Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 8/8/05
AP Cutline: Artist's impression of British al Qaida suspect Haroon Rashid Aswat, 30, appearing at the Magistrates Court next to Belmarsh High Security Prison, east London, Monday Aug 8, 2005, accused of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in the United States. See Item No. 2.
Joseph Duncan III is a computer expert who bragged online, days before authorities believe he killed three people in Idaho, about a tell-all journal that would not be accessed for decades, authorities say. Now, according to The Associated Press, experts are working diligently to crack the encrypted codes that might allow them to access the journal that could provide details to his wanderings around the country and possible involvement in other crimes here.
1. Eric Devericks/Seattle Times spins the "The Wheel of Jihad Justification du Jour" wheel here.
2. Haroon Rashid Aswat, accused of trying to set up a training camp in Bly, Ore., for jihad fighters, was arrested in Britain yesterday on a U.S. warrant, according to police reports and The Seattle Times here.
3. St. Martin's College, a 110-year-old private Catholic school in Lacey, Wash., is changing its name to distinguish itself from community colleges that are opting to drop the "community" from their names here.
4. In North Idaho, the creme de la creme of tattoo artists tackle real challenges: a horse's eyes. And the eyeliner the tattoers apply isn't for cosmetic purposes either, according to Christi Wilhelm, Coeur d'Alene Press, here.
5. A controversial church group, headed by William Freeman, which has targetted students for proselytizing at the University of Washington and Arizona State, has set up shop in a group of houses across from Spokane's Whitworth College here.
6. IMHO-NW: The Columbian (Editorial from Aug. 7, 1945, re: dropping of A-bomb), Andrew Hinkelman/The (Kalispell, Mont.) Daily Inter Lake (NCAA's goofy Indian mascot policy), D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (Monday's Huckleberries column), Susan Paynter/PI (The coach-kid connection), John Blanchette/Spokesman-Review (WSU QB Josh Swogger),
*A 32,000-acre fire has burned nearly three dozen buildings near Pomeroy, Wash., west of Lewiston, Idaho, here.
*Kim Clark, Harvard University's Dean of Business, has answered his church leader's call to become president of Rexburg's BYU-Idaho here.
*Boise State growth is uprooting neighbors from homes here.
Orbusmas provides the rest of the Northwest here.
