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 A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane.Nude photos of 18-year-old Emily Sander appeared on a Zoey Zane Web site before she vanished, and investigators are looking into whether her modeling had anything to do with her disappearance last Friday. She enjoyed it. She is a young teenage girl and she wanted to be in the movies and enjoyed movies. She needed the extra money,  Nikki Watson, a close friend of Sander s at Butler Community College, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.  Nobody in El Do stanley italia rado knew besides her close friends. Sander s brother, Jacob Sander, confirmed that the nude woman pictured on the site is his sister.El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said FBI and state experts on Internet crime have been called in.         Investigators are aware that Miss Sander was apparently involved in a Web site situation,  he said.  Allegations that this may factor into her disappearance are bein stanley mug g thoroughly investigated. Sander  stanley cup was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, about 30 miles from Wichita, with a man identified as Israel Mireles, 24, authorities said. Sander and Mireles had met that night at the bar, according to Watson.Sander is 5 3 , 105 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, reports CBS affiliate KWCH-TV. After Mireles did not show up Saturday at his job at an Italian restaurant, his employer went to the motel room where he was staying.             His motel r Tjro The Promise of the Future Was That You Wouldn   t Have to Code
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 The first of 2,000 U.S. Marines have arrived in Afghanistan to intensify the hunt for al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents, the American military said Wednesday.The deployment signals new resolve to crush militants mdash; and hopefully capture fugitive leaders including Osama bin Laden mdash; in an election year for both the Afghan and U.S. governments.The U.S. Marines  have started to come into the country,  said military spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty.  Their deployment will take several weeks. Hilferty said the Marines would be sent to one region of the country, where existing bases were being expanded to accommodate them. But he declined to say which area, or how long they would stay.Meanwhile, in the latest U.S. op stanley mugs eration, troops detained six suspected Taliban members mdash; including a  mid-level  leader mdash; in a raid in southern Afghanistan late Tuesday, Hilferty said. He did not disclose the leader s identity.        The extra Marines, deploying f stanley cup rom ships in the Persian Gulf, will expand the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan to about 15,500, its biggest yet.Many of the troops are strung across the lawless provinces near the P stanley cup uk akistani border as part of what U.S. commanders call a  hammer-and-anvil  strategy, drawn up with Pakistani forces on the other side.The Marines are to adopt new U.S. tactics of sending forces from one unit to the same villages again and again in the hope of gaining better intelligence. They will conduct operations in one set area of the country Uhcu Seventh-graders hospitalized after eating pot brownies
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