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®ar Hppl Suicide blasts wound 100 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HILLAH, Iraq Suicide bombers detonated explosives out side a Polish-run base Wednesday, killing 10 Iraqis and wounding more than 100 people, more than half of them coalition soldiers. The United States arrested seven guer rillas believed linked to al-Qaida in an early morning raid to the north. The attack in Hillah, the third suicide bombing of security targets in two weeks, was part of a wider effort “to isolate us from the Iraqi people,” coalition military com mander Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told reporters in Tikrit. Coalition and military officials said at least 106 people were hurt in the blasts, which happened in the Hayy Babil neighborhood near Camp Charlie. The wounded Marriages continue as legal fight grows THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - After two judges declined to end San Francisco’s same-sex wedding spree immediately, the mayor said the city would keep issuing mar riage licenses to gay couples as conservative groups vowed to take their case to higher courts. During separate hearings Tuesday, a pair of Superior Court judges ruled that they were not yet prepared to prohibit city officials from engaging in the collective act of civil disobedience that has allowed more than 2,600 same-sex couples to be married at City Hall since Thursday. “There was nothing particularly compelling after today that makes me think that we should back off,” Mayor Gavin Newsom said in announcing that the city would go on sanctioning same-sex unions until told otherwise by the courts. 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Earlier Wednesday, U.S. troops arrested seven militants believed linked to al-Qaida in the turbulent city of Baqouba, north of the capi tal, the military said. It gave no details on the nationalities of the At the same time, it remains uncertain just how long San Francisco’s unprecedented wed ding march will go on. After deny ing an anti-gay marriage group’s request for a temporary restraining order strictly on procedural grounds, one judge scheduled a Friday hearing on the matter. In the other case, Superior Court Judge James L. Warren refused to grant a different group’s petition for a stay that would have abruptly halted the weddings. He said the plaintiffs had not met the legal burden required for such an emergency order. Warren did, however, agree to order the city to either “cease and desist” issuing the disputed licens es or to come back to court March 29 and explain why they haven’t, a ruling that attorneys for both sides claimed as a victory. “The judge would not issue a TAN YOUR HIDE 2 151 E. Rosemary St. 933-2117 militants. There was no indication the attacks and the U.S. raid were directly linked. Troops from the 4th Infantry Division carried out the raid early Wednesday targeting an “anti coalition cell” that might have ties to Osama bin Laden’ s terror group, a statement from the U.S. command said. Suicide attacks have killed 300 people, mostly Iraqis, since the beginning of the year. They have fueled speculation that Islamic extremists, possibly linked to al- Qaida, were playing a greater role in the anti-coalition insurgency. U.S. military officials had believed the attacks were spearheaded by Saddam Hussein loyalists. The stepped-up violence could be aimed at preventing U.S. cease and desist order unless the judge made a determination that the mayor is in violation” of the law, said Robert Tyler, a lawyer for the Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund, an anti-gay marriage group. But City Attorney Dennis Herrera insisted the judge had made no such determination and that the city had scored a major tri umph by getting six more weeks to issue marriage licenses to gay cou ples and the chance to argue its case “on the merits.” “We believe we have very strong arguments,” Herrera said. 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Mieczyslaw Bieniek, commander of the 9,500-member Polish military contingent, said Wednesday’s bombings, about 55 miles south of the capital, were a “well-coordinated terrorist attack.” Mohyee Mokheef, a 50-year-old cafe owner who lives in the neigh borhood, said he was having break fast when he heard a faint first explosion and a second, louder one that shattered the windows in his home. He blamed al-Qaida and an Iraq-based group linked to it, Ansar al-Islam. legal authority to direct the county clerk to allow same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses because the California Constitution pro hibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Erwin Chemerinsky, a University of Southern California legal scholar, described Warren’s ruling as a short-term victory for the city. But the final decision will ultimately rest with a higher court, Chemerinsky said. “This is an issue that is going to be decided by the California Supreme Court,” he said. “These are just the early stages of what’s going to be a long legal battle.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 Iranian villages devastated by train explosion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEYSHABUR, Iran Runaway train cars carrying a lethal mix of fuel and chemicals derailed, caught fire and then exploded hours later Wednesday in northeast Iran, killing more than 200 people, injuring at least 400 and leaving dozens trapped beneath crumbled mud homes. Most of those reported dead were firefighters and rescue work ers who had extinguished most of the blaze outside Neyshabur, an ancient city 0f170,000 people in a farming region 400 miles east of the capital, Tehran. The dead also included top city officials including Neyshabur’s governor, mayor and fire chief as well as the head of the energy department and the director-gen eral of the provincial railways who had all gone to the site of the derailment, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The explosion devastated five villages, where authorities rushed in blood supplies and appealed through loudspeakers for donors. Hardest hit was Hashemabad, Eres JOVEN? Anrtas en problemas con la ' Heroina it otras rtrogas como Oxvcontin o I’ercocet? O Conoces a alpima persona que tiene problemas con esta rtrogas. A Et Programs de Addicciones del Hospital de if Duke esta usando una nueva medicacion para ayudar a joenes que no pueden parar de usar vB. I drogas como la Heroina,'Oxycontin or Percocet (tambien concocidas como narcoticosl. 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No classes, medications, or counseling involved. if interested, and to see if you qualify, please call 919-956-5644 or email weemsoo2@mc.duke.edu IRB#: 0487-03-4R3ER where 41-year-old Zahra Rezaie, whose mud home was near the tracks, was cooking lunch for her family when she heard the explo sion and felt the ground shake. Then the ceiling collapsed. “I was sure it was an earthquake, and my first thought was to rush to the school and save my children,” Rezaie told The Associated Press. An AP photographer who arrived in Dehnow, one of the most severely damaged villages close to the train tracks about 500 yards from the blast, said most of the vil lage’s homes were flattened. “The houses are all built of clay, and nearly every one has been destroyed, like they had collapsed in an earthquake,” Hassan Sarbakhshian said. “Everyone appears to have been evacuated,” he said, adding he could see thick, black smoke billowing about 500 yards ahead. , The blast was so powerful that windows were shattered as far as six miles away. In an apparent indication of the explosion’s force, Iranian seismologists recorded a 3.6-magnitude tremor in the area. 11
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