2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 13, 2001 NATION/WORLD a Passengers may have thwarted terrorists NEWS IN BRIEF mm. u'kmm' u "" eawa'"a"u m'u&m mani'.m' SI-IANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Just before United Flight 93 crashed, some of the passengers learned of the attacks on the World Trade Center and may have tried to overpower their hijackers and keep the jetlin- er from hitting another landmark. Authorities have not disclosed whether there was a struggle aboard the plane, and have not said what caused the airliner carrying 45 people to plunge into a Pennsylvania field. But some of the victims telephoned relatives from the plane and said that they had resolved to wrest control of the flight back from their captors. Passenger Jeremy Glick telephoned his wife, Liz, after terrorists took over, Glick's uncle Tom Crowley said yesterday. She conferenced the call to a 911 dispatcher, who told Glick about the New York attacks. "Jeremy and the people around them found out about the flights into the World Trade Center and decided that if their fate was to die, they should fight," Crowley said. "At some point, Jeremy put the phone down and simply went and did what he could do" with the help of an unspecified number of other passengers. Among them was Thomas Burnett, a 38-year-old business executive from California. In a series of four cellular phone calls, Burnett had his wife, Deena, conference in the FBI and calmly gathered information about the other hijacked flights. Burnett said "a group of us are going to do some- thing," his wife said, and he gave every indication that sacrificing the passengers wasn't part of their plan. "Ile was coming home. He wasn't leaving. He was going to solve this problem and come back to us," she said at her home in San Ramon, Calif. The three other hijacked planes in Tuesday's attacks destroyed New York's twin towers and severely damaged the Pentagon. i-1 - - y- n s u * .fV.V H lins.1 1171 psil(L1 N,) E- -. U U COLD PREVENTION STUDY PART[CIPANTS NEEDED TO HELP EVALtATE INVESTIGATIONAL DRUG Indi'idtaos: -Must be at least 18 or older -Must be available this Fall and Whiter -Will need to have blood draws/throat cultures/pregnancy tests Qualified Particip an ts Receiwe: -Up to $2.10 for 6-7 visits OR an electronic diary (your choice) For In/formation: Phone (734) 615-8331 Cionducted bi- U of 'School of Public IIealt/ pidulem)logy Department A nn Arbor, All WASHINGTON 1 -- High court lets stand execution stay * The Supreme Court yesterday turned down Ohio's request to allow the state to move ahead with the execution of a killer who has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection. The court, with three justices dissenting, refused to overturn a stay that an appeals court granted earlier this week to John W. Byrd Jr. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas said Ohio should be allowed to immediately put Byrd to death. "John Byrd's case has lingered in the courts long enough," Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery told justices in an appeal filed yesterday. Byrd, convicted in the 1983 stabbing death of a Cincinnati convenience store clerk, has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection to illustrate what he says is the brutality of capital punishment. Ohio gives its death row inmates that option. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Byrd's requests to re-examine his appeal on Monday. But the execution was postponed from 10 a.m. Yesterday until Oct. 8 because one judge asked for more time for the full court to study the case. The dissenting justices said that was not enough justification to delay his exe- cution. JERUSALEM Palestinian militants killed in latest violence Israeli troops killed at least seven Palestinians and wounded dozens more yes- terday during fighting in and around the West Bank city of Jenin, drawing charges from Palestinians that the Jewish state is using the terrorist attack on the United States as an excuse to escalate military action. Among the dead were two leaders of the militant Islamic Jihad movement. Security sources identified them as Wael Assaf and Assad Dakah who were killed along with a third militant, Sufian Arda, in the village of Arrabeh. Security sources described Assaf as the leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank and Dakah as the group's leader in the town of Tulkarm. In a state- ment, the army said the three were killed in an exchange of fire when special forces tried to arrest them. Palestinians said the three died when Israeli forces shelled the home of the Arda family. Sufian Arda's 12-year-old sister, Balqees, also died in the attack, Palestinian sources said. Tanks first surrounded Jenin late Monday night. Forces shelled a refugee camp, then briefly moved into the city yesterday morning. U MANAMA, Bahrain Inquiry expanded on downed spy plane. American military experts were examining data yesterday transmitted from an unmanned U.S. spy plane to ground controllers to determine why it went down over southern Iraq. Iraqi television, meanwhile, showed footage yesterday of what it described as the wreckage of the plane Baghdad says it shot down one day earlier. Five or six pieces of debris, including part of a twisted wing, were shown scat- tered in a 70-square-foot area. The United States says it has lost two unmanned Predator spy planes in the past month - both of which Iraq claimed to have shot down - but has not acknowl- edged any hits by hostile fire. The losses of both Predators were under investigatign, said Maj. Brett Morris, a U.S. Air Force officer and spokesman for a Saudi-based joint task force that oversees the air patrols over southern Iraq. KABUL, Afghanistan Attorneys ask Taliban to see detained clients Parents and Western diplomats pressed the Taliban for access to eight jailed aid workers so they can develop a legal defense as their trial on charges of preach- ing Christianity entered its second week. Inside the muddy brown supreme court building in Kabul, Chief Justice Noor Mohammed Saqib was sequestered away in his office Monday at a weekly meeting of judges from throughout this devoutly Muslim country. The case of the eight foreign workers was one of several to be discussed throughout the day, said court officials, who asked not to be identified. The judges were not expected to make any decisions regarding the case. Grappling with Afghanistan's unfa- miliar legal system, diplomats from the United States, Germany and Aus- tralia sent a request to the Taliban's foreign ministry asking to see their detained nationals on Sunday. MONTREAL 17-year-old computer hacker sentenced *1 A 17-year-old computer hacker who jammed major websites, raising ques- tions about global Internet security, was sentenced yesterday to eight months in a detention center and fined $165. { Judge Gilles Ouellet said the youth showed a "high degree of preparation and premeditation" in carrying out attacks on Internet sites including Amazon and CNN. "The motivation was undeniable. The adolescent had a criminal intent," Ouellet said. Known by his Internet nickname of Mafiaboy, the youth pleaded guilty earlier this year to 58 charges related to attacks and security breaches of Internet sites in Canada, the United States, Denmark and Korea in Febru- ary 2000. 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