2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 8, 2004 NATION/WORLD Rwandan leaders commemorate NEWS IN BRIEF HAMBURGth anviveesaryonserorelma 10th anniversary of genocide Covce9-1onprtrwlsfe of %...P control of the country. He said Rwanda would never stand by and allow widespread slaughter to take place unchecked. "God forbid, but if a similar situa- tion was to occur anywhere else ... we will be available to come and fight to protect those who will be tar- geted," Kagame told a crowd of thou- sands at a stadium in Kigali, the country's capital. Rwanda will act because "the last 10 years have shaped us differently and have given us the spirit to be able to stand up and fight ... in defense of others who are targeted in a genocide," Kagame said. The central African country fell quiet at noon yesterday as the country observed threeminutes of silence in tribute to those hacked to death by their neighbors or shot by the army and Hutu militias following orders of the extrem- ist Hutu government then in power. As the ceremonies continued, people in the stands broke into tears. Others started screaming hysterically and had to be carried off into white tents set up by the Red Cross. Members of the national choir wept as they sang. When the 100-day slaughter began, the U.N. had 2,519 peace- keepers in Rwanda. The most heavily armed U.N. contingent was a 450- member Belgian battalion, but Brus- sels withdrew days after Hutus killed 10 Belgian soldiers on April 7, 1994. Other U.N. troops were busy "tan- ning at the pool" in neighboring Uganda and monitoring its border to ensure that weapons did not reach Kagame's rebels, who were fighting to end the slaughter, Ugandan Presi- dent Yoweri Museveni said during the ceremony. U.N. troops at the time had been withdrawn from Rwanda and were staying at hotels in Uganda. South African President Thabo Mbeki criticized the United Nations for abandoning Rwanda "as Africans were exterminated like pernicious vermin." But Kagame was the most critical of the international community. "All these powerful nations regarded 1 million lives as value- less, as another statistic and could be dispensed with," Kagame said, referring to all of the people killed in Rwanda between 1990 and the end of the genocide in 1994. Earlier, genocide survivors gathered on a hillside to bury the remains of hundreds of victims recovered from pit-latrines and mass graves, marking the beginning of a week of mourning. The only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted walked out of jail yesterday smiling and laughing, freed less than 2 1/2 years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial. Mounir el Motassadeq, whose conviction on charges of aiding the Sept. 11 plotters was overturned last month, seemed euphoric as he left the Ham- burg court building with two friends and his lawyer. He said nothing but laughed as reporters peppered him with questions. The 30-year-old Moroccan, who had been behind bars since his Novem- ber 2001 arrest, headed home to his apartment in a Hamburg suburb to be reunited with his wife and two children. Explaining their decision, the judges said evidence for the main charges against el Motassadeq - more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder - was no longer "urgent" because they lack testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in U.S. custody. El Motassadeq was ordered to stay in Hamburg and report to police twice a week. The accessory to murder charges remain in force, along with a charge of member- ship in a terrorist organization. But freeing el Motassadeq was a fresh blow to Sept. 11 prosecutions after the same court acquitted his friend and fellow Moroccan, Abdelghani Mzoudi, of identical charges in February. INGLEWOOD, Calif. L.A. suburb bars construction of Wal-Mart Voters rejected a ballot measure that would have cleared the way for a colossal Wal-Mart in this Los Angeles suburb, one of several communities across the nation to resist the retailer's advances. Activists who opposed the measure - which would have allowed Wal Mart to skirt zoning, traffic and environmental reviews - said it would hurt the communi- ty by inviting the Supercenter to drive out small business and encourage sprawl. With all 29 precincts and absentee ballots counted late Tuesday night, Ingle- wood voters opposed the measure 60.6 percent to 39.3 percent, said Gabby Contr- eras of the city clerk's office. "This is very, very positive for those folks who want to stand up and ... hold this corporate giant responsible," said Daniel Tabor, a for- mer City Council member who had campaigned against the initiative. Debate raged for weeks in this working-class community. Opponents said pas- sage would clear the way for Wal-Mart to build a combination supermarket-retail store next to Hollywood Park racetrack. AP PHOTO Survivors of the 1994 government orchestrated genocide buried the remains of hundreds of victims recovered from mass graves and pit-latrines. KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - Mark- ing the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, President Paul Kagame lashed out at the interna- tional community yesterday for fail- ing to stop the slaughter, and pledged that if another genocide should hap- pen, Rwanda would be the first to send troops to stop it. While he acknowledged that the Rwandan people were ultimately respon- sible for the massacres that claimed more than 500,000 lives in 100 days in 1994, he said world powers refused to do any- thing to stop the killing, which eventual- ly ended when his rebel forces seized Advisers brief Bush on Iraq violence CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush was briefed yesterday on the spiraling violence and U.S. casualties in Iraq where American forces are facing the heaviest fighting since the fall of Baghdad a year ago. Bush, at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, through Easter Sunday, got an update on fighting by U.S. Marines in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah. Bush spoke via a secure video conference call with his national security advisers. The call was to have included Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the Cen- tral Command which has jurisdiction in Iraq, and L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian in Iraq. Bush also spoke by telephone for 30 minutes with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his closest ally in Iraq. The two leaders will meet in Washington late next week to discuss Iraq and other foreign policy problems. Yesterday's briefing was a follow up to a confer- ence call Tuesday night among the president, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and White House chief of staff Andy Card. As the security situation in Iraq remains dangerous, a U.S. official speaking on the conditiono said that a variety of elements are con attacks in Iraq, including Shiites and me: fallen Baathist regime, a group that is incorporate former Iraqi military or intelligence figures.i" A defense official, also speak- S ing on the condition of anonymi- jUt ty, said the idea that there's a f popular uprising from a Shiite O monolith is "ludicrous." For eq example, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr doesn't have a tar large following and his militia - the Al-Mahdi Army - only - numbers perhaps in the thou- sands, the official said. This official also said the military progress in places including Ramadi Marines were killed late Tuesday. The Marines died in heavy fighting uprising involving both Sunni and Shiib stretched from Kirkuk in the north to th of anonymity aducting the mbers of the s thought to tarkly p ncture, i rces in] juates m rgets in m In Ir Rumsfeld said on Tuesday that if violence gets worse, U.S. military commanders will get the troops they need to deal with it. On Capitol Hill, a senior Democrat, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, urged t, at this caution. "Surely I am not the only one lore U.S. who hears echoes of Vietnam in this development;' he said. 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We should instead be working he far south. toward an exit strategy." I RAQ~ SCEContinued from Page 1A The Army said a soldier died yester- day in the capital. Another had died Tuesday in Balad, the Sunni Triangle As DEcity north of Baghdad, the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said. Defense Secretary Donald Rums- feld, at a Pentagon news conference with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers, discounted the strength of the al-Sadr force, which appears to have been bolstered by dis- gruntled, unemployed young men. U.S. officials estimate the al-Sadr force at about 3,000 fighters. "The number of people involved in those battles is relatively small," Rums- feld said. "There's nothing like an army or large elements of people trying to .,..~sm . change the situation. You have a small number of terrorists and militias cou- nd ;J pled with some protests." %e bo, Myers said the fighting came in two broad categories. West of Baghdad in cities such as Ramadi and Fallujah, the tL& ~ I rI m main opposition is "former regime loy- alists, including supporters of former president Saddam Hussein, and anti- American foreign fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born terrorist believed linked to al-Qaida. h HAPPY HOUR: M-F (4-7) $1 OFF DOMESTIC BEERS AND WELL DRINKS 1/2 OFF ALL APPETIZERS OPEN UNTIL 1 1 PM EVERY DAY Plymouth Rd. across from the watertower (2000 Commonwealth Blvd.) ! (734) 761-5858 HOUSTON Wife of Enron exec withdraws guilty plea The wife of former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow backed out of a plea bargain yesterday after a federal judge refused to go along with a sentence of five months in prison and five months of home confinement. The proposed sentence for Lea Fastow had been carefully worked out as part of a larger plea agreement involving her husband's criminal case. But prosecutors said her decision will not affect his part of the bargain, which calls for up to 10 years in prison for conspiracy. Lea Fastow, 42, withdrew her guilty plea to a tax crime after U.S. District Judge David Hittner said he wanted a sentence of between 10 and 16 months. The judge did not specify whether he wanted a combination of prison and home confinement. VIENNA, Austria ran to start nuclear reactor construction Iran will start building a nuclear reactor in June that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, diplomats said yesterday. Although Tehran insists the heavy water facility is for research, the decision heightens concern about its nuclear ambitions. One diplomat said the planned 40- megawatt reactor could produce enough plutonium for a nuclear weapon each year, an amount experts commonly say is 8.8 pounds. The diplomats said Iran told the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency last year of its plans to build a reactor, and Iran- ian officials have previously suggest- ed it was already being built. The diplomats said construction had not yet begun and that Iranian officials announced the June start date for the first time during talks Tuesday. WASHINGTON Agency issues first private rocket license The government announced yesterday that it has issued the first license for a manned suborbital rocket, a step toward opening space flight to private individu- als for the first time. The Federal Aviation Administration gave a one-year license to Scaled Com- posites of Mojave, Calif., headed by Burt Rutan. He is best known for designing the Voyager airplane that made the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in 1986. "This is a big step," FAA spokesman Henry Price said. 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