THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6,2006
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 2006
NEWS
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A young boy looks at display of flowers outside Australia Zoo on Tuesday at Beerwah, home of Australian international media personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin who died on the Great Barrier Reef in far north Queensland, Australia on Monday. Irwin, known as The Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray bark to his heart while filming a new television series.
Tape shows Irwin's death
'Crocodile Hunter' pulled out stingray's barb in his final moments
BY DENNIS PASSA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEERWAH, Australia — Steve Irwin pulled a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his dying moments, his long-time manager said Tuesday, after watching videotape of the attack that killed the popular "Crocodile Hunter."
Irwin's body was returned home to Beerwah, a hamlet in southeastern Queensland where he lived with his wife and two young children. Irwin turned a modest reptile park opened by his parents into Australia Zoo, a wildlife reserve that has become an international tourist attraction.
Hundreds placed bouquets and handwritten notes at an ad hoc shrine to the popular 44-year-old naturalist outside the
park.
State police Superintendent Michael Keating said Irwin was "interacting" with the stingray when it flicked its tail and speared his chest with the bone-hard serrated spine it bore
— the normally placid animal's main defense mechanism.
"There is no evidence Mr Irwin was threatening or intimidating the stingray," Keating said, addressing speculation that a man who became famous by leaping on crocodiles and snatching up snakes must have been too close for the animal's comfort.
Australia's leaders interrupted Parliament's normal business to eulogize Irwin.
Friend and Oscar-winner Russell Crowe said from New York, "He was and remains the ultimate wildlife warrior."
The U.S. Embassy issued a statement saying Irwin was an unofficial Australian ambassador to the United States.
Meanwhile, Animal Planet said it had given no thought to taking "The Crocodile Hunter" off the air, said Maureen Smith, the network's executive vice president.
Irwin was filming a new series, "Ocean's Deadliest Predators," for Animal Planet. He and his crew were trying to film tiger sharks, but the water was too muddy so he decided to do a segment on sting rays, instead.
Smith said she wasn't aware whether enough filming had been done on "Ocean's Deadliest Predators" for anything to make it on the air.
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Turkey troops to aid cease-fire
MIDDLE EAST
Muslim country's troops deployed to keep Hezbollah-Israel peace
BY TODD PITMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Turkey on Tuesday became the first Muslim country with diplomatic ties to Israel to pledge troops to an expanding international peacekeeping force that will monitor a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Hundreds of Lebanese army troops rolled into southern villages after Israeli soldiers withdrew from five of them, slow but steady steps toward implementing a U.N.-brokered peace plan agreed last month.
U. N. chief Kofi Annan said he could get some positive news within two days on a deal to convince Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon.
Ruling party lawmakers in Turkey voted in favor of the deployment of peacekeeping troops despite objections from opposition parties and street protests by thousands.
While many Turks regard the Lebanon peacekeeping mission as a dangerous venture, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party insisted on contributing. He argued it would raise Turkey's profile on the international stage. Turkey, which has diplomatic relations with Israel, is aspiring to join the European Union.
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