美方對敘軍事打擊將持續3天 或動用航母戰鬥羣

A local police department in southeast Missouri confirms the arrest of an HIV-positive man who published reports say admitted to having sex with hundreds of men without telling them his health status.

The Dexter Police Department confirmed the arrest of David Lee Mangum, 37, of Dexter, whose case prompted Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver to publicly urge anyone who has had sex with the suspect or with an anonymous male they met on the Craigslist classified site to cease sexual activity and get tested immediately for the HIV virus. Police say Mangum may have exposed more than 300 sex partners to HIV.

Magnum is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Thursday morning at the Stoddard County (Mo.) Justice Center in Bloomfield, according to records on file with the Missouri Office of the State Courts Administrator. The agency says he was arrested Aug. 28 on a charge of recklessly infecting another with HIV when "knowingly infected," which is a felony. Bond has been set at $250,000.

The charge carries a possible sentence of life in prison, according to The Daily Statesman.

The case blew up after a man saying he was Mangum's former live-in partner approached the Dexter Police Department to file a complaint against Mangum, who he says infected him with HIV, the Statesman reports from an affidavit filed by Dexter police Det. Cory Mills of the Dexter department.

The man, identified by the Los Angeles Times as D.B., said he met Mangum through an ad on Craigslist, the online classified site, and that Mangum assured him before they had sex that he did not have any sexually transmitted diseases, according to the affidavit. They lived together from November until June when D.B. said he learned Mangum was sleeping with other people and ended the relationship, according to the affidavit.

Magnum told police he was diagnosed with HIV in Texas in 2003 and that he'd had more than 300 sexual partners since then, the Times reported. Fifty to 60 of those partners also lived in Stoddard County, the Times reported.據美國《洛杉磯時報》9月8日報道，美國國防部已準備好對敘利亞實施火力更猛、時間更長的軍事打擊，預計將持續3天。除現已部署在地中海東部的5艘導彈驅逐艦外，美方還考慮動用空軍轟炸機和航母戰鬥羣。

《洛杉磯時報》援引知情官員的話說，目前美方制定的作戰計劃是，首先進行一輪密集導彈襲擊，然後迅速輔以空襲、打擊在前期導彈襲擊中遺漏或者未被完全擊毀的目標。

還有兩位美國官員透露，白宮要求拓展一份原本只有大約50個目標的襲擊名單，將“更多”目標納入其中。分析人士指出，美方此舉旨在加大火力以摧毀敘利亞總統巴沙爾•阿薩德分散在國內各地的軍事力量。

“屆時美軍將會進行多輪打擊，每輪打擊過後都會作出評估。不過，所有打擊都會在72小時之內結束，並且會釋放出一個清晰的信號說明對敘軍事打擊已畫上句號。”一位熟悉美方作戰計劃的官員表示，國防部正在考慮動用空軍轟炸機，而現已部署在地中海東部的5艘驅逐艦將在敘政府空軍的打擊範圍之外，發射巡航導彈和空射型反艦導彈。此外，部署在紅海的美國海軍“尼米茲”號核動力航空母艦戰鬥羣也會加入戰鬥，向敘利亞發射巡航導彈。