2 -- The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 18, 2002 NATION/ WORLD Enron donations clot WASHINGTON (AP) - Enron fired accounting 1 firm Arthur Andersen yesterday as the feuding corpo- rations both came under growing scrutiny for their roles in the collapse of the world's largest energy trad- ing company., Enron cited Andersen's destruction of thousands of documents and its accounting advice. For its part, Andersen said its relationship with Enron ended in December when the company filed for bankruptcy. "We can't afford to wait any longer," Enron chair- man Kenneth Lay said in a statement, announcing that Enron's board of directors had dismissed Andersen. Enron's announcement came just hours after the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded that Andersen provide more documents detailing what the auditors knew about Enron's useof questionable partnership to keep hundreds of millions of dollars in debt off the company's books. Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for Anderson, said the accounting firm remained "committed to continuing Powell pledges U.S. funds for Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Secretary of S1 Colin Powell, the most senior U.S. official tov Afghanistan in 25 years, promised yesterday the Ur States would help rebuild the country and wipe out "contamination" of terrorism. Powell told Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan leader, United States would make a substantial financial commitn at next week's international aid donors conference in T and that U.S. forces would be relentless in pursuing ther nants of al-Qaida and the Taliban. "This country needs everything," Powell said on NE "Today" show. "It needs a banking system. It needs a hey care system. It needs a sanitation system. It needs a* phone tem. It needs road construction. Everything you can imagit Prime Minister Karzai, obviously buoyed by Powell's -v emphasized Afghanistan's deep needs during a joint n conference at the presidential palace. "The Afghan people have been asking for a staying c mitment,'a staying partnership, from the United State Afghanistan in order to make the region safe, in order to r Afghanistan stand back on its own feet and continue tof to address the issues related to the collapse of Enron in a forthright and candid manner." As to Andersen's dismissal by Enron, Dorton said, "As a matter of fact, our relationship with Enron ended when the company's business failed and it went into bankruptcy." Andersen has acknowledged that it destroyed Enron-related documents, possibly as early as last September. Lay cited the document shredding and Andersen's firing of the head of its Enron account as reasons for dismissing the firm. Ten congressional committees are investigating the Enron collapse as well as Andersen's auditing of the energy company. The Enron bankruptcy has left thou- sands of workers without jobs and their retirement money - much of it in Enron stock - essentially gone. Enron filed for bankruptcy Dec. 2 as its stock fell from $83 a share a year ago to less than dollar. Documents obtained by House investigators have shown that Andersen had concern at least a year ago d inquir about some of Enron's business practices and that its use of partnership might pose problems with federal regulators. During a high-level meeting in early February, Andersen executives expressed concern about Enron's off-the-books accounting of profits from its partner- ships, especially one headed by Andy Fastow, at the time also Enron's chief financial officer. Summarizing the meeting, Andersen accoun- tant Michael Jones wrote in an e-mail that the discussions "focused on Fastow's conflicts of interest ... and the amount of earnings Fastow receives" from the partnership while also Enron's financial officer. Another document obtained by House investigators disclosed that Andersen officials were told last August by Enron whistle-blower Sherron Watkins of her seri- ous concerns about the off-the-books deals at Enron and that the company "will implode in a wave of accounting scandals." . Gunman K11s 6 at Istae 1 gathering - HADERA, Israel (AP)- A Palestin- ian gunman walked into a banquet hall in northern Israel late yesterday and APPOTO opened fire with an assault rifle, killing Interim six people and injuring 30 during a bat of State mitzvah, police said. A militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, the form to this deadliest in more than a month. About 100 people were inside the e steadfast. hall celebrating a girl's coming of hind," Pow- age. Several people beat the attacker Afghanistan with a chair and bottles and pushed khan people him outside where he was shot and -." killed by police. Among the dead photos and was the grandfather of the girl for ers deliver- whom the party was held. escribed as "The terrorist came in the main door with an M-16 at the height of the event and started-shooting everywhere," said Shimon Asraf, one of owners of David's Palace hall. The attacker's death brought the total number of dead to seven, said police I spokesman Gil Kleiman. Moti Hasson said he was dancing when he heard the shooting. "When I saw the Arab I ran toward him with a chair," said Hasson, a truck driver. "I threw the chair at him." Hasson said he hit the attacker in the face with the chair while other people threw bottles at him. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROMI AROUND THE WORLD >RUNDY, Va, Law school shooter could get death The expelled law school student accused of killing his dean and two others in a campus shooting spree was so paranoid and prone to outbursts that at least one classmate said he saw the violence coming. At yesterday's arraignment on three counts of capital murder, Peter Odighizuwa, 43, told the judge he was sick and needed help. "I was supposed to see my doctor," Odighizuwa said, hiding his face behind a green ahrest warrant. "He was supposed to help me out ... I don't have my med- ication." Police say Odighizuwa opened fire with a handgun at the Appalachian School of Law on Wednesday, a day after he was dismissed from the school for a second time. Dean L. Anthony Sutin and Professor Thomas Blackwell were slain in their offices and student Angela Dales, 33, died later at a hospital. Three other stu- dents were wounded. Prosecutor Sheila Tolliver said she will seek the death penalty. Odighizuwa also faces three counts of attempted capital murder and six weapons charges. A few minutes before his arraignment, Odighizuwa told reporters as he was led into the courtroom, "I was sick, I was sick. I need help." GUANTANA O BAY NAVAL BASE., Cuba Red Cross workers to inspect Cuban prison Guards practiced basic commands in Arabic yesterday for dozens of al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners being held at this remote U.S. military outpost, while a forklift groaned, hoisting materials to expand the temporary detention facility. International Red Cross workers were to arrive at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba later yesterday to review conditions that some rights groups have called inhumane. U.S. officials say the prisoners' rights are not being violated. Behind three fences and coils of razor wire, prisoners with shaved heads and orange jumpsuits sat in open-air cells of chain-link fence. Occasionally, Army guards led a prisoner out of a cell, taking him for a walk in the heavily fortified yard. "For the most part, they do what they're told," said Sgt. Lisa Juve, an Army guard who spoke to journalists who were allowed to see the detention camp, but only from about 150 yards away. Military officials say the camp will soon be able to hold 320 inmates, or more if they are doubled up two to a cell. Workers also are building a permanent prison to hold up to 2,000. 0 Aghan Health Minister Suhalia Siddiqi and Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai greet U.S. Secretary Colon Powell yesterday in Afghanistan. against terrorism or the return of terrorism in any# country," Karzai said. Powell assured Karzai that Washington would b "We don't want to leave any contamination be ell said of continuing military efforts to purge A of terrorists. "That is in the interests of the Afg and certainly the mission we came here to perfor In Washington, the U.S. government released video excerpts of five suspected al-Qaida memb ing what Attorney General John Ashcroft d "martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists." I 6 I LORDOF FERINGS - - - - - --- - - - - -R-- - Wednesday, January 23,7:00 - 0:30 p.m. An wil wel inf Presenter: Dr. Christopher Mitchell Chris Mitchell is director of the Wade Center at Wheaton College. llinois, which houses a major research collection of the books and papers of J.R.R. Tolkien and others. eight-week hook club on "Lord of the Rings", 'follow this special presentation. Everyone is come and all events are FREE! For additional h iA R at0on, please calr248.374-5937.40 North ilJust stof7 WASHINGTON India, Pakistan may be near resolution India's defense minister said yester- day he believes that despite another ter- rorist attack blamed on militants in the disputed Kashmir province, the standoff between his country and Pakistan may be "on the way to resolution." Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said it is in neither the inter- est of Pakistan nor India to stay at a high state of readiness for war. Rumsfeld also said, after joint talks with his Indian counterpart, George Fer- nandes, that he hopes the standoff will not force Pakistan to move troops from the border with Afghanistan, where they remain on the lookout for fugitive al- Qaida, including Osama bin Laden. Fernandes, asked about a Kashmir' bomb blast that killed one and injured 15, said: "Against the backdrop of recent developments I have reason to believe sooner or later these issues will now be on the way to resolution" JAKARTA, Indonesia Ton of explosives seized; 3 arrested Philippine police arrested three men suspected of links to al-Qaida terrorist network and seized a ton of explosives yesterday, acting on a tip from authorities in Singapore who recently broke up a terror ring there. The arrests in the southern Philip- pine city of General Santos came as U.S. troops began setting up camp less than 200 miles away to assist the Philippine military in combating an Islamic separatist band of kid- nappers that has been holding two American hostages. The arrests of the trio and the discovery of a buried weapons cache indicated that a terrorist net- work connected with al-Qaida has been operating secretly for some time in at least four countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and now the Philippines. WASHINGTON Reopening of Hart offices postponed The planned reopening of the Hart Senate office building was postponed for at least another day yesterday as tests for anthrax were performed on a bag of cleanup gear found in a hallway ceiling. The building, across the street from the Capitol, was to reopen at nodn today to the public and staffs of the 50 senators who normally have offices there. It has been. shuttered since Oct. 17, two days after an anthrax-laden let- ter was opened there in the suite of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, (D-S.D.). But officials announced yesterday that they had found a bag of gear, including gloves and hazardous mater- ial body suits, in the ceiling above a sixth floor corridor outside Daschle's office. Congress is out of session until Wednesday. - Compiledfirom Daily wire reports. h mol I. *II(Iilr ii II ?Ufj =i n I I oamaica, oanamay as a.raare I www.studentexpress.com Call Now: 1-800-787-3787 6 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September. via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. 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