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Jordan
shooting
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - An assas-
sin pumped eight shots into an Ameri-
can diplomat outside his home
yesterday in the first known killing of a
Western envoy in the Jordanian capital.
The U.S. Embassy identified the vic-
tim as Laurence Foley, an employee of
the U.S. Agency for International
Development mission in Jordan, which
handles foreign aid and humanitarian
programs.
While Jordan is officially allied with
the United States, anti-American senti-
ment has been rising with public oppo-
sition to a threatened U.S. attack on
Iraq, Jordan's eastern neighbor and pri-
mary trading partner. The kingdom's
1994 peace treaty with Israel also has
made it a target for Muslim militants
and terrorist groups.
White House spokesman Ari Fleis-
cher said President Bush deeply regret-
ted the shooting. However, Fleischer,
speaking to reporters aboard Air Force
One en route to New Mexico, said it
was too early to say whether the attack
was terror-related.
"The investigation is just getting
under way," Fleischer said. "We don't
rule that out but we won't go beyond
that for the moment."
U.S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm,
his voice breaking several times,
paid tribute to Foley as "a man who
dedicated his life to improving the
lives of others."
Gnehm had given Foley a "superior
honor award" on Sunday. Gnehm quot-
ed Foley's wife Virginia as saying on
the night before he died: "I'm where I
want to be doing what I want to do."
The ambassador called the shoot-
ing a "cowardly, criminal act" but
refused to say whether he thought it
was terrorist-related.
Jordanian Information Minister
Mohammed Affash Adwan would not
speculate on whether terrorists were
involved, but called the attack "an
aggression on Jordan and its national
security."
Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher
went to the U.S. Embassy to express
condolences and promised swift action
to catch the shooter.
Sniper case
suspects
chargzed in
Virginia
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) - The
teenager arrested in the sniper slayings
may have fired the shot that killed an
FBI analyst, a prosecutor said yester-
day as Virginia charged both suspects
with crimes that could bring the death
penalty.
John Lee Malvo, 17, and John Allen
Muhammad, 41, now face murder
charges in both Virginia and Maryland
in the three-week series of attacks that
killed 10 people and wounded three.
Alabama has charged them in a killing
during a robbery. No decision had been
made yet on federal charges.
Fairfax County prosecutor Robert
Horan said evidence shows that
Malvo may have fired the shot that
killed Linda Franklin on Oct. 14
outside a Home Depot in Falls
Church. He would not elaborate on
the evidence.
"There will be some evidence that
the juvenile was the shooter just like
there will be evidence that the adult
was the shooter," Horan said. "But the
point is, we don't know right now, and
no one knows right now."
The pair were charged in Spotsylva-
nia County with the murder of Kenneth
Bridges on Oct. 11 and the Oct. 4
wounding of an unidentified woman.
The murder charges were based on
state law allowing capital punishment
for the killing of more than one person
within three years.
In Prince William County, where
Dean Meyers was slain Oct. 9 while
pumping gas, a grand jury charged
Muhammad and Malvo with capital
murder and conspiracy to commit mur-
der under a new post-Sept. 11 terror-
ism law.
Prince William prosecutor Paul
Ebert said that law would allow the
death penalty for both men - even
the man who did not pull the trigger.
Virginia Attorney General Jerry
Kilgore said the terrorism law gives
Virginia prosecutors a "backuo. anoth-
RAMALAHWest Bank
Suicide bomb plotters
captured in Israel
Israel has captured 175 Palestinians
suspected of plotting suicide bomb
attacks, officials confirmed yesterday,
saying the figure shows that Palestinian
militants are relentless in trying to
attack Israelis.
Since Sept. 2000, 83 Palestinians
have blown themselves up, killing 296
Israelis on buses, in malls, at gas sta-
tions and in cafes.
part of the council, said Hans Blix, the
top U.N. inspector.
But Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei,
who heads the International Atomic
Energy Agency in charge of nuclear
inspections, questioned several details in
the U.S. proposal and said it was up to
the council - not them - to decide
whether Iraq was in compliance.
"It has been suggested that we hold
war and peace in our hands (and) we
decline that statement;'Blix told journal-
ists after discussing the U.S. proposal
inside the Security Council.
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military strikes and strict travel bans in S o leaves
the West Bank and Gaza Strip provoke torm dozens
further bombings and shootings. dead across Europe
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has
denounced attacks on civilians, and was Workers scrambled to clear roadways
to repeat such a condemnation today, in and railways of trees and other debris
a speech to the Palestinian parliament. yesterday after a fierce storm pummeled
"Such attacks do not help our Europe with deadly gale-force winds,
national interest in having our inde- killing up to 34 people and leaving hun-
pendent state, nor the Israeli interest dreds of thousands without electricity.
of having security and peace," said a Gusts in excess of 100 mph were
draft of the Arafat speech obtained blamed for at least 11 fatalities in Ger-
by The Associated Press. many on Sunday, including five people
killed in storm-related accidents in the
UNITED NATh)NS northwestern state of North Rhine-West-
phalia. Near Weilburg, north of Frank-
gansfsupport ofrt, a falling tree killed a couple driving
Four Guantanamo detainees transferred
The United States has released four al-Qaida and Taliban suspects from
Guantanamo Bay, the first detainees to leave the island prison because they
no longer pose a threat, officials said yesterday.
Three Afghan detainees were handed over Sunday to Afghan officials at
Bagram Air Base, Red Cross and U.S. officials said. The fourth detainee, a
Pakistani, was flown on to Pakistan.
"We're confirming that four were transferred for release," said Pentagon
spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Burfeind.
Even with the departures, the number of detainees at the U.S. naval base
in Guantanamo rose above 600 with the arrival of a planeload of about 30
prisoners from an undisclosed location. Burfeind said the new total is
"approximately 625."
The three Afghans arrived Sunday at Bagram, the U.S. military head-
quarters in Afghanistan, and were transferred to the custody of Afghan
officials there in the presence of delegates from the International Commit-
tee of the Red Cross, said Red Cross spokeswoman Caroline Douilliez.
"They are still in the hands of the authorities and it is up to them what
happens next," Douilliez told The Associated Press.
Moscow
Putin calls for crackdown on terrorism
President Vladimir Putin led a national day of mourning yesterday and pledged
Russia would not surrender to terrorist "blackmail." Relatives and friends grieved for
118 captives who died in the siege at a Moscow theater, all but two from the paralyz-
ing gas used to rescue them.
Using words remarkably similar to those of President Bush after the Sept. 11
attacks in the United States, Putin pledged in televised comments to give the military
broader powers to move against suspected terrorists and their sponsors.
"Russia will answer with measures adequate to the threat to the Russian Federation
in all places where the terrorists, the organizers of these crimes or their ideological or
financial sponsors are located," Putin said. "I emphasize - wherever they may be."
Putin has said the theater raid was planned abroad, and the Russian Foreign Min-
istry claimed yesterday, without offering evidence, that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida
terrorist organization was involved.
Officials said 405 of the freed captives remained hospitalized, 45 of them
in grave condition. Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko said 239
people had been released.
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weapons inspectors
The United States won key support
yesterday from chief weapons inspectors
who told the Security Council they
would be better off with a new resolution
that warns Iraq of consequences if it fails
to cooperate.
"I think it is desirable that Iraq under-
stands that any lack of cooperation or
violation ... will call for reactions on the
along a country road, and in the northern
port city of Hamburg, an 80-year-old
woman was hit by a car when a gust of
wind caught her umbrella and she fell
into a road.
The winds subsided yesterday after
uprooting trees and tearing boats from
their moorings overnight. The morning
commute was a headache.
- Compiled.from Daily wire reports.
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