

text: I

text: am

text: also

text: watching

text: someone

text: fall

text: apart

question: What caused the people to cross the border?

answer: earthquake

text: earthquake

question: What number of Haitians have crossed the border?

answer: 140

question: How many Haitians have crossed the border?

answer: 140


text:
DALLAS, Texas (CNN)  -- A terrorism suspect accused of plotting the bombing of a skyscraper made his first appearance in federal court Friday.

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi said through his lawyer that he understood the charges Friday.

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian, said little during a 20-minute hearing at the Dallas federal courthouse. His lawyer, however, said Smadi understood the gravity of the charge.

Judge Irma Ramirez set a probable cause hearing for October 5.

Smadi initially drew authorities' scrutiny because of his violent posts on an extremist chat site, court papers indicate. He was arrested Thursday in a sting operation, the FBI said.

Federal officials said Smadi, who entered the United States illegally and lived in Texas, tried to set off an explosive attached to a vehicle at the base of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower.

Long before authorities arrested Smadi, however, they were following his Internet discussions, according to a court affidavit.

"Smadi was discovered by the FBI within an online group of extremists," the affidavit says. "Among many others in the group who espoused and endorsed violence, Smadi stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States."

Undercover officers then contacted Smadi, posing as members of an al Qaeda sleeper cell. After months of conversations, the agents considered Smadi a legitimate threat.

Smadi picked several targets to attack, including the Dallas-Forth Worth airport, before deciding on the skyscraper, which houses Wells Fargo Bank, the affidavit says. It details a conversation that Smadi is said to have had with authorities:

"I have decided to change the target," he said, according to the affidavit. "God willing, the strike will be certain and strong. It will shake the currently weak economy in the state and the American nation, because this bank is one of the largest banks in the city."

Smadi said many times that he wanted to commit violent jihad and he was a soldier of Osama bin Laden, the affidavit says.

Undercover agents tried to get Smadi to "re-evaluate his interpretation of jihad," saying there were nonviolent ways to commit the act. But "Smadi again communicated his continuing commitment for violent jihad," the affidavit says.

After casing the bank in July, Smadi told an undercover agent he would target it, according to authorities. Initially, Smadi told the agent he wanted to bomb the bank on September 11 but decided to wait until the Islamic holy month of Ramadan ended on September 20, authorities said.

After receiving what he thought was an explosive from an undercover agent, Smadi drove a car with the fake bomb into a parking garage under the skyscraper, authorities said.  Watch how a Jordanian was given fake explosive Â»

Smadi thought he could detonate the bomb by dialing his cell phone, they said.

When he dialed, the number rang a phone in authorities' possession, the affidavit says.

Counterterrorism officials arrested Smadi on Thursday before publicly disclosing a similar but unrelated terrorism sting arrest Wednesday in Springfield, Illinois. A federal law enforcement official familiar with the cases said authorities feared that word of the Illinois arrest could tip off the Texas suspect to the sting operation.  Watch what the recent terror arrests mean Â»

A charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction carries a potential sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

In the Illinois case, undercover FBI agents foiled a plot to bomb Springfield's federal building, authorities said.

In neither case did authorities find ties to known terrorist groups.

Journalist Todd Bensman and CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Sean Callebs and Terry Frieden contributed to this report.

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text: FBI

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text: said

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text: United

text: States

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text: Dallas

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text: affidavit

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text: state

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text: largest

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text: city

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text: wanted

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text: violent

text: jihad

text: and

text: he

text: was

text: a

text: soldier

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text: bin

text: Laden

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text: affidavit

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text: undercover

text: agent

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text: would

text: target

text: it

text: according

text: to

text: authorities

text: Initially

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text: told

text: the

text: agent

text: he

text: wanted

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text: decided

text: to

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text: Islamic

text: holy

text: month

text: of

text: Ramadan

text: ended

text: on

text: September

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text: said

text: After

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text: what

text: he

text: thought

text: was

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text: undercover

text: agent

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text: parking

text: garage

text: under

text: the

text: skyscraper

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text: said

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text: a

text: Jordanian

text: was

text: given

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text: Smadi

text: thought

text: he

text: could

text: detonate

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text: bomb

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text: his

text: cell

text: phone

text: they

text: said

text: When

text: he

text: dialed

text: the

text: number

text: rang

text: a

text: phone

text: in

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text: possession

text: the

text: affidavit

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text: Smadi

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text: disclosing

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text: similar

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text: unrelated

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text: Wednesday

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text: Springfield

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text: law

text: enforcement

text: official

text: familiar

text: with

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text: cases

text: said

text: authorities

text: feared

text: that

text: word

text: of

text: the

text: Illinois

text: arrest

text: could

text: tip

text: off

text: the

text: Texas

text: suspect

text: to

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text: sting

text: operation

text: Watch

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text: the

text: recent

text: terror

text: arrests

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text: charge

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text: attempting

text: to

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text: a

text: weapon

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text: destruction

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text: a

text: fine

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text: Illinois

text: case

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text: FBI

text: agents

text: foiled

text: a

text: plot

text: to

text: bomb

text: Springfield

text: 's

text: federal

text: building

text: authorities

text: said

text: In

text: neither

text: case

text: did

text: authorities

text: find

text: ties

text: to

text: known

text: terrorist

text: groups

text: Journalist

text: Todd

text: Bensman

text: and

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jeanne

text: Meserve

text: Sean

text: Callebs

text: and

text: Terry

text: Frieden

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: who plotted to bomb the Dallas skyscraper?

answer: Hosam Maher Husein Smadi

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(CNN) -- A rat believed to be extinct for 11 million years, a spider with a foot-long legspan, and a hot pink cyanide-producing "dragon millipede" are among the thousand newly discovered species in the largely unexplored Mekong Delta region.

The "dragon millipede" is among the 1,068 new species discovered in the Mekong Delta region.

The region, including parts of Vietnam and five other countries, is home to 1,068 species found between 1997 and 2007, according to a World Wildlife Fund report released this week.

Some of the creatures were not lurking in fertile floodplains or tropical foliage.

A scientist visiting an outdoor restaurant was startled to see a Laotian rock rat among the nearby wildlife. The hairy, nocturnal, thick-tailed rat, which resembles a squirrel, had been thought for centuries to be extinct.

"There is a certain amount of shock because our scientists will sometimes see something that doesn't fit anything they know," said Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Fund's Mekong Program. "They run through a catalogue of wildlife in their brain, asking themselves, 'Have I seen this?'"

Perhaps a more startling discovery than the rat was a bright green pit viper scientists spotted slithering through the rafters of a restaurant in Khao Yai National Park in Thailand.

The Fund dubbed the Mekong a "biological treasure trove." The organization's report "First Contact in the Greater Mekong" says 519 plants, 279 fish, 88 frogs, 88 spiders, 46 lizards, 22 snakes, 15 mammals, four birds, four turtles, two salamanders and a toad were found.

Scientists are still trying to determine if they have uncovered thousands of new invertebrate species.

Scientists are discovering new species at a rate of two per week, said Chungyalpa, who said the reason for publishing the report now was twofold.

"We realized that we should highlight these discoveries in part because of the legacy of war and conflict in the region," she said. "There's an urgency with the threat of development in the Mekong countries."

A horned bovine found in 1991 living in the evergreen forests of the Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam has not been found in recent years, she said.

Timber development and mining industries are encroaching. There are 150 large hydropower dams that have been constructed along the Mekong river, and another 150 are slated to be built, according to the Fund. Dams that can trap and kill fish are at different stages of planning in the Greater Mekong.

High variation in geography and climate zones that enabled species to flourish are now jeopardized by climate change, said Chungyalpa.

War is always a threat in countries touched by the Mekong River, particularly Burma. Also known as Myanmar, the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia has been ravaged over the years by conflict, political instability and natural disaster.

This summer, for example, the United Nations reported that as many as 100,000 people were killed by a cyclone that hit Myanmar. The country's ruling military junta blocked the outside world for weeks before allowing aid to flow into the region.

There are cultural obstacles to protecting rare species, too. Many restaurants serve them as food. Restaurants often have rickety bamboo floors that one can look through to see cages filled with exotic animals, Chungyalpa says. The more exotic the animal, the more status it often bestows on the person who consumes it.

"Reports [like the WWF's] are important because these regions can be educated," said Maureen Aung-Thwin, the director of The Burma Project, which is funded by the George Soros Foundation and supports local Indonesian organizations working toward an open society.

"People are taking climate change more seriously and even the ruling junta have a forestry NGO. There are glimpses of hope," said Aung-Thwin. "But it's also a situation where someone could step forward and say 'We don't need this' and cut it all down."

WWF said it is working with governments and industry to plan the conservation of more than 231,000 square miles of forest and freshwater habitats that cross borders with all countries in the Greater Mekong.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- The Supreme Court offered unanimous support for police Wednesday by allowing drug evidence gathered after an arrest that violated state law to be used at trial, an important search-and-seizure case turning on the constitutional limits of "probable cause."

The Supreme Court unanimously gave police broader powers to search for and seize evidence.

"When officers have probable cause to believe that a person has committed a crime in their presence, the Fourth Amendment permits them to make an arrest, and to search the suspect in order to safeguard evidence and ensure their own safety," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote.

David Lee Moore was stopped by Portsmouth, Virginia, officers five years ago for driving his vehicle on a suspended license. Under state law in such incidents, only a summons is to be issued and the motorist is to be allowed to go. Instead, detectives detained Moore for almost an hour, arrested him, then searched him and found cocaine.

At trial, Moore's lawyers tried to suppress the evidence, but the state judge allowed it, even though the court noted the arrest violated state law. A police detective, asked why the man was arrested, replied, "Just our prerogative."

While some of the justices expressed concern about that level of discretion at oral arguments in January, their 9-0 ruling raised few such doubts.

"The arrest rules that the officers violated were those of state law alone," Scalia said. "It is not the province of the Fourth Amendment to enforce state law."

The state had argued an arrest is constitutionally reasonable if officers have probable cause to believe a suspect has committed a crime. "This standard represents the best compromise between the needs of the citizens and the duty of the government to combat crime," Stephen McCullough, Virginia's deputy solicitor general, had told the high court.

But Moore's attorney, Thomas Goldstein, called an "extreme proposition" the idea that it would be reasonable "to go out and arrest someone for a non-arrestable offense and not only do that, but having committed that trespass at common law, to further search them."

There has been widespread judicial confusion over how such police searches should be handled. Some lower courts had ruled that when state arrest law is violated, the Constitution provides a remedy in the suppression of any evidence resulting from the arrest and a related search.

But the justices agreed with the majority of courts that said constitutional requirements are satisfied when an officer has probable cause to make an arrest, even if some provision of state law was violated in the process.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a concurring opinion suggesting Virginia change its law to make driving on a suspended license an arrestable offense.

During arguments, Ginsburg spoke for several colleagues when she pointed out that if a summons had been issued in Moore's case, any incriminating evidence would have been excluded. "Would you explain the logic to saying that when the police violate state law, then the evidence can come in, but when they comply with state law, it can't," she asked.

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question: Who allowed evidence of drugs?

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question: what does case involve?

answer: violated state law to be used at trial, an important search-and-seizure

text: violated state law to be used at trial, an important search-and-seizure

question: What was the justices ruling with regard to the officers?

answer: Moore's original jury conviction and 3-Â½ year prison term will stand.

text: Moore's original jury conviction and 3-Â½ year prison term will stand.

question: Who was stopped for driving with suspended license?

answer: David Lee Moore

text: David Lee Moore

question: what did trial judge allowed?

answer: the evidence,

text: the evidence,

question: What did police do instead of issuing a ticket?

answer: detectives detained Moore for almost an hour, arrested him, then searched him and found cocaine.

text: detectives detained Moore for almost an hour, arrested him, then searched him and found cocaine.

question: What was the Virginia man stopped for?

answer: driving his vehicle on a suspended license.

text: driving his vehicle on a suspended license.