 |
Sports news
A leading lawyer has been appointed by the West Indies Cricket Board to investigate any allegation of match-fixing by their players.
Elliott Mottley QC will work closely with Sir Paul Condon's anti-corruption unit based in London. He is likely to call on ace batsman Brian Lara. The former West Indies captain was accused in the Indian CBI Report of accepting $40,000 from a bookmaker to under-perform in two one-day international matches.
Lara, who denies the allegation, is also to be interviewed by Condon's team. Meanwhile, Condon has completed a report on his first six months as head of the unit, which will be published on 18 June.
He said: 'It sets out all matters of malpractice in cricket which includes what has happened, along with my recommendations to minimise malpractice in future. We are following up a whole series of allegations. Some emerged from the CBI Report, and some for other sources.A huge amount of work is underway. There are not enough hours in the day to cope with it all.'
The West Indies now join the Australian, New Zealand and Sri Lankan Cricket Boards, alongside the ECB, in launching investigations.
Condon added: 'We're supporting each and every one of those investigations. We are also actively involved with the Indian government and the Indian police. There is a major investigation going on. A line has not been drawn under any player named in the Indian CBI Report.' Condon was clearly referring to England's Alec Stewart, along with Mark Waugh (Australia), Martin Crowe (New Zealand), and Arjunda Ranatunga and Arvinda de Silva (Sri Lanka).
Condon's investigators will shortly visit Pakistan to interview 'officials'. Condon's unit, however, would comment on whether that would include Javed Miandad, the former Pakistan coach, who recently claimed that a number of his country's matches in New Zealand were fixed.
|
   |
CaribLynk 
Many fans in Jamaica were very worried, some even gave up hope. With three away games, two home games to go and needing ten more points, it was a tall order. Three points against T&T seemed to be the easiest points available, but when Ian Porterfield was sacked as coach of Trinidad and Rene Simoes took over, to many it got just as hard as going for three points in Honduras. Then came the news of Theodore Whitmore not reporting to camp and not making the trip to Trinidad.
Could things get any worse? Yep, but for Trinidad. Both T&T's top players Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy, tendered their resignations to the TTFF after being dropped from the game by Simoes. So we had no Boyd and Whitmore, they had no Yorke and Latapy. So now we were even, right? Well I thought so, but some fans were still not at ease as the thought was that Simoes taught Clovis, and teacher has taught this same class before so he knows all the bright students and how to pose hard questions for them.
Well so much for that theory. Strikes from bright boy Onandi Lowe (min 29) and teachers pet Deon Burton (min 69) led Jamaica to their first ever road victory in final round World Cup Qualifying action when they downed T&T 2-1 on Saturday June 30 at the Queens Park Oval in T&T.
This now puts Jamaica on eight points, one more than Mexico who took back control of the Azteca with a 1-0 victory over the US on Sunday. Costa Rica out-gunned Honduras 3-2 in Honduras. So, not only will the boys have to over-haul Honduras (Costa Rica seems gone), we now have to keep the Mexican off out backs. This now sets up another big clash on September 2 when we host the Spanish speaking hombres.
Linval Dixon returned as captain while Aaron Lawrence continued where he left off in Costa Rica. Micah Hyde replaced Whitmore and Fitzroy Simpson played Andy Williams position, while Daryl Powell made his long awaited return to the team. Burton had Jamaicas first shot on a pass from Hyde but his shot was poor to say the least. Goodison picked up an early yellow card for a high-footed tackle on Stern John which has ruled him out of the Mexican clash.
Hyde dictated things in the middle in his own casual way and made some very good passes but it remains obvious that he lacks chemistry with the team. After twenty minutes, the flashy Dwarika waltzed through the Jamaican defense to fire a 22yard rocket that went just wide of Lawrence's right post. Four minutes inside the half hour mark Goodison left his position and ventured into midfield where he tried to find Lowe. The pass was blocked and played twice before reaching a smart moving Stern John who left Frank Sinclair rooted before slotting pass an advancing Lawrence for 1-0.
The Trini celebrations had not yet died down when Simpson used good pace to go by his marker before crossing superbly for Onandi Lowe to chip home another brilliant strike, which takes his tally to six in the campaign. Simpson tried to grab his with a fairly good free kick in minute 39 but Clayton Ince did not have to do much to collect. 2 minutes from the break an injured Powell had to be taken out and Jamie made his entrance.
Jamaica had more possession of the ball but failed to coordinate and click as a team. Chances were few and far apart while Trinidad looked a tad better going forward.
Micah Hyde was subbed at the break and it was now up to Williams to put some spark in the middle. In min 65 Dwarika did well to set up John only for the latter to be scared into a bad shot by an advancing Lawrence in goal. Four mins after, Burton paid back Oliviera for his extended patience with him when he brought down a lovely ball from out of midfield and took a few paces from the defense to calmly shoot pass Ince for 2-1.
He did however make way for Fuller to make four minutes of contribution to the game, which eventually became seven, as three minutes of stoppage time was played. With two minutes to go Dwarika forced a save from Lawrence as Jamaica locked shop with Lowe and all retreating as the host threw everything into attack to grab an equalizer. But the Boyz held on to take three points and virtually assured that Simoes and T&T will only be looking to the U17 tournament in September and 2006.
Jamaica -- Aaron Lawrence, Frank Sinclair, Ian Goodison, Linval Dixon, Ricardo Gardner, Tyrone Marshall, Darryl Powell (Jamie Lawrence 43rd), Fitzroy Simpson, Micah Hyde (Andy Williams 46th), Deon Burton (Ricardo Fuller 86th) and Onandi Lowe.
Trinidad -- Clayton Ince, Dale Saunders, Marvin Andrews, Reynold Carrington, Avery John (Lynden Andrews 88th), Arnold Dwarika, Ansil Elcock, Stern John, Mickey Trottman (Angus Eve 58th), Anthony Rougher and Nigel Pierre (Gary Glasgow 82nd).
Joachim ineligible for St Vincent
The Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim was at the heart of a World Cup shambles last night when he was declared ineligible to play for St Vincent.
The player was in mid-flight to the Caribbean to make his debut for St Vincent in the World Cup qualifier against St Kitts when Villa were told his journey was futile.
The FA informed the club that Joachim was ineligible to play for the island where his father was born because he had represented England at Under-21 level while at Leicester City.
The player was informed on his arrival in the West Indies and will have to catch a flight back after the briefest of visits.
Villa's manager, John Gregory, had to leave the player out of today's match against Spurs. Gregory said: "The FA told us this morning and we tried to get in touch with Julian Joachim to stop him travelling so that we could put him back in the squad to face Tottenham.
"He was already in the departure lounge and his mobile was switched off so there was no way we could prevent his journey."
• The FA, in an attempt to professionalise its disciplinary system, is to appoint a lawyer as a full-time prosecutor of disciplinary cases. The FA is also hiring an administrator with experience of how courts work to organise the case against those charged.
|
     |
Terrorists strikeUnited States
|
|
||||||
|
|
Attacks on America
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
Watch MSNBC Cable for live coverage
|
|
|||||
|
|
The twin towers of the World Trade Center have collapsed, major federal buildings in the nation's capital have been evacuated, and all planes into and out of the U.S. are grounded.
|
|
||||
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
 |
 |
 The World Trade Center was built from 1969 to 1973 at a cost of $750 million. It was the world's tallest building for only 12 months, before being topped by the Sears Tower
|
Sept. 11 — In the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, two hijacked jetliners slammed into New York’s World Trade Center Tuesday morning, toppling both 110-story towers where thousands of people had just arrived for work. An hour later, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible,” President Bush vowed as the White House, the Capitol and other federal buildings in Washington were evacuated.
 MSNBC.com reporter Martin Wolk, who was inside one of the towers, said the lights flickered and there was a loud bang. People panicked and started to flee the building.
When they reached the lobby, smoke started to fill the building and people could see debris falling. “It was sheer pandemonium, people were screaming and crying, afraid to go outside because of the falling debris,” Wolk said. “We looked up and it looked like the top 20 floors were in flames.”
At the Pentagon, the nerve center of the nation’s military, one wall of the hexagonal building was destroyed when a hijacked commercial plane crashed into the adjacent helipad. At least 29 casualties were reported.
Across the country, high-rises like Chicago’s Sears Trade tower were evacuated as a precaution, and all Major League Baseball games were canceled nationwide.
Buildings were also being evacuated in London.
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 — In the hours after Tuesday’s terror attacks, Washington looked like a city under siege. The nation’s capital and neighboring Virginia were under a state of emergency. But this was no Sarajevo, with refugees carrying their belongings on their backs. This was a metallic refugee caravan: Cars were stacked up like dominoes, all trying to get out of city.
|
MILITARY JETS patrolled the nation’s skies and the FAA grounded all civilian aircraft until at least Wednesday — but not before another plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
The images of devastation struck at the heart of two of the nation’s most prominent symbols of power and commerce.
In New York, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani estimated at least 2,250 peopled had been injured, many seriously. He would not estimate the number of deaths but a city police source said it could be in the hundreds or thousands.
Bush, who was in Florida at the time of the attacks, did not return to Washington but flew on Air Force One first to the Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, La., and then to Offutt Air Force base outside Omaha, Neb., where he was taken to an underground bunker.
The commander in chief announced from Barksdale that the U.S. military was on “high-alert status.”
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning and I assure you freedom will be defended,” he told the nation in a brief statement. “Make no mistake. The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly actions.”
 “THERE HAVE BEEN the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair told union leaders in Brighton, southern England. “We can only imagine the terror and carnage there and the many, many innocent people who have lost their lives.”
Blair, who had been due to deliver a key policy speech, cut short his visit and said he wanted to return immediately to London to monitor the unfolding events. He sent his deepest condolences to Bush and the people of America.
SECURITY PERSONNEL wearing flak jackets and armed with M-16s stood watch at the entry to military facilities scattered throughout the city, watching every move. Secret Service agents toting machine guns directed civilians on the streets. F-16 military jets flew over the city on surveillance missions.
Outgoing highway arteries were at a standstill, with traffic jams backing up into residential neighborhoods. Authorities turned many roads into one-way routes to speed up the evacuation.
All federal buildings — including the White House and the Capitol — were ordered evacuated in the minutes and hours after a hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon.
In the middle of the Pentagon’s courtyard, at the center of the five-sided building, medical personnel dealt with the casualties.
|
In New York, the aircraft struck minutes apart, starting fires and sending smoke billowing out of the skyscrapers.
Crews were evacuating people when the first tower collapsed, trapping rescuers and workers. Much of lower Manhattan was later evacuated.
The first crash happened shortly before 9 a.m. ET. The top of the south tower later collapsed onto the street below.
“I was on the 81st floor of 2 World Trade Center,” Felipe Ayala told MSNBC. “I ran down to 78 — the main concourse — and met wife and coworkers. … I was asked to go back upstairs because it was safe … I left my wife and returned to the 81st floor. I was looking out the window with a co-worker when the entire room just collapsed on me. I can’t find my wife and I’m looking around for her.”
Kenny Johannemann, a janitor, described seeing a man engulfed in flames just after the first explosion. He grabbed the man, put the fire out, and dragged him outside. Then Johannemann heard a second explosion — and saw people jumping from the upper stories.
“It was horrendous; I can’t describe it,” Johannemann said as he stood outside the building.
Shortly after 9 a.m., a second aircraft was seen crashing into the other tower. Broadcast cameras already watching the scene filmed the second plane as it exploded in a huge fireball.
 Russian President Vladimir Putin described the attack as a terrible tragedy, according to Kremlin spokesman Alexei Gromov, and convened a special meeting of his defense and security officials. Putin also offered his condolence to the United States.
.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent President Bush a message of sympathy for the U.S. government and its people, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
France’s president, Jacques Chirac, in a live televised address, condemned the attacks and expressed his solidarity with the American people. ‘America and Israel are one. This is the result of American policy.’
— PALESTINIAN GUNMAN CELEBRATING IN LEBANON
 “France has just learned of these monstrous attacks — there is no other word for it — that have hit America,” Chirac said from Rennes, in the western region of Brittany.
In Berlin, Foreign Ministry officials huddled in a crisis meeting, and Parliament’s vice speaker, Anke Fuchs, told lawmakers a “terrible catastrophe” had happened.
Virtually all German TV channels switched to live coverage. “This is pure mass murder,” one commentator said.
|
HIJACKING DETAILS
American Airlines and United airlines both said two of their planes had earlier been hijacked and crashed.
American said its two aircraft were carrying a total of 156 people. One was a Boston-Los Angeles Flight, the other Washington-Los Angeles. An FBI source said the former, a Boeing 767, hit one of the trade center towers; the latter, a Boeing 757, hit the Pentagon.
Two United airliners with a total of 110 aboard also crashed — a Boeing 757 outside Pittsburgh, the other in a location not immediately identified. The FBI source, however, said that flight, a Boeing 767, hit the trade center as well.
The crash near Pittsburgh was a Newark to San Francisco flight.
An emergency dispatcher in Westmoreland County, Pa., received a cell phone call at 9:58 a.m. ET from a man who said he was a passenger locked in the bathroom of United Flight 93, said dispatch supervisor Glenn Cramer.
“We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!” Cramer quoted the man as saying. The man told dispatchers the plane “was going down. He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and we lost contact with him,” Cramer said.
Nationwide, crowds gathered around television sets in airports, bars, hotel lounges. The space station commander could see the smoke rising above New York.
“My whole family’s from Boston, and two are always flying,” said Diane Morse, dialing her cell phone in tears in downtown Cleveland. “We always fly American.”
The memory of Pearl Harbor was offered up again and again, with all its images of sneak attacks, national honor and war.
“Someone is trying to make a serious statement and I hope we do likewise,” said Scott Gilmore at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
|
Suspicion for the attacks immediately fell on Osama bin Laden, a Saudi terrorist thought to be living in Afghanistan. An Arab language newspaper in London recently said he had been planning an unprecedented attack on the United States.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban condemned the attacks and denied bin Laden was behind them, saying the sophistication of the coordinated assault required the expertise of a government.
Authorities in Washington immediately called out troops, including an infantry regiment. The U.S. and Canadian borders were sealed and security was tightened at strategic installations.
“This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don’t think that I overstate it,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.
BIN LADEN TIES?
Bin Laden is suspected in previous attacks on U.S. interests, including the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa, and had ties to last year’s bombing of a U.S. Navy ship in Yemen.
A U.S. judge had set this Wednesday as the sentencing date for a bin Laden associate for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy in Tanzania that killed 213 people. The sentencing had been set for the federal courthouse near the World Trade Center.
Washington had earlier offered a $5 million reward for bin Laden’s capture. And George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said this week that bin Laden was the most immediate and serious threat to U.S. security.
The World Trade Center was the scene of an earlier terrorist attack: the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 others. Terrorist Ramzi Yousef and three others were convicted of orchestrating the attack. Three other indicted co-conspirators remain at large.
|
 Flames and smoke pour from the Pentagon.
  The Pentagon
 |