JUDGE BLOCKS TRANSFER OF AMERICAN TO IRAQUIS
"A U.S. District Court judge temporarily blocked the federal government from transferring an American citizen to the custody of the Iraqi government, noting Friday that the move could place the prisoner at risk of torture and indefinite confinement."
(WASHINGTON POST)

SOCIETY MOBILE-LA HABANA ANNUAL MEETING SET
The Society Mobile La Habana's annual meeting is set for Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at the AmSouth Bank Building, 31st Floor, 31 North Royal Street. Join them at 5:30 p.m. for refreshments or cut to the chase and attend just the meeting at 6:15 p.m.
They will elect board members and officers, present the Mobile Public Library with money for Cuba materials and get you up-to-date on the Society's activities and issues. For more information call the Society's President Mike Feore at 251-342-1641. Ya'll come! Si?

HUNTING AMMARI SAIFI
"The convoy, led by a wanted Islamic militant named Ammari Saifi, had just slipped from Mali into northern Niger, where the desert rolls out into an immense, flat pan of gravelly sand. Saifi, who has been called the 'bin Laden of the Sahara,' was traveling with about 50 jihadists, some from Algeria, the rest from nearby African countries such as Mauritania and Nigeria."
(VILLAGE VOICE)

MRS. KING IS DEAD
Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by the assassination of her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)