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Attacks by Shiites kill
dozen troops, 66 Iraqis
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAJAF, Iraq lraqi insurgents
and rebellious Shiites mounted a
string of attacks across the south
and fought pitched battles against
Marines in the turbulent city of
Fallujah on Tuesday. As many as a
dozen Marines, two more coalition
soldiers and at least 66 Iraqis were
reported killed.
Reports from the city of Ramadi,
near Fallujah, said dozens of Iraqis
attacked a Marine position near the
governor’s palace, a senior defense
official said from Washington, D.C.
“A significant number” of Marines
were killed, and initial reports indi
cate it might be as many as a dozen,
said the official, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity.
U.S. authorities also launched a
crackdown on radical Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia
after a series of weekend uprisings
in Baghdad and cities and towns to
the south that took a heavy toll in
both American and Iraqi lives. The
fighting marks the first major out
8 convicted for murder in Jordan
U.S. workers death tied to Qaida cell
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMMAN, Jordan Eight al-
Qaida-linked militants were con
victed and sentenced to death
Tuesday in the murder of a U.S. aid
employee in 2002, but six of them,
including a Jordanian terror chief,
remain at large.
The slaying of Laurence Foley in
2002 stunned Jordan, a close U.S.
ally and peace partner with Israel.
A subsequent police crackdown
exposed a terrorist cell that
allegedly had planned Foley’s
assassination as the first of several
attacks inside the Arab country.
A U.S. Embassy issued a state
ment thanking Jordanian author
ities for “bringing those responsi
ble for Larry’s murder to justice”
after the 10 month trial.
The statement vowed to
“remain resolved to continue his
work to improve the lives of ordi
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break of violence between the U.S.-
led occupation force and the
Shiites since Baghdad fell a year
ago.
Two more coalition soldiers
an American in Baghdad and a
Ukrainian in Kut were killed in
fighting. The deaths brought the
three-day total to about 30
Americans and 136 Iraqis killed in
the worst fighting since the war
that toppled Saddam Hussein.
In the Ramadi fighting, heavy
casualties were inflicted on the
insurgents as well, officials said. It
was not immediately known who
the attackers were, nor whether the
attack was related to fighting
under way in nearby Fallujah.
On the Fallujah front, Marines
drove into the center of the Sunni
city in heavy fighting before pulling
back before nightfall. The assault
had been promised after the brutal
killings and mutilations of four
American civilians there last week.
Hospital officials said eight Iraqis
died Tuesday and 20 were wound
people of our two nations closer
together.”
Foley, a 60-year-old Amman
based administrator for the U.S.
Agency for International
Development, was gunned down
outside his Amman home Oct. 28,
2002.
Military court president Col.
Fawaz Buqour sentenced Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, also known as
Ahmed al-Khalayleh, and seven
other Arabs to death for conspiring
to murder Foley.
Al-Zarqawi is thought to be a
close associate of al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden. He and five oth
ers remain at large.
The Libyan man accused of
pulling the trigger, Salem bin
Suweid, and the driver of the get
away car, Jordanian Yasser Freihat,
were in court.
So were three Jordanians
charged with conspiracy.
ed, including women and children.
U.S. warplanes firing rockets
destroyed four houses in Fallujah
after nightfall Tuesday, witnesses
said. A doctor said 26 Iraqis, includ
ing women and children, were
killed and 30 wounded in the strike.
The deaths brought to 34 the num
ber of Iraqis killed in Fallujah on
Hiesday, including eight who died
in street battles earlier in the day.
The dusty, Euphrates River city
35 miles west of Baghdad is a
stronghold of the anti-U.S. insur
gency that sprang up shortly after
Hussein’s ouster a year ago.
With fighting intensifying ahead
of the June 30 handover of power
to an Iraqi government, Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
said U.S. commanders in Iraq
would get additional troops if need
ed. None has asked so far, he said.
State Department deputy
spokesman Adam Ereli said al-
Sadr and his followers were not
representative of a religious cause
but of “political gangsterism.”
Mohammed Amin Abu-Saeed and
Mohammed De’mes received
terms of six and 15 years respec
tively, while Numan al-Hirsh was
acquitted after the court found that
there was no evidence implicating
him in the conspiracy.
Standing in the dock wearing
dark blue prison uniforms, the five
men shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or
“God is great,” and “This verdict is
unfair” as Buqour read it out. A
military helicopter hovered above
the courthouse.
The men had pleaded innocent
and had told the court their con
fessions had been extracted under
duress.
Sameeh Khreis, lawyer for the
defendants, said the four men sen
tenced Tuesday will appeal the ver
dicts.
U.S. officials have offered a $lO
million reward for the capture of
al-Zarqawi, who is thought to be
trying to build a network of foreign
militants in neighboring Iraq
working on behalf of al-Qaida.
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Top Haitian leader arrested
Ex-minister suspected in Feb. killings
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -
Ousted President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide’s interior minister was
arrested Tuesday on suspicion of
orchestrating the killings of sever
al people presumed to be Aristide
opponents, officials said.
The arrest of Jocelerme Privert,
the highest ranking official to be
detained since Aristide’s departure
Feb. 29, comes as former govern
ment leaders and members of
Aristide’s political party have com
plained that Haiti’s interim leaders
are targeting them.
“I hope this is done with due
process because if not it appears to
be a witch hunt,” said Leslie
Voltaire, a former Aristide Cabinet
member.
“We don’t think it’s a good step
for rebuilding the country.”
Privert was accused in the mid-
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February killings of several sus
pected Aristide opponents in St.
Marc, a northern port city where
violence flared before the armed
rebellion that pushed Aristide
from power, the new government
said.
Although Privert allegedly con
spired to kill several people in the
town, officials did not say how
many people were killed, nor did
they provide names of those
allegedly slain.
“The procedure is going to fol
low its normal course,” Interim
Justice Minister Bernard Gousse
told The Associated Press.
Privert was being held at the
national penitentiary. Law requires
that he hear the charges against
him within 48 hours.
Penitentiary Inspector Olmaille
Bien-Aime said Privert’s cell was
being guarded by U.S. Marines
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who are part of a peacekeeping
force, but U.S. Embassy spokes
woman Mara Tekach-Bell denied
the claim, saying, “He’s not in our
hands.”
Earlier this year, the United
States canceled Privert’s U.S.
tourist visa but did not explain
why.
The United States has canceled
the visas of more than a dozen
Aristide government officials in the
past year, some because of alleged
connections to drug trafficking.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell said during a one-day visit
Monday that U.S. judicial author
ities were investigating Aristide on
corruption charges.
“There are inquiries being made
by our judicial authorities in the
U.S. to see if there is any evidence
of wrongdoing,” Powell said in a
news conference.
It was unclear whether the U.S.
government is investigating other
members of Aristide’s government.
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