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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Humza Ismail hasn't spent much time in Raleigh, North Carolina, since he started graduate school two years ago. But when he heard two former acquaintances were arrested on terrorism charges this week, he says, "Honestly, I wasn't surprised."

Omar Aly Hassan, left, and Ziyad Yaghi were clear on where they stood on terrorism, an acquaintance said.

Omar Aly Hassan, Ziyad Yaghi and five others are charged with conspiring to commit violent jihad overseas. An eighth suspect is still being sought, authorities have said.

When he lived in Raleigh, Ismail worshipped at the same mosque as Hassan and Yaghi. When groups of young men talked there, Ismail says, the conversation often turned to religion and politics, and Hassan and Yaghi made it clear where they stood.

"When it came to something like suicide bombing, they would say, 'If it's a benefit for the Muslims then something like that can be permissible,' " Ismail says.

"I could tell it was something they wanted to do." But, he adds, "They never indicated or said 'we are going to make jihad overseas.'"

Ismail says the duo spoke in glowing terms about Osama bin Laden, calling him a scholar and a mujahedeen.

"You could tell they were being influenced by somebody," Ismail says. He does not know by whom.

He feels they were susceptible to a message of violence "because it sounded cool and exciting."

Ismail says he strenuously disagreed with Yaghi and Hassan's views on terrorism even, he says, getting into a public shouting match with them at a restaurant. He says he told them, "You can't do this, man. You can't say it is OK.

"That is corruption and terrorism and that is not permissible in Islam."

Ismail says he and others raised concerns about Hassan and Yaghi to officials at the Islamic Center of Raleigh, but were "overlooked."

"I did my part," Ismail says.

Imran Aukhil, a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Raleigh, told CNN on Thursday that he had no information about complaints concerning Hassan and Yaghi.

On Saturday, however, he informed CNN that he had researched the matter and learned there was a complaint several years ago against an individual at the mosque.

Aukhil said he did not have the name of that person.

"It was reported to the FBI," said Aukhil. "The FBI did take note of it in their investigation."

Efforts to reach attorneys representing Hassan and Yaghi were unsuccessful.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.

Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.

HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country. Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.

But the garden serves an even greater purpose. The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.

"It's a reawakening going on. It's almost like it's a renaissance," says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc.

"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa. Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward. Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent. So really, that's what many of the people are doing now," he said.

Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past. iReport.com: Show us your urban farm

"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow," he says.

But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.

Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.  Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods Â»  "It's beyond a movement at this point. Its more like a revolution," says Allen.

Both Allen and Myers agree that the boom in urban farming for African-Americans is born out of necessity and not just echoing traditions.

"Minority people are affected by poor food, more than any other groups," and many inner cities lack access to quality fruits and vegetables, Allen says. "Our food system is broken."

"When you're poor, when you don't have access to resources, you have to create your own," says Myers. "So this is a way for people of African descent to use their creativity to grow their own food."

Many poorer communities don't have full-scale grocery stores. Allen charges that companies have red-lined those areas and won't build stores there.

So community activists like Myers have taken up the fight.

"[Starting] community gardens in local communities, specifically in urban areas, is important, so you create your own food security network," says Myers. "You're not relying on large grocery stores to provide food for everyone because if those grocery stores have problems, your access to food is done."

HABESHA Gardens makes the fresh food accessible to people in Mechanicsville by opening up the garden to people in the community every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

"We invite people from the local community here, the immediate community but also from the greater Atlanta community ... to come out, work in the garden; learn, reconnect with the Earth and also be able to take food home with them after the harvest."

In addition to providing food for those that work in garden, HABESHA partners with organizations such as the Atlanta Community Food Bank and the MLK Senior Center to provide food from the garden to the hungry and elders in the community.

HABESHA is more than just an urban garden. HABESHA, an acronym for Helping Africa By Establishing Schools at Home and Abroad. The organization mentors young African-Americans by sending them on a yearly trip to Ghana and educates the youth in Mechanicsville through the garden's after-school program called Sustainable Seeds.

"Not only are we teaching them about agriculture, [we're] teaching them about solar technology, rainwater catching," Myers says. "A majority of the food that was planted here was done by the youth in the after-school program. They helped to build the shed, they helped to build the greenhouse, they helped to build the shade nursery ... They are very much a vital part of the process that goes on here."

Malik Parks, 12, is a member of HABESHA's mentoring program.

"Well, it feeds us. That's a big thing -- to know that we're helping the earth. Us planting it, that gives us exercise; then also, eating it gives us nutrients," says Parks.

Sporting a "Black to Our Roots" T-shirt, Parks is already well aware of the higher purpose he and HABESHA have with their garden.

"I believe to some, its hope. I know there are a lot of people over here that live in poverty. I know you can come and pick food, so that's food for them," Parks says. "So it's hope to stay alive longer and be energized and do what you have to do to get back on your feet."

Myers, who is his mentor, agrees.

"We encourage the people in the community to come, be a part of the process of growing the food, so it's more empowerment than it is giving as charity," says Myers.

And with urban farms like Will Allen's becoming half-million dollar enterprises in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, and many other farms in New York City and Detroit, Michigan, urban gardening is spreading like the roots of the vegetables they grow.

"This has become a multicultural, multigenerational movement, a revolution," says Allen. "This isn't just the hippies and tree huggers. Everyone is getting on board. It's really exciting."

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(CNN) -- Kyrgyzstan's president signed a bill Friday to close an air base that the U.S. military uses as a route for troops and supplies heading into Afghanistan, the president announced on his Web site.

Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan serves as a U.S. supply route for troops and supplies into Afghanistan.

The news came as two other central Asian nations -- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- reportedly agreed to let U.S. cargo pass through their countries on the way to Afghanistan.

Such deals, if confirmed, could help fill the void left by the closing of the Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan.

The Kyrgyz order became effective on Friday when President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly signed legislation that the parliament in Bishkek backed on Thursday, the Pentagon said.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry on Friday officially notified the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek that a 180-day withdrawal process is under way.

Embassy spokeswoman Michelle Yerkin told CNN the United States hopes to retain the base. Officials in Washington and Bishkek signed a deal three years ago allowing the United States to renew the arrangement annually through July 2011.

"We do remain in contact with the government of Kyrgyzstan," Yerkin said. "The Manas Air Base continues to operate under existing agreements, as per the coalition's efforts in Afghanistan."

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday the United States will continue to work with Kyrgyzstan on keeping the base open.   Watch why Kyrgyzstan wants to close the base ÃÂ»

"I continue to believe that this is not a closed issue and that there remains the potential at least to reopen this issue with the Kyrgyz and perhaps reach a new agreement," Gates said at a NATO meeting in Krakow, Poland. "If we are unable to do that on reasonable terms then, as I have suggested, we are developing alternative methods to get resupply and people into Afghanistan."

The Manas Air Base outside Bishkek is the only U.S. base in Central Asia and is a major resupply hub for the war in Afghanistan.

Its closing could deal a significant blow to the U.S. military effort there, especially following President Barack Obama's announcement of additional troops to halt a resurgence of the country's former Taliban rulers.

The United States pays $17.4 million a year to use Manas, a major logistical and refueling center that supports troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. About 15,000 troops and 500 tons of cargo reportedly move through Manas monthly, it said.

The air base currently employs more than 1,000 servicemen, 95 percent of whom are Americans, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

"This is an important facility, it has been an important facility, but it's not irreplaceable and, if necessary, we will find other options," Whitman said.  How far is Manas from Afghanistan? View our map ÃÂ»

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, two other Central Asian nations that border Afghanistan, have agreed to allow U.S. cargo to be transported to Afghanistan through their countries, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Friday.

The agency said Rear Adm. Mark Harnitchek, U.S. transportation command director for strategy, policy, programs and logistics, held a meeting with Tajik Foreign Minister Kharokhon Zarifi, after which he said he had also secured Uzbekistan's consent.

A Tajik government statement said only that the two sides discussed the issue, but a spokesman for the Tajik foreign ministry told CNN that "practically all issues" to allow U.S. cargo transit through the country have been resolved.

If confirmed, success would still depend on how much access the United States would have to those countries for flights and cargo, and even then, it may not totally replace the capacity lost in Kyrgyzstan.

U.S. General David Petraeus, who oversees the war in Afghanistan, was in Uzbekistan this week for talks on Afghanistan and other regional issues. A Pentagon spokesman told CNN that his discussions included the regional supply network into Afghanistan.

The U.S. military leased a base in Uzbekistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. But after Uzbek troops were accused of killing at least 150 people during a demonstration in 2005, the autocratic government of President Islam Karimov came under criticism from Washington and severed most of its military ties with the United States.

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ATHENS, Georgia (CNN) -- The body of accused triple killer and University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan was claimed by a relative Friday, nearly a week after Zinkhan was found dead, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

A studio proof shows professor George Zinkhan and his wife, Marie Bruce.

A mortuary shipping service in Atlanta picked up Zinkhan's body at the request of a son from a previous marriage, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said. Details on plans for the body weren't immediately available.

Earlier Friday, Bankhead had said Zinkhan's body -- found Saturday in a self-dug shallow grave -- could be headed to a pauper's grave if the family didn't claim the body from the Athens-Clarke County coroner's office by Saturday morning.

Such a grave is typically reserved for unidentified bodies, unclaimed bodies or people without family members.

Bankhead said the situation was rare and that it was unclear why the family had taken that long to claim the body of the professor, described by colleagues and acquaintances as aloof and eccentric.

Neighbor Bob Covington remembers a lot of "forced moments" with Zinkhan.

The last such interaction came the afternoon of April 24, the day before witnesses said Zinkhan, 57, killed his wife and two others outside a community theater in Athens.

Covington was walking down the driveway of his Bogart home to check the mail. Zinkhan had just done the same and was walking back to his house. Covington said hello and told Zinkhan that his son, a UGA student who used to mow the Zinkhans' lawn, had recently seen Zinkhan on campus.

"He said, 'Yeah, that's where I hang out,' and turned and walked into the house," said Covington, who lived next door to Zinkhan for eight years."That's mostly what it was with George, forced moments."

It was odd for Zinkhan to say more than five or 10 words before disengaging, while his wife, Marie Bruce, was the "polar opposite," Covington said, describing the 47-year-old thespian as engaging and vivacious.

Despite the contrasts in personalities, Covington never saw evidence that there were problems between the two, he said.

"He never raised his voice at his kids. I never heard that. I never heard him raise his voice at Marie," he said.

Neighbors, students and fellow faculty members all concur that Zinkhan was standoffish, but their accounts also paint a contradictory image of the marketing professor who would occasionally walk the halls of UGA's business college barefoot.

Some faculty members were quick to defend Zinkhan, but reluctant to do so on record. One said he felt it was a university matter. Another was reluctant to be on record defending an accused mass killer.

"He's being painted as an ogre, which doesn't fit," said the former.

Two faculty members said Zinkhan was introverted but friendly. He was close to some colleagues. He remembered their birthdays and was generous with gifts at Christmas.

His quirky behavior was generally overlooked because of his brilliance, a colleague said. One fellow professor went so far as to call him a genius, and not just with marketing, either.

Zinkhan apparently was well-versed in a wide range of topics -- art, opera, architecture -- and he loved sports. Faculty members recalled that the strapping 6-foot-2 Zinkhan played on the intramural softball team with some of his graduate students, and he liked to boast of his home runs.

He also loved his son, 8, and daughter, 10, and regularly brought them to work.

Neighbors said they saw him outside playing soccer with the kids on a miniature goal that still sat in the yard this week. A basketball goal with a rim a foot or two below regulation stood over the Zinkhans' driveway, and a miniature yellow house sat dormant in his wooded backyard.

A neighbor who asked not to be named said the cedar front door on the house Tuesday was new. A SWAT team had burst through the old front door shortly after Zinkhan allegedly shot Bruce; attorney Tom Tanner, 40; and Ben Teague, 63.

Bruce was the president of the board of the Town and Gown Players, a theater group holding a reunion picnic on the theater's deck when the shooting took place. Tanner and Teague were identified as set designers for the theater.

Covington saw Zinkhan shortly after the April 25 slayings. He was grilling bratwursts for lunch when Zinkhan rang the doorbell.

"He asked if I'd mind watching the kids because there'd been an emergency," Covington said.

Covington agreed. He thought it was strange when Zinkhan immediately sprinted out of the garage, but didn't pay it much attention because Zinkhan said he had an emergency.

The children, Covington said, seemed oblivious that their mother had just been slain. It was less than an hour later, when Covington's wife noticed two police officers with shotguns behind the hedges in a nearby yard, that Covington learned his neighbor was accused of a triple killing.

The police told Covington they were looking for Zinkhan in connection with the shootings.

"I was incredulous," he said.

Covington's daughter, who had baby-sat for the Zinkhans, drew a floor plan of the Zinkhan home for police and told them where the spare key was hidden.

Covington allowed police to use his home in their stakeout and summoned Zinkhan's daughter to see whether she knew anything about what had happened.

It was clear the girl hadn't seen the slayings, but one of her remarks was chilling, Covington said. Asked what her father's emergency involved, she replied, "Something about a firecracker."

Though many expressed astonishment that Zinkhan was linked to the slayings, some UGA faculty members said they suspected Zinkhan was having problems at home before police confirmed it this week. He lost an estimated 50 pounds in the two months before the shootings, they said.

To others, the signs of problems were more obvious.

Professor Barbara Carroll, who had once worked under Zinkhan, wrote an e-mail to her colleagues at the business school saying she went into protective custody after police found a map to her house in Zinkhan's vehicle.

In the e-mail, she said she had told previous department heads, deans and provosts "that George Zinkhan was dangerous."

"Many people in this college and this department have known about Zinkhan's 'troubled past' and did nothing about it. Those people also bear responsibility here," she wrote.

Carroll did not return phone messages or open her door for reporters Tuesday.

However, one of Zinkhan's former students said he and his classmates also thought Zinkhan was more than just odd. David Sackin, 43, was a graduate student and took classes with Zinkhan in 1996 and 1997.

Zinkhan's lectures were delivered in monotone, his teaching style was dry and he didn't seem to care what was happening in the classroom, Sackin said.

When students convened outside the classroom, they surmised that something darker than a lack of enthusiasm drove Zinkhan's behavior, he said.

"If anyone asked any of my classmates if there was one professor who'd go on a rampage, who would it be? They'd unanimously say Zinkhan," Sackin said."He was strange, definitely."

In her e-mail, Carroll told colleagues they may never know the whole story. Indeed, police have said only that one of the victims, Tanner, "appeared to be a specific target in the shootings and was shot first."

The prospect of learning specifics about what could have propelled a painfully private introvert to homicide probably died in a shallow grave behind a Bogart elementary school.

CNN's Jason Hanna contributed to this report.

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text: relative

text: Friday

text: nearly

text: a

text: week

text: after

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: found

text: dead

text: the

text: Georgia

text: Bureau

text: of

text: Investigation

text: said

text: A

text: studio

text: proof

text: shows

text: professor

text: George

text: Zinkhan

text: and

text: his

text: wife

text: Marie

text: Bruce

text: A

text: mortuary

text: shipping

text: service

text: in

text: Atlanta

text: picked

text: up

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: body

text: at

text: the

text: request

text: of

text: a

text: son

text: from

text: a

text: previous

text: marriage

text: GBI

text: spokesman

text: John

text: Bankhead

text: said

text: Details

text: on

text: plans

text: for

text: the

text: body

text: were

text: n't

text: immediately

text: available

text: Earlier

text: Friday

text: Bankhead

text: had

text: said

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: body

text: found

text: Saturday

text: in

text: a

text: self

text: dug

text: shallow

text: grave

text: could

text: be

text: headed

text: to

text: a

text: pauper

text: 's

text: grave

text: if

text: the

text: family

text: did

text: n't

text: claim

text: the

text: body

text: from

text: the

text: Athens

text: Clarke

text: County

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: by

text: Saturday

text: morning

text: Such

text: a

text: grave

text: is

text: typically

text: reserved

text: for

text: unidentified

text: bodies

text: unclaimed

text: bodies

text: or

text: people

text: without

text: family

text: members

text: Bankhead

text: said

text: the

text: situation

text: was

text: rare

text: and

text: that

text: it

text: was

text: unclear

text: why

text: the

text: family

text: had

text: taken

text: that

text: long

text: to

text: claim

text: the

text: body

text: of

text: the

text: professor

text: described

text: by

text: colleagues

text: and

text: acquaintances

text: as

text: aloof

text: and

text: eccentric

text: Neighbor

text: Bob

text: Covington

text: remembers

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: forced

text: moments

text: with

text: Zinkhan

text: The

text: last

text: such

text: interaction

text: came

text: the

text: afternoon

text: of

text: April

text: the

text: day

text: before

text: witnesses

text: said

text: Zinkhan

text: killed

text: his

text: wife

text: and

text: two

text: others

text: outside

text: a

text: community

text: theater

text: in

text: Athens

text: Covington

text: was

text: walking

text: down

text: the

text: driveway

text: of

text: his

text: Bogart

text: home

text: to

text: check

text: the

text: mail

text: Zinkhan

text: had

text: just

text: done

text: the

text: same

text: and

text: was

text: walking

text: back

text: to

text: his

text: house

text: Covington

text: said

text: hello

text: and

text: told

text: Zinkhan

text: that

text: his

text: son

text: a

text: UGA

text: student

text: who

text: used

text: to

text: mow

text: the

text: Zinkhans

text: lawn

text: had

text: recently

text: seen

text: Zinkhan

text: on

text: campus

text: He

text: said

text: Yeah

text: that

text: 's

text: where

text: I

text: hang

text: out

text: and

text: turned

text: and

text: walked

text: into

text: the

text: house

text: said

text: Covington

text: who

text: lived

text: next

text: door

text: to

text: Zinkhan

text: for

text: eight

text: years."That

text: 's

text: mostly

text: what

text: it

text: was

text: with

text: George

text: forced

text: moments

text: It

text: was

text: odd

text: for

text: Zinkhan

text: to

text: say

text: more

text: than

text: five

text: or

text: words

text: before

text: disengaging

text: while

text: his

text: wife

text: Marie

text: Bruce

text: was

text: the

text: polar

text: opposite

text: Covington

text: said

text: describing

text: the

text: old

text: thespian

text: as

text: engaging

text: and

text: vivacious

text: Despite

text: the

text: contrasts

text: in

text: personalities

text: Covington

text: never

text: saw

text: evidence

text: that

text: there

text: were

text: problems

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: never

text: raised

text: his

text: voice

text: at

text: his

text: kids

text: I

text: never

text: heard

text: that

text: I

text: never

text: heard

text: him

text: raise

text: his

text: voice

text: at

text: Marie

text: he

text: said

text: Neighbors

text: students

text: and

text: fellow

text: faculty

text: members

text: all

text: concur

text: that

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: standoffish

text: but

text: their

text: accounts

text: also

text: paint

text: a

text: contradictory

text: image

text: of

text: the

text: marketing

text: professor

text: who

text: would

text: occasionally

text: walk

text: the

text: halls

text: of

text: UGA

text: 's

text: business

text: college

text: barefoot

text: Some

text: faculty

text: members

text: were

text: quick

text: to

text: defend

text: Zinkhan

text: but

text: reluctant

text: to

text: do

text: so

text: on

text: record

text: One

text: said

text: he

text: felt

text: it

text: was

text: a

text: university

text: matter

text: Another

text: was

text: reluctant

text: to

text: be

text: on

text: record

text: defending

text: an

text: accused

text: mass

text: killer

text: He

text: 's

text: being

text: painted

text: as

text: an

text: ogre

text: which

text: does

text: n't

text: fit

text: said

text: the

text: former

text: Two

text: faculty

text: members

text: said

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: introverted

text: but

text: friendly

text: He

text: was

text: close

text: to

text: some

text: colleagues

text: He

text: remembered

text: their

text: birthdays

text: and

text: was

text: generous

text: with

text: gifts

text: at

text: Christmas

text: His

text: quirky

text: behavior

text: was

text: generally

text: overlooked

text: because

text: of

text: his

text: brilliance

text: a

text: colleague

text: said

text: One

text: fellow

text: professor

text: went

text: so

text: far

text: as

text: to

text: call

text: him

text: a

text: genius

text: and

text: not

text: just

text: with

text: marketing

text: either

text: Zinkhan

text: apparently

text: was

text: well

text: versed

text: in

text: a

text: wide

text: range

text: of

text: topics

text: art

text: opera

text: architecture

text: and

text: he

text: loved

text: sports

text: Faculty

text: members

text: recalled

text: that

text: the

text: strapping

text: Zinkhan

text: played

text: on

text: the

text: intramural

text: softball

text: team

text: with

text: some

text: of

text: his

text: graduate

text: students

text: and

text: he

text: liked

text: to

text: boast

text: of

text: his

text: home

text: runs

text: He

text: also

text: loved

text: his

text: son

text: and

text: daughter

text: and

text: regularly

text: brought

text: them

text: to

text: work

text: Neighbors

text: said

text: they

text: saw

text: him

text: outside

text: playing

text: soccer

text: with

text: the

text: kids

text: on

text: a

text: miniature

text: goal

text: that

text: still

text: sat

text: in

text: the

text: yard

text: this

text: week

text: A

text: basketball

text: goal

text: with

text: a

text: rim

text: a

text: foot

text: or

text: two

text: below

text: regulation

text: stood

text: over

text: the

text: Zinkhans

text: driveway

text: and

text: a

text: miniature

text: yellow

text: house

text: sat

text: dormant

text: in

text: his

text: wooded

text: backyard

text: A

text: neighbor

text: who

text: asked

text: not

text: to

text: be

text: named

text: said

text: the

text: cedar

text: front

text: door

text: on

text: the

text: house

text: Tuesday

text: was

text: new

text: A

text: SWAT

text: team

text: had

text: burst

text: through

text: the

text: old

text: front

text: door

text: shortly

text: after

text: Zinkhan

text: allegedly

text: shot

text: Bruce

text: attorney

text: Tom

text: Tanner

text: and

text: Ben

text: Teague

text: Bruce

text: was

text: the

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: board

text: of

text: the

text: Town

text: and

text: Gown

text: Players

text: a

text: theater

text: group

text: holding

text: a

text: reunion

text: picnic

text: on

text: the

text: theater

text: 's

text: deck

text: when

text: the

text: shooting

text: took

text: place

text: Tanner

text: and

text: Teague

text: were

text: identified

text: as

text: set

text: designers

text: for

text: the

text: theater

text: Covington

text: saw

text: Zinkhan

text: shortly

text: after

text: the

text: April

text: slayings

text: He

text: was

text: grilling

text: bratwursts

text: for

text: lunch

text: when

text: Zinkhan

text: rang

text: the

text: doorbell

text: He

text: asked

text: if

text: I

text: 'd

text: mind

text: watching

text: the

text: kids

text: because

text: there

text: 'd

text: been

text: an

text: emergency

text: Covington

text: said

text: Covington

text: agreed

text: He

text: thought

text: it

text: was

text: strange

text: when

text: Zinkhan

text: immediately

text: sprinted

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: garage

text: but

text: did

text: n't

text: pay

text: it

text: much

text: attention

text: because

text: Zinkhan

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: an

text: emergency

text: The

text: children

text: Covington

text: said

text: seemed

text: oblivious

text: that

text: their

text: mother

text: had

text: just

text: been

text: slain

text: It

text: was

text: less

text: than

text: an

text: hour

text: later

text: when

text: Covington

text: 's

text: wife

text: noticed

text: two

text: police

text: officers

text: with

text: shotguns

text: behind

text: the

text: hedges

text: in

text: a

text: nearby

text: yard

text: that

text: Covington

text: learned

text: his

text: neighbor

text: was

text: accused

text: of

text: a

text: triple

text: killing

text: The

text: police

text: told

text: Covington

text: they

text: were

text: looking

text: for

text: Zinkhan

text: in

text: connection

text: with

text: the

text: shootings

text: I

text: was

text: incredulous

text: he

text: said

text: Covington

text: 's

text: daughter

text: who

text: had

text: baby

text: sat

text: for

text: the

text: Zinkhans

text: drew

text: a

text: floor

text: plan

text: of

text: the

text: Zinkhan

text: home

text: for

text: police

text: and

text: told

text: them

text: where

text: the

text: spare

text: key

text: was

text: hidden

text: Covington

text: allowed

text: police

text: to

text: use

text: his

text: home

text: in

text: their

text: stakeout

text: and

text: summoned

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: daughter

text: to

text: see

text: whether

text: she

text: knew

text: anything

text: about

text: what

text: had

text: happened

text: It

text: was

text: clear

text: the

text: girl

text: had

text: n't

text: seen

text: the

text: slayings

text: but

text: one

text: of

text: her

text: remarks

text: was

text: chilling

text: Covington

text: said

text: Asked

text: what

text: her

text: father

text: 's

text: emergency

text: involved

text: she

text: replied

text: Something

text: about

text: a

text: firecracker

text: Though

text: many

text: expressed

text: astonishment

text: that

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: linked

text: to

text: the

text: slayings

text: some

text: UGA

text: faculty

text: members

text: said

text: they

text: suspected

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: having

text: problems

text: at

text: home

text: before

text: police

text: confirmed

text: it

text: this

text: week

text: He

text: lost

text: an

text: estimated

text: pounds

text: in

text: the

text: two

text: months

text: before

text: the

text: shootings

text: they

text: said

text: To

text: others

text: the

text: signs

text: of

text: problems

text: were

text: more

text: obvious

text: Professor

text: Barbara

text: Carroll

text: who

text: had

text: once

text: worked

text: under

text: Zinkhan

text: wrote

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: to

text: her

text: colleagues

text: at

text: the

text: business

text: school

text: saying

text: she

text: went

text: into

text: protective

text: custody

text: after

text: police

text: found

text: a

text: map

text: to

text: her

text: house

text: in

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: vehicle

text: In

text: the

text: e

text: mail

text: she

text: said

text: she

text: had

text: told

text: previous

text: department

text: heads

text: deans

text: and

text: provosts

text: that

text: George

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: dangerous

text: Many

text: people

text: in

text: this

text: college

text: and

text: this

text: department

text: have

text: known

text: about

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: troubled

text: past

text: and

text: did

text: nothing

text: about

text: it

text: Those

text: people

text: also

text: bear

text: responsibility

text: here

text: she

text: wrote

text: Carroll

text: did

text: not

text: return

text: phone

text: messages

text: or

text: open

text: her

text: door

text: for

text: reporters

text: Tuesday

text: However

text: one

text: of

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: former

text: students

text: said

text: he

text: and

text: his

text: classmates

text: also

text: thought

text: Zinkhan

text: was

text: more

text: than

text: just

text: odd

text: David

text: Sackin

text: was

text: a

text: graduate

text: student

text: and

text: took

text: classes

text: with

text: Zinkhan

text: in

text: and

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: lectures

text: were

text: delivered

text: in

text: monotone

text: his

text: teaching

text: style

text: was

text: dry

text: and

text: he

text: did

text: n't

text: seem

text: to

text: care

text: what

text: was

text: happening

text: in

text: the

text: classroom

text: Sackin

text: said

text: When

text: students

text: convened

text: outside

text: the

text: classroom

text: they

text: surmised

text: that

text: something

text: darker

text: than

text: a

text: lack

text: of

text: enthusiasm

text: drove

text: Zinkhan

text: 's

text: behavior

text: he

text: said

text: If

text: anyone

text: asked

text: any

text: of

text: my

text: classmates

text: if

text: there

text: was

text: one

text: professor

text: who

text: 'd

text: go

text: on

text: a

text: rampage

text: who

text: would

text: it

text: be

text: They

text: 'd

text: unanimously

text: say

text: Zinkhan

text: Sackin

text: said."He

text: was

text: strange

text: definitely

text: In

text: her

text: e

text: mail

text: Carroll

text: told

text: colleagues

text: they

text: may

text: never

text: know

text: the

text: whole

text: story

text: Indeed

text: police

text: have

text: said

text: only

text: that

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: victims

text: Tanner

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: specific

text: target

text: in

text: the

text: shootings

text: and

text: was

text: shot

text: first

text: The

text: prospect

text: of

text: learning

text: specifics

text: about

text: what

text: could

text: have

text: propelled

text: a

text: painfully

text: private

text: introvert

text: to

text: homicide

text: probably

text: died

text: in

text: a

text: shallow

text: grave

text: behind

text: a

text: Bogart

text: elementary

text: school

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jason

text: Hanna

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who claimed the professor's body?

answer: a relative

text: a relative

question: What happened to George Zinkhan?

answer: found dead,

text: found dead,

question: Who thought Zinkhan may be dangerous?

answer: Professor Barbara Carroll,

text: Professor Barbara Carroll,

question: Who claimed University of Georgia professor's body?

answer: a relative

text: a relative

question: Who mentioned "firecracker"?

answer: Zinkhan's daughter

text: Zinkhan's daughter

question: Who claims University of Georgia professor's body?

answer: a relative

text: a relative


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MADISON COUNTY, Virginia (CNN) -- Amidst the tranquility of a fishing trip at the Rose River Farm in Madison County, a wounded warrior says he almost feels "semi-normal again."

Retired Navy Capt. Ed Nicholson's Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing helps rehabilitate wounded servicemembers.

The amputee is one of about 1,000 servicemen and veterans who have reaped the benefits of the therapeutic art of fly-fishing, with the help of retired Navy Capt. Ed Nicholson.

"The demons of war, you just don't set them aside," says Nicholson, 67. "But once you get out on the river, the serenity is incredibly healing."

While recovering from cancer surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2004, Nicholson witnessed wounded and disabled men and women -- many of them amputees -- struggling with their injuries.

"Other than being in Vietnam and seeing people in the process of getting hurt, I never really had a full appreciation for the recovery part and what happened after they came home. My recovery was nothing compared to what they were facing. It planted the seed that maybe there's something I could do," Nicholson says.

The solution was obvious to Nicholson, who says being an outdoorsman is in his blood: Get them out of the hospital and into nature.

Through free classes and outings, Nicholson's organization, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, helps rehabilitate injured and disabled servicemembers and veterans.

"We would run these classes that would better prepare them to be fishermen when the weather got nice and we could move outside, start casting lessons and go fishing," he says.

Nicholson and ty flying instructor John Colburn saw that the discipline of tying flies, which requires patience and training, benefited veterans recovering from injuries. And it helped them relax.

"You have a guy who lost a leg and we get him out there wading in a stream -- he gets a boost. Or a guy who lost an arm, we start him casting. He has a chance to use his new arm and actually do something that's enjoyable," says Nicholson. Do you know someone who should be a CNN Hero? Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes

"Ed [is] showing us that if you have the will, they will find a way," says Army Staff Sgt. Brian Mancini, who lost his right eye after being hit by an explosive device in Iraq in July 2007. "It shows you that life's not over, it's only beginning."  Watch Mancini describe how Nicholson's program helped his healing process Â»

One soldier with a brain injury says tying flies, building fly rods and casting have helped him with his motor skills. Others on the catch-and-release outing describe feeling normal for the first time in a long time.  Watch wounded servicemen discuss the role of Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing in their recovery Â»

"Between the pain, the medication, the realization that their life has been changed, they're doing something that gives them a great deal of pleasure and that they can look forward to," Nicholson says.  Watch Nicholson as he helps wounded soldiers through fly-fishing Â»

First Lt. Ferris Butler, an active participant in Project Healing Waters, agrees.

"If you compound losing body parts with losing friends, just getting in the water is a release," he says, adding that fishing gave him enhanced dexterity because it helped him learn to walk on prosthetics in the water.

Since 2005, Nicholson's program has grown to more than 50 locations nationwide with "more to come," he says. With support from The Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited, the group is establishing long-term relationships with hospital and military staff, participants and volunteers. Participants across the country can attend outings during the spring, summer and fall.

An indoor component focuses on classroom activities.

Nicholson, who rises early and spends the better part of his day running operations for his organization, once thought he'd spend his golden years enjoying his favorite pastimes: fishing and hunting. But he says he welcomes the direction his life has taken.

"I'm doing something that gives me as much satisfaction and gratification of anything that I've really done. I loved serving my country. I was proud to serve for 30 years. But I'm incredibly satisfied with what I'm doing now."

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text: better

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text: organization

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text: golden

text: years

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text: favorite

text: pastimes

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text: and

text: hunting

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text: direction

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text: 'm

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text: involved

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question: Since when his project has grown?

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question: Is there way to nominate a hero?

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question: What is the name of Ed Nicholson project?

answer: Healing Waters Fly Fishing

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question: What did Retired Navy Captain Ed Nicholson do?

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question: Where does Healing Waters operate?

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question: How many servicemembers use Healing Waters Fly Fishing?

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(CNN) -- After 34 years of invitations, the "Boss" finally said yes to the National Football League.

Bruce Springsteen was first asked to play the Super Bowl in 1975, his bandmate says.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band headline the Super Bowl XLIII halftime show in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday.

E Street guitarist Nils Lofgren promises it will be "a very cool thing," but would only hint at what four Springsteen songs the band will play.

"One of them has to be 'Born to Run,' but he's got over 400 great songs," Lofgren said.

The song list, in fact, is subject to change "knowing Bruce, since what we do is so improvisational," he said

"We've got the best bandleader in the business and whatever we decide to do, we'll be able to do it well and I'm sure it will be a great ride," he said.

Lofgren said the NFL first asked Springsteen to play at the Super Bowl in 1975, but he declined.

"They keep offering it to him and he keeps turning them down," he said. "So, we were thrilled that he had a change of heart and decided to do it."

Springsteen is taking the E Street Band on tour a world tour beginning April 1 to support the band's latest album, which was released January 27.

The new album -- "Working on a Dream" -- sounds "very fresh and in your face," Lofgren said.

Singer-actress Jennifer Hudson will deliver the National Anthem before the start of Sunday's game, her first public performance since her mother, brother and nephew were found shot to death in October.

Faith Hill will sing "America the Beautiful" during the pregame show at Raymond James Stadium.

The 2009 Super Bowl will be broadcast February 1 in 230 countries and territories, the NFL said. More than 148 million American viewers watched the 2008 game, the NFL said.

CNN's John Lorinc contributed to this report.

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question: Who will sing at the Super Bowl?

answer: Bruce Springsteen

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question: What Super Bowl is being discussed?

answer: XLIII

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question: What did Nils Lofgren promise for the show?

answer: it will be "a very cool thing,"

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question: Jennifer Hudson will be singing at what event?

answer: 2009 Super Bowl

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question: Who won't say what four songs Springsteen will play?

answer: Nils Lofgren

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question: What band does Nils Lofgren play for?

answer: E Street

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question: What group is Nils Lofgren with?

answer: E Street Band

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question: What female singers will perform at the big game?

answer: Faith Hill

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question: What other woman is expected to sing with Faith Hill?

answer: Jennifer Hudson

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question: Who is Nils Lofgren?

answer: E Street guitarist

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question: What did  Nils Lofgren say?

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