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Man charged with
raping, killing N.C. girl
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A
man charged with raping and kill-
ing a 5-year-old North Carolina
girl was expected in court Friday,
a day after authorities revealed
what they believed happened to
her in her final days.
Authorities said Thursday that
Shaniya Davis was sexually as-
saulted and asphyxiated before
her body was dumped off a rural
road. Mario McNeill is charged
with first-degree murder and
first-degree rape of a child, Fay-
etteville Police Chief Tom Ber-
gamine told reporters at a news
conference.
Authorities said McNeill ad-
mitted taking the girl, but Berga-
mine did not say whether McNeill
admitted to the child's death.
Astronauts get extra
time at space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --
The astronauts aboard the shut-
tle-station complex are getting
some extra moving time.
Space shuttle Atlantis has been
declared free of any worrisome
launch damage. That means the
crewmen won't need to conduct
another detailed inspection of
theirshipuntilaftertheyleavethe
International Space Station. They
filled the extra time Friday by
moving supplies to the outpost.
S.C. panel to consider
taking up impeachment
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South
Carolina lawmakers said they'll
formally consider the possible
impeachment of Gov. Mark San-
ford for the first time next week.
House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Jim Harrison said
he will gather a seven-member
panel Tuesday to discuss whether
to begin proceedings that ulti-
mately could remove the Repub-
lican governor.
Harrison said the panel will
begin talking about whether San-
ford was neglectful when he left
the state for five days in June
without telling staff where he
was going. When he returned, the
governor confessed he had been
in Argentina to see his lover.
`Admonish' is named
2009 Word of the Year
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. --
When the U.S. House admonished
Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You
lie!" at President Barack Obama
during a health care speech to
Congress, it not only lit up talk
show lines, but also sent many
people scurrying to the Internet
in search of a definition.
Admonish, a verb dating to the
14th-century meaning "to ex-
press warning or disapproval in a
gentle, earnest or solicitous man-
ner," generated enough curiosity
to crown it Merriam-Webster's
Word of the Year for 2009.
It beat out several other final-
ists that emerged from what the
dictionary publisher's editor at
large, Peter Sokolowski, called
the "intersection of news and
vocabulary." Runners-up an-
nounced Thursday included inau-
gurate, pandemic, furlough and
rogue -- the latter tied to Sarah
Palin and the sole carryover from
the 2008 list.
From wire services
BY MICHAEL GORMLEY
The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Former New
York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
encouraged by many Republi-
cans to run for governor in 2010,
is instead leaning toward a run
for U.S. Senate, according to two
party advisers.
"From staff, we have been
hearing that he has been indicat-
ing quietly and privately recently
that governor might not be the
best fit for him now," one advis-
er said Thursday. "But the U.S.
Senate could be a perfect fit for
him."
The advisers spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because they
weren't authorized to speak for
the state Republican Party or
Giuliani.
The New York Times reported
Thursday that Giuliani wouldn't
run for governor after months of
considering it.
Giuliani spokeswoman Maria
Comella disputed that report,
saying he told her Thursday that
he hadn't made a decision.
"When he comes to that deci-
sion he'll let everyone know," Co-
mella said.
BY HERBERT A. SAMPLE
The Associated Press
HONOLULU -- A former B-2 stealth bomb-
er engineer accused of spying for China suf-
fers from narcissistic personality disorder,
expert witnesses for the prosecution and the
defense testified in federal court Thursday.
But the forensic psychologists who evaluat-
ed Noshir Gowadia of Maui disagreed during
the hearing over whether he is competent to
stand trial and assist in his defense.
Gowadia, who worked for years on highly
classified military systems, has been held
without bail since his 2005 arrest on suspi-
cion of selling cruise missile secrets. He has
pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of conspiracy,
money-laundering and falsifying tax returns.
The charges against Gowadia also assert
that he offered to sell classified stealth tech-
nology to foreign business people in Israel,
Germany and Switzerland.
With Gowadia seated in white prison over-
alls alongside his attorneys, prosecution wit-
ness Lisa Hope testified Thursday that she
and a postdoctoral psychology intern evalu-
ated the defendant at a federal prison in Los
Angeles last spring.
Hope, a clinical and forensic psycholo-
gist for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang that
Gowadia has a high IQ, appears very knowl-
edgeable about export, espionage and secrecy
laws, and has been lauded for his previous
work on a range of military projects.
Gowadia also displayed a "grandiose sense
of self," believes he is better than others and
showed no signs of faking his psychological
problems, Hope testified.
Gowadia made several claims that on their
surface seemed fantastical but also contained
grains of truth, Hope stated. Among them,
she said, was that his work on anti-missile
technology saved thousands of U.S. lives in
Iraq and that his mind works faster than a
computer.
While Gowadia's contentions often are sub-
stantial exaggerations, they don't rise to the
level of delusions, Hope testified. The defen-
dant may be a difficult client for his lawyers,
but he doesn't suffer from a mental defect
or illness that marks him as incompetent to
stand trial, she added.
Richard Rogers, a forensic psychology
professor at the University of North Texas
who appeared for the defense, agreed that
Gowadia suffers from narcissistic personality
disorder.
But Rogers, who designed one of several
tests that psychologists use in determining
the competency of criminal defendants, testi-
fied that Gowadia's condition is indeed a men-
tal defect.
Accused spy's mind-set debated
Competency hearing held for ex-stealth bomber engineer
AP
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani urged supporters to vote for Republican candidate for New Jersey
governor Chris Christie, left, in West Milford, N.J., last month. A spokeswoman for Giuliani says he has
not decided whether he'll run for governor or the U.S. Senate in 2010.
Is Giuliani eyeing a Senate run in 2010?
Chicago arrests uncover new terror strategy
BY PETER SLEVIN AND SPENCER S. HSU
The Washington Post
CHICAGO -- David C. Headley, a peripa-
tetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential
terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill
two Danish journalists, was not always David
C. Headley.
Until 2006, he was Daood Gilani, but he
told investigators he had changed his name to
raise less suspicion when he traveled abroad.
He lived anonymously in an apartment leased
in the name of a dead person. He changed e-
mail accounts often and spoke in code on the
telephone.
The strategy worked less than perfectly,
according to the FBI, which arrested him on
terrorism charges last month at O'Hare In-
ternational Airport on the first leg of a trip to
Pakistan. In his luggage were digital videos
he took of a Danish newspaper office and a
book titled "How to Pray Like a Jew."
Headley and Chicago businessman Tahaw-
wur Hussain Rana are suspected Islamist
militants charged not with targeting the
United States, but with staging foreign opera-
tions from relative anonymity on American
soil. Their profile is a fresh one, and it is being
viewed by U.S. authorities with alarm.
The case "stands our counterterrorism ap-
proach on its head," said Rep. Jane Harman,
D-Calif., chairman of a Homeland Security
subcommittee on intelligence. "We've been
looking for people who want to attack us,
whether foreign or U.S. persons, in the United
States. We haven't really been looking at U.S.
persons who want to attack other countries."
Indian police say they think Headley scout-
ed Mumbai targets, including a cafe and two
upscale hotels that drew fire in the coordi-
nated attack, which left 165 people dead. He
also allegedly posed as a Jew to visit Chabad
House, the site of an Orthodox Jewish center
also targeted that day.
The investigation of Headley and Rana cap-
tured telephone conversations and e-mails
with Pakistani militants, according to court
documents in Chicago. Among Headley's
associates was Ilyas Kashmiri, a leader of
Harkat-e-Jihad-e-Islami.
Attorneys for Headley and Rana declined to
discuss recent developments or FBI reports
that Headley is now cooperating with U.S.
authorities. Lawyer Patrick Blegen has told
reporters that Rana, a Canadian citizen born
in Pakistan, is not guilty and looks forward to
answering the charges in court.

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