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DUPONT, WASH. » Investigators are looking BOSTON into » A man whether convicted the Amtrak of leading engineer an whose Islamic speeding State-inspired train plunged plot to off behead an overpass, a conservative killing blogger at least who three people, upset Muslims was distracted when she by organized the presence a Prophet of an Muhammad employee-in-training cartoon contest next to him was in sentenced the locomotive, on Tuesday a federal to 28 official years in said prison. Tuesday.

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