2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 15, 2004 NATION/WORLD Female Hamas bomber kills four NEWS IN BRIEF EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Pales- threatening to impose a new boundary between Israel Two of the dead were immigrants from the former tinian blew herself up yesterday at the Israel-Gaza and the Palestinians if no progress is made soon. Soviet Union. Police Staff Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, border, killing three Israeli soldiers and a private security guard and signaling a new tactic by Hamas militants, who had never before dispatched a female suicide bomber. Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin said the use of a woman was unique for the Islamic group, but holy war "is an obligation of all Muslims, men and women." Israel said it would temporarily close the crossing to Palestinians, preventing thousands of workers from reaching an Israeli-Palestinian industrial zone that is one of the last vestiges of cooperation between the two peoples after more than three years of violence. The army said four of the seven people wounded in the attack were Palestinians. The bombing came as efforts to restart peace negotiations remained stalled, with Israel's leaders Violence over the past 39 months has killed 2,618 people on the Palestinian side and 909 on the Israeli side. At the Erez crossing yesterday morning, a woman identified as Reem Raiyshi, 22, told soldiers she would set off a metal detector because she had an implant to repair a broken leg. She was taken for a security search to a special room, where she set off the bomb, said Maj. Sharon Feingold, a military spokeswoman. "I heard soldiers screaming, the blast was very strong," said a Palestinian who identified herself only as Amena. After the explosion, a makeshift checkpoint structure of corrugated metal had a large hole in the roof, and destroyed desks and computers were scattered nearby. 22, moved to Israel with his mother and brother seven years ago, Channel Two TV reported. Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, was drafted four months ago. The other dead soldier was Staff Sgt. Tzur Or, 20. The name of the security guard was not immediately released. The bombing was claimed by Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Before the attack, Raiyshi made a video standing before two Hamas flags. "This is an indication that resistance will contin- ue, Yassin said. Using a woman as a bomber aimed at piercing Israeli security, which mainly focuses on men as pos- sible attackers. Other militant groups have used women to carry out bombings, but Hamas had not done so. DES MOINES, Iowa Mosely Braun leaves presidential race Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, whose campaign for the Democrat- ic presidential nomination never got off the ground, will drop out of the race and endorse front-runner Howard Dean, campaign officials said yesterday. Braun was to officially endorse the former Vermont governor this afternoon during an appearance at Carroll High School in Carroll, Iowa, said Dean cam- paign manager Joe Trippi. Dean said yesterday that he welcomed Braun's endorsement. "She's a principled person. We just hit it off. I like her a lot," Dean told reporters at a hotel in Fort Dodge, where he was spending the night after starting a statewide bus tour. "It's going to be a big help to us," he said. Officials said Braun, who often made the point that she was the only woman in the nine-person field, approached Dean after a recent debate and told him she was considering leaving the race and backing him. One of two black candidates in the campaign, Braun is giving Dean her endorse- ment even as he has faced questions about his record on race issues, including his lack of minority Cabinet members during his five terms as Vermont governor. 6 0 Libjan disarmament lea s to nuclear test ban treaty ratification 12 of 44 ratifications still needed for test ban to be entered into force VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In a new signal that Libya is serious about renouncing its weapons of mass destruc- tion, U.N. officials said yesterday the North African country has ratified the nuclear test ban treaty. Libya's nuclear program was far from producing a weapon and the treaty is 12 nations short of the 44 ratifications needed for it to enter into force. Still, the announcement by the U.N. agency over- seeing the agreement appeared to be a further sign of commitment by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to give up nuclear weapons ambitions. The Vienna-based agency - known as the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Orga- nization - said that in ratifying the pact earlier this month, Libya agreed to host a monitoring station at Misratah. That would be part of a network of 337 sta- tions being set up worldwide to verify compliance with terms of the treaty. Libya announced Dec. 19 it was giv- ing up its weapons of mass destruction after months of secret talks with the United States and Britain. It said then it would sign the test ban treaty and become a party to the convention pro- hibiting chemical weapons. Once it enters into force, the treaty bans any nuclear weapon test explosion in any environment. A Western diplomat who works with the Preparatory Commission said the ratification "fit the picture" of Libya's actions to prove it was serious since announcing it was scrapping programs or stocks of nuclear, chemical or biolog- ical weapons. Since then, both the International Atomic Energy Agency - the U.N. nuclear watchdog - and Washington have sent experts to Libya to take inventory of Libya's nuclear activi- ties ahead of supervising their destruction. Differences continue on who should take the lead, however. Earlier this month, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the IAEA should assume that role. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei also staked out his agency's claim. But U.S. administration officials insist that with U.S.-British negotiations lead- ing to the Libyan decision, Washington and London should have primacy. While the IAEA says Libya was nowhere near producing a weapon, Washington and London say it was fur- ther along than the agency realizes. Both sides sought to play down the dispute yesterday. A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said "we're doing well" on bridging differences. IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said the agency is in "frequent contact with the British, U.S. and other governments to ensure a com- mon understanding of our respective roles ... and discussions are continuing over the coming days." Still, diplomats familiar with the agency said differences continue, noting that IAEA officials were not invited to recent talks between U.S. Undersecre- tary of State John Bolton and British officials on Libya. The diplomats, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said a U.S.- British team and a group of IAEA experts planned new separate inspec- tion trips to Libya in the next two weeks. The two teams would have no direct contact, although information would probably be shared after they were debriefed, they said. Several diplomats said if the dispute is not resolved, the agency and a joint U.S.-British operation might end up per- forming essentially the same tasks in verifying and destroying Libya's nuclear weapons program. WASHINGTON U.S. soldier suicide rates on the rise * U.S. soldiers in Iraq are killing themselves at a high rate despite the work of special teams sent to help troops deal with combat stress, the Pentagon's top doc- tor said yesterday. Meanwhile, about 2,500 soldiers who have returned from the war on terror- ism are having to wait for medical care at bases in the United States, said William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. The problem of troops on "medical extension" is likely to get worse as the Penta- gon rotates hundreds of thousands of troops into and out of Iraq this spring, he said. Both situations illustrate the stresses placed on the troops and the military's health system by the war in Iraq. Suicide has become such a pressing issue that the Army sent an assessment team to Iraq late last year to see if anything more could be done to prevent troops from killing themselves. The Army also began offering more counseling to return- ing troops after several soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., killed their wives and them- selves after returning home from the war. WASHINGTON Bush unveils plan for manned Mars mission President Bush, envisioning "new journeys to the worlds beyond our own," unveiled a plan yesterday to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond on missions sure to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and stretch the bounds of technology. He called for a manned lunar landing as early as 2015. Bush's election-year initiative repre- sents the boldest space goals since John F. Kennedy laid the groundwork for the Apollo program that landed Americans on the moon in 1969. Intended to inject new life into a space program shattered by last year's loss of the Columbia shuttle and its crew of seven, Bush's proposal faces tough questions in Congress. Many Democrats say the administration should take care of problems at home' before setting its sights on costly space initiatives, particularly in the face of budget deficits of about $500 billion. HOUSTON Former Enron exec pleads guilty in court Andrew Fastow, chief architect of the shady, off-the-books deals that brought down Enron, pleaded guilty along with his wife yesterday in an agreement that could take prosecutors to the top of the corporate ladder at the scandal-ridden company. The plea bargains represent the biggest breakthrough yet in the two-year investigation into a scandal that led to the energy giant's collapse and rocked Wall Street and Washington alike. Fastow, Enron's former finance chief, agreed to a 10-year prison sentence that will make him the highest-ranking executive to do time in the case. CHICAGO Burger King gives nod to protein diets It has come to this in America: Burg- ers are losing their buns. Some of them, at least. 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