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S.C. teenager helps police find killer of 3 for your amazing internal strength," said Ron Lisk, father of the Lisk sisters, to the uniden tified teenager. "You will always be in my thoughts and prayers, I promise you." The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Va., reported the emotional exchange between the girl and the families of the three slain girls. "I'm happy we're here honor ing someone who is our hero," said Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott. "But it's a sad day, too. Our hearts, our prayers will al ways be with these families." Money for the reward came from local governments, sherif fs offices and community dona tions. The girl's parents said she will receive some of the money now to fix up her car and take a trip to New York City. The rest will go in a trust fund until she is 25. "It's been hectic and emotion al, but I loved meeting the fami lies,” the girl said. Of Evonitz, she said, "I'm so glad he's not around here to hurt anyone anymore.” After the teenager's gunpoint abduction June 24, Evonitz took her back to his Columbia apart ment, where he raped her re peatedly, police said. She fled the apartment 18 hours later when he fell asleep. Evonitz was tracked to Sarasota, Fla., where he killed himself as a police dog bit his leg. The dog, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois named Matt, was hailed a hero, too. Sarasota police offi cer Alan DeVaney traveled to Virginia after learning that the South Carolina victim wanted to meet his canine partner. The Spotsylvania Sheriffs Office presented DeVaney with a basket filled with dog biscuits and a gold tag that read: "Our Hero Matt.” Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 years carried out two airstrikes Tuesday. An Iraqi radar near the northern city of Mosul was targeted after it il luminated U.S. aircraft patrolling the area, according to a statement from U.S. European Command. No details on damage were released. Also on Tuesday, U.S. aircraft struck an air defense command and control facility near the city of Nukhayb in southwestern Iraq, “in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts,” a U.S. statement said. U.S. and British planes fre quently are targeted by Iraqi radar or fired on by anti-aircraft artillery or surface-to-air missiles, and periodically they respond with missiles or bombs. Tuesday’s strikes marked the third in three days — slightly more than usual, but not necessarily a sign of U.S. escalation. Bush has called for Saddam to be toppled, saying his develop ment of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons threatens the United States and the world in gen eral. Even as administration offi cials stress that no decision has been made to invade Iraq, they have been stepping up talk about why such an attack is needed. Cheney, speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville, Tenn., dismissed as “deeply flawed” the logic of those who argue against a pre-emptive strike on Saddam. “What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness,” he said. Those who say Iraq should be attacked only if Saddam develops a nuclear weapon would later ar . gue “we cannot because he has a nuclear weapon,” Cheney said. That would lead to “a course of in action that itself could have dev astating consequences for many countries, including our own.” Cheney pressed the adminis tration’s case for invading Iraq in the face of growing concerns about the potential loss of lives, the costs to U.S. taxpayers, the ef fects on other countries and un certainty about who would re place Saddam. Cheney delivered perhaps the administration’s most compre hensive argument to date for oust ing Saddam. Failing to attack now will only allow Iraq to grow stronger, Cheney said. Forcing Saddam from power would bring freedom to Iraq, bring peace to the region, boost Arab moderates, cause ex tremists to rethink violence and help the Israeli-Palestinian peace "process, he said. The point-by-point argument reflects growing unease within the White House: Aides acknowl edge that Bush’s critics are get ting the upper hand because he can’t make his case for ousting Saddam until he decides when and how to do it. Congress has begun exploring whether the United States should attack Iraq. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held two days of hearings right before the August break, and more hearings are expected in both the House -and Senate in the fall. Under the Vietnam-era War Powers Att, the president is re quired to get congressional ap proval for introducing U.S. forces into hostilities for more than 60 days. Presidents of both parties hav.e considered the act unconsti tutional and ignored it. Regardless Of the act’s legality, lawmakers say they want Bush to seek congressional authorization for an invasion. “The president has to get con gressional approval,” said House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri, ’ speaking in Waterbury, Conn. “He must have a debate on this issue and a vote in the Congress.” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Ihe decision of going to war “should not be treated like a tech nicality.” “For the good of the country and for the long-term success of what ever approach we take, President Bush should follow his father’s lead and support a vigorous and constructive debate on Iraq,” he said, through a spokesman. Bush’s father sought and received con gressional backing before the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The Republican chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, said he agreed with Gonzales, the White House coun sel. “But I also believe that any pol icy undertaken by the president without a popular mandate from Congress risks its long-term suc cess,” he said in a statement. MASSAPONAX, VA. (AP) - A Lexington teenager received a $150,000 reward Monday for lead ing police to a man who later was determined by investigators to be the killer of three Spotsylvania County, Va., girls. The family of two of the slain girls, Kristin and Kati Lisk, pre sented the reward to the South Carolina teenager, who led po lice to Richard Marc Evonitz. He killed himself in Florida in late June as police sought to question him in the teen's abduction and assault. A task force of law enforce ment officers later concluded that Evonitz, 38, was responsible for the killings of 16-year-old Sofia Silva in 1996 and sisters Kristin Lisk, 15, and Kati Lisk, 12, in 1997. 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