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Honduras society divided as crisis talks continue

TEGUCIGALPA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- While waiting earnestly for the result of the crisis talks in Costa Rica, the Hondurans remain divided over the return of their former president Manuel Zelaya -- a pivotal point for any solution to the political deadlock in the Latin American country.

Half of the Hondurans support Zelaya's return, but the rest do not want him back.

On Saturday, the sympathizers for the deposed president staged a new protest in Tegucigalpa to show their support, while the opposition groups also gathered to ask for "peace and democracy" in several cities in the country.

In Costa Rica, the commissions are trying to find a solution to the crisis, which has lasted since June 28 when Zelaya was removed and forced into exile and substituted by the then parliament speaker Roberto Micheletti.

The two sides agreed to resume the deadlocked talks on Sunday after a new round of negotiations ended without any achievement on Saturday in San Jose.

Manuel Torres, a political analyst in the country, said "the return of president Zelaya is not negotiable, it was a coup d'etat and the only solution to it is his return."

Juan Ferrera, coordinator for Honduras' anti-corruption council, held that "at the end of the meeting, probably none of the commissions will be entirely satisfied. Possibly both of them will have to give up something."

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the mediator of the Honduras crisis, proposed on Saturday a power-sharing reconciliation government and moving up the November elections as a solution to the current political crisis in Honduras.

The proposal was rejected by Micheletti. "They want to restore President Zelaya without any negotiation ... That is not viable," said Mario Saldana, spokesman for Micheletti.

But both the supporters for Zelaya and those for Micheletti are looking forward to an earlier solution to the crisis as the country at this moment is practically isolated from the rest of the world.

The economic effects of the Honduras crisis are turning evident. The country's international trade is not working well. Most elementary and high schools are not having classes because teachers are on strike. Hospitals are working at their maximum capacity and rumors about the talks are flying.

The Hondurans are constantly listening to the radio or watching television in hopes of good news. However, many people fear that for a developing country like Honduras, the real effect of outside blockage could be seen several months after the solution is found.

China acknowledged Sunday that security forces shot dead 12 people during ethnic riots in the northwest earlier this month.

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Police patrol Urumqi, China, on Saturday, July 11.

Officials also said Sunday that the death toll from the violence in the Xinjiang region had risen to 197. The government had previously said the fighting killed at least 184 people and wounded more than 1,000.

Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xianjiang regional government, said police officers in the capital Urumqi shot 12 "mobsters" after failing to deter them by firing into the air, state-run media said.

Three of them died on the spot, while nine died later, the Xinhua news agency said.

He did not say whether the "mobsters" were Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, or Han, who are the majority in China.

The rioting stemmed from an incident in June when a brawl broke out between Uyghur and Han workers at a toy factory in Guangdong province in southern China. Two Uyghurs reportedly died.

To protest the deaths, Uyghurs took to the streets in Urumqi -- and fighting erupted.

"But we could never imagine that the mobsters were so extremely vicious and inhumane," Bekri said, adding that the "thugs" used iron rods, stones and bricks to kill innocent residents.

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is home to about 20 million people and 13 major ethnic groups -- of which the Uyghur is the largest.

Some Uyghurs resent the presence of Han in Xinjiang, many of whom came looking for work.
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A militant leader whose group has links to al Qaeda has denounced Chinese treatment of Uyghur Muslims and threatened to seek "revenge."

The leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, in a video that appeared on Islamic Web sites, blames the Chinese for "genocide" against people in East Turkistan -- what some Uyghurs calls the region of Xinjiang province in western China where they live.

The remarks were delivered by Seyfullah, commander of the Turkistan Islamic Party and dated July 8. They came after the violence erupted between Uyghur Muslims and Han Chinese.

The speaker urged his people to "kill the Chinese Communists where you find them, take them and besiege them and ambush them wherever you can."
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"Let them know that these Muslim people have men who will seek their revenge and they are about to do that very soon, before the horses of God will reach you, God willing, so be prepared for that moment because we are too getting prepared."

The U.S. State Department said the group has taken credit for violent incidents in the past.

A helicopter crashed during takeoff from Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 16 people, NATO said.

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U.S. Marines participate in operation Saturday to push Taliban out of Herati, Afghanistan.

The aircraft was a "civilian contracted" helicopter, not a military one, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.

The helicopter was not shot down, ISAF said, adding that the exact cause of the crash was not known.

All the dead were civilians, ISAF said. There were an additional five casualties whose condition was not known, according to the military statement.

The chopper was a Mil Mi-8 helicopter, owned by the Russian air company Vertikal-T, the Russian news agency Interfax said, citing Russia's Federal Air Transportation Agency, Rosaviatsia.

The aircraft "was on a mission to support the peacekeeping forces," an unnamed Rosaviatsia spokesman said, according to Interfax.

Separately, a U.S. military helicopter made a hard landing in eastern Afghanistan, ISAF said.
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ISAF denied the helicopter was shot down in Kunar province, but suggested the people on board were injured.

"Personnel on the aircraft were initially treated on site and evacuated to the nearest medical facility for further treatment," the ISAF statement said.

The two helicopter incidents come a day after a plane crash that killed two airmen on a U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday, the U.S. military said.

The two-man fighter went down while it was conducting military operations, Lt. Col. Reid Christopherson, said earlier.

He said he was "confident" it had not been shot down.

July has been a difficult month for coalition troops in Afghanistan, with 51 international military fatalities, the highest so far, a CNN tally of official statistics shows.

Indonesian Officials Strain to Identify Bombers

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By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: July 19, 2009

JAKARTA, Indonesia —Indonesian officials struggled Sunday to identify the two suicide bombers behind the deadly attacks Friday at two American hotels here, even as they said more clearly that the two men appeared to have had ties to a Malaysian Islamic extremist.

The authorities said they were trying to reconstruct the face of one of the two bombers — both were decapitated in the blasts — to see whether they were extremists known to have ties to Noordin Muhammad Top, a Malaysian Islamic extremist who has long been the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia.

The two bombers are believed to have stayed two nights as guests inside Room 1808 at the JW Marriott Hotel, where they assembled the bombs before setting of nearly simultaneous explosions at the Marriott and at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel across the street.

“We are trying to reconstruct the face of one of the heads we found to see if it matches the guest from 1808. We will ask witnesses and receptionists, is it him?” Nanan Soekarna, a spokesman for the national police, said at a news conference.

Though the authorities had yet to determine the bombers’ identities, they said that their methods and weapons strongly indicated ties to Mr. Noordin.

Indonesian officials said initially that the bombs used at the two hotels were high explosives, with elements usually found in military-grade bombs.

But they said over the weekend that the bombs — homemade and filled with nails — were similar to ones used by Mr. Noordin and his allies in previous attacks.

A onetime leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist network with links to Al Qaeda, Mr. Noordin is now believed to lead a splinter group. Mr. Noordin is suspected of being the mastermind behind the bombing at a nightclub in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, among other attacks.

Mr. Noordin has evaded several arrests this decade.

Many small extremist groups, some with ties to Mr. Noordin, are believed to be active, even as the Indonesian government has succeeded in severely weakening Jemaah Islamiyah in recent years.

An unexploded bomb that the police found in the Marriott room was identical to a bomb discovered during a recent arrest of extremists at an Islamic boarding school in Cilacap, in Central Java, officials said. The daughter of the school’s headmaster is believed to be Mr. Noordin’s wife, and Mr. Noordin himself may have been in Cilacap recently, officials said.

“The method, the equipment used is the same as both bombs in Bali and the one found in Cilacap,” said Mr. Soekarna, the police spokesman.

The death toll from the blasts rose to nine from eight over the weekend, the police said. Because of the difficulty of identifying the victims from the blasts, the authorities had yet to determine the identities of four of the dead and said that more bodies could be discovered at the sites.

The authorities have also given sometimes conflicting information about the nationalities of the dead. On Sunday, officials said that the five identified victims included an Indonesian, a New Zealander and three Australians.

What kind of health care do lawmakers and Obama get?

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Throughout last year's presidential campaign and this year's debate over fixing the nation's health care system, lawmakers have delivered the same refrain: that the American people deserve the same kind of health care that members of Congress get.

In reality, the 435 members of the House of Representatives, the 100 members of the Senate and President Barack Obama get a pretty sweet deal, better than most Americans.

"Do they have better health care? A little, anyway," said Steve Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government watchdog group. "They do get some things that other people don't: access to doctors, military medical facilities."

Obama and members of Congress are among the more than 8 million federal employees, retirees and dependents who get their insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the largest employer-sponsored health insurance program in the country.

Because of its size, the program offers federal workers dozens of health plans to choose from, instead of the two or three that corporations and businesses typically offer their workers.

Like everyone else in the federal plan, what Obama and lawmakers pay depends on the level of coverage they choose. On average, the federal government pays 72 percent of the total premium.

"The federal employee plan is more generous than coverage most people have in the private sector," said Mark McClellan, a health care analyst at the Brookings Institution and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner under President George W. Bush.

"It's probably similar to coverage that people in large established corporations get, and better than what you get if you're in a small business. It's not the creme de la creme, but it's better than what most Americans are getting."

Lawmakers also receive perks beyond the federal care offerings. For an annual fee of $503, they can receive health services from the Office of the Attending Physician, a fully staffed $2.5 million medical office located in the Capitol. It's primarily there to respond to emergency needs of lawmakers, staff and visitors to the Capitol. Its services include acute medical care, health assessments, X-ray, lab and diagnostic services.

Lawmakers can also get medical treatment at military hospitals, including the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where presidents get their annual check-ups, and at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

"I would like to have that," Ellis said. "Anyone who's had to call their (health care) provider to make an appointment, that perk would be good to have."

That's not likely to happen anytime soon. McClellan said it would cost nearly $2 trillion to get Americans up to congressional-level health care.

Obama also gets in-house medical attention through the White House medical unit, which has a team of military doctors, nurses, physician assistants, medics and administrators. The unit has examination rooms, medications and medical equipment in the White House.

"It's like a mini urgent-care center," Dr. E. Connie Mariano, former President Bill Clinton's White House physician, told CNN in 2004.

The president also takes his health care on the road with him aboard Air Force One. Obama travels with a White House physician, and the presidential jet is equipped with an operating table and operating room lights in case of an emergency.