2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 25, 2005 NATION/WORLD Iraqi PM's headquarters bombed NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINE FRMAONIH OL BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide driver detonated a car bomb outside the Iraqi prime minister's party head- quarters in Baghdad yesterday, injuring at least 10 people. The al-Qaida affili- ate in Iraq claimed responsibility a day after its leader declared all-out war on democracy. Mortar rounds slammed into an Iraqi National Guard camp near Baghdad International Airport yesterday, as the rumble of distant explosions reverberated through the capital. There was no report of casualties in the mortar attack. The suicide bomber struck at a police checkpoint on the road leading to Ayad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord offices in central Baghdad, shaking the city center with a thunderous explosion. Among the wounded were eight policemen and two civilians, said Dr. Mudhar Abdul- Hussein of Yarmouk Hospital. Al-Qaida's wing in Iraq said in a Web posting that "one of the young lions in the suicide regiment" carried out the attack against the party office of Allawi, "the agent of the Jews and the Christians." The attacks occurred six days before Iraq's crucial national elections, the first since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Insurgents have condemned the elections and vowed to disrupt them. In an audiotape posted Sunday on the Web, a speaker claiming to be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of al-Qaida in Iraq, declared "fierce war" on democ- racy and said anyone who takes part in next weekend's Iraqi elections would be AP PHOTO A Baghdad resident leaves Yarmouk hospital after treatment for Injuries following a car-bomb explosion yesterday. The bomb injured at least 10 people. Yushchenko appoints prime minister Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko, visiting Moscow on a trip to mend rela- tions after a bitter election campaign, appointed top ally Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister yesterday. Yushchenko, who was inaugurated Sunday, initially said he would need more con- sultations before nominating a prime minister. His hesitation seemed to be aimed at avoiding a provocative decision just before his Moscow trip. After arriving in the Russian capital, Yushchenko's office said he had nomi- nated Tymoshenko, 44, who is widely disliked by the Kremlin. Moscow support- ed Yushchenko's opponent in the presidential campaign, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Tymoshenko, a firebrand opposition leader, was a key driving force behind a wave of opposition protests dubbed the "Orange Revolution" that paved the way for Yushchen- ko's victory in a fiercely contested presidential race that took two elections to settle. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Two earthquakes rattle nerves in Asia Tsunami survivors in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province have left relief camps by the tens of thousands in recent days to move in with relatives, a U.N. official said yesterday, as the government and separatist rebels tried to turn the disaster into a chance for peace. Elsewhere in Indonesia, a powerful earthquake sent thousands of people scrambling for higher ground, fearful it would trigger a tsunami like the one that killed at least 157,000 in the Indian Ocean region last month, most in Aceh. Officials said there was no danger of killer waves. Joel Boutroue, the head of the U.N. relief effort in Sumatra island's Aceh prov- ince, said the number of relief camps has dropped by about 75 percent in the past week, from 385 to less than 100. The number of people in any one camp ranges from a few hundred to about 2,000. The "dramatic decrease" is good news because relief settlements can make survivors too dependent on outside help, keeping them from rebuilding their lives, Boutroue said. WASHINGTON Court rejects appeal on behalf of Fla. woman The Supreme Court refused yesterday to reinstate a Florida law passed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, clearing the way for it to be removed. How soon that would happen, however, was unclear. The Florida Supreme Court had struck down the law last fall, and the justices were the last hope for state leaders who defended the law in a bitter, long-running dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, contends she never wanted to be kept alive artificially. But her parents told justices in a filing that their son-in- law is trying to rush her death so he can inherit her estate and be free to marry another woman. WASHINGTON High court broadens police search authority The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police can have dogs check out motorists' vehicles for drugs even if officers have no particular reason to suspect illegal activity. The 6-2 opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stevens, stipulates police dogs may sniff only the outside of a car after a motorist is lawfully stopped for a traffic violation, such as speeding or failing to stop at a stop sign. But privacy rights advocates said the ruling would lead to far more traffic stops as a way to find drugs. They also warned that the decision could open the door to more expansive searches. considered "an infidel." "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," the speaker said. "Anyone who tries to help set up this system is part of it." The speaker warned Iraqis to be care- ful of "the enemy's plan to implement so-called democracy in your country." He said the Americans have engineered the election to install Shiite Muslims in power. Al-Zarqawi, who is a Sunni Arab like most of the insurgents here, has in the past branded Shiites as heretics. The United States has offered a $25 million reward for al-Zarqawi's capture or death - the same amount as for al- Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. uan amo suspects tried mass hanging SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay dur- ing a mass protest in 2003, the military confirmed yesterday. The incidents came during the same year the camp suffered a rash of sui- cide attempts after Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller took command of the prison with a mandate to get more informa- tion from prisoners accused of links to al-Qaida or the ousted Afghan Taliban regime that sheltered it. Between Aug. 18 and Aug. 26, the 23 detainees tried to hang or strangle themselves with pieces of clothing and other items in their cells, demonstrat- ing "self-injurious behavior," the U.S. Southern Command in Miami said in a statement. Ten detainees made a mass attempt on Aug. 22 alone. U.S. Southern Command described it as "a coordinated effort to disrupt camp operations and challenge a new group of security guards from the just-completed unit rotation." Guantanamo officials classified two of the incidents as attempted sui- cides and informed reporters. They did not previously release information about the mass hangings and stranglings during that period. Those incidents were mentioned casually during a visit earlier this month by three journalists, but offi- cials then immediately denied there had been a mass suicide attempt. Fur- ther attempts to get details brought a statement Friday night, with some clarifications provided Monday by military officials at Guantanamo Bay and the U.S. Southern Com- mand. Alistair Hodgett, a spokesman for Amnesty International's office in Washington, was critical yesterday of the delay in reporting the incident. U.S. Southern Command described it as "a coordinated effort to disrupt camp operations and challenge a new group of security guards from the just-completed unit-rotation." "When you have suicide attempts or so-called self-harm incidents, it shows the type of impact indefinite detention can have, but it also points to the extreme measures the Pentagon is taking to cover up things that have happened in Guantanamo," he said. "What we've seen is that it wasn't simply a rotation of forces but an attempt to toughen up the interroga- tion techniques and processes." Officials said yesterday they dif- ferentiated between a suicide attempt in which a detainee could have died without intervention and a "gesture" they considered aimed only at get- ting attention. Army Gen. Jay Hood, who suc- ceeded Miller as the detention mis- sion's commander last year, has said the number of incidents has decreased since 2003, when the military set up a psychiatric ward. In 2003, there were 350 "self-harm" incidents, including 120 "hanging gestures," according to Lt. Col. Leon Sumpter, a spokesman for the deten- tion mission. Last yearthere were 110 self-harm incidents, he said. 01 - Compiled from Daily wire reports MARKET UPDATE MON. CLOSE CHANGE DOw JONES 10,539.97 -88.82 NASDAQ 2,073.59 -32.45 S&P 500 1,184.63 -11.35 www.michigandaly.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. 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