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The 'Prestige  oil tanker is seen



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          broken in two before sinking into


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          the Atlantic Ocean  150 miles off



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spain's coast in the Atlantic



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ocean on Tuesday,  November 19,


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2002.  The stricken  Bahamas-



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          registered tanker carrying 77,000


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          metric tons (20.5 million gallons)



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         was towed  152 miles off the coast


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         when it sank, threatening an envi­



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ronmental disaster off the north­


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         west coast of Spain and Portugal.
























                                                                                                     The  Washington state Sheriffs                                                                     In this view from WJZ-TV video,



                                                                                                     Department released this  1995                                                                     the car in which John Allen


                                                                                                     booking mug of John Allen                                                                          Muhammad (41) and his “step­



                                                                                                     Muhammad on Thursday, Octo­                                                                        son” John Lee Malvo (17) were


                                                                                                     ber 24, 2002.                                                                                      arrested at a Maryland roadside



                                                                                                                 Muhammad was arrested                                                                  rest stop early on October 24,


                                                                                                     early Thursday for questioning in                                                                  2002,  is pushed into a facility in



                                                                                                     the wave of deadly sniper attacks                                                                  Rockville,  Maryland.


                                                                                                     after he was found sleeping in a                                                                               Muhammad and Malvo faced



                                                                                                     car at a Maryland rest stop.                                                                       charges on the federal and state


                                                                                                                                                                                                        levels for incidents in the three-



                                                                                                                                                                                                        week wave of deadly sniper at­



                                                                                                                                                                                                        tacks that terrorized the Washing­


                                                                                                                                                                                                        ton, D.C., area.  Malvo, who ad­



                                                                                                                                                                                                        mitted to several of the slayings,


                                                                                                                                                                                                        was to be tried as an adult.




























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