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September 28, 2006 the Free-Content News Source That You Can Write! Page 1 September 28, 2006 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Gunman holding hostages in •The U.S. Republican Party selects enter Ramallah, where the US high school in Bailey, Minneapolis-St. Paul as the venue Government offices are located, Colorado killed for its 2008 convention. and will not be allowed to leave A 35 year-old gunman, who is the Palestinian territories until •Legislation passes in the U.S. believed to be a parent of a October 15. Another 23 House and Senate giving student who attends Platte Palestinian legislators had their President Bush authority to Canyon High School in Bailey, remand extended. detain, interrogate and try Colorado, was killed today in a terrorism detainees before raid on the school where he held military commissions. Gunman holding hostages in two hostages captive. US high school in Bailey, •A funeral service for Empress Colorado killed Afghan women's rights official Maria Fyodorovna of Russia is A 35 year-old gunman, who is shot dead held at the Gothic Chapel at believed to be a parent of a Suspected Taliban militants shot Peterhof. student who attends Platte Canyon dead Safia Ahmed-jan, a senior •U.S. Democrats urge the Bush High School in Bailey, Colorado, official in the Women's Affairs administration to release in full a who took 2 girls hostage has been ministry and a staunch advocate report linking the Iraq conflict killed after police reportedly of women's rights, in Khandahar. and global terrorism. stormed the school. She is the first woman official to be targeted by the militant group. •An Israeli court sentences Asher "It is a hostage situation, an adult Weisgan to four consecutive life is holding the hostages, he claims sentences plus an additional 12 Featured story to have explosives," said Lance years in prison for murdering four Clem, a spokesman for the Interview with Olive Rose Palestinian workmen and Colorado State Police Department. Steele, City Council candidate wounding a fifth in August 2005. for Ward 6 in Mississauga, Weisgan is also obligated to pay At least two schools, Platte Canyon Canada more than 1,000,000 sheqels in High School and Fitzsimmons The upcoming 2006 Mississauga compensation to the victims' Middle School were evacuated and municipal election, to be held families. the main highway between Bailey November 13, features an array •Israeli Defense Forces raid and Shawnee, Colorado, Highway of candidates looking to several Palestinian towns, 285, was closed to all traffic until represent their wards in city arresting eight people in Jenin, further notice. council. Wikinews contributor seven people in Hebron, three Nicholas Moreau has contacted as people in Nablus, and twenty A SWAT team and the bomb squad many candidates as possible, people in Khan Yunis. were also deployed in the area. Six including Olive Rose Steele, hostages were initially taken, but asking him to answer common •An Israeli military court has four were released. The remaining questions sent in an email. ordered the release of the hostages were two girls who were Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister, being held hostage in a classroom Wikipedia Current Events Nasser Ed-Deen Al Sha'er, who located on an upper floor and had been captured by the Israeli • A hostage situation at Platte reports say that the girls may have Defense Forces on 19 August, as Canyon High School near Bailey, suffered some injuries during the there was not "enough evidence". Colorado, United States ends with raid. Al Sha’er will not be allowed to the death of the gunman. If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Thursday, September 28, 2006 Wikinews Page 2 According to the secretary of the has reportedly cheated with previously married to Olympic school district's superintendent, Canadian hockey star Tie Domi. speed-skating champion Johann Jan Howard, students in both Domi and his wife were in court Olav Koss of Norway, then schools are in a "safe location", today getting divorced and both divorced in 2005. but police say that parents are not have now reached a temporary able to pick up their kids due to settlement in their divorce Tie Domi said he would not the closure of the main highway. proceedings, less than an hour comment on his personal life and before the case was to be heard his agent said Monday the hockey Several shots were fired according before Toronto's Superior Court. star would have nothing to say to the sheriff's department, which Stronach is refusing to comment while the matter was before the are believed to be the "loud noise" on the divorce or say if she courts. that prompted the evacuation of "wrecked" Domi's marriage. the rest of the the two schools. Leanne Domi's divorce application "If it wasn't for my husband's was filed on September 18, just The police had "limited contact" affair with Belinda, we wouldn't be one day before Tie Domi with the gunman and the getting a divorce," Leanne told the announced his retirement from the hostages. Contact with them had Toronto Star in an interview last NHL. been "a little bit sporadic," said night. Domi's wife claimed that the spokeswoman with the Jefferson former Toronto Maple Leaf player None of the allegations have been County Sheriff's Office, Jacki told her if she did not hire a proved in court. Kelley. lawyer he would give her $1 million in cash and a $1.5-million New Delhi: Video shows "It's very sketchy at this stage but house if she kept quiet about his witnesses in the Jessica Lall we can confirm that a man affair with Stronach. If she murder case being bribed carrying a weapon is inside the contacted a lawyer, however, she The Indian newspaper Tehelka has building and two girls are being "would get nothing." carried out a sting operation which held hostage. The man entered a shows how coercion and bribes classroom at about noon and had "I'm not going to comment at this were used to manipulate the an exchange with a teacher and point in time whether it's true, it's witnesses in the high-profile fired more than one shot. We have false or it's just the opinions of Jessica Lall homicide case. no reports of any injuries. We others," Stronach said on CTV's know he is armed with a weapon Mike Duffy Live. "I'm not prepared The three-month long sting shows because shots were fired but we to talk about my personal life at how Shyan Munshi, Karan Rajput do not know what kind of a this moment." and Shiv Das were bribed into not weapon it is," added Kelley. testifying, which in turn led to the When Stronach was with the acquittal of key-accused Manu Police have not released the name Conservatives she dated fellow MP Sharma. The Special Investigation of the gunman. Peter MacKay. In an interview in Team (SIT) which is in charge of the Toronto Star on January 8, the case has taken custody of the "We have almost no information 2005, Stronach confirmed that she tapes. on this suspect. We don't know and MacKay were dating. who he is. We don't know what he Stronach, elected as a Jessica Lall, a model who worked wants," said Kelley. Conservative in the 2004 election, at the posh South Delhi restaurant crossed the floor to the Liberal Tamarind Court, was shot dead, During the raid on the school, the Party on May 17, 2005. She did allegedly by Manu Sharma, for gunman shot one of the hostages, not comment on what impact this refusing to serve him a drink, on critically wounding her, before would have on their relationship. 29 April 1999. Manu Sharma is the killing himself. The injured female On May 18, 2005, MacKay told the son of Vinod Sharma, a Congress was airlifted to a local hospital. CBC that his relationship with Party leader in Haryana. Stronach was indeed over. Hockey star Tie Domi alleged Stronach crossed the floor from TVNZ wins court battle to to have cheated with Canadian the Conservative party directly to screen Rainbow Warrior court MP Belinda Stronach Paul Martin's Liberal cabinet in footage Canadian MP Belinda Stronach, 40, May 2005. Stronach was New Zealand broadcast company, If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, September 28, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Interview with Olive Rose am inspired to run for Councillor has won a 20 year court battle to Steele, City Council candidate because a strong woman with show court footage of Alain for Ward 6 in Mississauga, unique instincts such as myself will Marfart and Dominique Prieur Canada help our council to better reflect pleading guilty to the The upcoming 2006 Mississauga the people it represent. My manslaughter of photographer, municipal election, to be held qualifications include 15 years as a Fernando Pereira during the November 13, features an array of public servant, twenty years as a bombing of Greenpeace ship, candidates looking to represent volunteer community leader and Rainbow Warrior. The Supreme their wards in city council. 15 years as a successful Court dismissed the pair's request businesswoman……a business I of appeal and has ordered that Wikinews contributor Nicholas started from scratch. I believe they pay NZ$2,500 to TVNZ. Moreau has contacted as many Ward 6 Residents like the fact that candidates as possible, including I am not a career politician and I The Supreme Court said: "The pair Olive Rose Steele, asking them to will not be operating in a “business pleaded guilty to manslaughter in answer common questions sent in as usual” mode.
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