2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 10, 2003 NATION/WORLD I Baghdad police station bombing kills 8 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile into a police station in Iraq's largest Shi- ite Muslim enclave yesterday, killing himself, nine others and wounding as many as 45. Earlier, gunmen - one dressed as a Shiite cleric - shot and killed a Spanish military attache. The violence, six months to the day after Baghdad fell to American forces, underscored the predicament of a capital whose deliverance from Saddam Hus- sein's tyranny has been repeatedly undermined by terrorism, attacks on U.S. forces and sectarian unrest. The ancient city's landscape is now lined with massive concrete blast barri- ers and coils of barbed wire outside hotels, government departments and along stretches of road near U.S. mili- tary bases. As in previous attacks, there was no claim of responsibility for the 8:30 a.m. bombing in Sadr City, a Baghdad dis- trict with an estimated 2 million Shiites. "It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and sand. I was thrown to the ground," said Mohammed Adnan, who sells water- melons opposite the police station. Vegetable seller Fakhriya Jarallah said two of her sons were repairing the out- side wall of the compound. "I ran across the road like a mad- woman to find out what happened to my sons. But thanks to God they are both safe," she said. Policemen and some in the crowd that gathered outside the police sta- tion after the explosion offered an assortment of possible culprits that ranged from non-Iraqi Arab militants to Saddam loyalists and Shiite radi- cals angry about a cleric's arrest. The killing of the Spanish military attache happened across town in the upscale Mansour area about 30 minutes before the car bombing. D.C. sniper suspect to claim C " insanity FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyers said yesterday they will mount an insanity defense at his murder trial in the Washington sniper case, arguing that the teenager was a victim of "indoctrination" by the older John Allen Muhammad. "This case is so bizarre in its facts, and the degree of indoctrination is so severe, that we would be remiss if we failed" to put the sanity issue before a jury, said Craig Cooley, a lawyer for the 18-year-old Malvo. The prosecutor in the case, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Horan Jr., said that he has reviewed the reports of a court- appointed mental-health expert and that there was nothing to suggest men- tal illness on Malvo's part. "It says absolutely nothing about insanity," Horan said. "Apparently it's a late-blooming insanity." But Cooley said the insanity defense is not based on the work of the court- appointed expert, but on experts who were retained privately and examined Malvo. Cooley said that indoctrination is a form of mental illness and that it will ultimately be up to a jury to decide if it amounts to insanity. Meanwhile, in Manassas, the judge in the Muhammad case ruled yesterday that the 42-year-old Muhammad can- not present any mental-health evidence at his own trial because he refused to submit to an examination sought by prosecutors. In previous motions and hearings, Malvo's lawyers have argued their client had been brainwashed was "under the spell" of Muhammad, but yesterday's pre-trial hearing was the first reference to an insanity defense. For the defense to work, Malvo's lawyers will have to show jurors that it was more likely than not that Malvo could not tell right from wrong at the time of the shootings. If found innocent by reason of insan- ity, Malvo would be committed to mental hospital until he is found to no longer be a threat. But he also faces several other charges in Virginia and other states. Virginia law requires that Malvo now submit to another mental-health examination, this time by an expert selected by prosecutors, if he wants to present the insanity defense to jurors. At yesterday's hearing, Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush rejected prosecu- tors' first choice, forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, after the defense argued that prosecutors also had selected Dietz to examine Muhammad. T-SHIRT PRINTERY A2'S FINEST & FASTEST PRINTED & EMBROIDERED TEES, SWEATS, CAPS, TEAM SHIRTS, SHORTS U --UM PO#S ACCEPTED-- --CALL FOR OUR LO W PRIC E Q UOTE 5-DAY TURNAROUND. 1002 PONTIAC TR. TEL. 994-1367 adrianst shirt s~com Would you like to start a fraternity? We have got a great opportunity for you! ---------- ---- Local/national scholarship programs Immediate leadership positions 145 years on campus 500+ alumni No hazina NEWS IN BRIEF: MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan Aghan militias sign truce after fighting After fighting that killed dozens of people, rival warlords in northern Afghanistan said yesterday that they had reached a truce and would begin with- drawing tanks and other weapons within 48 hours. But with soldiers squared off along a tense battlefield, it was not clear whether the cease-fire would hold despite assurances from both sides. The fighting between the two groups - both nominally loyal to President Hamid Karzai - was the worst in northern Afghanistan in months, with one side claiming more than 60 people were killed. One warlord, Atta Mohammed, said the truce took effect immediately and that both sides would return all weaponry to their bases in 48 hours. "I am sure this cease-fire will hold," Mohammed told The Associated Press. Gen. Majid Rozi, a senior commander for northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, confirmed the details of the truce and said the withdrawal of weapons had begun. The agreement followed talks involving Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali and British Ambassador Ron Nash. "If there is no peace in the north of the country, it will damage the trust the international community has in us," Jalali said after the signing of the truce yesterday. inochet-era killings resurface in U.S. court For the past few weeks, a jury has heard witnesses accuse Armando Fernandez Larios, an army lieutenant during Chile's bloody 1973 coup, of executing political prisoners, wielding a medieval-style mace in a terrorized town and watching as a list of those marked for death was drawn up. Fernandez, now a Miami auto body shop manager, is defending himself in a law- suit accusing him of being a member of the Caravan of Death, a mobile killing squad that executed 75 political prisoners in the weeks after Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power. The case, unfolding in federal court in Miami, is the first trial in the United States stemming from the 30-year-old killings. The family of one of the victims - Winston Cabello - has accused Fernandez of killings, torture and crimes against humanity, and is seeking damages. The amount sought will be announced during closing argu- ments, which could begin as early as this week. The trial began Sept. 23. Fernandez has denied any role in the killings and torture. Joshua Sondheimer, a lawyer with the San Francisco-based Center for Justice & Accountability who sued on behalf of the family, said the main goal is not the money. { 4 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba U.S. looks for security breach in prison camp Two dozen investigators began searching for possible security breaches yesterday at the U.S. prison camp for terror suspects, where espionage charges have heightened tensions among soldiers. On Wednesday, investigators from the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command reported t o the island, following by a day the arrival of five non-American-born Arabic inter- preters contracted by the same com- pany that employed an American translator accused of spying. Investigators will try to establish how a translator already under investigation got secret clearance and was allowed onto the base, and how a second translator managed to leave with classified information. In addition, a Muslim chaplain is under investigation after allegedly leaving with diagrams of the prison layout. SANTA MONA, Calif. New Calif. gov. looks forward to transition Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced key members of his transition team yesterday, saying the first thing they would do is conduct an audit to find out 1 ) 1 just how serious the state's deficit is. He also called on Gov. Gray Davis not to make any more appointments or sign leg- islation in the waning days of his admin- istration, although Schwarzenegger acknowledged it is Davis' right to do so. "I would like it really if he doesn't sign any more bills, as far as that goes," Schwarzenegger said. "I'm absolutely convinced that when the governor says that he wants to have a smooth transition, that we will in fact have a smooth transi- tion. And I am looking forward to that and the process has already begun." 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