40 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 29, 2002 NATION/WORLD Diplomat NEWS IN BRIEFf_ killed in KABULAfghanistan COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS With a dynamic faculty, curriculum, and resources unsurpassed in diversity and scope, SIPA trains tomorrow's leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century. '\ \ AN " International Finance and Business " Human Rights " Media " Environmental Policy " Regional Studies " City Management and Urban Affairs * Public Analysis and Applied Economics * and other skill- and policy-based concentrations Master of Public Administration Master of International Affairs Executive Master of Public Administration Program in Economic Policy Management www.si pa.columbia.edu 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. 1 i a t t The Palestinians say harsh Israeli VIENAAustria 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. Volunteer to help the GOP Get Out The Vote Efforts Nov. 2,4, & 5 Up to $50 Per Diem Available Call for more info. (574) 532-9782 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. 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