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ad lured the little girl to his home with the promise of showing her a puppy, then sexually assaulted and strangled her before dumping her body in a park. To make the horror even worse for her family, Timmendequas had previously served six years in prison for aggravated assault and attempted sexual assault of another child. He was living with two other convicted sex offenders. Timmendequas was convicted in the crimes against Megan in 1997 and given a death sentence with the provision that if the death sentence was vacated by a court, he would still serve consecutive life sentences for murder and first-degree kidnapping. The state Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and the federal Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. He applied for post-conviction relief. But a state judge ruled his quest to be freed moot after the state Legislature and then-Gov. Jon Corzine abolished the death penalty in 2007 and his death sentence was converted to a life sentence with no possibility of parole. The court on Tuesday found fault with that ruling. The court did uphold his life sentence for kidnapping Megan. Megan's father, Richard Kanka, who is now running for the state Senate as a Republican, said there are flaws with a system that allowed the appeal. "The Legislature and Jon Corzine were wrong to abolish the death penalty for sexual predators who kill children," Kanka said in a statement. "Now these deranged killers will waste our tax dollars with appeals, and some will be freed." billions in American financial assistance is being wasted. The defense spending bill would withhold 75 percent of the $1.1 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan until the administration reports to Congress on how it would spend the money. The committee on Tuesday went a step further, adopting an amendment by Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., that would give Congress 30 days to review the report before deciding whether the money should be spent. Pakistan's "performance or non-performance rubs a lot of people the wrong way," Flake said. The panel approved the amendment by voice vote. With the Afghanistan war approaching its 10th year, sentiment is growing in Congress for the U.S. to speed up the withdrawal of the 100,000 American troops in the country. The committee adopted an amendment by Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., that would create an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group, a bipartisan organization to conduct an independent assessment of the conflict and U.S. interests. The group would be modeled on the Iraq Study Group, the blue-ribbon panel that in 2006 called for a gradual troop pullback and stepped-up diplomacy to help extricate the United States from Iraq. "We basically need fresh eyes," Wolf said. In a fresh sign of the war weariness, Rep. Norm Dicks of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Appropriations defense subcommittee who consistently has stood with the White House on national security, said the administration "has to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan." Dicks said the question is whether the nation helps its citizens or "does nation building." The death of bin Laden and the billions of dollars in foreign aid as the nation struggles economically have provided impetus to the push to move out troops from Afghanistan. "Although we are engaged in wars on several fronts, there is also a battle being waged at home — against skyrocketing, dangerous deficits," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the Appropriations Committee. "No bill or department should be immu