NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices rose Tuesday in New York to more than $142 a barrel on supply jitters and a relatively weak U.S. dollar.

Analysts predicted crude oil prices would continue to rise.

I don't see much resistance to $150, which could happen in the coming weeks, commodity analyst Victor Shum told The Wall Street Journal.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil prices gained $2.25 to $142.25 per barrel. The price of heating oil rose 0.0633 cents to $3.9733 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline prices fell 0.0529 cents to $3.552 per gallon. Natural gas prices rose 0.102 cents to $13.455 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the national average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was up 0.001 cent to $4.087 per gallon, AAA said.

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. federal appeals court reversed a military tribunal finding for holding a detainee in the first case reviewing the government's secret evidence.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit three-judge panel unanimously said tribunals and courts must be able to assess evidence's reliability before determining a detainee's fate, something not done for Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The ruling is the first successful appeal of a detainee's designation as an enemy combatant since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled detainees can appeal their detentions in civilian court. It ordered the government to release, transfer or have a new hearing for Parhat, captured in 2001 in Afghanistan, where he said he went to escape China.

The opinion was issued June 20 and parts of it were declassified and released Monday.

The panel said the government's allegations against the detainee shouldn't be accepted as true simply because some were repeated in at least three secret documents, drawing on a 19th-century Lewis Carroll poem in its ruling -- I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true, the New York Post reported.

This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true, the panel said.

A Justice Department spokesman told the Post the department is evaluating our options. Parhat's lawyer said the opinion shows courts won't just accept the government's say-so.

BAGHDAD, July 1 (UPI) -- Some wounded Iraqi war veterans say the Iraqi government has turned its back on them, providing little, if any, financial and medical assistance.

Iraqi government officials say the wounded are treated well and a law is being drafted to provide for veterans' care, The New York Times reported. In the meantime, wounded veterans receive full salaries.

We are waiting for the Service and Pension Law for the veterans from the Iraqi Parliament, but they still get paid during that time, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman told the Times.

The exact number of wounded Iraqi veterans isn't known but a 2006 U.S. report indicated about 8,000 Iraqi police officers were injured in a two-year period. Iraqi commanders told the Times that figure doesn't include Iraqi soldiers, who suffered more injuries at a greater rate.

Veterans interviewed by the Times said they receive less than half of their military salaries and must turn to more expensive private medical facilities and doctors.

Dr. Waleed Abdul Majeed said he thinks Iraqi war wounded receive adequate care but concedes they have to wait for it partially because three military medical centers that had been run under the Saddam Hussein regime are closed.

Now the burden is on civilian hospitals, he told the Times. It would be better if we had a military hospital. The soldiers are taken good care of in the beginning but there is no follow-up.

ROCKFORD, Ill., July 1 (UPI) -- A Chicago-area businessman was being held without bond Tuesday on charges of possessing a deadly poison found in puffer fish.

Edward Bachner, 35, of Lake in the Hills, Ill., was arrested by an FBI agent as he allegedly took possession of 98 milligrams of tetrodotoxin, which had been ordered over the Internet, CNN reported. Bachner was arrested by anti-terrorism agents but the FBI said the case didn't appear to be terrorism-related.

He made an initial court appearance Monday in a federal courtroom in Rockford, Ill.

Authorities claim Bachner used an alias when he ordered the deadly neurotoxin, also known as TTX, from a New Jersey chemical supply company, which alerted the FBI because of the large quantity involved. Possession of TTX without a proper permit is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, CNN reported. Authorities wouldn't speculate on a motive for the purchase.

Bachner is co-owner of a small technology company in suburban Chicago and was described as a great guy by his neighbors, the Chicago Tribune said.

LONDON, July 1 (UPI) -- British scientists say they getting closer to discovering why billions of honey bees have died in recent years.

Research published in the Journal of General Virology suggests the deadly wing virus that has been linked to the collapse of honey bee colonies does not replicate in a parasitic mite called Varroa destructor as previously thought.

It had been widely accepted that the virus multiplies in the mite and is then transmitted to bees when it bites. Researchers at Rothamsted Research and the University of Nottingham, however, said the virus was found only in the gut, suggesting the mite had merely eaten an infected bee.

Experiments and field observations have shown that V. destructor is able to transmit several different unrelated honey bee viruses, like acute bee paralysis virus and Kashmir bee virus, as well as deformed wing virus, Teresa Santillan-Galicia of Rothamsted Research said in a statement. But we still don't know exactly how these viruses are passed from the mite to the bee.