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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005
Iraq attacks leave 20 dead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq lnsurgents
kidnapped a Catholic archbishop
and targeted security forces in a
series of brazen assaults Monday
that killed more than 20 people.
A suicide bomber attacked U.S.
Marines in Ramadi, where insur
gents also beheaded two Shiite
Muslims and left their bodies on a
sidewalk.
The top U.S. general in Iraq pre
dicted violence during the Jan. 30
national election but pledged to do
“everything in our power” to ensure
safety of voters. As part of a crack
down on insurgents, U.S. troops
arrested more than 100 suspects
over the past three days, U.S. offi
cials said.
In Mosul, Archbishop Basile
Georges Casmoussa of the Syrian
Catholic Church, was seized by gun
men and the Vatican condemned
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the abduction as a “terrorist act.”
The 66-year-old churchman was
grabbed while walking in front of
his church, a priest said on condi
tion of anonymity.
Christians make up just 3 per
cent of Iraq’s 26 million people.
The major Christian groups
include Chaldean-Assyrians and
Armenians with small numbers of
Roman Catholics.
The deadliest attacks occurred in
three cities in the flashpoint region
north and west of Baghdad where
Sunni Muslim insurgents are seek
ing to derail the election.
In Buhriz, 35 miles north of
Baghdad, gunmen attacked an
Iraqi National Guard checkpoint at
the provincial broadcasting center,
killing eight soldiers and wounding
four.
A suicide driver set off a car
bomb at a police station in Beiji,
155 miles north of the capital, kill
ing seven policemen and wounding
25 people. A U.S. spokesman said
Marines suffered an undisclosed
number of casualties in a suicide
car bombing in Ramadi, 70 miles
west of Baghdad.
Marines sent to check a suspi
cious vehicle came under small
arms and rocket-propelled gre
nade fire and the vehicle explod
ed. “There were U.S. casualties,”
Ist Lt. Lyle Gilbert said, but
declined to give further details,
citing security.
Later, the U.S. command report
ed two Marines were killed in
action in the province that includes
Ramadi but would not say whether
they died in the car bombing.
Elsewhere in Ramadi, a pre
dominantly Sunni Muslim city,
officials found the bodies of five
civilians and one Iraqi soldier.
News
Concerns over security
trip up tsunami relief
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia
Security fears again threatened
to hamper tsunami relief efforts
Monday, with U.N. officials ban
ning aid workers from traveling in
parts of devastated Aceh province
following reports that fighting had
broken out between Indonesian
government forces and insur
gents.
The travel ban also came after
Denmark warned its aid workers
to beware of an imminent terror
attack —a caution that prompted
U.N. officials to launch an inves
tigation and declare a state of
“heightened awareness” in Aceh,
where separatists have been fight
ing for an independent state for
decades.
Insisting that aid workers
had nothing to fear, rebel leader
Tengku Mucksalmina dismissed
Indonesian government claims
that insurgents might attack relief
convoys in hopes of stealing food
for their fighters.
Judge indicts 8 on terror charges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADRID A Spanish judge
indicted eight people on terror
ism charges Monday, saying they
provided logistical help and false
documents for suspects in the Sept.
11 attacks.
The indictment was released by
Spain’s leading terror investigator,
Judge Baltasar Garzon.
It said the eight had provided
logistics and counterfeit docu
ments for suspects including Ramzi
Binalshibh, an alleged would-be
Sept. 11 hijacker who has been in
U.S. custody since his 2002 capture
in Pakistan. He is believed to have
been the main contact between
a group of Sept. 11 attackers in
Hamburg, Germany, and Osama
bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.
Binalshibh, who could not get
into the United States to participate
in the attacks but served as a key
money man, reportedly is in U.S.
custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The eight indicted sdspects
were identified as Reda Zerroug,
“Our mothers, our wives, our
children are victims from this
tragedy. We would never ambush
any convoy with aid for them,”
Mucksalmina told The Associated
Press from his jungle hideout out
side Banda Aceh. “We want them
(aid groups) to stay. We ask them
not to leave the Acehnese people
who are suffering.”
The travel ban between the pro
vincial capital of Banda Aceh and
the east Sumatran city of Medan
came “strictly because of the fight
ing going on down there,” said
Mans Nyberg, a spokesman for
the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees.
The ban is to be in effect from
Monday night until Tuesday morn
ing between the two cities, a 280-
mile stretch of road.
“There was reportedly a small
battle between the army” and the
rebels, Nyberg said. He didn’t know
when the battle occurred.
Joel Boutroue, the head of the
U.N. relief effort in Aceh, said
Redouane Zenimi, Samir
Mahdjoub, Mohamed Ayat,
Hedi Ben Youssef Boudhiba,
Khaled Madani, Tahar Ezirouali
and Spaniard Francisco Garcia
Gomez.
Garzon said they developed “a net
work of forged documents to provide
false identities or fake documents to
other members of the network to
help them move about, flee or hide
or (to help) with their terrorist activi
ties or links with organizations such
as Ansar al-Islam, under the orders
of Abu Musab al Zarqawi.” The latter
is a Jordanian-born militant blamed
for spearheading terrorist actions in
Iraq.
Garzon issued an international
arrest order for Boudhiba and
Ezirouali and ordered the Spaniard’s
release on $26,000 bail. The others
are jailed in Spain after their arrests
between February and June.
Garzon said Boudhiba is in jail
in Britain. He said Boudhiba trav
eled from Hamburg to Istanbul,
Turkey, on Sept. 3, 2001, along
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the ban “was not due to any spe
cific threat” and that it would be
reviewed Tuesday.
A rebel spokesman in Sweden,
Bahktiar Abdullah, was not able
to confirm the reports of fighting.
Col. Nachrowi Dzajairi, a spokes
man for the Indonesian military in
Banda Aceh, said he had received
no reports of fighting along the
road.
“Obviously, given the fact that
there had been conflict in the
region, the staff who are there have
to be careful, they have to watch
what they do,” U.N. Secretary-
General Kofi Annan told reporters
at the United Nations. He said U.N.
workers have not had any major
problems with the rebels or any
other group.
Relief efforts are being led by
nearly 15,000 U.S. troops —most
of whom are docked off the coast of
western Sumatra island. Australia,
Singapore, Germany and other
nations also have contributed
troops.
with a man named Ahmed Taleb,
a member of the Hamburg cell
blamed for carrying out the Sept.
11 attacks. The alleged leader of
the cell was suspected suicide pilot
Mohamed Atta.
Investigators said Spain, along
with Germany, was a major staging
ground for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Binalshibh and Atta met in
the northeastern Spanish region
of Tarragona in July 2001, when
Garzon says last-minute details of
the attacks were decided, including
the date.
In September 2003, Garzon
indicted 35 members of an alleged
Spain-based al-Qaida cell and bin
Laden as the mastermind of Sept.
11 on grounds that the attacks were
planned in part in Spain.
Garzon later broadened the
indictment to 40 people. Twenty
one of them arp scheduled to go on
trial on charges of terrorism over
the next few weeks, although not
all of them are charged with help
ing prepare the Sept. 11 attacks.