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E.P.A. review of Keystone pipelineA report on the Keystone XL pipelineemphasized that the recent drop in oilpricesmight mean that construction ofthe pipeline could increase planet-warming emissions. nytimes.com/politics

Cactus doctor makes house callsHomeowners in Arizona often call RileLeblanc, who has turned a passion forthe plants into a business. nytimes.com/us

Pope honors archbishop as martyrPope Francis opens the way for theSalvadoran archbishop scar Romero,who was shot to death at the altar in1980, to be beatified. nytimes.com/world

10 wince-worthy Super Bowl lossesThe Seattle Seahawks defeat in theSuper Bowl, with the team trailing by 4points at the 1-yard line in the finalminute, was painful, but there areseveral other candidates for toughestloss to swallow. nytimes.com/football

One baby, 3 genetic parentsDespite warnings that a new ethicalthreshold was being crossed, Britishlawmakers have voted to allow the invitro creation of babies using the DNAof three people. WORLDNEWS, 6

How Iraq subsidizes Islamic StateRivers of money still flow fromBaghdad to pay civil servants interritory that is now controlled by thejihadists, writes Aki Peritz. OPINION, 8

Chinamoves to free upmoney, tooChinas central bank, in cutting reserverequirements for its lenders, has joinedan ever-growing list of central banks inrelaxingmonetary policy. BUSINESS, 14

Sony earnings surprise marketsAfter a rough fewmonths, Sony gotsome relief as net profit almost doubledanalysts expectations. The companyreduced its loss projections. BUSINESS, 15

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CRIMEA: THE THEME PARK An exhibit at Puy du Fou, a popular theme park in France. Theparks operators are now planning to open a historical theme park in Crimea. BUSINESS, 14

Jordaniansexecute 2to avengepilots death

Ex-operativefor Al Qaedasays Saudiswere patronsWASHINGTON

BY SCOTT SHANE

In highly unusual testimony inside thefederal supermax prison, a former oper-ative for Al Qaeda has described prom-inent members of Saudi Arabias royalfamily as major donors to the terroristnetwork in the late 1990s and claimedthat he discussed a plan to shoot downAir Force One with a Stinger missilewith a staff member at the Saudi Em-bassy inWashington.The Qaeda member, Zacarias Mous-

saoui, has received a diagnosis of men-tal illness but was found competent tostand trial on terrorismcharges.Hewassentenced to life in prison in 2006 and isheld in themost secure prison in the fed-eral system, in Florence, Colo.Last year, he wrote to Judge George

B. Daniels of United States DistrictCourt for the Southern District of NewYork, who is presiding over a lawsuitfiled against Saudi Arabia by relativesof those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, ter-rorist attacks. He said he wanted to tes-tify in the case, and after lengthy negoti-ations with Justice Department officialsand the federal Bureau of Prisons, ateam of lawyers was permitted to enterthe prison and question him for twodays last October.In a statement Monday night, the

Saudi Embassy noted that the nationalSept. 11 Commission had rejected alle-gations that the Saudi government orSaudi officials had funded Al Qaeda.Moussaoui is a deranged criminal

whose own lawyers presented evidencethat he was mentally incompetent, thestatement said. His words have nocredibility.

The allegations from Mr. Moussaouicome at a sensitive time in Saudi-Amer-ican relations, less than twoweeks afterthe death of the countrys longtimemonarch, King Abdullah, and the suc-cession of his brother, King Salman.There has often been tension between

Saudi leaders and the Obama adminis-tration since the Arab uprisings of 2011and the efforts to manage the regionsresulting turmoil. Mr. Moussaoui de-scribes meeting in Saudi Arabia withSalman, then the crown prince, and oth-er Saudi royals while delivering themletters fromOsama bin Laden.

AMMAN, JORDAN

BY RODNORDLANDAND RANYA KADRI

Jordan responded rapidly on Wednes-day to the release of a video by the Is-lamic State showing the horrific deathof a Jordanian fighter pilot, executingtwo prisoners convicted of terrorism of-fenses, according to the official newsagency Petra.Their predawn executions came after

the release on Tuesday of the video, inwhich the pilot, First Lt. Moaz al-Kasas-beh, is shown being burned alive.Both prisoners executed Wednesday

had already been sentenced to death.Ziad al-Karbouli, a top lieutenant of AlQaeda in Iraq, was accused as one of theplanners of the 2005 hotel bombings inAmman that killed at least 57 people;Sajida al-Rishawi was the only one offour suicide bombers in that attackwhose explosive vest failed to detonate.When relatives learned Tuesday

night that the Islamic State had re-leased a video showing the death ofLieutenant Kasasbeh, they tried to keepit from his mother, Issaf, and his wife,Anwar. They switched off the televisionand tried to wrest a smartphone out ofhis wifes hand, but she had alreadyseen amobile news bulletin.Anwar ran crying into the street, call-

ing her husbands name and saying,Please,God, let it not be true. Issaf fellto the floor screaming, pulled her headscarf off and started tearing at her hair.That was even before they knew how

he had been killed. No one dared letthem know right away that LieutenantKasasbehs tormentors had apparentlyburned him alive inside a cage, a killingthat was soon described as the mostbrutal in the groups bloody history.On Tuesday, Anwar Kasasbeh had

been laughing at thememory of her hus-bands delight when he discovered thather family kept rabbits in their home.After they married, her parents gavethem the rabbits to take care of.It was so funny, he was so happy

about those rabbits, Anwar told a visit-ing reporter about her 26-year-old hus-band. He told me how he alwayswanted rabbits.The video, with its references to the

Islamic States punishment of nationslike Jordan that joined theAmerican-ledcoalition against it, appeared to be an at-tempt to cow theArab nations and othercountries that have agreed to battle themilitants in Syria. So far, it appeared tohave had the opposite effect in Jordan,which suggested its resolve had been

Video of burning stiffensAmmans resolve to stayin coalition to fight ISIS

Moussaoui details plansto down Air Force Onewith princes support

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Taiwan crash Rescuers pulling a passenger out of a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a river in Taipei, Taiwan, onWednesday. The turboprop plane had just leftTaipeis domestic airport for the island of Kinmenwhen it reported engine trouble. Emergency responderswere still counting the dead into the evening. PAGE 3

Arrest paper for Argentine leader foundBUENOS AIRES

BY SIMON ROMERO

Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whosemysteriousdeathhasgrippedArgentina,had drafted a request for the arrest ofPresident Cristina Fernndez de Kirch-ner, accusingher of trying to shield Irani-an officials fromresponsibility in the 1994bombingof a Jewish centerhere, the leadinvestigator into his death has said.The 26-page document, which was

found in the garbage at Mr. Nismansapartment, also sought the arrest ofHctor Timerman, Argentinas foreignminister. Both Mrs. Kirchner and Mr.Timerman have repeatedly denied Mr.Nismans accusation that they tried toreach a secret deal with Iran to lift inter-national arrest warrants for Iranian of-ficials wanted in connection with thebombing.The revelation on Tuesday that Mr.

Nisman had drafted documents seekingthe arrest of the president and the for-

eign minister illustrates the heightenedtensions between the prosecutor andthe government before he was founddead on Jan. 18 at his apartment with agunshotwound to his head.He had beenscheduled the next day to provide de-tails before Congress about his accusa-

tions againstMrs. Kirchner.Itwould haveprovoked a crisiswith-

out precedents in Argentina, said Ser-gio Berensztein, a political analyst,about the impact of the arrest requestsif they had been issued. He noted thatprevious legal cases had shaken Argen-tinas political establishment, but heemphasized that this case involved a re-quest to arrest a sitting president.It would have been a scandal on a

level previously unseen, Mr. Ber-

Mockingbird author revealsa sequel of sorts, from the 50sBY ALEXANDRA ALTER

For more than half a century, To Kill aMockingbird has stood apart as a sin-gular American literary masterpiece, aperennial best seller that has provokedcountless classroom discussions aboutracial and social injustice. It brought in-stant and overwhelming fame to its en-igmatic author, Harper Lee, who soonretreated from the spotlight to her na-tive Monroeville, Ala. She never pub-lished another book, leaving her mil-lions of fans yearning for more.Now, at age 88, Ms. Lee has revealed

that she wrote another novel after all a sequel of sorts to To Kill a Mocking-bird, featuring an aging Atticus Finch

and his grown daughter, Scout.On Tuesday, Ms. Lees publisher an-

nounced its plans to release that novel,recently rediscovered, which Ms. Leecompleted in the mid-1950s, before shewrote ToKill AMockingbird. The 304-page book, Go Set aWatchman, takesplace 20 years later in the same fictionaltown, Maycomb, Ala., and unfolds asJean Louise Finch, or Scout, the feistychild heroine of To Kill a Mocking-bird, returns to visit her father. Thenovel, which is scheduled for releasethis July, tackles the racial tensionsbrewing in the South in the 1950s anddelves into the complex relationship be-tween father and daughter.

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Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life prisonterm after being convicted of terrorism.

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After the success of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee never published another book.

The 26-page document wasdiscovered in the trash at thehome of the dead prosecutor.

ISIS KILLINGS STIR JAPANESE POLITICSThe beheadings of two Japanese by theIslamic State have kindled sharp debateover the use of Japansmilitary. PAGE 3

EMIRATES DISENGAGED FROM ISIS EFFORTThe United Arab Emirates endedairstrikes in December after aJordanian pilot was captured. PAGE 3

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