2 - Friday, February 18, 2011 The Michigan Daily -- michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, February 18, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom i At ffiaian Dail 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BRAD WILEY Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext.1252 734-418-4115 ext.1241 steinberg@michigandaiy.com tmdbusiness@gmail.com Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigaridaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Lettersto the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaiy.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com- Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com CRIME NOTES Hacker halted WHERE: Ross School of Business WHEN: Wednesday at about 7 a.m. WHAT: irus-causing software was found on a classroom computer, University Police reported. The software was confiscated and an investigation is in process. Oh-bye-o WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library WHEN: Wednesday at about 10:15 p.m. WHAT: A man visiting from Ohio was arrested after trespassing in the library, University Police reported. The man had trespassed and indecently exposed himself in the area Smokers spotted WHERE: 200 block of South Observatory WHEN: Thursday at about 4:30 a.m. WHAT: University staff members spotted three students smoking mari- juana outside a building, University Police reported. The students were released pending investigation and their marijuana and para- phernalia were confiscated. Fender fracture WHERE: University lot M-71 WHEN: Wednesday at abou 10:15 p.m. WHAT: A vehicle backing out of a parkingspace hit another car, damaging that car's fender, University Police reported. No injuries were reported. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Theatrical Symphony performance showcase WHAT: Musical theatre students will perform a dramatitled, "Our Country's Good." The story is inspired by actual events. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center WHAT: The University's Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Kenneth Kiesler, will perform three seperate pieces in a free program. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance. WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Lawmakers in Manas- sas, Va. are proposing that only "responsible" adults- be allowed to walk dogs outdoors, NBCWash- ington.com reported. Sup- porters of the law are saying that the new restrictions will keep citizens safer. The Merce Cumming- ham Dance Company, famous for its avant- garde choreography, will perform tonight and tomor- row at the Power Center for Performing Arts. FOR MORE, SEE ARTS, PAGE 6 A researcher in Isra- el has created a new device that will allow plastic surgery patients to preview a procedure's out- come, Medical News Today reported. The device is described as a "virtual mir- ror." 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Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. One U.S. agent dead after Mexican drug gang ambush a Homeland Security official calls attack a 'game changer' BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Gunmen from Mexico's ruth- less Zetas drug gang carried out a highway ambush that killed one U.S. federal agent and wounded another this week, a Texas con- gressman said yesterday. Michael McCaul said Immi- gration and Customs Enforce- ment Special Agent Jaime Zapata, 32, was killed by members of the Zeta cartel after a group of 10 to 15 armed men in two vehicles forced Zapata's Chevy Suburban off a highway in San Luis Potosi state on Tuesday afternoon. ICE Agent Victor Avila was shot twice in the leg. McCaul is chairman of the House Homeland Security Over- sight and Investigations Subcom- mittee and was briefed on the attack by intelligence sources as part of his position. He said the agents, both of whom were assigned to Texas but on tempo- rary assignment in Mexico, identi- fied themselves as U.S. diplomats before being shot, "hoping they (the Zetas) would honor the long- standing tradition that they don't (target) U.S. law enforcement." "This was a complete ambush," said the Texas Republican, who said investigators recovered least 90 bullet casings from the scene. "This is a complete game changer," McCaul said. "They are changing the rules." He said that while the motive for the attack remains unclear, one thing is certain: "There's no case of mistaken identity." Authorities have said the agents were likely in the wrong place at the wrong time and that their SUV is of a kind coveted by drug cartels in the area. San Luis Potosi borders two northern Mexican states where the Zetas and the rival Gulf Cartel have waged bloody battles over territory. Zapata and Avila were temporarily detailed to the ICE attache office in Mexico City and were driving from the northern city of Monterrey to the Mexican capital at the time of the attack. Mexican authorities are inves- tigating the shooting but have not announced any arrests. "My sense is that we know, we probably have pretty good intel- ligence as to who was behind' this," McCaul said. "That's what it appears to be." U.S. Homeland Security Secre- tary Janet Napolitano and Attor- ney General Eric Holder have formed a joint task force led by the FBI to help Mexico find the killers. Holder said yesterday that U.S. officials would look closely at the security situation in Mexico and make any changes warranted to ensure that U.S. personnel "have maximum protection." The Mexican government does not allow U.S. law enforce- ment personnel operating in its territory to carry weapons. Holder said the U.S. government will examine whether American agents in Mexico need to carry guns or other safeguards need to be instituted in light of the shootings. "We will look at this and we'll do ... an analysis of what it is that we need to do to make sure that everybody is as safe down there as we can make them," he said. McCaul said he wants to move more aggressively. "We are helping them, they are not helping us," McCaul said. "If we are going to put our guys down there ... to allow them not to be armed really puts them right in the bulls-eye and they are sit- ting targets." McCaul also said he wants to schedule congressional hearings to examine the U.S. role in Mex- ico's ongoing drug war, which has killed more than 35,000 people since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against the country's drug gangs shortly after taking office in December 2006. Avila serves on a unit to deter human trafficking and is based in El Paso, Texas. Zapata, a native of Brownsville, had been based out of Laredo, Texas. He joined Homeland Secu- rity in 2006, served on the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit as well as the Border Enforcement Security Task Force. He also for- merly was a member of the U.S. Border Patrol in Yuma, Ariz. Yesterday, police and ICE offi- cers barred access to Zapata's mother's home in this border city across the Rio Grande from Mat- amoros, Mexico, using cruisers, motorcycles and blue-and-white ICE truck to block access to a pri- vate road, which forked off a two- lane parkway lined with tall, thin palm trees and unassuming, one- story homes. Brownsville police spokesman Eddie Garcia said the department doesn't usually provide such pro- tection to the family of shooting victims but that it was appropri- ate given the circumstances. a -E- I ABDEL MAGID AL FERGANY/A Pro-Gadhafi supporters wave his posters during a march supporting leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli, Libya, yester- day. Libyan protesters seeking to oust Gadhafi also took to the streets in four cities on the "day of rage." Anti-government protesters killed in Libyan 'day of rage"' e 3 , Libyan leader targeted in protests across five cities CAIRO (AP) - Libyan pro- testers seeking to oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi defied a crackdown and took to the streets in five cities yesterday on what activists have dubbed a "day of rage," amid reports at least 20 demonstrators have been killed in clashes with pro- government groups. New York-based Human Rights Watch said Libyan inter- nal security forces also have arrested at least 14 people. Hun- dreds of pro-government dem- onstrators also rallied in the capital, Tripoli, blocking traffic in some areas, witnesses said. An opposition website and an anti-Gadhafi activist said unrest broke out during marches in four Libyan cities - Beyida, Benghazi, Zentan, Rijban and Darnah. Organizers were using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to call for nationwide demonstrations. "Today the Libyans broke the barrier or fear, it is a new dawn," said Faiz Jibril, an opposition leader in exile. Opposition website Libya Al- Youm said four protesters were slain by snipers from the Inter- nal Security Forces in the east- ern city of Beyida, which had protests Wednesday and yester- day. It's not clear when the pro- testers were killed. The website also said there was a demon- stration yesterday in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, and that security forces had shot and killed six people with live ammunition. Switzerland-based Libyan activist Fathi al-Warfali said 11 protesters were killed in Beyida on Wednesday night, and scores were wounded. He said the gov- ernment dispatched army com- mandos to quell the uprising. Libya Al-Youm said that pro- testers set out yesterday after the funeral for those killed a day earlier toward the State Secu- rity building, chanting "Free Libya, Gadhafi get out!" Mohammed Ali Abdellah, deputy leader of the exiled National Front for the Salva- tion of Libya, said that hospitals in Beyida were complaining of a shortage in medical supplies, and that the government has refused to provide them to treat an increasing number of pro- testers. Abdellah quoted hospital officials in the town as say- ing that about 70 people have been admitted since Wednes- day night, about half of them critically injured by gunshot wounds. Gadhafi's government has moved quickly to try to stop Libyans from joining the wave of uprisings in the Middle East that have ousted the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia. It has pro- posed the doubling of govern- ment employees' salaries and released 110 suspected Islamic militants who oppose him - tactics similar to those adopted by other Arab regimes facing recent mass protests. An autocrat who has ruled for more than 40 years, Gadhafi also has been meeting with trib- al leaders to solicit their sup- port. State television reported Tuesday that Gadhafi spoke with representatives of the Ben Ali tribe, one of Libya's biggest clans and one that has branches into neighboring Egypt. Tripoli residents said they were having trouble accessing the Internet, although it was not clear whether access had been blocked or the bandwidth reduced. At the height of the protests in Egypt last month, the government shut down the Internet for five days in a bid to curb the protesters' abil- ity to organize. 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