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INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014 Chelsea Clinton expecting first child WASHINGTON: Chelsea Clinton and her hus- progress,” Clinton said. “I want to see us keep up in the public eye as a teenager in the band, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their moving and certainly for future generations White House, Chelsea Clinton graduated first child later this fall. The 34-year-old as well so that maybe our grandchild will not from Stanford University and Columbia daughter of former President Bill Clinton and have to be worried about some of the things University’s Mailman School of Public Health ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that young women and young men are wor- and worked in New York for a hedge fund made the announcement Thursday at the ried about today.” She later added on Twitter: and a management consulting firm. end of a Clinton Foundation event in New “My most exciting title yet: Grandmother-To- She and Marc Mezvinsky, the son of two York on empowering girls. There has been Be!” The former president also expressed former members of Congress, were married wide speculation about a future baby in the jubilation about the news on Twitter: “Excited in Rhinebeck, New York, in July 2010, and the Clinton family. Chelsea Clinton said in an to add a new line to my Twitter bio...grandfa- former first daughter has balanced a number interview with Glamour magazine last year ther-to-be! @HillaryClinton and I are so happy of work and interests, pursuing a doctorate that she and her husband were hoping to for Chelsea and Marc!” from Oxford University, where her father was start a family soon, calling 2014 “the year of Preparations for the new baby will coin- a Rhodes Scholar, while taking a leading role the baby.” cide with Hillary Clinton’s deliberations over in her family’s foundation. Joined on stage by her mother, Chelsea another campaign for the White House. Mrs. She serves as vice chair of the family foun- Clinton told a group of young female stu- Clinton is set to release a book about her time dation, which was renamed the Bill, Hillary & dents that she feels “all the better whether it’s at the State Department in June, followed by Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and helps direct a girl or a boy that she or he will grow up in a a book tour, and Democrats hope she will be the organization’s humanitarian and philan- world with so many strong female leaders.” “I a top surrogate for their candidates in the thropic efforts around the globe. She also just hope I will be as good a mom to my child 2014 midterm elections. serves as a special correspondent for NBC and hopefully children as my mom was to The former secretary of state is expected News. She has avoided commenting on her me,” she said. The former first lady, secretary to announce her decision later this year and mother’s potential presidential campaign of state and New York senator, who is consid- polls show her as the leading contender for except to say that she’ll support her in what- ering another presidential campaign in 2016, the Democratic Party’s nomination if she ever she does. But she would be a strong NEW YORK: Executive producer of the said she was “really excited” about becoming runs. If Clinton seeks the White House, her voice for her mother among young voters if film “Of Many” Chelsea Clinton attends a grandmother. “It makes this work even campaign would potentially coincide with the former secretary of state decides to seek an after party during the 2014 Tribeca more important because we’ve made a lot of her grandchild’s first two years. After growing the presidency. — AP Film Festival at High Line. — AP Tunisian diplomat... Man said to be homesick Continued from Page 1 Masked men shot and wounded the driver of Ambassador for prison gets three years Fawaz al-Itan’s car as they snatched the diplomat from a street in the capital Tripoli. Last week, Libya’s interim prime minister resigned after just one month into the job, saying gunmen had Boredom, loneliness push Unbehaun back to jail tried to attack his family. Local officials, policemen and army personnel are also target- ed and there have been some random acts of violence against CHICAGO: An ex-con who spent most of ordinary foreigners. In December, an American teacher was shot his adult life behind bars on Thursday got dead in Benghazi and in January, a British man and a woman what he said he wanted for robbing a from New Zealand were shot execution-style on a beach in west- suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old ern Libya. One month later, seven Egyptian Christians were found gets to go back to the place he called dead, having been killed in a similar manner. Tribal groups, mili- home - prison. Telling Walter Unbehaun tias and even local citizens resort to road blockades as a negotiat- he frightened a teller by showing her a ing tactic. Some have even resorted to shutting down the OPEC revolver tucked in his waistband during member’s vital oil facilities. — Reuters the 2013 heist, a federal judge imposed a 3 1/2 year prison sentence, citing a rap sheet that includes crimes from home Pakistan madrassa... invasion to kidnapping. “This is not the first time you’ve inspired fear,” Judge Continued from Page 1 Sharon Johnson Coleman said, scolding the high-school dropout and part-time The newly constructed, one-room library is located inside bathtub repairman. the school compound, next to a computer room and Aziz’s As he had on the day he robbed the office. A paper sign posted on the library’s wooden door reads, bank, Unbehaun gripped a cane as he in Arabic, “Maktaba Osama Bin Laden Shaheed” - or, Library hobbled to a podium to make a brief Osama Bin Laden, the Martyr. “Aziz thinks that Osama Bin statement. He didn’t withdraw his wish to ROCK HILL: This file surveillance photo provided by the FBI shows 73-year-old Laden is a hero and he is a martyr and that is why he selected go to prison, though he said, “I don’t want Walter Unbehaun, an ex-convict from Rock Hill. — AP Osama Bin Laden’s name for the library,” said Ullah, the to die in prison.” “My crime is bad, there spokesman. — AP ain’t no doubt,” he said calmly. “I just few minutes, McLeese had thought walls.” The Chicago-born Unbehaun first wanna be like everybody else.” Boredom Unbehaun was saying he hoped to get went to prison at 23 for transporting a and loneliness, defense filings said, had bond. Then he realized Unbehaun was stolen car. He was convicted of kidnap- Gulf Arab states strike... partly led Unbehaun to conclude that a asking to go to prison. It was as if, ping a 19-year-old girl in 1970 whom he life on the inside was preferable to life McLeese said, a patient had asked his doc- had tied to an Ohio motel bed before flee- Continued from Page 1 outside. No family or friends of Unbehaun tor to help him have a stroke. ing in her car. His record includes more attended Thursday’s hearing in Chicago. than half a dozen convictions, including - The UAE and Saudi Arabia have little tolerance for Brotherhood- Listening to the proceedings, he fid- ‘Did the system fail Mr Unbehaun?’ ironically - for escaping from prison. linked activity and perceive Islamist groups as a threat to their politi- geted and rubbed his forearms, both of “It is, without a doubt, one of the sad- cal systems. Simon Henderson, director of the Gulf and Energy which sported tattoos. He occasionally dest and most disturbing cases I’ve dealt Living like a hermit Policy Program at The Washington Institute, said in an analysis that nodded as his lawyer spoke. Last year, he with,” he said. Prosecutor Sharon Fairley He pleaded guilty in September to the “Qatar is likely unwilling to eat humble pie.” “Unlike (Saudi) King walked into the bank with a cane but no conceded the judge faced a dilemma: 2013 bank robbery. Prosecutors asked for Abdullah and certain other Gulf leaders, Doha seems to view its disguise, displayed the loaded gun and Sending Unbehaun to prison could be a five-year sentence Thursday, though own quasi-monarchal political system as above any potential told the teller, “I don’t want to hurt you.” seen as more reward than punishment to they’d asked for seven in earlier filings; Brotherhood threats,” he wrote, adding that Qatar has also been in With $4,178 in loot, he drove to a nearby him, but setting him free would risk him the defense asked for three. It wasn’t as if competition with Saudi Arabia for influence among Syria’s opposi- motel and waited for police to arrive. committing another serious crime. His no one tried to extend Unbehaun a help- tion seeking to oust President Bashar Assad, “though it may be eas- When they did, the bald, portly case raised broader societal questions, ing hand. Following his 2011 release from ing up on that posture.” Unbehaun dropped his cane, raised his she said in one filing. prison after serving an 11-year term for A sticking point for the UAE’s relationship with Qatar had been hands and startled police by his apparent “Did the system fail Mr Unbehaun? Or bank robbery, his sister and her husband Egyptian-born cleric Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s fiery sermons in Doha, joy at getting nabbed.