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Show Wednesday, November 3. 2004 DAILY NE1A1D AC Accused deserter enters guilty plea Filmmaker who criticized Islam is slain in Amsterdam Toby Sterling VCXa. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMSTERDAM, Netherlands A Dutch filmmaker who got death threats after his movie sharply criticized how women are treated under Islam was stabbed and shot to death Tuesday on an Amsterdam sfreet. A suspect in the killing of Theo van Gogh was arrested after being wounded in a shootout with police. The n had a long beard and wore traditional Muslim garb, witnesses said. de- Dutch Muslim groups spite disagreeing with Van conGogh's views on Islam demned the slaying and called for reconciliation. They expressed fears of possible reprisals against Muslims. Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Dormer said the suspect "acted out of radical Islamic fundamentalist convictions," and added that he had contacts with a group that was under surveillance by the Dutch secret , X'jer. Eric Talmadge CN - MARK The attacker then stabbed Van Gogh, placed a note on the body and walked away, police said. The contents of the note were not disclosed. A bystander who suffered minor injuries alerted police, and they found the suspect in a park. A shootout followed and the suspect, whose name was not released, was wounded in the leg. Police said he had a record of violent' crime. Press KOHNAssociated Forensic experts examine the body of Theo van Gogh of his murder in Amsterdam, on Tuesday. at the scene ; The national news service NOS said the suspect was friends with an Muslim who is awaiting trial on charges of planning a terrorist attack. The Dutch Justice Ministry said it could not confirm the report. On Tuesday night, more than 10,000 people went to Amsterdam's central square for an emotional demonstration of support for Van Gogh and . CAMP ZAMA, Japan Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty Wednesday to deserting the US. Army in 1965, saying that he wanted to avoid "hazardous" duty on the Korean peninsula and Viet- nam The plea was apparently part of a bargain with US. military officials to win the frail a lesser sentence. Jenkins vanished from his post and lived in North Korea for 39 years. Jenkins also pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy by teaching North Koreans English in the 1980s. He denied that he advocated the overthrow of the United States and pleaded innocent to charges of making disloyal statements. Jenkins turned himself into U.S. military authorities on Sept. 11, two months after he left Pyongyang to seek medical treatment in Japan. Jenkins, in full uniform for l, the had been widely expected to plead guilty to one or more of the charges in return for a lighter sentence. Japan has been urging the U.S. government to be lenient Jenkins can live in Japan with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. The guilty pleas were "conditional," which means he and his lawyers made modifications in the charges against him, presumably to lessen their severity. The desertion charge, for example, carried the explanation that he wished to avoid danger along the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, and the hazard of imminent service in Vietnam. The court-martibrings to a close one of the Army's longest desertion sagas. Though Army deserters from the 1940s are still being sought, no deserter or desertion suspect has surrendered after as long an absence as Jenkins. Raised in poverty, the Rich Square, N.C., native joined the & court-martia- Sudanese army surrounds Darfur refugee q Tips u have been attacking towns, said spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume. The camps, located near the southern The Sudanese Darfur city of Nyala, were cut off "at 3 a.m. KHARTOUM, Sudan without any warning," she said. "Agencies army and police surrounded several refugee have been denied access to these camps camps in the war-torregion of Darfur on since thismorning." Tuesday and denied access to humanitarian At least 160,000 refugees cannot be groups, the United Nations said. The Sudanese government denied its security reached by road "because of insecurity ," forces closed off the camps but said angry . Berthiaume said. At U.N. headquarters in New York, Arab tribesmen have gathered in the area. The U.N. World Food Program said sevspokesman Fred Eckhard said the United eral camps were surrounded Nations had received reports Sudanese auapparently in retaliation for the abduction of 18 Arabs thorities surrounded at least two refugee and that the world by Darfur rebels camps in Nyala early Tuesday and used an estimated 15 trucks to relocate displaced body was forced to pull 88 relief workers from other areas where there has been an people to another site north of the town. In Washington, State Department press upsurge in violence in recent days. The World Food Program fears the govofficer Tom Casey said the Bush administration was "outraged" by the reports. ernment may start forcing people from the "We call oh the government of Sudan to camps back to their home villages, where cease any attempt to relocate people against there is less protection from government-backe- d militias known as Janjaweed that their will and to allow immediate access to . Mohamed Osman "HE ASSOUATfD PStSS n . r ii - humanitarian workers," said. The aid workers king for inmoj ere pulled from dependent aid groups three western Darfur camps in the towns of Golu, Zaleinge and Nertetie. Sudan, however, denied any army or police forces were surrounding the camps. "There is no siege," Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid told The Associated Press. "It is not true that the government was telling organizations to pull out of the area, and the areas are not besieged." Hamid said angry" Arab tribesmen gathered in the area after the kidnapping of 18 of their men by Darfur rebels. Sudan's government is accused of backing the Janjaweed in a campaign of violence including rapes, killings and the to help put down a burning of villages b rebellion by African groupsThe government denies backing the militias. th a . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS chain-smokin- g Dutch-Morocca- service. Van Gogh, 47, a relative of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, was riding his bike when the suspect shot him twice, police said. Van Gogh stumbled away and the suspect pounced, shooting him several more times at close range. against violence. So many people came by bicycle that there were bike traffic jams. Instead of a moment of silence, they blew horns, whistles and some banged pots and pans Mayor Job Cohen had noise in Van Gogh's memory, saying: "We wont gather for a moment of silence, but to say loud and clear: free-dom of expression is dear to us, and it must continue." Van Gogh, a social critic and satirist, received threats after the August television broadcast of his movie "Submission," which he made with a Dutch politician who had renounced the Islamic faith of her birth. In the fictional story, a veiled Muslim woman spoke about her violent marriage, being raped by a relative and later brutally punished for adultery. In some scenes, the actress' naked body is shown through a transparent gowa One scene shows her body with Quranic verses written on it. Some Muslims and women's groups said the movie's depiction of the abuse of women was insensitive. , In a recent I i interview, Van Gogh disf lfhe threats and called the! ie "She best protection I ci i have! It's not something I w . ry about." al non-Ara- ki m Army as a teenager, received a Good Conduct Award after his first tour of duty in South Korea in 1961 and rose to the rank of sergeant. But according to the Army, he deserted his unit along the Demilitarized Zone on Jan. 5, . 1965. While in North Korea, he participated in propaganda broadcasts, played an American villain in at least one anti-Umovie, and is believed to have taught English at a school for espionage agents. If not for a surprising turn of events, Jenkins may never have left. The Pentagon confirmed in the that he and three other suspected American deserters were living in Pyongyang, North Korea's mid-198- , capital. But Jenkins' situation be- came the focus of intense international negotiations two years ago, when North Korean leader Kim Jong II acknowledged that his wife. Hit-omiSoga, was abducted by spies in 1978 and taken to North Korea against her will She married Jenkins, nearly 20 years her senior, in 1980. Kim's confession, in an unprecedented summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, ended decades of denial and opened the way for Soga and four other abductees to return to Japan for an emotional homecoming. 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