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Current events of September 27, 2006 (2006-09-27 ) (Wednesday)
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A hostage situation at Platte Canyon High School near Bailey, Colorado , United States ends with the death of the gunman. A wounded female student later died.(CNN) (KCNC/AP)
The U.S. Republican Party selects Minneapolis–St. Paul as the venue for its 2008 convention . (Los Angeles Times)
Legislation passes in the U.S. House and Senate giving President Bush authority to detain, interrogate and try terrorism detainees before military commissions . (San Francisco Examiner)
A funeral service for Empress Maria Fyodorovna of Russia is held at the Gothic Chapel at Peterhof . (Interfax)
U.S. Democrats urge the Bush administration to release in full a report linking the Iraq conflict and global terrorism . (BBC)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict :
An Israeli court sentences Asher Weisgan to four consecutive life sentences plus an additional 12 years in prison for murdering four Palestinian workmen and wounding a fifth in August 2005 . Weisgan must also pay more than 1,000,000 shekels ($US 235,000) in compensation to the victims' families. (Haaretz)
Israel Defense Forces raid several Palestinian towns, arresting eight people in Jenin , seven people in Hebron , three people in Nablus , and twenty people in Khan Yunis . (IMEMC) , [1] , [2] , [3] .
An Israeli military court has ordered the release of the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister , Nasser Ed-Deen Al Sha'er , who had been captured by the Israel Defense Forces on 19 August , as there was not "enough evidence". Al Sha’er will not be allowed to enter Ramallah , where the Palestinian Government offices are located, and will not be allowed to leave the Palestinian territories until October 15 . Another 23 Palestinian legislators had their remand extended. (BBC) (IMEMC)