2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 10, 2005 NATION/WORLD Car bombingn Spain injures 43 MADRID, Spain (AP) - A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists exploded in a Madrid office park yes- terday near where King Juan Carlos later appeared, injuring at least 43 people in the worst terrorist attack in the Spanish capital since last year's bombing of commuter trains. The bomb exploded at about 9:30 a.m., less than an hour after a warn- ing call purportedly made by the Basque separatist group ETA. It shat- tered thick panes of glass in buildings, spraying shards over a wide area and damaging cars. Police did not have time after the call to the Basque newspaper Gara to fully cordon off the area or fully evacuate workers and visitors at the sprawling convention center nearby, where the king later met Mexico President Vicen- te Fox to inaugurate an art show that includes Mexican works. The latest bombing came hours after police arrested 14 suspected members of ETA and a week after Spain's Parliament overwhelmingly rejected a plan giving the Basque region broad autonomy bordering on independence. In recent years, police have weak- ened the separatists with arrests, but the bombing is a reminder they retain the ability to use violence. The bomb detonated near a plaza with a large bust of the king's late father, Juan de Borbon, and outside a building housing the French computer manufac- turer Bull. The bomb used an estimated 66 pounds of explosives, Interior Minis- ter Jose Antonio Alonso said. It was the worst blast in Spain's capital since the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people and were claimed by militants saying they acted on behalf of al-Qaida. A witness identified only as Dan- iel told CNN television that the bomb shook his car as he drove about 100 yards away from the blast site. "It was an extremely powerful explo- sion," he said. Another witness, Bull communica- tion director Manuel Amenteros, told The Associated Press he was in a first- floor office about 20 yards from the bomb when it exploded. "What saved me from the force of the blast and from flying glass shards was my computer," he said. The injured suffered bruises, cuts from flying glass and damaged ear- drums, said Javier Ayuso, spokesman for the Madrid emergency medical service. No one was seriously hurt, he said. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero denounced the bombing. BRUSSELS, Belgium Rice: Iran nuclear talks will not last Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Iran and Europe on notice yesterday that their negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program cannot go on forever. Nearing the end of a fence-mending tour of European allies, Rice said the United States had set no deadline on the Iran talks, but she also said the Bush administration had not changed its view that the United Nations should step in to get tougher on Iran. In Washington, President Bush said the Iranians needed to know that the free world was working together to send a clear message: Don't develop a nuclear weapon. "And the reason we're sending that message is because Iran with a nuclear weap- on would be a very destabilizing force in the world," Bush said. "I think the message is there," Rice said at a news conference at NATO head- quarters. "The Iranians need to get that message," she said, adding that Tehran should know that "there are other steps" the international community.can take. Iran says its program is for nuclear power, not weapons. In Tehran, Presi- dent Mohammad Khatami said yesterday that no Iranian government would ever abandon the progress the country has made in developing peaceful nuclear technology. JERUSALEM Israel to lift restriction in West Bank Israel has agreed to lift travel restrictions in parts of the West Bank in coming weeks, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday, in what would be the strongest signal yet to Palestinians that a cease-fire with Israel is beginning to pay off. Israel also said it would allow some Palestinian workers to enter Israel from. Gaza and the West Bank to work. Abbas made the announcement after returning to the West Bank from a Mideast summit in Egypt, where he and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared ans end to four years of bloodshed. Freedom of travel would greatly improve the lives of Palestinians, as the roadblocks have decimated their economy. Abbas said Israel had assured him that travel bans would soon be eased and' several major checkpoints will be removed as part of its military withdrawal from five Palestinian towns in the coming weeks. "We agreed that they (Israelis) will pull out of five Palestinian ... cities and sur- rounding areas, and also on the removal of roadblocks, which will be manned by the Palestinian forces," Abbas said. WASHINGTON Former NBA player's mosque funds terrorists} A mosque established and funded by basketball star Hakeem Olajuwon gave more than $80,000 to charities the government later determined to be fronts for the terror groups al-Qaida and Hamas, according to financial records obtained by The Associated Press. Olajuwon told the AP he had not known of any links to terrorism when the dona- tions were made, prior to the government's crackdown on the groups, and would not have given the money if he had known. "There is no way you can go back in time," Olajuwon said in a telephone interview from Jordan, where he is studying Arabic. "After the fact, now they have the list of organizations that are banned by the government." WASHINGTON Postal Service unviels new Reagan stamp President Reagan's famous smile and blue eyes shine from a new postage stampt issued Wednesday in ceremonies across the country. It's the latest in an already-high stack of honors bestowed on the former president since his death eight months ago. "We wanted to produce a stamp that embodied Ronald Reagan's warmth, personality and humanity," James Miller, chairman of the Postal Service board of governors, said in prepared remarks. "This stamp captures the twinkle of his eyes and the charismatic grin that reflected Ronald Reagan's eternal optimism." The official first-day-of-issue site for the commemorative stamp was at the Ron- ald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. i AP PHOOIU Firemen clear glass from a damaged building after a car bomb explosion In Madrid yesterday. Election results in Iraq postponed Officials must recount 300 ballot boxes BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi offi- cials said yesterday they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elec- tions. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering. Postelection violence mounted, raising fears that the Jan. 30 ballot- ing had done little to ease the coun- try's grave security crisis. An American soldier was killed yesterday and another wounded in an ambush north of the capital, the U.S. military said. Two other American soldiers died earlier in the week, the command said yesterday. Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Kurdish party officials in Baghdad, killing one and wounding four. And in the southern city of Basra, gun- men killed an Iraqi journalist work- ing for a U.S.-funded TV station and his 3-year-old son as they left their home. Officials had promised final results from the elections by Thursday, the end of the Iraqi work week. Yesterday, however, election commission spokesman Farid Ayar said the deadline would not be met because of the recount. "We don't know when this will finish," he said. "This will lead to a little postponement in announcing the results." No partial tallies have been released since Monday in the con- tests for the 275-member National Assembly, 18 provincial councils and a regional parliament for the Kurdish self-governing region in the north. The most recent figures showed a coalition of Kurdish parties in second place behind a Shiite-domi- nated ticket endorsed by Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Aya- tollah Ali al-Sistani. The ticket of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, was a distant third. Allegations of voting irregulari- ties, especially around the tense northern city of Mosul, have com- plicated the count. Some leading Sunni Arab and Christian politi- cians alleged that thousands of their supporters were denied the right to vote. Election officials blamed the prob- lems in the Mosul area on security, which prevented fewer than a third looking Sor a summer internship? of the planned 330 polling centers from opening. Gunmen seized some ballot boxes, officials said. The commission would not say how many ballots had been declared invalid and whether they had come from the Mosul area, which has a mostly Sunni Arab population. Many Sunnis are believed to have stayed home on election day, either because they feared insurgent repri- sals or opposed a ballot as long as U.S. and other foreign troops were on Iraqi soil. Commission official Adel al- Lami said the ballots in 40 boxes and 250 bags would not be counted because they appeared to have been stuffed inside them or, in some cases, improperly folded. 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