Show A8— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday 14 2003 April oJinksl Loolionlinejorayveathe wwwJijnewsxom Forecastfor Monday IFi 'it toracattufcwtlnwconMonahkMwtaniparaturaa ' - ACCUWMth9Tcom C 'latL OANO mo Loan 1 ' - TODAY Seventy percent chance of rain and snow Highs Inthe mkMOs and lows near 30 of rain A chance of thunderstorms the afternoon Higha near 55 Iowa In the upper In - EBr mi Prom CEsaosz a 67 64 Dallas-F-t Worth84 Denver 80 Fairbanks 42 89 Faigo 62 Flagstaff Helena 65 Honolulu 83 76 LasVbgas 87 Uhls Rock 69 LoeAngelee a diminishing chance of rain -Afternoon higha bi the 50s with overnight lows near 30 the nows wire New York City 61 Portland Ore 60 Reno Rain was scattered oyer the West on Sunday ing parts of California and turning to heavy snow in the mountains Showers and locally heavy rain were scattered from central California through Oregon into western Washington In the San Francisco Bay area 077 of an inch of rain had fallen by midday at San Jose and Hayward had 079 of an inch The rain turned to heavy snow at higha elevations of the Sierra Nevada and the mountains of extreme northern California Since the storm started late Friday up to 25 inches had fallen at Mount Shasta and 31 to 37 inches of snow was reported at the Boreal ski area near Truckee in the Sierra Mostly light rain showers were scattered from northern Nevada through eastern Oregon into Idaho and western Montana Sunday’s temperatures around the Lower 48 states ranged from a morning low of 21 at Pellston and Marquette Mich to a midday reading of 88 at Monroe NC The lowest wind chill was 12 at Frenchville Maine 49 City Hi Lo 54 SmithfieW NA NA 71 53 38 38 Logan Peak Mendon 41 71 NA NA Wellsvflle 70 58 Hi Lo Logan Preston 71 KVNU Pro Pic Up above Almanac Sunrise: 6:4?am While Jupiter is in the southern Sky in the evening hours find borrow or buy a pair of binoculars and amaze yourself by the sight of Jupiter's moons pm Humidity: 21 percent changing places each night The four largest of the moons are easily visible Index: 5 (moderate) Conditions: Clear satronomyOrocfcstmallcom Visibility: 10 miles lii cdy 41 dr 58 45 35 54 29 44 74 59 49 57 44 45 36 cdy dr cdy cdy cdy dr cdy cdy cdy cdy dr m dr 01 m dr 66 m 45 cdy Spokane Wichita M 49 44 59 48 40 46 m ‘ dr 03m 56 m 73 m 5944 81 £2 cdy 60 dr 84 47 4 Regional Tsmparaturee Brigham City 73 57 000 Canyonlanda 77 50 000 Cedar City '68 45 000 Laketown 68 45 000 74 ' 56 000 Layton 76 47 0X0 Nephi 73 56 000 Ogden " 67 36 000 ParkCtty 72 Price 45 000 Provo BYU 77 49 000 Salt Lake City 77 56 000 79 57 000 SLQeorge Tboele 72 58 000 Vernal 73 37 000 National weather — The AccuWeatherom forecast for noon Monday April 14 i i— i 10a Oa Bends Hook FulonAprlie iiV'liiA 46! 43 45 44 29 63 74 66 56 76 56 soak- City JUV 59 50 75 75 Cincinnati By The Associated Press Local tomporatures Sunset: Continued mostly cloudy skies with ARB O 2003 AccuWeatftar Inc - Boise Boston Casper Cheyenne Chicago 30s “ r32l Temperatures Indicate Sunday's Sacramento high and overnight low to 6 pm‘ St Louis San Diego Eastern Time San Francisco HI Lo Pic Otk Fe Santa 78 52 Atlanta cdy Seattle ' m 73 48 Billings EXTENDED TUESDAY Breezy and cloudy with a 60 percent chance city National temperatures Cacho Valloy outlook Utah outlook SBi SOa sapsrtt 40a SOa SOi 10a high tanperaturszonss tor foetal srnnowutr ir Inc WeatheLServiceSUp Above'ifeature provided bAstro Data iariVwMMii&t T POWs Continued from A1 The Miami Herald some of the freed prisoners said they had been kicked and beaten when they were captured But they also said Iraqi doctors had performed surgery on the two who had been shot Johnson said doctors told her “they wanted totake good care of me to show that the Iraqi people had humanity” but she believed they had other motives They said their jailers had been cruel at the start taunting them and less so as time went on they were interrogated but did not complain of torture As their captivity lengthened they were often moved from place to place They were given water or tea and rice some pita bread and sometimes chicken two or three times a day They slept under wool blankets on concrete floors and were not allowed outside Nor could they exercise or shower At one point they said the Iraqis moved an artillery gun into the prison — making it a target Allied bombing came closer and closer and one concussion even broke the door open but the guards prevented them from escaping They were moved often after that With each move the prisoners said their conditions eased somewhat Finally they said they were guarded by police officers who paid for their food and medicine Shortly after their capture the seven had been shown on television givIraq’s state-ru- n face to the peril human a ing American troops confronting " Nine others of the 507th convoy were killed Besides Miller Johnson and Hernandez the others from the 507th were Sgt James Riley 31 Fennsauken NJ and Army Spc Joseph Hudson 23 Alamogordo NM The others were Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D Young Jr 26 and Chief Warrant Officer David S Williams 30 of Orlando Fla Back home in Lithia Springs Ga Young’s father watched shaky video footage of the soldiers on CNN “It’s him and I’m just so happy that I could kiss the world!” said Ronald Young Sr! “It’s him! It’s definitely him” There were conflicting reports on how the Americans were recovered Capt David Romley said Prison Continued from A2 charges told of tiny isolation cells where political detainees were kept for up to a year withput seeing a single person “When we hear prisoners shout Allah Akbar (God is great) we know that someone is being executed” said Samawi who was released in 1991 more sentence than two years into a seven-yeand later moved to Canada One of Abu Ghraib’s more storied inmates physicist Hussein Shahrastani ar Marines marching north toward Tikrit were met by Iraqi soldiers north of Samar-r-a He said the Iraqis approached the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Company and had the seven POWs with themAnother spokesman for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Capt Neil Murphy said the Iraqis who brought the Americans had been abanand doned the was that it right “realizing thing to do they brought these guys back” Gen Tommy Franks commander of US forces in Iraq also said he believed “our guys picked them up on the - road” But Maj ChriS'Charleville who common ded'the operation that transported the POWs from outside Samarra to an airfield south of Baghdad said he was told that Marines had been searching buildings in Samarra when they stormed a building and found the POWs inside Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Iraqis told US troops they would find the seven missing soldiers at a location about four or five miles south of Tikrit “They said ’You should go get them' and they did” he said was jailed in the 1980s when he refused to head an atomic bomb program He escaped after the 1991 Gulf War and heads a human rights group in London The prison belongs to the Ministry of Social Affairs but was run by Saddam’s feared intelligence department! In 1996 Saddam fired the social affairs minister : for telling a local newspaper that Abu Ghraib was Overcrowded and new pris- ons were needed No one ever knew how many prisoners it held But relatives and friends said that in the early 1990s tens : of thousands of people would gather out- side each week to visit inmates' “When 1 visited Hassan they detained us for three sometime four hours until wi IMS CM i mt M' L-'- Continued from A 1 - '' Usxssx&mQHt I' been at work since Wednesday Patrols were out in many neighborhoods as the Marines spread out after previously concentrating at key spots In the absence of police some of Baghdad’s people took law and order into their own hands Entrances to most neighborhoods off main routes were stacked with concrete blocks burned cars and tree limbs to block looters “We fired 500 shots into the air” said Nagib Stipao dean of University’s business school His protection posse included teachers department heads and their sons While mobs gutted Baghdad’s other schools Stipao’s band repelled mobs over four nights scaring off crowds that came with forklifts to aid thievery Drivers the cost Maybe we’ll feel safer by witnessing the awesome firepower of our armed forces Maybe we’ll feel safer by getting rid of a monster who has become the stand-i- n for those who flew airplanes into our buildings Maybe we’ll feel safer by taking control of a country that we’re told has been trying to develop weapons of mass destruction The salesman at the Hummer dealership said the H2s have been selling briskly since their debut last July People want to keep their families safe he said Plus he pointed out if you buy the H2 as a 32-ye- ar On Sunday Christopher and the other Marine riflemen and tank crews with him worked a checkpoint leading to the Tamooz Bridge over the Tigris River stopping suspicious vehicles — chiefly pickups piled high with goods Chain bookcases refrigerators and toilets seized by the Marines piled high by the side of the road Confiscated hotwired can and trucks sat parked on a side street awaiting owners with proper papers Local men desperate to see calm and normalcy return helped the Marines translate and finger the guilty “I came here thinking I wouldn't need any Arabic at all — just ‘Put your hands up’ and ‘Put your weapons down’” Christopher said ‘‘They’ve been teaching me how to talk to the thieves Things like ‘You are lying I’m not stupid’ and ‘If you steal we will kill you”’ In Basra southern Iraq’s largest city efforts were under way to bring Iraqis into policing Iraqi police Capt Abdul they counted every inmate as a precaution and then we left” said Mohammed Rasheed one of Hassan’s friends It’s not clear when Abu Ghraib was emptied of its inmates In October a blanket pardon by Saddam sent home thousands including Hassan but it was never clear whether political detainees benefited from that amnesty Four foreign journalists arrested in Baghdad late last month were held in Abu Ghraib for a week Newsday’s Matt McAllester said he and his colleagues “were aware of the screams of other prisoners especially at night when they were taken out of their cells" The four slept cells on concrete floors in FAnto Maintenance Spedal i I Looters Amir Qasim was back in his green uniform and on the streets again for the first time in weeks Fearful of coalition retaliation the police force veteran had stayed away as looters overran Basra “We wanted to protect the city from the pillaging but I was afraid” he said “By the grace of God I am now ready to go back to work” In Iran where most people are Shiite Muslims as they are in southern Iraq Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni urged Iraqis to end looting and violence state-ru- n Tehran radio reported Khamenei said threatening the life of people and plundering their property is “a big sin” under Islam the radio said Baghdad residents credited new US Marine patrols with helping scare looters who had Continued from A4 matter what damage it inflicts on others and on our standing in the international community The administration line now is that this war is about the liberation of Iraq It’s about what President Bush is telling us on television almost every day: We’re bringing freedom to the persecuted people of Iraq We’re unlocking the doors of the torture chambers We’re delivering an oppressed and proud nation into the loving arms of democracy Maybe democracy will be a of this war lovely But liberation is not why our troops are there and I suspect it is not why much of the American public supports the wdr We’re there to try to make ourselves feel safe whatever “light truck” for your busi- ness you get a $35000 tax ' writeoff If that isn’t a vehicle for our r times what is? 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