Blog Assignment #46 / The Chicago Sun Times

Clinton: bin Laden death doesn’t end war on terror 

The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is warning al-Qaida. She says that the death of Osama bin Laden proves the network cannot wait out or defeat the United States. She said that the death was a milestone in the war on terrorism, but that the “battle to stop al-Qaida and its syndicate of terror” is not over. The death showed that the United States will never stop the pursuit of justice. She said the U.S. would continue to boost its counterterrorism cooperation with other nations, including Pakistan.

Prosecutors: Woman twice legal limit in DUI crash that killed 2

A woman named Kimberly L. Bradley, was more than twice the drinking limit when she crashed.  She was trying to pass the car in front of her and lost control of the SUV. She wrecked into a Ford which flipped over a lot of times. She killed two people and injured nine. She gave a hand-written statement that it was true that she drank beer that night, and she confirmed that she was the driver.

Airline agent who checked in terrorists joyful

An airline agent says he’s feeling “great joy” upon hearing of the death of Osama bin Laden. Michael Tuohey checked in Mohamed Atta and accomplice Abdulaziz Alomari at the Portland International Jetport for their connecting flight to Boston, which they crashed into the World Trade Center hours later on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Since that chilling encounter, Tuohey hasn’t been able to view any footage from 9/11 without breaking down sobbing. Tuohey says bin Laden’s death will bring “psychological value” to Americans and that it was good it was American forces — not somebody else — that killed him. I have to agree with him when he says that.

106 missing in latest boat tragedy on Congo river

 An overcrowded boat capsized in Congo, leaving at least 106 people missing. The boat carrying passengers and merchandise sank on the Kasai River in Kasai-Occidental province. Another boat capsized last year on that same river. The river is nearly 3,000 miles long and about 10 miles wide at some points. Authorities said at least 72 people were missing after a boat capsized on a lake in eastern Congo a week ago.

Radioactive cars from Japan arrive in Chilean port

Customs agents in Chile have detected low levels of radioactivity in cars shipped from the Japanese port of Yokohama. About a hundred port workers have protested, saying their health was at risk. But Chilean deputy treasury secretary Miguel Angel Quesada said Monday that the Chilean nuclear commission has confirmed that the radioactivity is too low to cause damage to humans. He says the cars will be hosed down on board and any radioactivity will be contained inside inside the ship. This is the first Japanese shipment to Chile to show radioactivity since Japan’s massive earthquake and nuclear disaster.