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Sex charges against family pit law against Amish justice 4/10/04 Chaseburg, Wis. -- When leaders in southwestern Wisconsin's Amish community heard allegations that 25-year-old Johnny E. Byler had sexually assaulted a close female relative, they decided on a punishment that was severe by their standards -- banishment from the church for six weeks. Their hope was to handle the case in their own way, without the intervention of outsiders. The Amish community has its "own way of punishing people," said Byler's mother, Sally Kempf, "We've settled this ourselves." But the Amish are not exempt from the law, said Vernon County District Attorney Tim Gaskell. "Their take on it is, 'We've dealt with it and now everything is behind us,' " Gaskell said. "It doesn't work that way in Wisconsin. "These are felonies. In two of the cases, the maximum sentences are 100 years," he said. "And in each case, they clearly violated the law." http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4714906.html
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Published on Saturday, April 10, 2004 b the New York Times
Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says
by Eric Lichtblau and David E Sanger
WASHINGTON â President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday. The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders. The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president's briefing in Crawford. The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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