Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday july 9, 2004 a19 i Brief uproar expected Montreal ? the uproar Over the Early prison release this week of Ontario sex offender Martin Ferrier could play out this time next year in Quebec with the unconditional release of Karla Homolka ? one of Canadas highest profile inmates. Homolka a 12-year sentence for her 1993 manslaughter convictions in the sex slayings of Ontario teenagers Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French expires july 5, 2005. Air pollution deadly Toronto ? air pollution is to blame for More deaths in Canadas largest City than originally believed City health officials said in a study released yesterday. The study by Toronto a Public health department estimates that five air pollutants contribute to about 1,700 pre mature deaths and 6,000 Hospital admissions in the City every year. Toy jewelry removed Montreal ? Canada has been included in the largest toy recall in . History As toy jewelry has been removed from vending machines out of concern about the potential risk of Lead poisoning. The . Consumer product safety commission announced yesterday the voluntary recall of 150 million pieces of toy jewelry sold in vending machines by four toy jewelry importers. Bootleg music Toronto ? unveiling Over 3,000 Bootleg copies of live shows by artists like Shania Twain and Avril Lavigne police said yesterday that new technologies Are making it easier for music pirates to stay in business. The musical works were seized in mid june at a music Memorabilia Sale at a Hamilton hotel but made Public by the ramp after a Man was charged with five counts of copyright infringe ment. New medal planned Kabul ? Canadian soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan and on All future overseas deployments involving an armed enemy will receive a newly minted general Campaign Star the governor general has announced. ? from the news services . Marine turns up Safe Days after report of death Navy probing whether abduction was a hoax by Sam f. Ghattas b Beirut Lebanon ? a . Marine whose disappearance in Iraq sparked contradictory claims that he was kidnapped and beheaded turned up alive yesterday and was at the . Embassy in his native Lebanon. The Navy was investigating whether his abduction could have been a hoax. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun reported missing from his base near the Trou bled City of fal Lujah 18 Days ago contacted . Officials who arranged to pick him up yesterday afternoon in Beirut state department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington. A statement on an islamic militant it was unclear How Hassoun what nearly the same time a gunfight website saturday claimed that has had been working As a translator i broke out Between members of has Soun had been beheaded. The next Day Iraq reached Lebanon and How Hesoun a clan in his Home City of Tripoli a statement on another islamic web contacted american officials. And business rivals who called them site denied he had been killed. Boucher said he had no information american collaborators because has in the latest twists to Hassoun son Hassoun a immediate plans and that Soun joined the marines. Two people Story there was speculation he might his military status would be up to the were killed. Have deserted his base and headed to defence department. Confusion had surrounded the Fate Lebanon when he was abducted. The the shooting incident yesterday of the 24-year-old, lebanese born has Navy was investigating whether the happened in another neighbourhood Soun since a dramatic videotape entire kidnapping might have been lebanese Security and Hospital offi broadcast on Arab television june 27 part of a hoax. Vials said. They said the two people showed him with his eyes covered by i Don to think they re ruling that out. Killed and three wounded were Nota White Blindfold and a sword hanging it would be fair to say they re not Rul part of the Hassoun clan which isomer his head. Ing that out a Marine spokesman made up of about 1,000 people. His reported capture claimed by a maj. Nat Fahy told the associated the Security officials said the gun group calling itself islamic press. Battle stemmed from an old dispute response came during the tense run a spokesman for the Bahrain based about the location of Street Vendor sup to the . Transfer of sovereignty . Navy a 5th Fleet said the matter but escalated because of jeers that theto an interim iraqi government on is under investigation by naval Crim Hassouna were . Collaborators. June 28, a period of increased Abdul Inal investigative service and tons and killings of foreigners and referred further questions to Wash attacks on . Forces. ? associated press in ton. Mortar attack kills five . Soldiers clashes that lasted into the late after hostage if the country did not with by Danica Kirka noon. Tanks took to the streets and draw its troops. Smoke Rose above a mosque. The violence came a Day after Iraq Baghdad ? iraqi insurgents Deto the violence also killed three civil unveiled emergency Laws giving the rated a car bomb and then hammered ians medical officials said. As Many As government Broad Powers to fight the a military Headquarters in the City of 44 people were wounded including 20 insurgency. Samarra with a mortar barrage yes american soldiers and four iraqi Samarra is part of the so called Ter Day levelling the building and guardsmen the military and Hospital sunni Triangle where support for sad killing five . Soldiers and one iraqi officials said. Dam Hussein a fallen regime had been guardsman the . Military said. Also yesterday the Philippines pro Strong. American troops backed by attack habited its citizens from travelling to helicopters then fanned out through Iraq to work after militants released a ? associated press the City to Hunt Down the attackers in videotape threatening to kill a filipino troops gunmen Battle in Gaza strip by Ibrahim Barzak beit Hanoun Gaza strip ? israeli troops backed by helicopters and armoured bulldozers battled palestinian gunmen in this Northern Gaza strip town yesterday. At least seven palestinians were killed in the deadliest violence in beit Hanoun since the army invaded the area Early last week. The local commander of the Hamas militant group was among the dead palestinians and the army said. Later yesterday palestinian militants fired a missile at an israeli jeep in the Southern Gaza strip wounding five sol Diers including two senior officers the army said. Following the bombing the army opened fire in the nearby Rajah refugee Camp. Palestinian Hospital officials said five people were wounded by israeli gunfire including a four year old girl who was critically injured in the head. The army did not comment. The islamic jihad group claimed responsibility for the attack on the israeli vehicle saying it was avenging the ugly zionist massacre in beit Hanoun. It distributed a tape of the attack near the jewish settlement of Morag which showed an explosion going off near the jeep and then the vehicle on fire. In beit Hanoun army snipers on rooftops and helicopter machine guns fired at armed men and other targets while palestinian gunmen took to the streets to fight the troops. Residents in half the town spent a third Day without water or electricity officials said. Armoured israeli bulldozers also destroyed Olive and Orange Groves and razed land along the Eastern Side of beit Hanoun. Col. Avi Levy commander of the operation said the agricultural areas were used for cover by militants firing Rock ets. We Are taking Over the same areas that they use to fire from Levy said. Unfortunately it requires us to remove those same Orchards the other Side uses As he said the operation would continue As Long As violence has surged in the Gaza strip since Sharon announced plans to evac uate All four West Bank settlements and Gaza strip. ? associated press ;