2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 6, 2002 NATION/WORLD 6 Congress issues subpo WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress dug forcefully into the Enron debacle yesterday with a second sub- poena for Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of the energy trading firm, and a sympathetic hearing for a laid-off employee whose retirement sayings all but dis- appeared when the company failed. "This should not and cannot ever happen again in America," said Deborah Perrotta, who tearfully told lawmakers she lost $40,000 from her retirement account when Enron's stock price plummeted last fall. On a day in which hearings spilled across Capitol Hill, lawmakers pummelled the head of Arthur Ander- sen, Enron's former accounting firm, for its handling of the energy firm's books. "At the end of the day we do not cause companies to fail," said Joseph Berardino, chief executive officer of Andersen Worldwide. The vote was unanimous in the Senate Commerce Committee to compel Lay's appearance on Feb. 12. "We have no choice," said Sen. Byron Dorgan ,(D- N.D.), one day after Lay scrubbed a voluntary appear- ance. Lawmakers predicted Lay would invoke his Fifth ena to ay Amendment right against self-incrimination when he appears. Lay's attorney, Earl Silbert, said he had already accepted a subpoena from a second congressional panel seeking testimony, this one in the House. The lawyer said any suggestion that Lay was "making him- self scarce" is "absolute nonsense. He's in Houston with his family." Congress aside, the Justice Department and Securi- ties and Exchange Commission are investigating the Enron bankruptcy. NEWS IN BRIEF __, .: Officials closing in on Pearl's abductors KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Authorities know the identity of reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnappers and are "very close to resolving the case," a top police official said yesterday. Sources said three men had been arrested for sending last week's e-mails that contained pho- tographs of Pearl. Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh, in charge of police here in Sindh province, refused to say who was behind the kidnapping. Pearl, 38, was last seen Jan. 23 on his way to meet a Muslim fundamentalist contact at a Karachi restaurant. However, a U.S. State Department official said yesterday that Pakistani police are looking for Sheik Omar Saeed in connection with the kidnap- ping. Saeed was one of three men freed by India on Dec. 31, 1999 to end a hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Authorities said the hijackers were acting in support of militants in Kashmir - Indian territory disputed by Pakistan. The Washington official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Pearl was supposed to be meeting with Saeed at the time of his kidnapping. "The fact is we know who has done it," Sheikh told The Associated Press. He said officials are drawing nearer to resolving the kidnapping. "There are questions which, if I answer, could affect the case." he added. "But it is enough to say that we might conclude the whole thing very soon, sooner than you think." Sheikh said he believed Pearl was still alive, adding, "there are so many things I cannot talk about." Although Sheikh gave no details of any progress, other sources close to the investigation said Karachi police hAve" arrested three men - identified only as Suleiman, Fawad and Adeel - believed to have sent two e-mails that included pictures of Pearl. !,EDINE S ''0 IDTH W RL ALEXNDRIA, R Lindh indicted on 10 charges by jury A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh on 10 charges yesterday, alleging he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and then conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. Lindh's lawyers, nonetheless, pleaded for his release until trial, and said "highly coercive" prison conditions forced him to waive his right to remain silent - and confess his activities as a Taliban soldier to the FBI in Afghanistan. With his arraignment scheduled for Monday, the indictment accused Lindh of conspiring to provide support to terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, sup- plying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers and possessing weapons during violent crimes. Lindh faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if con- victed. "John Walker Lindh chose to train with al-Qaida, chose to fight with the Tal- iban, chose to be led by Osama bin Laden," said Attorney General John Ashcroft. "The reasons for his choices may never be fully known to us, but the fact of these choices is clear. "Americans who love their country do not dedicate themselves to killing Americans," Ashcroft told a Justice Department news conference called to announce the charges. Defense budget draws fire from Democrats Democrats yesterday questioned whether President Bush's defense budget would give him too much room to expand the war on terrorism without consulting Con- gress. At one point, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers acknowl- edged it is "absolutely possible" American troops will come in harm's way in the Philippines, where the anti-terror effort is already widening. In a hearing on Bush's 2003 budget plan, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin asked about the Pentagon's plans for a proposed $10 billion reserve fund for unspecified future war needs. "Could those funds be used for any activity that the president or you decided to use them for ... without further authorization or action from Congress?" Levin (D- Mich.) asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He noted Congress generally doesn't appropriate money in advance for unidentified military operations. Levin specifically asked about Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Bush called those countries members of an "axis of evil," singling them out for what-analysts said was a surprising and harsh warning in his State of the Union address last week. 0 0 I Call1764.0557 before send a acu id iI Feb8th to place your ad.j e i ~~n tr JENIN, West Bank Mob storms court, kills 3 defendants An angry mob led by about two dozen Palestinian gunmen and members of the security forces stormed a heavily guarded Palestinian courtroom in this West Bank town yesterday and killed three defendants charged with a vigi- lante killing. The three men's slaying appeared to be part of a clan feud. They were killed in the court's bathroom, where police hid them after the mob charged into the building, said a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. The assailants pushed their way into the bathroom, pumped dozens of bullets into the three defendants and dragged their bodies into the streets, shooting in the air in triumph, the security official said. The defendants had been dressed in Palestinian police uniforms. Court offi- cials had tried to disguise their identities. BEIJING China warns U.S. not to support Taiwan A top Chinese official warned the United States yesterday against tilting toward greater political support for Taiwan but at the same time stressed that Beijing is willing to be more flexi- ble toward the island's independence- minded ruling party. Just two weeks before President Bush is to make his first state visit to China, the senior official expressed deep con- cern that Washington might swap its historically ambiguous policy toward Taiwan for more overt backing of Tai- wanese President Chen Shui-bian's gov- ernment, which Beijing distrusts. In particular, the official cited remarks last month by the top U.S. envoy to Taipei, Richard Bush, who said the United States would "help Taiwan defend itself" if threatened. Bush also appeared to criticize Bei- jing's insistence on the so-called "one China" principle. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Citizens hijacked planes, Saudis admit* Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time today that 15 of the 19 hijack- ers in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were Saudi citi- zens. "The names that we got confirmed that," Interior Minister Prince Nayef said in an interview with The Associat- ed Press. "Their families have been notified." Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of the 15 hijackers was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. Osama bin Laden - the chief sus- pect in the Sept. 11 attacks the killed more than 3,000 people - was Saudi born but stripped of his citizenship in 1994. Asked if he had information on whether bin Laden was dead or alive, Nayef said: "We have no information and we have no interest in this subject." - Compiled from Daily wire reports. I 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. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Colle- giate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St.; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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