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Wednesday, June 28

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Security sources: Body found near Ramallah appears to be abducted settler

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli security sources said Thursday that a body found near Ramallah appears to be the 18-year-old West Bank settler abducted by Palestinian militants last weekend.

The settler, Eliyahu Yitzhak Asheri, is from the Itamar settlement near Nablus in the West Bank. His family reported him missing Sunday, telling police he did not come back from the French Hill district of Jerusalem.

The Popular Resistance Committees displayed the identity card Wednesday of a Jewish settler it said it kidnapped Sunday, and said the captive would be "butchered" unless Israel stopped its raid into southern Gaza, where Israeli troops have been searching for a kidnapped soldier.

Israeli troops arrest 4 Hamas cabinet members

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops rounded up four members of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Cabinet and four other lawmakers in a series of West Bank raids that coincided with a major military operation in Gaza, Palestinian sources said Thursday.

Labor Minister Mohammad al-Barghouti, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Khaled Abu Arafeh Minister of Local Governments Issa al Jaabari and Religious Affairs Minister Naif al Rajoub were arrested, according to the sources.

Finance Minister Omar Abdul Razek was being questioned by Israeli troops, the sources said.

The Israeli military would say only that an ongoing operation was under way around Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. (Posted 10:07 p.m.)

Israel denies entering northern Gaza

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian sources said early Thursday that Israeli troops had moved into northern Gaza, but the Israel Defense Forces said no troops had crossed the border. (Posted 903 p.m.)

House to take up resolution condemning disclosure of bank records collection

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution formally condemning last week's public disclosure of a classified Treasury Department program to collect international banking records to try to track the flow of money to terrorists.

Without mentioning by name any of the newspapers that revealed the program's existence, the resolution says the House "expects the cooperation of all news media organizations in protecting the lives of Americans and the capability of the government to identify, disrupt and capture terrorists by not disclosing classified intelligence programs."

Wednesday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called on the Justice Department to haul the journalists who reported the story in front of a grand jury to find out where they got their information. (Posted 7:09 p.m.)

Sources: Autopsy found victim of Iraq killing wasn't disabled

CARLSBAD, Calif. (CNN) -- An autopsy report on the Iraqi civilian a squad of Marines are accused of murdering in April indicates the man may not have been disabled as his family reported, defense sources said Wednesday.

A preliminary, partial report released to defense lawyers does not mention any deformity or other injury consistent with a permanent disability, a source familiar with the evidence told CNN.

Seven Marines and a Navy medical corpsman have been charged with killing Hasham Ibrahim Awad in the town of Hamdaniya, west of Baghdad, on April 26. Prosecutors began handing over computer discs that contain the evidence against the men to their lawyers last week.

Awad's body had been exhumed as part of the investigation. The remains were severely decomposed by the time the autopsy was performed, sources told CNN. (Posted 6:09 p.m.)

Sources: Hamas labor minister arrested by Israeli troops

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops arrested Hamas Labor Minister Mohammad al-Barghouti Wednesday in Ramallah, Palestinian sources told CNN.

The Israeli army said it was conducting an operation in Ramallah but had no comment about reports of the arrest. (Posted 5:53 p.m.)

Islamic Web site: Message from bin Laden expected soon

(CNN) -- An Islamic Web site posted a note Wednesday saying it was expecting a message "soon" from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, expressing grief over the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the organization's leader in Iraq.

"Coming Soon, Osama Bin Laden new message, offering condolences of the martyr of the (Islamic) nation and the emir of the martyrs, Abu Musab Zarqawi, may God rest his soul," the Web site, which often posts messages, statements and videos from al Qaeda, reported Wednesday.

The Web site posted a nearly identical notification last Thursday on behalf of al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The following day, a videotape was aired on the Arab network Al-Jazeera in which al-Zawahiri said he was grieving the death of al-Zarqawi.

CNN could not independently confirm Wednesday's announcement. (Posted 5:17 p.m.)

Senate confirms Paulson to treasury post

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Henry Paulson's move from Wall Street to the Cabinet table became official Wednesday, when the Senate confirmed him to be the nation's 74th treasury secretary.

Paulson, 60, the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, was nominated for the post last month by President Bush, replacing John Snow. He was confirmed in the Senate on a voice vote.

Paulson will be Bush's third treasury chief, following Snow and Paul O'Neill. He served as an aide at the Pentagon and White House during the Nixon administration before going to Goldman Sachs and working his way up to CEO.

The new job will include a sharp pay cut. Paulson pulled down $38 million in compensation from Goldman Sachs last year; the treasury secretary makes a mere $175,700, or about what he earned in two days at the Wall Street giant. (Posted 5:13 p.m.)

BREAKING NEWS: Up to 200,000 ordered to evacuate Wilkes-Barre, Pa., area

(CNN) -- Up to 200,000 people were ordered Wednesday to evacuate the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., area because of the rising Susquehanna River, Luzerne County authorities said.

Soldier, Marine killed in Iraq on Tuesday

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier and a Marine were killed Tuesday in separate incidents in Iraq, the military said Wednesday.

A Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier died at about 10 p.m. when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, according to a military statement.

A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died from wounds sustained "due to enemy action" in Iraq's volatile Anbar province Tuesday, the military said. (Posted 3:08 p.m.)

Senate committee approves bill calling on pimps and prostitutes to pay taxes

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The committee Wednesday morning approved a bill sponsored by committee chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, authorizing at least $2 million toward the establishment of an office in the IRS criminal investigation unit to prosecute unlawful sex workers for violations of tax laws.

The bill's approval gives the IRS harsh new criminal penalties for use against those in the underground criminal economy. According to Grassley's office, the majority of the victims of sex trafficking -- those who are often smuggled in from other counties and virtually imprisoned in a house set up for prostitution -- are girls ages 13 to 17. (Posted 2:58 p.m.)

Syria calls Israeli overflights 'unacceptable'

(CNN) -- Syria says it chased Israeli warplanes out of its airspace Wednesday in what it called a "hostile and provocative act," Syrian state television reported Wednesday.

Israeli jets buzzed the country home of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Ladekye, the Israeli military reported. Israeli television reported that Assad was at home at the time.

A banner on Syrian television reported that the Syrian air force intercepted the Israeli aircraft "and forced them to separate and leave the area." It called the Israeli overflight "an unacceptable, hostile and provocative act." (Posted 2:49 p.m.)

12 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan raid

(CNN) -- Militants and coalition troops on Wednesday squared off in northern and southern Afghanistan in a smattering of incidents, including one that claimed the lives of 12 Taliban extremists, military officials said.

In Uruzgan province in the south, 12 "Taliban extremists" were killed when Afghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces raided a Taliban in the village of Lwar Gawrgin, Shahidi Hass District, the Combined Forces Command said in a statement.

A firefight ensued between these forces and insurgents hiding in a Taliban compound, and two Afghan soldiers received light wounds.

"The targeted compound was frequently used by Taliban insurgents as a meeting place to plan and facilitate attacks against innocent Afghan civilians, ANA and Coalition forces," the statement said. (Posted 1:50 p.m.)

Putin orders 'special services' to 'locate,' 'destroy' people who killed four Russian diplomats in Iraq

MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russian agents to hunt down and "destroy" the killers of the four Russian diplomats taken hostage in Iraq early this month, Interfax news agency reported.

Interfax said Putin issued the directive at a meeting in Moscow with visiting Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia.

"The president ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals who killed Russian diplomats in Iraq," the Kremlin told Interfax. (Posted 1:50 p.m.)

2 dead as N.Y. creek washes over interstate; swollen Susquehanna threatens Binghamton

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The rising Susquehanna River spilled into the streets of Binghamton, N.Y., Wednesday, covering cars, flooding homes and prompting a mandatory evacuation of as many as 15,000 residents in eastern, western and southern sections of the city, officials said.

About 30 miles to the northeast, a rising creek washed out a section of Interstate 88 in Sidney, N.Y., causing wrecks that killed two truckers and closed the highway, state police said. The truckers died in separate wrecks Wednesday morning when their trucks plunged into a 25-foot hole in the interstate's asphalt carved out by a swollen creek, according to New York State Police Lt. Robert Galletto Jr.

That section of the interstate, near Sidney, remained closed Wednesday afternoon, Galleto said. Gov. George Pataki declared states of emergencies in 10 New York counties that suffered flooding in the wake of several days of heavy rains. -- CNN's Stacy Francisco contributed to this report. (Updated 1:45 p.m.)

Foreign suspects lose Supreme Court appeal

From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Foreigners imprisoned for serious crimes in the United States do not automatically deserve new trials even though police may fail to inform them of their right to speak with their consulates, the Supreme Court has ruled.

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, a majority of justices appeared reluctant to allow thousands of foreign nationals' sentences to potentially be tossed out under an international treaty guaranteeing foreign suspects certain rights. More importantly, the court did not decide the larger question of whether police are required to inform non-citizens of their right to contact their home governments.

A Honduran convicted of murder and a Mexican imprisoned for shooting at a police officer claimed police separately failed to inform them of that right. The case added another page to the high court's recent body of work on applying international legal standards in the United States. (Posted 1:45 p.m.)

Israeli jets buzz Syrian president's house amid new Gaza push

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel ratched up the pressure on both the Palestinian Authority and the Syrian government Wednesday, sending warplanes flying over the country home of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and expanding its military campaign by firing artillery into northern Gaza.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres complained Wednesday that Syria allowed the exiled political leadership of Hamas -- operating out of Damascus -- to order the weekend kidnapping of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit.

Israel launched a military strike early Wednesday in southern Gaza, knocking out an electric power station that serves at least half the territory's 1.3 million residents as it launched an effort to free Shalit. Israeli planes also bombed two bridges, cutting Gaza in half as Israel demanded that the Hamas-dominated Palestinian government free the soldier captured Sunday by militants. (Updated 1:33 p.m.)

Flooding kills 3, forces others to rooftops in northeast Pa.; southeast braces for river crests

(CNN) -- Rising rivers threatened to overwhelm bridges and dikes in eastern Pennsylvania Wednesday, a day after three people drowned in floodwaters caused by several days of heavy rain.

A state of emergency was declared for 46 Pennsylvania counties by Gov. Edward Rendell to make state resources available to local governments working to rescue people from flooding and to prepare for record-level river crests over the next day.

Hundreds of people were believed trapped in the upper floors and on the roofs of their homes as National Guard troops and a Coast Guard helicopter worked to rescue them.

In Susquehanna County, many roads were under 6 to 8 feet of water, complicating efforts to reach about 400 people believed to be stranded in their homes, said Emergency Operations Coordinator Mark Wood. "We're trying to get to these people as quickly as possible, but the roads are blocked and we're just doing our best," Wood said. (Updated 1:21 p.m.)

Coalition soldier in Afghanistan killed when patrol vehicle strikes landmine

(CNN) -- A coalition soldier was killed and and three others were wounded on Wednesday by a landmine in southern Afghanistan, the Combined Forces Command in Kabul said.

The incident took place in the Nawzad district of Helmand province and does not appear to be connected "to extremist activity," the command said in a statement.

The soldiers' nationalities were not disclosed. (Posted 12:55 p.m.)

Montenegro joins world family of nations, becomes member of U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The Republic of Montenegro officially became the 192nd member of the United Nations on Wednesday.

The U.N. General Assembly unanimously OK'd a resolution admitting Montenegro, and the tiny Balkan country's flag was raised outside the U.N. headquarters in New York, joining the 191 others.

Montenegro had been part of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro, a vestige of the former Yugoslavia. Montenegrins voted for independence from Serbia in a referendum on May 21. -- From CNN United Nations Producer Liz Neisloss (Posted 12:11 p.m.)

Woman found taped to steering wheel staged her abduction

(CNN) -- An Arizona woman found slumped over in her car with her arms bound to the steering wheel with duct tape near a Phoenix freeway Monday staged the incident in a play for sympathy, according to Phoenix police.

Although her story gained national attention, Phoenix Police Detective Tony Morales said he was immediately suspicious because there was no apparent motive to her kidnapping and she showed no visible signs of trauma. "

When investigators interviewed the woman again Tuesday she admitted she made up the story and staged the abduction because of a "variety of personal issues going on in her life, " Morales said. (Posted 12:09 p.m.)

Suicide car bomb in southern Afghanistan; attackers killed, no other casualties

(CNN) -- Attackers on Wednesday launched a suicide car bomb just outside the provincial capital of a southern Afghan province, a local government official said.

Two people in the car were killed, but there were no other casualties in the incident, which took place at the northern entrance Qalat in Zabul province, a southeastern district.

The incident occurred near a police checkpoint and a couple of hundred meters away from a U.S. military base. (Posted 11:32 a.m.)

Palestinian government calls for prisoner swap to settle crisis over kidnapped Israeli soldier

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- The Hamas-dominated Palestinian government on Wednesday called for a prisoner swap to end half an Israeli military operation sparked by the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

Taher Nono, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry, said the ministry was calling on Arab government to press for a "negotiated settlement that would lead to the release of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in the jails of the Israeli occupation, especially women, children, the elderly and the sick prisoners, and those who have spent long terms in jail in return for the release of the Israeli soldier."

In an interview on CNN International, Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mark Regev called such a proposal a "slippery slope." He said to bargain with hostage takers would only result in more hostage incidents. (Posted 11:30 a.m.)

3 dead, 2 missing, 2,233 evacuated as Maryland waters rise

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two teenagers were feared dead after disappearing in a swollen Maryland creek, while the bodies of three other people were found near where they were swept away by a flash flood Tuesday night, authorities said.

Leaks in an earthen dam prompted the early morning evacuation of families and pets from 1,200 Montgomery County homes, but the dam was holding steady as of Wednesday morning, officials said.

Three people died after floodwaters swept them out of a pickup truck just minutes after they were rescued from a car stranded in rising waters in Myersville, Md., late Tuesday, authorities said. (Updated 11:29 a.m.)

Belgian police say bodies of missing girls found

LONDON (CNN) -- Belgium Federal Police said Wednesday the bodies of two missing girls had been found.

The body of Stacy Lemmens was found earlier in the day, and later police said they had found body of Nathalie Mahy. No further details were immediately available. --CNN's Eileen Hsieh contributed to this report. (Posted 11:34 a.m.)

Supreme Court finds overall Texas redistricting plan proper

From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A portion of a controversial Texas congressional map was tossed out Tuesday by the Supreme Court, but the overall redistricting plan engineered by state Republicans was found to be proper.

The legislative plan led to the 2004 ouster of four Democratic incumbents from Congress and sparked a bitter partisan battle. The map was was promoted by Republican, including former majority leader Rep. Tom DeLay.

The divided ruling concluded that a congressional district unfairly diluted the voting strength of Latinos. "A state may not trade off the rights of some members of a racial group against the rights of other members of that group," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.

Iranian Foreign Minister Says Nuke Answer Possible Mid-July: Report

From CNN Correspondent Chris Burns

BERLIN (CNN) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says his country could respond by mid-July to an international plan for nuclear talks, a German newsmagazine reported Wednesday.

"If all the goodwill is maintained, talks could begin soon," Mottaki said in an interview with Stern magazine.

The five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany are pressing Tehran to respond to their plan before the July 15-17 summit of the Group of Eight industrialized countries in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The countries are offering Iran economic, technical and political incentives if it halts uranium enrichment that Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes, but whose critics say could be used to build an atomic bomb. (Updated 11:31 a.m.)

IDF launches airstrike in Gaza

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Israel Defense Forces, who are in the midst of a military campaign in southern Gaza to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, said Wednesday the Israeli Air Force had struck "open areas in the southern Gaza Strip."

The IDF offered no other details. (Posted 8:51 a.m.)

German forces attacked twice in Afghanistan; 3 soldiers wounded; NATO-led crackdown on militants in northern Afghanistan mulled

From CNN Berlin Correspondent Chris Burns

BERLIN (CNN) -- Suspected Taliban fighters twice sprayed German troops with gunfire in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding three soldiers and raising talk of a NATO-led crackdown on the militants' activity in that region, a German defense official said.

Attackers fired on a German patrol in armored vehicles near Kunduz, causing no casualties but prompting reinforcements to be sent to the scene, a German defense official said. The troops were again fired on hours later, leaving three lightly injured.

The incidents were the latest to raise concerns about Taliban attacks in northern Afghanistan, and NATO officials are expected to discuss whether to launch an operation against them. (Posted 8:26 a.m.)

3 Sri Lankan sailors dead, 2 missing after fighting with Tamil 'Sea Tigers'

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Heavy fighting in northwestern Sri Lanka Wednesday between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan navy left three sailors dead and two missing, the navy reported.

Three other sailors were wounded in the battle.

The fighting erupted after the rebel group's "Sea Tigers" wing surrounded a Navy boat on routine patrol offshore near the western seaboard town of Mannar. After the navy called for air support, the Sri Lankan Air Force dispatched several Russian-built Mi24 helicopter gunships, which fired at rebel positions.

There was no word on any rebel casualties.(Posted 8:25 a.m.)

Palestinian militants display photo of kidnapped Jewish settler; threaten he will be 'butchered' if Israel doesn't end Gaza raid

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees -- a militant group involved in Sunday's kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in southern Israel -- Wednesday displayed the national identification card of a Jewish settler the group says it kidnapped on the West Bank.

The PRC spokesman displayed a photo of Eliyahu Yitzhak Asheri, 18, from the Itamar settlement near Nablus. He displayed the photo at a news conference which was shown on Israeli television.

In an interview with the Arabic language channel Al-Jazeera, the PRC spokesman said Asheri would be "butchered" if Israel did not stop its raid on Gaza.

The family of Asheri reported him missing Sunday, saying he did not return from the French Hill area of Jerusalem.

Israeli troops and armored vehicles crossed into southern Gaza early Wednesday in what the Israeli military said was an attempt to rescue kidnapped soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit. (Posted 7:17 a.m.)

Israeli troops roll into Gaza to retrieve kidnapped soldier

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops and armored vehicles crossed into southern Gaza early Wednesday in what the Israeli military said was an attempt to rescue a soldier kidnapped last weekend by Palestinian militants.

Israel will not hesitate to carry out "extreme action" to secure the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday.

Soldiers supported by artillery, fighter planes and helicopter gunships traveled from the Israeli military encampment in Kerem Shalom to the southern Gaza town of Rafah, near the Gaza-Israel-Egypt border, said the Israel Defense Ministry.

That area is where Shalit was abducted Sunday, and two Israeli soldiers killed, after a brazen raid by Palestinian militants who tunneled into Israel. The Israeli forces took up positions in Gaza shortly before 3 a.m. (8 p.m. ET).

Capt. Noa Meir, a military spokeswoman, said Israeli commanders have a "general idea" where Shalit is being held in southern Gaza. (Posted, 6:10 a.m.)

Al-Rubaie: Tunisian arrested for 'active role' in Feb. 22 mosque bombing

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Iraqi security forces recently arrested a Tunisian who played an "active role" in the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra, a Shiite shrine, Iraq's National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie announced Wednesday.

The bombing triggered a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq.

The Tunisian, Abu Qudama, was seriously wounded after he and 15 other foreign terrorists tried to storm an Iraqi military checkpoint, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, al-Rubaie said.

All the others were killed.

After he was captured, Abu Qudama "confessed to all the information I've just told you," al-Rubaie said. (Updated, 6 a.m.)

Top Tamil rebel negotiator expresses 'regret' for 1991 assassination of former Indian PM

NEW DELHI (CNN) -- In an effort to get India to intercede in the current Sri Lankan crisis, a top negotiator for the Tamil Tiger rebel group Wednesday issued the most direct expression of "regret" to date for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

"As far as that event is concerned, I would say it is a great tragedy, a monumental historical tragedy for which we deeply regret," chief negotiator Anton Balasingham said in an interview on Indian cable news network NDTV.

"We call upon the government of India to be magnanimous to put the past behind and to approach the ethnic question in a different perspective."

Balasingham's statement comes at a time of increasing international isolation of the The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), known as the Tamil Tigers. Recently, the European Union followed the United States, Britain and India by putting LTTE on a list of "banned organizations." (Posted, 3:45 a.m.)

Peres: Israel must 'take the necessary measures' if Palestinians cannot control current situation

(CNN) -- Israel is prepared "to take the necessary measures" against the Palestinian leadership if they cannot take control from Hamas' exiled political leader in Syria who Israel's Vice Premier Shimon Peres blamed for ordering the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

Peres blames Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal -- exiled in Damascus -- for ordering Cpl. Gilad Shalit's kidnapping, which has sparked an Israeli military operation in southern Gaza to secure the soldier's release, according to the Israeli military.

Peres said if the current Hamas leadership in the Palestinian territories is incapable of releasing the soldier, then "they are not leaders, they are outside decision-makers."

"We cannot replace them," Peres said, referring to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. "If they cannot lead we have to take the necessary measures, the minimum to really to change the situation."

He did not elaborate on what those measures would entail. (Posted, 2:53 a.m.)

Immigration at center of Utah House primary; comeback for injured S.C. lt. gov.

(CNN) -- Veteran Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah, under fire for his support of President Bush's guest worker program, survived a battle against a well-funded challenger Tuesday in Utah's Republican primary.

With all the precincts reporting, Cannon won about 56 percent of the vote, compared to 44 percent for his challenger, John Jacob, according to election results posted on the state's Web site early Wednesday.

Jacob, a wealthy businessman, had accused the conservative five-term lawmaker of supporting "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.

Anti-immigration groups poured money into the race and aired ads against Cannon, while both the president and first lady Laura Bush made automated phone calls on his behalf.

Meanwhile, in a runoff race in South Carolina, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer pulled off a come-from-behind win for the GOP nomination for a second term, a month after escaping death in a plane crash. (Update, 3:15 a.m.)

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