2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 1, 2003 NATION WORLD Reporter fired for Iraqi TV interview The Associated Press NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett yesterday, angered that he had given an unauthorized interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying the American-led war effort initially failed because of Iraq's resistance. Arnett apologized for his "misjudgment," but added: "I said over the weekend what we all know about this war." Meanwhile, the Pentagon was investigating whether Fox News Channel reporter Geraldo Rivera endangered troops by revealing the plans of a mili- tary unit in Iraq in advance. Rivera denied reports that he had been expelled from the country. Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Viet- nam for The Associated Press, gained much of his prominence from covering the 1991 Gulf War for CNN. One of the few American television reporters left in Baghdad, his reports were frequently aired on NBC and its cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC. NBC was angered because Arnett gave the inter- view Sunday without permission and presented opin- ion as fact. The network initially backed him, but reversed field after watching a tape of his remarks. The network said it got "thousands" of e-mails and phone calls protesting Arnett's remarks _ a thousand e-mails to MSNBC President Erik Sorenson alone. "When I heard he had given an interview to Iraqi TV I immediately thought it was about as bad a judg- ment that a reporter in the field could make," Soren- son said. "I held out hope initially that maybe he had given the interview at gunpoint or there was some extenuating circumstance." In the interview, shown by Iraq's satellite televi- sion, Arnett said the United States was reappraising the battlefield and delaying the war, maybe for a week, "and rewriting the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan." Arnett said it was clear that, within the United States, opposition to the war was growing, along with a challenge to President Bush about the war's conduct. A British tabloid said today it has hired Arnett as a reporter. "Fired by America for telling the truth," the Daily Mirror said in a Page 1 headline. "I am still in shock and awe at being fired," Arnett wrote for the newspaper, which is vehemently opposed to the war. Mike Fissel of East Berlin, Penn., whose son is a Marine serving in the Middle East, called Arnett's comments in the Iraqi TV interview "a disgrace." Fissel e-mailed his protests to NBC. "My son's over there risking his life with all of his buddies and this guy's basically saying we've failed, we screwed up," Fissel said. "That is wrong to me. It seemed un-American and unpatriotic." Mghan NEWS IN BRIEF.f MULTAN, Pakistan Tribesmen open fire on Pakistani market Gunmen in paramilitary uniforms shot and killed 14 people and wound- ed 24 others yesterday in an attack police said was linked to a tribal feud in southern Pakistan. A police officer and a government official were among those injured in the attack in the main bazaar of Kishmore, 250 miles west of the central city of Multan, police said. Twelve people died at the scene and two died later in a hospital, Kish- more Mayor Abdur Rauf Khosa said. The attack was carried out by about 35 suspected Bugti tribesmen riding in four pickup trucks, said Agha Mohammed Tahir, the district police chief. They wore outfits similar to uniforms worn by militias that help police the region. In Islamabad, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat said the government ordered the Bugti tribesmen to surrender the gunmen. "We have given some time to the Bugti tribe for handing over those gun- men to the police who committed this crime," Hayyat said. The attackers opened fire with assault rifles and machine guns at the family home of Ghulam Hussain Aisani, who belongs to the rival Aisani tribe. HONG KONG Site of mystery illness outbreak quarantined An alarming jump of new cases of a mystery flu-like disease in a Hong Kong apartment complex prompted authorities to seal off one building yesterday, as health officials here continued an uphill battle to control the disease. More than 600 people in this city are believed to have the dangerous respiratory infection, and almost half of those live in the Amoy Gardens apartment complex. Officials reported 92 new cases in the complex yesterday. Worldwide about 60 people have died - at least 15 of those in Hong Kong. Government officials are pondering setting up quarantine centers if the disease cannot be contained. Apparently spread to some extent by airline passengers, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has prompted officials in Asian countries to enforce little-used quarantine laws, close schools and impose new health screenings on travelers. The disease also continued spreading in other affected hot spots, such as Sin- gapore and Toronto. Doctors and nurses in Singapore donned special respirator suits designed for han- dling germ warfare attacks so they could get close to patients infected with SARS.. Georgetown University 2003 Summer Sessions Take advantage of a unique opportunity to study at Georgetown University next summer at special summer tuition rates. Choose from more than 300 undergraduate and gradu- ate day and evening credit courses during three sessions. Pre-Session: First Session: Second Session: May 19-June 13 June 2-July 3 July 7-August 8 Call 202-687-5942 for a catalogue or visit our website. On-campus hous- ing is available. Georgetown University School for Summer & Continuing Education website: www.georgetown.edu/ssce/summer email: summer@georgetown.edu Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution guerrillas attack U.S. militr KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan rebels stepped up their guerrilla campaign against foreign troops in this war-shattered country, hitting U.S. bases across the east with mortar and rocket fire, offi- cials said yesterday. U.S. forces called in air support that smashed a cluster of suspected rebel vehicles and killed at least two attackers Sunday in the eastern bor- der town of Shkin, U.S. Army spokesman Col. Roger King told reporters at Bagram Air Base. In Kabul, Afghan security forces were searching houses and combing hills to the east of the city for rebels who fired a 122 mm rocket Sunday night into the headquarters of the 22-nation multinational force pro- tecting the capital. The rocket attack - launched either from the back of a truck or from a shoulder-fired weapon - was thetmost sophisticated strike yet on the 5,000-man International Security Assistance Force, said peacekeeping spokesman Lt. Col. Thomas Lobbeing of Germany. No one was hurt. Sunday's was the first rocket attack to hit any ISAF facility, after a year that saw a dozen attacks on peacekeepers miss their targets. The explosion sprayed shrapnel across trees and buildings and damaged two ISAF vehicles inside the com- pound. "We do believe that this was tar- geted at ISAF directly," Lobbering said. "This is a significant differ- ence from the type of attacks that we experienced so far. It's far more sophisticated." King said the recent violence and rebel attacks were part of a surge in rebel activity after the United States and Britain invaded Iraq earlier this month. Despite Sunday's rocket attack on ISAF's headquarters, Lobbering said he did not expect security to deteriorate in the Afghan capital because of the war in Iraq. "However, we are aware that there is a constant threat of attacks like the one that happened last night," he said. In a worrying sign, posters suppos- edly written by elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar recently have appeared in eastern Afghanistan, renewing his call for a holy war against U.S. troops and Afghans work- ing with them. The posters link the new holy war directly to the U.S. inva- sion of Iraq. WAR Continued from Page 1 tured and 16 missing. The British death toll rose to 26 with the death of a sol- dier yesterday in southern Iraq. Iraqi officials have given no estimate of military casualties but have said at least 425 civilians have been killed and thousands wounded. Some defecting Iraqis described har- rowing conditions, and not only from American air bombardments. One, who agreed to talk on condi- tion his name not be used, said agents of the ruling Baath party attempted to shoot deserters. "But we decided it was either die from an American bomb or be killed by our own people," he said in the Kurdish town of Kalak in north- ern Iraq. American and British warplanes continued to bomb at will. Thunderous explosions rocked the Baghdad skyline after dark, and smoke billowed from the Old Palace presidential compound. Iraqi state-run television was briefly bombed off the air, and nearly all tele- phone service was knocked out in the capital. Officials in Biyare, in northern BELGRADE, Serbia Milosevic's wife hides from murder charges Police sought an international arrest warrant yesterday for Slobodan Milose- vic's wife, alleging her involvement in the killing of a political rival, but she denounced the warrant from Russia as a political ploy. Mirjana Markovic, believed to be hiding in Russia, wrote a letter deny- ing she had any part in the 2000 slay- ing of Ivan Stambolic, whose body was found in a lime-covered grave in northern Serbia last week. On Sunday, her daughter said Markovic would not heed an earlier request that she return for questioning. Officials began the process of getting the warrant yesterday, and it appeared Markovic would not obey. "These are untrue, heinous accusa- tions," Markovic said in the letter, which was read out yesterday by mem- bers of her neo-communist Yugoslav Left Party. "I have no connection to any criminal act." NEW YORK Airline compromises to stay in operation American Airlines took a huge step toward preventing bankruptcy yesterday by reaching tentative cost-cutting agree- ments with its mechanics and flight attendants. A source familiar with the situation said the world's largest airline has also reached a deal with its pilots. The airline has said it needs $1.8 bil- lion in concessions from its 99,000 employees to avoid a Chapter 11 filing. 0I Any agreements would require employ- ee approval. "We've reached an agreement on an economic framework," said George Price, a spokesman for the flight atten- dants' union. He would not discuss details, but said ratification could begin as early as today. American said only that it had reached agreement with its 16,200 mechanics. Neither side would confirm any deal involving the pilots, but it was confirmed by the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. WASHINGTON Old vaccine may be used to treat cancer The smallpox vaccine may be reborn - as a cancer treatment. Scientists are rigging up the vaccine to carry an extra load, genes that signal the immune system to start fighting advanced tumors. Why use such a risky vaccine to do that job? The same super-reactive charac- teristics that make smallpox inoculation prone to some bad, occasionally deadly, side effects are, as the altered shots' cre- ator puts it, "an immunologist's dream:" They may rev up an immune system that too often misses cancer. Although still in very early stages of research, the smallpox-turned-cancer shots look promising. They're the latest in a long quest to create immune-har- nessing vaccines to attack cancer. "We're not there yet, but we're getting there," cautions Jeffrey Schlom of the National Cancer Institute, a specialist on cancer-treating vaccines. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. Hey MICHIQAN, A B I I I here llrlewrTh3 Attention female student body! Ever fantasized about being pictured in the number one men's magazine in the world? Now's your chance to turn fantasy into reality! Representatives from PLAYBOY magazine are in Ann Arbor to interview and photograph female students for the fall 2003 "Women of the Big 10" pictorial. 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