| Ex-Gitmo prisoners acquitted back home in Morocco
RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Five Moroccans previously held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay were acquitted of terrorism-related charges in Morocco on Friday, the state news agency reported. The state MAP news agency said the five suspects had been charged with belonging to a criminal organization, funding a criminal group and forging passports -- common charges in Morocco against suspects believed to have been involved in Islamic terrorism. The five also were charged with refusing to denounce crimes against state security. No other details about the trial or the charges were immediately available. The North African kingdom is a staunch ally of the United States in its war against terrorism, having been the target of suicide bombings in its commercial capital, Casablanca, in 2003 that killed 45, including 12 bombers.
Weather makes solving this crime a walk in the snow
It didn't take long for officers to identify a suspect in the burglary of a government building Thursday, according to a police report. All they had to do was follow a set of footprints in the 8-inch-deep snow leading from the crime scene to the spot where they ended, the report says. There, in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex, they found Mark Mendoza, 31, sweeping snow off his truck, according to the report. ``Mr. Mendoza stated that he had not done anything wrong before we started to ask any questions,'' Officer Jimmy Madison wrote in the report. Officers first responded to a burglar alarm at the Bureau of Land Management building, 1474 Rodeo Road, and found a broken window on the building's south side and another on the west side, the report says.
Police investigate another sex attack
A 24-year-old woman is the latest victim to join the growing number of women to be sexually assaulted in Brisbane. Police say the victim was walking home along Blakeney Street in the inner-city suburb of Highgate Hill shortly before midnight when she was grabbed by a teenager and pushed to the ground and assaulted. Her screams scared her attacker off. The offender is described as being about 15 to 17-years-old. Police are trying to stem the flow of assaults on the city's northside through Operation Echo Shine. So far there have been 38 confirmed attacks on women in the area, despite ongoing police warnings about personal safety. Griffith University criminologist Stephen Smallbone said last week those responsible are being driven by the notoriety of their crimes or their sexual fantasies and warned the attacks may escalate.
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