2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 6, 2005 NATION/WORLD Kenyans evacuate a building in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday after an earthquake hit the area. A powerful earthquake hit the Lake Tanganyika area of cen- tral Africa and was felt as far away as the Kenyan coast. Quake ro( KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A powerful earth- quake yesterday toppled dozens of homes and buried children in rubble in eastern Congo, kill- ing at least two people in a region already beset by chronic violence and grinding poverty. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, struck at 2:20 p.m. (7:20 a.m. EST) and was centered beneath Lake Tanganyika on the Congo- Tanzania border, about 600 miles southwest of Nairobi, Kenya, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. "Dozens of houses have collapsed, several chil- dren were buried by the roofs of their houses," said Jean-Donne Owali, a Congolese humanitari- an worker in the lakeside city of Kalemie, Congo, about 35 miles from the epicenter. Owali said at least two people had died of inju- ries at his clinic. He said he saw children bleed- s ailing East Africa ing from head injuries after their mud-and-thatch homes collapsed. U.N. spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux said a child was killed in the city when two houses and a church "crumbled." Three people. were wounded. It was not immediately clear if the child was one of the two people Owali reported killed. Bonnardeaux said most of the injuries in the area were from falling zinc and steel roofs. The desperately poor region also has camps for tens of thousands of refugees from wars and eco- nomic collapse in Congo and Burundi. The quake sent panicked people running from buildings in Kigoma, the main Tanzanian trans- port hub on the shores of Lake Tanganyika about 90 miles from the epicenter, said regional com- missioner Elmon Mahawa. Authorities were waiting for police stations in remote parts of the country to report on any casualties. The USGS said the quake was located about six miles underground and shook Nairobi and the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. It was also felt on the shores of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and in Tanzanian towns bor- dering Zambia and Malawi, Tanzania's meteoro- logical chief Mohamed Mhita said by phone from the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam. Henri Burgard, U.N. spokesman in the Con- golese town of Uvira, said the quake lasted 30 seconds. "The buildings shook quite strongly. We have no reports of deaths so far," he said. In Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, an Asso- ciated Press reporter felt a three-story building sway in two waves of the quake. AUSTIN, Texas DeLay will not face conspiracy charges A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge yesterday against Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tx.) but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money- laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader. Texas Judge Pat Priest, who is presiding over the case against the Republican, issued the ruling after a hearing late last month in which DeLay's attorney argued that the indictment was fatally flawed. When he was indicted in September, DeLay was required under House rules to relinquish the leadership post he had held since early 2003. While yesterday's rul- ing was a partial victory for DeLay, he cannot reclaim his post because he remains under indictment. The ruling means the case will move toward a trial next year, though other defense objections to the indictments remain to be heard by the judge. BERLIN Rice defends U.S. ethics in war on terror Fighting terrorism is "a two-way street" and Europeans are safer for tough but legal U.S. tactics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday in response to an out- cry among allies about reports of secret CIA prisons and detainee mistreatment. The top U.S. diplomat went further than others in the Bush administration to insist that Americans do not practice torture or lesser forms of cruel treatment. "Our people, wherever they are, are operating under U.S. law and U.S. interna- tional obligations," Rice said. She said that includes the U.N. Convention Against Torture, a document the administration has previously said does not fully apply to Americans overseas. Rice delivered the Bush administration's most forceful response to a month of growing trans-Atlantic acrimony as she prepared to spend the week among critics in European capitals. "Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States" in intelligence and other arenas, Rice said before she left for Europe. "That cooperation is a two- way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, saving European lives." BAGHDAD Witness testifies on Dujail murders, torture The first witnesses in the Saddam Hussein trial offered chilling accounts yesterday of killings and torture using electric shocks and a grinder during a 1982 crackdown against Shiites, as the defiant ex-president threatened the judge and tried to intimidate a survivor One witness said he saw a machine that "looked like a grinder" with hair and blood on it in a secret police center in Baghdad where he and others were tortured for 70 days. He said detainees were kept in "Hall 63." But defense lawyers questioned the reliability of witnesses who were only 15 and 10 at the time and walked out of the tumultuous session when the judge refused to allow former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to address the court on Sad- dam's behalf. They returned after the judge relented. WASHINGTON High court to hear appeal on insanity defense How hard can states make it for criminal defendants to prove insanity? The U.S. Supreme Court, jumping into an issue it avoided for nearly two decades under the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, said yesterday it would hear an appeal filed on behalf of a teenager who apparently thought he was being pursued by aliens when he killed an Arizona police officer. The justices will take up the case next spring. The young man's lawyer, David Goldberg, said in a filing that Arizona lawmak- ers made their law too restrictive. It allows a defendant to be found "guilty except insane" and held for mental health treatment, but it restricts what evidence can be used to prove insanity. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story in yesterday's edition of the Daily (Campus Leaders urged to look beyond politics) incorrectly named the LSA-SG Budget Allocations Committee chair as Jason Benson. He is Justin Benson. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI48109-1327 www.michigandaily. con 01 Set. 11 panel U.S. unprepared The administration received failing grades in five areas WASHINGTON (AP) - Time, money and ever-present terror threats have done little to close gaping holes in the nation's security system, the former Sept. 11 Commission said yesterday in accusing the government of failing to protect the country against another attack. The panel cited disjointed airplane passenger screening methods, pork-bar- rel security funding and other problems in saying the Bush administration and Congress had not moved quickly enough to enact the majority of its recommenda- tions of July 2004. "We're frustrated, all of us - frus- trated at the lack of urgency in address- ing these various problems," said Thomas Kean, a Republican and former New Jersey governor who was chairman of the commission. "We shouldn't need another wake-up call," Kean said. "We believe that the terrorists will strike again; so does every responsible expert that we have talked to. And if they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuse be?" Rather than disbanding like most fed- erally appointed commissions when their terms expire, Kean and the other nine commissioners continued their work as a private entity called the 9/11 Public Dis- course Project. Wrapping up more than three years of investigations and hearings, the for- mer commission issued what members said was their final assessment of the government's counterterror perfor- mance as a report card. It gave failing grades in five areas, and issued only one "A" - actually an A-minus - for the Bush administration's efforts to curb terrorist financing. The five "F"s were for: Failing to provide a radio system to allow first responders from different agencies communicate with each other during emergencies. Distributing federal homeland secu- rity funding to states on a "pork-barrel" basis instead of risk. Failing to consolidate names of sus- picious airline travelers on a single terror watch screening list. Hindering congressional oversight by retaining intelligence budget informa- tion as classified materials. Failing to engage in an alliance to develop international standards for the treatment and prosecution of detained terror suspects. The panel, which has operated as a nonprofit group since disbanding last year, also gave the government 12 "D"s and "B"s, nine "C"s and two incomplete grades. Congress established the commis- sion in 2002 to investigate government missteps that led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when 19 hijackers organized by al-Qaida flew airliners into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pen- tagon and caused a crash in the Penn- sylvania countryside. Asked about the panel's final report, White House spokesman Scott McClel- lan said, "It's important to look at some of what they're talking about." He also related the commission's find- ings to the administration's campaign in Iraq. "By taking the fight to the enemy abroad, and by doing so, that is keep- ing them from plotting and planning to attack inside America," McClellan said. On Capitol Hill, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike agreed that Congress has not done enough to shore up security. Many lawmakers focused on the security funding formula to states - an annual fight between the House and the Senate. 01 Rescue workers and police work at the site of a suicide bomb attack in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya yesterday. Suici e bober rocks -m-arket1in central Jerusale-m JASON Z. PESICK Editor in Chief pesick@michigandaily.com 647-3336 Sun.-Thurs. 5 p.m. - 2 a.m. JONATHAN DOBBERSTEIN Business Manager business@michigandaily.com 764-0558 Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. NETANYA, Israel (AP) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up among shoppers outside a mall yesterday, killing at least five people and putting pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for a tough response ahead of a fierce election campaign. Sharon held an emergency meet- ing of his security Cabinet to decide how to respond to the attack, which wounded 40 people, while Palestin- ian leader Mahmoud Abbas threat- ened his own strong action against those responsible. An Israeli driver who spotted the bomber carrying a suspicious bag toward the mall alerted police. A mall security guard hustled him away from the entrance and pushed him against a wall, where the bomber detonated his explosives. The guard was among the five people killed, police said. "If the bomber had gotten in, the result would have been much worse," said Israel's police chief, Moshe Karadi. The bombing was the fifth since a truce took effect last February. Islamic Jihad, a militant group that has carried out all five of the attacks, claimed responsibility for yesterday's bombing, saying it was retaliation for Israeli killings of the group's leaders. Israel and the Palestinians are in the middle of election campaigns, and more violence could hurt both Sha- ron and Abbas, who say they support returning to the internationally backed "road map" peace plan. The blast shattered windows and pocked the outside of the brown multistory building. Pieces of con- crete were ripped off the facade, blood stained the walls and debris littered the sidewalk. More than a half hour after the bombing, one body lay on the ground, its blackened legs stick- ing out from under a blanket, while another lay nearby under a sheet. Emergency workers rushed wheeled stretchers with the wounded toward ambulances. The attack occurred before noon, when a man carrying a black bag crossed the street in front of the Sharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. An off-duty security guard waiting at a red light noticed the man and alerted police in the car behind him - in a scene caught on security cameras and broadcast on Israel's Channel Two TV. "Within a second, I knew he looked suspicious," the driver, Nir Hudra, told The Associated Press. 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