STATE
Middle schoolers charged in local woman's death
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Two middle school boys were arrested Tuesday in the slaying of an Albuquerque woman who was moving from her apartment because she no longer felt safe after a break-in.
Mister Saunders, 13, and Benny Moya Jr., 15, face charges of murder and residential burglary, Albuquerque police detective James Flores said Tuesday. Tom Swisstack, director of the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center, said the younger boy also was charged with two counts of criminal sexual penetration.
Swisstack said the boys were booked into the juvenile jail Monday night and were charged early Tuesday morning in connection with the death of Melissa Albert, 34. Both boys attend Van Buren Middle School.
Detective James Flores said an unrelated investigation led to the arrests. Detectives were investigating the two boys in connection with a burglary when they realized homicide detectives in connection with Albert's death were scrutinizing one boy, he said.
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NATIONAL
Enron accountant admits destroying documents
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - An accounting firm's destruction of some of energy giant Enron's financial documents may have violated a state Senate committee's subpoena, senators investigating the state's energy crisis said Tuesday.
State Sen. Joe Dunn, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Price Manipulation in the Wholesale Energy Market, said he would ask for subpoenas to require officials from Enron and Arthur Andersen LLP, Enron's accountants, to appear for depositions about the destroyed documents.
The accounting firm has admitted that it destroyed some Enron documents after federal securities regulators asked for information about Enron.
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48 people test positive for tuberculosis at Ala. college
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - At least 48 people connected to Spring Hill College have tested positive for tuberculosis less than three weeks after an African graduate student died of the disease.
More than 500 students, faculty members and others at the 1,500-student Roman Catholic school were tested Friday, and more positive cases could show up as people get their results, said Belinda Baggett, a spokeswoman for the city Health Department. Testing continues this week.
Investigators suspect people testing positive may have contracted the bacteria from Benedict Lenjo, a 28-year-old student from Kenya who died Dec. 28 in his dormitory room.
Those who knew Lenjo said he had lost weight, was chronically fatigued and had a severe cough.
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INTERNATIONAL
Video shows al Qaeda fighters' terror training
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A video showing al Qaeda militants practicing a mass assassination of world leaders at a golf tournament and plans for an attack on a motorcade in Washington, D.C., was being analyzed by U.S. defense officials, according to the Australian TV network that obtained the tape.
A spokesman from the U.S. Embassy confirmed on condition of anonymity that U.S. officials had seen the video, but could not give further details.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. first said it obtained the six-hour video from northern alliance soldiers in Afghanistan who found the tapes at a training camp near Kabul. On Tuesday the network said it was given the tape in Kabul by a former U.S. special-forces soldier who is now advising the Afghan military. The footage, first aired Sunday night, was apparently shot at Mir Bacha Cot, a former school near Kabul, the network said.
The tapes showed what ABC said were Arab, Pakistani and African fighters rehearsing hostage-takings and assassinations. Australian officials confirmed the authenticity of the video.
In one scene, militants blew up a car. In another, they carried weapons concealed in golf bags onto a barren golf course, where they fired hand-held rocket launchers and automatic machine guns at targets.
The video showed detailed plans to attack a motorcade on what appeared to be a road system in Washington, D.C. A young child was also shown playing with pistols in the video.
Australian Attorney-General Daryl Williams said the tapes demonstrated that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network was "a serious terrorist organization."
"The fact that the tapes have revealed the nature of the training doesn't really provide us with any surprises as to the nature of the objective of the organization," Williams said.
The Australian Defense Force said the video was "extremely worrying."
"It points to a different standard of training and capability that hasn't been revealed before," said ADF spokesman Brig. Gary Bornholt.
The tape was made public one day after the Singapore government revealed it had a tape showing a suspected terrorist cell with al-Qaida links that allegedly plotted to bomb Western embassies.
Singapore authorities arrested 15 alleged members of a secret group called Jemaah Islamiyah last month and say the men were planning to bomb embassies of Western nations, U.S. Navy ships and other targets in the peaceful city-state.
The plans to attack targets in Singapore were detailed in a videotape and papers found in an al-Qaida leader's house in Afghanistan. The tape shows sites in Singapore, including a commuter train station, and features a narrator apparently giving instructions on how to attack them.
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Afghan reconstruction plan will cost $15 billion
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Reconstruction of Afghanistan will cost $15 billion over the next 10 years, according to an assessment issued Tuesday by the U.N. Development Program, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
The estimate of Afghanistan's reconstruction needs following more than two decades of war was issued ahead of next week's donors' conference in Tokyo. The meeting is aimed at securing funds to provide a new start for the country following the rout of the Taliban.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Secretary of State Colin Powell and representatives from a host of countries are expected to attend the gathering.
