mmill 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 ee Ayatollah's NEWS IN BRIEFE brother SAN FRANCISCO ST T C Court overturns 100 death sentences I F S al JF college television network Higher Learning. Louder Living. for deaths NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - About 400,000 mourners took to the streets yesterday, flailing their backs and pounding their chests in anguish at the funeral of a leading Shiite cleric assassinated in a car bomb attack. In Baghdad, another car bomb exploded outside police headquarters, killing one and wound- ing 13. In an angry funeral oration, the cler- ic's brother blamed the U.S. occupation forces for the lax security that led to the attack at Iraq's most sacred Shiite mosque. He raged against the Ameri- can troops and demanded they leave Iraqi soil. Men clad in white robes and dark uniforms brandishing Kalashnikov rifles stood guard along the roof of thez gold-domed Imam Ali mosque, wherei Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim was killed Friday in the bloodiesti attack since the fall of Saddam Hus-I sein. Accounts of the death toll ranged from more than 80 to more than 120.t "The occupation force is primarilyc responsible for the pure blood that wasI spilled in holy Najaf, the blood of al- Hakim and the faithful group that wasI present near the mosque," said Abdel-1 Aziz al-Hakim, the ayatollah's brotherl and a member of the U.S.-picked Gov- erning Council.a L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq, told a Baghdad news conference that U.S. occupation authorities will push the new Iraqi Cabinet to assume governing duties and want to quickly train Iraqis to take over security. He insisted there was no rift betweeni the coalition and the Governing Council.r "I completely agree with the argu-a ment that we should find ways quick- ly to give Iraq and Iraqis morea responsibility for security," he said.a "They (the Governing Council) havea encouraged us to do what we werea already doing, which is putting Iraqisa ... in Iraqi security."c Bremer, a former diplomat and counterterrorism expert, said there were already as many as 60,000 IraqisI involved in security or undergoingt training.c "What we need at this point is bet- ter intelligence to find out where thef terrorists are who are killing Iraqis,"r he said.N Al-Hakim has said he would nott resign from the Governing Council buti spoke with great anger about theF American military's inability to pacifyE the country.I "This force is primarily responsible for all this blood and the blood that is1 shed all over Iraq every day," he said, voicing the frustrations of Iraqis throughout the country. The criticism could signal an open fissure in the his-a torically cooperative relationships between the Shiites and the U.S.-ledf civilian and military occupation. t "Iraq must not remain occupied and the occupation must leave so that wef can build Iraq as God wants us to do," he said. Earlier, the slain ayatollah's son warned that the country had entered a dangerous new era. A federal appeals court threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona and two other states yesterday because the inmates were sent to death row by judges instead of juries. The case stems from a 2002 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the high court found that juries, not judges, must render death sentences. But the Supreme Court left unclear whether the new rules should apply retroactively to inmates awaiting execution. In an 8-3 vote, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Cir- cuit Court of Appeals said all condemned inmates sentenced by a judge should have their sentences commuted to life in prison. The ruling applies only to Arizona, Idaho and Montana, the only states in the 9th Circuit that have allowed judges to impose death sentences. Two other states, Nebraska and Colorado, have also allowed judges to sentence inmates to death. But the federal appeals courts that oversee them have yet to rule on the issue. The ruling affects approximately 3 percent of the 3,700 people on death rcw in the United States. "By deciding that judges are not constitutionally permitted to decide whether defendants are eligible for the death penalty, the Supreme Court altered the fundamental bedrock principles applicable to capital murder trials;' Circuit Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the court. Defense attorneys hailed the verdict. SEOUL, South Korea North Korea calls for non-aggression pact North Korea said yesterday that it is willing to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program "through dialogue," in an apparent softening of its stance follow- ing last week's six-nation talks in Beijing. After last week's landmark talks in the Chinese capital, North Korea angrily dis- missed the need for more talks and threatened to strengthen its "nuclear deterrent force," casting doubt on the prospects for future meetings. Yesterday, the North's state-run news agency, KCNA, repeated North Korea's threat to increase its nuclear capabilities unless the United States changes its poli- cy and signs a nonaggression treaty with the communist state, but also said North Korea is willing to continue the six-nation talks. "The DPRK's fixed will to peacefully settle the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. through dialogue remains unchanged," KCNA said in an Eng- lish-language commentary monitored in Seoul. DPRK stands for Democratic Peo- ple's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name. Last week, representatives from the United States, the two Koreas, Japan, China and Russia met in Beijing to discuss ways to end the nuclear crisis. WASHINGTON Reorganization to up number of agents The Bush administration is shuffling its homeland security operation to make 5,000 more armed agents avail- able to protect commercial flights. The reorganization will combine the air marshal's program with the customs and immigration security programs so agents can be cross-trained and used for aviation security, officials said. This will allow the government to put extra agents on airliners if officials believe they are going to be a terror target. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge described the changes as a way to better mobilize the resources of his department. "This realignment offers a sweeping gain of additional armed law enforce- ment officials who will be able to pro- vide a 'surge capacity' during increased threat periods or in the event of a terror- ist attack," Ridge said in remarks pre- pared for a speech yesterday to the American Enterprise Institute. WASHINGTON Study: More money needed to fight cancer Cancer deaths may be leveling off after several years of decline, and many states are lagging in proven methods to fight the most common tumors, says the nation's annual report on cancer. Sixteen states spend less than $1 per person on tobacco control - far less 4 than the $5 to $10 per person recom- mended - even though smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, the nation's top cancer killer. Screening for breast and colorectal cancer varies widely, too. And there's a widening racial gap as white Americans increasingly survive certain tumors better than blacks, says the report published Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "The progress against cancer contin- ues to be mixed," said co-author Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society. VIENNA, Austria Doctor says 'cough CPR' will save lives Coughing vigorously until an ambu- lance arrives could save the lives of heart patients who are going into car- diac arrest, a doctor said yesterday. Tadeusz Petelenz, a researcher in Poland, said the technique, called cough CPR, forces blood to the brain while the heart is starting to fail and keeps patients conscious long enough to call for help. It may also rectify their heart rhythm, he told a meeting of the European Soci- ety of Cardiology. He recommended Cough CPR be taught to the public, but other experts said while the concept is provocative, it needs more study. Every year about 300,000 people in the United States die from sudden car- diac death. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. a q The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by stu- dents at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. 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