Uganda apologizes for killings KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Rangers in a Ugandan gorilla reserve where Rwandan rebels hacked to death eight foreign tourists knew of the dangers in the area but never alerted the military, Uganda's president said Wednesday. The FBI began investigating the killings. Apologizing for the deaths, President Yoweri Museveni promised to capture or kill the rebels who used machetes to slay the tourists - including two Americans - Monday in the mountainous rain forest near the Rwandan area made famous in the 1988 film "Gorillas in the Mist." As the president spoke, Ugandan and Rwandan soldiers set out on foot patrols in a joint manhunt for the rebels who kidnapped more than a dozen foreigners - including the tourists who were killed - in their fight to undermine Rwanda's Tutsi-led government. See full story<http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558662179-8b4> *** And: Ugandan rebels kill 5 in raid, see full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=255866! 0896-fe8> *** Also: Uganda deaths may have tourism link, see full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558661890-892> Muslim women claim discrimination CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - Five Muslim women filed a religious discrimination complaint after being fired as airport security guards for allegedly refusing to take off their head scarves. The women, immigrants from Egypt and Sudan, said they could not comply when a supervisor at Argenbright Security Inc. asked them to remove their scarves. Covering their heads is a requirement of their faith. The five women worked at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, where they screened passengers and luggage. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558661656-bb0> Plan drawn to protect Maine forest AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - State and environmental officials Wednesday announced a $28 million plan to protect more than 750,000 acres of privately owned Maine woodland from development. Gov. Angus King called the agreement "the largest single conservation easement ever undertaken in the United States and, we believe, in the world." The agreement involves the sale of a conservation easement - a pact in which the seller retains the land but gives up the right to have it developed - that will ban building on woodland tracts covering an area one-fifth larger than Rhode Island. The land includes more than 2,000 miles of frontage along lakes and rivers, plus 85 lakes that are at least three acres in size. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558662714-b0d>
