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MONDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2023
INTERNATIONAL
Insurgents attack African Union peacekeeping base
Eleven people killed and 15 injured after mortars were fired onto base in Mogadishu
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — An attack on an African Union peace- base in the Somali capital Sunday killed 11 people and injured 15, the AU said, but it denied insurgent claims of a suicide attack.
El Ghassim Wane, a spokesman for the AU in Addis Ababa, said the insurgents had fired mortars onto the base in Mogadishu. He gave no further details.
But Sheik Muktar Robow, a
The AU peace-
keeping force in
Mozambique has
spokesman for the Al Shabab insurgent group, insisted that "Our fighters have carried out two suicide attacks on the intifdes in Mogadishu, inflicting heavy losses."
had a restricted mandate to guard key government installations in the two years it has been here. It has not been involved in fighting Islamic militants in the capital, battles that have killed thousands of civilians over the past two years. But hardline groups still view the peacekeepers as an occupying force.
"Our fighters have carried out two suicide attacks on infidels in Mogadishu..."
Al-Shabab, an extremist Islamic group, has threatened to focus its attacks on AU troops now that Ethiopian troops have left Mogadisha after a two-year deployment.
Also Sunday, gunmen kidnapped a Pakistani in northern Somalia, said Muse Gelle, governor of the Bari region in Somalia's semiauto-
SHEIK MUKTAR ROBOW
Al-Shabab spokesman
nomous Puntland region. The man was traveling to a farming project where he was working. Gelle said.
Pirates also seized a Greek-
owned cargo ship Sunday with a
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said he was unaware that any Pakistani national had been kidnapped in Somalia.
The man's name and employer were not immediately known. The area of the Horn of Africa nation is notoriously for kidnappings and piracy.
22-member crew off Somalia's coast.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991.
The U.S. State Department considers al-Shabab a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida, something the group has
denied.
Somalia's government controls virtually no territory in this unstable nation.
A moderate Islamist leader, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, was elected by parliament and observers hope he will bring many of Somalia's Islamic factions into a more inclusive government.
Former soldier, rebel and warlord Abdullahi Yusuf resigned as president in December after failing to pacify the country.
Ahmed was chairman of the Islamic Courts Union that ran Mogadishu for six months in 2006 before Ethiopian soldiers took over.
Somali and AU forces view a destroyed vehicle, which was loaded with explosives to target an African Union peacekeepers base in the capital, Mogadishu, Somalia on Jan. 24. A suicide car-bomb attack near an African Union peacekeepers base killed 14 people in the Somali capital on Saturday, the mayor of Mogadishu said. The bombing occurred days before a planned deployment of Ugandan and Burundian soldiers to beef up the current peacekeeping continent.
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CRIME
Judge turns into defendant Samuel Kent first federal judge to face trial on a sex crime charge
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HOUSTON — U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent will be making judicial history when he enters a courtroom Monday — but it won't be the kind he'll want to remember.
Kent will join the handful of federal judges who have taken part in a trial as a defendant, and he will be the first to face trial on a sex crime charge.
The 59-year-old judge is accused of fondling two female court employees as he tried to force himself on the women and have them perform sex acts.
Jury selection in his trial was set to begin Monday. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Kent has pleaded innocent to five charges related to federal sex crimes and to one alleging obstruction of justice, in which he is accused of lying to an investigative committee.
His nearly 19 years on the bench might buy him some credibility with the jury, said Barry Pollack, an attorney not connected to the case.
"What you might see happen is the jury take the presumption of innocence a little more seriously," said Pollack, with the Washington firm of Miller & Chevalier. "But if the allegations are proven, the jury would be very offended a federal judge engaged in that conduct."
A gag order in the case has prevented prosecutors, defense attorneys and others connected to the case from commenting outside court.
Kent wants to testify, his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said during a hearing last week in which he unsuccessfully tried to have the obstruction charge thrown out or severed.
"Judge Kent believes his conduct with both of the (women) was mutual and consensual," said DeGuerin, who has represented such high-profile clients as former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh.
an investigation. The Associated Press does not normally name alleged victims of sexual abuse, but McBroom's attorney and her family have used her name in publicly discussing the case. The other woman was identified in court last week as Kent's former secretary.
Kent's former case manager, Cathy McBroom, filed a complaint against him in May 2007 and the Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began
McBroom accused Kent of harassing her over a four-year period, culminating in March 2007, when she said the judge pulled up her blouse and bra and tried to escalate contact until they were interrupted.
The judicial council suspended Kent in September 2007 for four months with pay but didn't detail the allegations against him. It also transferred him 50 miles northwest from Galveston, where he had worked since being appointed in 1990, to Houston.
A Justice Department investigation of McBroom's claims led to Kent's indictment in August on three sex charges. Last month, prosecutors added two more sex charges and the obstruction charge, accusing Kent of trying to engage his former secretary in a sex act and then lying about it.
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CRIME
PITTSBURGH — A jail warden says he'll ask a judge to move an 11-year-old accused of killing his father's pregnant girlfriend to a juvenile detention center.
CRIME Judge might move boy accused of killing woman
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