World / Nation Briefs March 11, 2012
<p>Reverend Lachlan Cameron, a priest at the St. Rose of Lima, Roman Catholic Church, in Massapequa, N.Y. marches with the NY Metro Pipe Band at the Rockland County Feis, held at the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area in Stony Point, NY.</p>
Suspect arrested day after attack
SEATTLE - Police in Washington state have arrested a 34-year-old man accused of stabbing a judge and shooting a sheriff's deputy in a courthouse struggle, ending a manhunt that spanned two counties.
Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott said Steven Daniel Kravetz was taken into custody without incident Saturday afternoon by authorities in Olympia. He did not have further details.
Scott identified Kravetz earlier in the day as the lone assailant in Friday's courthouse attack in Montesano, Wash., that wounded a judge and a deputy. Investigators believe he called his mother for a ride out of the area after the attack.
Spying on Muslims needed to stop terror
CHICAGO - The tip was a surprise when it arrived on the desk of Ted Wasky. Had it not come, the former FBI agent fears five Muslim men in northwest Ohio might have pulled off a plot to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The source of the tip? A fellow group of Muslims living in Toledo.
"They were talking about Jihad and wanting to defend their ... brothers in the Middle East against American aggression," Wasky said. "The community understood the freedoms they enjoyed in the U.S., were concerned, and they reported it to the joint task force."
The tipsters trusted the police enough to help the FBI infiltrate the group with an informant, and Wasky said that relationship was the "best thing that ever happened" to the local joint terrorism task force when he was the special agent in charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
Syrian forces launch assault on rebel area
BEIRUT - Syria launched a long-anticipated assault to crush the opposition in the rebellious north on Saturday, bombarding its main city with tank shells from all sides and clashing with rebel fighters struggling to hold back an invasion.
President Bashar Assad rejected any immediate negotiations with the opposition, striking a further blow to already staggering international efforts for talks to end to the conflict.
- The Associated Press