6 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 NATION/WORLD Sniper to receive death penalty NEWS IN BRIEF MHEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Sniper Muhammad said yesterday. Muhammad appeared in an orange to msnsgaendwhhiaPOTA-R CEHit y sons grve ad wih hima POT-ML:,:_"'it mastermind John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death yesterday by a judge who called the Washington-area shootings that left 10 people dead "so vile that they were almost beyond comprehension." Muhammad denied any involvement in the October 2002 rampage, echoing a claim of innocence he made in his opening statement to the jury when he briefly served as his own attorney. "Just like I said at the beginning, I had nothing to do with this, and I'll say again, I had nothing to do with this," He told the judge he plans to appeal, and urged, "Don't make a fool of the Constitution of the United States of America." A jury recommended a death sen- tence for Muhammad last year, but Circuit Court Judge LeRoy Millette Jr. had the option to reduce it to life in prison without parole. Millette said the evidence of Muhammad's guilt was "overwhelming." "These offenses are so vile that they were almost beyond comprehension," Millette said. jail jumpsuit with a slightly graying, unkempt beard, in sharp contrast to his clean-shaven, well-dressed appearance at trial. His teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, is to be sentenced today to life in prison. About 50 family members of sniper victims were in the courtroom. One silently shook his fist as Millette announced the sentence. "Justice has been served today," said Sonia Wills, mother of sniper victim Conrad Johnson, who would have been 37 this Sunday. "I can go happy birthday." The sister of Hong Im Ballenger, allegedly killed by Muhammad and Malvo in Baton Rouge, La., in the weeks before the D.C. attacks, said Muhammad deserved to die. "He killed so many innocent people," said a tearful Kwang Im Szuszka. "My nephew is 12 years old and he needs his mommy.... It breaks my heart." Muhammad, 43, was convicted of capital murder on Nov. 17 for the Oct. 9, 2002, murder of Dean Harold Mey- ers at a gas station near Manassas. 3$ 3s1**q8%,Vswl mal"AW IsraeliWest Bank raid prompts gun battle Marines help Haitian police disarm rebels Loyalists demanding the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide set up flaming barricades and stoned cars yesterday, and the U.S. Marines said they will begin helping Haitian police disarm rebel groups. Also, the U.S. military announced a second death caused by American Marines, who, with French Legionnaires, form the vanguard of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Efforts to bring calm to this troubled Caribbean nation followed a bloody insur- gency that ousted Aristide on Feb. 29, put rebels in control of half the country and sparked a frenzy of looting and violence. At least 130 people were killed in the rebel- lion; reprisal killings since Aristide's ouster have left at least 300 dead. The announcement yesterday that the Marines will begin helping disarm rebel groups is a tall order in a country where all sides are threatening to resume the rebellion. Marine Col. Charles Gurganus called on Haitians to tell peacekeepers who has weapons and to turn in arms. "The disarmament will be both active and reactive, but I'm not going to say any more about that," he said, giving few details. BALTIMORE Hubble shows deepest view of universe yet The deepest-ever view of the universe, a photo by the Hubble Space Tele- scope that looks back to the edge of the big bang, shows a chaotic scramble of odd galaxies smashing into each other and re-forming in bizarre shapes. The snapshot of the universe, called the Ultra Deep Field, captured light that had streaked through space for more than 13 billion years, starting its journey when the universe was only 5 percent of its 13.7-billion-year age. The view has about 10,000 galaxies, some mixed in chaos that one astronomer said "looked like a train wreck." Capturing such faint and distant light, officials at the Space Telescope Science Institute said yesterday, was like photographing a firefly hovering above the moon. "For the first time we're looking back at stars that are forming out of the depths of the big bang," said Steven Beckwith, director of the institute. "We're seeing the youngest stars within a stone's throw of the beginning of the universe." JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli forces backed by tanks and combat helicopters raided the West Bank town of Jenin yesterday, prompting a gun battle that killed a Palestinian woman in her home, Pales- tinian witnesses and military officials said. Israeli forces entered Jenin in search of gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militant group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. The sound of shooting echoed throughout the town. A 23-year-old Palestinian woman was killed in her home in the fighting, Palestinian hospital offi- cials said. The circumstances of her death were not immediately known. An Agence France Presse photographer was shot in the leg, the officials said. Earlier yesterday, the army lifted a five-day clo- sure it had clamped on the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Purim. Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel and the Erez Industrial Zone in the Gaza Strip, the army said. Israeli media reported that tensions between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and army chief Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon had risen due to a disagree- ment over the Israeli leader's plan to withdraw from Gaza unilaterally. Sharon and Yaalon both denied the reports. Top military officials appear to have misgivings about the plan, which could entail Israel evacuating most of its settlements in Gaza. Mohammed Deif, the chief Hamas bombmaker who tops Israel's wanted list, said Hamas played a key role in forcing Israel to consider leaving Gaza. "The Israeli collapse is near, with God's support. It's closer than they imagine. We will witness the victory with our own eyes," Deif said in an audio download from the Hamas Web site. "Their crimi- nal Sharon, who always refused any peaceful solu- tions, saying they are treason against Israel, the one who came to eliminate the resistance ... he is the same Sharon who has now decided on a total evac- uation and full withdrawal from Gaza," Deif said. AP PHOTO A Palestinian youth runs for cover yesterday as an Israeli army tank advances in the streets of the northern West Bank town of Jenin. VIENNA, Austria U.S., Europe tone down Iran criticism Accepting painful compromises, the United States agreed with key Euro- pean nations yesterday to tone down, criticism of Iran for its continued nuclear secrecy. Washington also accepted a draft res- olution containing some praise of Tehran's willingness to open its nuclear programs to outside inspection. Both sides signed off on the draft document prepared for a high-level conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency after days of grueling negotiations aimed at finding the prop- er mix of praise and criticism. The United States insists Iran is interested in making nuclear weapons. Washington wanted the meeting to con- demn Iran for not fully living up to pledges to reveal all past and present nuclear activities while keeping open options for future involvement by the U.N. Security Council. HONOLULU Study: 92 Air Force cadets accused of rape A study showed airmen in the Pacific were accused of 92 rapes from 2001 to 2003, prompting an order to change how sexual assaults are reported and the way victims are treated. The five-month study was the most intense examination of its kind by an Air Force command. "We owe our airmen and our airmen owe each other immediate and decisive action to prevent further sexual assault," Gen. William Begert, com- mander of Pacific Air Forces, told field commanders in a letter dated March 1. "Too many sexual assaults have occurred and continue to occur." Begert initiated the study after seeing dozens of rape claims arise among a cadets in the Air Force Academy. FONTANA, Calif. Robot vehicles race in Pentagon trials They're a motley bunch of garage tin- kerers, off-road enthusiasts, high school students, physicists and programmers who hope their microprocessor-jammed jalopies usher in the next generation of military combat vehicles. 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