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Thursday. October 10, 2002
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THE BATTALkj
Hitchhiking prostitute
executed for murder
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STARKE, Fla. (AP) —
Aileen Wuomos, a hitchhiking
prostitute who killed six men
along Florida’s highways more
than a decade ago, was executed
by injection Wednesday after
dropping her appeals and firing
her lawyers.
Wuornos, 46, became the
10th woman executed in the
United States since capital pun
ishment resumed in 1977.
Oklahoma has put three women
to death; Florida and Texas have
executed two each.
In her final statement, she
referred to Jesus and a block
buster movie.
“I’d just like to say I’m sailing
with the Rock and I’ll be back
like ‘Independence Day’ with
Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big
mother ship and all. I’ll be back,”
Wuomos said.
The execution had been
delayed while experts evaluated
her mental health. Gov. Jeb Bush
lifted his stay last week after
three psychiatrists concluded
Wuomos was competent to
choose execution. t
Wuomos shot to death at least
six middle-aged men along
Florida highways in 1989 and
1990. Her story has been por
trayed in two movies, three books
and an opera.
She initially said the killings
were in self-defense after she was
assaulted by customers who
picked her up. But she later said
the self-defense claim was a lie
and she intended to rob and kill
the men.
At a hearing in July, Wuomos
told a judge she was “sick of
hearing this ‘she’s crazy’ stuff.
I’m competent, sane and I’m
telling the truth.” She also told
the state Supreme Court she
would kill again.
Wuomos’ death warrant was
for her first victim. Richard
Mallory, an electronics shop
owner. She later pleaded no con
test to five other murders.
She spent Tuesday night visit
ing with a childhood friend.
Dawn Botkins, who said
Wuomos was in a good mood,
laughing a lot and never crying.
“She was looking forward to
being home with God and get
ting off this Earth,” Botkins said.
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Head of Islamic charity charged wit
using donations to fund bin-Laden
CHICAGO (AP) — The leader of an Islamic
charity was indicted Wednesday on charges of
funneling donations to Osama bin Laden’s terror
ist network, with Attorney General John Ashcroft
vowing, “We will find the sources of terrorist
blood money.”
Enaam M. Arnaout, 40, head
of the Benevolence International
Foundation, has been in federal
custody since April.
The indictment said a crimi
nal enterprise that existed for at
least a decade used charitable
contributions from innocent
Muslims, non-Muslims and cor
porations to support bin Laden’s
al-Qaida network, Chechen
rebels fighting the Russian army
and armed violence in Bosnia.
“It is sinister to prey on good hearts to fund the
works of evil,” Ashcroft said in announcing the
charges in Chicago.
Neither Ashcroft nor U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald would specify how much money went
to terrorists.
Ashcroft said documents found in the organi
zation’s office in Bosnia have provided “chill
ing” evidence tying Arnaout directly to bin Laden
and al-Qaida. He said the papers summarize the
1988 meeting at which the terror network was
It is sinister to prey on
good hearts to fund the
works of evil
— John Ashcroft
Attorney general
founded, and include a text of the networksoas
of allegiance.
Arnaout, who lives in the Chicago suburb
Justice, was charged with racketeeringconspiraty
conspiracy to provide material support to tera
ists, conspiracy to launder money, money laundei
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2002 GPSD fair in the MSC Flag Room from
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