2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 12, 2002
NATION/WORLD
Thousands of Iranians
rally to condemn
U.S.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's
reformist president appeared to
blame U.S. foreign policy for the
Sept. 11 attacks as hundreds of
thousands of Iranians rallied yester-
day to condemn President Bush's
criticism of their country and cele-
brate the 23rd anniversary of the
Islamic Revolution.
Angered by Bush's inclusion of
Iran as a member of an "axis of
evil" during his State of the Union
speech Jan. 29, Iranians poured into
Tehran's Freedom Square carrying
anti-U.S. banners and burning effi-
gies of Uncle Sam.
The rally united both Iran's
reformists and hard-liners.
President Mohammad Khatami
told the huge crowd that the rally
constituted a reply to "U.S. insults
and trumped-up charges" against
Iran.
"This year, despite insults to the
great Iranian nation and the
trumped-up charges against it, the
Iranian nation has commemorated
the anniversary of its revolt in a
greater scale than before," Khatami
said.
State television reported that mil-
lions of people took part in similar
rallies staged in all major cities.
In a speech interrupted by chants
of "Death to America!" Khatami
said U.S. foreign policy bore
responsibility for the Sept. 11 terror
attacks on New York and Washing-
ton.
NEWS 11N4BRIEF
Lay will take Fifth when questioned
Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay is asserting his right against self-incrimina-
tion and will refuse to answer questions when he appears before Congress under sub-
poena this week.
"Under the instruction of counsel, Mr. Lay will exercise his Fifth Amendment
rights at the Tuesday hearing," Lay's spokeswoman, Kelly Kimberly, said Sunday
night from Houston. She declined further comment.
Lay, who resigned Jan. 23, was a friend and political backer of President Bush and
moved easily within the corridors of power in Washington. He has not spoken pub-
licly about Enron's collapse since the company entered the biggest bankruptcy in
U.S. history in December, and lawmakers had hoped for his testimony.
Following an intense week of hearings, leaders of some of Congress' investiga-
tions say they have strong evidence of illegal activity surrounding the failure of the
big energy trading company.
After Lay backed out of a voluntary appearance a week ago,=two congressional
committees issued subpoenas compelling his presence.,Some lawmakers had said
they expected he would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,
though his attorney had not previously indicated he would do so.
WASHINGTON
State Department: Arafat's letter 'positive'
Iranians burn an effigy of Uncle Sam
during protests in Tehran yesterday.
Israel bombs Palestinian headquarters
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli warplanes
and helicopter gunships attacked the Palestinian securi-
ty headquarters in Gaza City yesterday, in retaliation
for unprecedented Palestinian rocket fire and a shoot-
ing attack on Israeli civilians.
More than 30 people were injured by shrapnel in the
second air strike in Gaza City in two days. The Israeli
military warned that it "will not tolerate the continued
firing of rockets" at Israel and at Jewish settlements.
The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed
responsibility for firing a homemade Qassam-2
rocket toward an Israeli communal farm on Sunday
- a first in 16 months of fighting. The Qassam-2
has a range of five to eight kilometers (three to five
miles), enough to hit Israeli towns from the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas has fired
several shorter-range Qassam-1 rockets that caused
no damage.
In yesterday's air strike, six missiles hit the
large walled Saraya compound in downtown
Gaza City, setting buildings ablaze and sending
black smoke into the sky.
Doctors said the injured included three Pales-
tinian journalists and news photographer George
Kochaniec, a photographer for Denver's Rocky
Mountain News. Kochaniec was treated for a
hand injury.
The attack came at a time of changeover between
morning and afternoon shifts at nearby schools, and
streets were crowded with youngsters who ran away
from the explosions, some screaming in panic.
Electricity in Gaza City was cut after the air strike.
The missiles were fired several minutes apart, and
one hit the compound while firefighters were in the
area trying to douse the flames.
Hundreds of Palestinians ran to the compound
demanding that suspected Islamic militants held
there be released immediately. Some threw
stones at officers who fired in the air to keep
back the crowd. Palestinian police said all pris-
oners were moved from the compound shortly
after the Israeli attack.
A message from Yasser Arafat to Secretary of State Colin Powell is rais-
ing hopes that the Palestinian leader will take a more aggressive stand on
terror attacks on Israel.
"We did find it to be a positive letter, and we now look for action along the lines
that he indicated in his letter," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said
yesterday while declining to reveal the letter's contents.
Hassan Abdel Rahman, the ranking Palestinian official in the United States, said
Arafat did not say in the letter that he knew about an attempt to smuggle 50 tons of
weapons from Iran. "That's not the issue," Rahman said in an interview "The letter is
an attempt to put the whole issue of the ship behind us."
"It's a general letter that includes a roadmap to get us back to negotiations," Rah-
man said.
Diplomatic sources said the letter, sent last week through the U.S. consulate in
Jerusalem, contained promises by Arafat that-he would take steps against Palestinians
involved in the blocked smuggling effort.
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PARIS
Frenchman queried
over Sept11 attacks
A Frenchman who claims to have
crossed paths in Afghanistan with key
figures tied to the Sept. 11 attacks, a
thwarted millennium plot on Los
Angeles and other threats on American
citizens is providing French authorities
with a treasure-trove of information on
al-Qaida, officials revealed yesterday.
Yacine Akhnouche, 27, was arrested
on Feb. 4 outside Paris with two others
suspected of involvement in a two-year
old plan to bomb a cathedral in Stras-
bourg, France, judicial officials and
anti-terrorism investigators told The
Associated Press on condition of
anonymity.
Speaking freely during sessions
with investigators, Akhnouche appar-
ently offered details on the training
camps he went to during three trips to
Afghanistan ,and the Islamic militants
he met there.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Value of peso stays
at a reasonable level
Following days of uncertainty,
Argentina allowed its currency to float
freely against the dollar for the first time
in a decade yesterday. The peso slipped
slightly in value but did not suffer the
free fall many feared. Hundreds of peo-
ple lined up outside exchange houses in
Buenos Aires, the capital, where the
dollar sold for about 2.1 pesos, a drop of
about 5 percent from the peso's unoffi-
cial value Friday. The day of relative
calm represented an important victory
for the government of Eduardo
Duhalde, which is struggling to rescue
Argentina from economic collapse.
In the hours before trading
opened, officials repeatedly assured
nervous Argentines that, if neces-
sary, the central bank would use
some 'of its $14 billion in cash
reserves to keep the value of the
peso at "a reasonable level."
LOS AGELE
Film productions
move to Toronto
Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman stood
near the spot where Canada's largest film
and TV{production lot will be buit and
fired a financial shot across the U.S. bor-
der.
"We're Hollywood North. There's no
two ways about it,"he said last week.
That is exactly what unions, actors and
small business in the United States fear.
Advocacy groups and some elected offi-
cials are afraid that the same globalization
trend that has sent steel, lumber and tex-
tile jobs overseas will hurt the motion pic-
ture industry unless swift action is taken.
The exodus of film and television
projects from the United States is
referred to as "runaway productior," a
phrase first used in the 1980s to describe
the flight of Hollywood jobs from Cali-
fornia to North Carolina, Florida and
other states that offered tax incentives
and cheaper labor.
Compiled from Daily wire reports.
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