Highjackers threaten to kill ferry passengers
HAVANA (AP) — Armed hijackers seized a ferry off Cuba’s coast Wednesday and threatened to toss passengers overboard if they cannot go to the United States, setting off a negotiating drama on the high seas. The FBI said the ferry was drifting in international waters about 60 miles off Key West and was sending hostage negotiators to the scene by helicopter to rendezvous with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter.
Guards save suspected terrorist in Guantanamo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A terror suspect attempted suicide at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and was being treated at detention camp’s new psychiatric ward, officials said Tuesday.
The man was saved by guards within seconds of the attempt in his cell late Monday, Army Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said.
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There have been 24 suicide attempts by 17 individuals since detainees began arriving at the remote naval base in eastern Cuba in January 2002, officials said. None have been successful.
POW Jessica Lynch rescued; corpses found
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) — An American flag folded across her chest, Pfc. Jessica Lynch left Iraq on a stretcher Wednesday after U.S. commandos, acting on a CIA tip, rescued the prisoner of war. But the operation also brought sad news — the troops found 11 corpses, some believed to be Americans.
Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, arrived at a U.S. air base in southwestern Germany on a C-17 transport plane late Wednesday for treatment at a U.S. military medical center.
Her condition was not disclosed, but U.S. officials in Kuwait said she was believed to have broken legs, a broken arm and at least one gunshot wound.
Black Hawk shot down, seven soldiers dead
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in southern Iraq Wednesday, killing seven of the 11 soldiers aboard, Pentagon officials said.
The helicopter was downed by small-arms fire near Karbala, the site of fierce fighting between the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and Iraqi troops, including Republican Guard forces.
