2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 2005 NATION/WORLD Iran plane crash kills over 100 All 84 passengers and 10 crew members, as well as 21 people in apartment building, die in crash TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A military plane loaded with Iranian journalists crashed into a 10-story apart- ment building yesterday as the pilot attempted an emergency landing after developing engine trouble. At least 115 people died, the Tehran police chief said. The C-130, a four-engine turboprop, crashed in the Azari suburb of Tehran, site of the Towhid apartment complex that is home to air force personnel and near Tehran's Mehrabad airport. Before firefighters extinguished the blaze, flames roared from the roof and windows in several of the upper floors. Panicked residents fled the building. Police held back a crowd of thousands, many of them screaming and weeping that they had to find friends or loved ones who were in the building. Scuffles broke out and police beat back onlookers and those trying to reach the building to keep the way open for emergency vehicles. Several hours after the crash, the building still was smoldering, with black smoke hanging in the air. "It was like an earthquake," said Reza Sadeqi, a 25-year-old merchant who saw the plane hit the building. He said he was thrown about nine feet inside his shop by the force of the crash. erA rruO Men transport Mohammad Reza Jahangirl, who was injured after a military plane crashed into a 10- story apartment building yesterday, to the Loqman Hospital In Tehran, Iran. "I felt the heat of the fire caused by the crash. It was like being in hell," he said. Witnesses initially said the plane hit the top of the build- ing. But officials, including Police Chief Mortaza Talaei, said one wing of the transport plane hit the second floor as the fuselage crashed to the ground, gouging out a huge cra- ter and causing a fire that spread through the structure. Everyone on the plane - 84 passengers and a crew of 10 - was killed. Most were Iranian radio and televi- sion journalists heading to cover military maneuvers in southern Iran. Twenty-one people in the apartment building also died, and 90 were injured, Tehran state radio said. Only nine of the injured were hospitalized late yesterday, Talaei said on Iranian television. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was visiting Saudi Arabia, sent condolences. "Rescue teams are required to employ their maxi- mum capability to save and help the survivors," state-run television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. He asked one of his deputies to take charge and ensure survivors receive the help they need. Bombers target Iraqi police academy WASHINGTON High Court to rule on campus recruitment law The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready yesterday to rule against colleges that want to limit military recruiting on campus to protest the Pentagon's policy on gays. New Chief Justice John Roberts and other court members signaled support for a law that says schools that accept federal money also have to accommodate military recruit- ers. The justices seemed concerned about hindering a Defense Department need to fill its ranks when the nation is at war. "There's the right in the Constitution to raise a military," Roberts said. Law school campuses have become the latest battleground over the "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing gay men and women to serve in the military only if they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. A group of law schools and professors had sued the Pentagon, claiming their free- speech rights are being violated because they are forced to associate with military recruiters or promote their campus appearances. BERLIN Merkel: U.S. admitted wrongful imprisonment German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that the United States has admit- ted making a mistake in the case of a German national who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned by the CIA. Merkel spoke during a press conference with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who refused to discuss specifics with reporters. The two women leaders' first meeting was dominated by questions about U.S. terrorism policies, including the five-month detention of Lebanese-born Khaled al-Masri and reports of secret CIA prisons and potentially illegal use of European airports and airspace to transport terror suspects. "The American administration is not denying" it erred in the case of al-Masri, Merkel said through a translator. Merkel welcomed that admission and added that she is grateful for Rice's assurances that the United States conducts anti-terror operations legally and without the use of torture. "I'm happy to say we have discussed the one case, which the government of the United States has of course accepted as a mistake," Merkel said. BAGH DAD Woman tells tale of horror at Hussein trial A woman testified at the Saddam Hussein trial yesterday behind a beige curtain and with her voice disguised, telling the court of beatings, torture and sexual humiliation when she was a teenager at the hands of security agents. The ousted Iraqi president sat stone-faced and silent during the woman's testimony but later exploded with anger. Waving a finger and pounding his desk, he told the judges to "go to hell" and vowed not to return to court when the trial resumes today. Saddam, dressed again in a dark suit and white shirt and clutching a Quran, com- plained that he and the seven other defendants were tired and had been deprived of opportunities to shower, have a change of clothes, exercise or go for a smoke. "This is terrorism," he said. DETROIT Ford pulls ads from gay, lesbian publications Ford Motor Co. said yesterday its luxury Jaguar and Land Rover brands will no longer advertise in gay publications, but the nation's second-largest automaker denied that it made the decision under pressure from conservative Christian groups. "The decisions with regard to advertising was a business decision,"Ford spokesman Mike Moran said. He said Ford's Volvo brand would continue advertising in gay pub- lications. Ford has not advertised its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands in those pub- lications, Moran added. Moran said Jaguar and Land Rover, which are part of Ford's money-losing Premier Automotive Group, have decided to cut back on their advertis- ing everywhere because of difficult market conditions. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story in yesterday's edition of the Daily (RC Profs debate racial prefer- ence) incorrectly reported that econ Prof. Tom Weisskopf is currently director of the Residential College. Weisskopf has retired from his position as RC director, and Slavic Languages Prof. Herb Eagle is serving as interim RC director. A headline in yesterday's edition of the Daily (Suicide bomber rocks market in central Jerusalem) incorrectly stated that the bombing took place in Jerusalem. The bombing took place in the city of Netanya. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com * 01 Suicide attack deadliest strike against Iraqi security forces since Feb 28 BAGHDAD (AP) - Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside Baghdad's main police academy yester- day, killing at least 43 people and wound- ing more than 70, police said. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack, the capital's deadliest in months. The bombing came as Al-Jazeera aired an insurgent video claiming to have kid- napped a U.S. security consultant - the seventh Westerner abducted in Iraq since Nov. 26 - and the U.S. military reported another American soldier killed in a road- side bombing in Baghdad. Late yesterday, another suicide bomber blew himself up in a cafe frequented by police in a Shiite neighborhood, killing three people and wounding 20, police said. One of the dead and three of the wounded were policemen, officials said. The-assault on the police academy was carefully planned to maximize casualties, all of whom were police officers or cadets. The first bomber struck near a group of students outside a classroom, a U.S. mili- tary statement said. Thinking they were under mortar fire, survivors rushed to a bunker "where the second bomber detonated his vest," the statement added. One of the wounded was an American contractor. A statement on an Islamist website in the name of al-Qaida in Iraq said "two blessed brothers" staged the attack on the academy "which continues to produce the dogs that shed the blood and violate the honor of Sunni Muslims." The claim's authenticity could not be independently verified, but al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has often denounced Shiites because of reli- gious differences and their leading role in the U.S.-backed government. Shiites dominate the security services. Iraqi police also said the attackers may have been policemen or students, fresh evidence that insurgents have infiltrated the country's security forces. President Bush has linked an eventual U.S. troop withdrawal to the ability of Iraq's army and police to combat the insurgents. The attack was the deadliest against Iraqi security forces since Feb. 28, when a suicide car bomber struck a crowd of mostly Shiite police and army recruits in Hillah, killing 125. 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