Show I I’ I ' A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March 20 2002 Nation Q 1 I F- ©DA cOdd®!?: AD ‘ WASHINGTON (AP)— Surviving leaders of the terrorist network are rallying followers to conduct more attacks despite the arrest of hundreds of extremists worldwide CIA Director George J Tenet said Tuesday Some 1300 people alleged have to have ties to been detained by 70 foreign governments since Sept 11 Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee: But cells in Europe and in the Middle East remain capa' ' ble of attacks he said mies — the United States and Israel Osama bin Laden’s network is largely Sunni as is die government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Inn and Hezbollah are Shiite da ' i 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — when fellow Americans congregate even churches and schools Drive to work a different way each day with the windows up Be cautious Remain vigilant The government is giving Americans overseas those warnings after a weekend attack on a church in Islamabad Pakistan that killed five people including an American woman who worked at the US Embassy and her teenage daughter Because embassy buildings and overseas US military bases are now so fortified AP photo against attacks terrorists Stephen Push whose wife Lisa Raines was killed in the terrorist attack bn ttie Pentagon holds a letter increasingly might turn to from the Justice Department outside his Great Fids Va home on Tuesday stating that the Justice is more vulnerable targets — including schools restaurants preparing to seek the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui ' and even churches — where Officials said that cooperaof thisnature isn’t yet happening to any great degree However Tenet noted that ban “has failed to move decimem-be- n sively against who have relocated to Iran from Afghanistan” Tfenet also said US intelligence has not ruled out the ' possibility that Iraq Iran or another country sponsored the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon a leaders still at are working to reconstilarge tute the organization and to resume its terrorist opera-tions”said he Roughly half of the 1300 remain in custody said a US official speaking on condition of anonymity The rest have been released by the foreign governments More prisoners are in US hands — in domestic jails in ' Afghanistan or at Guan- Naval Cuba Base in tanamo Other officials have said financial activity and communications have increased in recent weeks suggesting plans for new attacks ' vJ' Avoid places tion “Al-Qaid- Americans overseas x warned of new danger F©mra®Dras Vi “The distinctions between Sunni and Shiia that have traditionally divided terrorist groups are not distinctions you should make anymore because there is a common interest against the United States and its allies in the region” Tenet said da The activity is centered in northwestern Pakistan members also continue to seek chemical biological and nuclear weapons Tenet aidlsi - Sept 11 suspect may face death penalty - WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are preparing to seek the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui the only person charged in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks according to government officials and a letter sent by prosecutors to victims’ families Attomey'General John Ashcroft has not given final ‘approval to prosecutors to push for the death penalty but the Justice Department has until March 29 to makea decision according to two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity In the meantime prosecutors are getting ready to argue that the man they allege conspired and trained alongside the Sept 1 1 airliner hijackers should be put to death The government’s intention capital punishment was first disclosed in a tetter from US Attorney Paul McNulty ' and lead prosecutor David J Novak to dozens of victims’ families Al-Qai- da ' said-"' In addition Tenet said US intelligence is watching for alliances forming between dis- parate Muslim extremist groups Once divided by ideology Sunni and Shiite groups may begin working together out of hatted for their common ene- - WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says it expects to ’ arrest at least 50 more people by week’s end as it breaks up an internet ring that allegedly included two Catholic priests six other members of the clergy bus driver and a civil- ian law enforcement employee The agency said Monday its Moussaoui cany a maximum sentence of dwith The tetter said prosecutors would seek out 30 families to testify about how the terrorist attacks affected them This testimony would be needed during die punishment phase of the trial should Moussaoui be found guilty the letter said “The individual stories of approxi- -' mately 30 victims will serve as a microcosm of all” it said “Obviously we cannot tell die story of every victim otherwise die trial would last forever” Stephen Push whose wife Lisa Raines was killed when a hijacked plane hit die Pentagon is among those who received the letter “The prosecutors have hem extremely helpful in terms of keeping iis informed and I plan to help out in anyway I can” Push of Great Fall Va said Monday - by- In recent months some US companies with operations in die Middle East or south Asia have chosen to relocate work- ere’ family members to another location others are cutting back on the number of Ameri- cans overseas and other US i are spending thou- i of dollars' to add guards ’ i announcing the investigation “Operation Candyman” sweep already had resulted in criminal charges against more than 89 people in 26 states The effort targeted members of three Internet discussion groups on Yahoo Inc’s Web site including one called ‘Candyman’’ apparently named after a song in the 1971 children’s moyie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Fac- groups to prevent diem from operating for child pornography Organizers pf die Candyman as “for people who love lrids You can post any type of messages you like too or any type of pics and vids you like too PS If we all work together we will have the best group on die Net” Mike Heimbach head of the FBI’f child crime unit described the images exchanged on the Candyman group as ‘‘very explicit” and The logo for "Crimes Against Children ” a unit of the FBI that incorporates ‘Operation Candyman1 - ’ gators declined to identify two groups by name ' saying it might interfere with efforts to trace suspects addressthrough their es They said 7000 people worldwide registered addresses with the Candyman group and authorities were able to trace 1400 people in the United States through those addresses “A new marketplace for child pornography has opened the-othe- ail ail tory” “I’d like to see one sweep a day” said Bruce J Gebhardt FBI executive assistant direc- tor for criminal investigations iind cyber-crim- e “We wantto keep the pressure up on all The letter dated Much if die Justice Department gave final approval “the Moussaoui case will become a capital prosecution meaning that the United States will be asking the jury to find that defendant Moussaoui should be executed should he be found guilty” Moussaoui 33 a French citizen of Moroccan descent is charged with conspiring with Osama bin Laden along with the 19 alleged hijackers and others to commit the Sept 11 attacks His trial is scheduled to begin Sept 30 On the day of the terrorist attacks Moussaoui was in a prison celLHe had been arrested in Minnesota in August on visa violations after flight school instructors became suspicious Four of the six counts brought against 7 said that Department warned Monday “One would have hoped that there would be some respect for a church” said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher “But even that doesn’t always exist" Total security is impossible officials acknowledge Private companies and the government need to have workers Overseas and those workers often want their families near- ' these people” A11 three Internet groups! have been shut down Investi- - f - TS r1" j ' - 'i-- r : t 'v' 's- & ' !: Jvf "Si j “hard-core- ” frVV-'Y- FBI officials in Washington declined to identify by name any pf those arrested or in the dark corners of cyber--" space” Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday in Y' j- " Fed leaves rates unchanged WASHINGTON (AP) — ' Hie Federal Reserve left a key ' interest rate unchanged Tuesday and began preparing Americans for the possibility rates will go that short-terhigher this year aS the country bounces back from recession m After consecutive rate reductions last year Fed Ch airman Alan Greenspan and ) : his colleagues opted to contin- ue to hold the federal funds V rate — the interest thpt banks ' - charge each other on r overnight loans — at 173 per--' cent the lowest level in 40 years The decision was "i announced after a closed-do! i i 11 i or : meeting' Stocks fell after die ' j announcement Jn January the FPd citing' signs of an economic rebound ended a yearlong stretch of Trade deficit widens jn January WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s trade deficit surged to $283 billion in i January as the nation’s for eignoU bill increased and QS exports fell to the lowest level in three years The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the defiqt in January was lSApencent higher than ' ' 'jr v uninterrupted credit easing when it left die funds rife i undiariged On Tuesday foe Fed policy' makers were even more ' upbeat about the economy’s 1 I - 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