2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 9, 2006 NATION/WORLD Bush rebukes Muslim violence NEWS IN BRIEF 1 mm. wu ~ mm~a r~u-- m ~m- - m ua.- President chides press to remember responsibilites of its freedom WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush condemned the deadly rioting sparked by cartoons of the prophet Muhammad yesterday, and his secre- tary of state accused Iran and Syria of trying "to inflame sentiments" across the Muslim world. Bush urged foreign leaders to halt the spreading violence and to protect diplomats in besieged embassies. The president spoke out about the controversy for the first time, signal- ing deepening White House concern about violent protests stemming from the publication of caricatures in Den- mark's Jyllands-Posten and reprinted in European media and elsewhere in the past week. "We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press," the presi- dent said. At the same time, Bush admon- ished the press that its freedom comes with "the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." Bush commented alongside King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House. Abdullah, too, called for protests to be peaceful, but he also spoke against ridicule of Islam's holiest figure. "With all respect to press freedoms, obviously anything that vilifies the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, or attacks Muslim sensibilities, I believe, needs to be condemned," the king said. In Afghanistan, meanwhile, police killed four people as protesters marched on a U.S. military base. There was increasing talk, both in the U.S. and abroad, that some for- eign governments as well as extrem- ist groups were fanning the violent protests. At the State Department, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes. And the world ought to call them on it." There is little doubt that there is genuine anger throughout the Muslim world, where images of the revered Prophet Muhammad with a bomb strapped to his head are considered racist and deeply insulting. In the post-Sept. 11 world, Muslims already feel the brunt of the war on terror and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, said Diaa Rashwan, with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, Egypt. "That only further fueled the anger this time around," he said, the car- toons releasing bottled-up anger and frustration. In Afghanistan, U.S. military spokesman Col. James Yonts said, "Other countries are having the same demonstrations, same problems," when he was asked if al-Qaida and the Taliban may have been involved. And Zahor Afghan, editor of Erada, -:W1iI0112-~u:1 1 DA --~~ -----~~- - WASHINGTON Bush ives info on s"y program. After weeks o insisting it would not reveal details ofits eavesdropping without war- rants, the White House reversed course yesterday and provided a House committee with highly classified information about the operation. The White House has been under heavy pressure from lawmakers who wanted more information about the National Security Agency's monitoring. Democrats and many Republicans rejected the administration's contention that they could not be trusted with national security secrets. The shift came the same day Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) announced he is drafting legislation that would require the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review the administration's monitoring program and determine if it is constitutional. WASHINGTON Bush trims Medicaid and Medicare President Bush signed a measure yesterday that trims Medicaid and Medicare spend- ing over the next five years, but he said Congress must make bigger changes as baby boomers retire. Bush said programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are the biggest long-term challenge to the budget. Even after the cuts he signed into law, the growth rates projected for the programs are unsustainable, he said. "By 2030, spending for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security alone will be almost 60 percent of the entire federal budget," Bush said just before signing the Deficit Reduc- tion Act in the East Room of the White House. "That will leave future generations with impossible choices - staggering tax increas- es, immense deficits, or deep cuts in every category of spending," the president said. He defended his budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year in the face of critics from both parties who say he is shaving too much from Medicare and other pro- grams. He said his critics are thinking like free-spending Europeans. LAGOS, Nigeria Africa sees first outbreak of bird flu 91 AUP PHOT Pakistani Shiite Muslims burn U.S., Danish and Israeli flags to condemn the publication of controversial cartoons during a rally to mourn the death of their spiritual leader Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, yesterday in Karachi, Pakistan. Afghanistan's most respected news- paper, said that "there are definitely people using this to incite violence against the presence of foreigners in Afghanistan." On Tuesday, Bush had called Den- mark's prime minister to express "our support and solidarity" in the wake of the violence. In the midst of a campaign to blunt widespread anti-American sentiment across the Mideast, Bush sought to balance his remarks by urging the media to be sensitive to religious beliefs. "We believe in a free press," the president said. "We also recognize that with freedom comes responsibili- ties. With freedom comes the respon- sibility to be thoughtful about others.' Sitting alongside him, Jordan's Abdullah said, "Islam, like Christian- ity and Judaism, is a religion of peace tolerance, moderation." - - ' - a NM t~eWDen ta' practice on Cetral a'P 1 1 I I - - - - K eieJ Karey, D.D.S General Dentistry Cleaning & Exams, Bleaching, Cosmetic & Restorative Services, & Emergency Care 625 E. Liberty (Corner of State) Ann Arbor, MI 734-668-6612 Major Insurance & VISA/MC Accepted Africa's first outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus was reported yesterday in a large commercial farm in Nigeria that raised chickens, geese and ostriches, and 46,000 birds were slaughtered. International health officials called for help to prevent the spread of, the disease on the world's poorest continent, where governments are ill- equipped to combat it. Nigeria said the outbreak was on a farm in Jaji, a village in the northern state of Kaduna. Agriculture Minister Adamu Bello told reporters the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was detected in samples taken Jan. 16 from birds on the farm. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 130 million people, said it would work aggressively to halt the flow of any sick birds to unaffected zones. But farm- ers accused the government of being slow to respond. BAGHDAD U.S. officials meet with top insurgents U.S. officials have met figures from some Sunni Arab insurgent groups but have so far not received any commitment for them to lay down their arms, Western diplomats in Baghdad and neighboring Jordan said Wednesday. Three more U.S. troops were killed in Iraq - two of them in roadside bombings, the U.S. command said. The meetings, described as being in the initial stage, have not included mem-. bers of al-Qaida in Iraq or like-minded religious extremists, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS A story on Monday's front page (Program teaches adopted children about her- tage) misspelled the name of Linh Song, the founder of Mai Non. 0 0 1-- - - ---- ----- ------------ Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigarndaily.n eg AIdigC t laiCg 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com r DoNN M. 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