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On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down as Prime Minister in July 2007 after more than 10 years leading his country. Blair promises to step down bynext year British prime minister gives in to pressure from his ruling Labour party, but sets no date for departure LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair, his reputation in Britain badly damaged by his refusal to break ranks with President Bush, gave in yesterday to a fierce revolt in his Labour Party and reluctantly promised to quit within a year. Blair, whose popularity began sinking when he committed his nation to the U.S-led war inIraq three years ago, had long resisted calls to publicly set a timeframe for his departure from office. He feared such an announcement would make him a lame duck and sap his remaining authority. But ultimately, the foreign leader best known to Americans could find no other way to end days of public turmoil that were severely damaging Labour, which has been in power for nearly a decade but now trails the opposition Conservatives in the polls. "I would have preferred to do this in my own way," Blair said, as he conceded that the party's annual conference this month would be his last. Next year's conference is scheduled for September 2007. He refused to set a specific departure date, saying, "The precise timetable has to be left to me and has to be done in the proper way." Blair appeared to have struck a deal with his expected successor, Treasury chief Gordon Brown, who signaled his support in a statement minutes before Blair spoke to television cameras at a north London school. The key question is whether the prime minister's exit strategy will be detailed and speedy enough to satisfy the impatient Labour legislators who forced his hand. Early signals were that it would buy the 53-year- old Blair time - but not much. He's eager to reach the 10-year anniversary of his 1997 assumption of office, which would be in May. WASHINGTON Arnitage says he was source in CIA leak The former No. 2 State Department official said yesterday he inadvertently dis- closed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame in conversations with two report- ers in 2003. Confirming that he was the source of a leak that triggered a federal investigation, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said he never intended to reveal Plame's identity. He apologized for his conversations with syndicated columnist Rob- ert Novak and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. For almost three years, an investigation led by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzger- ald has tried to determine whether Bush administration officials intentionally revealed Plame's identity as covert operative as a way to punish her husband, former ambassa- dor Joseph Wilson, for criticizing the Bush administration's marchto war with Iraq. BEIRUT Israel lifts air blockade in Lebanon, seals ports With a low-flying passenger jet circling the capital, Lebanon put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Israel's air blockade. But Israel said its closure of Leba- non's ports will remain in force until international forces arrive to watch the seas. Lebanon's prime minister and Israeli officials said they expected the naval blockade to end within days, once French, Italian and Greek navy vessels start patrolling to pre- vent weapons shipments to Hezbollah. The opening of the airport will be the first test for the UN. peacekeeping force's ability to keep out weapons. Hezbollah is widely believed to have received weapons and other support from its backers Syria and Iran. The land route to neighboring Syria has already been reopened, with the Lebanese government posting thousands of troops along the rugged frontier to prevent smuggling. The blockade of Lebanon has hampered reconstruction and cost the country some $50 million a day. At one point the blockade caused severe fuel shortages in Lebanon, leading to long lines at gas stations and forcing the electric company to ration power. CAPE CANAVERAL NASA set to attempt shuttle launch Friday Caught in a scheduling squeeze, NASA decided to try to launch space shuttle Atlantis today without replacing a troublesome electrical compo- nent. Today was the last launch day available before the U.S. space agency ran into a scheduling conflict with the Russian space agency. But NASA manag- ers now believe they can try tomorrow, if needed, and they were finalizing negotiations with the Russians. There was a 30-percent chance bad weather would interfere at the 11:40 a.m. launch time. PHOENIX Police arrest two in Phoenix serial killings Police arrested a man in two sexual assaults blamed on the city's elusive Base- line Killer. But they stopped well short of saying yesterday that they have caught the predator who has been spreading fear across the Phoenix area. Mark Goudeau, a 42-year-old construction worker, was arrested Wednesday and accused of attacking two sisters, ages 21 and 24, in September 2005 while they were walking in a park at night. Police said forensic evidence tied him to the two crimes, but they would not - elaborate, and did not say exactly how the women were assaulted. - Compiled from Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. A caption on a feature photograph (Enjoying the arts) on page 7A yesterday mis- identified the photographer. The Associated Press shot the photograph. I I Tape shows bin Laden with 9/11 plotters A CAIRO, Egypt(AP) - An Arab television station broadcast previ- ously unseen footage yesterday of a smiling Osama bin Laden meeting with the top planners of the Sept. 11 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp and calling on followers to pray for the hijackers as they carry out the suicide mission. The sections shown on Al- Jazeera TV were part of a video that al-Qaida announced it would release later on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the airborne attacks on the United States. The video includes the last testa- ment of two of the hijackers, Wail al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi. It shows bin Laden strolling in the camp, greeting followers, who Al- Jazeera said included some of the hijackers. But their faces are not clear in the video, and it was not immediately known which are pur- portedly shown. In one scene, bin Laden address- es the camera, calling on followers to support the hijackers. "I ask you to pray for them and to ask God to make them successful, aim their shots well, set their feet strong and strengthen their hearts," bin Laden said. The comments were apparently filmed before the attacks but never before released. The footage was the fourth in a series of long videos that al-Qaida has put out to memo- rialize the suicide hijack- ings against the Pentagon and World Trade Center, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a private U.S. company that monitors militant message traffic and provides counter- terrorism intelligence services for the American government. The previous ones were issued in April and Septem- ber 2002 and September 2003, each showing footage from the planning of the suicide hijackings and hijackers' last testimonies, Venzke told The Associated Press. The latest full video prob- ably lasts from 40 minutes to two hours, based on the past ones, he said. Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the video, which bore the logo of As-Sahab,al-Qaida's media branch. "They produce long videos like these not just for 9-11, but for any significant events they feel warrant their attention," Venzke said. One aim is to boost recruit- ment, but such videos have several purposes - "to speak to their supporters, to raise morale within their own group, to facilitate fundraising, and to serve as a psychological attack," he said. In the footage shown by Al- Jazeera, bin Laden is shown sitting outside in what appears to be a mountain camp with his former lieutenant Mohammed Atef and Ramzi Binalshibh, another suspected planner of the Sept. 11 attacks. Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan in 2001. Binalshibh was captured four years ago in Pakistan and is currently in U.S. custody, and this week Presi- dent Bush announced plans to put him on military trial. Bin Laden, wearing a dark robe and whitehead gear,strolls through the camp, greeting dozens of fol- lowers, some masked, some bare- faced, many carrying automatic weapons. Other scenes show training at the camp. Masked militants perform martial arts kicks or learn how to break the hold of someone who grabs them from behind. Several militants are shown practicing hiding and pulling out fold-out knives. A voice-over narration with the video praises the mujahe- deen for leaving their com- fortable lives to survive in the mountains "on the soil of Kan- dahar" - a southern Afghan city. Men are shown chopping wood and cutting up vegetables for dinner. 4 a I I