I 2A- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 2, 2003 NATION/WORLD 4 Israeli Cabinet OKs security barrier NEWS IN BRIEF . HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Barriers will be built Israeli radio reports said similar bar- prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, said he of violence. Many bombers have sim- east of several West riers also would be erected east of sev- has reached agreement on the forma- ply walked across the unmarked line WASHINGTON eral other settlements in the West Bank tion of a Cabinet and would present it between Israel and the West Bank, White House begins search for CIA leak Bank settlements heartland, including Efrat, south of to parliament on Sunday and Monday. blowing themselves up in Israeli cities.'g"A JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cab- inet yesterday approved an extension of a security barrier that would sweep around Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank but also have large gaps - for now - to address U.S. concerns. One stretch would be built east of Ariel - the second-largest settlement in the West Bank, with 18,000 resi- dents - although it won't immediately be connected to the main security fence running further west, closer to Israel, said Zalman Shoval, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Bethlehem. In other developments, Israeli com- mandos arrested Bassam Saadi, a sen- ior leader of the Islamic Jihad, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. A witness said Saadi was hiding under a parked car when he was seized. Later yesterday, an Islamic Jihad member was killed and another criti- cally wounded in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkaren, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military had no imme- diate comment. Also, the incoming Palestinian He would not discuss the size or com- position of the new government, but Palestinian officials have said he was hoping to reduce the number of minis- ters from 24 to 12, in part because he was exasperated by wrangling over Cabinet seats. The vote yesterday by the Israeli Cabinet on the next segments of the security barrier was 18-4, with one abstention. Israel says the barrier is necessary to keep out suicide attackers. Dozens of Israelis have been killed in more than 100 suicide attacks during three years Palestinian officials demand that the United States stop the barrier's con- struction, charging that Israel is grab- bing land and unilaterally drawing a border that should be determined in peace talks. "All these are procedures and actions that destroy all possibilities for peace and bringing about calm, be it settle- ments, the wall, or what is happening around Jerusalem," Qureia said. The United States wants the barrier to run close to the Green Line, the frontier between Israel and the West Bank before the 1967 Mideast war. 'Eco-terrorists' launch attacks against U.S. cities SAN DIEGO (AP) - A sabotage campaign by the nation's most radical environmental group has moved from the countryside to the doorstep of Detroit and other major U.S. cities. The Earth Liberation Front, a movement that originated in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, has claimed responsibility for a string of arsons in the suburbs of Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego and Philadelphia in the past 12 months. No one has been charged in any of the attacks. Fires on March 21 destroyed two homes being built in Washtenaw County's Superior Township, west of Detroit. On June 4, two nearly com- pleted houses in Macomb County's Washington Township, north of Detroit, were set afire. The attacks in Michigan and else- where, which included the costliest act of environmental sabotage in U.S. histo- ry, have targeted luxury homes and sport utility vehicles, the suburban status sym- bols that some environmentalists regard as despoilers of the Earth. "Their actions used to be aimed at 'out in the country' industries," said Ron Arnold of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Center for the Defense of Free Enter- prise, who has written several books criticizing the environmental move- ment's radical wing. "Now they're mov- ing from a save-the-wilderness focus to an anti-capitalist focus." This summer, environmentalists in Southern California turned six- figure luxury homes under con- struction into charred sticks of wood, destroyed an unfinished 206- unit apartment complex and fire- bombed brand-new Hummers, the mammoth sport-utility vehicles that start at $50,000. Rod Coronado, a legendary figure in the underground movement who is serving as an ELF spokesman and has drawn scrutiny from the FBI, said the group is being transformed by a new generation of activists. "When I got involved in the mid- '80s, tree-spiking" - pounding spikes into trees to prevent loggers with chain saws from cutting them down - "was a big deal," said Coro- nado, 37, who played a part in sinking two whaling ships in Iceland and served time in prison for an arson attack at a Michigan State University animal-research lab. "What that's morphed into is a more urban envi- ronmental movement, whereby people are fighting for the last wild places in urban areas." He said the young activists are "doing the only thing they know to do and that is strike a match and draw a whole lot of attention to their dissatisfaction with "Now they're moving from a save-the- wilderness focus to an anti-capitalist focus." - Ron Arnold Center for Defense of Free Enterprise protecting the environment" The ELF is the FBI's No. 1 domestic terrorism priority. The organization has done more than $100 million damage - but caused no deaths - since it split off from the radical environmental group Earth First! and surfaced in the United States five years ago. The ELF first took aim at urban sprawl in 2000, when it burned luxury homes and condos under construction on New York's Long Island. The White House staff began going back through records and telephone logs yes- terday in search of any information relevant to the criminal investigation into public disclosure of a CIA undercover officer's identity, President Bush's spokesman said. Press secretary Scott McClellan said he had no knowledge about anyone going to the Justice Department with any information about the case, as Bush had urged. Similarly, he said he did not know of anyone hiring legal counsel. "At this point, all the Department of Justice has asked us to do is preserve any and all information that could be related," he said. McClellan indicated the White House would consent, if asked, to polygraph tests for staff. "We will cooperate fully, at the direction of the president. ... Full cooperation is full cooperation." One day after the probe was announced, there was no sign of investigators at the White House, McClellan said. Bush, on Tuesday, said, "I want to know who the leakers are" and he voiced confi- dence that career Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents can impartially conduct the investigation. Bush said he is "absolutely confident" the investigation can be handled within his administration and reiterated that he has asked the White House staff to cooperate. The president also maintained there is no need to name an outside special counsel. UNITED NATIONS U.S. assumes Security Council leadership The United States took over the presidency of the U.N. Security Council yester- day, a stroke of good timing as it campaigns for approval of a new resolution aimed at getting more countries to contribute troops and money to Iraq. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte began his month-long presidency with a series of meetings with U.N. colleagues to promote the resolution, saying he would begin informal consultations on the new draft this week with hopes of swift approval. "As far as time is concerned, we would like to move expeditiously on it," Negroponte said. "We'd also like to see the resolution in place, if possible, well in advance of the upcoming donors conference in Madrid on Oct. 24" for Iraq. The five permanent veto-wielding council nations - the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - who were divided over the U.S.-led war and remain divided over the next steps in Iraq - were meeting late yesterday to receive copies of the resolution from Negroponte, council diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Earlier in the day, Negroponte held a series of one-on-one meetings with some of the elected nonpermanent members of the Security Council. Chfropractic... The Choice For Me Jason Kucma is a Third-Year student from Medford, NJ. He graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Physiology concentrating in Cardiac Rehabilitation. "The only thing that has ever captured my attention was studying the human body. The more I learned in school, the more I needed to know. 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Among the questions facing military investigators doing damage assessment: Did al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at the high-security U.S. prison camp in Cuba pass messages to other terrorists still at large? If classified information was compromised, how much was leaked and to whom? Were any of the suspects working together? And are there more? Interrogations that involved the accused men will be scrutinized for possible biases, military officials say. Some of the sessions were taped, and those tapes will be reviewed to see if translators omitted or changed what the prisoners said, or passed messages to the inmates. WASHINGTON Re ublicans t one I ion new donors The donations aren't all that big - most under $30 - but the num- ber of people contributing to the Republican Party is a milestone: more than 1 million new donors since President Bush took office. That beats the Republican Nation- al Committee's previous record of 853,595 first-time donors during President Reagan's two terms in the 1980s. The new contributors in Bush's tenure yielded $55 million for the RNC, spokeswoman Chris- tine Iverson said yesterday. "These are not wealthy people," said Iverson, who said the typical donation was under $30. FRANKFURT, Germany New robot vacuum cleans, sweeps home Let's face it: You have to be just a lit- tle lazy to use a $1,500 robot to vacuum a one-bedroom apartment. But how sweet it is to stroll barefoot across spotlessly clean wood floors, without having lifted a finger - or, to be more precise, having lifted a finger just once, to turn on the RoboCleaner RC3000. 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