Subject: Gunman shot dead in court rampage

From: "Nita Palmer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:55:42 +0100

The man and his wife were attending a court hearing in Reggio Emilia as part of separation proceedings when he pulled out a gun and pointed it at his wife and her brother, then started shooting randomly, police said.The Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran in December for refusing to suspend enrichment, and modestly increased them in March after Tehran stepped up the program. Iran responded by giving the U.N. nuclear watchdog less access to its nuclear facilities."He was shooting like crazy at everybody," officer Antonio Turi said.On Tuesday in Tehran, Putin warned the United States not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran.The five permanent U.N. Security Council members, plus Germany, have been working together to try to find a way to get Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. The U.S. and some allies allege that the program is cover for a weapons program. Iran says it is intended purely for peaceful energy production.Russian officials could not immediately be reached to verify the report and the Iranian news agency provided no details on what Putin had proposed.Putin has bluntly spelled out his disagreements with Washington, saying last week that he saw no "objective data" to prove Western claims that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.Officials close to hard-liners within Iran's ruling Islamic establishment said they believed the proposal by Putin was a type of "time out" on U.N. sanctions against Iran, if Tehran suspends uranium enrichment. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue.At talks Friday with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he ridiculed U.S. plans for a missile defense system in eastern Europe, supposedly to stop an Iranian attack.High demand has pushed upward the price of a pair of tickets for the final to as much as $3,000 in eBay auctions.With Paris hotels booked full many fans are staying 30 kilometers (20 miles) outside the city in hotels around Disneyland's Paris resort.The ANSA news agency identified the man as Klirim Fejzo, his wife as Vyosa Demcolli and her brother as Arjan Demcolli, all Albanians.SNCF has insisted the industrial action would not continue into the weekend. "The main reason for Putin's visit to Iran was to convey this message personally to the ultimate power inIran," one official said.About 80,000 rugby fans are expected to attend Saturday's World Cup final between England and South Africa.The wife was taken to a hospital, where she was declared clinically dead, Italian media reported. Her brother died at the scene.