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Show N BRIEF N EWS THURSDAY 25 Daily Utah Chronicle Iraq attacks are political Thursday 3225 Commander says groups seeking leverage TIKRIT, Iraq A senior U.S. commander said Wednesday that recent attacks in Iraq are ike work of groups seeking to sabotage or ain leverage in a future independent Iraqi government that is due to take power by July. M jj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of the Army's 4th Infantry Division, also predicted that coalition forces would be able to crush the insurgency within a year, despite continued American losses since the Dec. 13 capture if Saddam Hussein. " There are ethnic issues. People are now positioning themselves to see what their role is in the next government, and they are doing it by force," Odierno said after a tour of this city, Saddam's hometown. "They are trying to disrupt the way things are going so they can get a little advantage." On Wednesday, an Iraqi insurgent group claimed responsibility for twin bombings that killed 109 people at the offices of two Kurdish political parties on Sunday. The "Jaish Ansar said it targeted the "dens of the devils" because of the parties' ties to the United States. The claim could not be independently Coalition Provisional Authority plans to hand over sovereignty to a provisional Iraqi government on June 30. The United Nations soon will dispatch a team to Iraq to resolve differences between the Americans and the Shiite Muslim clergy over how to choose the new Iraqi leadership. "We have six to 12 months left of this insurgency," Odierno said. "I think constant pressure will bring it down," So far, 528 U.S. service members have died since the Iraq war began March 20, including soldiers died in 368 by hostile fire. Forty-fiv- e January and three more in the first three days of February. The January toll was five more than in December, despite hopes that Saddam's capture would weaken the insurgency and slow the killings from roadside bombs and other attacks. In another fatality, a Spanish military adviser who fell into a coma after being seriously wounded in a shootout last month died Wednesday, the Spanish Defense Ministry said. U.S.-le- d in his backpack, Miami-Dad- e County police Detective Randy Rossman said Wednesday. Police had obtained a search warrant for the backpack. Hernandez was charged with murder late Tuesday and waived his right to appear Wednesday in juvenile court. He was placed in secure detention. Police said Gough and Hernandez knew each other, but refused to discuss a possible motive Wednesday. Genesis said she dated Hernandez for about a month last year. 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Marciel Basanta Lopez and Luis Grass Rodriguez, the two men who turned the classic car into a floating vessel, tried a similar stunt last summer and got caught: They set out for Florida in a 1951 Chevy pickup with pontoons made out of empty drams and a propeller that pushed it along at about 8 mph. MIAMI trying to sail A feder- al judge on Wednesday delayed ruling on a temporary restraining order that would have allowed the Summum religious sect to erect a monument on public property in Duchesne, saying he required further information before making a decision. "It's an interesting case, and I think it deserves this extra attention," said U.S. District Judge Dee Benson. d The Salt Lake sect, which practices mummification, winemaking and sexual ecstasy, is seeking the right to build a monument displaying their Seven Aphorisms on public land. The sect argues that the city of Duchesne violated its First Amendment rights when the city denied the request, although it had allowed a Ten Commandments memorial in a public park since 1979. In August, the city sold the plot of land on which the Ten aPIG0fft w r council. I m . yJ is presents, "Snapshots of the Lives of Former Slaves: The Freedman Bank Project" by Darius Gray, African-America- n author and historian, at noon in the Marriott Library's Gould Auditorium. 10 Tuesday of Sexual ResponAs part Cubans floating in a Buick stopped by Coast Guard sibility Week, sponsored by Student Health Service and Office of Health Promotion, free HIV Testing will be available on from 1 to 6 p.m on the first floor of the Student Health Service and from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Heritage Center. $10, On Monday, the men set out again, with four other adults and five children, relatives said. The Coast Guard intercepted the group late Tuesday en route to the Florida Keys, picking them up about 10 miles off Marathon, which is about 90 miles southwest of Miami, activist Axturo Cobo said. Cobo said the Coast Guard sank the Buick. The Coast Guard refused to confirm the floating car's status, but it used machine gun fire to sink the first vehicle-powere- d barge. "My uncle is very brave," said Eduardo Perez Grass, a nephew of Grass Rodriguez. hosts a Pharmacy diabetes screening from 9 a.m to noon in Union East Ballroom. The Natural the Resouces Law Forum and the Wallace Steg-ne- r Center present the next installment of the Green Bag Series titled. "The Heart of the West Wildlands Network: An Exercise in Conservation Planning and Implementa- tion," at 12:15 p.m. in Room 107 of the College of Law. Jest Billiards hosts its weekly meeting in the Union Pool Room from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, jestJustudents.com. 12 Thursday Former chemical The School of Pharmacy hosts a diabetes screening depot worker gets from 8 a.m to noon in the six months in jail Union East Baliroom. Jest Billiards hosts its SALT LAKE CITY- -A for- weekly meeting in the Union Pool Room from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, mer chief at the Deseret Chemical Depot has been sentenced to six months jestustudents.com. in a prison and a $10,000 fine The Utah Museum for falsifying information concerning the effectiveness of air quality monitors. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell handed down the maximum sentence outlined in federal guidelines. In August, jurors convicted David James Yarbrough of manipulating data at the Army's Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System near Stockton, in Tooele County. The falsified data made it seem that air monitors set up to detect potentially lethal vapors were passing tests when they were not. A civilian employee for the Army, Yarbrough worked at the depot 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City for 22 years, including nine as a division chief at the Oquirrh Mountain Facility Plant, a research and development plant that tests chemical agent destruction of Fine Arts presents The Middle East through its Films series installment of the film "Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite," from Turkey followed by discussion from 6 to 9 p.m. in the The UMFA. 14 Saturday Day. Valentine's 16 Monday Day. Presidents 17 Tuesday As part of Black History Month, organizers host the panel, "Don't Leave this Child Behind: The Educational Significance of Brown v Board of Education" at noon in the Union Theatre. events must be located on campus. All a move which Summum lawsuit. Barnard last month asked for a temporary restraining order that would allow Summum worshippers to erect their monument while awaiting the court's permanent decision. Benson on Wednesday asked attorneys to submit briefings on four points by Feb. 25. He asked Barnard and Duchesne city attorney Cindy to answer whether ruling that Summum be allowed to erect their monument would violate the establishment clause. That First Amendment language guarantees the separation of religion and state and dictates that courts cannot endorse particular religions. Benson questioned whether Summum had legal standing to bring the case and whether the transfer of the city land to the Lions Club was valid under Utah property law. 11 Wednesday The School of Commandments monument stands to the Lions Club for methods. Barton-- 1 . 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Sec- Jest Information by the University of Utah American Meteorology Society . met. utah.educampusforecast first-perio- first-degr- Research presentation to all Interested predental students from noon to 2 p.m. in ASB 210. 3620 Friday Moon Phase good student in honors classes who often competed with Gough for better grades. "They were really good friends. I don't know what happened," she said. Megan Hopper, 12, shared d class the same with Hernandez. She said he was late for class Tuesday and arrived with blood stains on the collar of his white pants leg and shoes. He offered a variety of excuses, telling their teacher he bumped into someone, and his classmates that he bumped into a door or had a nosebleed, she said. Hernandez was removed from the classroom around Clinical the tion of Indiana University School of Dentistry, will give a boy slays fellow student at Florida school he killed the boy and the knife used in the attack was found Dr. flurries 14-year-- old PALMETTO BAY, Fla.- -A boy was charged with murder in the slaying of a classmate, a musician and baseball player who was found bleeding to death in a middle school bathroom. A fellow student said the victim and the boy accused of killing him were friends who competed with each other to get top grades. Jaime Rodrigo Gough, 14, was found early Tuesday at Southwood Middle School, a magnet school specializing in visual and performing arts, authorities said. His neck had been slashed. Michael Hernandez, 14, signed a statement admitting 5 Thursday Bruce Matis, director of Morning confirmed. 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