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by Mark Silva

Who kills an abortion provider?

Police in Wichita, Kan., say Scott P. Roeder did.

They have arrested the 51-year-old from Merriam, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, in the Sunday church-hall slaying of Dr. George Tiller of Wichita.

In the rear window of the 1993 Ford Taurus that Roeder was driving: a red rose, a symbol favored by abortion opponents. On the rear of the car: a Christian fish bearing the name of Jesus.

The Kansas City Star's Judy L. Thomas offers a picture of the alleged assailant of the 67-year-old physician who was one of the few in the nation willing to perform late-term abortions, who had been shot before and whose clinic had been bombed. Kansas City, Roeder allegedly wrote, is "the nation's abortion capital'' -- and it was time that "some attention'' be brought to Tiller's work, a Scott Roeder allegedly posted on the Internet.

Those who know Roeder say he viewed the killng of abortion doctors as an act of justifiable homicide, the Star reports:

"I know that he believed in justifiable homicide," said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. "I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn."

See the profile of the alleged murderer from Merriam, Kan., in the Star.

Verizon Wireless will introduce phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software "in the near future," its chief executive said Thursday.

So far, only T-Mobile USA has introduced an Android phone in the U.S. Several manufacturers are making phones with the software, including Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Inc.

Previously, Verizon Wireless has been noncommittal to Android.

"Conspiracy theorists ... said that we would never do anything with Google, but we have had some very good dialogue with Google," Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told an investor conference in New York, according to a transcript. "We like what we see and we will, in fact, be bringing Android devices to the marketplace in the near future."

McAdam also said that the country's largest cellular carrier will carry the Pre, an eagerly awaited new phone from Palm Inc., within six months.

However, McAdam may have misspoken: Sprint Nextel Corp. spokesman James Fisher said Sprint will be the exclusive carrier for the Pre at least until the end of the year. It was the first time Sprint confirmed the minimum length of the exclusivity period.

The Pre goes on sale June 6, and is seen as a chance for Palm to revitalize a line that has been losing out to Apple Inc.'s iPhone and BlackBerrys from Research In Motion Ltd. The phone features a touch screen, a slide-out keyboard and a new operating system, WebOS. Sprint, which has been losing subscribers, also needs a hit device.

McAdam added that Verizon Wireless will launch within six months a previously unknown Palm device, a "cousin" to the Pre. Palm has said it is making WebOS the basis for an entire new line.

The Verizon Wireless CEO complimented Motorola, which is struggling to turn around shrinking phone sales.

"You'll see Motorola back into our portfolio. We feel very good about the progress that the Motorola...

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