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June 01, 2012 | | PRIME SUSPECT At first, former bodega worker now charged with killing 6-year-old Etan Patz denied even recognizing a picture of the boy. An hour later, there came a detailed, new admission, reports The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly. Shame The mistrial in the case against former senator John Edwards is being seen as a huge blow to the Justice Department, as the decision to file criminal charges was made last year by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer. After nine days of deliberation, the jury deadlocked on five of the six counts against Edwards, including charges that he illegally used millions of campaign funds to hide his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, from the media during his 2008 bid for the White House. Three of the jurors went on the Today show Friday and said while all three of them believed that Edwards knew about the money, they didn't think the prosecution had enough evidence to convict. They said there had been one person who insisted on conviction and could not be swayed. Atrocities Thirteen factory workers were forced off a bus and executed by a pro-government militia in Syria near Qusair, in the west of the country, activists reported Friday. If the claims are true, it would be the third mass killing in the chaotic country in just a week. The U.N. Human Rights Council begun an emergency session Friday to discuss the violence, and it is expected to blame pro-government forces for last week's massacre in Houla, in which more than 100 people were killed, including 49 children. Hacker According to The New York Times' David Sanger, President Obama secretly ordered attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facilities during his first months in office. Sanger cited participants in the program to claim that Obama accelerated the attacks that begun in the Bush administration, code-named Olympic Games, even after a part of the program was accidentally leaked because of a programming error that became known as Stuxnet. ARMED Ian L. Stawicki, the man police say is responsible for killing five in two separate shootings before turning the gun on himself in Seattle Wednesday, owned at least six guns and had a concealed weapons permit that was valid through 2015. Stawicki purchased a .45-caliber handgun in 2008, just after he was cleared of domestic violence charges. It's not clear whether any of those weapons were used in the shooting. Stawicki's family has said he was mentally ill. | | 
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