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Sandusky labeled ‘likely pedophile’ in 1998 report
More than a decade before former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse, a psychologist warned university police that his actions fit that of a ?likely pedophile?s pattern.?
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The finding by State College, Pa., psychologist Dr. Alycia A. Chambers, the therapist for one of Sandusky?s alleged victims, was contained in the internal Penn State files of a 1998 police investigation of the former coach for showering and bear hugging her client and another young boy in the school?s athletic locker room.
The Sandusky Files: Read the 1998 police report
NBC News has obtained the complete file on the investigation ? the police report and assessments by two psychologists who interviewed the boys — which provides new details about Sandusky?s behavior. It also could raise fresh questions about how school and local authorities handled his case.
?There was very little doubt in my mind (Sandusky) ? was a male predator, someone that was in the process of grooming a young man for abuse ,? said Chambers, speaking publicly for the first time, with the permission of her client?s family, in an interview with NBC News. ?I thought?my report was strong enough to suggest that this was somebody who should be watched.?
The Sandusky Files: Child psychologist’s report
Chambers? detailed report is potentially significant because it was the first clear warning about the former Penn State coach?s actions ? nearly four years before a then-graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, reported to the late Coach Joe Paterno and other top school officials that he had found Sandusky in the Penn State showers one evening with another young boy, engaged in what he viewed as sexual contact. (Paterno testified last year he was unaware of the 1998 investigation and Gary Schultz, the former Penn State vice president who oversaw the school police, testified that he never reviewed the details of the case. A Penn State spokesman declined comment, citing pending investigations.)
In her interview with NBC News, Chambers described her anguish when she was contacted by police last year and learned that authorities were again investigating Sandusky for allegedly molesting multiple other boys, 13 years after she first raised her concerns.
?I was horrified to know that there were so many other innocent boys who had their hearts and minds confused, their bodies violated,? said Chambers. ?It?s unspeakable.?
Statement from Joe Amendola, Sandusky’s lawyer (.PDF)
Joe Amendola, Sandusky?s lawyer, said he hasn?t seen Chambers? report, but that her conclusions will be disputed by other psychologists who will be called by the defense. ?I understand that there are some people who could look at this behavior and say it?s a pedophile problem. But there are others who will say, ?This is somebody who loves kids and loves to be around them? ? It?s the old story, you get your expert and I?ll get my expert.? Sandusky has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
But one of the investigators on the 1998 case, Jerry Lauro, then with the state Department of Public Welfare and now retired, told NBC News he was never shown a copy of Chambers? report and was stunned to learn of its conclusions.
?Wow!? he said when he was read Chambers? conclusions by a NBC News correspondent. ?This is the first I?ve heard of this. I had no idea . If I would have seen the report, I would certainly have done some things differently. Boy, this is a shock. ?
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Chambers was the psychologist for a then-11- year-old boy, who had met Sandusky through his Second Mile charity for troubled children and was later invited by the defensive coordinator to several Penn State football games. The boy is now known as Victim 6?one of 10 allegedly molested by Sandusky and one of the key figures in the criminal case against him slated to go to trial this spring. Amendola this week asked a judge to drop Victim 6 from the case on the grounds that his anticipated testimony ?will not establish that any sexual contact took place.?
The police file provides a fuller picture than has been previously made public about Sandusky?s interactions with the boy as well as the transcripts of two tense confrontations between Sandusky and the boy?s mother.
Chambers was called by the boy?s mother at 7:43 a.m. on May 4, 1998. The boy had returned home the night before, his hair wet, after spending two hours with Sandusky at the Penn State athletic room.
After meeting with her client in her office and talking to his mother, Chambers described in her written report how Sandusky had coaxed the boy into the shower after a workout, telling him, ?All the guys do.? He then moved closer to him, squeezing him tightly from behind while they were both naked. The boy also told Chambers how, during their workout, Sandusky had kissed him on the forehead and told him, ?I love you.? He also invited the boy back to his house to ?sit on his lap? and go ?online? on his ?cool computer,? the boy?s mother told Chambers, recounting her conversation with her son the previous night.
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?My consultants agree that the incidents meet all of our definitions, based on experience and education, of a likely pedophile?s pattern of building trust and gradual introduction of physical touch, within a context of a ?loving,? ?special? relationship,? Chambers wrote in her report.
?One colleague, who has contact with the Second Mile, confirms that Mr. Sandusky is reasonably intelligent and thus, could hardly have failed to understand the way his behavior would be interpreted, if known,? Chambers continued. ?His position at the Second Mile and his interest in abused boys would suggest that he was likely to have had knowledge with regard to child abuse and might even recognize this behavior as a typical pedophile ?overture.??
Chambers gave her report to Penn State police Officer Ronald Schreffler on May 7, 1998, along with a cover letter that highlighted ?the gravity of the incidents.? Chambers had also reported the incident to the Pennsylvania ?suspected child abuse? hotline, where officials wrote up their own report identifying Sandusky as the ?AP? or ?Alleged Perpetrator.? Lauro, an investigator who specialized in abuse cases, was assigned to work the case with Schreffler.
Investigators brought in a second psychologist, John Seasock, who had worked with the local Centre County Child and Youth Services, a local agency that had licensed Sandusky as a foster parent. After meeting with the boy for an hour, Seasock concluded that no sexual offense had taken place nor was there ?grooming? or ?inappropriate sexual behavior? by Sandusky.
Report of expert who concluded no abuse occurred
?All the interactions reported by (the boy) can be typically defined as normal between a healthy adult and a young adolescent male,? Seasock wrote in his report.
Lawyer: Report helps defense
Amendola, Sandusky?s lawyer, has said that he hopes to use Seasock?s report in his client?s defense. But the police files show that Seasock conducted his interview of the boy ?cold,? without reviewing Chambers? report or prior transcripts of interviews with the boy and that he failed to elicit some key details, such as Sandusky kissing the boy and telling him, ?I love you.?
Seasock acknowledged to police there were some ?gray areas? and that investigators ?can?t walk away from the investigation.? But he also appeared to dismiss most of the concerns that had been raised about Sandusky in an interview with investigators.
?SEASOCK said that he hasn?t heard of a 52-year-old becoming a pedophile,? the police report states. ?SEASOCK said that SANDUSKY didn?t fit the profile of a pedophile.? (Asked by police if it was “possible” that a man that age could become a pedophile, he replied it was “possible.?)
Seasock did not return phone calls from NBC News seeking comment. Schreffler also declined comment, saying only, ?The report speaks for itself.?
The Penn State police file shows that investigators continued to pursue the case under the supervision of the late Ray Gricar, then the local district attorney. According to the police report, they interviewed a second boy ? a friend of Victim 6 ? who also described being ?uncomfortable? when Sandusky hugged him in the Penn State showers.
In the days following Chambers? interview with the boy, the mother became concerned because Sandusky was continuing to call her son at his apartment, coming by the back of the family?s apartment with rear sliding doors and even showing up at a ball field where her son had Little League practice.
As Sandusky continued to try to contact the boy, the police hid in the bedroom of the family?s apartment and monitored two confrontations between the mother and Sandusky.
On the afternoon of May 13, 1998, Sandusky knocked on the door of the family home, looking for the boy. The mother greeted him instead, telling him ever since her son had seen him the previous week, ?he?s been acting different. He won?t talk and he?s been having nightmares.?
When Sandusky asked to talk to her son, the mother replied: ?I don?t want you calling here for (her son.) I need to think about this. Let me call you if it?s OK to pick (her son) up.
?Maybe I worked him too hard,? Sandusky replied.
?Did something happen?? the boy?s mother asked.
?I don?t think so,? replied Sandusky.
On May 19, police arranged to monitor a second meeting that turned even more tense and resulted in Sandusky having ?tears in his eyes,? according to the mother?s account to investigators.
The mother: ?Did your private parts touch (the boy) when you bear hugged him?
Sandusky: ?I don?t think so. ? Maybe.?
The mother: ?Have you ever done this with other boys??
Sandusky: ?Yes.?
The mother recounted how ?you told him you loved him and kissed him on the head.? Sandusky replied that the boy ?told me he loved me, so I told him the same thing.?
The mother said her son had looked at Sandusky ?as a hero, a father figure, he is really confused.?
Sandusky then pressed to talk to the boy again, but the mother told him that would not be a ?good idea.?
?I don?t want you going to (his) ball games.?
?I understand,? Sandusky replied. ?I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won?t get it from you. I wish I were dead.?
Just a week and a half later, the two lead investigators ?Schreffler and Lauro?interviewed Sandusky at his office at the Penn State athletic building. He acknowledged that he hugged the boy in the shower ?but that there wasn?t anything sexual about it.? He also said that he had showered with other boys and ?realized he used poor judgment in what he did.?
?As a result of the investigation, it could not be determined that a sexual assault occurred and Sandusky was advised of such, ?the police report reads. One of the investigators then ?advised SANDUSKY not to shower with any child. SANDUSKY stated that he wouldn?t.?
?CASE CLOSED,? the file reads.
There are no reasons given in the report for why Gricar ultimately chose not to prosecute Sandusky based on the 1998 investigation. (In a case that remains open, Gricar disappeared in 2005 and is now presumed dead. Investigators say there is no indication his disappearance relates to Sandusky.)
In an in an interview with NBC News, the boy?s mother described telling her son that night that no charges would be brought against Sandusky.
Her son, she said, was ?confused.?
?I don?t understand, Mommy,? she said he replied. ?I?m just a little kid. I knew what he did was wrong. Why didn?t he (know it was wrong)??
Sandusky retired from Penn State the following year ? to spend more time working with Second Mile, he said. But he was made a ?professor emeritus? and maintained keys to the Penn State locker room, where he continued to take young boys to the showers. In a telephone interview Friday, Amendola was asked why Sandusky still showered with young boys after 1998 when police had told him not to ?and he told them he wouldn?t.
?He viewed that more as an admonition, not an order,? Amendola said. ?He didn?t think there was anything wrong with it.? Amendola added that Sandusky ?never thought that the situation in ?98 was a big deal. He never looked at as that serious.?
?It?s very disturbing,? said Walter Cohen, a former Pennsylvania attorney general in the mid-1990?s, who reviewed parts of the Penn State police file, including Chambers? report, at NBC News request. ?It never should have been ignored. Never.?
As a former secretary of public welfare in the 1980s, Cohen had set up a statewide ?child-line? registry of suspected child abusers that could serve as a central data base for school officials and others working with children to conduct background checks on prospective employees. Even if there were no criminal charges brought, Cohen said, there was more than enough evidence to have placed Sandusky on the statewide registry.
?Jerry Sandusky should have been on the watch list,? he said. ?But instead, the case was closed.?
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Pope greeted by crowds upon arrival to Mexico
It had become tradition in Mexico. Before daybreak, youths would creep as close as security permitted and serenade their beloved Pope John Paul II with a song of greeting and celebration.
Now a new, less familiar pope had come, seeking to strengthen his own ties with the largest Spanish-speaking Catholic nation.
So well before dawn Saturday, two dozen youths from a Guadalajara church group gathered near the school where the Pope Benedict XVI was staying. “We sang with all our heart and all our force,” said Maria Fernanda de Luna, a member of the group. “It gave us goosebumps to sing ‘Las Mananitas’ for him.”
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Songs, joyful throngs, church bells and confetti welcomed Benedict as he began his first trip to Mexico, a celebration that seemed to erupt spontaneously out of what had been a thin, sun-dazed crowd.
As Pope Benedict XVI’s plane appeared in the shimmering heat of Friday afternoon, people poured from their homes. They packed sidewalks five and six deep, screaming ecstatically as the pope passed, waving slowly. Some burst into tears.
Many had said moments earlier that they could never love a pope as strongly as Benedict’s predecessor, John Paul II. But the presence of a pope on Mexican soil touched a chord of overwhelming respect and adoration for the papacy itself, the personification for many of the Catholic Church, and God. Thousands found themselves taken aback by their own emotions.
As a girl, Celia del Rosario Escobar, 42, saw John Paul II on one of his five trips to Mexico, which brought him near-universal adoration.
“I was 12 and it’s an experience that still makes a deep impression on me,” she said. “I thought this would be different, but, no, the experience is the same.”
“I can’t speak,” she murmured, pressing her hands to her chest and starting to cry.
Belief in the goodness and power of the pope runs deep in Guanajuato, the most observantly Catholic state in Mexico, a place of deep social conservatism and the wellspring of an armed uprising against harsh anti-clerical laws in the 1920s. Some in the crowd came for literal healing, a blessing from the pope’s passage that would cure illness, or bring them more work. Others sought inspiration, rejuvenation of their faith, energy to be a better parent.
Popes “have a personality, a positive energy. The simple fact of seeing him is a great satisfaction,” said Jose Luis Perez Daza, a 47-year-old lawyer from Mexico City who was among thousands pouring off of buses Saturday and trudging three miles (five kilometers) to a sprawling campground in the city of Silao to await Sunday’s papal Mass.
“It is faith that moves us,” said Alejandra Angoa, 34, a handicrafts-maker from the state of Tlaxcala. She walked alongside people of all ages carrying sleeping bags, coolers, backpacks, rolling suitcases and jugs of water to the campsite, where a festival-like feeling prevailed. Many sang or played guitars.
Many said the pope’s message of peace and unity would help heal their country, traumatized by the deaths of more than 47,000 people in a drug war that has escalated during a government offensive against cartels that began more than five years ago.
In a speech on the airport tarmac shortly after arriving, Benedict said he was praying for all in need, “particularly those who suffer because of old and new rivalries, resentments and all forms of violence.”
He said he had come to Mexico as a pilgrim of hope, to encourage Mexicans to “transform the present structures and events which are less than satisfactory and seem immovable or insurmountable while also helping those who do not see meaning or a future in life.”
No part of Mexico has been spared at least a small scrape with drug gang violence, but Escobar said she hopes that Benedict will help turn around a society devastated by the drug trade and the brutal violence it spawns.
“I would like him to raise the consciousness of those people who are hurting Mexico, those involved in drug addiction, in the mafia,” Escobar said. “I hope that we have will more respect for life.”
Antonio Martinez, 57, said he wanted relief from diabetes and divine intervention that would bring him more than occasional work in Leon’s shoe factories. He stood by the side of the road, resting against his bicycle, waiting for a glimpse of the pope.
“Simply greeting the pope and receiving his blessing can change our lives,” Martinez said. “I believe that my health will improve, that more sources of work will appear.”
The faithful lined more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) of the pope’s route from the airport into Leon shouting the ultimate welcome: “Benedict, brother, you are now Mexican!”
The pope responded to the greeting as he stepped off his plane to wild cheers and the clamor of ringing bells.
“This is a proud country of hospitality, and nobody feels like a stranger in your land,” Benedict said. “I knew that. Now I see it and now I feel it in my heart.”
RELATED:?Catholicism in Latin America: 5 key facts
The weeklong trip to Mexico and Cuba is Benedict’s first to both countries, and it will be a test of stamina for the pope, who turns 85 next month. At the airport Friday in Rome, he used a cane, apparently for the first time in public, while walking about 100 yards (meters) to the airliner’s steps.
Papal aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Benedict has been using the cane in private for about two months because it makes him feel more secure and not for any medical reason. He left the cane aside as he stepped off the plane in Mexico.
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Planets hurtling near the speed of light? It’s possible, study says.
Scientists want to know if planets can form near the supermassive black hole at the core of the galaxy. If so, the black hole could fling them out into space at enormous speeds that, from our vantage point, could appear to approach the speed of light.?
Deep in the heart of the Milky Way, where a supermassive black hole lurks, conditions are so chaotic that planets ? and perhaps life ? can’t form: Or can they?
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A small team of astronomers suggests one way to answer the question, at least as it relates to planets: Monitor the Milky Way’s rejects ? stars that the galaxy’s central black hole has kicked toward intergalactic space ? for signs of planets.
Such planets ? orbiting a star or traveling alone ? so far are hypothetical. The center of the galaxy is so shrouded in dust that planet-hunting as it’s practiced in our galactic neighborhood is futile.
But individual ejected stars, dubbed hypervelocity stars because they are ejected at such great speeds, are anything but hypothetical. The first stellar speedster was reported to be leaving the galaxy in 2005. Since then, the total has grown to at least 16 hypervelocity stars reported.
Hunting for more in the galaxy’s halo, where they are most obvious, then monitoring them for the signature of a planet’s transit across the star’s face, would help settle the question of whether the center of the galaxy is hospitable for planet formation, explains Avi Loeb, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
He is one of the co-authors of a paper set for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain that looks at the ejection mechanism and how one might go about the hunt.
With planet-hunting efforts such as NASA’s Kepler mission finding hundreds of confirmed planets, with at least 2,000 candidates waiting in the wings for confirmation, the notion that stars at the galactic center also host planets would seem reasonable.
But several factors could weigh against planet-making there, Dr. Loeb explains.
The broader region around the black hole is a hotbed of star formation. Stars are roughly a million times more densely packed there than the stars in the sun’s neighborhood. At the galactic center, the stars that form generally are more massive than the sun, burn hotter, and flit about the galactic center at speeds of more than 2 million miles an hour, compared with roughly half a million miles an hour for the sun.
Under those cramped, turbulent conditions, it would be hard for a star’s disk of dust and gas to hang together long enough to allow planets form.
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For instance, researchers have noted intriguing flare-like events as material gets heated, compressed, then swallowed via the black hole’s extraordinary gravitational tug. Evidence suggests that the material might not be a star but?asteroids ? planetary building blocks.
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John Dominic Crossan: What Really Happened to Paul on the Road to Damascus?
The vision of Jesus that changed Paul from a Pharisaic Jew to a Christian Jew happened, says Luke’s Acts of the Apostles, on the road to Damascus. That event is so important that Luke records it three times for maximum emphasis: first, as it happens (9:1-19); next, as Paul tells it to the Roman officer in Jerusalem (22:3-21); and, finally, as Paul tells it to the Jewish king, Agrippa II at Caesarea Maritima (26:1-18). But that triple account, written around 50 years after Paul’s death, has two major historical problems.
The first problem is that, according to Acts, Paul is travelling to Damascus empowered with authority from the high-priest to arrest dissident Christian Jews and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment. But, whatever about high-priestly power in Judea, it could never have been exercised across Roman provincial borders as far away as Damascus.
On the other hand, Paul himself tells the Galatians that after that vocational vision, “I went away at once into Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus” (Galatians 1:11-17). Paul’s vision, in the city of Damascus is much more likely as venue than on the road to Damascus.
Persecutor and persecuted were probably members of the Damascus synagogue where Paul had most likely received his previous Pharisaic education.
The second problem is that Luke’s triple version describes Paul as seeing “a light” and hearing “a voice” (9:3-4; 22:6-7; 36:13-14). According to Acts, Paul does not see Jesus’ face but only hears Jesus’s voice.
On the other hand, Paul himself insists that his sight of the heavenly Jesus makes him equal in authority with the Twelve Apostles who saw the earthly Jesus. As he argues in his first letter to the Corinthians: “Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?” (9:1). And later: “Last of all, as to one untimely born, he was seen also by me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God” (15:8-9).
One major conclusion from those divergent accounts is that Acts never gives Paul the title of an apostle sent by and therefore subordinate only to God and Christ. Paul is, for Acts, a messenger sent by and therefore subordinate to Jerusalem and Antioch. His call was emphatically inferior to that of the Twelve Apostles.
For Acts, only those first 12 were “apostles” and Judas’ replacement had to be “one of the males [Greek andres] who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us” (Acts 1:21-22). Acts not only excludes Paul from ever being an apostle, it insures there will never be any more apostles and, above all else, not any women apostles.
The other major conclusion is just as important. Paul already knew enough about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus to persecute his followers for proclaiming its implications to their fellow Jews at Damascus. In Christian gospel, Christian art and Christian mysticism, the risen Christ always retains the wounds of historical crucifixion even or especially on his glorified and transcendental body. Those wounds do not heal or fade. They are forever there.
I take seriously Paul’s claim to have seen the risen Jesus and I think I suggest that his inaugural vision was of Jesus’ body, simultaneously as crucified (by Rome) and as glorified (by God). That, of course, put God and Rome on a collision course. Such a stunning vocational vision already contained foundationally the full message of Paul’s faith and Paul’s theology, the full meaning of Paul’s life and Paul’s death.
Finally, as with his arrival in Damascus, so also with his departure. Paul and Luke both superficially agree and profoundly disagree there as well. They agree that the the city’s gates were guarded against Paul and that he escaped by a basket lowered through a window in the wall. Today, Damascus’ Bab Kissan Gate is the traditional site of that hurried exit.
But who guarded those gates? For Acts, “the Jews plotted to kill him” and they were “watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him” (Acts 9:23-25). But, for Paul, it was not the Damascene Jews but the Nabatean Arabs who were the actual threat. “The governor,” he says, “under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me” (2 Corinthians 11:32-33).
It is not that Luke lacks correct information about Paul. It is that he interprets all he has from the viewpoint of at least two generations after Paul. It is also a viewpoint within which Paul would have been unable to recognize his own mission or message, purpose or intention.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dominic-crossan/paul-and-damascus_b_1348778.html
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Egypt-Hamas standoff leads to Gaza power crisis
Palestinians wait to fill up canisters with fuel at a gas station in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A test of wills between Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts and the fuel supply is running low. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Palestinians wait to fill up canisters with fuel at a gas station in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A test of wills between Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts and the fuel supply is running low. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A Palestinian arranges empty cooking gas canisters in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A test of wills between Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts and the fuel supply is running low. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Palestinians wait to fill up canisters with fuel at a gas station in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A test of wills between Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts and the fuel supply is running low. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ? A dispute between Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts, fuel is running low for hospital backup generators, raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea for lack of treatment pumps and gas stations have shut down.
The fuel and electricity shortages, which have escalated over the past two months, are infuriating long-suffering Gazans who say their basic needs, perhaps more than ever, are being sacrificed for politics.
“Life here is getting worse every day,” said Rawda Sami, 22, part of a group of students waiting in vain for public taxis outside the Islamic University. “There is no power, no transportation, and none of the leaders are thinking of us.”
Ostensibly the spat revolves around fuel supplies from Egypt ? but on a broader level, it is linked to Egypt’s troubled relationship with Hamas and its long-standing deep ambivalence toward Gaza itself.
Hamas wants not just fuel: It hopes to leverage the crisis into getting Egypt to open a direct trade route with Gaza. Such an outcome might stabilize the Islamic militants’ rule over the territory they seized in 2007 from Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, headquartered in the West Bank.
Egypt refuses, wishing to keep Gaza at arms’ length, and to avoid absolving Israel from continuing responsibility for the crowded, impoverished slice of Mediterranean coast. Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, after a 38-year military occupation, but still controls access by air and sea ? and, except for the several mile (kilometer) long border with Egypt, by land.
After the Hamas takeover, Israel and Egypt imposed a border blockade on Gaza to try to dislodge the new rulers. Since the fall of Egypt’s pro-Western President Hosni Mubarak last year, Cairo has eased restrictions on passenger traffic but has refused to open a cargo route. Instead, it largely has turned a blind eye to smuggling fuel and other supplies through hundreds of border tunnels.
The fuel crisis has its origins in the decision by Hamas, more than a year ago, to use smuggled fuel to run the territory’s only power plant instead of paying for more expensive fuel coming through an Israeli cargo crossing. The plant normally provides 60 percent of Gaza’s electricity.
Several weeks ago, the flow of smuggled Egyptian fuel began to slow: Egypt was itself suffering shortages, and it grew annoyed that Hamas was profiting by imposing tariffs on subsidized fuel meant for Egyptians.
The Gaza power plant shut down on Feb. 10 and has been mostly offline since. Depots of fuel for transportation gradually ran low, and major gas stations in Gaza City closed several days ago.
In recent days, no smuggled fuel has reached Gaza, traders say.
As a result, hospitals say fuel supplies for generators have run dangerously low, endangering hundreds dependent on steady electricity, including premature babies in incubators, kidney patients on dialysis and those in intensive care. Half the ambulances serving Gaza’s biggest hospital have been grounded.
Most cars are now off the streets, and large crowds fight over the few public taxis. The Gaza Cabinet ordered some 1,800 civil servants with government-issue cars to start picking up hitchhikers.
Those with diesel cars have begun pouring used cooking oil into their tanks. Water supplies have dropped sharply because there’s not enough fuel to pump it up from wells. Sewage is discharged into the Mediterranean because waste-treatment pumps can’t operate.
“The storage in Gaza is zero and within 48 hours, we will see a real disaster in terms of health, water and transportation,” said Amjad Shawa, who heads a network of Gaza civic groups.
Gaza has had fuel problems since the start of the Israeli-Egyptian border blockade. Initially, the EU bought the fuel needed for the Gaza power plant from Israel, which then delivered it through one of its crossings. Eventually, the EU asked the Abbas government to pay for the fuel and get the money back from Hamas. After a standoff, Hamas did make contributions for buying the Israeli fuel ? before gambling on the cheaper option of smuggled Egyptian fuel.
Hamas now wants Egypt to openly deliver its fuel to Gaza through the Rafah crossing on their shared border ? setting a precedent for establishing a proper trade route.
Egypt would agree to ship fuel, but insists on delivering it through Israel and via Israel’s Kerem Shalom cargo crossing to Gaza, said an Egyptian diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of the issue.
The circuitous arrangement makes the point that Israel bears responsibility for Gaza and not Egypt.
“We propose Kerem Shalom, because with this, we stress that Gaza is still under Israeli responsibility,” the diplomat said. “If we accept what Hamas wants, we would absolve Israel of this responsibility.”
Hamas argues that the Kerem Shalom option would give Israel control over Gaza’s fuel supply.
The West Bank and Gaza, both captured by Israel in the 1967 war, lie on either side of the Jewish state. Over the past decade, Israel has enforced strict travel restrictions between the two, raising Arab concerns that it wants to “unload” Gaza onto Egypt and limit any future Palestinian state to a part of the West Bank.
Egypt also wants market rates for its fuel, which Hamas says it cannot afford. In recent days, Hamas officials have visited Qatar, Turkey, Bahrain and Iran in search of fuel subsidies. Gaza’s prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, said Qatar has promised to help.
Yousef Rizka, an adviser to Haniyeh, accused Egypt of “political blackmail” and called on Egypt’s newly elected parliament, dominated by Islamists, “to solve this problem.”
Hamas officials also suspect Egypt is using the fuel issue to indirectly pressure the movement into accepting a Palestinian unity deal that would help Abbas regain some control in Gaza. Hamas leaders in Gaza have blocked the deal signed last month by their top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal.
In recent days, Hamas has sent dozens of supporters to demonstrate near the Egyptian border to demand that Cairo start sending fuel.
But Hamas faces growing discontent.
“The government is responsible to find a solution for us,” said Amjad Daban, a 44-year-old teacher who spent an hour Wednesday looking for transport. “I don’t care where the fuel will come from. What I need is to find electricity and transportation.”
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Laub reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy in Cairo contributed reporting.
Associated Press
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Using Online Marketing: Boost Profits With EBay | Sonic Audio Lv
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In conclusion, eBay should always be utilized in ways to help you make more money. If you are an Internet Marketer looking to make more sales online, using this online auction platform can be beneficial for your business. It is very easy to use the platform, especially when you?re trying to earn more money with your business. eBay is actually a fantastic way to earn a full-time living selling products through their online auctions. The strategies we have shared should help you do this for yourself ? good luck!
Source: http://www.sonicaudiolv.com/payday-loan/using-online-marketing-boost-profits-with-ebay/
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Network Solutions? Announces Sunrise Phase of New .TEL Top …
Herndon, VA (PRWEB) December 3, 2008
Network Solutions announces that the sunrise period for the new .tel top level domain extension begins at 10am Eastern Time on December 3, 2008. The new .tel domain names will be available for organizations and businesses holding Global and National trademarks for a price of $399 for a three year term.
.Tel is a brand new domain name extension that allows businesses and individuals to post and manage important contact information directly on the internet. Every .tel domain name includes a hosted Web site for positing phone numbers, email addresses, Web links, keywords and more. The convenient page layout allows domain owners to control how their information is displayed and who sees it. In addition, each .tel listing is included in the Telpage global directory, where customers can search by name or keywords to locate the business.
?One of the many reasons for registering a .tel includes having your business listed in the global online directory that the .tel registry is developing,? said Steve Miholovich, senior director of Product Management at Network Solutions. ?This directory is a great way to get your business found online and it also gives businesses the ability to add links to their web site, blog or social networking profile.?
The .tel domain name allows business owners or individuals to publish, store, update and manage all contact information instantly and in one place, creating a permanent online business card which is easily accessible in an organized and legible format on mobile devices. In short, .tel allows businesses and organizations to expand their ability to communicate and reach customers by becoming accessible from any device connected to the Internet in just one click.
For more information on the .tel sunrise period, visit http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/tel-sunrise.jsp
About Network Solutions:
Network Solutions, a leading provider of Web solutions and the pioneer of the domain name registration service, offers a full range of Web-related services that includes Web hosting, Web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services, and domain name registration. Network Solutions draws on 29 years of experience to make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage an online presence through a one-stop Web solutions provider. For more information, visit about.networksolutions.com.
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