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Show Wednesday, September IS, 2004 DAILY HEt AID M umi.iuri.iii. p i. 45. The blast scattered charred metal and body parts across a, commercial strp of restaurants, barber shops and billiard parlors. AS were heavily damaged : ; Witnesses said the bomb was housed in a parked Toyota sedan, but no one could remem-be-r the driver. Thirty feet from the deep crater left by the blast rested a twisted and blackened car chassis and an engine block wih "Toyota" stamped on top. Around the scene lay the charred remnants of several pigeons literally blown from the . trees. ? Bloody clothing lay tangled in barbed wire, and at least 30 pairs of shoes and plastic sandals lay in a heap. Interior Minister Falah Naqib visited the scene and blamed the attack on "groups who want to halt the reconstruction of Iraq." Naqib vowed to continue government efforts to stamp, out the insurgency. "No terrorist wiS stay in Iraq," he said. In Karch Hospital, a young man sat dazed on a hospital bed, a bandage above his knee visible under his torn and bloody pants. Like most of the other victims, he had been hoping to secure a police job. "I give up. I'll look for some other kind of job, he said. In another bed, Taher Hus' sein, 35, sounded a note of deft-ance. "I'm still determined to dent's first year a success. "He instantly grasped the needs of the faculty and the students ... and really took off running," he said. Flanagan said Samuelson and Bateman are "quite different people," but both "exactly the right people for their time." Of course Samuelson is unlikely to get much criticism from vice presidents and other BYU employees. Not only is he an employer, but, as a general authority for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, he is a spiritual leader. Still Ned Hill, dean of the Marriott School of Management at BYU said he has been impressed with Samuelson's ability to adapt and listen. "He's been very careful to learn a lot about the university before making crucial decisions," Hill said. In fact, outside the athletic di rector shake-u- p last Wednesday, Samuelson is coming off a year with little change. The top administration at the university is the same as it was under Bateman, except for the addition of John Tanner as academic vice president called in to replace Alan Wilkins who is serving as an LDS mission president in Argentina. "Some people try to make changes to establish themselves and I think he's wiser than that," said Kent Crookston, dean of the College of Biology and Agriculture. HilL who served as an assistant to Bateman from 1996 to 1998, said he cant think of any Bateman-er- a programs that Samuelson has let slip. "I don't see any major changes. I think we're on a pretty even keeL" he said. "He's picked up where President Bateman left off." Iraq Continued from Al ...-.' daily, but he didn't say bow. "I'm confident security will be said improved," ahead of an OPEC meeting here Wednesday. Beiji is the point where several oil pipelines converge, said Lt. CoL Lee Morrison of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. One of them apparently was a domestic pipeline that fed a local power plant. The explosion set off a fire that melted cables and led to the power outage, electricity offi- cials said. "Beiji is the chokepoint," Morrison said. "It's so easy to hit." The 3 am attack came soon after engineers had completed a " project to install two HUSSEIN (AALLA Associated Press A. slogans while they remove a dead man from the scene of an explosion in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday. A bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, killing at least 59 people and wounding dozens. Iraqis shout anti-U.- S two-mont- h critical valves that had been damaged in an earlier blast. Tuesday's attacks underscored the fragile position of Iraq's security forces, which are struggling to recruit and train new members while coming under steady assault from insurgents who brand them as collaborators with an illegitimate, interim government. Police stations and recruit- ment centers have been fre: quent targets. On Sept. 4, a car bomb at a police academy near the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least Honor Code circle." The honor code includes provisions against, among other things, alcohol and drug use, premarital sex, pornography, revealing clothing, academic dishonesty and facial hair. Samuelson quoted former LDS Church President Spencer Kimball on the importance of living thl code: "Once having elected to come here and to participate in this community with its special calling to represent the church and its highest standards, you must not compromise your integrity by promising to do what you will not do." The "We've been expecting this for a long time," said Haidar Abdel Hassan, 33, a former army off icer who lives near the site of Tuesday's blast. Hassan said he normally hangs around one of the neigh-borhood tea shops, but had gone 0. Samuelson BYU votional address was the second for Samuelson, marking the end of his first year in office. Samuelson took the reins from booby-trappe- dozens. Cecil de- school-year-openi- Iraqi army center nezi the fortified "Green Zone" in central Baghdad was struck by car bombers in February and June, both times killing "It's a personal commitment to live life in congruence with gospel principles. It is our recognition of the importance of others in our university circle." Continued from Al home for a cup because his usual haunt was closed after an early morning mortar attack near the police station. As a result, most of the crowd had packed into a second tea shop almost directly in front of the car. Khudeir Abbas Hamad, the, owner of the tea shop, wasn't present at the time of the blast. His father, who was minding the store, suffered head injuries. "He told me it had never been so crowded," said Hamad, 20. On July 28, a car bomb killed 68 people outside a police recruiting center in Baquba. An president Merrill Bateman in May 2003, although the new president was not officially inaugurated until September. Kelly Flanagan, BYU vice president of information technology, said Samuelson's integrity and quick study of the BYU culture has made the presi , d the ambush of police recruits m Baquba and hailed the "heroes" of Tawhid and Jihad for killing Hussein's sister Amal stood -the police agents.by his bedside draped in a that incident, gunmen fa ; two cars overtook a van carry- -' The important thing is to ing recruits who were leaving protect our country from those the Baquba police station after who want to destroy it," she said. "America isnt doing receiving identification cards and completing paperwork to It's up to the Iraqis to protect our home . all the cards travel to Jordan for training. are jumbled together. It's hard ' Twelve people were killed and two injured, according to to even understand what's hapthe Ministry of Health. pening." Elsewhere in Iraq, clashes in After Tuesday's blast, angry crowds gathered and many peo- Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killed 10 and wounded 22, acple denounced the U.S. military and the Iraqi government for cording to the Health Ministry. Witnesses quoted by Reuters failing to protect Iraqi citizens. news agency said the fighting Some chanted slogans against President Bush and interim began when insurgents opened fire on US. tanks attempting to Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad enter the city from the west. ADawi Rumors spread that the But the U.S. military said it had blast was caused by a rocket no reports of clashes in Ramafrom a US. warplane. di. "The Americans want us to In Baghdad, electricity rebeg them to stay forever for the sake of security," said Youssef turned to the capital Tuesday blacktea shop Hassan, a evening after a saboteurs when "No Muslim caused out would employee. blew up a crucial oil pipeline do this. No Muslim would kill another Muslim." junction near the northern In claiming responsibility for town of Bayji early Tuesday. the blast in the name of Power cables melted under the Tawhid and Jihad group, heat of the burning oil, causing a short that disabled power the Internet statement said, "With the grace of God, a Kon plants and cut off electricity across Iraq, including all of from our martyrdom brigades was successful in striking a cen- Baghdad. ter for apostate police volunSpecial correspondents Salman in Baghdad and teers. A second Internet statement Faris Mahdawi in Baquba con- reportedly claimed credit for join in order to protect Iraq," he any-thin- g. 14-ho- Zar-qaw- i's . Ra-hee- m Marine Continued from Al librarian Debi Gardner on Tuesday remembered Machadod-mo- s' love for reading and histowas a sery. Machado-Olmo- s nior at the school in 2001, where he was a member of the German club. "I was quite surprised (when MachackvOtanos joined the military) because I always thought of Cesar as a gentle souL not as a military person," she said. "He would read some of my newer books on the military. "I asked him 'Why the Marines?' and he said, 'Because they're the bestThat's the only explanation he ever gave me." Family members could not be reached for comment. The Associated Press contributed to this story dih TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 37S4M8, GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE II " u ' & i ' V V . j i y 104 and Sunday 124 at all Dillard's locations. Shop in proyo, at pravo Town centra, in salt Lake city at Fashion Placa and South Towns cantor. In Ogden, at Newgate Mad. In Logan, at Cache Valley Mall. In St Gsorge, at Rsd Cliffs Mall. 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