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Mar 19, 07:20 PM

Current Headlines: Police officers face charges

Three New York police officers surrendered yesterday to face charges in the shooting that killed a groom on his wedding day.

The policemen, accused of firing most of the 50 shots at three young men in a car outside a nightclub, were being fingerprinted and processed yesterday morning before their arraignment.

Michael Oliver, who fired 31 times, and Gescard Isnora, who fired 11 bullets, face felony manslaughter charges, according to a person close to the investigation. Marc Cooper, who fired four shots, faces a misdemeanor endangerment charge, the person said.

USS Cole suspect confesses

Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, long suspected of plotting the bombing of the battleship USS Cole, confessed to planning the attack during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a US Defense Department transcript released yesterday.

He also said he helped plan the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed 213, the transcript said. Seventeen sailors were killed and 37 injured when suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the battleship on October 12, 2000.

"I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives," bin Attash said when asked what his role was in the attacks on the Cole and the embassies. "I put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation."

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