2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 29, 2004 NATION/WORLD Execuion-slekillings continue__ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -Insurgents Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman slaughtered 11 Iraqi soldiers, beheading for the International Atomic Energy one, then shooting the others execution- Agency, told The Associated Press that style, and declared on an Islamic mili- U.S. officials were cautioned directly tant website yesterday that Iraqi fighters about what was stored at Al-Qaqaa, the will avenge "the blood" of women and main high explosives facility in Iraq. children killed in U.S. strikes on the Some 377 tons of high explosives guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah. are now missing from the facility, and The killing of the 11 Iraqi National questions have arisen about what the Guardsmen yesterday was claimed by United States knew about Al-Qaqaa the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, and what it did to secure which posted a videotape WAR S N .RAO the site. of their brutal deaths on its Iraqi officials say the website yesterday, along with materials were taken a warning for all Iraqi police and soldiers amid looting sometime after the fall to desert or face death. The militants of Baghdad to U.S. forces on April said earlier the soldiers were abducted 9, 2003, though the Pentagon is sug- this week on the road between Baghdad gesting the ordnance could have been and Hillah, 60 miles to the south. moved before the United States invad- After forcing each of the soldiers to ed on March 20, 2003. state his name and unit, the militants Fleming did not say which officials forced one of them to the ground and were notified or exactly when, but sawed off his head. The others were she said the IAEA alerted the United forced to kneel with their hands bound States after the Tuwaitha nuclear com- as a gunman fired shots into the back plex was looted. of their heads. "After we heard reports of looting A voice on the videotape warned at the Tuwaitha site in April 2003, the all Iraqi soldiers and police to "repent agency's chief Iraq inspectors alerted to God, abandon your weapons, go American officials that we were con- home and beware of supporting the cerned about the security of the high apostate Crusaders or their followers, explosives stored at Al-Qaqaa," she the Iraqi government, or else you will told the AP. only find death." "It is also important to note that this Also yesterday, the U.N. nuclear was the main high explosives storage agency in Vienna said it warned the facility in Iraq, and it was well-known United States about the vulnerability through IAEA reports to the Security of explosives stored at Iraq's Al-Qaqaa Council," Fleming said. military installation after another IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei facility was looted in April 2003. informed the United Nations in Feb- U1W1PJk~ ~f a OJ V~ ~1HhI 1111 p _ c r I11 R AMA LLA H, West Bank Arafat seeks Paris medical treatment An ailing Yasser Arafat - too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of yesterday sleeping - agreed to leave his battered West Bank compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris for urgent medical treatment. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader's planned departure today, a decade after he arrived in the West Bank with the promise of statehood, could mark the end of an era. Arafat, who hoarded power and declined to groom a successor, leaves behind a people in disarray. Blood tests revealed he had a low platelet count, though it was unclear what caused the ailment, his doctors said, ruling out leukemia. In deference to his dete- riorating condition, Israel lifted its travel ban on Arafat, allowing him to leave his battered headquarters compound in Ramallah for the first time since 2002 and to return if he recovers. Arafat will be moved to the Jordanian capital of Amman early today, then con- tinue on to Paris for medical treatment, said Munnib al-Masri, an Arafat aide. Jordan sent two helicopters to pick up Arafat. A man cries for his slain son next to a charred civilian vehicle which was blown up when insurgents set off a car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. 'ATNI, Thailand Bar bombed in Thailand's Muslim region Fresh violence erupted yesterday with the bombing of a bar in Thailand's mostly Muslim south, while villagers held a mass burial for some of the 78 protesters who suffocated while in army custody this week. The bomb exploded yesterday evening at a bar in the town of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat province, on the border with Malaysia, killing at least two people and wounding 21 others, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing and police named no suspects. Also, officials in Narathiwat's provincial capital defused a 22-pound time bomb minutes before it was set to explode at a food stall where residents gather to give offerings to Buddhist monks. Narathiwat is one of three southern Thai provinces hit by violence attributed to Islamic separatists. The violence has killed more than 400 people since January. The three provinces have Muslim majorities, while Thailand overall is about 90 percent Buddhist. Southern Muslims have long complained of discrimination by the central government. ruary 2003, and again in April of that year, that he was concerned about HMX explosives, which were stored at Al-Qaqaa. Elsewhere, two more American sol- diers were killed - one in a car bombing in Baghdad and the other in an ambush near Balad, 40 miles north of the capi- tal. At least 1,109 U.S. service members have died since President Bush launched the Iraq war in March 2003. U.S. Marines also captured 16 sus- pected insurgents in a sweep south of Baghdad, bombed a suspected insur- gent safe house in Fallujah and clashed with guerrillas in Ramadi. 0 F u l cs s ANGELES Fue COStS DreamWorks public stock offering raises $0.8B IN-STATE' TUITION FOR 6 MICHIGAN 1 COUNTIES 9Hillsdale *Lenawee *Monroe *Oakland *Washtenaw eWayne * Highly rated by US News & World Report * #1 in Michigan Bar Exam perform- ance 2003-04 * $1.5 million In scholarships awarded annually * Beautiful suburban campus APPLY ON-LINE FOR FREE The University of Toledo College of Law Considering Low School P Discuss opportunities in law. - Meet UT Law Professors and current UT Law Students. " Invite your parents, partners, spouses and friends to be our guests. 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But that masks the differences between high-cost carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc. and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, and competitors such as South- west Airlines Co. and JetBlue Airways Corp. that pay workers lower wages. And while all carriers have been hit by higher fuel costs that Mann says will account for about 17 percent of indus- trywide operating costs in 2004 - up from 12 percent in 2002 - executives of high-cost airlines face the most pres- sure to find other ways to cut costs. For Delta, that meant winning an agreement late Tuesday from nego- tiators for its pilot union for a new contract that calls for a 32.5 percent wage cut effective Dec. 1 and no raises for the rest of the five-year pact. The airline's roughly 7,000 pilots, some of whom earn as much as $300,000 per year, must still vote on the contract. Analysts said the Delta pact, following earlier labor cost cuts at bankrupt carri- ers UAL and US Airways Group Inc., increases the pressure on Continental Air- lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. to squeeze concessions from workers. After slashing its annual costs by $5 billion - more than half of which came from labor - UAL is now seeking an additional $1 billion in savings, much of which is likely to come through lay- offs at its United Airlines unit. DreamWorks Animation Inc., the film studio behind "Shrek" and "Shark Tales," went public yesterday on Wall Street, and its new stock immediately shot up 36 percent. The stock had been priced at $28 a share but opened at $38 on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is being spun off by its privately held parent, DreamWorks SKG, formed 10 years ago by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. At its offering price, DreamWorks will raise $812 million from the 29 million shares made available. After the initial public offering, Katzenberg and Geffen will have 93 percent voting control of the company, leaving individual investors with almost no voice. KABUL, Afghanistan Election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan Armed men in military uniforms stopped a U.N. vehicle in Kabul yesterday, beat- ing the driver and abducting three foreigners in Afghanistan to help oversee land- mark presidential elections. The daylight kidnapping followed warnings that Taliban militants could target foreigners in an echo of the brutal insurgency roiling Iraq. It came less than a week after a suicide attack killed an American translator in Kabul. Two of the kidnap victims were women: one with joint British-Irish nationality, and another from Kosovo. The third was a male diplomat from the Philippines. All work for Afghanistan's U.N.-sponsored election body. A man claiming to speak for a Taliban splinter group, Jamiat Jaish-al Musli- meen, said it was responsible. 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