2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 7, 2005 NATION/WORLD Bush: Militants seeking an 'empire' NEWS IN BRIEF 1 Speech seen as effort to counteract growing public discontent with war in Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush accused militants yesterday of seeking to establish a "radical Islamic empire" and said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 plots by the al-Qaida terror network since the Sept. 11 attacks. He warned other nations not to sup- port or harbor groups with al-Qaida ties. In a speech designed to revive flag- ging public support for the war in Iraq, Bush said Islamic radicals are using that nation as a base for attacks. Such radicals are being sheltered by "allies of convenience like Syria and Iran," Bush declared in a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy. Polls show declining American sup- port for the war that has thus far claimed more than 1,940 members of the U.S. military. Bush's policy faces a crucial- test in Iraq's Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution, a vote that Bush has said terrorists will try to derail. In remarks clearly aimed at those seek- ing a withdrawal of U.S. troops, Bush said: "There's always a temptation in the middle of a long struggle to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder." "We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory," he said. Asked about the president's singling out of Iran and Syria as "allies of conve- nience," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "They continue to move in the wrong direction." Likewise, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in London that explosive devices that have killed U.S.-led troops were similar to those used by the Ira- nian-linked militant group Hezbollah. "There is no justification for Iran or any other country interfering in Iraq," Blair said at a news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Iran's ambassador in London, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, said the charges were not supported by evidence and "we are against any kind of action which might jeopardize or destroy the stabilization process of Iraq." At the White House, McClellan was asked about Bush's reference to 10 foiled terror attacks, including three in the United States. He said some of the information the president based his remarks on remains classified. McClellan mentioned the conviction of Iyman Faris, a Columbus, Ohio, truck driver who authorities said plotted attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge and a central Ohio shopping mall. Administration officials have previously claimed success in breaking up terror cells in New York, Oregon, Virginia and Florida. He also mentioned Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who converted to Islam and allegedly plot- ted with top al-Qaida commanders to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. Padilla, whose plot never materialized, was designated an enemy combatant by Bush and is being held BAGHDAD Draft of Iraqi constitution distributed Residents of one of Baghdad's most insurgent-hit neighborhoods received cop- ies of Iraq's draft constitution Thursday, though some refused to take it and some shopkeepers balked at passing it out, fearing reprisals by militants determined to wreck the crucial Oct. 15 referendum. Insurgents continued their wave of violence with attacks in and around the capi- tal, including the suicide bombing of a minibus, that killed at least 20 Iraqis and an American soldier. Despite the bloodshed, Iraqis in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora had their first look at the document they will vote on in nine days, though distribu- tion of the U.N.-printed blue booklets - emblazoned "The constitution is in your hands" - got off to a slow start elsewhere. "If we like it, we will vote 'yes.' If we don't, we'll say 'no,"' said Lamia Dhyab, a Shiite woman in a head-to-toe veil. She and other Dora residents got copies yesterday morning along with their monthly government-subsidized rations of rice, soap, cooking oil and other staples. The constitution is being distributed through the rationing system because some 80 percent of Iraqis have been enrolled in it since the days of U.N. sanctions against Saddam Hussein. WASHINGTON Rove to give testimony without immunty Presidential confidant Karl Rove will testify for a fourth time before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity even though prosecu- tors have warned they can no longer guarantee he will escape indictment, lawyers said yesterday. Rove's offer was accepted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the last week as the grand jury wraps up its work and decides whether Rove, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby or any other presidential aides should face criminal charges. Rove's lawyer said Thursday that Fitzgerald has assured him that he has made no decisions yet on charges and that his client has not received a so-called target letter, usually the last step before a grand jury indictment. "I can say categorically that Karl has not received a target letter from the special counsel," attorney Robert Luskin said. "The special counsel has confirmed that he has not made any charging decisions in respect to Karl." *1 President Bush steps up the defense of his Iraq policy and the broader war on terrorism during a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy at the Reagan Building In Washington yesterday. without criminal charge at a Navy brig in South Carolina. "We have been successful in disrupting certain plots. Some have been made public or are in the public domain, like Richard Reid," Attorney General Alberto Gonza- les told reporters. "Others are classified." Shoe-bomber Richard Reid is serving a life sentence after a failed attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight in 2001. Democrats challenged Bush's argu- ments on the Iraq mission. "The president went into Iraq under a false premise, without a plan, and has totally mismanaged our involvement," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. 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