Show ' A8 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday October 6 2003 Q i Iraq occupqtion US closes comtiiroveirsiall Intemment camnp in iraqj: BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — The US military has shut down Camp Cropper ai increasingly notorious makeshift prison where hundreds of Iraqis were crowded into tents through Baghdad’s scorching summer a US official reported Sunday The detainees were scattered to other facilities The Iraqi Lawyers League pressing a rights campaign under an prisoner of the Baath regime has won another concession from the Americans as well: acceleratj i j 1 I ed hearings with lawyers for some of at least 5500 Logging US-Briti- Iraqi Lawyers League President Malik Dohan speaks in an interview in Baghdad on Sunday effect” Malik saidL Journalists were barred from Camp Cropper blit released detainees this sum- mer told of overcrowded arid A unsanitary conditions and SISC guards The human rights group Amnesty International protested it “may amount to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment banned by international law’’ The camp population included both Iraqis picked up for allegedly committing common crimes and ed sh I Growth 2002 9 Inflation? 87 ft' Growth 2002 1982 (camp)” said US Army Col Ralph Sabatino who specializes in detainee issues and is a chief liaison with the interim ' Iraqi Justice Ministry: " Sabatino said Cropper was shut down last WeSay on - so-call- f I!' 60 “They are living in tents in the desert in a very hot climate Some detainees are sick ’’said Malik interviewed Sunday before the closing of the camp was disclosed The former law professor and Iraqi information minister who was himself imprisoned for 1 12 years by the Baathists after they seized ' power in 1968 also complained that lawyers were not allowed ipto the heavily guarded airport “That Avas another reason why weclosed the airport complaints: detained Iraqis That newly elected league president Malik Dohan al- : Hassan met with US occu-- " pation chief L Paul Bremer a month ago to register complaints about the internment of thousands of Iraqis without charge since a invasion force toppled Saddam Hussein’s Baath government in April “I told Bremer the Ameri- cans and the Iraqi people ought to have become friends since then but the way they ? ?etain7’ have handled these things has ? Baathists deemed to be a produced just the oppose occupation farce? 4: Logan Population 2002 ?r Bremer’s orders and its sever-- 1: al hundred inmates woe ' ' transferred to at least three Baghdad-are- a prisons ' 'f Cropper held as many as 1200 detainees this summer Sabatino said “It wasn’t sup-- : posed to be a detention cen-- YOUR 240 Per Capita Income Growth ter” but a temporary holding facility he said “It was : designed for 250 people When it to 500 to 700 it Crowded y: got very - - v M Hundreds claiming to be former i soldiers demanding funds 2002 BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — : 7 ’Hundreds of men claiming to be framer Iraqi solders converged J? 7 lata US base in central Bagh- - A: 7 dad and in the southern city of Basra on Sundaydemanding ® financial assistance in a second A A 7day of violent protests The unrest reflected growing A v nt tension over the high rate in Iraq after die ' collapse of Saddam Hussein’s a military formerly major employer When Saddam’s army wasAAA 'A disbanded in May the US-le- d : Coalition Provisional Authority 1 7 decided to make one-tistipend of $40 to the estimated VA 440000 conscripts in the for--v ' mer military The idea was to tide the soldiers over until new jobs for ' them were created Saturday was die final day for collecting the payments distributed at nine locations across the county US officials said Sunday that more than 320000 former Iraqi soldiers or 72 percent had benefited from the program and blamed Saddam loyalists for inciting the protests Hundreds of men claiming to be former soldiers have gathered in Baghdad and Basra the second largest city after the capAP photo ital over the past two days angrily claiming they have not A US soldier from the 4th Infantry division salutes a portrait of command Sgt Maj James Blankenbecler 40 of Alexandria Va on been paid The weekend clashes left three rioters dead and Sunday during a memorial service He was killed last Wednesday in dozens injured in the two cities bomb attack a roadside Logan Property Tax Collected r ')& fs " v 323!Growth7?A£ j r Xq ' V "i “ 40 r I S vy£r-- ' t:- - v a a - ' ' upem-ployme- 91 982 - : v: j 2002 Logan Total Tax Collected 478 Growth Weapons hunters seek scuds anthrax : WASHINGTON (AP)— in hunters are Iraq Weapons pursuing tips that point to the possible presence of anthrax and Scud missiles still hidden in the country the chief searcher said Sunday David Kay told Congress last week that his survey team had not found nuclear biological or chemical weapons so far But he argued against drawing conclusions saying he expects to provide a full picture on Iraq’s weapons programs in six months to nine months While lacking physical evidence for the presence anthrax or Scuds Kay said tips from Iraqis are motivating the search for them Critics including many in Congress say Kay’s findings do not support most of the Bush administration’s prewar assertions that the United States faced an imminent serious threat from Iraq's Saddam Hussein because of widespread and advanced Iraqi weapons programs President Bush has said the US-le- d war on Iraq was justified despite the failure to find weapons Kay reported that searchers ( found a vial of live botulinum bacteria that had been stored since 1993 in an Iraqi scientist's refrigerator The bacteria make botulinum toxin which can be used as a biological weapon but Kay has offered no evidence that the bacteria had been used in a weapons program The live bacteria was among a collection of “reference strains" of biological organisms that could not be used to produce biological warfare agents Kay said Sunday the same scientist told investigators that he was asked to hide another much largo1 cache of strains but “after a couple of days he turned them back because he said they were too dangerous He has small children in the house" Kay said the cache “contains anthrax and that's one reason we're actively interested in get- ting it" Kay speaking on “Fox New Sunday" did not say w hether the anthrax was live or a strain used only for anthrax research Before the war Iraqis said they had destroyed their supply of anthrax Inspectors haven't found any and Iraqis haven't been able to provide evidence to satisfy investigators that they did destroy it Experts note that old supplies of anthrax would have degraded by now While the Bush administration argued before taking the county to war that Iraq's arsenal posed an imminent threat much of what Kay discovered is that Iraq had interest in such weapons and was researching some agents Sen Joe Lieberman D- Conn said Kay’s report shows Saddam's clear intent to develop chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them He said however that the administration didn't tell the public the whole truth “There is some evidence that the Bush administration exaggerated unnecessarily" Ik told “Fox News Sunday” Lieberman a presidential candidate sad the exaggeration “did discredit what was otherwise a very just cause of fighting tyranny and terrorism" Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have contended the vial of botulinum bacteria that Kay 's team found is one strong piece of evidence of Saddam's weapons intent ' In 1982 the city collected $77 per person In 2002 the city collected $280 per person TIME FOR CHANGE PETiUMSfl COUNCIL SEAT Paid for by Pater Brunson 3 ' : |