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Show 1 U.S; generat Less abusive 4 r t interrogation teckiqoes producing more intelligence 4 Jim posed to instill trust in insur- franc gent suspects questioned for their knowledge on attack plans, kxations of arms caches and leaders, as well as financing and recruiting methods, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . The BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. military is reaping more intelligence tips mm.':. i . high-quali- ry from Iraqi prisoners than ever "It's the devjfjopment of rapsince jettisoned several coercive interrogation techniques port and treatment of detainees with respect and dignity that after the Iraqi prisoner abuse allows this relationship to descandal in May, the American of in very quickly," he said. velop general charge Iraqi prisons said Monday. The number of tips on insur- erations on tips from interrogation transcripts within a day gent operations or on the or even hours of prisoner structure and financing of anti-U.bands has questioning, Miller said. guerrilla increased SO percent since JanIntelligence analysts also painstakingly crosscheck conuary, Army Maj. Gen. Geoffession tips with intelligence frey Miller said in a briefing databases to verify them. with reporters. Miller said inmates are also inIt is unclear what effect the inon had the has using polygraph terrogated intelligence exams. surgency. Between July and Ironically, military and U.S. August, when Miller cited an increase in actionable tips government reports docufrom 200 to 325, rebel ambushmenting the causes of the Abu Ghraib abuses assert tnat es on US. forces grew 70 perMiller urged tougher interrocent, from 1,600 to 2,700, acgation techniques be used in cording to U.S. military figures. Those attacks do not inIraq last year. The Pentagon sent Miller to clude sustained battles, such as the three weeks of fighting in inspect interrogation procedures last summer, and he Najaf last month. After the revelations of prisusing the same oner abuses by US. soldiers in techniques on prisoners in Iraq that were employed on the spring, the military da and Taliban prisoners at brought in new teams of inGuantanamo. Miller's intent Army Military Intelligence terrogators at Abu Ghraib and was to boost the quality of inother U.S.-rutelligence needed to halt the prisons. Interinsurgency. growing anti-U.rogators were told to change their methods, said Miller, who His recommendations were o was in charge of the approved by former U.S. land forces commander Lt. Gea Bay prison camp in Sanchez. Cuba and now runs US. detention facilities in Iraq. Investigators found that the November abuses documented Soldiers are no longer al- in dozens of photos at Abu lowed to "soften up" prisoners Ghraib may have been encourby forcing them into stress positions, standing or aged by the more coercive insquatting in uncomfortable terrogations. Miller was sent back to Iraq poses for long periods. Also after the abuse scandal broke banned is the practice of exand pictures emerged of US. posing inmates to extreme soldiers stripping prisoners temperatures, or withholding food or denying sleep. naked, threatening them with New interrogation teams dogs and forcing them to simulate sexual acts. He was put switched to incentives-base- d in charge of detention operainterrogations taught by a eran Chicago Police homicide tions and oversaw the Army's detective who is an Army Rereversal of the harsh methods he had advocated only months servist, Miller said. The new methods are sup t V ' w S. , coffins of children, parents, grandparents and Russia a funeral visible until these last moments: hair a woman, her brushed back and parted over her blackening face; a young man in a Sunday suit; a shrouded child. Sveta Ayharova, a arrived in an open coffin, its top carried separately by six men. Her body was veiled in lace and atop her legs was her pink teddy bear. "She was a beautiful, smart little girl," said Khazbi the oldest relative standing in front of the coffin, restraining his grief so he could get the words out. And then the coffins were shuttered with final, haunting bangs before they were placed holes. Pieces in the of concrete were lowered on top before dirt was shoveled into the hole by young men, rain streaming down their faces. Some graves, like that of the Kozyrevs, where Alia, Timur, and Elina mother, son and were buried side by daughter side, were so large that dump trucks were used to fill the hole. "It is our blood here," said Elbrus Bulayev, a worker at a local vodka distillery who spent the morning digging graves under a hard rain. "The sky is cryred-color- Continued from Al of 32, 31 of whom were killed and one shown Sunday on state television who was arrested. More than' 100 people were buried in the Beslan field Monday, Christians and Muslims alike, and there weren't enough priests or imams. And so the final words of remembrance and farewell were often uttered by relatives, family elders, perhaps, who stood over the coffins and addressed the mourners crowding around. "You had dreams, Natashen-ka- , you had dreams," said Vladimir Povomaryov, before the remains of Natalia Rude-noan art teacher at School Number 1, was lowered into a grave lined with red brick in the local tradition. "You are all martyrs. Our hearts ache for you." The bodies came from their homes in Beslan where on Monday morning priests went door to door to say hasty prayers over the corpses before moving onto the next afflicted family. The coffins were then loaded onto the backs of trucks and vans for the short but congested trip to the edge of town. In one period at around 2:30 p.m , 14 coffins arrived in succession and then each funeral party broke away to its piece of earth denoted by wooden markers and printed paper bearing the names of the dead. Some of the dead were k, five-minu- te SERQEY PONOMAREV Associated Press in Beslan, Russia, on Monday. Townspeople crowded around the teachers before the burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields. Ossetian men carry the coffin of a hostage victim during first-grade- Ayl-yaro- v, d ing." The bereavement was interrupted by political speeches that bellowed across the open ground from a podium that was set up 50 yards from the graves. All morning, a' group of people, mostly local officials, had waited for the arrival of the North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov and other dignitaries. President Vladimir Putin did not attend, but he was shown at a televised meeting in the Kremlin with several of his ministers. "In spirit and in our hearts we are all there today, in North a, in Beslan," he said, before leading the group in a minute of Qs-seti- silence. After days of silence from Russia's political elite about the biggest crisis of Putin's five years in power, several opposition politicians spoke out strongly Monday against the government's handling of the siege and demanded a full accounting. The Motherland party, founded last year and elected to parliament with tacit Kremlin backing, issued an official statement demanding that the entire government resign "because of their negligence that resulted in numerous civilian victims." The party was joined across the political spectrum by Western-orienteliberal Irina Khakamada in calling for an independent investigation of how the hostages were taken at, School No. 1. Khakamada, who ran against Putin in the March presidential election, also criticized him for blaming international terrorism for the Beslan crisis. "It would be incorrect to reduce the whole thing to international terrorism waging a war on this country because our weakness in the fight against that evil has domestic causes," she said. But criticism of the govern d ment, even from nominally independent media, has become even more difficult in the wake of the Beslan tragedy- - On Monday, influential editor Raf Shakirov, head of the newspaper Izvestiya, said he had been forced to resign as a result of the paper's Saturday edition. It featured huge pictures of child victims and accounts at vari-ance with the official version of events. As despairing families continued to put loved ones into the ground, loudspeakers broadcast Dzasokhov's voice as he thanked the mayor of Moscow and the governor of St. Petersburg, among others for coming to North Ossetia to express their al-Q- n S. Guan-tanam- Ri-car- condolences. "The bosses want to be heard," said Valery Pzarukayev, contemptuously, . as the speech wafted across the fresh graves. "He should resign," said a woman, standing by the graves of Dzurussa Bazrova, 14, and Sasha Urosov, 9, which were being filled in as Dzasokhov spoke. Still other corteges were arriving as the speech continued to boom from the loudspeakers. "They should all be fired." But mourners, for the most part, kept their disdain in check, and simply voted with their feet by leaving the graveyard without turning their heads to the nearby rally. By early evening, quiet now, more graves were being dug. "We will work until dark," ; said Bulayev. "There are piany more to bury." up pieces of debris and danced in the streets, displaying pieces of the aircraft to reContinued from Al porters, witnesses said. Since the Marine siege end' operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to a count by ed, gunmen have been using The Associated Press based on the city a base to manufacture Defense Department figures. car bombs and launch attacks Three soldiers were woundon US. and Iraqi government forces. Fallujah has become a ed Monday in a roadside . .virtual no-g- o zone for US. bombing in eastern Baghdad. " After the suicide blast outtroops, though American side Fallujah, west of the capihave repeatedly carried out airstrikes against alleged tal, medical teams in helimilitant safe houses there. copters ferried away the inThe car bombing resulted in jured from the blazing wreckthe largest number of Ameriage and troops sealed off the area. cans killed in combat in a sinofficials gle day since May 2, when hospital Fallujah said four Iraqis were wounded nine US. troops died in separate mortar attacks and roadby gunfire from US. troops side bombings in Baghdad, near the site of the bombing, but the U.S. military had no and KirkuK. On Sunday, both Iraqi Minisconfirmation. The military condemned the ter of State Qassim Dawoud bombing as "a desperate act of and a Defense Ministry inhumanity" but insisted spokesman publicly proclaimed American troops will stay the capture. Latcourse in Iraq until local forces er in the day, Defense Minister are in a position to take over Hazem Shaalan said word of ma tuicsi was uaseiess. security operations. The slain Americans belonged to the 1st Kadhim, the Interior MinMarine Expeditionary Force. istry spokesman, did not, howHours after the attack, an relaever, identify the unmanned US. spy plane tive in custody, nor did he say crashed in Fallujah. Afterwhen or where he was capward, jubilant residents picked tured. Iraq ' war-plan- "They're not used to the kids going out on the School zone Continued from Al . street." Safety has sent out letters to every home in the two cities, reminding residents to be more conscientious of the school kids walking to school. More officers than usual are also out patrolling the school zones, to try to slow down traffic as much as possible, is increasing with the growth of the population, he said. School bus drivers are also Though traffic speeding through crosswalks happens every year, it is getting more serious because the number of constantly reporting cars going around a bus when it is slowing down or stopped to pick up some schoolchildren Some have .even been known to pass on the , Capt. Cody Cullimore Pleasant Grove Police Department cars traveling down the streets right side of the bus, where students are loading or unloading, said Dick Belliston, Alpine School District director of transportation. "That's a serious concern," he said. Belliston said they work with the drivers to make sure they check their mirrors and listen for cars possibly ignoring the flashing lights on the bus before letting the students off. Another problem the transportation department at the district is trying to solve is parents picking up their kids in the bus loading zones. This makes it so that students are walking between the buses to get to the cars instead of lining up to get on the buses, which can create a safety problem, Belliston said. Though slowing down in a school zone or stopping for a school bus may add onto the driving time, safety officials like Ra-ma- di Throckmorton say they are only worried about the safety of the children. One accident would be one too many, she said. can be or tmcphersonheraldextra.com. I Tammy reached McPherson at 344-255- es 9 . Clinton Continued from A1 for high cholesterol. His doctors said Monday he was put on a cholesterol-lowering drug a few days ago. Clinton was prescribed cholesterol medicine in 2001 as he was leaving office. In a statement, Clinton's wife,' Sea Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanked the hospital staff for helping the family through a trying time. "Bui, Chelsea and I stayed up pretty late last night talking, playing games and just being with each other," the senator said. "These past few days have been quite an emotional roller-coastfor us." She added: "The president's optimism and faith will carry him through thedif ficult weeks and months ahead of that we er have no doubt." In bypass surgery, doctors remove one or more blood vessels from elsewhere in the body in Clinton's case, two arteries from the chest and a vein from the leg and attach them to arteries serving the heart, detour-in- g blood around blockages. During the operation, Clinton's heart was stopped and he mawas put on a heart-lun- g chine for 73 minutes. That process, used for more than 75 percent of bypass patients, carries a small risk of stroke and neurological complications. As many as 30 percent of patients suffer "measurable but very subtle" problems in mental functioning after bypass, but ' those problems are gone within a year, Smith said. Asked whether there were any troubling moments during the surgery, Smith said: "There are always a few minor anxious moments during heart surgery. There was nothing in this case that was outside the realm of routine." Schwartz said it would be possible for Clinton in the future to lead an "extraordinarily active lifestyle including hitthe campaign trail ting "He is recovering normally at this point. Right now everything looks straightforward," Smith said. Still, Dr. W. Randolph chief cardiovascular surgeon at East Carolina University and a spokesman for the American College of Cardiology, agreed with Clinton's doctors that the president had been in a dangerous state leading up to the operation. "Within the next couple of weeks, something was going to happen," he sakL Doctors delayed surgery until Chit-woo- d, Monday because Clinton was medicaon the tion Plavix, and waiting a few days decreased the chance of . excessive bleeding, they said. 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