A Navy lawyer who gave a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees was convicted in military court in Norfolk Thursday of communicating secret information that could be used to injure the United States. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz also was convicted of three counts of leaking information to an unauthorized person but was acquitted of printing out national defense information with the intent or reason to believe it would be used against the U.S. A sentencing hearing was to begin today.
Nepal: Two climbers die on Everest
Two South Korean climbers were killed trying to scale Mount Everest, a Nepalese mountaineering official said Thursday. Oh Hee-joon, 37, and Lee Hyun-jo, 34, fell after they reached the altitude of 27,200 feet on their way to the summit Wednesday, he said. He said were part of a seven-member Korean team climbing from the southwest face of the world’s highest mountain. Some 23 climbing parties are attempting to scale the peak from the Nepalese side this season.
Afghanistan: Deadly bombings
Two coordinated bomb blasts killed seven people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, including three police responding to the first explosion – an Iraq-style attack rarely seen here. Hours later, a suicide car bomber rammed into a convoy that usually carries Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid. The governor was not in the convoy, but the apparent assassination attempt killed three civilians on the street and wounded four government employees, including the information and culture minister and one of Khalid’s body guards.
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