Exclusive: The capture of Gaddafi's son (Reuters)

OBARI, Libya (Reuters) ? The chic black sweater and jeans were gone. So too the combat khaki T-shirt of his televised last stand in Tripoli. Designer stubble had become bushy black beard after months on the run.

But the rimless glasses, framing those piercing eyes above that straight fine nose, gave him away despite the flowing nomad robes held close across his face.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, doctor of the London School of Economics, one-time reformer turned scourge of the rebels against his dictator father, was now a prisoner, bundled aboard an old Libyan air force transport plane near the oil-drilling outpost of Obari, deep in the Sahara desert.

The interim government's spokesman billed it as the "final act of the Libyan drama." But there would be no closing soliloquy from the lead player, scion of the dynasty that Muammar Gaddafi, self-styled "king of kings," had once hoped might rule Africa.

A Reuters reporter aboard the flight approached the 39-year-old prisoner as he huddled on a bench at the rear of the growling, Soviet-era Antonov. The man who held court to the world's media in the early months of the Arab Spring was now on a 90-minute flight bound for the town of Zintan near Tripoli. He sat frowning, silent and seemingly lost in thought for part of the way, nursing his right hand, bandaged around the thumb and two fingers. At other times he chatted calmly with his captors and even posed for a picture.

IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

Gaddafi's run had come to an end just a few hours earlier, at dead of night on a desert track, as he and a handful of trusted companions tried to thread their way through patrols of former rebel fighters intent on blocking their escape over the border.

"At the beginning he was very scared. He thought we would kill him," said Ahmed Ammar, one of the 15 fighters who captured Gaddafi. The fighters, from Zintan's Khaled bin al-Waleed Brigade, intercepted the fugitives' two 4x4 vehicles 40 miles out in the desert. "But we talked to him in a friendly way and made him more relaxed and we said, 'We won't hurt you'."

The capture of Saif al-Islam is the latest dramatic chapter in the series of revolts that have swept the Arab world. The first uprising toppled the Ben Ali government in Tunisia early this year. The upheaval spread to Egypt, forcing out longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak in February; swept Libya, where the capital Tripoli fell to rebels this summer and Muammar Gaddafi died after being beaten and abused by captors last month; and is now threatening the Assad family's four-decade grip on Syria.

Saif al-Islam was the smiling face of the Muammar Gaddafi's power structure. He won personal credibility at the highest echelons of international society, especially in London, where he helped tidy up the reputation of Libya via a personal charitable foundation. He threw that reputation away in the uprising, emerging as one of the hardest of hard-liners against the rebels.

This account of his capture and his final month on the run is based on interviews with the younger Gaddafi's captors and the prisoner himself. The scenes of his flight into captivity were witnessed by the Reuters reporter and a Reuters cameraman and photographer who also were aboard the plane.

FACING DEATH PENALTY

Caught exactly a month after his father met a violent end, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is wanted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity - specifically for allegedly ordering the killing of unarmed protesters last spring. Libya's interim leaders want him to stand trial at home and say they won't extradite him; the justice minister said he faces the death penalty.

His attempt to flee began October 19, under NATO fire from the tribal bastion of Bani Walid, 100 miles from the capital. Ammar and his fellow fighters said they believed he had been hiding out since then in the desolate tracts of the mountainous Brak al-Shati region.

Aides who were captured at Bani Walid said Saif al-Islam's convoy had been hit by a NATO air strike in a place nearby called Wadi Zamzam - 'Holy Water River.' Since then, there had been speculation that nomadic tribesmen once lionized by his father might have been working to spirit him across Libya's southern borders - perhaps, like his surviving brothers, sister and mother, into Niger or Algeria.

He did not get that far. Obari is a good 200 miles from either. But his captors believe he was headed for Niger, once a beneficiary of Muammar Gaddafi's oil-fueled largesse, which has granted asylum to Saif al-Islam's brother Saadi.

WHO ARE YOU?'

Ammar said his unit, scouring the desert for weeks, received a tip-off that a small group of Gaddafi loyalists - they did not know who - would be heading on a certain route toward Obari. Lying in wait, they spotted two all-terrain vehicles grinding through the darkness.

"We fired in the air and into the ground in front of them," Ammar said. The small convoy pulled up, perhaps hoping to brazen it out.

"Who are you?" Adeljwani Ali Ahmed, the leader of the squad, demanded to know of the man he took to be the main passenger in the group.

"Abdelsalam," came the reply.

It's a common enough name, though it means "servant of peace" in Arabic; Saif al-Islam's real name means "Sword of Islam."

Squad leader Ahmed, sizing the man up, took Ammar aside and whispered: "I think that's Saif."

Turning back to the car, a Toyota Landcruiser of a type favored on these rugged desert tracks, Ammar said: "I know who you are. I know you."

CASH AND KALASHNIKOVS

The game was up. The militiamen retrieved several Kalashnikov rifles, a hand grenade and, one of the Zintani fighters said, some $4,000 in cash from the vehicles. It was a tiny haul from a man whose father commanded one of the best-equipped armies in Africa and who is suspected by many of holding the keys - in his head - to billions stolen from the Libyan state and stashed in secret bank accounts abroad.

"He didn't say anything," Ammar said. "He was very scared and then eventually he asked where we are from, and we said we are Libyans. He asked from which city and we said Zintan."

Zintan sits far from the spot of Gaddafi's capture in the Western, or Nafusa, Mountains, just a couple of hours drive south of the capital. The people of Zintan put together an effective militia in the uprising, and they are seeking to parlay their military prowess into political clout as new leaders in Tripoli try to form a government. At Obari, a fly-speck of a place dominated by the oil operations of a Spanish company, Zintan fighters have extended their writ since the war deep into traditionally pro-Gaddafi country peopled by Tuaregs, nomadic tribes who recognize no borders.

The Zintanis are also a force in the capital. On Saturday morning, the Antonov flew in to Obari from Tripoli, bearing the new tricolour flag of "Free Libya" - and piloted by a former air force colonel turned Zintan rebel. Just a few minutes after it landed, the purpose of the flight became clear.

FLIGHT TO CAPTIVITY

Five prisoners, escorted by about 10 fighters in an array of desert camouflage, piled aboard, ranging themselves on benches along the sides of the spartan hold of the Antonov An-32, which is designed to carry four dozen paratroopers.

Two of the men were handcuffed together. A third had his arms cuffed in front of him. A dozen or so bulky black bags were carried in, and some thin mattresses - the scant belongings of the prisoners, their captors said.

All wore casual, modern dress - with the exception of Saif al-Islam.

His brown robe, turban and face scarf, open sandals on his feet, were typical of the Tuaregs of the region. The choice of costume offered concealment for a man more commonly seen in sharp suits and smart casual wear, and a visual echo of his late father's penchant for dressing up.

As they shuffled on the benches, rifle butts scraping on the metal floor, one of the guards said: "He is afraid now."

The pilot, though, insisted that he had had a paternal word with the 39-year-old captive and put him at ease before he was brought on board.

LIKE A SMALL CHILD'

"I spoke to him like he was a small child," said Abdullah al-Mehdi, a diminutive, heavily moustachioed ball of energy in a green jumpsuit. His ambition - typical of Zintanis in these anarchic days in Libya - is to start up a whole new air force. "I told him he would not be beaten and he wouldn't be hurt and I gave my word," said al-Mehdi.

He and the other two crewmen in the cockpit chain-smoked their way through the flight, navigating over the barren wastes the old-fashioned way, on analog instruments, with just occasional help from a new GPS device clamped awkwardly to the windshield.

The howl of the propellers was numbing, and there was little conversation during the flight. Saif al-Islam by turns stared ahead or turned back to crane his neck out at the land he once was in line to rule. Every so often, holding his scarf across his mouth Tuareg-fashion, he would say a few words to a guard.

The calm was in stark contrast to the frenzy that greeted the capture of Muammar Gaddafi on October 20 as he tried to flee the siege of his hometown of Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast. Fighters from the long embattled city of Misrata filmed themselves on cellphones hammering the fallen leader, howling for revenge and inflicting a series of indignities on him before his body was displayed to crowds of sightseers for several days.

SURROUNDED

The reporter caught Saif al-Islam's eye a few times, but on each occasion he looked away. At one point he asked for water, and a bottle from the journalist's pack was passed up to him. The other prisoners, too, did not want to speak.

After the plane bumped down on the tarmac in the mountains at Zintan, it was surrounded within minutes by hundreds of people - some cheering, some clearly angry, many shouting the rebels' Islamic battle cry, "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest.)

Some held up cellphones to the few windows in the cargo hold, hoping to catch a snap of the most wanted man in Libya. At one point others were rattling the catches of the doors, intent it seemed on storming inside.

While his companions, clearly nervous, huddled together, Saif al-Islam seemed calm. He sat back and waited. The plane rocked gently as crowds clambered over the wings. The prisoners talked a little to each other and the guards.

Asked about the Hague court's statement that he was in touch through intermediaries about turning himself in to the international judges - who cannot impose the death penalty - he seemed to take offence: "It's all lies. I've never been in touch with them."

After more than an hour, the fighters decided they could get the other four captives off. They were helped out of the front door. Gaddafi remained where he was, on his own at the back, silent and aloof.

AN INJURED HAND

A further hour went by, the crowds still idling on the runway. The guards suggested it was time for the journalists to leave.

Moving back to speak to the solitary Gaddafi, the reporter asked, in English: "Are you OK?"

"Yes," he replied, looking up.

The reporter pointed to his injured hand. He said simply: "Air force, air force."

"NATO?"

"Yes. One month ago."

The reporter moved past him to the aircraft steps. Gaddafi looked up and, without a word, briefly took her hand.

Later, television footage showed him being helped off the plane as people among the crowd on the tarmac tried to slap him. His captors shoved him into a car and sped off for a hiding place somewhere in town.

(Additional reporting by Mahmoud al-Farjani in Obari and Oliver Holmes in Zintan; Writing by Alastair Macdonald in Tripoli)

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IOF Regionals - 1st Latin America Osteoporosis Meeting to take place in S?o Paulo, Brazil

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International Osteoporosis Foundation

Focus on latest advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis; to showcase regional research

Physicians across a broad range of medical fields, clinical researchers and bone experts from throughout Latin America will meet in So Paulo, Brazil from May 24-27, 2012 for the region's leading bone event the IOF Regionals - 1st Latin America Osteoporosis Meeting.

Complete information is available on http:// www.iofbonehealth.org/brazil-2012.

A comprehensive and clinically-focused programme will focus on the latest advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, with special sessions devoted to topics of specific relevance to the region.

The Speaker presentations and Meet-the-Expert sessions will be held in Portuguese, Spanish or English, with English sessions simultaneously interpreted into Portuguese and Spanish.

The Meeting is organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) in partnership with Brazil's major medical and research societies in the bone health arena:

  • Sociedad Brasilea de Densitometra Clnica (SBDens)
  • Sociedad Brasilea de Osteoporosis (SOBRAO)
  • Sociedad Brasilea para el Estudio del Metabolismo seo y Mineral (SOBEMOM)

Abstracts are invited in all three languages (English, Portuguese or Spanish). Abstract deadline is December 16, 2011. All accepted abstracts will be published in Archives of Osteoporosis. Abstracts submitted in English will also be published in a supplement issue of Osteoporosis International.

IOF will offer five Young Investigator Awards of USD 1'000 each, awarded to the best abstracts by researchers under the age of 40 at the time of the Meeting.

Early bird registration closes March 15, 2012.

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ABOUT IOF

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is a nongovernmental umbrella organization dedicated to the worldwide fight against osteoporosis, the disease known as "the silent epidemic". IOF's members committees of scientific researchers, patient, medical and research societies and industry representatives from around the world share a common vision of a world without osteoporotic fractures. IOF now represents 198 societies in 93 locations, including 30 societies in Latin America. http://www.iofbonehealth.org

Spanish translation available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/latinoamerica/noticias/detail.html?newsID=491

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International Osteoporosis Foundation

Focus on latest advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis; to showcase regional research

Physicians across a broad range of medical fields, clinical researchers and bone experts from throughout Latin America will meet in So Paulo, Brazil from May 24-27, 2012 for the region's leading bone event the IOF Regionals - 1st Latin America Osteoporosis Meeting.

Complete information is available on http:// www.iofbonehealth.org/brazil-2012.

A comprehensive and clinically-focused programme will focus on the latest advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, with special sessions devoted to topics of specific relevance to the region.

The Speaker presentations and Meet-the-Expert sessions will be held in Portuguese, Spanish or English, with English sessions simultaneously interpreted into Portuguese and Spanish.

The Meeting is organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) in partnership with Brazil's major medical and research societies in the bone health arena:

  • Sociedad Brasilea de Densitometra Clnica (SBDens)
  • Sociedad Brasilea de Osteoporosis (SOBRAO)
  • Sociedad Brasilea para el Estudio del Metabolismo seo y Mineral (SOBEMOM)

Abstracts are invited in all three languages (English, Portuguese or Spanish). Abstract deadline is December 16, 2011. All accepted abstracts will be published in Archives of Osteoporosis. Abstracts submitted in English will also be published in a supplement issue of Osteoporosis International.

IOF will offer five Young Investigator Awards of USD 1'000 each, awarded to the best abstracts by researchers under the age of 40 at the time of the Meeting.

Early bird registration closes March 15, 2012.

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ABOUT IOF

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is a nongovernmental umbrella organization dedicated to the worldwide fight against osteoporosis, the disease known as "the silent epidemic". IOF's members committees of scientific researchers, patient, medical and research societies and industry representatives from around the world share a common vision of a world without osteoporotic fractures. IOF now represents 198 societies in 93 locations, including 30 societies in Latin America. http://www.iofbonehealth.org

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William Shatner Shows You How (Not) to Deep Fry a Turkey [Video]

Apparently William Shatner almost burned down his house trying to deep fry a turkey. And since no one should ever, under any circumstance, make the same mistakes as William Shatner, here's a video showing the fiery chaos that can come of a turkey frying mishap. More »


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Tarsem Singh to Direct Killing on Carnival Row

With his Greek-inspired epic Immortals currently in theaters and his take on Snow White, Mirror, Mirror, slated to release in March, director Tarsem Singh is setting his sights on the future. Singh is now reportedly attached to direct Killing on Carnival Row, a spec script by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans) that was originally set up six years ago. The noir fantasy-thriller revolves around a serial killer loose in Burgue, a future city that resembles 18th century London and is inhabited by both humans and other creatures.

Producers Arnold and Anne Kopelson previously had the project set up at New Line and were close to production with directors Guillermo del Toro, whose Pacific Rim was also written by Beacham, and Neil Jordan (The Brave One). Hit the jump to hear what they had to say about Singh and Killing on Carnival Row.

tarsem-singh-imageDeadline first reported on Singh?s new project and the Kopelsons are happy to have him. Arnold Kopelson is currently in talks with a studio (but won?t reveal which) and is starting to cast for the film. He expects production to begin in New Orleans in June. Here?s what Kopelson had to say about Singh:

?I am thrilled that Tarsem will direct Carnival Row, which we?ve been developing over the past six years. His extraordinary visual sense and use of light and color can be compared to that of the great 16th Century Italian painter Michelangelo Caravaggio.?

While his visual styling is undeniably unique, the man is making movies, not paintings. I found Immortals to be a chore to get through and the trailer for Mirror, Mirror, in my humble opinion, is nigh unwatchable. If you?d like to hear the director discuss those projects in his own words, check out Steve?s interview with Singh here.

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Women, Younger Men Under-Treated Before Heart Attack: Study (HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women and younger men account for a large number of heart attacks in the United States but are less likely than older men to receive preventive medications that lower heart attack risk, a new study indicates.

Researchers evaluated more than 3,000 heart attack patients treated at the Minneapolis Heart Institute between March 2003 and January 2010, and found that 70.3 percent of them had not been diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD) and 60 percent of those undiagnosed patients were men 55 and younger and women 65 and younger with premature CHD.

Even though rates of high cholesterol among the women and younger men were similar to the rate in older men, those two groups of patients were nearly half as likely (10 percent vs. 19 percent) to be taking cholesterol-lowering statins prior to their heart attack and were much less likely to be on aspirin and combination therapy.

The study was scheduled for presentation Wednesday at an American Heart Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

"For those patients with known coronary disease, the evidence and guidelines are fairly clear about the benefit of aggressive medical therapy, including an aspirin and statin, regardless of your age or gender," said Dr. Michael Miedema, a cardiology fellow at the University of Minnesota working with researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

"However, for patients without known coronary disease, the optimal approach is much less clear," he added in an institute news release. "We currently only treat high-risk patients, but our data show that women and young males, who rarely qualify as high-risk, make up a substantial portion of the current heart attack population."

The most widely used cardiac event risk calculator is the Framingham Risk Score, which uses the patient's age, gender and factors such as cholesterol and blood pressure. But this approach is heavily weighted toward age and gender, according to Miedema.

"If you're an older male, you're much more likely to qualify for preventive therapy while females and younger males often do not meet criteria despite similar risk factors," he said.

"While older males are still the most likely group to have heart attacks, we have shown that women and patients with premature disease make up a substantial portion of the heart attacks we are seeing and very few of these patients are on the medications which research has shown to prevent heart attacks. Better methods of risk assessment could potentially allow us to target more people truly at high risk for an event and avoid excessive treatment of those who are low risk," Miedema concluded.

Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.

More information

The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about heart attack prevention.

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West says Iran deceives world on nukes (AP)

VIENNA ? The U.S. and its Western allies bluntly accused Iran on Friday of deceiving the world by trying to hide work on nuclear arms, as the U.N. atomic agency passed a new resolution criticizing Tehran's nuclear defiance.

Iran shot back that the West's allegations were based on fabricated American, Israeli, British and French intelligence fed to the International Atomic Energy Agency to try and discredit the Islamic Republic.

Reflecting its bitterness, Iran's chief IAEA delegate withdrew an invitation to U.N. atomic agency experts to visit Tehran and discuss nuclear concerns.

The unusually tough exchanges were bound to further raise international tensions over Iran's nuclear activities ? even though the Western statements emphasized that the preferred solution was through diplomacy.

France warned Iran to defuse world fears that it is working on nuclear weapons or face "unprecedented" sanctions, while Washington dismissed "the hollowness" of Iranian claims, asserting that Iran must acknowledge its secret weapons development work. Britain, too, urged Iran to "address the grave concerns of the international community about its nuclear program."

Statements delivered to the IAEA's 35-nation board by the U.S., and on behalf of Germany, Britain and France, contained no mention of military action ? an option that has not been discounted by either Israel or the U.S. if Tehran refuses to stop activities that can be used for nuclear weapons.

Still, they pulled no punches, drawing heavily on a recent IAEA report based on intelligence from more than 10 nations that concluded that some alleged clandestine work by Iran could not be used for any other purpose than making nuclear arms.

"It is no longer within the bounds of credulity to claim that Iran's nuclear activities are solely peaceful," said Glyn Davies, the chief U.S. delegate to the IAEA, adding: "There is little doubt that Iran ... at the very least, wants to position itself for a nuclear weapons capability."

He told The Associated Press that the Iranian allegations were nothing more than "old bile in new bottles " ? old excuses repackaged for the IAEA meeting.

For the three European nations, German chief delegate Ruediger Luedeking said Iranian actions, ..."deepened disbelief in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program."

Delegates at the closed meeting easily passed a resolution based on the report urging Iran to end more than three years of stonewalling of IAEA attempts to probe the allegations, and to heed U.N. Security Council demands to stop other activities that could be used to make nuclear arms. Only Cuba and Ecuador voted against, and Indonesia abstained.

The resolution is milder than the West had hoped for ? but it had the support of Russia and China, which Iran traditionally counts on to counter Western pressure.

A senior diplomat at the meeting told The AP that Tehran was particularly unhappy with the success of the West's tactical move ? watering down the language of the resolution in exchange for support from Moscow and Beijing. He asked for anonymity for relaying confidential information.

The resolution did not threaten new U.N. sanctions ? Iran already is under four such sets of penalties. But French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned of new punitive measures if Tehran remains defiant.

"France urges Iran to heed the unanimous message addressed to her by the IAEA," he said in a statement. "If Iran refuses to comply with her international obligations ... we shall, along with all our partners, adopt sanctions on an unprecedented scale."

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the IAEA report revealed that Iran "engaged in covert research and development related to activities that can have only one application: building a nuclear warhead for delivery on a ballistic missile.

"The Director General's report and today's action by the Board of Governors expose once and for all the hollowness of Iran's claims, and reinforce the world's demands that Iran come clean," he said in a statement.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Moscow shares "a growing concern about the current developments expressed in the resolution" but warned of "an outburst of political passions" that would hamper dialogue between Iran and world powers.

Pressure on Iran began Monday. In opening words to the meeting, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano voiced concerns "regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program," saying such work may extend into the present. He added his agency finds the information leading to such suspicions to be generally credible.

Iran is under U.N. Security Council resolutions for refusing to freeze uranium enrichment ? which can make both nuclear fuel and fissile weapons material.

It denies any interest in such weapons, says it is being targeted unfairly by the U.S. and its allies and that Amano is working for the Americans.

Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashghar Soltanieh accused Amano of drawing up an "illegal, partial and unjustified and politicized report."

The report, he said, is based on "information provided by intelligence services of (the) U.S., U.K, France, (the) Israeli regime and some other western countries, which are false, baseless and fabricated."

He also accused Amano of security leaks that expose his country's scientists and their families to the threat of assassination by the U.S. and Israel.

Such leaks, said Soltanieh, have made Iranian scientists "the targets for assassination by ... (the) Israeli regime and United State(s) of America intelligence services." He said Amano is to blame for any threat "against the lives of my fellow citizens."

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Associated Press writers Bradley Klapper in Washington, Danica Kirka in London, Vladimir Ishachenkov in Moscow, and Noura Maan in Vienna contributed.

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Evicted Wall St protesters seek rebound with rally (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to rebound on Thursday with a march on the New York Stock Exchange to show their battle against economic inequality still has life after they were evicted from a nearby park.

Most rallies by the two-month-old movement have numbered in the hundreds of people in New York but protesters and city officials expect thousands of demonstrators to pour into the Wall Street area from 7 a.m. to try to stop workers from getting to their desks in the financial district.

It will be a test of whether Occupy Wall Street and the loose-knit global alliance it inspired will flag or grow after police cleared a camp of hundreds of protesters from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on Tuesday.

"This movement is really not about tents as much as it is about an idea," said spokesman Ed Needham. "There's also going to be events in 100 countries around the world tomorrow."

Occupy Wall Street plans to shut down the home of the New York Stock Exchange and the heart of American capitalism to kick off a day of protests. But the movement acknowledged tight security was likely to prevent protesters from getting close to the stock exchange.

Another protest spokesman, Mark Bray, said "the idea is to inconvenience Wall Street bankers going to work, not to hurt anyone. We are committed to nonviolent civil disobedience."

Authorities were prepared for a possible influx of tens of thousands of protesters and aimed to balance public safety with their right to free speech and assembly, said Howard Wolfson, a New York deputy mayor.

"We take it seriously," he told reporters. "Our forces will be deployed accordingly."

Protesters say they are upset that billions of dollars in bailouts given to banks during the recession allowed a return to huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and a struggling economy.

They also believe the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.

In San Francisco, police in riot gear arrested more than a dozen people after about 50 protesters flooded into a Bank of America branch and set up a tent inside.

"We are the 99 percent," the protesters chanted as they were being arrested.

"NEED A SHOW OF SUPPORT"

The Zuccotti Park camp was set up on September 17 and became the epicenter for the movement, sparking rallies and occupations of public spaces across the United States and elsewhere in the world.

After the police cleared the park and it was cleaned, demonstrators were allowed to return but were banned from setting up camp again. Numbers dwindled to less than two dozen overnight on Wednesday.

"I was dismayed by the number of people who stayed," said Sam DeLily, 23, from the New York borough of Queens. "I was disappointed that more people didn't realize we'd need a show of support last night more than ever."

A couple of dozen protesters took refuge at two Manhattan churches that offered them a place to sleep. Hundreds more were put up by New Yorkers who offered their homes, Needham said.

The clearing of the Occupy camp in New York followed recent evictions in Atlanta, Portland and Salt Lake City. Unlike action in Oakland, California, where police used tear gas and stun grenades, most protesters left voluntarily.

The movement has a large donated space near Zuccotti Park where it has been storing thousands of items such as clothing, medical supplies, canned food and toiletries.

"We're going to sit tight and see what direction this takes," protest spokesman Nathan Stueve said when asked what would happen to the donated goods in the storage space.

The protesters in New York have also raised more than $500,000.

Organizers had allocated that money for food, medical care, laundry and communications. They said on Wednesday they would still use the money for those purposes.

"We're going to occupy this park for a long time," said Jason Holmza, 30, of Washington State. "Right now we've got to figure out where to turn our attention to."

(Writing by Michelle Nichols, editing by Mark Egan and John O'Callaghan)

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Mistrial denied in '78 case of 5 NJ teens killed (AP)

NEWARK, N.J. ? Closing statements are possible after a judge on Thursday denied a request for a mistrial at the trial of a New Jersey man accused of burning five teenagers alive in 1978.

The request came Wednesday as the prosecution cross-examined the defense's first witness who described defendant Lee Evans as a trustworthy person and mentioned his brother.

The prosecutor asked whether the witness knew that Evans' brother was convicted of murder.

Evans' legal adviser said the reference was prejudicial.

The prosecution had rested its case after calling Evans' cousin, who pleaded guilty and received a reduced sentence for his testimony.

Philander Hampton described how he and Evans lured the boys to a vacant Newark home, nailed them in a closet and burned them alive for stealing a pound of marijuana.

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Chu: Solyndra loan subject to rigorous scrutiny (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a half-billion dollar loan to failed solar panel maker Solyndra was subject to "rigorous scrutiny and healthy debate" before it was approved in 2009.

The Energy Department released excerpts of prepared testimony Chu will give to a House committee on Thursday.

Chu said he was disappointed at Solyndra's bankruptcy, but believes the U.S. must continue to offer financial support to develop innovative technologies in clean energy.

Chu is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating a $528 million federal loan received by Solyndra. The California company closed its doors on Aug. 31 and laid off its 1,100 workers.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

The Obama administration wanted the failing solar energy company Solyndra to delay announcing an early round of employee layoffs until after the 2010 midterm elections, according to newly released emails.

An October 2010 email from a Solyndra investment adviser to a colleague said Energy Department officials were pushing "very hard" to delay making the layoffs ? an early sign of the company's financial woes ? public until Nov. 3, 2010 ? the day after the midterm elections.

"Oddly they didn't give a reason for that date," the email states. The email was released Wednesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with dozens of other emails related to the Solyndra investigation.

Last week, the White House said congressional Republicans were using the Solyndra investigation as a partisan "political football." Spokesman Jay Carney said at the time that GOP lawmakers have "cherry-picked" certain documents trying to create controversy over a decision-making process that the White House insists involved no political influence.

Solyndra announced dozens of layoffs on Nov. 3, 2010, after the election, but continued to receive federal assistance. The company, which received a $528 million federal loan in 2009, closed its doors on Aug. 31, 2011 and laid off its 1,100 workers.

The Oct. 30, 2010, email was from Steve Mitchell, managing director of Argonaut Private Equity, a major Solyndra investor, to George Kaiser, an Oklahoma billionaire who founded Argonaut and other firms. Kaiser was a "bundler" for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and a frequent White House visitor in 2009 and 2010. Argonaut invested $400 million in the solar company. Mitchell also served on Solyndra's board of directors.

Ken Levit, executive director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, also received the email.

Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera on Tuesday declined to confirm events described in the emails or to identify who at the Energy department may have urged the delay in the layoff announcement. He said "decisions about this loan were made on the merits."

Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to testify before the House energy panel on Thursday.

Solyndra's implosion and revelations that administration officials rushed to complete the loan in time for a September 2009 groundbreaking have become an embarrassment for Obama and a rallying cry for GOP critics of his green energy program.

The Republican-controlled energy panel has subpoenaed White House communications on Solyndra and has released thousands of pages of emails related to the company.

The emails released Wednesday show that then-Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010 that he intended to announce layoffs in three days. He wrote that reporters were asking about rumored layoffs and the possible closure of one of its two factories.

Five days later, Mitchell wrote his email to Kaiser and Levit, the Kaiser foundation executive.

Kaiser has said he played no part in helping Solyndra win the 2009 loan, but emails released last week show that he discussed Solyndra with the White House on at least one occasion. Kaiser also directed Mitchell and others how to approach the White House and Energy Department to help Solyndra deal with its financial problems.

In the fall of 2010, Solyndra executives and investors warned the Energy Department that they needed emergency financing to keep the company operating past December.

In the Oct. 25 email, Harrison said news of the company's financial problems "is starting to leak outside Solyndra."

Harrison's email was forwarded to Jonathan Silver, then-director of the Energy Department's loan program. The email was then forwarded to Chu's chief of staff, Rod O'Connor, and then to White House energy adviser Carol Browner and Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden.

Emails released last week show that top officials at the White House circulated a plan calling for Chu's ouster as the administration braced for a political storm brewing over Solyndra.

An email from a clean-energy activist and former official in Obama's 2008 campaign said that Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was a brilliant man but "not perfect" for other critical DOE missions, including creating jobs.

A White House spokesman said the plan to oust Chu was not taken very seriously.

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Matthew Daly can be reached at http://twitter.com/MatthewDalyWDC

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