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The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. Turkish policemen patrol the arrival hall of the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. Turk surrenders after hijacking plane to Italy Hijacker reportedly sought political asylum, not to protest pope's visit as previously thought BRINDISI, Italy (AP) - A Turkish man seeking political asylum hijacked a jetliner carrying 113 people yesterday and forced it to land in southern Italy, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed, officials said. Security officials in the southern Italian city of Brin- disi, where the plane landed, said the unarmed hijacker was seeking to have a message delivered to the pope, but said they did not know what that message was. Turkish officials said the suspect, identified as Hakan Ekinci, 28, was an army deserter seeking polit- ical asylum. They stressed that earlier statements by some officials that he had hijacked the plane to protest Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey next month were incorrect. "From the onset of the events, there was no verified information that the hijacking was related to the pope visit," Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim told The Associated Press. "It was a simple attempt of seek- ing political asylum under the influence of psychological problems." Candan Karlitekin, chairman of Turkish Airlines' board of directors, initially said the Boeing 737-400 had been hijacked by two Turks. But several officials later said that Ekinci acted alone. The Turkish captain of the jet issued an alert that the plane was hijacked shortly after it took off from the Albanian capital of Tirana en route to Istanbul. "The man burst into the cockpit and said 'there's two of us,"'leading authorities to believe the man was not act- ing alone, according to an Italian security official based in Brindisi. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. "There was only one hijacker. He surrendered to authorities at the airport," the official said. Another official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said no weapons were found on Ekinci and police searching the plane also found no weapons. SEOUL, South Korea N. Korea says it will conduct nuclear test North Korea triggered global alarm yesterday by saying it will conduct a nuclear test, a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it views as a deterrent against any U.S. attack. But the North also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate. The contradictory statement fits a North Korean pattern of ratcheting up tension on the Korean Peninsula, a Cold War-era flashpoint, in an attempt to win concessions such as economic aid. The strategy has had mixed results in recent years as the totalitarian regime sinks deeper into isolation and poverty, with China serving as its lifeline for food and fuel. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the announcement "a very provocative act" and urged Asian nations to rethink their relationships with North Korea. QUARRYVILLE, Pa. Gunman told wife he had molested relatives The gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolroom confided to his wife during the siege that he molested two relatives 20 years ago when he was boy and was tormented by dreams of doing it again, authorities said yesterday. Investigators also said that Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, plotted his takeover of the school for nearly a week and that the items he brought - including flexible plastic ties, eyebolts and lubricating jelly - suggest he may have been planning to sexually assault the Amish girls before police closed in. "It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. But Roberts "became disorganized when we arrived," and shot himself in the head. Holding up a copy of the gunman's suicide note at a packed news conference, Miller also suggested that Roberts was haunted by the death of his prematurely born daughter in 1997. The baby, Elise, died 20 minutes after being delivered, Miller said. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Foley says he was molested by clergyman Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley said through his lawyer yesterday that he was sexually abused by a clergyman as a teenager, but accepts full respon- sibility for sending salacious computer messages to teenage male pages. Attorney David Roth said Foley was molested between ages 13 and 15. He declined to identify the clergyman or the church, but Foley is Roman Catholic. He also acknowledged for the first time that the former congressman is gay, saying the disclosure was part of his client's "recovery." "Mark Foley wants you to know he is a gay man," Roth told reporters as Republicans struggled with fallout from Foley's resignation. WASHINGTON Hastert dismisses calls for his resignation House Speaker Dennis Hastert brushed aside resignation talk yesterday, even as the Republicans' No. 2 House leader contradicted him in the page scandal. Presi- dent Bush gave Hastert a vote of confidence as the party struggled to contain pre- election fallout. Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said he wouldn't resign as speaker, the top offi- cial in Congress and second in the line of succession to the presidency, in the con- troversy over Rep. Mark Foley's salacious computer exchanges with former pages. 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