2A - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 NATION/WORLD Abbas's troops investigate shooting NEWS IN BRIEF a ;' , . ., RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security forces yesterday to try to prevent attacks against Israel and to investigate a shooting at a Gaza Strip crossing that killed six Israeli civilians last week. Palestinian officials would not pro- vide details of the order, and it was unclear how it would be translated into action, if at all. Abbas insists he will use persuasion, not force, to rein in armed groups. A Hamas spokesman said the Islamic militant group will continue carrying out attacks. Abbas was under growing pressure to move against militants following last week's attack at the Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel. Israel sus- pended ties with Abbas in response and ordered its army Sunday to do whatever was needed to stop Palestinian attacks. Israel decided to hold off on a major military offensive in Gaza to give Abbas more time to act against militants, a senior government official said yesterday. Secretary of State Colin Powell also urged Abbas in a phone call Sunday to rein in the armed groups, officials said. Abbas's victory in presidential elec- tions last week had raised hopes for a breakthrough in Mideast peacemaking. However, the Karni attack, two days before Abbas was sworn into office, ended his honeymoon with Israel before it ever started. Israeli troops raided several areas of Gaza over the weekend to halt rocket fire on Israeli settlements and border towns, withdrawing early yesterday. Sixteen Pal- estinians were killed in the raids, among them nine gunmen and seven civilians, including a 10-year-old boy. A senior Israeli military official said yesterday the army will re-enter areas of the West Bank it is slated to evacu- ate later this year if Palestinian security forces cannot prevent attacks from the area. The remarks by the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, indi- cated that Israel's planned withdrawal from the northern West Bank this sum- mer might not be permanent. In a Palestinian Cabinet meeting yester- day, Abbas instructed the security forces to try to prevent attacks against Israel. "A decision was taken that we will handle our obligation to stop violence against Israelis anywhere," Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said. Abbas moved up his planned negotia- tions with militants. Ministers said he would travel to Gaza for talks with vari- ous factions today, instead of tomorrow, as initially scheduled. The Palestinian Cabinet also asked the Palestinian Preventive Security Ser- vice, which controls the crossings into Israel, to investigate the Karni attack. Three militant groups, including Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which has ties to Abbas' ruling Fatah movement, carried out the attack. Israeli officials said they have indica- tions the attackers left from a Palestin- ian Authority base and passed through a Palestinian checkpoint on the way to the attack. Israel has accused Palestinian secu- rity forces of permitting acts of violence and even collaborating with attackers. It wants Abbas to overhaul the myriad security forces and place them under a central authority. Raanan Gissin, a Sharon aide, called yesterday's Cabinet decision a "small step in the right direction." "Now we have to see how it happens on the ground, based on things that were said," he added. Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri said the group would not comply with the new orders. "We consider resistance as a red line, and no one is allowed to cross this line," al-Masri said. Hamas leaders have said they would consider halting attacks if Israel stops military operations. Yesterday, the Islamic Jihad group sent two gunmen into a no-go zone near the border fence between Gaza and Isra- el, and Israeli troops killed one of them. Report to address WMD smuggling MADRID, Spain Eight indicted in Spanish terror case A Spanish judge indicted eight people on terrorism charges yesterday, saying they provided logistical help and false documents for suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks. The indictment was released by Spain's leading terror investigator, Judge Baltasar Garzon. It said the eight had provided logistics and counterfeit documents for suspects including Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged would-be Sept. 11 hijacker who has been in U.S. custody since his 2002 capture in Pakistan. He is believed to have been the main contact between a group of Sept. 11 attackers in Hamburg, Germany and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Binalshibh, who could not get into the United States to participate in the attacks but served as a key money man, reportedly is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "The group in question provided logistical support to Ramzi Binalshibh and other members of al-Qaida linked to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 in the United States," Garzon said in the indictment. GALLE, Sri Lanka Tsunami recovery fast despite terror threat U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that Sri Lanka is moving swiftly from relief to reconstruction three weeks after a devastating tsu- nami and that help from U.S. military engineers will not be needed much longer. In Indonesia, the United Nations banned its staff from traveling between the hard-hit provincial capital of Banda Aceh to the east Sumatran city of Medan because of reported fighting between the military and separatist rebels in the tsu- nami-battered area, a U.N. spokesman said. Also yesterday, the Indonesian military and the top U.N. official in Aceh prov- ince said they had no information of a specific threat to aid workers in Indonesia, despite a warning yesterday from Denmark of an "imminent terror attack." An insurgent commander told The Associated Press that rebels will not attack I foreign aid workers because the groups have been helping disaster victims. After visiting a battered area on Sri Lanka's southern coast, Wolfowitz said he was "impressed by how resilient people are" and then met the country's leaders to see what more America can do. WASHINGTON Americans positive about Bush, doubt Iraq A majority of Americans say they feel hopeful about President Bush's second term and have a generally positive view of him personally, but they also express continued doubts about Iraq. People were most likely to identify Iraq as the top priority for Bush, an Associ- ated Press poll found. But more than half wondered whether a stable government can be established there. After winning re-election, Bush is preparing to pursue an ambitious agenda that includes efforts to change Social Security, federal tax laws and medical malpractice awards. Ahead of Bush's inauguration on Thursday, six in 10 people said they felt hope- ful about his second term. JERSEY CITY, N.J. Religious tensions flare at slain family's funeral A funeral for an Egyptian Christian couple and their two daughters slain last week devolved into a melee after the services yesterday, with mourners shoving and punching each other as many blamed Muslims for the killings. Investigators are looking into the possibility that Hossam Armanious, 47, his 37- year-old wife, Amal Garas, and their daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8, were slain by a Muslim angered over postings that the father wrote in an Internet chat room. The family is part of the Coptic Orthodox Church, whose members make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population. Copts generally live in peace with Mus- lims, but violence has flared in Egypt recently, including protests last month. WASHINGTON (AP) - The final U.S. intelligence report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is expected to address whether the banned armaments may have been smuggled out of the country before the war started. Top Bush administration officials have speculated publicly that chemi- cal, biological or radiological weap- ons may have been smuggled out, and the question is one of the unre- solved issues on WMD. The report is due next month. Intelligence and congressional officials say they have not seen any information indicating that WMD or significant amounts of components and equipment were transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, Jordan or elsewhere. The administration acknowledged last week that the search for banned weapons is largely over. The Iraq Sur- vey Group's chief, Charles Duelfer, is expected to submit the final install- ments of his report in February. A small number of the organization's experts will remain on the job in case new intelligence on Iraqi WMD is unearthed. But the officials familiar with the search say U.S. authorities have found no evidence that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein transferred WMD or related equipment out of Iraq. A special adviser to the CIA direc- tor, Duelfer declined an interview request through an agency spokes- man. In his last public statements, he told a Senate panel last October that it remained unclear whether banned weapons could have been moved from Iraq. "What I can tell you is that I believe we know a lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria. There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points," he said. "But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materi- als, I cannot say." 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