Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax

Richard and Mayumi Heene with their son Bradford arrive home after a shopping trip in Fort Collins, Colo., on Oct. 19. Mayumi Heene has admitted to investigators the runaway balloon was a hoax.




FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, Falcon Heene, 6, front, is guided back to a news conference by his mother, Mayumi, outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo..


FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, Falcon Heene, 6, front right, is hugged by his mother, Mayumi, as television photographers crowd around them after a news conference outside the family's home in Fort Collins, Colo.


Richard Heene, Brad, Ryo and Falcon go into a tile store while waiting for their mother Mayumi Heene Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colo


Larimer County Sheriff Department officers remove several boxes and a computer while executing a search warrant on the Richard Heene home Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colo.


Larimer County Sheriff Department officer places a box of items removed ftom the Richard Heena home onto an officer's car while executing a search warrant Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colo.


Larimer County Sheriff Department officers arrive to execute a search warrant on the Heene home Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 in Fort Collins, Colo.


The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.

Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.

She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media.

"Mayumi described that she and Richard Heene devised this hoax approximately two weeks earlier.... She and Richard had instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax," the affidavit said.

Richard Heene has denied a hoax. His lawyer, David Lane, said Friday he is waiting to see the evidence in the case.

"Allegations are cheap," Lane said.

Mayumi Heene's lawyer, Lee Christian, was traveling and didn't immediately respond to messages left with his office.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has said he will recommend charges against the Heenes including conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a false report to authorities, and attempting to influence a public servant. The most serious charges are felonies and carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

Alderden said authorities also would be seeking restitution for the costs of the balloon chase, though he didn't provide a figure.

His office has said it will likely be next week before it forwards its findings to prosecutors to decide on charges.

In frantic calls to a TV station, 911 and federal aviation officials, the Heenes reported that they feared Falcon was in the homemade, saucer-like balloon when it was accidentally launched from their back yard last week.

Millions watched as media and National Guard helicopters tracked the balloon across the Colorado plains. It landed in a dusty farm field, where ground crews looked inside but found no sign of the boy.

Later, the relieved-looking couple reported Falcon had been hiding in their garage the whole time. But suspicion heated up when Falcon made a comment on CNN that sounded like "You had said we did this for a show."

Sheriff's deputies questioned the parents separately on Oct. 17, two days after the flight. Mayumi Heene told authorities "she and Richard Heene had lied to authorities on October 15, 2009 (the day of the flight)," the affidavit said.

She told investigators "that the release of the flying saucer was intentional as a hoax.... The motive for the fabricated story was to make the Heene family more marketable for future media interest," the affidavit said.

The Heenes twice had appeared on ABC's reality show "Wife Swap," and acquaintances said Richard Heene had plans for other possible shows.

The producer of "Wife Swap" had a show in development with the Heenes but said the deal is now off. The TLC cable network also said Heene had pitched a reality show months ago, but it passed on the offer.

Sheriff's officials declined to comment Friday.

Among the items taken by authorities during the home search Saturday were video cameras, computers, hard drives, a picture of a flying saucer, receipts, papers, a phone/address book and a flight itinerary. The list didn't identify the passenger, destination or date of travel.

Mayumi Heene, the mother of the 6-year-old Fort Collins boy believed to have floated away in a helium-filled balloon last week, admitted to investigators that the incident was a hoax she and her husband had planned two weeks in advance.

According to documents released Friday, Heene, 45, told Larimer County investigators two days after the balloon flight that she and her husband, Richard Heene, knew all along that their son Falcon was hiding in their Fort Collins home, and was not aboard the balloon as it floated for 50 miles above three northern Colorado counties and landed in a field near Denver International Airport.

On Sunday, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said Richard and Mayumi Heene are under investigation for felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and attempting to influence a public official, and for a misdemeanor count of providing false information to authorities.

Their home was searched by investigators the night of Oct. 17. The search warrant, supporting affidavit and record of items seized by detectives were released Friday.

The balloon's 2 1/2-hour flight captured the world's attention on Oct. 15, as media outlets followed the flight of what Richard Heene said was an early-stage experimental commuter craft. When the silver, flying-saucer-shaped balloon landed, there was no boy on board.

Media, law enforcement and military aircraft participated in the chase. Some Denver International Airport traffic was briefly diverted during the incident.

According to the search-warrant affidavit, Richard Heene told Larimer County Deputy Jake Bowser he had searched the residence and could not find his son. Bowser and Richard Heene conducted a second fruitless search.

Richard Heene told Bowser that his son had climbed into a battery compartment on the balloon before tethers meant to secure the craft during a controlled experiment came loose and the balloon drifted away.

Falcon Heene popped up two hours after the balloon landed. He told officials he had been hiding in the attic of the garage because he was upset his dad had yelled at him for playing around the battery compartment, according to the documents.

According to the affidavit, Mayumi Heene said the hoax was designed to make the family more marketable to the media, including television reality shows. The storm-chasing family has twice appeared on the reality show "Wife Swap." Their family exploits are well documented in a catalog of YouTube videos.

Richard Heene, a construction contractor, video producer and self-taught scientist, has courted various television personalities, including late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, to invest in his ventures.

Mayumi Heene told investigators that the flying-saucer-shaped balloon had been made specifically for the hoax, and that its release was intentional.

In a videotape of the launch shot by 10-year-old Bradford Heene, Richard is heard yelling and seen kicking the docking station after the balloon soared into the sky. In a recording of a subsequent 9-1-1 call to report the launch, Mayumi Heene is heard sobbing as she explains she believes her son is in the craft.

Mayumi Heene told Larimer County investigators that she had instructed her boys, Falcon, Bradford and Ryo, 8, to lie to authorities and to the media about the incident, the affidavit said.

Attorney David Lane, who represents Richard Heene, disregarded Mayumi Heene's confession.

"Her English is not that great, first of all," Lane said, adding that he doesn't know the circumstances under which she was questioned.

Lane said that the sheriff interviewed the Heenes separately and would not let them talk to each other.

"That is going to be the subject matter of some scrutiny," Lane said. "Was she under arrest? Was she not under arrest? Was she free to leave?"

Lane also said Richard Heene has never admitted anything about a hoax.

Mayumi Heene's attorney was out of town and did not respond to calls and e-mails.

Alderden could not be reached for comment Friday. The Larimer County district attorney's office said it has not received the case yet from the sheriff.

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Raid targets Mexican cartel; 303 arrested,Largest US sting on drug cartel

Federal police present alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel "La Familia Michoacana," detained in a recent police operation, as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Suspects from from left to right are Rogelio Rivera, Orlando Tafoya, Juan Estrada Rodriguez, Jose Roberto de la Sancha, Juan Gabriel Cortez and Julio Enrique Aguilar.



Attorney General Eric Holder, second from left, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, to announce the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S. _ the arrest of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids across the country. From left are, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Holder, Acting Drug Enforcement Administrator (DEA) Michele Leonhart and Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Director Kenneth Melson.


Map shows U.S. cities in which a series of drug raids resulted in the arrests of more than 300 people




Federal police escort handcuffed suspect Jose Roberto de la Sancha as he his presented to the press in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. De la Sancha, detained along with five others in a recent police operation, is an alleged member of the Mexican drug cartel "La Familia Michoacana," according to police.


Federal police stand by handcuffed suspects Jose Roberto de la Sancha, right, and Juan Estrada Rodriguez as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. De la Sancha and Rodriguez, detained along with four others in a recent police operation, are alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel "La Familia Michoacana," according to police.


U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel known for its violence, messianic culture and control over the methamphetamine trade, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday.

More than 3,000 federal, state and local agents participated in the U.S. law enforcement operation, the largest mounted against a Mexican cartel, Holder said.

The raids "dealt a significant blow to La Familia's supply chain," Holder said, netting cash, drugs, weapons and vehicles in 19 states. But U.S. officials did not say whether any cartel leaders were caught. "With the increases in cooperation between U.S. and Mexican authorities in recent years, we are taking the fight to our adversaries," Holder said.

Arrests took place in 38 cities, from Boston to Seattle, with 77 made in Dallas. The effort involved the Drug Enforcement Administration; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Charges include drug and gun trafficking and money laundering.

Analysts said the operation appeared designed to allay skepticism among Mexico's political leaders about the U.S. government's commitment to Mexico's crackdown on cartels. The drug-related violence has taken about 15,000 lives since President Felipe Calderón entered office in 2006. Mexican authorities have arrested 80,000 drug suspects, and Washington has responded with $1.4 billion in aid under the Merida initiative, but some in Mexico have grown frustrated with the U.S. market's continuing demand for illegal drugs.

"Many Mexican leaders have viewed the Merida initiative as too little and too late," said George W. Grayson, a Mexico specialist at the College of William and Mary who has written about La Familia, "and so Washington is trying to make clear that we are good faith, genuine partners in the war against drugs."

La Familia, the newest of Mexico's five major cartels, has become entrenched in many U.S. cities after flourishing in Mexico through entrepreneurial zeal, brutality and promises to spin drug profits into "divine justice," or social benefits for its impoverished home state.

La Familia opposes the sale of methamphetamine to Mexicans, for example, but is responsible for the "vast majority" of the lucrative drug entering the United States from Mexico, said Michele M. Leonhart, acting DEA administrator.

The cartel, based in the southwestern Mexico state of Michoacan, has also benefited from a splintering of older cartels, and its effort to gain social legitimacy is combined with a savage program to kill, coerce and corrupt security and government personnel, Mexican analysts said.

In Washington, Holder said that U.S. authorities have targeted La Familia for 44 months. Under the effort, called Project Coronado, the federal government has arrested 1,186 people and seized $32.8 million, 2,710 pounds of methamphetamine, 1,999 kilograms of cocaine, 29 pounds of heroin, 16,390 pounds of marijuana, 389 weapons and 269 vehicles.

U.S. authorities indicted, but did not arrest, La Familia's operational chief, Servando Gomez-Martinez -- known as La Tuta.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

The tentacles of "La Familia" extend coast to coast and deep into America's heartland, with arrests announced Thursday in 38 cities from Boston to Seattle and from St. Paul, Minn., to Raleigh, N.C.

Drug deals went down in Oklahoma parking lots, suppliers were advised to weld drugs into tire rims for transport, and in the Dallas and Seattle areas, dozens of children were removed from houses where authorities found drugs, guns or cash derived from drug sales.

Perhaps more than any other cartel, La Familia projects a Robin Hood image. The Drug Enforcement Administration said the group is "philosophically opposed to the sale of methamphetamine to Mexicans, and instead supports its export to the United States for consumption by Americans."

Mexican police say the gang uses religion and family morals to recruit. The gang has hung banners in towns saying they do not tolerate drug use, or attacks on women or children.

One of the gang's alleged recruiters, detained last spring, ran drug rehabilitation centers, helping addicts to recover and then forcing them to work for the drug gang or be killed, according to Mexico Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna.

La Familia is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the handful of other Mexican gangs that control the flow of drugs into the United States, fueled by Colombian cocaine suppliers. The Sinaloa, Juarez, Gulf and Tijuana cartels have roots that go back many years, even decades.

But in its short history, La Familia is believed to have emerged as the biggest supplier of methamphetamine to the United States and, increasingly, a peddler of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs.

Complaints that were unsealed across the country portray an organization that spread deep into Middle America, down to small-time sales.

In Colorado, authorities seized 8 kilograms of cocaine, 3 pounds of methamphetamine and $313,785.

A federal grand jury has indicted 11 members or associates of La Familia from the Western Slope in Colorado, and six of them have been arrested so far, prosecutors said.

In Oklahoma, authorities seized about 20 pounds of methamphetamine, two pounds of cocaine, six weapons and several thousand dollars. They identified Ruben Garcia, 29, as a major supplier in the northeast part of the state.

Agents spotted Garcia and his partners dealing drugs over several months at restaurants, grocery stores and Wal-Mart parking lots in the Tulsa area, according to court documents. In one tapped phone call Oct. 9, Garcia counseled a supplier in Mexico who helped arrange a shipment in McAllen, Texas, that the easiest way to smuggle drugs is welded inside tire rims of vehicles.

Court records do not list an attorney for Garcia.

In North Carolina, targeted cells operated from the Raleigh area to the eastern cities of Rocky Mount and Greenville, a region with a large Hispanic population to help the targets blend in and quick access to three interstate highways. They made four arrests Wednesday but totaled 49 arrests over the past year.

In Nashville, after more than a year of surveillance, agents converged on a home when two people arrived in a Toyota Camry from Atlanta Aug. 14, according to a complaint. A search of the vehicle discovered hidden compartments that "contained nine similarly wrapped packages, each of which were the size of a kilogram of cocaine." One package tested positive for cocaine.

Inside the home, agents found drug ledgers, a money counter and a loaded pistol. At another home, they found about 50 pounds of marijuana, several loaded handguns and two bulletproof vests.

Texas Child Protective Services removed 20 children from houses in the Dallas area when authorities executed 44 search warrants, said James Capra, the DEA's special agent in charge in Dallas. All the homes where children were found had drugs, guns or cash derived from drug sales.

The sting reached into small towns hundreds of miles from Mexico.

Nine arrests were made in Monroe, Wash., with a population of about 16,000 and home to the state's largest prison about 25 miles northeast of Seattle. None seemed to be doing any retail drug dealing, Monroe police Cmdr. Steve Clopp said.

"I would say that they were well-integrated members of the community," Clopp said. "A lot of them keep up the everyday appearance of work and family."

In the Inland Empire, a cluster of east Los Angeles suburbs where 25 people were arrested and 156 pounds of methamphetamine seized, most suspects are illegal immigrants from Mexico who came to the United States to work for La Familia, said Stephen Azzam, DEA assistant special agent in charge in Riverside, Calif.

Methamphetamine was shipped from the Inland Empire, an area with three interstate highways, to cities including Atlanta and Chicago, Azzam said.

La Familia is known as unusually violent, even by Mexico's standards.

After the arrest of one of its leaders in July in Mexico, the cartel launched an offensive against federal forces, killing 18 police officers and two soldiers over a weekend. In the worst attack, 12 federal agents were slain and their tortured bodies piled along a roadside as a warning for all to see.

"They are one of the most violent, if not the most violent, cartel in Mexico right now," said Michael Braun, who retired as the DEA's chief of operations last year.

La Familia operates methamphetamine "superlabs" in Mexico that produce up to 100 pounds of the drug in eight hours, a sharp contrast to small-time labs in the United States that have supplied American addicts, said Braun.

The organization was founded around 2004 and really took off in 2006, Braun said.

The arrests in places such as Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles suggest that its U.S. distribution network is sophisticated, said Scott Stewart, an analyst at the Stratfor consultancy in Austin, Texas, who follows the Mexican drug trade.

"Those are beautiful interstate (highway) hubs," Stewart said. "It's looking they have ramped up very quickly."

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Garbage trucks lead to discovery of dead Fla. girl

Photo credit: AP | Grandparents of Somer Thompson, Phillip and Debbie Bowling, are escorted back to Somer's parent's house after addressing the media in Orange Park, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Authorities believe a body found under trash in a landfill is that of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, a north Florida girl who vanished on her walk home from school, the sheriff in charge of the case said Thursday.



A young girl signed a card on Thursday at a memorial for Somer Renee Thompson outside her home in Orange Park, Fla. Somer's body was discovered Wednesday in a Georgia landfill.


Map shows route to school of Orange Park, Florida, missing girl

Sabra and daughter Victoria Ray pay their respects at a shrine made in memory of Somer Thompson across the street from where Somer lived in Orange Park, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Authorities believe a body found under trash in a landfill is that of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, a north Florida girl who vanished on her walk home from school, the sheriff in charge of the case said Thursday.


This undated photo released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows Somer Renee Thompson, 7, who was last seen Monday Oct. 19, 2009 in Orange Park, Fla. A Florida Ambert Alert has been issued for Somer Thompson.



After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.

They sorted through more than 225 tons of garbage before their worst fears were realized: Sticking out of the rubbish were a child's lifeless legs.

Sheriff Rick Beseler said the quick discovery of Somer's body on Wednesday, two days after she disappeared, may have saved precious evidence that could lead to her killer.

"Had we not done this tactic, I believe that body would have been buried beneath hundreds of tons of debris, probably would have gone undiscovered forever," he said Thursday.

An autopsy to establish the cause of death was performed Thursday, but authorities would not disclose their findings. At a news conference, Beseler would not say if Somer had been sexually assaulted or answer other questions about the condition of the body.

"I fear for our community until we bring this person in. This is a heinous crime that's been committed," Beseler said. "And we're going to work as hard as we can to make this community safe."

Searching landfills is common when children disappear, but it is unusual to try to zero in on them more efficiently by tracking a neighborhood's garbage trucks, said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

"Time is the enemy in these cases and the sheriff used every resource," Allen said.

The sheriff said police have questioned more than 155 registered sex offenders in the area so far. State online records show 88 sex offenders live in Orange Park, a Jacksonville suburb of about 9,000 people just south of Jacksonville Naval Air Station.

Beseler would not say whether investigators believe the crime was committed by more than one person.

Somer's father and other family members were "torn up" upon hearing the news, aunt Laura Holt said.

As for the killer or killers, "I don't think they deserve to live," Holt said. "I don't think there's anything worse that a person can do — to kill a child and dump her in the dump like a piece of trash?"

The girl disappeared in a heavily populated residential area about a mile from a stretch of fast-food restaurants and other businesses. Investigators will presumably try to pinpoint the trash bin or garbage can where she was dumped, based on the trash around her and the truck's pickup route.

Tuesday was trash day in Somer's neighborhood, and it was Detective Bruce Owens' idea to track the garbage trucks to the landfill they use in Folkston, Ga., 48 miles way.

"At that time I realized that this is probably not going to turn out good," the 10-year veteran of the Clay County Sheriff's Office told The Florida Times-Union. But he said he had been expecting to find perhaps a backpack or a piece of clothing, not a body.

The sheriff said he had told the girl's mother, Diena Thompson, to prepare for the worst, and called her after receiving the news Wednesday night.

"Needless to say, she was absolutely devastated," Beseler said. "It was the hardest phone call I've ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that."

Somer vanished on Monday during her mile-long walk home from school. Authorities said she squabbled with another child and walked ahead of the group. She was last seen outside a vacant house that was on her route home, sheriff's spokeswoman Mary Justino said. Investigators are examining the house for evidence, Justino said.

On Thursday, flowers and dozens of teddy bears were heaped around an oak tree across the street from Somer's home where about 200 people gathered for a candlelight vigil in front of the family's home just after sundown.

Diena Thompson came out to thank the group who sang "Amazing Grace" and "You Are My Sunshine," then recited the Lord's Prayer.

"I wish I could hug every one of you," Thompson said. "I love every one of you."

Neighbor Carter Beukema shouted his comments about if the accused killer goes to trial: "I hope I'm on the jury. He will pay."

Somer "was always happy unless she couldn't find anyone to play with," neighbor Robert Ocain said. "She trusted anybody. Honestly, I think all the kids around here do."

At the tree, Catherine Sullivan held her teary-eyed 5-year-old daughter, Nya Frederick. They drove to the Thompsons' neighborhood from Jacksonville because Sullivan wanted to show her child the dangers of being too friendly with strangers.

"She seemed to understand when I explained to her her mommy wouldn't see her anymore," the mother said.

Investigators on Thursday intensified their search for evidence in the slaying of a 7-year-old Florida girl whose body was discovered Wednesday afternoon in a southeast Georgia landfill after a nationwide two-day hunt for her when she did not return home from school.

The authorities in Clay County, Fla., said they identified the body as that of Somer Renee Thompson of Orange Park, Fla., from a birthmark on her left shin and her clothing. An autopsy was performed Thursday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Savannah to determine the cause of death.

“There is a child killer on the loose, and that’s why we’re going to catch this person and bring him to justice,” Sheriff Rick Beseler of Clay County said early Thursday at a news conference outside Jacksonville, Fla. “This is a heinous crime that’s been committed. I fear for our community until we bring this person in.”

Sheriff Beseler said investigators got their first break in the case when they decided to follow the trail of garbage trucks from the neighborhood where Somer disappeared. Garbage was collected Tuesday in nine trucks and taken to the Chesser Island Road Landfill, near Folkston, Ga., about 50 miles from where Somer was last seen. Investigators sorted through more than 100,000 tons of garbage.

Later on Thursday afternoon, the spokeswoman for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Mary Justino, said investigators were still sorting through the trash looking for forensic clues. Officers were also checking 470 “relevant” tips they had received, Ms. Justino said.

According to various news reports, Somer had gotten into an argument with a friend on Monday while walking home from Grove Park Elementary School, less than a mile away, and stormed off alone.

Sheriff Beseler would not release details about the abduction, but Ms. Justino said later that the police had questioned nearly all the registered sex offenders in the area. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 161 sex offenders live within five miles of Somer’s home, and Ms. Justino said that as of Thursday afternoon, investigators had been able to speak to all but five of them.

“I don’t think that is shocking or surprising,” David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes against Children Research Center in New Hampshire, said of the number of sex offenders living in the area.

Dr. Finkelhor added in a telephone interview on Thursday: “I am of the opinion that these kinds of crimes have declined. They are shocking and galvanizing to the communities where they occur. But some of the research suggests that the effort we have made, both in flushing out sex offenders, incarcerating them and doing things like registering them and keeping tabs on them, are among the things responsible for the decline.”

Sheriff Beseler said he had told Diena Thompson, Somer’s mother, to be prepared for the worst when a body was found after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, and he said he called her again at 9 p.m. to tell her that the body was Somer’s.

“Needless to say, she was absolutely devastated,” the sheriff said. “It was the hardest phone call I’ve ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that.”


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Passenger jet pilots suspended after 'falling asleep and overshooting airport by 150 miles'

Both Northwest Airlines pilots have been suspended while the incident is investigated


A Northwest Airlines flight carrying 144 passengers from San Diego to Minneapolis lost contact with air controllers for more than an hour and overflew its destination by 150 miles, officials said on Thursday.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the two pilots of Flight 188, an Airbus A320, told authorities after landing safely on Wednesday night that they had become distracted during a "heated discussion about airline policy."

The NTSB said on Thursday it would review the plane's flight data and voice recorders and interview the pilots. Among other issues, investigators will explore crew fatigue to see if the pilots were tired, the NTSB said.

Northwest is owned by Delta Air Lines, which said the pilots had been relieved from active flying pending completion of the NTSB investigation and an internal probe by Delta.

Safety board investigations can take several months to complete.

The plane was flying at 37,000 feet when it lost radio contact between 8 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. EDT.

Flight 188 was 150 miles off course by the time the crew re-established communications and requested permission to turn around, officials said.

Airport police boarded the plane in Minneapolis to ensure there had not been a hijacking or other criminal activity, a spokesman for the Minneapolis-St Paul Airport said.

Military authorities were alerted during the incident and put fighter jets on stand-by status temporarily, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.

It was the second unusual incident involving a U.S. airliner this week.

On Monday, a Delta Boeing 767 with 182 passengers landed on a taxiway instead of its assigned runway at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport. The taxiway, which was parallel to the runway, was active but cleared of ground traffic.

Aviation chiefs in the U.S. are investigating to see if the pilots of a passenger jet with 144 people on board fell asleep as it prepared to land.

A Northwest Airlines flight overshot its intended destination by 150 miles before the crew realised they had missed their airport.

The two pilots of the Airbus A320 told investigators they been involved in a 'heated' argument in the cockpit and had become distracted.

But air traffic controllers said they were unable to raise the pilots for over an hour as it flew at 37,000ft across the state of Minnesota.

Officials are concerned that the pilots, who have not been named, dropped off while the jet was on auto-pilot.

A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that they are looking into pilot fatigue as a reason for the overshoot.

'We will look into fatigue issues,' said NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said.

The Northwest Airlines flight was enroute from San Diego, California, to Minneapolis on Wednesday evening.

Controllers were unable to speak with the pilot or co-pilot to give them information about their landing approach as they neared the end of the four hour flight.

The radio silence continued for an hour and 18 minutes.The jet, with 144 passengers and crew on board, was tracked on radar.

The aircraft flew over its intended destination, Minneapolis St Paul International airport, and continued northeast for approximately 150 miles over the next 16 minutes.

The airport's controllers then re-established communication with crew members, who said they had become distracted.

FBI agents and police boarded the plane after it landed safely in Minneapolis amid fears of a hijacking.

Passenger Andrea Allmon said: 'We landed, everyone got ready to get off the plane and suddenly police were getting on the plane and telling us to sit down.

'They went into the cockpit, looked around and then told everyone to get off the plane.'

Both pilots have been suspended while the NTSB investigate the incident. The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder have been taken away for analysis.

Northwest Airlines,which is part of Delta Air Lines, said they were cooperating with the FAA and NTSB in their investigation as well as conducting their own internal investigation.

An airline spokesman said: 'The pilots have been relieved from active flying pending the completion of these investigations.'

It would not be the first time a pilot has fallen asleep at the controls.

Early in 2008, the two pilots of a go! Airlines flight from Honolulu to Hilo, Hawaii fell asleep for at least 18 minutes while in the air.

The plane flew past the airport and out to sea before air traffic controllers finally were able to reach the pilots, who turned the plane around.

The captain later was diagnosed with sleep apnea.


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Abdullah Abdullah, the chief challenger to President Hamid Karzai, said on Wednesday he was prepared for a new vote but left open the possibility of joining a coalition government.


Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, whispers with the U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, as Kai Eide head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is seen, center, during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. Afghanistan's election commission today ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai's votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second round vote.


The U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, gestures to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, as Kai Eide, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is seen on the back ground in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. Afghanistan's election commission today ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai's votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second round vote.


Afghan President Hamid Karzai needed high-level American arm-twisting over several tense days — and meals that included "gallons of tea" and endless platters of lamb — before he finally agreed to a run-off vote in the country's fraud-plagued presidential election.

A senior American official briefed on the meetings by Sen. John Kerry gave The Associated Press details of the negotiations with Karzai. The talks lasted late into several nights, continued through endless meals and went on for hours each day.

President Barack Obama singled out the work of Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, who, the president said, "have been working tirelessly throughout this process." Kerry and Obama were meeting Wednesday in the White House for a full debriefing.

Talks began on Friday and continued through late Tuesday afternoon, hours beyond the scheduled start of a news conference at which Karzai was to have announced his agreement to a second-round ballot.

The official, who spoke anonymously to provide details of the private talks, said Karzai had become "shaky" and was suffering "buyer's remorse" by noon Tuesday. That was shortly before the news conference in which he was to announce his agreement to the run-off. He needed several more hours of convincing, including a long walk with Kerry on the Presidential Palace grounds.

During the extended stroll, the official said, Kerry opened up to Karzai, telling him about his own difficult decision not to challenge the vote count in Ohio on election night in 2004. There were allegations of voting irregularities in favor of incumbent President George W. Bush, and Kerry told Karzai that he knew he could have held up a final outcome for weeks by filing a challenge.

The official said Kerry told Karzai that he had decided then that a challenge was "not in the interests of an already divided and politically weary country."

Kerry first got word Friday that Karzai was balking at holding a new vote and refusing to accept the U.N. voting commission's finding of fraud. Kerry was at dinner in Kabul with Massachusetts troops. Eikenberry alerted the senator to the brewing crisis and the two went unannounced to the Presidential Palace for a nighttime meeting that lasted several hours.

Kerry returned to the place Saturday afternoon, scrubbing plans to travel to Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and on to Pakistan.

On Saturday morning, Kerry met with Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's main challenger and the only candidate who will face the Afghan leader on the next ballot. He also saw U.N. chief of mission Kai Eide, Eikenberry, the British and French ambassadors and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. There also was a sitdown with the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was born in Afghanistan and meeting with Karzai to encourage him to sign on to a new vote.

Meetings between Kerry, Eikenberry and Karzai continued throughout the day and late into the night Saturday. There was progress but no agreement, with Karzai insisting the 1.3 million ballots stripped from his total, leaving him at 48 percent, was unfair and had disenfranchised his supporters.

Senior White House officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity to offer details of the negotiations, said Kerry stayed in Eikenberry's residence in Kabul and conducted his work from the U.S. Embassy, where he stayed in close telephone contact with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, national security adviser James Jones and special Afghan envoy Richard Holbrooke.

Sunday morning, Kerry flew south to Kandahar to visit a U.S. air base and then to Marine Camp Leatherneck to meet troops and receive a briefing. He also visited a tribal shura or council. He and Eikenberry returned to Kabul for more talks with Karzai who "was not in a positive frame of mind." After several hours of meetings that included both Afghan and U.N. election officials, Kerry felt there had been progress but no resolution. He decided he would pick up his schedule and go to Pakistan, with plans to return to Kabul if needed.

On Monday in Pakistan, Kerry had breakfast with Gen. David Petraeus, the chief of the U.S. Central Command, and meetings with Pakistani officials. He then returned to Kabul, hoping to close the deal with Karzai. An agreement was reached late in the day Monday and Karzai agreed to make the announcement Tuesday afternoon at a news conference.

But then at noon Tuesday he got cold feet and needed convincing yet again. That's when he and Kerry took their long walk through the grounds of the Presidential Palace. Karzai visited a small mosque on the compound to clear his head.

Then — at 4:50 p.m. Kabul time — he and Karzai and Eikenberry and a large gathering of officials walked back into the palace to face reporters.

The deal was finally done.

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Mass. man arrested for alleged terror attack plots-'Jihadist' arrested over plot to kill US forces

Tarek Mehanna allegedly travelled to the Middle East for terror training

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Boston Police on duty.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested on federal terrorism-related charges on suspicion of planning attacks inside and outside the United States.

Tarek Mehanna, 27, a resident of Massachusetts, also allegedly sought with co-conspirators to obtain weapons to carry out a random attack on a shopping mall, acting US attorney Michael Loucks said in a statement.

Mehanna is accused of conspiring with a man named Ahmad Abousamra and others from 2001 to May 2008 "to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country and extraterritorial homicide of a US national," the statement said.

A person familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity says the man was arrested early Wednesday. The person was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation.

The person says the man is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury and had two co-conspirators.

Tarek Mehanna (TEH'-rek meh-HAH'-nah), of Sudbury, was arrested in November 2008 on suspicion of lying to authorities about the whereabouts of a man who trained with al-Qaida members with the goal of overthrowing the Somali government.

Mehanna pleaded not guilty and was released on bail. Officials would not immediately say Wednesday whether the man arrested was him.

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a Massachusetts man with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, alleging he and co-conspirators traveled to the Middle East seeking training, discussed attacking a shopping center, and distributed videos promoting holy war.

Tarek Mehanna, 27, from Sudbury, Massachusetts, had been previously indicted in January 2009 for making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other officials in connection with a terrorism investigation, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release on Wednesday.

"Mehanna and the co-conspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall, and that the conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders," the Justice Department said.

Mehanna was arrested at his home on Wednesday morning.

Prosecutors allege that from 2001 to 2008 Mehanna conspired with a man named Ahmad Abousamra and others in an attempt to kill, kidnap or injure people in the United States.

The charges accuse Mehanna and co-conspirators of talking about their desire to participate in Islamist holy war and of their desire to die on the battlefield.

The case comes less than a month after an Afghan-born man, Najibullah Zazi, was accused of plotting a bomb attack against the United States.

Authorities say Zazi took a bomb-making course at an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, had bomb-making notes on his laptop computer and acquired bomb-making materials similar to those used in the 2005 London attacks, buying acetone and hydrogen peroxide at beauty supply stores.

Zazi, an Afghan immigrant and permanent U.S. resident, was indicted late last month on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held in prison without bail.

Tarek Mehanna, 27, was held in Sudbury, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

He is also accused of conspiring to kill people overseas and of seeking terrorist training in the Middle East.

At least two other co-conspirators were involved, officials said.

Detailing the charge against Mr Mehanna, US prosecutors accused him and his alleged co-conspirators of discussing how to obtain automatic weapons before "randomly shooting people in a shopping mall".

They allegedly discussed "the logistics of a mall attack, including co-ordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders," acting US Attorney Michael Loucks said.

However, the plan was eventually abandoned, prosecutors said, because the conspirators could not get hold of the necessary weapons.

The charge alleges that from about 2001 to May 2008, Mr Mehanna conspired with others, plotting to provide material support and resources for use in carrying out a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country and the killing of US nationals outside the US.

"They discussed their desire to participate in violent jihad against American interests and that they would talk about fighting jihad and their desire to die on the battlefield," he said.

They allegedly attempted to radicalise others by watching and distributing jihadi videos.

Mr Mehanna and two of his associates also allegedly travelled to the Middle East in February 2004 to attend a terrorist training camp with the aim of fighting US and allied forces in Iraq.

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Diplomats: Iran agrees to draft deal on uranium

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei awaits the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.


Deputy Secretary of Energy from the U.S. Daniel B. Poneman waits for the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.



Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, front, arrives for a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.


Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, front arrives for a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.


Overview of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran will farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country.


Deputy Secretary of Energy from the U.S. Daniel B. Poneman, left, and Glyn Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, wait for the start of a meeting of delegates from Iran, the U.S. Russia and France, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Vienna's International Center. The talks between the nations focus on a technical issue with huge strategic ramifications, whether Iran is ready to farm out some of its uranium enrichment program to a foreign country. Others are not identified.


The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has agreed to a draft deal on its nuclear program.

In addition, diplomats say the deal would see the country ship out most of its enriched uranium to Russia, stripping Tehran of most of the material it would need to make a nuclear weapon.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday that Iran and the U.S., Russia and France have signed off on a draft deal that he hoped would be approved by the nations' capitals by Friday.

He gave no details. But a diplomat inside the closed meeting told The Associated Press that the draft foresees the export most of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium.

Iran says it is enriching to provide fuel for a future network of nuclear reactors. But enriched uranium can also be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.

Negotiators from three powers and Iran are meeting for a third day in an attempt to persuade Tehran to ship most of its enriched uranium abroad.

An agreement would delay Tehran's potential ability to make a nuclear weapon because enriched uranium can be used for the fissile core of nuclear weapons. Tehran says it is enriching only to make fuel for a planned network of reactors.

The tentative plan envisions Russia enriching the material to a higher grade and then another country turning the uranium into metal fuel rods for Tehran's research reactor.

Iran's interlocutors are the U.S., Russia and France. The talks, which resumed Wednesday, opened Monday and have been repeatedly delayed as the two sides search for agreement.

"We have had very constructive discussions, intensive discussions," Iran's envoy to the atomic energy agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said after the meeting, according to news agencies. "There have been proposals. We had thorough discussions on these issues. We have to thoroughly study this text and have further elaboration in capitals and will come back and reflect."

Iran's drive to master nuclear technology has worried the West and Israel, the Middle East's sole atomic power. Physicists say Iran has produced more than enough reactor-grade nuclear material to convert into a single bomb if it were to withdraw from the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, expel inspectors and begin further refining its supply.

The revelation of a secret uranium enrichment facility in Qum last month added to suspicions that Iran has created an undeclared parallel nuclear program beyond the eyes of international inspectors.

Under the terms of the deal sketched out before this week's meeting, Iran would send up to 80% of its supply of low-enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be further refined, and France, where it would be turned into plates for use in a medical research reactor.

Soltanieh said the U.S. played a key role in this week's talks, which officials said focused on hammering out details of the proposal.

"Iran and the United States discussed technical cooperation about procurement of equipment for the Tehran [research] reactor under the aegis of IAEA," he told Iran's Fars news agency. "The U.S. agreed in principle to cooperate" with Iran.

Anonymous officials quoted by Western news agencies said the deal has been hampered by tensions between Iran and France, which has taken an increasingly hard line on the Iranian nuclear issue under conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration.

Soltanieh alluded to such complications, telling Fars that Russia "is the main partner in the deal for fuel supply, and France can cooperate with Russia if it is willing to do so."

By reducing Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium below the threshold for building a bomb, such a deal might temporarily ease pressure on the Obama administration, which has vowed to attempt diplomatic outreach to overcome 30 years of hostility with Iran and forge a deal over the nuclear program.

But if approved, the deal could also buy time for Iran to continue expanding its ability to produce nuclear fuel at its facility in Natanz.

"It's a big risk for Obama because the deal implicitly accepts Iran's right to enrichment," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation specialist and former U.S. diplomat at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "And it delays the sanctions that are seen as part of the key to an ultimate solution."





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