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under vigorous
U.S. scrutiny
7 BILLION A CROWDED WORLD
GRAND JURY PROBES D.C. MAYORAL RACE
Sources tell of immunity offer, fingerprint requests
BY
PHOTO BY STEVE RAYMER
A Kolkata street is jammed with vehicles, pedestrians and vendors, a scene emblematic of India’s soaring population growth.
india’s baby boom:
dividend or disaster?
STORY BY
S IMON D ENYER
IN GORAKHPUR, INDIA
P
edestrians weave their way through a sea of cars, rickshaws
and motorbikes, a desperate scramble for space just making
the gridlock worse. The sidewalks are swallowed up by stalls
and piles of garbage. The smell of open drains hangs in the air
while overhead a web of electric cables crisscrosses the sky.
India is one of the main engines of global population growth, and
nowhere is that more apparent than in the crowded northern state of Uttar
Pradesh, home to 200 million people. The world’s 7 billionth person will be
born on the last day of this month, according to U.N. estimates, and Uttar
Pradesh, which added 33 million people to the global population in the last
decade, is already staking its claim to be the birthplace of that child.
Federal investigators digging
into irregularities in the campaign of Mayor Vincent C. Gray
have interviewed several of his
associates and election staff
members, subpoenaed reams of
documents, and granted immunity to at least one witness who
testified before a grand jury, according to nearly a dozen people
familiar with the probe.
The criminal probe began after
onetime mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown alleged in March that
he was paid by the Gray campaign
to disparage then-Mayor Adrian
M. Fenty during last year’s Democratic primary. Brown also claims
that the Gray campaign promised
him a city job in return for his
political attacks on Fenty.
In addition to Brown’s allegations, investigators are examining possible irregularities in money-order donations to Gray’s campaign, some of which appear to
have violated city campaign regulations, the sources said.
The mayor and senior campaign staff members have denied
any wrongdoing related to either
struggling to cope — India’s infrastructure
and environment, its cities and villages,
its health-care and education systems are
failing to keep pace with ever-growing
demands.
But on the narrow streets of the
northern Indian city of Gorakhpur, just
above eye level, a succession of billboards
hints at another side of the population
story. Wizard Tutoring, the Achievers
Academy and the Epitome Institute for
Advanced Learning are just some of the
india continued on A14
Brown’s allegations or the moneyorder donations.
Through their questioning of
campaign staff members and
their interest in campaign documents, investigators appear to be
focusing on consultant Howard L.
Brooks and possibly others in the
Gray campaign, said two sources
with knowledge of the probe.
Authorities are trying to determine whether Brooks, a close
friend of Gray campaign Chairwoman Lorraine A. Green’s,
passed Brown the alleged payments. Brooks and Green have
denied any wrongdoing.
Federal investigators have secured fingerprints from Brown
and Brooks, according to people
with direct knowledge of the
probe, who spoke anonymously
because they are not authorized
to talk publicly about the investigation. It could not be learned
who else has been asked to submit
fingerprints. The fingerprints
could help identify anyone who
might have handled documents,
money orders or envelopes with
cash that Brown claims the Gray
gray continued on A22
Europe’s crisis plan
shuns U.S. strategy
Action on debt excludes
broad, swift steps sought
by Geithner and IMF
BY
The world has grown quickly over the
last century, adding 1 billion people in just
the past 12 years. Though the rate of
growth is expected to stabilize around
2050, India’s will continue to climb. In the
past decade, the country’s population
grew by 17.6 percent, to 1.21 billion,
according to provisional census data.
Based on current trends, India is set to
overtake China as the world’s largest
country by 2025, according to the U.S.
Census Bureau.
Here on the fertile but impoverished
plains of the Ganges, the government is
N IKITA S TEWART
About this series
This is the first of several articles exploring
what reaching the 7 billion population mark
means for the planet and its people.
H OWARD S CHNEIDER
paris — European officials
working to address the region’s
financial crisis have rejected key
recommendations from the United States and the International
Monetary Fund, casting doubt on
whether an emerging plan will be
as broad or fast-acting as hoped.
As crisis negotiations continued this weekend, European officials said they had reached general agreement on a response they
were confident would restore
faith in European banks and
government finances.
The detailed plan to be agreed
on by European officials next
weekend “will be decisive,”
French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said Saturday as he
concluded a two-day session with
finance ministers from the Group
of 20 major economic powers.
But the plan excludes the
open-ended use of the European
Central Bank as a guarantor of
government debt and the swift
infusion of public capital into
banks that U.S. and IMF officials
say could be critical to restoring
confidence in the euro region.
Both were central elements of the
effort to shore up the U.S. financial system three years ago.
“They clearly have more work
to do,” U.S. Treasury Secretary
Timothy F. Geithner said after
the meetings adjourned, withholding judgment on whether
europe continued on A21
Occupy Wall Street
finds allies across globe
Rallies occurred in more than 900
cities in Europe, Africa and Asia, with
protests in Rome turning violent.
Organizers said they were
demanding a “true democracy.” A20
Unearthing the mysteries of Evermay
Hidden history of Belin family, longtime owners of grand Georgetown estate, is revealed after sale
BY
I AN S HAPIRA
T
he weather for Peter Belin’s
flight home from Europe
was largely serene. It was
early in May 1937, and as touchdown in New Jersey approached,
the recent Yale graduate snapped
photos of the airport’s three-story
hangar, the ground crew, and the
stark, oval shadow of his mode of
transportation, the Hindenburg
zeppelin.
Moments later, after the crew
flung down the landing ropes, an
explosion rocked the Hinden-
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burg’s rear. Peter grabbed his
things — his datebook, his camera
— and leapt from the doomed
craft. He survived the 30-foot
plunge.
Soon, he returned to his family
home in Georgetown, a magnificent estate known as Evermay,
perched on a rise with a view of the
Washington Monument and Rock
Creek Park. Peter didn’t talk much
about the Hindenburg, because
that was the Belin way: Don’t draw
attention to yourself; don’t be
showy.
In fact, it wasn’t until just a few
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days ago that Peter’s son, Harry
Belin, learned how his father escaped death when the airship
burst into flames, killing 35 people
aboard.
“He landed on a sandbank!?”
Harry marveled, standing amid
his basement archives, after finding a family letter. “I never heard
about the sandbank.”
Untold thousands of people
have seen or toured Evermay, the
two-century-old, 31/2-acre estate
famed for its Federal-style mansion and lush gardens. But few
know the history of its occupants,
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the Belins, who for nearly nine
decades resided inside the walled
compound on 28th Street NW. A
family of French immigrants who
married into the du Pont dynasty
and made a fortune in the gunpowder industry, the Belins populated some of the past century’s
most significant moments.
Another family trait was to
serve the country that had rewarded them so richly. But only now,
when Evermay has passed from
the family’s hands, are some of
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Sirte
suffers
in war’s
crossfire
Veterans
returning
to jobless
welcome
Military skills
difficult to translate
to civilian employment
BY
HOSPITAL REVEALS
DESPERATION
Most staff fled as shells
struck, water failed
M ICHAEL A . F LETCHER
cleveland — As soon as Brian
Joseph graduated from high
school he joined the Army, where
he was trained in a series of jobs
that seem to exist only in the
military.
He was a multi-channel radio
operator. Then he worked as a
single-channel radio operator.
Later, he worked as a psychological operations specialist, tailoring
the U.S. war message to residents
of Kosovo and, later, Iraq.
But since leaving the Army in
2008, Joseph has found that the
rigorous training he gained during 18 years of military service
means little to civilian employers.
“When somebody hears about
the radio operator gig, they don’t
immediately see a civilian application,” he said. “The same for
psychological operations. It is really marketing, but they don’t
know what it is, and the thing they
associate it with is brainwashing.”
Joseph, 43, who has bounced in
and out of jobs since returning
home, is confronting a problem
that is common among job seekers who have left the military in
recent years.
Despite the marketing pitch
from the armed forces, which
promises to prepare soldiers for
the working world, recent veterans are more likely to be unemployed than their civilian counterparts.
Veterans who left military service in the past decade have an
unemployment rate of 11.7 percent, well above the overall jobless
rate of 9.1 percent, according to
fresh data from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
The elevated unemployment
rate for new veterans has persisted despite repeated efforts to reduce it.
The latest to attempt it is the
White House. In the jobs package
President Obama has been promoting across the country is a tax
veterans continued on A12
House panel to probe
refinancing for veterans
Lenders charged hundreds of
millions of dollars in illegal fees, a
lawsuit alleges. The Fed Page, A15
BY
sirte, libya — Amid a raging
MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST
From left, Dorothy John-Reavis, Sam Lawson, Patricia Auerbach and Rhonda Murray rejoice after the singing of “We Shall
Overcome” at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Mall. The event had been postponed since August.
‘He will stand for all time’
Thousands from across the nation gather for dedication of memorial to King
BY
famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech
to a crowd that included people who
had been present for the original or had
watched it on television as children.
There were many in the audience
who recounted stories of bitter racial
oppression experienced in their youth.
Many said they never believed a monument to a man like King would be
erected.
But they said they were proud that it
had finally happened.
It was a day of prayer and song.
Singer Aretha Franklin delivered a
moving rendition of the gospel hymn
“Precious Lord,” which she said was one
of King’s favorites. Choirs also performed the African American song “Lift
Every Voice and Sing” and “The Battle
Hymn of the Republic.”
The dedication, originally set for
Aug. 28, had been delayed seven weeks
because of the Aug. 23 earthquake and
then Hurricane Irene.
But, Obama said, “this is a day that
M ICHAEL E . R UANE
Like pilgrims, tens of thousands of
people from across the country
thronged the Mall on Sunday beneath
blue skies to dedicate at last the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial.
With walking sticks and wheelchairs, in T-shirts and fur coats, crowds
poured in for hours, filling 10,000
folding chairs and spilling across a
large field adjacent to the memorial on
the northwestern shore of the Tidal
Basin.
From grandparents to babes in
strollers, many carrying backpacks,
blankets and banners, they camped out
along Independence Avenue when the
viewing area filled.
And people of all ages — gray-haired
veterans of segregation and those who
knew only stories of those times —
listened as President Obama announced: “This day, we celebrate Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s return to the
National Mall. In this place, he will
stand for all time.”
The crowd joined in as the president
stood before the memorial’s three-story
granite statue of King and, arms locked
with the arms of others, sang the civil
rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome.”
The memorial, on a landscaped fouracre site set amid Washington’s Tidal
Basin cherry trees, has been a
quarter-century in the making and is
the first on the Mall to honor an African
American.
It was a day of emotion, as organizers
telecast black-and-white film of King’s
mlk continued on A10
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For videos of speeches by Obama
and others at the dedication, the full
text of the president’s speech, photos of
the ceremony, an interactive look at the
memorial and articles about the history
behind it, go to washingtonpost.com/mlk.
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President Obama and his family tour the grounds
before the memorial’s dedication. Obama called
it “a day that would not be denied.”
A pipeline predicament for Obama
With Keystone decision,
president faces choice
of which allies to anger
BY J ULIET E ILPERIN
AND S TEVEN M UFSON
In May, environmental writer
and activist Bill McKibben —
pondering a simmering energy
issue — asked a NASA scientist to
calculate what it would mean for
the Earth’s climate if Canada
extracted all of the petroleum in
its rich Alberta oil sands region.
M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
The answer to McKibben’s query came a month later: It would
push atmospheric carbon concentrations so high that humans
would be unable to avert a climate disaster. “It is essentially
game over,” wrote James E. Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies and is
one of the nation’s leading voices
against fossil fuel energy.
That was the moment when
McKibben — who had already
mobilized a global grass-roots
climate movement from his
home in Vermont — decided to
join the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would
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battle for this last major Gaddafi
stronghold, humanitarian groups
in recent days have discovered a
tableau of horror in the city’s
main hospital.
More than 100 patients were
lying in the hallways, in urgent
need of attention. One man’s
wound was swarming with
worms. Another man, whose legs
had been amputated, had no
painkillers. The morgue was
overflowing.
The Ibn Sina hospital offers a
glimpse into the desperation in
Sirte, home town of fugitive former leader Moammar Gaddafi.
Although the autocratic ruler was
toppled in August and the world
has recognized a new, pro-democracy government, the war isn’t
over. Some of the fiercest fighting
in the eight-month-old conflict
has been unfolding in recent
weeks in this coastal city.
Interim government commanders said late Sunday that the
other major Gaddafi holdout, the
smaller city of Bani Walid, had
fallen. In Tripoli, the capital, bulldozers set to work Sunday tearing
down the walls of Gaddafi’s Bab
al-Aziziya compound — one of the
most potent symbols of his reign.
But explosions continued to
ring out in Sirte, where
anti-Gaddafi forces are using
tanks, artillery and mortars to
smash their way into an area of
the city center where loyalists are
holed up and defending themselves with small-arms fire. Most
of the city’s roughly 100,000 residents have been forced to flee.
For several days this month,
the Ibn Sina hospital — one of
Libya’s finest medical institutions — became a front line in the
battle for Sirte. Outsiders gaining
libya continued on A9
Israel releases partial list
of prisoners to be freed
Polls show most Israelis back the
swap to free Staff. Sgt. Gilad Shalit,
but for some it reopens wounds. A8
At Texas border, Perry hawkish on cartels
carry heavy crude oil from Canada’s Alberta province to the Gulf
Coast. It was a decision that
eventually landed McKibben in
jail, along with Hansen and more
than a thousand other pipeline
foes who have been arrested in
front of the White House.
The Keystone permit decision
has landed literally and figuratively on the White House’s doorstep. Several key union allies and
the Canadian government are
pitted against environmental and
youth activists who are threatening to turn Keystone into a campipeline continued on A4
BY
W ILLIAM B OOTH
austin — A little before dawn on
a sticky summer night in June,
one of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s
Ranger Reconnaissance Teams
was running a clandestine operation along the Rio Grande when
its surveillance squad came
across a Dodge Durango pickup
truck loaded with bales of Mexican marijuana.
Bad idea, messing with Texas.
The lawmen chased the truck
along the river, with a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter swooping overhead and Texas
game wardens roaring down the
Rio Grande in boats, state authorities said. In minutes, the traffickers had ditched the truck in the
muddy water and were rafting the
dope back to Mexico.
Then the shooting started.
Alone among his Republican
rivals running for president, the
Texas governor has a small army
at his disposal. Over the past three
years, he has deployed it along his
southern flank in a secretive, military-style campaign that his supporters deem absolutely necessary and successful and that his
critics call an overzealous, expensive and mostly ineffective political stunt.
A hawk when it comes to Mexican cartels, Perry said in New
Hampshire this month that as
president he would consider
sending U.S. troops into Mexico to
combat drug violence there and
stop it from spilling into the United States.
The June incident along the
Rio Grande was typical of Perry’s
perry continued on A6
GOP fundraising is down
to a two-man race
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have four
times as much cash as the rest of the
GOP field combined, reports show. A6
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Indy 500 winner is killed
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after a 15-car crash at the Las
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minutes into the race. D3;
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Demonstrators in at least five
U.S. cities are cuffed for
refusing to obey orders and
leave public areas. A3
FOREIGN
A step beyond reform
A Pakistani puzzler
Cardinals win NL title
A handful of states are pushing
ambitious health-care
programs that would go further
than the federal law. A3
Pakistani officials have
rejected the notion of
robust military action
against insurgents. A9
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St. Louis will face Texas in the
World Series starting
Wednesday. D1
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Iran ‘set back’ on
nuclear program
EXPERTS CITE OLD MACHINES, SHORTAGES
Struggles surface as international pressure grows
BY
PHOTOS BY MATT MCCLAIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Angela Amaah, left, dances with King Kofi Boateng, Queen Mother Nana Ama Achiaa, Nana Yew Amankwah and Virginia Serwala.
Flush with royals
D.C., an epicenter of power, is a refuge for some who no longer have it
BY
E MILY W AX
T
he petite, curlyhaired princess of
Ethiopia is a mortgage loan officer who
commutes 40 minutes a day, does her own dishes
and shops for sales on twin sets
at Tysons Corner Center.
“I don’t have bodyguards
clearing traffic or tailors stitching my clothes. This is America,” says Saba Kebede of
McLean, who laughed and
looked at her husband, Prince
Ermias Sahle Selassie, the
grandson of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.
On Whistling Duck Drive in
Upper Marlboro resides Kofi
Boateng, an Ashanti king of
Ghana — there are many — who
works as a CPA and whose
palace is a sprawling McMansion with a football game on the
flat-screen TV and pictures of
West African royalty hanging
Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, grandson of Ethiopian Emperor
Haile Selassie, and his wife, Saba Kebede, attend church in
Alexandria. For the most part, they resemble a typical family.
over the fireplace.
“Sometimes, these suburbs
are so quiet they remind me of
my village in Ghana,” says
Boateng, closing his eyes and
listening to the sound of night-
time crickets mixing with the
purr of West African music
from a party in his basement.
Kebede and Boateng are just
two of the many lesser-known
royals who live in the Washing-
ton suburbs. They include King
Kigeli Ndahindurwa V, who
ruled Rwanda until his overthrow in 1961 and now calls
Oakton home, and Iranian
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi,
who lives in Potomac and runs
an advocacy association that is
outspoken about the need for
democracy in his home country.
While Washington is traditionally a destination for those
who seek power, it’s also a
refuge for those who no longer
have it. Many of the royals who
call the region home are in
exile; others came because
their grandparents or parents,
who were deposed, thought
that the United States offered
better opportunities for their
children, while Washington offered the prestige and access of
living in a world capital.
Many lead stereotypically
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Can Obama hold on to
black voters in 2012?
African American
voices are appealing
for racial loyalty
BY
K RISSAH T HOMPSON
For several months, radio host
Tom Joyner has pleaded with his
8 million listeners to get in line
behind the first black president.
“Stick together, black people,”
says Joyner, whose R&B morning
show reaches one in four African
American adults.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, an ally of
President Obama who has a daily
radio show and hosts a nightly
cable television program, recently
told the president’s black critics,
“I’m not telling you to shut up. I’m
telling you: Don’t make some of us
have to speak up.”
Even as Obama and his campaign play down the suggestion
that support among African
Americans is flagging, a cadre of
powerful allies is snapping back at
critics in the black community
and making explicit appeals for
racial loyalty.
“Let’s not even deal with the
facts right now. Let’s deal with just
our blackness and pride — and
loyalty,” Joyner wrote on his BlackAmericaWeb.com blog. “We have
the chance to re-elect the first
African-American president, and
that’s what we ought to be doing.
And I’m not afraid or ashamed to
say that as black people, we should
do it because he’s a black man.”
That message is pointed at racial unity much more than it was
in 2008, when just the prospect of
electing the nation’s first black
president brought out record
numbers of African American voters. This time, high-profile Obama
supporters are tailoring their appeal in hopes of reigniting enthusiasm among blacks, a critical part
of the president’s base that has
been disproportionately hurt by
election continued on A4
J OBY W ARRICK
Iran’s nuclear program, which
stumbled badly after a reported
cyberattack last year, appears beset by poorly performing equipment, shortages of parts and other
woes as global sanctions exert a
mounting toll, Western diplomats
and nuclear experts say.
The new setbacks are surfacing
at a time when Iran faces growing
international pressure, including
allegations that Iranian officials
backed a clumsy attempt to kill a
Saudi diplomat in Washington.
Analysts say Iran has become increasingly frustrated and erratic
as political change sweeps the region and its nuclear program
struggles.
Although Iran continues to
stockpile enriched uranium in defiance of U.N. resolutions, two new
reports portray the country’s nuclear program as riddled with
problems as scientists struggle to
keep older equipment working.
At Iran’s largest nuclear complex, near the city of Natanz, fastspinning machines called centri-
fuges churn out enriched uranium. But its output is steadily declining as the equipment ages and
breaks down, according to an
analysis of data collected by U.N.
nuclear officials.
Iran has vowed to replace the
older machines with models that
are faster and more efficient. Yet
new centrifuges recently introduced at Natanz contain parts
made from an inferior type of metal that is weaker and more prone
to failure, according to a report by
the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington
nonprofit group widely regarded
for its analysis of nuclear programs.
“Without question, they have
been set back,” said David Albright, president of the institute
and a former inspector for the U.N.
iran continued on A8
Cyber attack against
Gaddafi was debated
Top Pentagon officials had weighed
such a campaign against Libya’s air
defenses but decided against it. A5
Family condemns
death of Awlaki’s son
Grandfather says teen,
killed in U.S. airstrike,
wasn’t in al-Qaeda
BY
AND
P ETER F INN
G REG M ILLER
In the days before a CIA drone
strike killed al-Qaeda operative
Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his
16-year-old son ran away from
the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him,
relatives say. When he, too, was
killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday,
the Awlaki family decided to
speak out for the first time since
the attacks.
“To kill a teenager is just
unbelievable, really, and they
claim that he is an al-Qaeda
militant. It’s nonsense,” said
Nasser al-Awlaki, a former Yemeni agriculture minister who was
Anwar al-Awlaki’s father and the
boy’s grandfather, speaking in a
phone interview from Sanaa on
Monday. “They want to justify
his killing, that’s all.”
The teenager, Abdulrahman
al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was
born in Denver in 1995, and his
17-year-old Yemeni cousin were
killed in a U.S. military strike
that left nine people dead in
southeastern Yemen.
The young Awlaki was the
third American killed in Yemen
in as many weeks. Samir Khan,
an al-Qaeda propagandist from
North Carolina, died alongside
Anwar al-Awlaki.
Yemeni officials said the dead
from the strike included Ibrahim
al-Banna, the Egyptian media
yemen continued on A7
Mastery of domains
looms large for 2012
Buyers of site names often unknown
BY P HILIP R UCKER
AND T . W . F ARNAM
NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST
On a rope and a prayer
Emma Cardini of the “difficult access team” of the engineering
firm Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates checks Monday for
earthquake damage to the northwest tower of the Washington
National Cathedral. The firm is the same one whose inspectors
rappelled down the Washington Monument in September.
On Sept. 2, with Texas Gov. Rick
Perry surging in the polls, someone purchased the Web addresses
stickittorick.com, rickperrynot.
com and buryperry.com.
That day, Mitt Romney’s campaign spent $2,851 buying the
rights to various domain names at
GoDaddy.com, the vendor that
sold the Perry domains.
You might assume it was the
Romney campaign that scooped
up the anti-Perry Web addresses
with hopes of launching sites attacking Romney’s chief rival for
the 2012 Republican presidential
nomination.
Not so, says the Romney cam-
paign.
Such is the latest mystery of
Campaign 2012.
The mystery is tough to unravel,
because whoever bought the addresses hid his or her identity behind Domains by Proxy, a thirdparty company frequently used to
shield the owners of Web addresses.
The same company was used to
register mittromney.com. But a
Romney spokesman said that the
campaign does not own the Perry
domains in question. The campaign would not say which domains it bought Sept. 2.
The recent transactions open a
window onto the often secretive
internet continued on A4
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2 SPORTS
Pieces of the puzzle
Remapping Md.
Egypt’s new unease
Karen Good learned what
was ailing her — and a lesson
in the limitations of relying
on medical specialists. E1
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s
redistricting plan, under
fire as partisan and unfair
to minorities, advances in
the state Senate. B1
A revolutionary’s death
highlights concerns that the
new leadership is adopting
the old guard’s tactics. A8
Grossman or Beck:
Wait till Wednesday
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Coach Mike Shanahan says
Redskins fans will have to wait
for word on whether John Beck,
left, will start vs. Carolina. D1
THE NATION
A warning on austerity
OPINIONS
Cain’s triumph
Strike two?
The IMF voices fear that
tight budgets could choke
off demand, leading to a
new global recession. A9
Eugene Robinson:
Occupy Wall Street
offers Democrats a
golden opportunity. A15
The Republican presidential
candidate has beaten the
odds by surviving Stage IV
colon cancer. A3
Mike Wise says a change at
quarterback would put
Shanahan on the verge of a
major embarrassment. D1
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for GOP hopefuls
RAISED VOICES, PERSONAL ATTACKS
Front-runner Cain’s ‘9-9-9’ tax plan under fire
BY K AREN T UMULTY
AND A MY G ARDNER
las vegas — The near-weekly
ritual of Republican presidential
debates took a raucous turn Tuesday night as the unsettled field of
candidates ganged up on one
another in a series of attacks
more intense and personal than
any in their previous appearances
together.
The first to feel the assault was
the front-runner of the moment,
Herman Cain, who is struggling
to prove that he is a serious
contender and not merely another evanescent phenom of this
election season. He was thrown
on the defense by new criticism of
his signature “9-9-9” tax overhaul
plan, which an independent
analysis released shortly before
the debate indicated would be a
boon to the wealthy and put a
significantly heavier burden on
lower- and middle-income Amer-
icans.
But the other leading contenders each got their turn at the
bottom of the pile. Previously
unflappable former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney appeared knocked off stride at times
— particularly when Texas Gov.
Rick Perry mentioned a 2007
episode in which Romney had
hired a lawn company that employed illegal immigrants.
Perry noted that Romney himself has said “there was a magnet
of people that will hire illegals,”adding: “And you are number one on that list, sir.”
At one point, a red-faced Romney shouted at Perry: “Are you
debate continued on A6
Plenty of tough talk
as GOP race shifts gears
An intense series of debates has both
changed and solidified the nature of
the presidential field. The Take, A6
ABED OMAR QUSINI/REUTERS
One of thePalestinians freed by Israel in exchange for Gilad Shalit is greeted by a relative at a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
In swap for Shalit, Hamas sees victory President’s words
Palestinians celebrate
return of prisoners
traded for Israeli soldier
BY
E RNESTO L ONDOÑO
tel aviv — Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned home
Tuesday looking pale and rail thin
to a country bracing itself for fallout from a prisoner swap that has
emboldened the militant Palestinian faction Hamas.
A subdued Israeli homecoming
ceremony for Shalit stood in stark
contrast to the mood in the Gaza
Strip, where buses carrying the
first of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners
to be freed as part of the exchange
were escorted by heavily armed
Hamas fighters.
Hamas declared Tuesday a holiday, and a mural depicted Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreeing to the swap as a
gunman kicked his face into the
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT VIA REUTERS
Gilad Shalit, held for five years by Hamas, salutes in front of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof air base, south of Tel Aviv.
ground. A spokesman for Hamas’s
military arm suggested that the
group would continue to seek opportunities to seize Israeli soldiers.
As busloads of freed Palestinians arrived in the West Bank,
Test vaccine shown to shield
many children from malaria
BY
R OB S TEIN
For the first time, an experimental vaccine has been shown to
safely protect large numbers of
children against malaria, one of
the world’s most devastating
scourges and one that has long
evaded medicine’s most potent
weapons.
An eagerly awaited analysis of
data being collected on more than
15,000 newborns and babies in
seven African countries found
that the vaccine cut the risk of
being infected with the malaria
parasite by about half and reduced the chances of getting the
most serious, life-threatening
form of the disease by more than a
third.
Controlling malaria has long
been a top goal of international
public-health authorities. Caused
by parasites transmitted by infected mosquitoes, malaria annually
sickens more than 200 million
people and kills nearly 800,000,
mostly children in Africa. Because
children are the most vulnerable
to the disease, efforts to develop a
vaccine have focused on them.
While far less protective than
vaccines used against other diseases, the results of the test vaccine were hailed as a major advance.
“This is remarkable when you
consider that there has never
been a successful vaccine against
a human parasite,” Tsiri Agbenyega of the Komfo-Anokye Hospital
in Ghana, who is leading the
study, told reporters during a
briefing before the results were
made public. “This potentially
translates into tens of millions of
cases of malaria in children being
averted.”
Beyond causing disease and
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residents waved Hamas flags, a
rare sight in the Palestinian enclave where the rival Fatah wing
has traditionally been more popular. The exchange appears to have
undermined the standing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab-
bas, leader of the more-moderate
Fatah, while raising the profile of
Hamas, which negotiated the exchange through Egyptian intermediaries.
Netanyahu said signing off on
the deal had been “a very difficult
decision,” and he alluded to possible challenges ahead. “I want to
make it clear: We will continue to
fight terrorism,” he said. “Any released terrorist who returns to
terrorism” will be dealt with.
Shalit, 25, looked frail and
dazed five years after Hamas fighters ambushed his tank, killed two
of his comrades and dragged him
into the Gaza Strip in 2006. The
captive soldier had little contact
with the outside world, other than
occasional access to radio and
television news in Arabic, his father said.
Shalit was visible only briefly
Tuesday as he was hurriedly ushered from Gaza into Egypt
through the Rafah crossing,
prisoners continued on A10
are used against him
Teleprompter use
becomes a line
of attack for GOP
BY
P HILIP R UCKER
It’s one of the very symbols of
the presidency — the ultimate accessory to the ultimate bully pulpit, seemingly trumpeting to all
that the words being uttered actually matter.
So why, on the campaign trail,
has the teleprompter instead become a symbol of ineptitude,
mocked repeatedly by Republican
candidates?
Picking up on a theme that has
been rippling through GOP circles
for two years, Republican presidential candidates are trying to
use President Obama’s reliance on
teleprompters to deflate one of his
biggest strengths — his oratorical
skill. If Obama can’t give a twominute speech without a screen
telling him what to say, the critique goes, it’s a sign that he
doesn’t know what he’s talking
about and can’t be trusted to do his
job.
“Obama ruined the teleprompter for the rest of the politicians,”
said Fred Davis, a media strategist
who advised Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) in his 2008 presidential
run and, until this summer, Republican candidate and former
ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr.
“If you use it now, you’re like
Obama,” Davis said. “It’s a negative because it’s a sign of inauthenticity. It’s a sign that you can’t
speak on your own two feet. It’s a
sign that you have handlers behind you telling you what to say.”
Since its invention a halfobama continued on A5
In search for boy, hope turns to mourning
Montgomery police say body found is William McQuain, who had been missing since mom was slain
BY D AN M ORSE
AND J OSH W HITE
The surveillance video shows William
McQuain, dressed in shorts on an October
Saturday, rolling around the parking lot of a
Germantown self-storage warehouse on the
wheels in his sneakers.
“He was behaving like a typical 11-yearold,” said Montgomery County Police Chief
J. Thomas Manger. “Gliding up and down
the pavement.”
What the 11-year-old didn’t know, authorities said, was that his mother had been
beaten and stabbed to death in their nearby
apartment. William was at the storage
center happily waiting with the man police
say killed his mother — Curtis Lopez, his
stepfather.
By the end of the day, Oct. 1, police said,
Lopez would also kill William and toss his
body in the woods.
For days, police and volunteers conducted a massive search in hopes the boy would
be found alive. Friends gathered for a vigil,
and his football buddies put stickers on
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their helmets: “William McQuain. We ♥ U.”
But Tuesday morning, hope turned to
mourning when police said the boy’s body
had been found in a wooded area just off a
Clarksburg road. Detectives had focused on
that area after tracking Lopez’s cellphone
use.
“This confirmed our worst fears,” said
Jeff McDermott, who coached William on a
Little League All-Star team. “He was a great
kid, a great player. He did everything we
asked him to do.”
Lopez and Jane McQuain had a long and
troubled relationship, but only days earlier
the two had taken William on a vacation to
Ocean City. A friend said Jane McQuain
called from the beach, saying that she and
Lopez had argued and that she was scared.
Exactly what happened that weekend
might never be known. Lopez, who was
arrested Thursday in North Carolina, has
refused to talk to investigators, police said.
The police account of what happened to
William and his mother is based on the
William McQuain, 11, “was a great kid,
the kind of kid you hope for,” a friend says.
mcquain continued on A4
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STYLE
Downgrade for Spain
Moody’s cites the
continuing debt crisis and
says France’s credit rating
could also be in danger. A11
ICC faces trouble
down the road
Capitals 3, Panthers 0
An Olsen’s
coming-out
Born three years
after Mary-Kate
and Ashley, actress
Elizabeth is poised
to become a
household name.
(And just poised
in general.) C1
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With a fifth victory in the
season’s first five games,
Washington is off to the best
start in franchise history. D1
Hairline cracks mean three
Intercounty Connector
bridges will eventually need
work — or rebuilding. B1
BASEBALL
The Amazon in focus
FOOD
Survivor: MLB
Google Street View takes
a turn for the rural to
document a Brazilian
village of 100 people. A8
Ginger in its youth
The Rangers and the Cardinals
endured long, obstacle-filled
seasons to end up facing each
other in the World Series. D1
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Obama
At the White House, Copts demand an end to ‘horrible nightmare’
Perry, Paul say stance
on energy loans doesn’t
contradict 2008 appeals
BY
HE OUT-RAISES
GOP CANDIDATES
P AUL K ANE
Two Republican presidential
candidates who have spoken out
against federal subsidies for energy projects tried to obtain such
benefits three years ago.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep.
Ron Paul (Tex.) pressed the energy secretary in 2008 to approve
a federal loan guarantee to help
an energy company hoping to
expand a nuclear facility in Texas.
NRG Energy was among the
many firms vying for a slice of
$18.5 billion in federal loan guarantees set aside for nuclear production, according to letters obtained by The Washington Post.
That led to a rush of appeals from
members of Congress and other
elected officials, including Perry
and Paul, hoping to win support
for their projects.
In recent debates, the two have
criticized federal energy loan programs.
“We don’t need to be subsidizing energy in any form or fashion,” Perry said at a forum Tuesday night. Earlier this month, he
said the federal government
should not “be involved in that
type of investment, period. If
states want to choose to do that, I
think that’s fine for states to do.”
Paul also urged rugged independence for the energy sector:
“The government shouldn’t be in
the business of subsidizing any
form of energy,” he said during
Tuesday’s debate.
energy continued on A14
Longtime Romney, Perry
rivalry could shape race
The GOP presidential hopefuls harbor
a disdain for each other that is now
playing out on debate stages. A4
DNC money gives
president an advantage
BY D AN E GGEN
AND T . W . F ARNAM
The privatization saga is a
cautionary tale about the power
and perils of U.S. foreign aid —
most notably the nearly $8 billion
that the United States has provided to Egypt since the 1990s to
push the country toward economic reforms.
Gamal Mubarak, 47, and the
others deny any wrongdoing and
are fighting corruption charges
filed by the new Egyptian government, saying they have been
Despite frosty relations with
the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to
raise far more money this year
from the financial and banking
sector than Mitt Romney or any
other Republican presidential
candidate, according to new
fundraising data.
Obama’s key advantage over
the GOP field is the ability to
collect bigger checks because he
raises money for both his own
campaign committee and for the
Democratic National Committee,
which will aid in his reelection
effort.
As a result, Obama has
brought in more money from
employees of banks, hedge funds
and other financial service companies than all the other GOP
candidates combined, according
to a Washington Post analysis of
contribution data. The numbers
show that Obama retains a persistent reservoir of support
among Democratic financiers
who have backed him since he
was an underdog presidential
candidate four years ago.
Obama’s fundraising advantage is clear in the case of Bain
Capital, the Boston-based private-equity firm that was cofounded by Romney, and where
the Republican made his fortune.
Not surprisingly, Romney has
strong support at the firm, raking
in $34,000 from 18 Bain employ-
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Hundreds of Coptic Christians, including some from as far as New York and Chicago, gathered Wednesday at
Lafayette Square in Washington in a peaceful protest of recent violence against minority Christians in Egypt. They
demanded that the Obama administration pressure Cairo to protect their rights, and some of the demonstrators
placed a row of black wooden coffins along the sidewalk in front of the White House. STORY, B3
‘Crony capitalism’ with a U.S. root
Washington funded Egyptian reform group whose members face corruption charges
BY J AMES V . G RIMALDI
AND R OBERT O ’ H ARROW J R.
IN CAIRO
B
eginning two decades
ago, the United States
government bankrolled
an Egyptian think tank
dedicated to economic
reform. A different outcome is
only now becoming visible in the
fallout from Egypt’s Arab Spring.
Formed with a $10 million
endowment from the U.S. Agency
for International Development,
the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies gathered captains
of industry in a small circle —
with the president’s son Gamal
Mubarak at the center. Over time,
members of the group would
assume top roles in Egypt’s ruling
party and government.
Today, Gamal Mubarak and
four of those think tank members
are in jail, charged with squandering public funds in the sale of
public resources, lands and government-run companies as part
of a dramatic restructuring.
Some have fled the country, pilloried amid the public outrage over
insider deals and corruption that
toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
“It became a crony capitalism,”
Magda Kandil, the think tank’s
new executive director, said of
the privatization program advocated by its founders. Because of
the corruption, the center now
estimates, the assets that Egypt
has sold off since 1991 have netted
only about $10 billion, $90 billion
less than their estimated worth.
JASON REID
Redskins bet on QB,
and they’d better be right
F
TONY DEJAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carcasses litter the ground at Muskingum County Animal Farm as authorities hunt down dangerous exotic animals that the owner set free .
Outrage over exotic-game release in Ohio
Deputies shoot lions, tigers, bears, other large animals; private menagerie owner kills himself
BY B RIAN V ASTAG
AND D ARRYL F EARS
A tiger cub for $700.
A baby cougar for $675.
And a 2-year-old giraffe for
$25,000.
Private collectors actively
trade in exotic animals all over
the United States in a vibrant
and poorly regulated market.
One such collector created a day
of fear and outrage after he
turned loose dozens of lions,
tigers, bears and other exotic
animals in a rural Ohio town and
then shot himself Tuesday night.
Terry Thompson, 62, was
found dead on his property.
Through the night and into
Wednesday afternoon, the animals from his private menagerie
became the victims of an impromptu big-game hunt by sheriffs’ deputies seeking to protect
residents from dangerous predators.
Schools were closed Wednesday, and residents were advised
to stay indoors. Callers to 911
reported lions, bears and unidentified large mammals in
back yards, wandering through
cemeteries and near highways.
By Wednesday evening, the
Muskingum County sheriff, Matt
Lutz, reported the danger had
largely passed. Deputies shot
animals continued on A14
or Washington Redskins
Coach Mike Shanahan and
his son Kyle, the team’s offensive coordinator, it’s suddenly
all about John Beck.
Who would’ve guessed that one
of pro football’s most respected
coaches and one of the game’s
up-and-coming young assistants
would tie their fortunes — and
those of the Redskins — so closely
to a journeyman quarterback who
hasn’t started a game since 2007?
But that’s what they’ve just
done.
Mike Shanahan’s announcement Wednesday that Beck, not
error-prone Rex Grossman,
would start against the Carolina
Panthers on Sunday was unavoidable. Grossman sealed his fate
after four of his passes were intercepted during last weekend’s loss
to the Philadelphia Eagles, and
Beck provided something of a
spark in relief.
Now that the Shanahans have
acknowledged they were wrong in
naming Grossman the starter six
weeks ago, however, they must be
right this time about Beck.
Since he was brought to Washington by owner Daniel Snyder
before last season and given the
task of reviving the Redskins’ fortunes, Mike Shanahan has improved the team. The Redskins
are better at nearly every position
than they were before last season
except one — quarterback. It’s
only the most important position
on the field.
If Shanahan and his son are
wrong about Beck — as they were
about Donovan McNabb last year
and Grossman this year — they
would be 0 for 3 in picking people
for the position they supposedly
know so well. They would undermine whatever improvements
they’ve made to the roster elsewhere. And they would set back
the franchise’s progress a year or
two or maybe more, because if the
Redskins enter next season withreid continued on A18
Team’s bold change
was spurred by turnovers
Though the Redskins have a winning
record, Grossman’s many mistakes
cost him his position. Sports, D1
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1 p.m., WTTG-5
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Sowing for spring
The China issue . . .
Super-stalled
Jagr and the Capitals
Ten great garden bulbs to get
you thinking about the thaw
before the freeze is upon us.
Blaming Beijing is popular
on the campaign trail, but
observers say U.S.-China
relations are more complex
than they might appear. A6
As its deadline approaches,
the congressional debtreduction committee is
stuck in familiar gridlock. A3
A decade after his brief,
lackluster stint in Washington,
the onetime superstar faces his
former team as a Flyer. D1
STYLE
Diversity on Broadway
Plays with black women as
authors or adapters are
enjoying unprecedented
exposure this season on
the Great White Way. C1
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. . . and China’s issues
Citigroup settlement
Metro cost overruns
As the People’s Republic
gets more prosperous,
some fear that it is losing
its moral bearings. A7
The bank agrees to pay
$285 million to settle SEC
charges that one of its units
misled investors. A11
The extension to Dulles could
be over budget by as much as
$150 million, the head of the
construction project says. B1
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has lowest
rate in U.S.
for poverty
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For Gaddafi, a bloody end in Libya
OUSTED LEADER
CAPTURED, KILLED
Last bastion of loyalist
resistance crumbles
But 8.4 percent level is
still higher than before
recession, report finds
BY
poverty continued on A12
Worry over
Md. districts’
racial mix
turns legal
A ARON C . D AVIS
Maryland’s General Assembly
on Thursday approved — and Gov.
Martin O’Malley signed into law —
a partisan plan designed to pick
up another House seat for Democrats by anchoring most of the
state’s eight congressional districts in suburban Washington,
where minority populations are
surging.
Most dramatically, the plan
stretches a rural Western Maryland district now held by the
state’s senior Republican lawmaker nearly 200 miles from the border of West Virginia to the Capital
Beltway in Montgomery County to
pick up African American, Asian,
Hispanic and other reliably Democratic voters.
Across the state, the new lines
divide minorities among multiple
districts, preventing the creation
of a new, third congressional district dominated by minorities.
Maryland Republican leaders and
a grass-roots group that had unsuccessfully urged the creation of
a third majority-minority district
called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether
O’Malley (D) and Democrats racially gerrymandered Maryland’s
congressional map for their party’s gain.
redistrict continued on A10
M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
tripoli, libya —Former Libyan
C AROL M ORELLO
AND L UZ L AZO
The Washington region had
the lowest poverty rate of any
major metropolitan area in the
country during the past two
years, even though poverty is up
significantly and continues to
rise.
About 8.4 percent of the region’s residents lived in poverty in
2010, compared with 6.8 percent
before the recession began in
2007. Although the rate represents a steep increase, it is far
below the 15 percent national
figure and that of urban areas in
the West and the South, including
Fresno, Calif., and El Paso, where
more than 20 percent of people
are poor.
The region’s poverty rates have
been among the lowest in the
nation for many years. But although its rate has risen since the
recession, other places have
struggled more. Even the District,
where the poverty rate is a staggering 19 percent, falls midway
among other urban centers.
The Washington region is almost a full percentage point
ahead of the area around Honolulu, which had the next-lowest
rate in the analysis of poverty
levels released by the Census Bu-
BY
BY
MANU BRABO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Revolutionary fighters in Libya celebrate the capture of Sirte, the last bastion of resistance two months after the Gaddafi regime’s fall.
Obama points to the value of ‘collective action’
BY S COTT W ILSON
AND K AREN D E Y OUNG
Like the U.S. military manhunt
for Saddam Hussein, the search
for the fugitive dictator Moammar Gaddafi took seven months.
He finally popped up, like his
Iraqi counterpart, from an inglorious hiding place and is now
dead.
The similarities end there.
How President Obama helped
bring about the end of a longstanding American antagonist in
Libya captures in microcosm the
vast difference in the way he and
his predecessor, George W. Bush,
have employed diplomacy and
military power against their declared enemies.
Both approaches resulted in
the removal of longtime U.S. nemeses who had enjoyed a few years
in Washington’s favor.
But Bush’s invasion cost nearly
$1 trillion and more than 4,400
American lives, while Obama’s
more limited intervention highlighted a national security strategy that emphasizes global burden-sharing, and secretive tactics
and technologies whose legality
LIBYAN TV VIA REUTERS TV
Moammar Gaddafi, bloodied and dazed, is pulled from a truck by
rebel fighters in Sirte in an image taken from video footage. The
former Libyan leader died Thursday in rebel custody.
Deposed leader was
defiant to the end
In a digital age, images
can turn deceptive
Gaddafi became the first ruler killed
by his people in the revolts that
made up the Arab Spring.
Public distrust over media photos
has grown even as some coverage
serves to humanize the man. C1
Spotlight on Yemen, Syria
Editorial: The Obama administration
should offer steadfast help to Libya’s
new government. A24
Death resonates in two countries
where revolts still simmer. A13
has been questioned. The NATO
airstrikes on Gaddafi’s convoy
Thursday included a missile
launched from a U.S. drone aircraft.
“Without putting a single U.S.
service member on the ground,
we achieved our objectives,”
Obama said Thursday in a brief
Rose Garden appearance.
Obama’s technocratic approach to governing has served
him far better in foreign policy,
where facts, expert appraisal and
intelligence often trump ideology,
than it has in domestic politics. At
a time of severe economic uncertainty at home, the achievements
abroad, including the killing of
Osama bin Laden in May, have not
translated into political popularity.
Moreover, his foreign policy approach has made him critics on
the right, who say his one-of-thegang approach has diminished
America’s stature in the world;
and on the left, who view his
embrace of drone strikes as a violation of his pledge to restore the
rule of law to national security.
dictator Moammar Gaddafi was
killed in rebel custody on Thursday after being seized in a sewage
tunnel in his home town — the
final triumph for pro-democracy
fighters who have struggled for
eight months to take control of
the country.
Gaddafi’s death came on a day
of intense military activity in Sirte,
the last loyalist holdout in Libya,
where his supporters had fended
off better-armed revolutionaries
for weeks. Before his capture, an
American drone and French fighter jets fired on a large, disorganized convoy leaving the city that
he appears to have been in. It was
not clear whether the airstrikes hit
Gaddafi’s vehicles, NATO officials
said.
Gaddafi was shot in the head
during an exchange of gunfire
between his supporters and revolutionaries as he was being
whisked away from the tunnel in
a truck, according to Mahmoud
Jibril, the interim prime minister.
But cellphone videos played on
Arab-language
TV
stations
showed an already bloodied and
dazed Gaddafi being escorted to
the truck, raising questions about
exactly when he was hit. One of
Gaddafi’s sons, Mutassim, and his
army chief of staff were also
killed, officials said.
The taking of Sirte and Gaddafi’s death marked the climax of
a war that was backed by an
unprecedented NATO air camgaddafi continued on A16
libya continued on A14
Rubio’s story of family embellishes facts Lending a little organized
Senator’s parents got
to U.S. before Cuban
revolution, papers show
BY
M ANUEL R OIG- F RANZIA
During his rise to political
prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio
frequently repeated a compelling
version of his family’s history that
had special resonance in South
Florida. He was the “son of exiles,” he told audiences, Cuban
Americans forced off their beloved island after “a thug,” Fidel
Castro, took power.
But a review of documents —
including naturalization papers
and other official records — re-
veals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the
facts. The documents show that
Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for
permanent residence more than
21/2 years before Castro’s forces
overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New
Year’s Day 1959.
The supposed flight of Rubio’s
parents has been at the core of the
young senator’s political identity,
both before and after his stunning tea-party-propelled victory
in last year’s Senate election.
Rubio — now considered a prospective 2012 Republican vice
presidential candidate and a possible future presidential contendrubio continued on A2
labor to Occupy Wall Street
BY
YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS
“I’m going off the oral history
of my family,” said Sen. Marco
Rubio, a Florida Republican.
P ETER W ALLSTEN
The Occupy Wall Street protests that began as a nebulous mix
of social and economic grievances
are becoming more politically organized — with help from some of
the country’s largest labor unions.
Labor groups are mobilizing to
provide office space, meeting
rooms, photocopying services, legal help, food and other necessities to the protesters. The support
is lending some institutional heft
to a movement that has prided
itself on its freewheeling, noninstitutional character.
And in return, Occupy activists
are pitching in to help unions
ratchet up action against several
New York firms involved in labor
disputes with workers.
In one case, Occupy activists
have helped union workers disrupt the rarified environs of Sotheby’s art auction house, which is
engaged in a contract dispute with
about 40 of its art handlers.
A joint demonstration of Occupy activists and telephone workers is planned for Friday to target
Verizon, and Occupy organizers
say more unions are reaching out
occupy continued on A11
Staying occupied in D.C.
On a rainy night in McPherson
Square, Occupy D.C. protesters eat,
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Clinton warns Pakistan
Rex the stubborn
In Islamabad, the secretary of
state tells officials there will
be a “very big price” if they
don’t act to stop militants. A7
“The issue with Grossman is
not his throwing arm, but his
mule head. You can hear the
hint of obstinacy in his words
when he discusses his
benching.” Sally Jenkins, D1
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A high cost in Greece
A season of grief
Private bond investors are
told they would have to take
losses of at least 50 percent
to stabilize the country. A18
Wizards Coach Flip Saunders
used the summer to deal with
his mother’s death. D1
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All U.S. troops
to leave Iraq
by end of year
OBAMA DECISION DRAWS GOP REBUKE
Withdrawal could pose security issue for Baghdad
BY S COTT W ILSON
AND K AREN D E Y OUNG
THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS
A pro-democracy fighter weeps as he attends Friday prayers at a mosque in Sirte, a day after Moammar Gaddafi was captured and killed.
Groups seek probe of Gaddafi’s death
Libyans line up to see
body amid skepticism
about how he was killed
BY
M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
tripoli, libya — International
human rights groups called Friday for an investigation into the
death of former Libyan leader
Moammar Gaddafi as gory new
videos showed him being spat at
and punched by revolutionaries
and as skepticism mounted about
official claims that he was shot in
crossfire after being captured.
The new cellphone videos cast a
shadow over the revolutionaries
even as they were celebrating the
end of their eight-month struggle
to wrest control of the country.
NATO had backed the rebels in the
name of shielding pro-democracy
civilians from Gaddafi’s brutality.
“The government version certainly does not fit with the reality
we have seen on the ground,” said
Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights
Watch, who has been investigat-
BY
S ANDHYA S OMASHEKHAR
waverly, tenn. — Herman Cain
scanned his overwhelmingly
white tea party audience,
jammed into a hall at a rural
fairgrounds, and offered his as-
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Libyans in Misurata wait to see Gaddafi’s body. It was being kept in a meat locker at a shopping center.
ing the capture of Gaddafi in his
home town of Sirte. Amnesty International warned that the killing could be a war crime.
The firestorm over Gaddafi’s
death occurred as NATO announced that its military mission
would end Oct. 31.
“I’m very proud of what we have
achieved, together with our part-
ners,” Secretary General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels.
But in Libya, a dead Gaddafi
was proving almost as troublesome as a live one for the interim
government.
Senior officials met into the
night to consider the demands for
libya continued on A8
sessment.
“I see 3,000 patriots here tonight,” he boomed, the crowd
leaping to its feet. “I don’t see any
racists!”
Cain relishes the opportunity
to provoke as a black conservative. The Republican presidential
hopeful often volunteers in his
speeches that he is not angry at
the country that enslaved his
great-grandparents. He proclaims that he “left the Democrat
plantation a long time ago.” He
quips that he is not the GOP’s
“flavor of the week” but a triedand-true flavor, “black walnut.”
Four years after Barack Obama
campaigned for president, steering clear of provocative statements about race, Cain has floated to the top of presidential polls
doing just the opposite. He jokes
about race with irreverence. And
he aims his ire not at whites but at
blacks he believes have become
irrationally attached to the Democratic Party.
Md. detective can uncover
lies without saying a word
Norwood trial near,
Lululemon slaying
tested legendary style
BY
D AN M ORSE
For five days, the detective let
Brittany Norwood say whatever
she wanted. Whether it was true
didn’t really matter.
“There’s a saying,” the 61-yearold investigator explained in
court in September. “ ‘Lie to me,
please, lie to me.’ Sometimes, a
provable lie is just as good as the
truth.”
Montgomery County prosecutors say the 29-year-old Norwood
told one lie after another to De-
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iraq continued on A9
GOP rivals united
in opposition to move
Presidential candidates leap at
opportunity to criticize Obama over
withdrawal plan. A9
Electric carmaker balks
at Solyndra comparison
Growing number let down
by an opaque government
To some, the Transitional National
Council’s approach to leadership is
reminiscent of Gaddafi’s. A8
Oil companies edge back
to post-Gaddafi Libya
His influence waned, but the dictator
helped change the industry. A8
Cain plays the race card and plays it his way
Conservative derides
other blacks’ devotion
to Democratic Party
President Obama will withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by
the end of the year, ending a long
war that deeply divided the country over its origins and the American lives it consumed.
In a Friday morning video conference, Obama and Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed
to a complete U.S. military departure that will fulfill a promise
important to Obama’s reelection
effort. The decision drew sharp
criticism from his Republican rivals, as well as expressions of
relieved support from those who
believe it is time for the United
States to conclude a war Obama
once called “dumb.”
For months, U.S. and Iraqi officials had been negotiating the
terms of an accord that would
have kept several thousand U.S.
troops in Iraq for special operations and training beyond the
year-end deadline set by the
George W. Bush administration.
But Obama and Maliki, who
have never developed much personal chemistry, failed to reach
agreement on the legal status of
U.S. troops who would stay in Iraq
beyond Dec. 31. As a result, only a
contingent of fewer than 200 Ma-
rines assigned to help protect the
large U.S. Embassy compound in
Baghdad will remain, along with
a small number of other personnel to provide training related to
new military sales and other
tasks.
“The rest of our troops in Iraq
will come home,” Obama said
Friday at the White House, adding that they will “be home for the
holidays.”
“After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” he
said.
The negotiations foundered
over the U.S. demand that American troops receive legal immunity
for their actions, a request Maliki
was ultimately unable to sell to
the anti-U.S. elements of his governing coalition after a war that
many Iraqis believe has permanently altered their country for
the worse.
The departure of U.S. forces
could pose security problems for
the Iraqi government, still beset
by sectarian and ethnic divisions.
tective Jim Drewry, fabrications
that go to the heart of a dramatic
case they are set to present to
jurors next week. Norwood, they
say, hacked and pummeled a coworker to death inside the Lululemon Athletica yoga store in
downtown Bethesda in March.
She tried to cover her tracks, they
say, by cutting herself, tying herself up, lying down in a pool of
blood on a restroom floor, waiting
for police to arrive and saying it
was all the work of two masked
men.
She eventually encountered
Drewry, heading up his final case
after two decades with Montgomery’s homicide unit. His style
evolved over time from confrondetective continued on A12
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His overt references to race
come in a political landscape that
has changed dramatically since
Obama became the nation’s first
black president. Cain now ranks
at the top of several GOP polls,
cain continued on A4
GOP candidates’ new
battleground: Tax policy
Some tax code overhaul proposals,
such as a flat tax, carry major risks in
an electoral season. A2
Fisker, backed by
$529 million U.S. loan,
has missed early goals
BY C AROL D . L EONNIG
AND J OE S TEPHENS
An electric car company backed
by more than a half-billion dollars
in Department of Energy loan
guarantees has missed early manufacturing goals and has gradually pushed back plans for U.S. production and the creation of thousands of jobs.
This week, Fisker delayed until
2013 the production of the moderately priced family car it plans to
build in Delaware. It also learned
that its Finnish-produced luxury
model, the $96,000 Karma, which
is two years late in reaching U.S.
markets, failed to meet a promised
energy-efficiency standard.
With the demise of Solyndra, a
solar company that also won a
half-billion-dollar loan from a
program to spur clean-energy
technologies, the Energy Department’s loan guarantees have come
under intense scrutiny, and the
Obama administration has been
under fire for making risky loans
to unproven ventures. The administration has stood behind the
stimulus-based lending, saying
that risk is inherent in backing
emerging technologies.
Fisker was among the big winners in the administration’s effort
for broader development of electric vehicles, and company officials said their problems bear no
resemblance to those of Solyndra,
which filed for bankruptcy protection in September.
“Without any excuses, yes, we
did have some delays,” company
co-founder Henrik Fisker said
during a stop in the District this
week to show off his company’s
sleek new Karma. “But this is completely different. You can’t compare at all.”
The Energy Department confirmed this week that it has eased
expectations after conditionally
approving the loan to Fisker and
has made allowances for scaling
back projections in the final loan
agreement. But the agency declined to make public those adjusted terms, including projected
car sales volume or milestones the
company must meet in connecfisker continued on A5
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Emptying her wallet
Millionaire Adrienne Arsht
has returned to
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And there’s nothing shy
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Humor’s late-bloomer
Will Ferrell’s road to the
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