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Ant-abortion activist Randall Terry demonstrates outside the Sedgwick County Courthouse Jan. 27, in Wichita, Kan. Scott Roeder's trial has drawn controversy from both sides of the issue.
Anti-abortion activist releases Roeder video
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WICHITA, Kan. — An anti-abortion activist who in 1996 discussed anti-government militancy in an interview with Scott Roeder, the convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider, is releasing that interview on video.
In the nearly 50-minute
In the video, Roeder tells fellow Dave Leach how he was appealing his conviction earlier that year for carrying bomb-making materials in his unlicensed vehicle. Roeder said he had no intention of hurting anyone with the explosives.
Roeder, 51, was convicted Jan. 29 of first-degree murder in the May shooting of Dr. George Filler. He was also found guilty on two counts of aggravated assault. He will be sentenced Mar. 9.
interview, which was initially aired in October 1996 on Leach's "Uncle Ed Show" on Des Moines' public access cable, Roeder talks about the Freeman philosophy he follows.
The Montana Freemen were militant patriots who gained notoriety in the '90s for their anti-
tax rhetoric,
threats against
public officials
and money
s c h e m s .
Calling them-
selves sovereign
citizens,
the Freemen
schooled follow-
ers across the
nation.
Their Kansas
leader LeRoy Schweitzer and began an 81-day standoff at their compound in-Jordan, Mont.
Roeder, from Kansas City, Mo., tells Leach that as a Freeman he believes he has a "God-given right to travel" without a driver's license.
"Under God's law you are free
to do any-
offshoot faded into obscurity in the spring of 1996 when the FBI arrested Montana Freeman
"Under God's law you are free to do anything that does not break God's law."
The video provides no new insight into Roeder's
SCOTT ROEDER Anti-abortion activist convicted of murdering Dr. George Tiller
thing that does not break God's law and does not harm anyone else" Roeder said at the time.
beliefs but reinforces a long-term relationship between the two anti-abortion activists.
OBITUARY
Communication professor dies
Nobleza Asunción-Lande, a professor in the department of communication studies, died in her home Saturday.
"We are shocked and very sad," Beth Innocenti, chair of the department of communication studies, said. "She was a wonderful colleague, mentor, friend, instructor to faculty and the department for many years."
Asuncion-Lande, whose work focused on intercultural communication, had been a professor at the University since 1968.
She was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in 1995, and in 2001 she was inducted into the University's Women's Hall of Fame.
Services are planned for 10 a.m. Feb. 27 at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
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DRUG TRAFFICKING
Police officers escorted drug traffickers at a police station in Bogota F. 9. About 22 people were arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine between Colombia and the U.S.
Cocaine-for-arms worries U.N.
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"And before this becomes a very serious problem, it has to be dealt with and nipped in the bud." Costa said.
DAKAR, Senegal — Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the U.N.'s drug czar said Monday — an exchange of contraband that is especially dangerous in a region now home to cells of an al-Qaida-linked terror group.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said "there is more than just spotty evidence" indicating a link between drug traffickers and terror groups.
Cocaine from South America has been moving through the
West African coast for several years; exports believe drugs are then parceled out to smugglers who move the cocaine north by boats and by road. One suspected smuggling
"There is plenty of evidence of drugs moving, arriving in West Africa from across the Atlantic."
State crosses portions of the Sahara desert controlled by insurgents.
The cocaine-for-arms trade is especially worrying given the recent expansion of an al-Qaida-linked terror group, which was once based exclusively in Algeria but now has tentacles in Mauritania, Mali and Niger.
There has been growing concern that the rebels are believed to be collaborating with al-Qaida in the Islamic Magreb, an Algeria-based terror group that joined Osama bin Laden's terrorist network in 2006. Last year, four British tourists were kidnapped at the border of Mali and Niger. They are believed to have been kidnapped by Tuareg gunmen but then handed over to the terror group, which later murdered one of the British
Several relatively stable West African countries have a foot in the Sahara — including Mali and Niger, whose porous border has long been a smuggling route for ethnic Tuareg rebels fighting a rebellion there for years.
"There is plenty of evidence of a double flow, drugs moving, arriving into West Africa from across the Atlantic ... and the trading — exchange — of cocaine for arms," Costa said.
the drugs came by private plane and were divided out to smugglers paid in cash to move it north.
For at least five years, traffickers in Latin America have been using the poor and politically unstable countries of West Africa as transit points for Europe-bound cocaine. Until recently, officials believed
ANTONIO MARIA COSTA U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime
And as recently as December, three men in their 30s from Mali were arrested and accused of being al-Oaida
citizens after one of their demands was not met.
associates plotting to ferry drug through the Sahara desert to raise money for terror attacks.
Prosecuters called it evidence of a growing alliance between terror chiefs and drug lords.
Costa said there is also new evidence of drug production in West Africa. In 2009, U.N. officials discovered a warehouse in Guinea's capital containing the precursor ingredients for manufacturing synthetic drugs such as ecstasy. He said traffickers in some countries in the region have gone so far as to try their hand at growing opium — the raw ingredient used to make heroine — which is almost exclusively grown in Afghanistan.
"But the climate is not right — and the soil is not right," he said.
CAMPUS
Murry Sidlin conducts a performance during the 2008 Aspen Music Festival. The vice provost's office announced Sidlin as the second candidate for dean of the University's School of Music.
Second music dean candidate to visit
Murry Sidlin, dean of the School of Music at the Catholic University of America, is the second candidate for dean of the University's School of Music
according to the vice provost's office.
Sidlin said that the position sounds like a wonderful opportu-
He will visit campus Friday at 3 p.m. to participate in a public forum with faculty, staff and students.
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Wade Weast, director of the School of Music at the University
nity and that he is excited to visit campus.
"This is a chance for faculty and the new dean to really talk about the future," Sidlin said. "This is an exciting time for arts in America."
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