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Exactly one month ago, 22-year-old law student Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison for what he wrote on his personal Web site. His case has shed a spotlight on the country's laws concerning online speech.

Anti-illegal immigrant groups plan to protest Saturday at sites where day laborers gather in San Diego and Long Beach and are planning more demonstration's in San Diego's North County later this month

As more bad news came down from City Hall, I felt I had at least to try. I called Pete Wilson, the most effective mayor San Diego has ever known, and asked him what Mayor Jerry Sanders should be doing.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem to press Syria to do more to keep foreign fighters out of Iraq. It was the first meeting between high-ranking U.S. and Syrian officials in two years.

Ayad Allawi, the first Iraqi prime minister following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, has warned in recent weeks of coming disaster in Iraq. He says the country's system of government should be reexamined and replaced by a nonsectarian regime.

But we discover that all these people are real and the events relayed are true. Kohn connects his rural frog farmer from the opening to a famously corrupt politician Jder Barbalho. He also interviews a string of people about their various encounters with crime in Brazil and how they connect with each other. There's a woman who was kidnapped for a week and had her ears sent to her family. Then we see kids in the street playing "kidnapper" and "victim" and cutting off each other's ears. We also hear from a plastic surgeon who reconstructs ears from a victim's rib (detailed in a particularly graphic surgery sequence). There are also cops, bodyguards and people who want to create GPS chips into people so they can be tracked when -- not if but when -- they get kidnapped. Kohn even interviews someone who presents himself as a kidnapper and criminal. The man claims to suffer absolutely no guilt about any of the crimes or violence he's committed but he also talks about how he helps the people in his village out and that's why they protect him.

President Bush makes new charges against Iraq in his State of the Union address, saying there's evidence Iraq tried to acquire nuclear materials and has links to terrorists. U.S. allies and U.N. arms inspectors are eager to hear the evidence. Hear from NPR's Tom Gjelten, NPR's Lynn Neary and U.N. chief nuclear weapons inspector Mohamed ElBaradei.

Is shutting off power to San Diego's back country a good idea when the fire danger is high? SDG&E and the San Diego City Council think so, but many back country residents are opposed to the plan.

Criminal charges may be announced Thursday at California's Camp Pendleton for as many as eight Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, including 11 women and children.

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