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Lakeisha Bailey first met AbrorHabibov in 2007, when he boughther a drink at a Virginia night-club.

“He was calm, collected, laidback, very generous,” she said. “Agentleman.”

They were married the follow-ing year in a small courthouseceremony. They lived a normallife in Hampton, Va., Ms. Baileysaid, going bowling, to moviesand local restaurants.

Mr. Habibov, an Uzbeki citizen,didn’t drink, and he never talkedabout religion, she said. “I neverknew him as Muslim. He never

did strike me as that way,” shesaid.

She said their marriage fellapart as Mr. Habibov beganspending more time in New YorkCity, where he had business inter-ests. By 2010, he stopped sendingmoney, then phone calls andemails dropped off. “He just fled,”Ms. Bailey said. “It was like hedidn’t exist anymore.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Habibovwas one of the three Brooklyn,N.Y., men charged with conspiringto aid Islamic State. Mr. Habibov,30 years old, is accused by federalprosecutors in Brooklyn of pro-viding financial support for theother men, two roommates—Ab-durasul Juraboev, a 24-year-oldUzbeki citizen, and Akhror Said-akhmetov, a 19-year-old citizen ofKazakhstan—who authorities sayplanned to travel to Syria to join

the militant group.Ms. Bailey said she was

shocked by the news of the arrestof Mr. Habibov, who filed for di-vorce last year, and by his allegedradicalization.

“Did he change over time?” shesaid. “Because that’s what I’mthinking: Did something changehim?”

The alleged aspirations of theroommates began to take shapelast August, when Mr. Juraboevthreatened President BarackObama on an online Uzbek-lan-guage message board, drawing

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The Islamic State militantwho appeared in several hos-tage-beheading videos wasidentified as a British manlong known to authorities. A6 The U.S.-led coalition car-ried out five airstrikes on anarea in Syria where IslamicState is believed to hold over250 Christians hostage. A7 UnitedHealth is imposingtighter controls on hysterec-tomy coverage after debatingthe use of morcellators. A1House GOP leaders un-veiled a plan to keep the DHSfunded for three weeks andavoid a partial shutdown. A3 A federal jury found a binLaden aide guilty of conspir-acy in the 1998 U.S. Embassybombings in East Africa. A3 The U.S. intelligence chiefpredicted Russia-backed rebelswould continue their advancethrough Ukraine and said hefavors arming Kiev’s forces. A7Ukraine’s army said it wouldstart pulling back heavyweap-ons from the front lines of itsconflict with the separatists.A7 An Argentine judge re-jected allegations that Presi-dent Kirchner plotted withIran to cover up Tehran’s rolein a 1994 terrorist attack. A12SusanRice, who has criti-cized Netanyahu, will outlineObama’s stance on Iran nucleartalks before apro-Israel lobby.A7 The Senate judiciary panelbacked Lynch to be attorneygeneral, sending her nomina-tion to the full chamber. A4 Died: Irving Kahn, 109,one of the world’s oldestprofessional investors. C3

The FCC voted to regulatebroadband providers as

public utilities and overruledtwo state laws that made itharder for cities to offer theirown Internet service. A1 Standard Chartered CEOPeter Sands will step down andbe succeeded by ex-J.P. Morganexecutive Bill Winters. C1, C2 RBS said it would disman-tle its global investmentbank, including cutting morethan 1,000 jobs in the U.S. C1Coca-Cola sold $9.5 billionof euro-denominated bonds,making it the latest U.S. firmto tap the European market. C1 An Argentine debt salecollapsed after creditorsseeking payment on defaultedbonds blocked the plans. C1 KKR has retained advisersto help Samson deal with thedebt load the energy firmtook on in a 2011 LBO. C1 Kohl’s and Penney saidsales rose last quarter as trafficincreased and shoppers spentmore money on each trip. B1 Sears plans to split off asmany as 300 of its stores into aseparate company by June. B2 IBM said it would shift $4billion in 2015 spending tocloud, analytics, mobile, socialand security technologies. B1Nasdaq neared a record, ris-ing 20.75 points to 4987.89 asApple shares rebounded. TheDow lost 10.15 to 18214.42. C4 The consumer-price indexfell in January in the first year-over-year dip since 2009. A2 U.S. steelmakers are slash-ing prices as the strong dollarhelps spur a flood of imports.B3

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The Federal CommunicationsCommission set aside two de-cades of laissez-faire policyThursday to assert broad author-ity over the Internet, voting toregulate broadband providers aspublic utilities and overrulinglaws in two states that made itharder for cities to offer theirown Web service.

Both rulings were setbacks forbig telecommunications and cablecompanies that have invested bil-lions of dollars in their networksand wins for Internet companiesthat have enjoyed explosivegrowth as people spend moretime online. The moves reflect anevolution from regulators treatingthe Internet as a technological in-novation that needed to be nur-tured to a powerful commercialvenue with rival constituenciesthat need to be balanced.

The commission pledged to usea light touch, and the immediatepractical effects of the decisionsare limited because companies,regulators and users all agree inprinciple that traffic shouldn’t beblocked.

Still, the shift in philosophywas notable, with possible impli-cations down the road that arehard to predict. It even drewwarnings from Google Inc., whichtold the White House privately itwas making a mistake when Presi-dent Barack Obama called in No-vember for the approach the FCCadopted on Thursday.

“The blessing and the curse forthe cable industry and the telcosis they have an infrastructurewhich is absolutely critical to theeconomy, to education, to healthcare—far beyond the original usefor which they built those net-works,” said Blair Levin, who waschief of staff at the FCC in the

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FCC SetsNew EraOf NetOversight

By Joseph De Avila inNewport News, Va., andRebecca Davis O’Brienand Pervaiz Shallwani

in New York

Suspects Led Low-Key LivesSecret Service firstspotted Web postingsthat led to terrorarrests of Brooklyn men

Presidential Hopefuls Put in Face Time at Key GOP Gathering

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TighterControl forWomen’sProcedure

The nation’s largest health in-surer is imposing tighter controlson its coverage for hysterecto-mies after more than a year ofdebate over a medical device thatwas found to spread hidden can-cer in some women undergoingthe procedure.

As of April, UnitedHealthGroup Inc. will require doctors toobtain authorization from the in-surer before performing mosttypes of hysterectomies, accord-ing to a bulletin sent to physi-cians and hospitals.

The decision marks anotherblow to the tool known as a lap-aroscopic power morcellator,which cuts up and removes tissuethrough small incisions in the ab-domen. Until recently, morcella-tors were being used in thousandsof laparoscopic hysterectomies ev-ery year to remove benigngrowths known as fibroids. Fi-broids can be hard to distinguishfrom a dangerous form of cancer,uterine sarcoma, which can’t bereliably detected before surgery.

Morcellators, which typicallyuse a fast-spinning blade, canspread the malignancy andworsen the outcome, the U.S. Foodand Drug Administration has said.

Only vaginal hysterectomiesperformed on an outpatient ba-sis won’t require prior approval.The method, in which the uterusis removed through the vaginaand no morcellator is used, haslong been considered the leastinvasive and cheapest option yetis used in only 15% to 20% ofcases, according to federal dataand studies.

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BY JENNIFER LEVITZAND JON KAMP

A Sri Lankan-born venturecapitalist wants to be the“brown Buffett.” Rapper and en-trepreneur Jay Z called himselfthe “black Warren Buffett.”There are Buffetts ofTanzania, India andSpain—and a convictedmurderer known as the“Oracle of San Quentin”because of his reputa-tion for stock-pickingprowess inside the Cal-ifornia prison.

Since 2005, thephrase “the WarrenBuffett of” has ap-peared more than 450times in news reports.There is a Warren Buffett ofgambling, wine, Irish property,fishing, barges and jewelry mer-chandising. And no geographicarea seems too small for a Buf-fett, including at least one

apiece in Kentucky and Mem-phis, Tenn. (A female Mr. Buffettis hard to find, though.)

As the returns of the world’smost famous investor haveswelled, so has the number ofpeople who lay claim to Warren

Buffett’s name.The 84-year-old bil-

lionaire is chairman ofBerkshire HathawayInc., based in Omaha,Neb. Since taking con-trol of the company in1965, Mr. Buffett hasproduced an overallgain of 693,518%through the end of2013, trouncing theS&P 500’s increase of9,841%.

Saturday’s release of Mr. Buf-fett’s latest annual letter toshareholders will mark 50 yearssince he wrote the first one, andmore people than ever hang on

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BY ANUPREETA DAS

The Wannabe Buffetts: SmorgasbordOf Followers Claim Billionaire’s Name

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MADRID—Late in his presidency, Vene-zuela’s Hugo Chávez told a Spanish profes-sor he was “very much heartened” by ayouth-led movement that briefly occupiedcentral Madrid to protest corruption andgovernment-mandated austerity. What re-cession-racked Spain needed, he said, was“a true democracy” to replace its “capital-ist” system.

His guest, Juan Carlos Monedero, saidduring their televised chat that he couldn’tagree more. Venezuela is a model of Social-ist revolution, he told Mr. Chávez, and “Eu-rope is starting to look at your example.”

Nearly four years later, Mr. Chávez isdead and Venezuela is mired in economicturmoil. But in Spain a new far-left partyled by Mr. Monedero and others with tiesto Mr. Chávez’s movement has surged tothe top of opinion polls less than a yearahead of national elections, challenging de-cades of moderate governance by main-stream parties. The party, Podemos (Span-ish for We Can), proposes to expand thepowers of the state in some of the ways Mr.Chávez did in Venezuela.

Rivals have seized on those ties to depictPodemos as the ghost of Chávez, warningthat it would undermine Spain’s democracyand economy with a regime of Chávez-style

authoritarian populism.The party’s leaders deny that, describing

themselves as youthful insurgents againstan entrenched “caste” of corrupt, self-serv-ing politicians.

Podemos’s rise from the political fringeparallels that of Syriza, the leftist coalitionthat upset establishment parties to winGreece’s national election in January. Ap-pealing to angry electorates afflicted byhigh unemployment, both parties reject theprevailing eurozone policies that requireharsh economic austerity to meet the de-mands of creditors. On Jan. 31, Podemosgathered at least 100,000 followers in

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