2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 NATION WORLD Iraqis fear return of Saddam, U.S. says NEWS IN BRIEF5 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - America's top soldier in appointed Iraqi leadership, the Governing Council. Bre- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Iraq said yesterday a "blanket of fear" that Saddam "Giventhele lofmer wants to delay transferring sovereignty until the Hussein will return prevents Iraqis from giving U.S. d oeuefIraqis draft a constitution and hold national elections.Be troops intelligence vital to curb the growing insur- engagements that the enemy As Bremer held meetings at the White House yes- gency - stepped up attacks underlined by a late terday, a Bush administration official acknowledged A car bomb exploded outside a United Nations office in this southern Afghan night barrage on the heart of Baghdad. haS ChOSen to move to ... we concerns about the council's progress since its instal- city yesterday, wounding at least one person, a U.N. official said. Afghan police The top U.S. administrator in Iraq abruptly depart- are going to have more lation four months ago. But he rejected suggestions blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban in the blast. ed for Washington, amid growing frustration over the the administration was about to put the council out of In a mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan, American and Afghan troops in inability to halt the attacks on U.S. soldiers and the attacks here in the next 30 tO business. a new anti-terror operation clashed with two small bands of fighters, killing one slow process of turning power over to the Iraqis. All.jA.,.,,,..' The official who insisted on anonymity noted a fighters and causing the others to retreat in to Pakistan the UI .S militar said Late yesterday, insurgents fired mortars toward the U.S. headquarters compound, known as the "Green Zone," in Baghdad. The Coalition Provisional Authority said there was no damage to coalition headquarters, located in the Republican Palace. Afte: one detonation, white smoke could be seen rising from an area just north of the palace. Despite the mounting violence, Lt. Gen. Ricardc Sanchez angrily dismissed comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam and said his soldiers will try to balance between the use of massive firepower and the need tc win the goodwill of Iraqis. Attacks on coalition forces, he said, now average 30 to 35 a-day, twice the U.N. report: Secuntm wl Will cut off OCCU1,edland JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's security barrier will eventually carve off 14 percent of the West Bank, trap 274,000 Palestinians in tiny enclaves and block 400,000 others from their fields, jobs, schools and hospitals, according to a U.N. report released yesterday. The string of walls, razor wire, ditches and fences has enflamed already high tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. The United States has criticized the barrier's planned route deep into the West Bank, saying it could harm efforts to set up a Palestinian state. Israel has said the barrier is meant to keep out Palestinian militants responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israelis in the past three years of vio- lence. But Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday it will also prevent tens of thou- sands of Palestinians from moving into Israel - as officials say has occurred in recent years. Palestinians say the snaking barricade is an Israeli attempt to seize West Bank land Palestini- ans claim for a future state. About 90 miles of the barrier has been com- pleted around the northern West Bank, mainly following the invisible boundary with Israel. The unbuilt southern section, almost 430 miles long, will cut up to 14 miles into the West Bank, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This seems aimed at incorporating some Jewish settlements into the "Israeli" side. The barrier will carve off 14.5 percent of the West Bank, affecting roughly 680,000 people, nearly one-third of the Palestinians living in the oU Uays. - Lt Gen. Ricardo Sanchez Commander, U.S. ground forces in Iraq number two months ago. "On the near term, given the focus we have on our offensive operations, and given the level of engage- ments that the enemy has chosen to move to ... we are going to have more attacks here in the next 30 to 60 days," Sanchez told reporters. L. Paul Bremer, the chief civilian administrator for Iraq, returned to Washington at a time of increasing tension between coalition officials and the U.S.- l l l ~, VIW L1t~4 l 1V111t, LV t U.N. Security Council resolution sets a Dec. 15 dead- line for the council to arrange for the drafting of a constitution. The Iraqis have yet to agree on how to choose del- egates to draw up a constitution. Some coalition offi- cials suspect the Iraqis are stalling in hopes Bremer will quickly give them more power. Some Iraqi council members are also pushing for an Iraqi-controlled paramilitary force to fight the insurgents, something Bremer opposes without coali- tion oversight and control. Coalition sources said Bremer is increasingly frus- trated by some members of the Governing Council. r r L r1VL LU%"0Lr WV1~aL GUGL 1 Vrrau, L . 0. 11Uy aU. The explosion in Kandahar's upscale residential area of Shehr-e-Nau, occurred in a vehicle parked in front of a home being used as a workplace by the U.N. Office Project Support, said Siddiqullah, an Afghan who is in charge of humani- tarian operations for the United Nations in southern Afghanistan. The blast, which occurred minutes after U.N. workers had left the building at the end of their workday, smashed a front gate, cracked walls in the building and broke its windows, said Siddiqullah. It also similarly damaged an adjacent build- ing housing the U.N. Assistance Mission for Afghanistan, he said. A man driving by on a motorcycle at the time was wounded by the blast, said Siddiqullah, who like many Afghans only uses one name. There was no immedi- ate claim of responsibility for the bombing. GALVESTON, Texas Real estate mogul acquitted of murder charges New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who said he accidentally killed a hot- headed neighbor in self-defense and then chopped up the body because he feared no one would believe him, was found not guilty yesterday of murder. The jury took five days to reach the verdict, bringing a startling end to a grisly case that began to unfold when trash bags containing pieces of 71-year-old Morris Black started washing up along Galveston Bay in 2001. Durst appeared stunned when he heard the verdict, his mouth hanging slightly open and his eyes filling with tears. The 60-year-old millionaire hugged his attor- neys, saying: "Thank you so much." Durst, who has been estranged from his family since the early 1990s, remains under suspicion in the 1982 disappearance of his first wife and the 2000 shooting death of her friend Susan Berman, a Los Angeles writer who was set to be ques- tioned about the missing woman. He has not been charged in either case. Prosecu- tor Kurt Sistrunk said he was dismayed and disappointed with the verdict. Bush accuses terrorists of coordination WASHINGTON (AP) - Foreign fighters who seek to install a Taliban-style government in Iraq are coordinating with Saddam Hussein loyalists to launch deadly attacks on U.S. troops, President Bush asserted yesterday as he mourned rising casualties. Bush has previously accused the two groups of seeking to intimidate Americans in Iraq. But as explosions in Baghdad disrupted his Veterans Day tribute from afar, he accused them of conspiring with each other in the wave of attacks. "Over time, Baath Party and Fedayeen fighters and other Saddam loyalists have organized to attack our forces, to ter- rorize international aid workers and to murder innocent Iraqis," Bush told a supportive audience at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "Foreign jihadists have arrived across Iraq's borders in small groups with the goal of installing a Taliban-like regime," he said. Also in the mix, Bush maintained, are mili- tants with al-Qaida and the affiliated Ansar al-Islam - two groups "always eager to join in the killing and to seek revenge after their defeat in Afghanistan." "Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists may have differ- ent long-term goals, but they share a near-term strategy: to terrorize Iraqis and to intimidate America and our allies," Bush said. "Recent reporting suggests that despite their dif- ferences, these killers are working together to spread chaos and terror and fear." While Bush was speaking, a series of strong explosions were heard in central Baghdad. Earlier yesterday, an explo- sion on a road frequently used by British troops killed six civilians in southern.Iraq. And another occurred as U.S. sol- diers were escorting Iraqi prisoners from jail to a court, injuring two Iraqi policeman and two prisoners. Bush cast the mounting deaths and injuries in unusually personal terms. Generally, the president has said that he grieves for all soldiers lost in all wars. But on Veterans Day, Bush expressed grief, especially, for those lost in Iraq. "We have laid to rest young men and women who died in I AP PHOTO A demonstrator passes down a Palestinian flag after spray painting graffiti on the Israeli security barrier. West Bank, the report said. "People's lives will be seriously disrupted," said David Shearer, head of the local UJNOCHA office. The barrier will be "disastrous" for farmers, who will find it difficult to get to their fields and bring their produce to market, he said. "For economic reasons, for education reasons, people will find it impossible to stay in these areas, and they will choose to move out," Shearer said.Palestinian officials, meanwhile, prepared for a vote of confidence Wednesday on the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia. WASHINGTON Court busts suppher in wheelchair claims After walking unassisted from the back of a Los Angeles courtroom, 85- year-old Euralda Clodomar refused the hand of a deputy and climbed into the witness chair. Let the record show, the prosecutor told jurors, she didn't use a wheelchair. Clodomar doesn't own a wheelchair, let alone the motorized model that was charged to Medicare at a cost of $3,840. An equipment supplier had obtained her Medicare identification number and taken her and the taxpayers- for a ride in a fast-growing new swindle that has cost the government's main health care assistance program tens of millions of dollars. Fifty separate investigations under way in nearly two-dozen states have identified $167 million in fraudulent power wheelchair claims, officials told The Associated Press. WASHINGTON Bush to decide fate of 'illegal' steel tariffs A global trade ruling against U.S. steel tariffs is squeezing the White House between political and economic interests as President Bush weighs the sanctions' fate - and his re-election prospects. The White House is being pummeled from both sides in the wake of a World Trade Organization panel in Geneva declaring the sanctions illegal. The European Union has threatened $2.2 billion in retaliatory sanctions if the tariffs, imposed March 2002, are not lifted immediately. "The decision undoubtedly confronts Mr. Bush with a test of wills," said Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers of America, which wants the tariffs to remain. "Will he exercise his sovereign right as president to protect the jobs and survival of the entire American steel industry ... ?" ANCHORAGE, Alaska Girl Scout trappings irk animal activists Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes - Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program. "We think it sends a very, very bad message that when animals cause a problem you kill them," said Stephanie Boyles of People for the Ethical Treat- ment of Animals. She said the Girl Scouts should want girls to become "stewards of wildlife, not abusers." 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