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OSusptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Assrciatdolltgiatt Prass. Unidentified parents walk from a staging area and head to asnearby elementary school in Bai- ley, Colo., yesterday. A gunman took at least five people hostage at the Platte Canyon High School. Adult gunman fires shot at school, takes hostages Man shoots girl, kills himself after hours of negotiations; motive still unknown BAILEY, Colo. (AP) - A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in this mountain town yester- day, holding authorities at bay for hours before shooting and critically wounding one of the girls, then killing himself as SWAT team members moved in. The gunman, believed to be between 30 and 50 years old, was cornered with the hostages in a second-floor classroom and released four of them, one by one. Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said authorities decided to enter the school to save the two remaining hostages after the suspect cut off negotiations and set a deadline. He said the suspect had threatened the girls throughout the four-hour ordeal and had shielded him- self with the hostages. The gunman was not immediately identified, and the sheriffdwas at a loss to explain a motive. "I don't know why he wanted to do this" Wegener said, his voice breaking. After the suspect entered the building, hundreds of students at Platte Canyon High School were evacuated in a scene that recalled the horror at Columbine just a short drive away. Students said the bearded suspect wore a dark blue hooded sweatshirt and a camouflage backpack. The sheriff said the man threatened to set off a bomb he claimed to have in the backpack. The man was also tot- ing a handgun. Authorities had what they described as "sporadic" negotiations with the suspect and urged him to contact them for more discussion. Officers eventually crept close to the building, and there were reports of an explosion inside. A short time later, someone wheeled a gurney inside and took an unidentified person to a medical helicopter parked on the school's football field. NEWS IN BRIEF r HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE Nq WASHINGTON House OKs terrorism detainee bill The House approved legislation yesterday giving the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving President Bush to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terror plan. The mostly party-line 253-168 vote in the Republican-run House came shortly after senators agreed to limit debate on their own nearly identical bill, all but assuring its passage today. Republican leaders are hoping to work out differences and send Bush a final version before leaving town this weekend to campaign for the Nov. 7 congressional elections. For nearly two weeks the GOP have been embarrassed as the White House and rebellious Republican senators have fought publicly over whether Bush's plan would give him too much authority. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Al-Qaida No. 3 accused of part in Pearl killing The top al-Qaida operative accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks either killed or took part in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Dan- iel Pearl, Pakistan's president has alleged for the first time. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's claim, made in his memoirs released this week, could now be used to try to clear one of Pearl's four convicted killers, who is appealing his death sentence, the prisoner's lawyer said yesterday. Musharraf accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of taking part in Pearl's killing in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, following the journalist's kid- napping on Jan. 23, 2002. Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and is in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Saudis plan fence along border with Iraq Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence to block terrorists from crossing its 560-mile border with Iraq - another sign of growing alarm that Sunni-Shiite strife could spill over and drag Iraq's neighbors into its civil conflict. The barrier, which hasn't been started, is part of a $12 billion package of mea- sures including electronic sensors, security bases and physical barriers to protect the oil-rich kingdom from external threats, said Nawaf Obaid, head of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, an independent research institute that advises the Saudi government. The ambitious project reflects not only concern over terrorism but also grow- ing alarm over the situation in Iraq. ALBANY, N.Y. Clinton's challenger: Too many theatrics Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's underdog Republican challenger accused the former first lady and her husband yesterday of engaging in timeworn theatrics with their criticism of President Bush's handling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. "Once again President Clinton is wagging his finger with righteous indignation and once again Hillary Clinton is rushing to his defense" said former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer. "This act is getting old and the American people realize it." The broadside from Spencer, with its reference to the Clintons' behavior dur- ing the early stages of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, came as the political world buzzed about the former president's testy interview with Fox News' Chris Wal- lace that aired Sunday. In the exchange with Wallace, the former president contended that, unlike him, the newly installed Bush administration ignored bin Laden until the Sept, 11 attacks. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports CORRECTIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@iichigandaily.com. I 4 4 Host your next soileethr!Bushpas peacemaker ' to bickering jVERSITa aiep ... . ales university uniont almost as good at M University SUnions Voted BEST LOCAL WASHINGTON (AP) - COMEDY CLUB and Afghan President Hamid Karzai BEST NEW MARTINI BAR calls Pakistani President Gen. .a tPervez Musharraf "my brother." byrBut after months of bickering between the two key allies in the N A SHOW AND/OR MARTINI BAR PACKAGE global terror fight, President Bush decided it was time for a family meeting. Bush was hosting the two for 5- dinner yesterday night at the 5 White House, a command per- formance for leaders who have joined their fortunes to Bush's antiterror drive since the Sept. 11 attacks of five years ago. For months, Karzai and Mush- www umch. d u/-uu i arraf have been trading barbs and criticizing each other's efforts to fight terrorists along their [we don't play favorites.] long, remote, mountainous bor- der. Afghan officials allege that Pakistan lets Taliban militants hide out and launch attacks into Afghanistan. Musharraf says Karzai has bad information and notes that Pakistan has deployed border. Karzai says Musharraf turns a blind eye to hatred and extremism being bred at Islamic schools in Pakistan. At one point Musharraf grid so that every row, column said Karzai is behaving "like an ostrich," refusing to acknowledge x contains the digits 1 to 9. the truth and trying to shore up his political standing at home. essing or math involved, They also point fingers at one olve. Good Luck and enjoy! another over al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other ter- ror leaders. Each leader says bin HiUM Laden isn't hiding in his country and suggests the other might do ) more to help find him. All this comes as Afghanistan j suffers its worst reversals since the U.S.-led ouster of the extrem- ist Taliban regime nearly five years ago. 9 7 The Taliban militants have regrouped and launched an offensive earlier this year whose strength and organiza- tion took Afghan and U.S. offi- cials by surprise. They have 81 adopted methods commonly used by militants in Iraq: sui- cide bombings, ambushes and j' 1beheadings. Illegal opium pro- duction has risen yearly despite 9 billions spent to suppress it, y syndicati ornand Afghanistan is now the source of more than 90 percent of the world's supply. 6 I 6 6 I 0 t f