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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Niese does it all as Mets?blast Phillies

By HOWIE RUMBERG

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 10:39 p.m. ET July 3, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) - David Wright could hear it. So did manager Terry Collins. The Mets were roughing up on one of their fiercest rivals and a boisterous crowd at Citi Field was enjoying every minute.

So what if the tickets were initially bought in anticipation of fireworks night? The Mets put on an all-around pretty display of their own, and Collins hopes that's what sticks with the fans.

Jonathon Niese had a two-run single to back his fine performance on the mound Tuesday and Wright hit a three-run homer to break open the New York Mets' 11-1 romp over the reeling Philadelphia Phillies.

"Our guys noticed it. No question about it. We noticed the size of the crowd tonight. It was great and I think that helped a lot. I think that helped the energy of the club to rise up," Collins said. "I just hope they saw a team they want to come back and watch."

The Mets put on a clinic of clutch hitting and slick fielding in handing the Phillies their sixth straight loss. The only thing they did wrong was run into two outs on the basepaths.

Niese (7-3) pitched a season-high eight innings and gave up three hits, one a homer to Carlos Ruiz. His hit in the second inning put New York up for good in front of 42,516, the highest attendance in the four-year history of Citi Field..

"The energy is just different," Wright said. "You just feel that kind of electricity and that rubs off on the players for sure. Hopefully there is a lot more of that to come."

Ruben Tejada had an RBI single among his three hits. He also put on a show at shortstop, too.

Daniel Murphy finished a homer short of the cycle, doubled twice, drove in four runs and made a leaping catch and diving stop at second base.

Tejada led off the game with an 11-pitch out and it rarely got much easier for Vance Worley (4-5) and Philadelphia's bullpen. New York increased its NL-best run total with two outs to 178 and had 15 hits overall.

Wright, tied for second behind Ruiz in the NL batting title race, drove in four runs with an RBI grounder in the first and the long ball to straightaway center field in the sixth that made it 9-1.

"It just seems like with each win we gain confidence," Wright said.

Ruiz homered on Niese's first pitch of the second inning into the party deck in left field. But it was no party for the falling Phillies. They dropped to a season-worst 10 games under .500 at 36-46.

It's been quite a reversal of fortunes for the two rivals. Finally almost at full health for the first time in several seasons, the Mets have pitched their way to second place in the NL East. The five-time division champion Phillies, meanwhile, have been beset by injuries and a stunning subpar performance from its staff - other than All-Star Cole Hamels. And he's been the subject of recent trade speculation.

Philadelphia manager Charlie Manuel said before the game that the three weeks leading up to the non-waiver trade deadline on July 31 are crucial for the Phillies, who have been in a tailspin since ace Roy Halladay went out with an injury to the right upper back. They were 25-24 after Halladay's last start on May 27 but entered Tuesday with the club's worst record at the midpoint of the season since 1997.

Halladay and Ryan Howard might return right after the All-Star break.

Manuel was realistic about rushing back Howard, who has been out the entire season with an Achilles injury.

"He ain't gonna make a difference in 11-1, unless he has a helluva night," Manuel said.

The Mets jumped on Worley in the second and could've had a big inning if it weren't for a couple of good throws that nailed aggressive baserunnsers.

With the bases loaded, Niese singled in two runs to match his career high for RBIs in a game. But Josh Thole was thrown out by center fielder Shane Victorino trying to advance from first to third on the play.

Murphy followed Tejada's single with an RBI double, the Mets fifth straight hit. A perfect relay from left fielder John Mayberry to shortstop Jimmy Rollins to Ruiz cut down Tejada at homeplate, ending the inning.

"I finally had a chance to hit in front of David," Murphy said of batting second in front of Wright. "It was fun."

Worley had not given up more than three runs since giving up five May 5 - six starts - but topped his season high in just four innings this time. He allowed 10 hits and six runs in dropping the starters' record to 11-22 over the last 43 games.

"My bullpen went really well, and I felt good out there today," Worley said. "The last couple of outings, I had worse control and got away with it. Today, I was just trying to get the ball over the plate and they hit the ball."

NOTES: Howard was scheduled to play his sixth rehabilitation game. He went 1 for 4 with RBI and a double Monday for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. ... Wright has hit at least 10 homers in a season nine times, breaking the Mets record held by Mike Piazza, Darryl Strawberry and Ed Kranepool.

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Rifts split Syria's opposition at Cairo meeting

Exiled Syrian opposition figures meet in New Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Arab League chief urged exiled Syrian opposition figures to unite at a meeting as a new Western effort to force President Bashar Assad from power faltered. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egyptian security stands guard as a waiter carries away a tray from a Syrian opposition meeting in New Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Arab League chief urged exiled Syrian opposition figures to unite at a meeting as a new Western effort to force President Bashar Assad from power faltered. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 22, 2009 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad said he regrets the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces, and that he will not allow tensions between the two neighbors to deteriorate into an "armed conflict," a Turkish newspaper reported Tuesday, July 3, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

FILE - In a March 30, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, addresses the Parliament, in Damascus, Syria. A Turkish newspaper says Assad, speaking in an exclusive interview, has expressed regret over the shooting down of a Turkish jet by his forces. (AP Photo/SANA, file) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

CAIRO (AP) ? Syrian opposition groups struggled to form a united leadership Tuesday at a meeting in Cairo that exposed the vast disagreements that have prevented them from effectively leading the uprising against President Bashar Assad.

The conference ended late Tuesday with an agreement on two documents, both of them vague. One provides a general outline to guide the opposition through a transitional period, while the other lays out the fundamental principles envisioned for a post-Assad Syria.

The delegates agreed in general terms on support for the Free Syrian Army, the dissolution of the ruling Baath Party and the exclusion of Assad or other senior regime figures from a place in the transition.

But they failed to reach an agreement on forming a unified body to represent the opposition.

Arguments were rife among the roughly 250 conference participants over key questions, including whether to ask for foreign military intervention to halt the violence and what role religion would play in a post-Assad Syria.

In other developments Tuesday, Assad told a Turkish newspaper that he regretted that Syria shot down a Turkish warplane last month, and a U.S.-based human rights group said the Damascus regime was running a network of torture centers across the country, citing victims' accounts of beatings, sexual assaults and electric shocks.

Opposition group members interviewed at the Cairo conference by The Associated Press brought into sharp relief their vast disagreements on issues not addressed in the draft charter, suggesting it papered over the divisions that have prevented them from presenting a united front to the international community.

"It's very dangerous at this point," said Abdel-Aziz al-Khayyar, who spent 14 years in Syrian prisons and is now part of the Syrian National Coordination Body. "If we fail to unify as the opposition, it is the greatest gift to the regime."

Since the March 2011 start of the uprising that activists say has killed about 14,000 people, Syrian exiles have organized scores of organizations to collect aid, distribute information and lobby the international community.

But all along, infighting has hampered their ability to court international support. And most groups are led by exiles who have lived outside Syria for years or decades, giving them little credibility with activists inside the country.

Indeed, many inside Syria resent the exile leadership, saying they have taken the glory without sacrificing to face the regime.

"We only recognize those who are working inside the country," Jamal Akta, a rebel commander in the northern Syrian city of Ariha, said recently. "We'll only recognize those people outside when they are standing in the ranks with us, when we see something tangible from them, real help, not words."

Syria's uprising began in March 2011 with protests calling for political reforms that Assad's security forces violently quashed. The dissent grew, and many in the opposition have since taken up arms against the regime, transforming the uprising into an armed insurgency. Activists say more than 14,000 people have been killed.

The vast differences among opposition groups were clearly on display at the Cairo conference, hosted by the Arab League, where participants argued late into the evening over the wording of a document meant to define their movement.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Washington applauded the conference for bringing together a broad range of opposition elements, and she said there was "significant progress" on "a political vision statement and a transition plan."

However, the meeting failed to resolve many large issues facing the opposition after 15 months of deadly violence.

The two largest opposition groups at the meeting distrust each other. Members of the Syrian National Council accused the Syrian National Coordination Body, known as the NCB, of being too close to the regime. For its part, the NCB accuses the SNC of being a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and Western powers.

Late Tuesday, it appeared that efforts to bring all groups under a unified leadership might collapse - not least of which because Kurdish activists walked out over how the draft charter spoke of their minority.

Sheik Morshid el-Huznawi, one of the Kurds to storm out, declared the conference a "failure."

Even members of the same group disagreed on key issues.

Al-Khayyar, the former prisoner, dismissed those calling for foreign military intervention as "voices that are not very important ... waiting for the world to give its kids to die for our cause."

Another member of the NCB, Abdel-Basit Hamo, said foreign help was welcome.

"When you're drowning and someone gives you a hand, do you ask whose hand it is first?" he asked.

Others disagreed on the role of religion in a post-Assad Syria.

"The revolution came out of the mosques, so with my respect to minorities, we want a civil state but we must also remember that more than 80 percent of Syria is Muslim," said Abdel-Ilah al-Mulham, a tribal leader from the besieged city of Homs and an SNC member.

He said he opposed laws that made men and women equal, saying this counters Islamic law in issues such as divorce and inheritance.

At one point, one attendee broke down in tears outside the meeting room.

"Thousands of martyrs and they can't unite?" said Thaer Al-Hajy, part of a group called the Syrian Revolution Coordination Union. "We are sitting here in hotels and they are down there dying."

One independent activist said all agreed that Assad must go, but that there are many different views of what follows.

"These are sensitive issues that go back to people's ideologies," said Ziad Hassan, 28. "It could take two years, not two days, to get over our differences."

International diplomacy has failed to stop the bloodshed in Syria. A peace plan put forward by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has collapsed, with the almost 300 U.N. observers sent to monitor a cease-fire stuck in their hotels because of continued violence.

On Saturday, world powers endorsed a new plan that calls for the formation of a transitional government with full executive powers. But at the insistence of Syrian ally Russia, the plan does not bar Assad from taking part - making it a nonstarter for the opposition.

In a rare interview with Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily newspaper, Assad spoke about the Annan plan for the first time, saying he was "pleased" that the decision about Syria's future was left to its people.

"The Syrian people will decide on everything," he said.

Assad also said he regretted that Syrian forces had shot down a Turkish fighter jet on June 22. Syria says the jet was flying low inside Syrian airspace. Turkey says it was shot down in international airspace after briefly straying over Syria.

"I say 100 percent, I wish we did not shoot it down," Assad said. But he stopped short of apologizing, saying Syria fired in self-defense.

Meanwhile, New York-based Human Rights Watch said Assad's security forces are running more than two dozen torture centers across Syria.

Interviews with more than 200 regime defectors and former detainees revealed more than 20 torture techniques, including sexual assault, acid attacks, punching staples into skin, tearing out fingernails, beatings with sticks and electric shocks to genitals and other body parts, the group said.

It said the apparently state-sanctioned torture constituted a crime against humanity and called on the U.N. Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

___

Hubbard reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara, Turkey, Matthew Lee in Washington and Sarah El Deeb in Cairo contributed reporting.

Associated Press

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Missing Canadian man's body found in Mich. landfill

By Louis Casiano, msnbc.com

The body of a man reported missing in Canada has been found in a Michigan landfill.?

Kevin Joseph Arendt, 38, of?Mississauga, Ontario, near Toronto,?was last seen leaving a local bar around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a press release issued Monday by Canadian police.?

His body was?discovered?Friday by workers in a Flint-area landfill, it said.

Constable George Tudos of the Peel Regional Police Department in Ontario told msnbc.com?on Tuesday that investigators are working with Michigan law enforcement to try and determine how Arendt ended up in the landfill.

Tudos said investigators don't know?if Arendt was intoxicated?when he?left the bar. An autopsy?was?inconclusive, but?uncovered no evidence of?foul play, he said.

"How he got there is something we're looking into because it's not that common, " he said.

Dan Gudgel, district manager of the Brent Run landfill,?told the Flint Journal that between 60 percent and 80 percent of the refuse that ends up in the landfill originates in Canada, mostly from the Toronto area.

Investigators?have talked to witnesses at the bar, but haven't released any details about they've found.?

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