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Show WWO Monday APRIL 23, 2007 r v .,- www.heraldextra.com is YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS Utah Valley Edition WW 50 CENTS YOUR NEWSPAPER, SPORTS V!2EIIBtiai0iB Wm2 Utah embraces the oldest organized sport in North America PM civil war denies Iraqi Gunmen kill 23 members of FDA knew of 5"H f ft vncient sect problems before Thomas Wagner I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths while car bombings in the capital killed at least another 20 people. Prime Minister Nouri in Egypt to drum up support among Arab leaders for his Shiite-le- d government, told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that Iraq was not embroiled in a civil Hi&? Bti - ?ijAi outbreaks Elizabeth Williamson ' or sectarian war. Key Arab leaders pressured him to Inside step up reconI ciliation efforts orders to include Sun-n- i a stop insurgents to wall if he expects around Arab support. - ; In the northSunnis See A6 ern Iraq attack, armed men . I U.S. stopped the bus death toll as it was carin Iraq rying workers reaches from a textile 3,322 in factory See A6 Mosul to their hometown of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Chrisa primarily tians and Yazidis Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the V ' THE WASHINGTON t A V WASHINGTON .,41 'S devil by some Muslims and Christians. The gunmen checked the passengers' identification cards, then asked all Christians to get off the bus, police Brig. Mohammed said. With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul, where they were lined up along a wall and shot to - A5 is , , mqHAMB? KHODORAssopated Press Friends and relatives carry a coffin during the Sunday funeral of the" Fallujah city Council chairman Sami Abdul-Amwho was gunned down by attackers in a passing car Saturday, as he was walking outside a who took the job after a critic his home in central Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. his three predecessors were assassinated. ir POST The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show. Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents. Congressional critics and consumer advocates said both episodes show that the agency is incapable of adequately protecting the safety of the food supply. FDA officials conceded that its system needs to be overhauled to meet today's demands but denied that the agency could have done anything to prevent either contamination episode. Last week, the FDA notified California state health officials that hogs on a farm in the state had likely eaten feed laced with melamine, an industrial chemical blamed for the deaths of dozens of pets in recent weeks. Officials are trying to determine whether the chemical's presence in the hogs represents a threat to humans. Pork from animals raised on the farm has been recalled. The FDA has said ofal-Qaid- See IRAQ, A3 FDA, A3 Students return to campus after si deadly shooting 3 ....Mi See Justin Pope THE Ill: V '"V v Robert F. BuketyAtsociated Press , Mourners visit the makeshift memorial to the slain students in Blacksburg.Va,, on Sunday. and faculty on the campus of Virginia Tech Memorial to VT victims leaves room for killer Allen G. Breed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' BLACKSBURG, Va. On the edge of the Virginia Tech Drillf ield stands a semicircle of stones "Hokie" 33 chunks of locally quarried rust-gre- y . lilBestone. Cho's victims. There is one for each of Seung-Hu- i -I And there is one for Cho. .'Each stone is marked with a paper "VT" adorned Jvilh the student's or professor's name, and each See MEMORIAL, A6 , PRESS Still grieving and BLACKSBURG, Va. increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their beleaguered campus Sunday, preparing to "I need to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by keep going violence. The scene on campus back. It resembled move-i- n day seems like in late summer, with . parents helping their chilevery other dren carry suitcases into dormitories. There were facet of tears and hugs goodbye. But instead of excitement my life is there for the year ahead, different was simply determination to endure and regroup in now, so I thefalL have to." When classes resume the university Monday, Paul Deyerle will give students three sophomore at choices: They can contin-,u- e Virginia Tech their studies through the end of the semester next week, take a grade based on what they have done so far, or withdraw from a course ' without penalty. , , See BACK TO SCHOOL, -- V v ;? bedecked with flowers. Cho's is fourth from the left, between those for victims Daniel O'Neil and Matthew GwaKney. His memorial has fewer blooms than some, more . than others. Looking down on the stones in a black suit Saturday, Virginia Tech professor Dong Ha marveled at the community's capacity for compassion, even in the face of such depravity. is " ASSOCIATED A6 PHOTOS FOR SALE See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. , INSIDE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIAL AS B1 Thunder TELEVISION B3 storms COMICS B4 SPORTS CI a STYLE LIFE OUR TOWS D1 OBITUARIES D3 WEATHER 04 6 HIGH 55 LOW 39 VOLUME 84 ISSUE 266 Ml,61055"0005 0 1 |