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Show HERALD DAILY Friday, December 7. 2007 A7 Bush sends letter to North Korean dictator in nuclear talks Deb Riechmann speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the contents of the letter, said WASHINGTON Bush indicated to Kim that if North President Bush's personal letter to North KoKorea does what it has agreed to do, rean leader Kim Jong II, raising the and the Korean peninsula is denuclearized, then that will ultimately lead possibility of normalized relations if he fully discloses his nuclear proto normalizatioa The United States is looking for grams by year's end, is a turnabout for a president who has labeled the a complete declaration of North communist regime part of an "axis Korea's nuclear facilities, materials of evil." and programs and also insists that "I want to emphasize that the declait address any role that the North ration must be complete and accurate Koreans have played in spreading if we are to continue our progress," to nuclear technology or know-hoBush wrote, according to an excerpt others. of fhe Dec 1 letter obtained by The Bush sent similar letters on Dec. 1 Associated Press. to the leaders of Russia, China, Japan The Bush aiministration sought to and South Korea the other nations y involved in the nuclear talks play down the diplomatic significance of the tetter the president's first to to reiterate his desire to resolve the the reclusive North Korean leader. nuclear standoff. He also spoke about the issue on the phone Thursday with Yet, it reflected how U.S. policy to- -' ward the nation has shifted from the Chinese President Hu Jintao. Under the watchful eye of U.S. exdays when Bush shunned the dictator. The letter might sate Kim's cravperts, North Korea started disabling its plutonium-producinreactor at ing to be recognized by the U.S. as a player on the world stage. However, Yongbyon, which was shut down in July, and two other facilities last White House press secretary Dana Perino sajd Bush meant it as a "re month. minder" t North Korea that it has Christopher Hill, the U.S. nuclear envoy who delivered Bush's letter to pledged to provide by the end of the month a complete and accurate North Korea's foreign minister durdisclosure of its nuclear programs. ing a visit to Pyongyang earlier this A senior administration official, week, says efforts to disarm the reac THE ASSOCIATED PRESS w six-part- , g called him a pygmy, and the attitude site Sept. 6. Intelligence reports sugwas that you dont talk to evil, you gested Syria was cooperating in some fashion with North Korea in building end it, Mitchell said. "That Bush would declare. the site. would, at this point, directly contact The news that North Korea may Neither the White House nor the send a personal letter to Kim Jong II is a remarkable turnaround from have been working with others as reState Department would release the letters or disclose their content. that." cently as this year, after it had agreed A U.S. official told the AP that the Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow to give up its weapons, reinvigorated letter to North Korea refers to a need at the Brookings Institution, warned U.S. domestic opposition to what to resolve three main sticking points: against placing too much significance some conservatives in Congress see on the direct correspondence. as an overly generous deal w it h an the exact amount of weapons-grad- e unreliable country. "I think a presidential letter is a nuclear material the North produced, Under the deal, North Korea was the number of warheads it built and fairly restrained version of direct communication and appropriate whether and how North Korea may promised 1 million tons of fuel oil or to the stage of the negotiations," have passed nuclear material or the equivalent, plus political conces- he said, "I think it's better for this sions such as its removal from a U.S. knowledge to others. The official, who spoke on condisort of letter to be written than for list of terrorism-supportin- g nations, tion of anonymity to describe details in return for disabling its nuclear prothe president to jump on a plane to of the delicate diplomacy, said the Pyongyang." gram and making other moves. U.S. officials have acknowledged The Bush letter is a diplomatic exletter underscored Bush's desire to resolve the nuclear dispute, and made clamation point because North Korea the Dec. 31 deadline is likely to slip. has been hearing the same message Better to have the complete document plain that North Korea cannot skirt in hand a couple of weeks late than to from Hill. The correspondence also requirements to fully explain the d serves a domestic political purpose version by the Dec. have a extent, use and possible spread of 31 deadline. nuclear material and technology. signaling to conservative critics of the North Korea deal that the Derek Mitchell, an Asia expert "It is going to take a monumental United States will not roll back its at the Center for Strategic and Ineffort to get all of this done by the ternational Studies, said the letter end of the year," said Secretary of requirements or accept less than a is evidence that U.S. policy toward full declaration of the North's nuclear State Condoleezza Rice, speaking to North Korea has changed "at least program. reporters as she flew to Brussels on 150 degrees" from early in the Bush The question of proliferation has Thursday for NATO meetings. "And I taken on greater significance, and administration. am not too concerned about whether "Kim Jong II is someone whom become a political hurdle for the it's December 31st or not. They seem Bush famously loathed. He's quoted Bush administration, since Israel's air to be on track. Everybody believes as saying he loathes Kim Jong II and strike on a suspected Syrian nuclear the cooperation is very good." tor by year's end are going as scheduled, but differences remain over the nuclear programs that the regime half-bake- Guantanamo detainees face reality of transfers Pete Yost .' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A fed- WASHINGTON eral appeals court on Thursday zeroed in on the problem of Guantanamo Bay in reverse detainees in U.S. custody who want out but don't want to be sent home. Ahmed Belbacha isn't happy to be at Guantanamo Bay, but neither is he happy about the alternative he says was chosen for him by the U.S. government, Algeria, where Belbacha says he'll be tortured. Belbacha's lawyer, David Remes, asked a three-judg- e panel to block any plans the Bush administration might have for moving his client into Algerian custody until the Supreme Court decides a case covering all Guantanamo Bay prisoners. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court debated whether the detainees at the U.S. naval prison in Cuba have the right to take their cases to federal courts: ' A decision is expected in the spring. There are other Guantanamo Bay cases with similarities to - Belbacha's. In October, a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from transferring detainee Mohammed Abdul Rahman to Tunisia. The government has notified the court it intends to appeal the judge's decision in favor of Rahman, who says he would be tortured there. Jamil has been facing the possibility of being returned to Jordan, where he says he was tortured in the 1990s and would be again. also has lived legally in England, and negotiations between the United States and Britain are under way for his possible return there instead of Jordan. He was taken into custody five years ago. Lawyers for another detainee, Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, are seeking to block his transfer to Libya, arguing he faces torture if he is returned there. Zalita says he married an Afghan citizen and that after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, he and his pregnant wife fled to Pakistan where he was handed over to U.S. authorities for a bounty. Guantanamo Bay isn't the only place where people in custody are resisting being sent somewhere else. Two naturalized U.S. citizens held in Baghdad and an Afghan held at the Bagram military base in Afghanistan are resisting efforts to turn them over to local authorities. On Friday, the Supreme Court will decide whether it will hear the cases of the two naturalized U.S. citizens. In Belbacha's case, the U.S. military has classified him as an enemy combatant, while saying he is eligible for transfer subject to appropriate diplomatic arrangements for another country to take him. Remes, his lawyer, says he went to court after hearing from a confidential source the U.S. government planned to turn him over to Algeria. Belbacha was brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 from Pakistan. He had Been an accountant at the government-owne- d oil company Sonatrach. Recalled for a second term of military service in the Algerian army, Belbacha says he was targeted with death threats by terrorists in Groupe Islamique Armee, then at the height of a violent campaign for an Is. " NIBC fsr SOt Crushed Asphalt $5.00ton. Orern Loca2 tion. Call TVtorst . German Shepard Puppies 8 wks old, Purebred. $350. 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Darwin's wife said in an have known he was alive and did not tell her sons. interview published by The John Darwin, 57, was deDaily Mail and The Daily clared dead after an apparent Mirror newspapers that she canoe accident in March 2002, initially believed her husband had died in the North Sea in but appeared Saturday at a police station in London claim- March 2002, when he was being to have suffered amnesia. lieved to have had a canoeing accident. He was arrested early "It was years later," she Wednesday on suspicion of faking his death, and police in said, when her husband connorthern England questioned tacted her and revealed he him Thursday over a suspectwas still alive, the reports said. She would not say when ed life insurance scam. Anne Darwin, who has been or how he made contact. An official at Panama's Naliving in Panama, acknowltional Migration Department, edged she had kept in touch who spoke anonymously with her husband and hidden it from their children, British because she was not authorized to speak publicly, said newspapers reported ThursAnne Darwin left the country day. Anthony and Mark Darwin, Wednesday night but did not who believed their father say where she went. She had said she would was dead, said they were disreturn to Britain to explain to mayed and want no further contact with their parents if her sons and to police what the reports are true. happened. road. "Are we supposed to divine" how the justices will rule from BeHWMM Needs Counter Help. FTorPT. Apply at 556 S. State ; Rob Harris THE to take their cases to the Supreme Court. Another judge on the Belbacha case, Judge Thomas Griffith, expressed doubts about intervening in a possible transfer based on the mere possibility that the Supreme Court will decide in the detainees' favor months down the WlHIATS Call MS sent to Guantanamo Bay. Belbacha's lawyer faced a tough reception at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where Judge A. Raymond Randolph seemed unwilling to block a possible transfer to Algeria. Randolph, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, wrote the opinion in February closing the door on the detainees' access to federal courts, prompting prisoners' lawyers lamic Algeria. Belbacha never reported for dent Bush, duty, but he says the GIA visited his home at least twice and The judges questioned the threatened him and his family. Justice Department lawyer about how imminent BelbaHe left the country, traveling to France, England, Pakistan cha's departure from Guantaand Afghanistan before being namo Bay might be. 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