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LAPD cop killer gone but suffering remains for 3 police forces, victims' loved ones
• BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) -- As soon as he heard officers were chasing the suspected cop killer in a stolen truck, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Roger Loftis was certain: His buddy Jeremiah MacKay would be there.
• In 15 years with the department, "Jer" had earned about a dozen and a half awards for 10851s -- the California penal code for grand theft auto. Once, while heading to a bar to celebrate another award, MacKay noticed there were no keys in the ignition of the car next to him at a traffic light, and he veered off.
• He waltzed into the bar two hours later, a grin stretched across that fair, freckled face, a copy of an auto recovery record in his hand.
• Last week, Loftis called his fishing, drinking and golfing buddy to see how he was doing. He knew the 35-year-old detective had been working around the clock, scouring the San Bernardino Mountains in the search for former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner.
• "If that guy's still on this mountain," MacKay told him, "I'm going to find him."
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In Bangladesh, demands grow for execution of man convicted of war crimes during 1971 conflict
• DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- For many in Bangladesh, the "V'' for victory sign was more than they could bear.
• They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings and rapes during their independence war. But there was a smiling Abdul Quader Mollah apparently celebrating his life sentence -- given in place of an expected death sentence -- for his role in the killing of 381 civilians.
• Within hours, thousands of university students demanding his death poured into the streets of Dhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
• "I could not take it. That was really insulting," Gazi Nasiruddin Khokon, a protester who works for an online newspaper, said of Mollah's victorious gesture after his sentencing last week. "If we don't get proper justice for such crimes, where would we stand in the future?"
• Mollah was convicted by a special war crimes tribunal that was set up to hold (Continued on page 39)
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