2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 20, 2002 NATION/WORLD Police arrest Pakistani terro KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Pak- istani police, working with FBI inves- tigators, arrested five men and accused them of links to an al-Qaida- backed group that has targeted for- eigners, churches and American fast food chains, a senior police official said yesterday. Among those arrested was the owner of a soft drinks and ice cream shop in Karachi, identified only as Masood, who allegedly stored weapons and sheltered members of the militant group Harkat-ul- Mujahideen Al-Almi, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Four suspected associates of Masood were taken into custody in the overnight raids on their homes in three Karachi neighborhoods. It was the latest in a series of arrests that Pakistani leaders claim broke the back of Al-Almi, a domestic terror group that arose in Pakistan in response to President Pervez Mushar- raf's crackdown against Islamic extremists. The successes against Al-Almi coincide with a breakthrough last week against Osama bin Laden's al- Qaida network. Karachi police and intelligence agents, using information gathered by the FBI, arrested about a dozen al-Qaida suspects, including Ramzi Binalshibh, believed to be a key organizer of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Another Yemeni arrested with Binalshibh was identified as one of the killers of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kid- napped Jan. 23. Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said some of the Al-Almi detainees caught this week may have also been involved with Pearl's killers. Binalshibh and four others were handed over to U.S. custody Monday and flown out of the country. The arrests prompted Musharraf to declare that security forces "have broken the terrorist network" in Pakistan. Haider said the government has nearly 20 people in custody involved with Al-Almi, which was believed responsible for a surge of deadly operations against foreigners this year. Pakistan, Haider said, "is taking all possible measures to eliminate terror- ism from the country." Haider said American agencies were providing "technical assistance" to help track down the suspects, but stressed that the arrests were conduct- ed by Pakistani law enforcement. fists NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD ABIDJAN, Ivory Coastt Coup attempt in Ivory Coast fails teLoyalist troops put down an uprising by security forces who attacked military and police bases across the Ivory Coast yesterday, trying to oust the president while he was visiting Italy. The Cabinet minister in charge of police was killed along with the for- mer junta leader accused of having a role in the uprising. President Laurent Gbagbo declared the rebellion had been halted after hours of heavy gunfights and mortar exchanges left at least 10 rebel sol- diers and seven loyal police dead. Bloody bodies littered the streets of Abidjan, the commercial capital. Gbagbo's government has been struggling to calm ethnic and political tension and a restive military since the once-tranquil country's first-ever coup in 1999. Government troops killed Gen. Robert Guei, the ex-junta leader, when his car refused to stop for a roadblock in downtown Abidjan, paramilitary police Sgt. Ahossi Aime said. Guei, the former army chief who took power in the 1999 uprising, was forced out during elections the next year amid allegations he was trying to steal the vote. RETHWS , Germany German denies link to Sept. 11 terrorists A Syrian-born German businessman questioned last week by federal police > said yesterday that he and his family knew suspected members of the Sept. 11 terror cell in Hamburg, but knew nothing about any terror plots. In his first interview since the raid on his home and offices amid allegations AP PHOTO he had helped bring terrorists into the country, Abdel-Mateen Tatari said that he troubled area of the 111 Arabs he helped with visas in 2000 and 2001 were business clients, or their relatives. He said agents were interested in the Arabs he sponsored to come to Germany on tourist visas who included Saudis, Egyptians and Syri- ans. "I don't issue the visas," he said. "I just hand the local police a letter of v iv sponsorship and they take it from there." Speaking in Arabic, Tatari said he and his youngest son told authorities about their relationship with Mohamed Atta, believed to be the leader of the or nearly six weeks. suicide hijackers, and others linked to the Hamburg cell, including Mounir el or Arafat aide, said the Motassadeq, and Mohammed Haydar Zammar. and called for interna- "I have nothing to hide and I am sure this whole thing will come to noth- he incursion. "Arafat is ing," Tatari told The Associated Press in his office at Rethwisch. a Soldiers of Pakistan paramilitary force patrol ride through th Peshawar, Pakistan yesterday. Suicide bomber kills five in Tel Sharon convenes Cabinet in emergency session, tanks fire in direction of Arafat's compound TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Tel Aviv bus killing five other people yesterday and Israeli tanks roared back into Yasser Arafat's West Bank com- pound. The violence snuffed out hopes that after a six-week lull the conflict was winding down. The nail-studded bomb scorched the bus and sent passengers fleeing out of shattered windows, as the vehicle lurched forward for 50 feet on the downtown boulevard, the driver's burned body slouched over the wheel. Forty-nine people were wounded. Hours later tanks moved in and fired in the direc- tion of the Palestinian leader's battered office as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his Cabinet in emergency session, fueling speculation about whether he intended to confine Arafat to the building or perhaps to expel him from the West Bank. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, though media reported conflicting claims from the militant Islamic Jihad and Hamas groups. The attack - along with a suicide bombing Wednesday that killed an Israeli policeman - ended a relative lull that lasted six weeks and raised hopes that two years of violence might be winding down. The burst of violence caine after Israel turned down a Palestinian offer for a phased cease-fire. Earlier yesterday, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in Ramallah when he broke an Israeli cur- few to buy cigarettes for his father. Witnesses said he was shot by Israeli soldiers. The military had no comment. And in Abu Dis, a West Bank suburb of Jerusalem, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the family homes of two Palestinians who blew themselves up in Jerusalem on Dec. 1, killing 11 bystanders. Hours after the Tel Aviv blast, tanks were sent into the Ramallah compound. The Israeli military said that "in response to the ter- rorist attack, Israeli forces surrounded the compound." Soldiers with loudspeakers called on wanted Palestini- ans inside to surrender, naming Tawfik Tirawi, a sen- ior security commander, an Israeli official said. After its session, the Israeli Cabinet issued a state- ment blaming the violence on Arafat, "who estab- lished the coalition of terror." It said operational decisions were made, but did not elaborate. Israel Radio said the Cabinet decided to isolate Arafat in his office and demand the surrender of wanted Palestinians inside. Sharon resisted calls,'to expel Arafat, saying such a measure would cause Israel political damage. Last spring, Israeli tanks onfined Arafat to his office f Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a seni raelis were targeting Arafat onal intervention to stop th ine, but the situation in the compound is very dan- erous," Abu Rdeneh said. Two Palestinian security officers were wounded as e tanks moved into the compound firing shells and achine guns, Palestinian officials said. Israel TV ported a huge bulldozer knocked down some trail- rs in the compound where Palestinian security offi- ers were stationed. Israel says Arafat's Palestinian Authority has done othing to stop terror attacks despite issuing occa- ional condemnations. The Palestinians say Israel's :occupation of most Palestinian cities and decima- on of Arafat's security forces has robbed him of any bility to stop the militants. After the suicide bombing, the authority issued a :atement condemning attacks against all civilians, ;raeli and Palestinian. It denounced the bombing, Lying it "gives Sharon's government and his occupa- on army the pretext to continue killing." Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ghassan Khatib said haron had provoked the attacks because of Israel's ionths of curfew imposed on West Bank popula- on centers. "Civilians are paying the price for the olicy of Sharon," he said. N IaW a Navy br ship was al- aida target SINGAPORE (AP) - A U.S. Navy ship and a bar frequented by American troops had been targeted for attack by 21 men arrested last month with alleged links to al-Qaida, government official said yesterday. The terror group also planned to hit the country's Defense Ministry and water pipelines, the officials said. The men were acting on orders from an Indonesian Muslim cleric, Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, said Singapore's Home Affairs Min- istry. Hambali, whose whereabouts are unknown, is believed to be the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional group officials have linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network. The ministry, which is responsible for security, said an unnamed Ameri- can vessel at the Changi Naval Base was targeted in late 2001, as well as a pub which they believed was popular with American military service per- sonnel. The U.S. Navy has a logistics unit in Singapore and warships going to and from Afghanistan have been resupplied in the city-state. Last year, Singapore opened a new naval facility specially designed to accommodate U.S. aircraft carriers. American officials said about 100 U.S. Navy ships move through Singa- pore annually, but declined to comment on the alleged terror threat. "We remain confident in the safety and security provided by the govern- ment of Singapore," said Leslie Hull- Ryde, a navy spokeswoman in Singapore said. The operatives allegedly targeted Jurong Island, an industrial area off Singapore's southern coast that is home to numerous chemical factories, the statement said. WASHINGTON Tumors shrink after blood cell treatment Some seriously ill melanoma patients were left virtually free of disease after researchers injected them with billions of laboratory-grown white blood cells that attacked and shrank their skin cancer tumors, National Institutes of Health researchers say. In a study appearing today in the jour- nal Science, a team led by Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Insti- tute reports using amplified lymphocytes - the body's white blood cells - to attack melanoma tumors in 13 patients. Ten of those patients are still alive, four are "virtually cancer free" and two others have experienced "substantial" shrinkage of their tumors, the researcher said. Rosenberg, who has spent years developing ways to enlist the body's own immune cells to combat cancer, said his team has learned how to grow huge numbers of cancer-fighting cells within a patient, enough to overwhelm the tumors. SILVER SPRING, Md. Stronger warnings needed for drug Federal scientists urged stronger warn- ing labels yesterday acetaminophen bot- tles, based on evidence that thousands of Americans may unwittingly take toxic doses that could harm their livers. "You cannot allow more innocent men, women and children to suffer," Kate Trunk, whose 23-year-old son Mar- cus was one of about 100 people thought to die every year from unintentional overdoses, told a panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers. "Death is not an acceptable side effect." The FDA panel voted 21-1 to back her call for more warnings about the risk. Some 100 million people a year take acetaminophen, and serious liver damage is very rare, manufacturers insist. Although best known by the Tylenol brand, acetaminophen is in almost 200 different branded and generic products, from headache relievers to cold-and- cough remedies. While mostly sold with- out a prescription, it's also in a few prescription painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin. NEW YORK Article: Gays should not be ordained A staff member of an influential Vatican office has published an arti- cle arguing that gays should not be ordained as priests in the wake of the clerical sex abuse scandal. If a man is gay, "then he should not be admitted to holy orders, and his presence in the seminary would not only give him false hope but it may, in fact, hinder" the therapy he needs, Monsignor Andrew Baker of the Congregation of Bishops wrote. Reached by phone in Rome, Baker would not immediately say whether his superiors reviewed or approved the article before it was printed in the Jesuit magazine America due out Monday. However, church observers say Baker's arguments were evidence of the Holy See's views on homosexuali- ty at a critical time for the Roman Catholic Church. "The Congregation for Bishops is one of the most impor- tant offices in the Vatican because it deals with bishops' conferences. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 0 0 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. 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