Friday, September 08, 2006

National and International News-Friday, Sept. 8th

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Ten people including two American soldiers are dead in a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan. The blast ripped through a U-S convoy not far from the U-S Embassy in Kabul. Eight Afghan civilians also died.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (AP) - The space shuttle Atlantis is on the pad and all fueled up, ready for this morning's re-scheduled launch. Liftoff is set for 11:40 Eastern time. NASA has decided to proceed with the space-station construction mission despite a problem with one of the shuttle's power cells.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb attack today in Baghdad has killed two people and wounded a-half dozen more. The target was a police patrol. Yesterday, six bombings in Iraq's capital left 17people dead and dozens wounded.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - The Senate Intelligence Committee today is to release a partial report on its investigation of how Nine-Eleven happened. A leading Democrat says it'll show that the Bush administration's case for war was, in his words, "fundamentally misleading."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Three Ohio teens are in custody in the beating-death robbery of a 43-year-old man outside a Columbus bar last week. The mother of a 14-year-old turned him in after recognizing him from a surveillance-cam videotape of the attack.

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