2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 NATION/WORLD Police find threat at site of latest killing ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A bus driver was shot to death yesterday as he was about to set out on his morning route in what authorities fear was the 13th attack by the Washington-area sniper. Police also revealed a chilling warning found at a weekend shooting scene: "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time." Conrad Johnson, 35, was fatally wounded just before 6 a.m. as he stood on the top step of his bus, setting off a police dragnet and snarling traf- fic in the suburbs north of the nation's capital. He died later at a hospital.. The shooting happened in Aspen Hill, the same community where the shootings began. Since Oct. 2, the sniper has killed nine people and criti- cally wounded three others in Maryland, Virginia and Washington. The slaying came after two days of public entreaties by police for the sniper to contact them. Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose suggested yesterday police had received a new message from the killer, and he said authorities were preparing a response. He refused to disclose details about the message, believed to be the fourth authorities have received during the investigation. The warning about children's safety was dis- covered by police outside a steakhouse just north of Richmond, Va., where the sniper critically wounded a man Saturday night. Moose said the warning came in the form of a "postscript," but refused to describe the rest of the note. However, a senior law enforcement official speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the note demanded $10 million. More than 140,000 students in the Richmond area remained home yesterday as schools were closed for a second day. School officials cited information from police in shutting down, prompting questions for Moose, whose office is leading the sprawling investigation. Moose said investigators recognized "the con- cerns of the community" and decided to provide the "exact language that pertains to the threat." Schools will reopen today. In Maryland, Kathy Franco, who was shopping with her year-old son, Liam, and six-week-old daughter, Katherine, was angered by the warning about children. "As a parent, it just completely brings out every animal instinct," Franco said. "These two are the most important things in the world for me." NEWS IN BRIEFf :HADINESTOMNRU DTH O U.N. resolution will affect war timing As the U.S. military presses ahead with preparations for possible war against Iraq, it is far from clear that an attack to topple Saddam Hussein would begin this winter as once widely believed. If Iraq refuses to accept a U.N. resolution restarting weapons inspections, a U.S.-led attack could happen by December or January. But, for now, the U.N. Security Council has failed to agree on a resolution to restart tough inspections. And if Saddam agrees to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspections, at least ini- tially, that could delay military action beyond winter and spring, which are con- sidered the most suitable times for conducting war in Iraq. Senior U.S. military officials said yesterday they are ready to act whenever President Bush decides the time is right. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked at a Pen- tagon news conference yesterday whether he was concerned that Iraq has the lux- ury of time to prepare its defenses against an American invasion. "I can tell you we're postured in a way that that will not be a problem," Myers replied. He said that in strictly military terms, the passage of time can aid both the attacker and the defender. HAMBURG, Germnany First Sept. 11 suspect denies guilt in court A Moroccan student charged with aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the Sept. 11 attacks admitted yesterday he trained in an Osama bin Laden camp in Afghanistan but denied knowing about the plot against the United States. Mounir el Motassadeq, 28, is the first person to go on trial in connection with the suicide hijackings that killed thousands in New York, at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. El Motassadeq testified that he learned to fire a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the camp during three weeks of training in mid-2000 but was unaware it was run by bin Laden's al-Qaida organization until he got there. "I learned that bin Laden was responsible for the camp and had been at the camp sometimes," he said. But, he added, "I didn't know that beforehand and I didn't meet him either." El Motassadeq, in custody since his arrest in Hamburg two months after the attacks, faces a possible life sentence if convicted of membership in a terrorist organization and more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder. His attorneys told the court he is innocent and denies prosecutors' charges that he provided logistical support to the Hamburg cell, which included hijacker MohamedAtta and two of the other pilots. W AP PHOTO Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose addresses the media about the sniper case outside Montgomery County Police headquarters in Rockville, Md. Alles split UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In a bers - the troubling sign for U.S. efforts to push a France, Russ tough new Iraq resolution through the the new U.S. Security Council, Russia and France three-hour said yesterday they weren't satisfied Paris and M with a revised draft that warns Baghdad could be use of "serious consequences" if it fails to an attack on cooperate with weapons inspections. scheduled la The five permanent council mem- "The Am on Iraq draft United States, Britain, sia and China - discussed text for the first time at a meeting yesterday, with oscow concerned the draft d by Washington to launch Iraq. Another meeting was te yesterday. erican draft resolution ... does not answer the criteria which the Russian side laid out earlier and which it confirms today," Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was quoted as telling Russian journalists after meet- ing Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, in Moscow. France also expressed disappoint- ment with the latest U.S. offer. GOT A STORY? LET US KNOW. CALL 76-DAiLY. ww. mad stoneth eaters. com seeking explore unit arian www.uuyan.org "Get Connected" JOSEPH LYONS UUA CAM>it & EWmIT C>ORINATOR 1-877-270-3302 * CAMPUS@UUA.ORG the forum on religion and learning presents: "the case for faith-informed scholarship" dr. george marsden francis a. mcananey professor of history the university of notre dame thursday, october 24th 2002 angel halt auditorium b 4pm sponsored by the association of religious counselors and the history department the university of michigan WASH INGTON Pentagon to release some terror suspects The Pentagon plans to release some terror suspects from prison in Cuba because they are no longer threats and have no more intelligence information to offer; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday. "There are some people likely to come out of the other end of the chute," he said, without disclosing how many would be released. Some of the 598 men at the high-secu- rity prison built at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have been held for nearly a year. They were first rounded up during the air war that opened the military cam- paign in Afghanistan, then transferred from Afghanistan to Cuba in January. Until now, the only prisoners who have gotten out of the facility were a man who was mentally ill and an Amer- ican moved to the United States for continued detention, officials said. CANTON, 111. Cold weather could end West Nile threat Within weeks, if not days, nature will quietly snuff out a killer in Illinois. The first hard frost will put West Nile in the deep freeze, halting a statewide scourge that has infected 691 people and killed 43 - by far the deadliest outbreak since the virus was first detected in the United States in 1999. The cold will kill the mosquitoes that carry the virus. But health officials know the relief could be as fleeting as frost on an autumn morning. So they will spend the winter studying everything - including the outbreak's geography, its timing and its victims - that might help them ward off the virus next year. As of Monday, there were 3,231 reported human cases of West Nile virus in the United States this year and 176 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WASHINGTON U.S. lists extremists linked to terror Moving against Islamic extremists in Asia linked to the al-Qaida network, the State Department will list as a terrorist organization a group suspected in the Bali nightclub bombing that killed more than 180 people, a U.S. official said yesterday. The Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah, due to be cited Wednesday, has cells operating throughout South- east Asia. It seeks to create an Islamic state comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the southern Philip- pines, according to report in May by the State Department's counterterror- ism office. 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