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American killed in Olympics attack

An American man was killed and another U.S. tourist attending the Olympics was wounded in downtown Beijing Saturday by a Chinese man who then killed himself, according to China's official news agency, Xinhua. ...full story at CNN

from CNN on Sat, Aug 09 2008

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