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INTERNATIONAL EDITION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012
109TH YEAR I ©2012 THE MIAMI HERALD
U.S. Navy SEALs free 2 hostages in Somalia
Former CIA officer goes from terrorist hunter to defendant BY CHARLIE SAVAGE
New York Times Service
WASHINGTON — In March 2002, John Kiriakou coordinated a team of fellow Central Intelligence Agency officers and Pakistani agents that descended upon a house in Pakistan where they believed they might find Abu Zubaydah, a high-level al Qaeda figure. Rushing into the house amid the bloody chaos of a shootout, Kiriakou seized a heavily wounded man, photographed his ear and used his cellphone to send the image to an analyst. “It’s him,” the analyst reported back after comparing the shape of the ear to file photographs of Abu Zubaydah. Kiriakou, who recounted the episode in a 2010 memoir, and his colleagues had captured alive the first big target in the al Qaeda hierarchy after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington — “one of the brightest moments of my professional life,” he described it. Now, Kiriakou is embroiled in another drama. The same government that a decade ago sent him to risk his life taking on al Qaeda is now trying to send him to prison for as much as 30 years, charging him with disclosing classified information — the identity of two former colleagues who participated in interrogating detainees — to journalists. Several friends said the CIA this week abruptly fired his wife, who had worked as an analyst there since before the couple met; specifically, one said, she was called, while on maternity leave, and told her to submit her resignation. (The agency declined to comment.) Kiriakou’s lawyer Plato Cacheris said Tuesday that his client would plead not guilty but could not discuss the matter. • TURN TO CIA, 5A
BY ABDI GULED, KIMBERLY DOZIER AND KATHARINE HOURELD Associated Press
records of this early period, few physical artifacts exist. The slim offerings in the Istanbul section of the Archaeological Museums here reflect that, paling in comparison with the riches from Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Lebanon.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The same U.S. Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where a U.S. woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed. U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the mission by SEAL Team 6 two days earlier, and minutes after he gave his State of the Union address to Congress he was on the phone with the U.S. woman’s father to tell him his daughter was safe. The Danish Refugee Council confirmed the two aid workers, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, were “on their way to be reunited with their families.” Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, were working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when gunmen kidnapped the two in October. The raiders came in quickly, catching the guards as they were sleeping after having chewed the narcotic leaf qat for much of the evening, a pirate who gave his name as Bile Hussein told The Associated Press by phone. Hussein said he was not present at the site but had spoken with other pirates who were, and that they told him nine pirates had been killed in the raid and three were “taken away.” A U.S. official confirmed media reports that the SEALs parachuted into the area before moving on foot to the target. The official said the mission was carried out by SEAL Team 6, the same team that killed al Qaeda leader bin Laden in Pakistan last May. The raid happened near the Somali town of Adado. New intelligence emerged last week that Buchanan’s health was “deteriorating rapidly,” so Obama directed his security team to develop a rescue plan, according to a senior administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly. A Danish Refugee Council official, Mary Ann Olsen, said that Buchanan was “not that ill” but needed medicine.
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Haitians march through the streets of Jacmel in early celebration of carnival. Below, Jean-Paul Sylvince produces papier-mache vases in Jacmel. The picturesque city is in disrepair but investors, artisans, and the travel industry are trying to bring it back to life.
Haiti dreams of a tourism revival
little bit, and so we’re bringing Donna here to help us with our vision.” Said Karan, as she swept through the abanJACMEL, Haiti — A couple of rumpled aid doned Hotel Jacmelienne workers were sucking down Sunday morning — its seaside swimming beers at the Hotel Florita here when pool green with algae, the minister of tourism rolled up its overgrown gardens to the curb, followed by the littered with broken interior minister with body glass, coconut husks and guards toting AR-15s and discarded condoms — then the star of the show, “Oh, we can definitely New York fashion designer work with this!” Donna Karan of DKNY. As hard as it may be The notables were in Jacmel, for young Haitians to the funky art and carnival capital believe, their country of Haiti, to plot the transforwas once a tourist desmation of the earthquaketination. Even during the rattled port from a faded bad old days of the Duflower of the Caribbean valier dictatorships and to a resort destination their creepy bogeymen, for jet-setters. the Tontons Macoutes, the “We’re trying to tourists came. Or at least a rebrand Haiti,” Tourfew: See Graham Greene’s ism Minister Stephanie 1966 novel The Comedians, Balmir Villedrouin said set incidentally at a hotel and in an interview, her toddler in her arms. “We’re trying to raise the bar a • TURN TO HAITI, 2A
BY WILLIAM BOOTH
Washington Post Service
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After 2007 drought, Istanbul yields ancient treasure BY JENNIFER PINKOWSKI
New York Times Service
ISTANBUL — For 1,600 years, this city — Turkey’s largest — has been built and destroyed, erected and erased, as layer upon layer of life has thrived on its seven hills. Today, Istanbul is a city of 13 million, spread far beyond
those hills. And on a long-farmed peninsula jutting into Lake Kucukcekmece, 13 miles west of the city center, archaeologists have made an extraordinary find. The find is Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C. Discovered in 2007 after a drought lowered
the lake’s water table, it has been yielding a trove of relics from the fourth to the sixth centuries A.D., a period that parallels Istanbul’s founding and its rise as Constantinople, a seat of power for three successive empires — the Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. While there are some historical
In annual address, Obama frames election-year vision BY STEVEN THOMMA
McClatchy News Service
issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive.” The speech fleshed out a broad vision Obama laid out in December in a speech in Osawatomie, Kan., one modeled after a 1910 speech that Theodore Roosevelt gave in the same town laying out themes for what would become the Progressive Era. Among his proposals: a 30 percent minimum tax on millionaires, a minimum tax on companies that ship jobs overseas coupled with tax cuts for those that keep factory jobs at home, and a $200 billion, six-year plan to build roads, bridges and railways with money saved from bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama opened his speech declaring victory in bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, eliminating Osama bin Laden, and beginning to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. That enables the country, he
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama used an election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night to frame the national debate not as a referendum on him but as a pivotal decision on how to save the American dream. He boasted that the nation’s economy has improved, albeit slowly, from the depths of the Great Recession. “The state of our Union is getting stronger,” he said. But he said the middle class has been losing ground for decades, and he urged a new agenda of taxes and government spending to tilt the playing field away from the rich and powerful and more toward the rest of the citizenry. Once, he said, U.S. citizens believed “the basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement. The defining • TURN TO OBAMA, 2A
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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gets a hug Wednesday from House Cloak Room attendant Ella Terry on her last day as a member of Congress. Giffords resigned from Congress to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head she received last year in Tucson.
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