I I 2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 13, 2003 _ if f~ ANN ARBOR 640 PACKARD ROAD 734-622-0000 MON-SUN 6AM-12AM BAKERY CAFE CATERING -NATION/WORLD Saudis sav NEiNW IN RIF - -- - -- ri 1 bombers w j 3 All atlantabread.com Atlanta Bread Company grand a ening ELE A IO Ann Arbor Location Monday, November 17- Sunday, November 23 Celebrating all week at the Ann Arbor Atlanta Bread Company°! combo Monday * Buy one 1/2 & 1/2 combo and get a free 1/2 & 1/2, " Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 5pm r motivated by hatred Building may have been bombed due to pervasiveness of Western influence RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Residents of the mainly Arab residen- tial compound attacked by suspected al-Qaida suicide bombers said yester- day they knew their Westernized lifestyle was under scrutiny - they'd received a surprise visit from Saudi religious police suspicious that men and women were mixing at a party. The choice of target in the attack, which killed 17 people, mostly Arabs and Muslims, has baffled many in the region - and indicates al-Qaida's rage may be directed as much at Mus- lims seen as having slipped from the religion's true path as at Western "infidels." Saudi and U.S. officials have blamed Saturday's attack on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida, the militant Muslim terror network blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks and a sworn enemy of the Saudi ruling family, which it accuses of being insufficiently Islamic and too close to the United States. On Tuesday, a purported al-Qaida operative claimed responsibility for Saturday's bombing, saying in an e- mail that al-Qaida believed "working with Americans and mixing with them" was forbidden. The e-mail was sent to the London-based Arabic week- ly Al-Majalla. Most of the residents of the Muhaya compound were Lebanese. Seven Lebanese were among the dead; other victims came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Sudan. Muhaya was typical of compounds housing members of the large contin- gent of foreign workers in Saudi Ara- bia: a place where non-Saudis could escape rules banning alcohol and mix- ing of men and women in public and requiring women to cloak and veil themselves when outside their homes. Muhaya had a coffee shop where residents of both sexes chatted over water pipes and watched foreign movies and other entertainment on a big screen television. It was located next to a pool where women swam in bikinis. Agents of the Saudi religious police - the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - roam Saudi streets and shopping malls berating or even manhandling those who violate the social code. Its chief holds the rank of Cabinet minister in a kingdom where the royal family retains power in part with the support of con- servative religious authorities. Some Saudis chafe at the religious restrictions. Saturday's bombings and similar attacks in Riyadh in May have sparked debate about whether the strict form of Islam preached in Saudi Ara- bia fosters intolerance and extremism. BOMBING Continued from Page 1A ed through the capital. "The facility is a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for belligerent elements cur- rently conducting attacks on coali- tion forces and infrastructure," the Pentagon said. The mission was part of "Opera- tion Iron Hammer," a new "get tough" policy for confronting insur- gents. Also yesterday, troops in Baghdad spotted attackers firing mortars, a statement by the 1st Armored Divi- sion said. The attackers fled in a van. An Apache helicopter gunship dis- covered the van heading out of the city near the Abu Ghraib suburb and opened fire, disabling the vehicle and killing two of the occupants, the statement said. A search of the area turned up one 82mm mortar. President Bush met with his top foreign advisers and chief Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer yester- day to discuss the deteriorating secu- rity situation and the impasse in drafting an Iraqi constitution. "We have said from the outset that we wanted to transfer authority to the Iraqis as quickly as they were able to assume it and that is what we have done," Bremer said in Washing- ton. "We have been moving forward on ways to continue to transfer authority to the Iraqis as they are ready for it." BATON ROUGE, La. Gubernatorial hopefuls make for historic race The Louisiana governor's race poses a dilemma for Bubba, a term that is no insult in these parts: It will be a contest between a Cajun woman and the son of Indian immigrants. No matter how pickup-driving con- servative Southern white men vote Sat- urday, Louisiana will make history. The state has never had a woman governor and has not put a non-white in the office since Reconstruction. The Republican candidate is Bobby Jindal, a 32-year-old former Rhodes Scholar who was an assistant health secretary under President Bush. The Democrat is Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a 60-year-old veteran of Louisiana poli- tics who has served in state government for two decades. Polls show the race is tight, but Jindal has managed to garner support from an odd combination of voters: Catholics in southern Louisiana's Cajun country, con- servative Protestants in the northern part of the state, urban blacks in New Orleans and suburbanites in Baton Rouge. WASHINGTON Law protecting a g workers goes to court Supreme Court justices with an aver- age age of nearly 70 wrangled yester- day over whether workers in their 40s can sue employers for offering better benefits to older colleagues, a type of reverse age discrimination. It already is clear that people over 40 can sue under a federal age discrimina- tion law when younger colleagues get preferential treatment because of age. Justices will resolve before next summer whether workers over 40 can sue when older employees get better treatment such as cheaper health care or choice hours. Some justices joked about their own senior citizen status, but then more seri- ously focused on company efforts to help older workers stay on the job longer. WASHINGTON Testosterone therapy, growing among men- Thousands of older men turn to that macho hormone testosterone in search of youthful vigor and virility, but scientists issued a big caution yesterday: There's little evidence the therapy fights any effects of aging, much less that it's safe. The government is planning to study the already contentious treatment, hoping to save men from the same kind of con- fusion that has plagued women consider- ing estrogen therapy. Studies should begin in 2005, and until they're done, testosterone use isn't justified except for the relatively few men who have severe deficiencies, cautioned National Institute on Aging Director Richard Hodes. The independent Institute of Media cine highlighted the urgent need for research, reporting rapid increases in the numbers of older men using testos- terone despite questions about benefit - and the possibility that long-term use could spur prostate cancer. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 1 . 1 1 V V 1 INE D I N E S F R O M ) JUi ) T E R RA MA A HW est B aynk . ..' " Palestinian leaders urge end to fighting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian Cabinet yesterday, getting the government he wanted after a long wrangle and setting the stage for a renewed push to implement the stalled, U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan. The new government earlier won a vote of confidence from Palestinian legisla- tors after Arafat - who appears to have survived the Israeli-American effort to sideline him - joined Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in calling for an end to three years of violence that has claimed thousands of lives. "The time has come between us and you Israelis ... to get out of this cycle of destructive war," Arafat said, referring to the violence that buried an ambitious effort to end a century of Arab-Israeli enmity. Israeli officials said they will give the new premier a chance to restore calm, and Islamic militant groups said they will consider a cease-fire. Officials on both sides said they expected Qureia and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to meet soon. The approval of the Cabinet, which was sworn in yesterday, ended a two-month stalemate that stymied efforts to implement the peace plan accepted by both sides six months ago. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Death penalty remains option for snipers Despite little proof that John Allen Muhammad pulled the trigger, the judge at his trial refused to take the death penalty off the table yesterday, saying the evi- dence suggests he and fellow sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo worked together. The prosecution's case indicates "they were involved in purposeful shootings," Circuit Judge LeRoy Millette Jr. said with the jury out of the room. "They perfect- ed their ability to shoot people. They perfected their ability to escape." The ruling came as Muhammad's defense rested its case after calling only five wit- nesses who testified for a total of two hours. Muhammad did not take the stand. The prosecution's case stretched over three weeks and included more than 130 witnesses. Closing arguments are set to begin tomorrow, the same day as opening state- ments in the murder case against Malvo, 18, who is on trial in nearby Chesapeake. A jury was seated yesterday. 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