Show '' i 'v A21— j ' TheHerald Journal n World In brief i' Cbgan s :v-- " i'- i r"” r f ' ' ' ' ! i 152004 Thursday April v- - j ' r ' ' t ( ' v f u‘" 7 ' Y p attacks ' “Further actions cannot be ruled out given the fanaticism of these individuals” Acebes said He gave no figure on how much money they raised with drug sales but said tlx bombing cell apparently obtained the dynamite used in the attacks from people in a region of northern Spain who accepted drugs as payment ‘ AP photo CpI William Quinn of Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion US Marines looks for insurgent positions seconds after coming under fire in Fallujah Iraq on Wednesday ng Indians may have killed dozens of prospectors in Brazilian Amazon UN envoy proposes move forward men in Fallujah on Wednesday and more than 100 guerrillas with rocket-pro- pelled grenades pounded a lone Marine armored vehicle lost in the streets — a sign of heavy battles ahead if Marines resume a full assault on this besieged city With a trace crumbling and President Bush calling for a key UN role to keep the country's political transition ' : Washington! Foreign Minister Kamal Khairritzi said no progress was made during the talks and that Washington's reliance on military force was fueling violence in Iraq “Previously wp hid dia- : logue” about Iraq Kharrazi ‘ J “If they attack it God knows the results: It is not going to be good for the occupation” The UN envoy Lakhdar ed April the unprecedented vio- lence has largely eclipsed the ' political process Negotiatiops ‘were being held on both fronts — at FallujahTiT&iUrid Iraq and at Najaf iq the soudi — but the US military has warned it will launch new assaults if ' talks do not bear fruit In the south the country’s top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali - persuad- demands — including mat US troops withdraw from all Iraqi-- : cities An lranian envoy was also getting involved in the mediation with dr an aide to the cleric said militimnen Still al-Sa- ! : : for a mgs i Najaf ’s outskirts saiid Col Dana JH Pittard headof the 2500 US Brahimi said respected Iraqis should lead a caretaker government —with a prime minister president and two vice presidents to run the country after the handover of power ' by the Americans on June 30 and until national elections in January He did not say who would select them Under the Brahimi plan the USpicked Iraqi Governing Council would be dissolved June 30 rather than expanded to form an assembly as called for in an earlier proposal US administrators promoted ' ' However! the formula would also give Washington a way to dissolve the fractious and council unpopular The White House thanked Brahimi for his plan but it wasn’t clear whether US officials would embrace it: “We appreciated the United Nations’ help in moving forward on our strategy to transfer sovereignty to the Iraqi people by June 30” said V House press secretary Scott McClellah Brahimi also criticized the : military operation in Fallujah '‘Collective punishment is certainly unacceptable and the siege of the city is absolutely unacceptable’ he said : ' BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — Iraqi militants executed one of four Italian hostages officials in Rome confirmed Wednesday — the first known execution of any of the 22 foreigners being held in Iraq The killing could further heighten fears among international aid workers contractors and journalists some of whom are already restricting their activities in the country Earlier Wednesday a French journalist was freed after a four-da- y hostage ordeal and Russia announced it would evacuate its citizens The militants who killed the Italian hostage demanded the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and threatened to kill the three other hostages reported The Arab TV network reported it had video of die killing but did not broadcast it because it is too graphic did show footage of v the four Italian security guards sifting on the ground holding up their passports and by armed men Earlier the Arabic TV network reported the killing saying it had received a vid) recording ofthe mur-ded er The Italian ambassador to Qatar where the network is based watched the video and confirmed the man killed was Fabrizio Quattrocchi one of ' the kidnapped Italians Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frat-tinisa- Frattini said the government would do “what is possible and impossible” to free the remaining three U UNIVERSITY Do Tou Want To Get A Jumpstart On Your Aviation Career? 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Ivo Cassol traveled to Brasilia' to discuss the Situation with federal officials Cassol ' met with Justice Minister Marcio Tho'mdz Bastos who agreed to dispatch a federal task force to the region Wednesday to try to resolve the situation Iran ends talks with United States Over how to restore order in Iraq ' ' execute hostage morethan 800 Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a news conference Acebes said the cel that staged the attacks “was local and autonomous but ils'leaders have connections with other fundamentalist groups” He said investigators are pursuing leads in Britain Germany France Belgium Tunisia and Morocco Acebes repeated that the core of the cell believed responsible for the bombings had been broken with a wave of arrests and the deaths of seven suspects who blew themselves up April 3 as police moved in to arrest them But he would not rule out more ' ' Militants Spain (AP) — The terrorists behind the Madrid train bombing financed much pf their operation with sales bf hashish and Ecstasy even bartering drugs for the explosives :— they used in the blasts Spain's interior minister said Wednesday ' The bombers also used money from drug sales to rent an apartment and buy a car and cell '' v" phones used as detonators in the March 1 1 attacks that killed 191 people and wounded ' 1 coal-mini- i A S MADRID Q TT j ViV'-:-- Spain: Madrid bombers used drug money for operations v t i ' 243-45- GET An IRA ASAP FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS ALWAYS TREATED YOU LIKE A VIE WE LIVE WHERE YOU UVE’ l$6wiDUiMmrgalmkMlt)nrSuieIliksutdwiMiblctnli(Mfiu April of opening ui )RA bow Widi i variety of funding option a SweFnn IRA cbuld laaillpndl 1260 N 20Q E Suite 1 SSO Logan UT - : N Main Street Suitt 220 Logan! 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