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Antiwhaling activists attack rescuing ship
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 10, 2007
NEW ZEALAND Two activists attacked a Japanese whaling ship with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb Friday, slightly injuring two crew members after the vessel helped rescue the protesters from the icy Ross Sea off Antarctica, officials said. The activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society protest ship Farley Mowat disappeared during a confrontation with the Nisshin Maru and were found after about seven hours, with members of the Japanese whaling expedition assisting. John Gravois of Los Angeles and Karl Neilsen of Perth, Australia, were picked up from their dinghy after its fiberglass hull had cracked. The protesters then again began their chase of the Japanese vessel and dumped foul-smelling butyric acid onto the whaling ship's deck. "They're terrorists," said Hideki Moronuki of the Japan's Fisheries Agency. HAITI U.N. peacekeepers fight gangs in raid Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum Friday, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour battle that left a gang member dead and two soldiers wounded, officials said. About 700 heavily armed troops from seven countries participated in the predawn raid on Port-au-Prince's sprawling Cite Soleil slum, entering in armored vehicles and on foot as U.N. helicopters circled above.
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