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Turkey intercepts
Syrian plane as
tensions mount
Cargo confiscated
due to suspicions
that weapons may
be on board
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -
Turkish jets on Wednesday
forced a Syrian passenger plane
to land at Ankara airport on sus-
picion that it might be carrying
weapons or other militaryequip-
ment, amid heightened tensions
between Turkey and Syria that
have sparked fears of a wider
regional conflict.
The Syrian Air jetliner was
traveling from Moscow when
it was intercepted by F16 jets as
it entered Turkish airspace and
was escorted to the capital's
Esenboga Airport, the state-run
TRT television reported.
Hours later, Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu said the Air-
bus A320 with 37 passengers and
crew would be allowed to leave,
but its cargo had been confis-
cated.
"There areelements ...that are
not legitimate in civilian flights,"
the state-run Anadolu Agency
quoted Davutoglu as saying. He
did not provide details but said
authorities continued to exam-
ine the cargo.
Davutoglu earlier told Tur-
key's TGRT television that the
plane was intercepted on suspi-
cion it was carrying illicit cargo
to Damascus.
"If equipment is being carried
under the guise of civilian flights
or if they are not being declared,
then of course we'll inspect it,"
he said.
"We are determined to stop
the flow of weapons to a regime
that carries out such ruthless
massacres," Davutoglu added.
"We cannot accept that our air
space be used for such aims."
Hurriyetnewspaper's website,
citing unidentified intelligence
officials, said communications
equipment, wireless sets and
jammers were found on board.
NTV television reported that
authorities found "missile parts."
Syrian Information Minister
Omran Zuabi declined comment.
Davutoglu said Turkish
authorities had also declared
Syria's airspace to be unsafe and
were stopping Turkish aircraft
from flying over the civil war-
torn country.
The move comes as tensions
between Turkey and Syria are
running high. The countries,
which were once close allies,
have been exchanging artillery
fire across the volatile border for
days.
Earlier Wednesday, Turkey's
military chief vowed to respond
with more force to any further
shelling from Syria, keeping
up the pressure on its southern
neighbor a day after NATO said
it stood readyto defend Turkey.
Gen. Necdet Ozel was inspect-
ing troops who have been put
on alert along the 565-mile
(910-kilometer) border after
shelling fror Syria killed five
Turkish civilians in a border
town last week. Turkey has rein-
forced the border with artillery
and also deployed more fighter
jets to an air base close to the
border region.
"We responded and if (the
shelling) continues, we will
respond with more force," the
private Dogan news agency
quoted Ozel as saying during a
visit to the town of Akcakale.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta said Wednesday that
Washington has sent troops to
the Jordan-Syria border to help
build a headquarters in Jordan
and bolster that country's mili-
tary capabilities in the event that
violence escalates along its bor-
der with Syria.
The revelation raises the pos-
sibility of an escalation in the
U.S. military involvement in the
conflict, even as Washington
pushes back on any suggestion of
a direct intervention in Syria.
In Syria's largest city, Aleppo,
regime troops and rebel fight-
ers exchanged fire for several
hours in and around the his-
toric 13th-century Umayyad
Mosque, said local activist
Mohammed Saeed.
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marched and the Supreme Court
ruled in our favor and I think we
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Kate Stenvig, a University alum
and the BAMN college organizer,
said she came to the event with
six other members of the organi-
zation to watch the case and show
their commitment to furthering
affirmative action.
"I think students from Michi-
gan lead the fight to defend affir-
mative action," Stenvig said. "I
think the same thing is true today,
whatever the outcome of the legal
case is we are going to continue
to fight in the court and to build a
new civil rights movement."
Though the majority of people
gathered at the Supreme Court
were in support of the University
of Texas, supporters of Abigail
Fisher also rallied in opposition
to affirmative action.
Frank Lukas, a graduate of
the University of Maryland Law
School and the father of two chil-
dren who went through the col-
lege admissions process, came to
the court bearing signs question-
ing the effectiveness and consti-
tutionality of affirmative action.
He was joined by D.A. Hess, a
local resident who supported
Lukas's cause.
"I'm just a person in favor of
real fairness," Hess said. "I just
think we need to live in a world
where people are judged by their
merits and not the color of their
skin."
Lukas said he feels strongly
about ending affirmative action
because he believes it negatively
impacted his daughter's college
admission.
"My daughter had a 750 on
each of the three sections of her
SAT Is and her SAT II, and was
rejected by every Ivy League,"
Lukas said. "She was number one
in her class. She was valedicto-
rian, and I don't want to say that
other people who were less quali-
fied got in, but people who were
less qualified got in."
Lukas said his daughter ended
up graduating from a public col-
lege in 2008 and is now applying
to medical school, adding that he
is concerned about her applica-
tion process because the schools
she applied to have all use affir-
mative action in the admissions
process.
Hess echoed Lukas's senti-
ments and said he is particularly
bothered by affirmative action
in medical programs because it
could mean less qualified doctors
are practicing.
"Your mother could be on the
hospital bed dying of cancer, and
the person who is there trying
to save her life could be a person
who did not get there based on
their merit, and that scares me,"
Hess said.
Lukas and Hess appeared to
be the only attendees in opposi-
tion of affirmative action on the
steps of the Supreme Court, and
according to Lukas, who came
protest against Grutter v. Bol-
linger and Gratz v. Bollinger in
2003, the turn out for those in
favor of ending affirmative action
was not much different.
"I'm just here because I have
the signs from a decade ago and
thought I'd use them again,"
Lukas said.
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