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Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Rhino horns grow up to three inches a year and can get as long as five-feet. Females use them to protect their young and the males use the horn for battle.
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THURSDAY
October 28
Student Health Services will host a flu shot clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Underground in Wescoe Hall. Shots are $15 and nasal spray vaccines are $20.50.
Student Union Activities will host "Tea at Three" from 3 to 4 p.m. in the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
FRIDAY October 29
The Hall Center will host a panel discussion, "Roundtable on Philosophy and Race: Robert Gooding-Williams and Tomnie Shelly," from 2 to 4 p.m.
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
MONDAY
November
The Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will construct a Day of the Dead Altar from 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
SATURDAY October 30
University Theater will host a sale of its costume pieces from 9 a.m. to noon in the lobby of Murphy Hall.
The KU Ballroom Dance Club will host a masquerade dance in the Kansas Ballroom at the Kansas Union. Lessons for beginners will start at 7:30 p.m., and dancing will continue until 11 p.m.
TUESDAY
November 2
November 2
The KU School of Music will host a concert featuring Tod Kersteter and Jacqueline Fassler-Kersteter in the Swarthownt Recital Hall in Murphy Hall from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
SUNDAY October 31
Elizabeth Berghout will perform a Halloween concert in the Campanile from 9 to 9:45 p.m.
The Theater Department will perform the play "Lobby Hero" at William Inge Memorial Theater in Murphy Hall at 2:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY November 3
Journalist and author Sam Quinones will discuss Mexican migration and sign copies of his books in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
CRIME
Prosecutors use "al-Qaida" to convict terrorists
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin used the term more than 50 times
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NEW YORK — The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial isn't accused of being a sworn member of al-Qaida at the time a U.S. embassy was bombed his native Tanzania, but that hasn't stopped prosecutors from mentioning the terror group — over and over.
In opening statements earlier this month at Ahmed Ghailani's trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Nicholas Lewin wasted little time before mentioning al-Qaida as he set the scene of the deadly attack in 1998.
A 2 1/2-ton truck bomb "has been sent to murder and to maim," he told jurors in federal court in Manhattan. "It's been sent by al-Qaida."
By the time he was done 30 minutes later, he'd said "al-Qaida" more than 50 times.
By comparison, at the 2001 trial of four other men convicted in the
plot, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Butler mentioned al-Qaida fewer than half as many times in a significantly longer opening statement. Osama bin Laden was named more than 60 times, compared with eight mentions at the current trial.
The recent bombardment of al-Qaida references reflect the broad latitude prosecutors have been given to evoke terror groups' thirst for American blood.
At the earlier trial, prosecu
tors had the task of educating jurors about an unfamiliar threat. A decade later — with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks burned into the public's awareness — al-Qaida has become a terror brand name that prosecutors can exploit.
That advantage became especially important after a key government witness — a man who says he sold explosives to Ghailani — was barred from testifying because the CIA learned of the man's identity at a secret camp where Ghailani
underwent harsh interrogations.
Prosecutors are "going to play the al-Qaida card," said Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.
The approach, Greenberg said, shows the government's belief that, "We can convict him by association alone."
Ghailani, 36, is charged with conspiracy in a plot to destroy U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya on orders from bin Laden. In all, 224
people were killed in the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks, including 12 Americans.
Prosecutors allege Ghailani helped buy the truck used to bomb the Tanzania embassy and fit it with explosives. They say he also purchased TNT, as well as detonators used in both attacks.
He was arrested in 2004 and held by the CIA at a secret overseas camp before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2006.
Defense attorneys have argued that their client was a dupe who knew nothing about the plot.
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