Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Tiger Woods' comments Friday may become the most scrutinized apology in history, fodder for dinner tables and Internet chat rooms alike: Was he genuine? Was it a PR stunt? Can he do anything to restore people's faith in him?

The biggest knock on golf's biggest star is that it took him three months to utter any words publicly about his infidelity and then did so in a controlled environment. That's a no-no, according to apology etiquette.

"If you have to take time to say 'sorry,' you're not being authentic. We don't need extra time to rationalize whether we're sorry or not," said Glenn Llopis, the founder of the Center for Innovation & Humanity, a California-based think tank.

It seems everyone is apologizing for everything these days. In February alone, there has been a bevy of "I'm sorries," from a tearful John Mayer for his use of the n-word to Toyota's top boss for the automaker's repeated shortcomings.

But do apologies still carry weight, or does the flood of mea culpas dilute their meaning?

Lauren Bloom, a business ethics expert and the author of "The Art of the Apology," says, "It's never too late to say 'I'm sorry.'

"But saying 'I'm sorry' in a tightly controlled environment," she says, "makes it look more and more like an exercise in 'let's check the box and do what my PR people tell me to do.' "

Woods delivered his apology in front of a small hand-picked crowd that was not allowed to ask questions. "I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated," he said. "I am the only person to blame."

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How would Bloom rate Woods' authenticity?

"I thought he was very authentic," she said, adding with a laugh, "He was most authentic when he was attacking the media."

"But I think he was very sincere. I think he had a very tough thing to say today, and he sucked it up and did well."

Bloom has six essentials to an effective apology: Say sorry sincerely; take responsibility; make amends; express appreciation to fans and friends who have stuck by you; listen to the people affected by your actions; and do better next time.

"He did pretty well. He checked all the boxes," she said. "We now have got to see changed behavior. ... I hope he follows through on it. I think America would love to welcome him back."

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Bloom says the importance of an apology shouldn't be overlooked. There was a time, she says, when people viewed apologizing for your actions as weak. That perception has since changed, because Americans now recognize that people are inherently flawed.

"Folks are starting to wake up to that," she said. "Most of the time, people are ready to forgive and forget."

Who has given an effective public apology? She says actor Hugh Grant, who hit the talk show circuit immediately after his infamous encounter with a prostitute in 1995.

A bad apology? John Edwards, according to Bloom.

"Serial apologies," she says, "they never work."

In his apology, Woods said that he had undergone 45 days of in-patient treatment and that he would return to therapy Saturday.

"I have a long way to go, but I've taken my first steps," Woods said. "I need to regain my balance and be centered."

Therapist Gregory Jantz, who has treated sex addiction for 25 years, says relapse is common. His Seattle-based facility has seen only a 5 percent "full recovery" of addicts.

"This is not a go-into-rehab-and-be-finished type of addiction."

An apology is important

Question: What did business expert say?

Question: What did the ethicist say about apologies

Question: When did Tiger Woods apologize?

Question: What did Tiger Woods say in February?

Question: What did the expert say never works

Question: What did the ethics expert say?

Question: What sport figure apologized

Question: What did Tiger Woods say?

Answer: "It's never too late to

Answer: "It's never too late to

Answer: Friday

Answer: "I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated,"

Answer: "Serial apologies,"

Answer: "It's never too late to

Answer: Tiger Woods'

Answer: "I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated,"

Summary:
"If you have to take time to say 'sorry,' you're not being authentic," ethicist says .
Tiger Woods' apology the latest "I'm sorry" in February .
Society needs apologies, but "serial apologies ... never work," business ethics expert says .


Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Turn back time, more than 90 years, to a cold case that won't gather dust. It's a classic whodunit, starting with the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl and ending in a lynching. It was grist for a prosecutor's political aspirations, a case that was appealed all the way to the country's highest court and a story hotly debated in the national press. At the center of it all was Leo Frank, a northern Jew who'd moved to Atlanta to supervise the National Pencil Company factory. When the body of Mary Phagan, a white child laborer, was found in the basement, law enforcement homed in on Frank. He was tried and convicted, based on what most historians say was the perjured testimony of a black man, and sentenced to death. But when the governor commuted his sentence in 1915, about 25 men abducted Frank, 31, from the state prison and hung him from a tree in Marietta, Georgia. Considered one of the most sensational trials of the early 20th century, the Frank case seemed to press every hot-button issue of the time: North vs. South, black vs. white, Jew vs. Christian, industrial vs. agrarian. In the years since, it has inspired numerous books and films, TV programs, plays, musicals and songs. It has fueled legal discussions, spawned a traveling exhibition and driven public forums. Who murdered Mary Phagan? What forces were behind the lynching of Frank? Why should we still care? Answers to these questions, or theories, keep coming. "Leo Frank was not a good ole Southern boy. He was different and not ashamed of being different," said Ben Loeterman, whose new documentary, "The People v. Leo Frank," will air Monday on PBS. "The test of us as a society is not necessarily how we treat the best among us but how we treat the most questionable." Mixed in with ongoing analysis of the Phagan-Frank story are the descendants of those involved, people who learned of their connections differently and carry these legacies forward in unique ways. The accused "The story goes that no one in my family talked about it," said Cathee Smithline, a 62-year-old great-niece of Frank. Frank was the one who handed Mary Phagan her check when she stopped by the factory on April 26, 1913, Confederate Memorial Day. The night watchman, Newt Lee, would find the body and call police early the next day. Smithline, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, was 16 when she first heard about the case. Her mother sat her down, told her a story about what a man in the South had been through, said it was based on her uncle and handed over a book: "A Little Girl is Dead." It turns out Smithline's mother got the news in her teens, too, when her boyfriend turned to her after seeing "They Won't Forget," a 1937 Hollywood film. "You know that's about your uncle," he said. She'd grown up hearing Uncle Leo died of pneumonia, and after asking family about it, the truth was revealed, followed by the words, "We will never talk about this again," Smithline said. "I think it was a family embarrassment," she said. "My grandmother [who died when Smithline was 1] was very close to her brother. It cannot be easy to tell someone your brother was lynched and why." The first victim Mary Phagan Kean was 13 when the story hit her. She was in a South Carolina classroom, and her name stopped short a teacher taking attendance. "Mary Phagan, you say?" she recalled the teacher asking, peering up from his list. He wanted to know if she was related to a girl with that name who died in 1913. Confidently, she told him she wasn't. But the boys on the playground taunted her anyway, telling her she was reincarnated from a dead girl

Question:
When was Phagan murdered?
Who was convicted of her murder
Who was murdered in 1913?
What year was Mary Phagan's murder
Who was convicted?
What hot buttons did the case hit

Answer: April 26, 1913,

Answer: Leo Frank,

Answer: Mary Phagan

Answer: 1913,

Answer: Leo Frank,

Answer: North vs. South, black vs. white, Jew vs. Christian, industrial vs. agrarian.

Summary:
Mary Phagan's murder in 1913 spawned an Atlanta trial that's still talked about today .
Leo Frank was convicted, later lynched by mob of respected community leaders .
Case hit hot buttons: North vs. South; Jew vs. Christian; black vs. white .
Story continues through new books, films and descendants from all sides .


Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Want to boost your spending power? Try giving your wallet a break by shopping at a dollar store. Americans have embraced the four leading chains -- Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and the 99¢ Only store -- in droves during the recession. This year, Dollar General's sales were up almost 10 percent quarter-over-quarter, and they're opening 450 new stores, according to The New York Times. Dollar Tree, meanwhile, planned to open 235 new stores this year. And Family Dollar's early 2009 numbers pointed to sales being up 6.5 percent year-over-year. But despite the booming sales, Consumer Reports' Money Adviser has taken a close look at this hot retail segment and found that not everything is a deal. Before I tell you what they say to stock up on and what to pass on, I want to clarify something. There are important distinctions to note among the chains. Dollar General and Family Dollar both price the majority of their items at $1, but they also offer some merchandise at higher price points. Dollar Tree and the 99¢ Only chain are the only true dollar stores where everything is $1, with no exceptions. So what did Consumer Reports find? Cotton rounds, gift wrap, birthday candles, paper bags, composition notebooks, plastic cups, security envelopes, napkins, foam plates and tissue paper are among the best deals. Yet they advised against buying jewelry (too much lead content), electrical products (possibly fake UL labels), medication (expired products) and vitamins (probably not to be from reputable sellers) at any dollar stores. Now, I've routinely bought medication like ibuprofen at dollar stores and have not found it to be past expiration date. Of course, some would argue that I can get a better deal on ibuprofen at a warehouse club. But unless you're in constant pain, who can use all those 12 million pills in the bulk container before they expire?! The research that Consumer Reports did reminded me of a similar report in Good Housekeeping several years ago. At that time, the women's magazine compared four knockoff products from the dollar stores versus four brand name products purchased elsewhere. The products included generic glass cleaner, body lotion, dishwashing liquid and detergent. The brand name products were Windex, Lubriderm, Dawn and Tide, and they proved to better than their generic counterparts. For example, a teaspoon of Dawn washed 19 dishes, while a teaspoon of the dollar brand washed only six! As for the detergent, the dollar brand failed to wash out a mustard stain that Tide did. So the message is, let the buyer beware at the dollar stores. Certainly, there are some deals to be had, but you've got to be picky.

Question: what failed tests?

Question: What has recession done for dollar stores?

Question: where was spending boosted?

Question: what has boosted spending at dollar store?

Question: what boosted spending?

Question: What are the best deals?

Question: Do some dollar stores have expensive items?

Answer: generic counterparts.

Answer: sales were up almost 10 percent quarter-over-quarter,

Answer: dollar store.

Answer: the recession.

Answer: at a dollar store.

Answer: Cotton rounds, gift wrap, birthday candles, paper bags, composition notebooks, plastic cups, security envelopes, napkins, foam plates and tissue paper

Answer: they also offer

Summary:
Recession has boosted spending at dollar stores .
Cotton rounds, gift wrap, birthday candles among the best deals .
Not all dollar stores are equal; some have more expensive items .
Some knockoff products from dollar stores failed tests against brand names .


Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.

The man who authorities say was the pilot, Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III of Austin, and Vernon Hunter of Cedar Park have been identified as the two people killed Thursday, according to the Travis County medical examiner's office.

Both men died from blunt force injuries, said Sarah Scott, chief administrative officer for the medical examiner.

Authorities say that on Thursday, Stack flew a single-engine plane into a seven-story building that held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers. Two other people were hospitalized.

Hunter and his wife, Valerie, worked at the IRS office in the building, his brother Harold L. Jackson told CNN affiliate WAAY. Hunter spent the past 15 years as a collections agent and previously served 22 years in the Army.

Jackson said Hunter was the youngest of five brothers. Hunter was adopted as an infant and kept his birth name into adulthood.

"We called ourselves the Jackson Five, the other Jackson Five," Jackson said.

Agents were looking into whether the seats of the plane were removed to accommodate a fuel drum in an effort to cause maximum damage, an official familiar with the investigation said Friday.

The official, who could not speak on the record because of the ongoing investigation, said that the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and that a fuel drum was missing from the airport where authorities say Stack took off.

The single-engine plane has a fuel tank capacity of 38 gallons and is equipped with four seats, according to the Web site risingup.com.

Authorities say Stack also torched his $230,000 home in Austin on Thursday morning before embarking on his fatal flight.

A 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack railed against the government, particularly the IRS.

Read the apparent suicide note (PDF)

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different," the online message says. "I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

Stack's wife, Sheryl Stack, expressed her "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families" in a statement read by family friend Rayford Walker on Friday.

Friends and former colleagues have said they had no inkling of the rage apparently building inside Stack.

"He hid that very well," said Billy Eli, in whose band Stack played bass until a few years ago. "Obviously, he was in some serious distress and had some real despair. I never saw that."

Question: what did the men die from?

Question: What did both men die from?

Question: Where did the victim work where the crash happened?

Question: Who set his home on fire before his flight?

Question: What did both men die of?

Question: Who flew a single-engine plane into a seven-story building?

Question: how many engines did the plane have?

Answer: blunt force injuries,

Answer: blunt force injuries,

Answer: IRS

Answer: Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III

Answer: blunt force injuries,

Answer: Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III

Answer: single-engine

Summary:
Victim worked in IRS office in building where crash happened, WAAY reports .
Both men died from blunt force injuries, medical examiner's office says .
Authorities: Andrew Joseph Stack III flew single-engine plane into seven-story building .
Stack set his home on fire before his flight, authorities say .


Austin, Texas (CNN) -- An Internet that gives people the information they want virtually as soon as it's created is getting closer, according to Internet professionals. But before real-time Web becomes a reality, developers say they need to figure out how to protect people's privacy while blasting out as much information as they can, as fast as they can. "A lot of this data that people would like to make available, they wouldn't necessarily want to make available to everyone," said Jack Moffitt, chief technical officer for Collecta, a search engine that aims to give real-time results. "I think we'll be wrestling with privacy issues around real-time data for a long time." The idea behind a real-time Web is to create technology that doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in. That could mean anything from getting pinged when an article about your favorite sports team is posted to an alert when you're mentioned in someone's blog. Moffitt and others speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival on Saturday said there's not yet fully developed technology that would both give people all the real-time info they want and let people who put their information on the Internet select who sees it -- or even take it back. "It's kind of in our best interest, being selfish, if everyone was completely open with their data," said Scott Raymond, founder of Austin-based Gowalla, a location-based mobile app. "From the user's perspective, it's kind of the opposite -- it's probably better to just stay selfish with your own data but consume everyone else's. "There's a whole lot of work that needs to be done on this and it hasn't been solved yet." For example, if people on Twitter all set their feed to private, the popular trending-topics feature wouldn't work. Recently, Twitter, on which most users make their information open to everyone, hit a major milestone -- its 10 billionth tweet. Unfortunately, that tweet was by a user whose settings are private, so the curious will never know what the landmark message was. Brett Slatkin, a software developer with Google, said a real-time Web would create numerous new opportunities -- among them, giving small, local retailers a chance to catch up with major online stores that capitalize on convenience. "If my corner store can say [to a customer online], 'Yes, I just got five rickshaw bags in stock and you wanted one -- you can just walk down here and get it,' it's a chance to change competition and commerce," he said. On sites like Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare, Google Buzz and Facebook, status updates already exist as elements of a real-time Web. Developers note that the speed with which information travels on the Internet is already dramatically faster than it was just a couple of years ago -- before Twitter and location-based apps existed and before Facebook became a worldwide phenomenon. "This creates lots of interesting social scenarios," said Dare Obasanjo, of Microsoft. "In the 'old days,' you would have written a blog post about something you did and I'd be like, 'Crap, I was in the next room.' " Multiple players, at both major Internet companies and new startups, are working on an Internet platform to "real time" the rest of the Web. That starts with faster searching. Current search engines "crawl" around the Internet -- adding the material they find to their databases. But that can sometimes take awhile, particularly on smaller Web sites. Then, there needs to be a universal system for pushing that information to the right people. Obasanjo suggested there may eventually be a way for every new page of data on the Internet to have hashtags (#) similar to the ones used on Twitter to denote that a post is about a particular topic. On the issue of privacy, Slatkin said developers could roll out

Question: What do developers need to figure out

Question: What do the developers say about privacy?

Question: What do the developers say?

Question: What is the idea behind real-time Web?

Question: What does the technology do?

Question: What still needs to be protected?

Question: What is the idea behind real time web

Answer: protect people's privacy

Answer: while blasting out as much information as they can, as fast as they can.

Answer: they need to figure out how to protect people's privacy while blasting out as much information as they can, as fast as they can.

Answer: create technology that doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in.

Answer: doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in.

Answer: people's privacy

Answer: to create technology that doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in.

Summary:
Idea behind real-time Web is to create technology that doesn't require user to seek out info .
Developers say they need to figure out how to protect privacy first .
Real-time Web could help local retailers catch up with major online stores, developer says .


Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The current squabbling between the House and the Senate on the payroll tax cut extension perfectly epitomizes why congressional approval is in the single digits. Highlighting this debacle, Newt Gingrich ends his first television ad in Iowa proclaiming that by "working together, we can and will rebuild the America we love."

Expecting Newt Gingrich to work together with Democrats and Republicans to end the partisan deadlock in Washington is a bit like asking the fox to guard the chicken coop.

When Gingrich entered the House of Representatives in 1979, he quickly became the leader of a group of insurgent conservatives whose chief aim was a Republican Party majority. Gingrich's partisan antics not only transformed the House, but the Senate as well. Washington has not been the same since.

Even from his first term, when he tried to get Rep. Charles Diggs kicked out of the House (despite his re-election after being convicted of 29 felonies), it became clear that Gingrich would use every Democratic misstep and every legislative opportunity to portray the House in the worst possible light. It was only in tearing down the House that Gingrich thought that it could be rebuilt in the Republicans' -- or perhaps, his -- own image.

To Gingrich's credit, the Democratic leadership was always ready to misstep and then meet him in the partisan mud. Whether it was his fight with Speaker Tip O'Neill about who controlled the television cameras in the House or his relentless pursuit of Speaker Jim Wright's sweetheart book deal, Gingrich would not back down from a fight even if at first it appeared the evidence was against him.

Gingrich became a master at using the legislative process to achieve his political goals. This strategy from Gingrich's House days is, of course, well known. What is less well known is that members who previously served with Gingrich in the House spread these highly partisan tactics to the Senate.

I am writing a book about these senators, who I call "Gingrich senators," because they so seamlessly infected the Senate with the same hyper-partisanship that pervaded the House. Since Gingrich's first election to the House, 40 Republicans have entered the House and then moved on to the Senate. Twenty-two of them continue to serve in the Senate, including Jim DeMint, John McCain, Jim Inhofe and David Vitter. Their alumni include Rick Santorum, Phil Gramm and George Allen.

These senators learned well the lessons that Gingrich taught them in the House. Jon Kyl, the first Gingrich senator to rise to an important party leadership position, had been a supporter of any and all tax cuts until Obama announced his desire to extend the payroll tax reduction. Kyl was among the first Senate Republicans to announce his opposition, not just to how Obama wanted to fund the extension of the tax reduction, but the tax cut extension itself.

This, incidentally, is the same Jon Kyl who said in an earlier debate: "If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does." When confronted with the fact that abortions account for only 3% of the organization's work, Kyl's spokesperson claimed that his floor statement "was not intended to be a factual statement."

When the Gingrich senators don't have the votes to get their way, they will use all aspects of the legislative process to bring the rest of the chamber to its knees. In the last Congress, the Senate took 419 votes on roll call amendments. The 19 Gingrich senators who were serving at the time introduced more than half of these amendments. Seven of the top 10 senators who introduced the most amendments that resulted in roll call votes were Gingrich senators.

Endlessly introducing amendments has become another form of filibustering, which previously involved making speeches rather than introducing amendments. But when a stream of amendments couldn't defeat the health care bill, the Republicans offered up a "stunt" amendment, its sole purpose to create a perception that Democrats were voting against preventing sex offenders from buying Viagra in the insurance markets established by the bill. Tom Coburn, a Gingrich senator, introduced

Question: What did he master?

Question: Newt Gingrich's first ad in Iowa suggests he is ready to do what?

Question: where was  Newt Gingrich's first ad?

Question: What did Gingrich use the legislative process for?

Question: Where was his first ad?

Question: What has been the strategy?

Question: since when have partisan antics been his strategy?

Answer: using the legislative process to achieve his political goals.

Answer: work together with Democrats and Republicans

Answer: Iowa

Answer: to achieve his political goals.

Answer: Iowa

Answer: using the legislative process to achieve his political goals.

Answer: 1979,

Summary:
Sean Theriault: Newt Gingrich's first ad in Iowa suggests he's ready to end partisan deadlock .
But partisan antics have been his signature strategy since 1979, says Theriault .
Gingrich became a master at using the legislative process to achieve political goals, he says .
Theriault: Some who served with Gingrich in House spread his partisan strategy to Senate .


Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The former accountant for Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III -- who officials say flew his plane into a Texas building housing an Internal Revenue Service office -- says Stack had never threatened him, a spokesman for the accountant said.

CPA Bill Ross was mentioned in a 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack, which railed against the government, particularly the IRS. The online message believed to have been written by Stack criticizes accountant Ross for "representing himself and not me."

Ross had not heard from Stack since October, when his client "disengaged" services in a letter, spokesman Chad Wilbanks told CNN. According to Ross, Stack had not expressed any threats toward the accountant or the IRS, Wilbanks said.

"Mr. Stack contacted my firm to help with his personal taxes in 2008. He failed to provide me with all his income and other information resulting in an IRS audit," Ross said in a written statement Saturday. "Unfortunately, Mr. Stack ignored the audit and my advice which only complicated his situation, at which time our firm disengaged our services with Mr. Stack whom we have not been in contact with since October 2009."

Ross did not provide any further details in the statement on his work with Stack. Wilbanks said Ross, who has worked as a CPA for at least 30 years, thinks Stack located him in the phone book. They only met four times and did not have a personal relationship, Wilbanks said.

The FBI has taken over the investigation into the crash, and Ross has spoken to investigators, Wilbanks said. While Ross does not fear for his safety, he has "taken precautions," though those steps were not detailed by Wilbanks.

The online message, in a hit to the IRS, states, "I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.

"I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

Read the apparent suicide note (PDF)

The seven-story building attacked in northwest Austin held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers. Two people were killed and two others were hospitalized when Stacks crashed his plane into the building Thursday, federal officials said.

One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his release from the hospital Saturday.

"I am very grateful to the first responders who were there to assist me, and to those who have cared for me in San Antonio," Hill said in a written statement. "I am so blessed to be home today, and I ask for your courtesy and our privacy as my family and I focus on making a quick and full recovery."

Though the remains of two people found in the IRS building have been identified, their identities will not be revealed until after a forensic examination, said Ralph Diaz, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio field office.

Watch one of crash victim's sons say he's "still a little shocked"

Agents were looking into whether the seats of the plane were removed to accommodate a fuel drum in an effort to cause maximum damage, an official familiar with the investigation said Friday. The official, who could not speak on the record because of the ongoing investigation, said the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and a fuel drum was missing from the airport Stack took off from.

The single-engine plane has a fuel tank capacity of 38 gallons and is equipped with four seats, according to the Web site risingup.com.

Authorities say Stack also torched his $230,000 home in Austin on Thursday morning before embarking on his fatal flight.

Stack's wife, Sheryl Stack, expressed her "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families" in a statement read by family friend Rayford Walker on Friday.

Like Ross, friends and former colleagues said they had no inkling of the rage apparently building inside Stack.

"He hid that very well," said

Question:
Who is the CPA?
Who criticized Ross?
Who met with Stack III?
Who met Stack?
Who is Bill Ross?
Who was one of the injured?

Answer: Bill Ross

Answer: Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III

Answer: CPA Bill Ross

Answer: Ross,

Answer: The former accountant for Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III

Answer: Shane Hill,

Summary:
CPA met Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III only four times, spokesman says .
The online message criticized Bill Ross for "representing himself and not me"
Ross had not heard from Stack since October, when his client "disengaged" services in a letter .
One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his hospital release Saturday: "I am very grateful"


Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The man who flew an airplane into a building housing an Internal Revenue Service office may have replaced some of its seats with a drum of fuel to cause maximum damage, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said Friday.

The official, who would not speak on the record because it is an ongoing case, said investigators have determined that the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and that a fuel drum was missing from the airport from which Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III took off Thursday morning.

"I think there is a good chance he might have put it on his plane," said the official, who cautioned that investigators were still working that lead and sifting through the crash site.

The single-engine plane has a fuel tank capacity of 38 gallons and is equipped with four seats, according to the Web site risingup.com.

The FBI said Friday it has taken the lead role in the investigation of Thursday's crash into the 7-story building in northwest Austin that held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers.

"You're talking about a federal agency that was basically assaulted," Ralph Diaz, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio, Texas, field office, told reporters.

Two people were killed and two others were hospitalized, federal officials said.

Though the remains found in the IRS building have been identified, their identities will not be revealed until after a forensic examination, Diaz said Friday.

"One may be Mr. Stack and our fear is certainly the other would be either someone who was visiting or someone who was employed in the building," he said.

Emergency services chief Ernie Rodriguez said one of the injured was treated and released; the other remained hospitalized.

City of Austin Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr credited the building's fire protection, fast work by the Fire Department and the fact that the employees had practiced exiting the building in case of an emergency for the low loss of life and injuries. "It truly worked," she said.

Austin attack stuns community

Rodriguez said units arrived on the scene within five minutes of the first 911 call prepared to manage hundreds of injured people. "We found only two persons," he said.

"When you look at the fire, when you look at the evidence, it's hard to say that we were lucky, but we were," he said. "The big thing to remember is that yesterday, in the midst of this event, God's grace was upon us."

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo credited fast thinking by some people who were inside the building as the plane approached for the fact that few people were hurt. "Some folks saw it coming and sounded the alarm yesterday, and some folks started running away from that side of the building," he said.

Stack's wife, Sheryl Stack, expressed her "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families" Friday.

"Words cannot adequately express the sorrow or the sympathy I feel for everyone affected by this unimaginable tragedy," she said in a statement read by a family friend, Rayford Walker.

Authorities say Stack also torched his $230,000 home in Austin on Thursday morning before embarking on his fatal flight.

Police said Sheryl Stack spent Wednesday night in an Austin-area hotel but did not say why. Acevedo said police had received no calls of domestic violence from the house. The only calls to police were made a couple of years ago and concerned barking dogs, he said.

A 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack railed against the government, particularly the IRS.

Read the apparent suicide note (PDF)

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different," the online message says. "I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

Acevedo reiterated on Friday his assertion first made Thursday that

Question: What is missing from the airport?

Question: What did the pilot's wife say?

Question: What did the FBI do?

Question: What happened in Austin, Texas?

Question: What was removed from the planes?

Question: What is Joseph Stack believed to have done?

Answer: fuel drum

Answer: "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families"

Answer: taken the lead role in the investigation of Thursday's crash into the 7-story building

Answer: flew an airplane into a building housing an Internal Revenue Service

Answer: several seats

Answer: flew an airplane into a building housing an Internal Revenue Service

Summary:
NEW: Seats removed from plane, fuel drum missing from airport .
FBI takes lead role in investigation into Austin, Texas, crash .
Pilot's wife expresses her "sincere sympathy to the victims and their families"
Joseph Stack believed to have flown plane into IRS building in suicidal attack .


Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somalia-born writer, activist, and former member of the Dutch Parliament. She is an outspoken advocate for women's rights in Islamic society and a strong critic of Muslim extremism. Outspoken critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hirsi Ali fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage in Africa, and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In parliament, she promoted the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society and defending the rights of women in Dutch Muslim society. In 2004, she worked with the late director Theo Van Gogh on the film "Submission," which highlighted the oppression of women in conservative Islamic societies. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of Mr. Van Gogh by an Islamic extremist, and she went into hiding. Her memoir, "Infidel," published in 2007, recounts her decision to denounce Islam and become an atheist, and her transformation, she says, from "the world of faith to the world of reason." Ayaan was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2005," one of the Glamour Heroes of 2005, and Reader's Digest's "European of the Year." She has also received Norway's Human Rights Service's Bellwether of the Year Award, the Danish Freedom Prize, the Swedish Democracy Prize, and the Moral Courage Award for commitment to conflict resolution, ethics, and world citizenship.

Question: What did Time's magazine name her?

Question: Who was teh Dutch filmaker?

Question: What prompted Hirsi Ali to go into hiding?

Question: What magazine named her one of their "100 Most Influential People of 2005"?

Question: What did Hirsi Ali do from 2003 to 2006?

Question: Who named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2005?

Answer: "100 Most Influential People of 2005,"

Answer: Theo Van Gogh

Answer: the assassination of Mr. Van Gogh

Answer: Time

Answer: served as a member of the Dutch parliament

Answer: Time Magazine's

Summary:
Hirsi Ali is an outspoken advocate for women's rights in Islamic society .
Somali-born activist went into hiding after death of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh .
Hirsi Ali served as Dutch lawmaker from 2003 to 2006 .
She was Anamed one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2005 .


BABAHOYO, Ecuador (CNN)  -- At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday.

Authorities said the rains, which began a week ago, were the worst in a quarter century. Civil defense officials said more than 10,000 families have been affected.

Los Ríos -- north of Guayaquil -- was the hardest hit of nine provinces affected, civil defense officials said.

In Los Ríos province, five people died when an ambulance drove into a hole at the side of a street at dawn Thursday. A newborn boy, his parents, a doctor and a driver were killed.

Streets also were flooded in the capital of Quito.  Watch the scenes of devastation in Ecuador »

On Wednesday, President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency and ordered 2,000 members of the army and the police to help rescue workers. Correa increased by $25 million the $10 million he already had allocated for the emergency efforts. He also directed another $88 million to municipalities.

Once the crisis has eased, an emergency fund will give seed and fertilizer to help farmers whose fields were washed away, Ecuador's government said. There also have been reports of livestock drowning.

Cristina Medina, a spokeswoman for the Ecuadorean Red Cross, said provinces most heavily affected were along the Pacific coast, where drinking water was often in short supply.

In some towns, high waters forced entire neighborhoods to evacuate, Medina said. E-mail to a friend

Question: What did the president of Ecuador do?

Question: What is the number of dead in Ecuador?

Question: What is the cause of the deaths?

Question: What is the number of families affected?

Question: What caused these ten people die?

Answer: declared a state of emergency and ordered 2,000 members of the army and the police to help rescue workers.

Answer: 10

Answer: torrential rains

Answer: 10,000

Answer: torrential rains

Summary:
At least 10 people have died in torrential rains in Ecuador, officials say .
Authorities say the rains are the worst in a quarter century .
Civil defense officials say more than 10,000 families have been affected .
Ecuador's president declares state of emergency, orders army, police to help .


BABAHOYO, Ecuador (CNN)  -- At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday. A man grabs on to a piece of wood as a boat passes him on a flooded street this week in Puerto Inca, Ecuador. Authorities said the rains, which began a week ago, were the worst in a quarter century. Civil defense officials said more than 10,000 families have been affected. Los Ríos -- north of Guayaquil -- was the hardest hit of nine provinces affected, civil defense officials said. In Los Ríos province, five people died when an ambulance drove into a hole at the side of a street at dawn Thursday. A newborn boy, his parents, a doctor and a driver were killed. Streets also were flooded in the capital of Quito.  Watch the scenes of devastation in Ecuador » On Wednesday, President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency and ordered 2,000 members of the army and the police to help rescue workers. Correa increased by $25 million the $10 million he already had allocated for the emergency efforts. He also directed another $88 million to municipalities. Once the crisis has eased, an emergency fund will give seed and fertilizer to help farmers whose fields were washed away, Ecuador's government said. There also have been reports of livestock drowning. Cristina Medina, a spokeswoman for the Ecuadorean Red Cross, said provinces most heavily affected were along the Pacific coast, where drinking water was often in short supply. In some towns, high waters forced entire neighborhoods to evacuate, Medina said. E-mail to a friend

Question: The rains are the worst of how long?

Question: which country president declares state of emergency, orders army, police to help?

Question: what is the amount of people dead from torrential rains in Ecuador?

Question: What did people die from in Ecuador?

Question: who said  say the rains are the worst in a quarter century?

Question: Who said the rains were the worse in the century?

Question: At least how many people have died in torrential rains?

Question: More than how many families have been affected?

Question: Who declared a state of emergency?

Answer: a quarter century.

Answer: Ecuador

Answer: At least 10

Answer: torrential rains

Answer: Authorities

Answer: Authorities

Answer: 10

Answer: 10,000

Answer: President Rafael Correa


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A 12-year-old girl died Monday after she was struck by a warning shot fired as a vehicle accelerated toward an Iraqi police station, said the U.S.-led military coalition. The incident occurred in Hurriya in Nineveh province, according to a news release from Multi-National Corp-Iraq. A vehicle accelerated as it approached the Hurriya police station, where coalition forces and Iraqi police were conducting security operations, it said. "The coalition forces and Iraqi police waved and yelled for the vehicle to stop," the news release said. "After the vehicle failed to stop, coalition forces fired two warning rounds." The girl, who was standing about 100 meters (about 328 feet) behind the vehicle, was hit by one of the rounds, the release said. Troops attempted to treat her at the scene, but she died while being transported to a hospital. The incident was under investigation, the release said, adding that Col. Gary Volesky, commander of U.S. forces in Nineveh province, "expresses his condolences to the girl's family for the unfortunate accident." The news release did not say what happened to the vehicle.

Question: What happened to her?

Question: Where was the 12 year old?

Question: When did the person die?

Question: Where was the vehicle accelerating towards?

Question: Which people got hit?

Question: Where were shots fired?

Answer: died

Answer: Hurriya in Nineveh province,

Answer: Monday

Answer: an Iraqi police station,

Answer: 12-year-old girl

Answer: Hurriya in Nineveh province,

Summary:
Shots were fired at vehicle that accelerated toward Hurriya police station .
12-year-old was standing behind car and was hit by one round .
She died while being transported to the hospital .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A leader of the Sons of Iraq anti-al Qaeda group was killed Saturday when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

U.S. soldiers arrive on the scene of a suicide bombing Saturday in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Two civilians were wounded in the explosion in southern Baghdad's Dora district, the official said.

The Sons of Iraq, or Awakening Councils, are mainly composed of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq. They are considered a major factor in the reduction of violence in Iraq over the past two years and are frequently targeted by al Qaeda.

In other violence across Iraq on Saturday:

â€¢ At least 19 people were wounded in a bombing at a coffee shop in Baquba, a security official in Diyala province said. The coffee shop is frequented by U.S.-backed anti-al Qaeda fighters. The explosion wounded 17 group members and two civilians, the official said. Baquba is about 35 miles north of Baghdad.

â€¢ At least seven people, including three Iraqi Army soldiers, were wounded when a roadside bomb struck an army patrol in northern Baghdad's Qahaira neighborhood, the Interior Ministry official said.

â€¢ At least one police officer was killed and nine people -- seven police and two civilians -- were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest near a police academy in Kirkuk, according to a police official. Kirkuk is located in oil-rich northern Iraq, about 150 miles north of Baghdad.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Yousif Bassil contributed to this report.

Question: What killed the leader of Sons of Iraq?

Question: Where was the bomber from?

Question: What are the "Sons of Iraq"?

Question: Who was the roadside bomb aimed to kill?

Question: What kind of store did the al Qaeda members go to?

Question: Number of people wounded by Kirkuk suicide bomber?

Question: Where was the bomb attached?

Question: Number of people wounded by coffee shop bombing?

Question: Who was killed by the bomb?

Question: Where was there a suicide bombing that killed a police officer?

Question: What killed a leader of Sons of Iraq

Answer: bomb attached to his vehicle exploded,

Answer: Iraq

Answer: anti-al Qaeda group

Answer: Iraqi Interior Ministry official

Answer: a coffee shop

Answer: nine

Answer: vehicle

Answer: At least 19

Answer: A leader of the Sons of Iraq anti-al Qaeda group

Answer: Kirkuk, Iraq.

Answer: bomb attached to his vehicle

Summary:
Bomb attached to vehicle kills a leader of Sons of Iraq .
Coffee shop frequented by al Qaeda in Iraq foes also bombed; 19 wounded .
Roadside bomb aimed at Iraqi army patrol wounds at least seven .
Kirkuk suicide bomber kills police officer, wounds nine people .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian bystander Thursday, a police official told CNN. Iraqis survey the damage after car bombs were detonated within minutes of each other in Mosul, July 9. It is the latest in a series of attacks across Iraq that have killed at least 64 people and wounded 167 others over the past two days. The deadliest attack happened earlier in the day when a double suicide bombing killed at least 35 people and wounded 65 others in the city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province, also in northern Iraq. Political tensions have recently increased in the region between Arabs and Kurds. The Tal Afar bombings occurred a day after attacks on mainly Shiite targets in Nineveh province, including a car bomb in a Turkmen area of the provincial capital Mosul, left at least 19 people dead and dozens wounded. U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq's urban centers June 30. The U.S. military had suggested keeping its combat troops in Mosul beyond the withdrawal deadline, but the Iraqi government insisted on making no exceptions for the date set in the security agreement. Also on Thursday morning, at least seven people were killed and 25 wounded when a bomb detonated in a busy marketplace in Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. Bomb blasts from a rigged bicycle a car in two predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of southwestern Baghdad wounded six people, according to the official. In Baghdad's central Karrada district, a roadside bomb targeting a convoy of Iraq's Central Bank governor killed one civilian bystander and wounded five, another Interior Ministry official told CNN. The governor escaped unharmed. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report

Question: On what date did the bombers strike the city of Tal Afar in the Nineveh province?

Question: What was the number of people killed

Question: When the attacks occurred?

Question: What happened after the attack?

Question: Tal Afar is in which province

Question: In what country is of city of Tal Afar located?

Question: Which group of people were the target in the Ninevah attacks

Answer: July 9.

Answer: 64

Answer: July 9.

Answer: Iraqis survey the damage

Answer: Nineveh

Answer: Iraq.

Answer: Shiite

Summary:
Official: At least 35 people killed and 65 wounded in a double suicide bombing .
Bombers struck the city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province .
Tal Afar bombings occurred a day after attacks on mainly Shiite targets in Nineveh .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A string of bombings around Iraq's capital has killed eight people, including three Iraqi soldiers who died when their weapons truck was hit, and wounded at least 32, the country's Interior Ministry said. Blood stains the ground following the explosion of an IED on Kahramana Square in Baghdad on January 12. The soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad about 10:15 a.m. (0715 GMT) on Monday. The blast also set off small arms ammunition loaded on the truck. Four civilians were wounded in the attack. Separately, three civilians died when a car bomb went off outside a bakery in the eastern district of New Baghdad, followed shortly by another car bomb. Ten people were wounded, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. In central Baghdad, two civilians died in roadside bomb attacks -- one near Kahramana Square and the other targeting a police patrol in the Sheikh-Omar commercial area. A total of seven people, including three police officers, were wounded in those incidents. Two other roadside bombs went off near police patrols in neighborhoods on opposite sides of the city -- the Ghazaliya neighborhood in western Baghdad and the Zayuna district on the city's east side. There were no fatalities in either attack, but 11 people -- including one police officer in Ghazaliya and three in Zayuna -- were wounded. The attacks came as U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Monday met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad. Biden -- who had been the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- has been on a foreign visit that included stops in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Barack Obama, the incoming U.S. president, is planning to shift the military focus in the region to fighting militants in Afghanistan, while withdrawing all but a residual force of troops from Iraq. The U.S. military said two of its troops died as a result of non-combat-related injuries on Sunday. One soldier died in northern Iraq and a U.S. Marine in western Iraq. Five U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month, and 4,225 since the war started. CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

Question:
how many civilians died for car bomb?
Who met with US VP Joe Biden?
Who was killed by a roadside?
What were the soldiers killed by?
Two troops died of what?
What did the U.S military say?

Answer: three

Answer: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani

Answer: The soldiers

Answer: string of bombings

Answer: non-combat-related injuries

Answer: The

Summary:
The soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Monday .
Separately, three civilians died when a car bomb went off in the city's east .
Attacks came as U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden met with Iraq's president .
U.S. military says two troops have died as a result of non-combat-related injuries .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- A top Iraqi political figure -- who also is an imam at a prominent Shiite mosque in the capital -- urged the abolition of militias Friday and decried violence and pervasive corruption in Baghdad's Sadr City. Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir is a parliament member and a representative of the most influential Shiite cleric. Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir, speaking at Buratha Mosque, blamed the corruption on followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Al-Saghir is the most senior representative in Baghdad of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, arguably the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq. As a member of Iraq's parliament, Al-Saghir represents the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, part of the ruling United Iraqi Alliance. His political group dominates the Iraqi security forces and has been fighting members of a rival Shiite group, al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. He said the Supreme Council, part of the ruling United Iraqi Alliance, once had an armed group called the Badr Brigade that is now a renamed non-military organization. He repeated Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's call for all armed groups not affiliated with the government to disband. "We said from the beginning, and since 2003, the necessity of laying down the weapons by all, and the weapons should be in the hand of the state," al-Saghir said. He praised Iraqi security forces' efforts in Basra, the southern Shiite city where al-Maliki launched an offensive in March. The cleric said al-Maliki freed the region of gangs. "We can say that the Iraqi security forces have made a great change in terms of establishing the security and imposing the law," al-Saghir said, adding that effective security must be imposed to ensure the fairness of this autumn's provincial elections. "The elections will be tomorrow," he said, meaning soon. "How can we respect ourselves as politicians, political parties and officials within the government? How can we respect ourselves by saying we conduct honest elections while there are gangs controlling areas or provinces?" Meanwhile, Sadrist cleric Suhail al-Iqabi delivered a fiery sermon in the eastern part of Baghdad as hundreds of Sadr City residents sat on the street performing Friday prayers. Al-Iqabi said an "act of genocide" is taking place in the town. Speaking to hundreds of worshippers chanting pro-Sadr slogans, al-Iqabi accused the government of holding a grudge against Sadrists and the people of Sadr City "who are facing genocide in every sense of the word, cutting off the water, electricity and shelling the innocent civilians, killing women and children and detaining women." His sermon included a prayer asking God to strengthen al-Sadr's Mehdi army and "sharpen their weapons." "What the prime minister stated in his press conference, all that he said that was so far from reality, the nonsense and false accusations he used to cover up his huge failure leading the nation's affairs," al-Iqabi said. "... We call on all politicians, journalists, intellectuals, civil society institutions, tribal leaders and clergy to visit Sadr City to witness the crimes committed by the occupier and government forces." In Sadr City, nearly 1,000 civilians and fighters are thought to have been killed since late March in fighting between security forces and Shiite militants. However, al-Saghir said there has been "good security progress."  Watch as fighting destroys a school » "I believe the coming days will witness many developments which will lead to the protection of this city from these gangs," he said. He urged people who have grievances to make their voices heard through the political process. He decried those who arm themselves under the pretext of sectarianism or occupation. Al-Saghir emphasized what he called corruption in Sadr City and the role of Sadrist followers in promoting it. He noted that imams from the Supreme Council were booted from several mosques and replaced by politically correct imams, and he said companies have

Question: What did the Shiite cleric speak out against?

Question: What did Shiite cleric speak against?

Question: Where does the cleric live?

Answer: abolition of militias

Answer: abolition of militias Friday and decried violence and pervasive corruption in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Answer: Sadr City.

Summary:
NEW: Shiite cleric, also a prominent political figure, speaks against violence .
U.S. military: Woman who detonated bomb pretended to be pregnant .
U.S. drone crashes in southern Iraq, military says .
Iraqi lawmakers in Tehran to show evidence of Iran's support for militias .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- After heated arguments, the Iraqi parliament turned down the first draft of a bill Saturday that would have allowed foreign troops, including British forces, to remain in Iraq after the U.N. mandate expires on December 31. A British soldier attends an Iraqi army training session Thursday in Iraq's Basra province. Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman said the measure was sent back to Iraqi Cabinet members for reworking before resubmitting it to lawmakers. There is no parliamentary deadline for the measure to pass. The bill does not apply to U.S. troops because the United States last month reached a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government that calls for American troops to leave Iraqi cities by June 2009, and to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. But after December 31 other foreign troops would not be authorized to remain in Iraq. This could cause a problem for Britain, which has the second-largest number of troops in Iraq after the United States. Britain was the leading U.S. ally during the invasion of Iraq and still has about 4,000 troops based outside the southern city of Basra. Five other nations -- Albania, Australia, El Salvador, Estonia and Romania -- have a total of fewer than 2,000 troops Iraq, according to the Multi-National Force-Iraq Web site. British troops will begin leaving Iraq in May 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a joint statement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during a visit to Iraq on Wednesday.  Watch the planning to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq » Othman said some legislators argued that the bill had not been assigned to committees, as is the custom before a measure's first reading. The session became so contentious that the speaker threatened to resign, lawmakers said. Lawmakers will take a holiday break for Christmas and New Year but could be called back into session by the parliament speaker, Othman said.  Watch Britain's PM talk on withdrawing UK troops » Wrangling over the bill on non-U.S. troops began Wednesday when the first reading took place. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

Question: To what members was the measure sent back to?

Question: When should troops be out?

Question: Who does the bill not apply to?

Question: What was the date>

Question: Who will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011?

Question: What did lawmakers question legitimacy of?

Question: Who were the cabinet members?

Question: What was sent back to Iraqi Cabinet members for reworking?

Question: When are U.S. troops to be out of Iraq?

Answer: Iraqi Cabinet

Answer: by the end of 2011.

Answer: U.S. troops

Answer: December 31.

Answer: American troops

Answer: the bill

Answer: Iraqi

Answer: the measure

Answer: December 31.

Summary:
Measure sent back to Iraqi Cabinet members for reworking, lawmaker says .
It would have allowed foreign troops to remain in Iraq after December 31 .
Bill doesn't apply to U.S. troops, who are to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011 .
Lawmakers questioned legitimacy of legislation's first reading or raised other issues .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- An Iraqi report on last month's shootings involving security contractor Blackwater USA called the incident "pre-meditated murder" and is calling for $8 million in compensation for each of the 17 Iraqis who died, a senior Iraqi government official said Monday. Lawyer Hassan Jabbar lies in a hospital after being injured in a shooting involving Blackwater contractors. The results of the Iraqi investigation into the shootings is complete and will be presented to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government for review, the official said. The report calls for the payments to go to the families of each of those killed in the shootings, he said. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Sunday that the Iraqi commission investigating the shootings has accused the company's guards of firing indiscriminately and without provocation on citizens and violating the rights of Iraqis. Blackwater said its contractors "acted lawfully and appropriately in response to a hostile attack," and "the civilians reportedly fired upon by Blackwater professionals were, in fact, armed enemies, and Blackwater personnel returned defensive fire." The September 16 shooting also left 27 other people wounded, al-Dabbagh said. Seven vehicles were also destroyed in the incident, which occurred around Nusoor Square in western Baghdad. Al-Dabbagh said the commission, formed September 22, determined there was no evidence the Blackwater convoy was under direct or indirect fire. "Not even a stone was thrown at them," al-Dabbagh said. He added the contractors violated the rules of conduct and regulations for private security firms operating in Iraq. "They must be held accountable according to the law," he said. However, security contractors have immunity from Iraqi law under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation.  Watch how supervision has been tightened on contractors » Blackwater security contractors were guarding a State Department convoy. The company is one of a number of private security contractors in Iraq. Last month's shooting has sparked fury in both countries and led to a series of new steps reviewing the role of U.S. contractors in Iraq. The Iraqi-American joint committee met for the first time Sunday to begin reviewing security operations. It plans to issue a report offering recommendations to the Iraqi and U.S. governments. Border crossings reopen Five border crossings between Iran and Iraq's Kurdish region have been reopened, an Iraqi Kurdish regional government spokesman said. Iran closed its border with the Iraqi region nearly two weeks ago to protest the U.S. military's incarceration of an Iranian arrested September 20 in Sulaimaniya. The U.S. military maintains that Mahmoud Farhadi was posing as a businessman with a trade delegation and was in charge of Zafar Command, one of three units of the Ramazan Corps of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani blasted the United States for the arrest, saying Farhadi is an Iranian civil servant who was on an official trade mission in the region. The U.S. military has long accused Quds Force agents of training and equipping Iraqi insurgents, an allegation Iran vehemently denies. Other developments CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

Question: Where is blackwater based?

Question: Who killed 17 Iraqis?

Question: what was not thrown at them

Question: Who do the guards work for?

Question: Iraqi panel is calling for $8 million per victim in the September 16 shooting

Question: What is the Iraqi panel calling for?

Question: Was a stone thrown?

Question: what number of cash do they want?

Question: What amount of money are the Iraqi panel asking for?

Question: who died in the war

Answer: USA

Answer: Blackwater

Answer: stone

Answer: Blackwater

Answer: in compensation

Answer: $8 million in compensation for each of the 17 Iraqis who died,

Answer: "Not even a

Answer: $8 million in compensation for each of the 17 Iraqis who died,

Answer: $8 million in compensation for each of the 17 Iraqis who died,

Answer: 17 Iraqis

Summary:
"Not even a stone was thrown at them," Iraqi official says of Blackwater guards .
Iraq says 17 Iraqis killed by Blackwater guards in Baghdad square .
Blackwater, Iraqi officials have starkly different accounts of what happened .
Iraqi panel is calling for $8 million per victim in the September 16 shooting .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- At least 42 people were killed and 154 were wounded in five attacks on a religious holiday Friday, an Interior Ministry official said. Shiite Muslim women light candles early Friday at a shrine in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq. The first four attacks, which together killed 36 and wounded 124, targeted Shiites; the fifth attack was against a Sunni target. In the latest attack, a parked motorcycle bomb exploded in the marketplace of al-Khadra in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of eastern Baghdad. Six people died, and 30 were wounded, the official said. The attack appeared to have targeted a police patrol; three of the fatalities were police, the official said. But most of the carnage was directed at Shiite targets, with the highest single toll exacted in the northern city of Mosul, where a suicide car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque as a funeral was taking place, killing 30 people and wounding 100, the official said. In another attack, a roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims in the Sadr City neighborhood, killing three and wounding eight, the official said. Also in Sadr City, a roadside bomb exploded near a car, killing one person and wounding seven. And in eastern Baghdad, a car carrying pilgrims was targeted, killing two people and wounding nine. Friday was the end of a Shiite Muslim celebration in Karbala celebrating the birthday of Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi, the last of 12 historic imams revered by Shiites. Pilgrims participating in such celebrations have been the target of similar attacks by Sunni Muslims. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi "is expected to return at the end of time as the messianic imam who will restore justice and equity on Earth." Last Friday, bombs detonated after prayers near five Shiite mosques nearly simultaneously, killing 29 people as they were leaving the mosques. The attacks fueled fears that sectarian violence could be reigniting in the country and called into question the ability of security forces to safeguard the population as U.S. troops have taken a back seat to their Iraqi counterparts. Though the number of casualties has dropped over the past year, Friday's attacks show that an insurgency capable of wreaking havoc remains. CNN's Arwa Damon and Yousif Bassil contributed to this story from Baghdad.

Question: Where were the Shiite pilgrims traveling?

Question: What type of mosque was the blast near?

Question: How many people were killed in Mosul?

Question: What did Friday mark?

Question: Where did the bombing occur?

Question: What kind of bomb killed six people?

Question: How many people were killed?

Answer: city of Karbala, Iraq.

Answer: Shiite

Answer: 42

Answer: the birthday of Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi,

Answer: holy city of Karbala, Iraq.

Answer: a parked motorcycle

Answer: At least 42

Summary:
NEW: Motorcycle bomb kills six in Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad .
Blast near Shiite mosque kills at least 30 in Mosul .
Three attacks target Shiite pilgrims traveling through Iraqi capital .
Friday was end of Shiite celebration of historic imam's birth .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- At least 6,000 Christians have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week because of killings and death threats, Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said Thursday. A Christian family that fled Mosul found refuge in the Al-Sayida monastery about 30 miles north of the city. The number represents 1,424 families, at least 70 more families than were reported to be displaced on Wednesday. The ministry said it had set up an operation room to follow up sending urgent aid to the displaced Christian families as a result of attacks by what it called "terrorist groups." Iraqi officials have said the families were frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering them to convert to Islam or face death. Fourteen Christians have been slain in the past two weeks in the city, which is about 260 miles (420 kilometers) north of Baghdad. Mosul is one of the last Iraqi cities where al Qaeda in Iraq has a significant presence and routinely carries out attacks. The U.S. military said it killed the Sunni militant group's No. 2 leader, Abu Qaswarah, in a raid in the northern city earlier this month. In response to the recent attacks on Christians, authorities have ordered more checkpoints in several of the city's Christian neighborhoods. The attacks may have been prompted by Christian demonstrations ahead of provincial elections, which are to be held by January 31, authorities said. Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns, demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in the local elections. Thursday, Iraq's minister of immigration and displaced persons discussed building housing complexes for Christian families in northern Iraq and allocating land to build the complexes. Abdel Samad Rahman Sultan brought up the issue when he met with a representative of Iraq's Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and with the head of the Kojina Organization for helping displaced persons. A curfew was declared Wednesday in several neighborhoods of eastern Mosul as authorities searched for militants behind the attacks. CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

Question: What frightened the families?

Question: How many Christian families have been displaced

Question: What did extremists order thdm to do

Question: How many families have been displaced?

Question: What were the families ordered to do?

Question: How many Christians have been slain

Question: Who was displaced?

Question: Who are the extremists ordering to convert to Islam?

Answer: a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering them to convert to Islam or face death.

Answer: 1,424

Answer: Islam or face death.

Answer: 1,424

Answer: Islam or face death.

Answer: Fourteen

Answer: 1,424 families,

Answer: Muslim

Summary:
More than 1,400 Christian families displaced .
Families reportedly frightened by killings and threats by Muslim extremists .
Extremists ordering them to convert to Islam, officials say .
Fourteen Christians have been slain in the past two weeks in Mosul .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Coalition forces found 26 bodies buried in mass graves and a bloodstained "torture complex," with chains hanging from walls and ceilings and a bed connected to an electrical system, the military said Wednesday. Twenty-six bodies were found in mass graves near a "torture complex" discovered by coalition forces. The troops made the discovery while conducting an operation north of Muqdadiya, Iraq. From December 8 to 11, the troops who found the complex also killed 24 people they said were terrorists and detained 37 suspects, according to a statement issued by Multinational Division North at Camp Speicher in Tikrit. The moves were part of an operation called Iron Reaper that has been in progress across northern Iraq for the past few weeks. The complex was in an area thought to be an al Qaeda in Iraq haven and operating base, the military said. Iraqis had told the military about the site during an earlier operation. "Evidence of murder, torture and intimidation against local villagers was found throughout the area," the military statement said. Ground forces first found what appeared to be a detention facility, which was one of three connected to the torture complex, Multinational Division North said. One of the facilities appeared to have been a headquarters building and a torture facility, it added. As the area was cleared, the bodies were found. Eventually, 26 bodies were uncovered in mass graves next to what were thought to be execution sites, the military said. The bodies are believed to have been dead between six and eight months, according to a gruesome military video shot at the scene. Some had their hands tied behind their backs. Identification is proving to be a challenge because of advanced decomposition. Photos given to the news media show a filthy bed wired to an electrical system, with an outlet hanging from wires on the wall. In the video, troops point out rubber hoses and boxing gloves, a ski mask and a blood-covered sword and knives. Other still photos show an entrance to the underground bunker and barbed wire stretched outside it. A short distance away from the complex, troops found a bullet-riddled Iraqi police vehicle. Some of the bodies may belong to Iraqi police, according to the military video. The operation netted nine weapons caches, which have been destroyed, the military said. They included anti-aircraft weapons, sniper rifles, more than 65 machine guns and pistols, 50 grenades and a surface-to-air missile launcher and platform, the statement said. Also found were mines, pipe bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar tubes and rounds and 130 pounds of homemade explosives. E-mail to a friend

Question: What does the military say?

Question: What was there evidence of?

Question: What is believed to be an al Qaeda haven?

Question: When do coalition forces say they made the discovery?

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Question: What did the coalition forces say?

Question: What was the complex believed to be?

Question: What haven is the complex believed to be?

Question: What evidence was found?

Answer: complex," with chains hanging from walls and ceilings and a bed connected to an electrical system,

Answer: murder, torture and

Answer: The complex

Answer: Wednesday.

Answer: 26 bodies buried in mass graves and a bloodstained "torture

Answer: Iraqi police,

Answer: Iraqi police,

Answer: "Evidence of murder, torture and

Answer: "torture complex"

Answer: al Qaeda in Iraq

Answer: 26 bodies buried in mass graves and a bloodstained "torture

Summary:
NEW: Military says some of the 26 bodies may belong to Iraqi police .
Complex believed to be an al Qaeda in Iraq haven .
Coalition forces say they made the discovery during operations in northern Iraq .
Military: Evidence of torture and murder against local villagers found .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Coalition troops killed the al Qaeda terrorist who masterminded the February 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque and set off continuing violence and reprisal killings between Sunnis and Shiites, the U.S. military said Sunday. The attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque set off violence between Sunnis and Shiites. Haitham Sabah al-Badri, the al Qaeda emir of greater Samarra, was killed by an airstrike Thursday east of Samarra, said Rear Adm. Mark Fox during a news conference. "Eliminating al-Badri is another step in breaking the cycle of violence instigated by the attack on the holy shrine in Samarra," Fox said. "We will continue to hunt down the brutal terrorists who are intent on creating a Taliban-like state in Iraq." Coalition forces Thursday raided four buildings outside Samarra that were associated with al-Badri, according to a U.S. military news release. During the raid, at least four armed men were seen leaving the buildings and setting up tactical fighting positions in an effort to ambush coalition forces, the release said. The coalition forces called in close air support, killing al-Badri and the three others, the release said. One of those killed was identified as a foreigner; al-Badri was identified by his close associates and relatives, the military said. El-Badri's death was first reported Saturday by a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official. No one was injured in the attack on the Golden Mosque, one of the holiest Shiite sites, but thousands have been killed by the death squads and reprisal bombings that have ravaged Iraq in the 17½ months since the attack. In addition to the February attack that collapsed the mosque's dome, another bombing in June destroyed the shrine's two remaining minarets. Al-Badri is believed to have been involved in other attacks, including two last year, Fox said -- the June 23 bombing of a Kirkuk courthouse that left 20 Iraqis dead and the August 28 attack at a Samarra checkpoint that killed 29 Iraqi soldiers. Samarra is in Salaheddin province, north of Baghdad. Mortar attacks kill 11 Two mortar rounds struck a gas station in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 15 others, a spokesman with Iraq's Interior Ministry said. The attack in the Afdhailiya neighborhood happened about 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ET), the spokesman said. Suicide bombers attacked two gas stations Wednesday, killing 70 people, Reuters reported. Meanwhile, coalition forces said Saturday they killed four suspected militants and detained 18 thought to have helped make or plant roadside bombs, the U.S. military said. The militants were suspected of coordinating logistical support from Iran for elements of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army and other Shiite militias operating in Iraq, the military said. Iraqi family upset with U.S. soldier's sentence A U.S. soldier has been sentenced to 110 years in confinement for participating in the rape of a 14-year-old girl and the killings of her and her family in Iraq, an Army spokeswoman said. The girl's family told Reuters on Sunday they were dismayed by the punishment and would have preferred to see the death penalty handed down in the case. Pfc. Jesse Spielman was convicted Friday of rape, conspiracy to commit rape, housebreaking with the intent to commit rape and four counts of felony murder. The girl, her parents and younger sister were shot dead in March 2006 in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad. "We were expecting the death penalty against those criminals and the place to carry out the sentence is where the incident happened," the girl's cousin, Abu Ammar, told Reuters. Her uncle, Hadi Abdullah, told the wire agency that family members wished there was a way to appeal the sentence so the death penalty could be imposed. Three soldiers have previously pleaded guilty in the case and were given sentences ranging from five to 100 years. The accused ringleader, former Pvt. Steven Green, was discharged from the Army and awaits trial in a civilian court.

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Question: Who is upset the soldier wasn't sentenced to death?

Question: where is samarra

Question: Who caused the mortar attacks in Beghdad?

Question: What number died in the mortar attacks in Baghdad?

Question: What did Reuters say about the slain girl's family?

Question: Who was the al Qaeda emir of greater Samarra?

Question: What did the Interior Ministry say about the Baghdad mortar attacks?

Question: who is sabab al-´badri

Question: what happened in baghdad

Question: What nationality was the slain girl?

Answer: U.S.

Answer: girl's family

Answer: Salaheddin province, north of Baghdad.

Answer: Suicide bombers

Answer: 11

Answer: they were dismayed by the punishment and would have preferred to see the death penalty handed down in the case.

Answer: Haitham Sabah al-Badri,

Answer: rounds struck a gas station in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in eastern

Answer: al Qaeda emir of greater Samarra,

Answer: Two mortar rounds struck a gas station in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in eastern

Answer: Iraqi

Summary:
Haitham Sabah al-Badri was the al Qaeda emir of greater Samarra .
U.S. military says al-Badri suspected in two other attacks that killed 49 .
Family of slain girl upset soldier wasn't sentenced to death, Reuters says .
At least 11 people killed in mortar attacks in Baghdad, Interior Ministry says .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, military officials reported, bringing the American toll in the 5-year-old war to the grim milestone of 4,000 deaths. Troops emerge from a bunker after receiving the "all clear" Sunday following a truck bombing in Mosul. The four were killed when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device while patrolling a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq reported Sunday night. A fifth soldier was wounded in the attack, which took place about 10 p.m. (3 p.m. ET). The U.S. milestone comes just days after Americans marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the war. "No casualty is more or less significant than another; each soldier, Marine, airman and sailor is equally precious and their loss equally tragic," Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, the U.S. military's chief spokesman in Iraq, said. "Every single loss of a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine is keenly felt by military commanders, families and friends both in theatre and at home," Smith said. Of the 4,000 U.S. military personnel killed in the war, 3,263 have been killed in attacks and fighting and 737 in non-hostile incidents, such as traffic accidents and suicides. Eight of the 4,000 killed were civilians working for the Pentagon. Many of those killed over the years, like the four soldiers slain on Sunday in Baghdad, have been targeted by improvised explosive devices -- the roadside bombs that have been described as the weapon of choice for insurgents and a weapon that has come to symbolize Iraq's tenacious insurgency. The existence of the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization has been developed to counter the threat of IEDs in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. The group calls IEDs the "weapon of choice for adaptive and resilient networks of insurgents and terrorists."  Watch how IEDs have become deadly staple in Iraq war » Meanwhile, estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave the country and 2.5 million people displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. President Bush ordered U.S. troops into Iraq on March 19, 2003, after months of warnings that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was concealing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and efforts to build a nuclear bomb. U.N. weapons inspectors found no sign of banned weapons before the invasion, and the CIA later concluded that Iraq had dismantled its weapons programs in the 1990s. Hussein's government fell in early April 2003, and Iraq's new government executed him in December 2006. The news of the 4,000 mark came on the same day that Iraq's national security adviser urged Americans to be patient with the progress of the war, contending that it is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror." "This is global terrorism hitting everywhere, and they have chosen Iraq to be a battlefield. And we have to take them on," Mowaffak al-Rubaie said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "If we don't prevail, if we don't succeed in this war, then we are doomed forever," he said. "I understand and sympathize with the mothers, with the widows, with the children who have lost their beloved ones in this country. "But honestly, it is well worth fighting and well worth investing the money and the treasure and the sweat and the tears in Iraq." Nearly 160,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, and the war has cost U.S. taxpayers about $600 billion, according to the House Budget Committee. The conflict is now widely unpopular among Americans: A CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll out Wednesday found only 32 percent of Americans support the conflict. And 61 percent said they want the next president to remove most U.S. troops within a few months of taking office. In the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said President Bush "took us to war on the wings

Question: What is the American death toll?

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Question: what is approximately of iraqis casualties

Answer: 4,000

Answer: Four U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bombing

Answer: Four U.S. soldiers

Answer: 4,000 deaths.

Answer: U.S.

Answer: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,

Answer: urged Americans to be patient with the progress of the war, contending that it is "well worth fighting" because it has implications about "global terror."

Answer: an improvised explosive device

Answer: 4,000

Answer: about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands,

Summary:
NEW: As Iraq war enters sixth year, American death toll rises to 4,000 .
NEW: Four U.S. soldiers killed when their vehicle was hit by an IED .
At least 30 Iraqis died Sunday; 80,000 to 150,000 or more killed since war's start .
Iraq security adviser said Sunday that Iraq war is "well worth fighting"


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Iraq's former trade minister, who resigned this month amid accusations of corruption, was arrested by security forces as he was trying to leave the country, officials confirmed to CNN. Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigned as Iraq's trade minister under allegations of corruption. Abdul Falah al-Sudani was aboard a flight to Dubai from Baghdad International Airport when police contacted the pilot and told him to fly back to the airport, Sabah al-Saedi, chairman of Iraq's parliamentary integrity committee told CNN. Al-Sudani -- arrested on a warrant issued in Samawa on Saturday -- was seized after the plane landed, al-Saedi said. Lawmakers and government officials have raised questions with al-Sudani about Trade Ministry issues: the importation of goods intended for distribution in government food rations but rejected as unsuitable for human consumption; missing shipments of food; a missing $39 million; and obstruction of justice. Al-Sudani acknowledged that his ministry has had problems with corruption but denied he was personally involved. Al-Saedi said al-Sudani didn't know that a warrant would be issued, but he was well-aware of the corruption accusations against him and had been told by lawmakers and officials not to leave Iraq.

Question: What was the reason for Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigning?

Question: Where was the pilot told to return the plane to?

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Question: What is the name of the ex-trade minister?

Question: What was the reason Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigned?

Question: Who is arrested after authorities tell a pilot to return plane to Baghdad?

Question: What was Abdul Al-Sudani's job before he resigned?

Answer: accusations of corruption,

Answer: the airport,

Answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

Answer: the airport,

Answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

Answer: amid accusations of corruption,

Answer: Abdul Falah al-Sudani

Answer: Iraq's trade minister

Summary:
Ex-trade minister Abdul Falah al-Sudani resigned in corruption scandal .
Al-Sudani arrested after authorities tell pilot to return plane to Baghdad .
Former official denies involvement in ministry's corruption problems .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will likely not seek re-election once his term ends. Jalal Talabani says he will not run for Iraq's president again, but he plans to stay in the political arena. Talabani, 75, has been president since April 2005. The ethnic Kurd was re-elected in 2006 for a four-year term. Although he "has expressed his willingness not to seek another presidential nomination ... it does not mean that he will withdraw from the political and partisan arena," a message on Talabani's Web site said. "President Talabani, on various occasions, sought to emphasize the importance and the need to devolve the power, tasks and responsibilities of leadership in the country to local authorities, especially at this stage when the country is going through political efforts by the parties to expand their bases," the statement said. In Iraq, the prime minister wields most of the power. However, Talabani played an important role in maintaining the country's delicate ethnic balance. The Iraqi parliament picks the president and two vice presidents, a Sunni and a Shia. All will leave office when parliamentary polls are held in December. Talabani is the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party. CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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Question: What did he play a role in?

Question: who is iraq president?

Answer: Jalal Talabani

Answer: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani

Answer: Jalal Talabani

Answer: Jalal Talabani

Answer: 75,

Answer: since April 2005.

Answer: delicate ethnic balance.

Answer: Jalal Talabani

Summary:
Iraq president Jalal Talabani says he will likely not seek re-election .
Talabani, 75, has been president since April 2005 .
Talabani, a Kurd, played role in maintaining the country's ethnic balance .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- Kept in a derelict warehouse at Baghdad's airport for months, sleeping four to a bed with poor food and no money, hundreds of would-be contract workers are stranded, claiming they were duped by unscrupulous recruiting agents into coming to Iraq for nonexistent jobs. Men staying in an airport warehouse say they paid recruiters to take them to Iraq, believing they'd get jobs. The recruiters told the men -- from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Uganda -- that jobs were waiting for them with American defense contractor KBR, through a Kuwaiti company called Najlaa Catering Services. The recruiting agents charged them between $3,000 and $5,000 to make the trip to Iraq; many sold their farms or other valuables to raise the money. But when they arrived in Baghdad, they said, Najlaa housed about 1,000 of them -- 600 in the one-room warehouse -- in the compound within the airport, surrounded by private security guards. Showers are there, but are useless because the taps are nonfunctional. Many have questions about their visas and status in Iraq. Legally unable to stay, they lack the money to return home. Asked if their governments were helping them, the men said, "Nothing, nothing." They said that when they protested, their guards fired guns upward to silence them.  Watch footage of the men, warehouse » Najlaa's officials in Iraq refused comment to CNN. The company's Kuwaiti office said the situation was "under control" and being dealt with. Some Ugandan men said the Iraqi police handcuffed and beat them. "They say, 'If you are here for the U.S., we're going to show you the difference between the U.S. government and the Iraqi government. Let's see if the U.S. is going to help you,' " one man said. Iraqi police would not answer questions regarding those allegations. As the men spoke to CNN on camera, an official in charge of them threatened to lock them out of the compound unless they returned inside within two minutes. KBR was not involved in recruiting the men. The company told CNN it does not condone unethical behavior, saying its contractors abide by its code of conduct, including training in human trafficking. The company said when it becomes aware of possible trafficking it works "to remediate the problem and report the matter to proper authorities. KBR then works with authorities to rectify the matter." Meanwhile, men at a separate makeshift camp nearby said they were duped by different recruiters. They live off food donated by Iraqi workers, and say the men who brought them to Iraq have disappeared. The men in the makeshift camp said their immigration status is in limbo. Their passports have been taken, or pages with visas have been torn out. Help may be on the way. The men said United Nations workers had visited them. The world organization told CNN it is aware of the situation and is figuring out how to assist the men. The U.S. military told CNN it takes human rights abuses seriously and is looking into the matter. The Iraqi government has also confiscated the passport of a Najlaa official until a solution is found. But for the stranded men, help can't come soon enough. "It's not fair," one said. CNN's Thomas Evans and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

Question: Where were the nonexistent jobs?

Question: What can the United Nations do?

Question: What were the men charged to make the trip?

Question: Who is trying to help the men?

Question: Men from where?

Answer: Iraq

Answer: assist the men.

Answer: between $3,000 and $5,000

Answer: United Nations workers

Answer: India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Uganda

Summary:
Men claim recruiters duped them into going to Iraq for nonexistent jobs .
Men say they were charged between $3,000 and $5,000 to make the trip .
One group staying in derelict warehouse in Baghdad; another in makeshift camp .
United Nations says it is trying to determine how to help the men .


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- More than half the Christian population has fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in reaction to a campaign of killings and intimidation, according to the United Nations.

Christian women attend a religious service Sunday at a church in Baghdad.

An estimated 13,000 Christians have left because of oppression the U.S. government blames on al Qaeda in Iraq.

Mosul, in Nineveh province, is one of the last Iraqi cities where al Qaeda in Iraq has a significant presence and routinely carries out attacks.

An estimated 2,300 families have fled Mosul this month, but the exodus has started to ebb, Nineveh province's Deputy Gov. Khasro Goran said Tuesday. No Christian family has left the city over the past seven days, and at least 100 families returned to their homes in and around Mosul during that time, Goran said.

Authorities said they believe Christian demonstrations earlier this month may have prompted the attacks. Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in local elections in January.

The violence that followed those protests left at least 14 Iraqi Christians dead and prompted the Iraqi government to dispatch more security forces to patrol the city. Violence has declined as a result, Iraqi officials said.

Last week, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said the anti-Christian attacks and threats are partly "due to elements of al Qaeda that still enjoy some ability to operate up there."

"This is an attempt, it appears, to try to inflame tensions and fault lines that exist between religious and sectarian groups," Morrell said.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is helping many of the displaced families, most of whom have fled to nearby villages in Nineveh province. About 400 others have crossed into Syria, but many have said they no longer feel safe there, according to the refugee agency.

Syria already hosts more than 1 million Iraqi refugees.

The U.N. agency said many of the Iraqi Christians told stories of intimidation and death threats.

"One woman said she and her mother left Mosul early last week, two days after someone called one of her colleagues at work and said that all Christians should leave the city immediately or be killed," according to a UNHCR news release.

"She said she was unnerved but decided to leave only after hearing reports that 11 people had been killed at a checkpoint by militiamen dressed as police officers. She and her mother escaped with a couple of bags and all the money that they had in the house -- they did not dare go to the bank to remove their savings."

A nurse told UNHCR that the threats against Christians in Mosul began months ago "with phone calls, letters and messages left on doors."

In other violence Tuesday in Mosul, four police officers were killed and four wounded when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Gunmen in cars ambushed police as they were on their way to start work in west Mosul's al-Amil neighborhood, the official said.

Also Tuesday in Baghdad, six civilians died and 23 were hurt in four bombings, the official said.

In eastern Baghdad, in the Shiite al-Baladiyat neighborhood, a roadside bomb exploded Tuesday afternoon, killing one civilian and wounding five others, the official said.

Earlier, a parked car exploded near a busy outdoor market in the western al-Jihad neighborhood, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, the Interior Ministry official said.

No other details were available about the blast.

Two roadside bombs exploded in central Baghdad's al-Nahdha commercial area, wounding seven people, the official said.

The first blast hurt four civilians, while the second wounded three, the official said.

Also Tuesday, the Iraqi army and police discovered 20 decomposed bodies in the basement of an abandoned house in Tal Afar, a town about 43 miles (70 kilometers) west of Mosul.

There was no indication of how the victims -- who could not immediately be identified -- were killed, the official

Question: Who was killed Tuesday?

Question: What did authorities find?

Question: What chased the Christians from Mosul

Question: Where is this house?

Question: Where were four police and five civilians killed?

Question: Who found the bodies?

Question: Where are the Christians chased from?

Answer: six civilians

Answer: 20 decomposed bodies in the basement of an abandoned house in Tal Afar,

Answer: al Qaeda

Answer: Tal Afar,

Answer: in Mosul,

Answer: Iraqi army and police

Answer: Mosul

Summary:
NEW: Authorities find 20 decomposed bodies in basement of Tal Afar house .
Intimidation, killings chase 13,000 Christians from Mosul, U.N. agency says .
Exodus is slowing, and some have returned, Iraqi official says .
Four police, five civilians killed Tuesday in Mosul and Baghdad, ministry says .