2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 13, 2004 NEWS S. Korea clones human embryo Scientits are frst i world to success lly complete experiment Army Lt. Col. Stephen Barger, a public affairs officer, addresses a throng of photographers and reporters outside the gates of Fort Lewis. Wash., yesterday, to announce the arrest of a National soldier there who is suspected of giving intelligence to the al-Qaida terrorist network. US.d national guardsmar arrested for terrorsttie FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - A National Guards- man was arrested yesterday and accused of trying to provide information to the al-Qaida terrorist network, the Army said. Army Lt. Col. Stephen Barger said Spc. Ryan Ander- son was being held at Fort Lewis "pending criminal charges of aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence to the al-Qaida ter- rorist network." Anderson, 26, will remain at the base near Tacoma. Barger declined to give any details on the arrest, includ- ing what information allegedly was given to al-Qaida or how it was provided. Anderson converted to Islam five years ago, and studied military history with an emphasis on the Middle East while attending Washington State University, the Everett Herald reported last week. Anderson is a tank crew member from the National Guard's 81st Armor Brigade, a 4,000-member unit set to depart for Iraq for a one-year deployment. It is the biggest deployment for the Washington Army National Guard since Army Lt. Col. Stephen Barger sa Spc. Ryan G. Anderson was bein held at Fort Lewis "pending Crim charges of aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligen to the al-Qaida terrorist network World War II. The brigade has been training at Fort Lewi November. Eighty percent of the soldiers - 3,200 from Washington state, and 1,000 are from guardt California and Minnesota. It includes two tank battalions, a mechanized i battalion, engineers, support troops, artillery and an gence company. WASHINGTON (AP)- Researchers in South Korea have become the first to successfully clone a human embryo, and then cull from it master stem cells that many doctors consider key to one day creating customized cures for dia- betes, Parkinson's and other diseases. This is not cloning to make babies, but to create medicine. It immediately revived controversy over whether to ban all human cloning, as the Bush administration wants, or to AP PHOTO allow this "therapeutic cloning" that might eventually let patients grow their Guard own replacement tissue. "We have to do this research because of its promise for treating disease," said Dr. Moon Shin-yong of Seoul National University, who co-led the new research. Without cloning, stem cells won't be genetically identical to the patient who needs them, causing "a rejection prob- lem, and we would like to overcome it," Moon told The Associated Press. "This kind of science should be con- ducted in South Korea and in the Unit- ed States. It is very important to oid medicine." Embryonic stem cells are the body's lg building blocks, cells from which all ninal other tissue types spring. They're present in an embryo only days after conception and are ethically sensitive because culling stem cells destroys the embryo. Scientists have used therapeutic Ce cloning to partially cure laboratory mice with an immune system dis- ease. And they can cull stem cells from human embryos left over in fer- s since tility clinics. - are Attempts to clone human units in embryos, to supply stem cells, have failed until now. nfantry The Seoul scientists say they suc- intelli- ceeded largely because of using extremely fresh eggs donated by South Korean volunteers and gentler handling of the genetic material inside them. Moon and colleague Woo Suk Hwang discussed the research yester- R day at a meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science. Details will be pulished'in the journal Science. It's elegant work that provides long-anticipated proof that human therapeutic cloning is possible, said stem-cell researcher Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cam- bridge, Mass. "It's not of practical use at this point," Jaenisch cautioned. Years of additional research are required before embryonic stem cell transplants could be considered in peo- ple, he stressed. Critics immediately urged Congress to ban all forms of human cloning. The House last year voted to do that, but the Senate stalled over whether there should be an exception for-some research. "The instrumentalization of human life for the benefit of others demeans the value of all human life' said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) who has sponsored legislation for a complete ban. There's nothing to stop the next cloned embryo from being used for pregnancy, contended Richard Doer- flinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "The how-to instructions have been posted," he said. "If you can bring an embryo to the one-week-old stage, you can implant that embryo in the womb. Once you do, no government can stop you unless they want to coerce abor- tions." VIENNA, Austria Files connect Iran to nuclear black market U.N. inspectors sifting through Iran's nuclear files have discovered drawings of high-tech equipment that can be used to make weapons-grade uranium - a new link to the black market headed by the father of Pak- istan's atomic bomb, diplomats said yesterday. Beyond adding another piece to the puzzle of who provided what in the clandestine supply chain headed by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the revelations cast fresh doubt on Iran's commitment to dispelling suspicions it is trying to make atomic arms. But Iran insisted yesterday that it was cooperating. The diplomats, who spoke on con- dition of anonymity, said the designs were of a P-2 centrifuge - more advanced than the P-1 model Iran has acknowledged using to enrich urani- um for what is says are peaceful pur- poses. WASHINGTON Political groups raise $100M in soft money In the first year of a new law broadly banning "soft money" dona- tions, political groups still managed to collect more than $100 million in big checks from companies, unions and wealthy individuals. Among the largest recipients are new groups like America Coming Together and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund, which want to help win the White House for Democrats, and the Republican State Leadership Committee, which is focus- ing on state and local races. Such tax-exempt political groups began cropping up in larger numbers after a law enacted by Congress in 2002 banned political parties from accepting soft money donations as they had for two decades. Their biggest donors include people and companies who used to write huge checks to political parties. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Militants halt raly against president Militants crushed a rally against Haiti's president before it began yes- terday, setting up flaming barricades along the route of a protest march and hurling stones as demonstrators tried to gather in the capital. Opposition leaders accused Presi- dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide of orchestrating the suppression, but the United States said it was standing by him as he confronts an armed rebel- lion affecting a dozen provincial tfwns: "The policy of the administration is not regime change," Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.S. Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee. "President Aristide is the elected president of Haiti," he said. A week of violence has killed 49 people and blocked food and fuel supplies to northern Haiti. NEWS IN BRIEF BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. commander attacked by rebels The top U.S. commander in the Middle East came under a bold attack yes- terday by gunmen in the turbulent Iraqi city of Fallujah. No Americans were hurt, but a local police official said two Iraqis were killed in the shooting. Also yesterday, a U.N. envoy told Iraq's leading Shiite cleric the world was 100 percent behind his demand for national elections, but there was no sign of agreement on when a vote would be held. In Fallujah, residents said Iraqis died as U.S. troops sprayed the area with gunfire after insurgents ambushed Gen. John Abizaid's convoy as it pulled into the headquarters of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in the Sunni Triangle city 50 miles west of Baghdad. Police said the car in which the slain Iraqis were riding was riddled with bullet holes, apparently from a heavy-caliber machine gun. "We heard from a citizen that someone was killed in a car," Fallujah police Lt. Omar Ali said. SAN FRANCISCO City-ordained gay marriages defy Calif. law In an open challenge to California law, city authorities performed at least 15 same-sex weddings yesterday and issued about a dozen more mar- riage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. By midafternoon, jubilant gay couples were lining up under City Hall's ornate gold dome and exchanging vows in two-minute ceremonies that fol- lowed one after another. "Today a barrier to true justice has been removed," said Gavin Newsom, the newly elected mayor of the metropolis considered the capital of gay America. No state legally sanctions gay marriage, and it remains unclear what practical value the marriage licenses will have. The weddings violate a ballot measure California voters approved in 2000 that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. 4 4 BORED WITH SCHOOL? YOU COULD COME WRITE FOR THE MICHIGAN DAILY. STOP BY 420 MAYNARD ST. OR CALL 763-2459 TO SIGN UP FO A STORY! 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