Show I- ' A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Vfodnesday December 17 2003 Q:-wbrii- L- 1 - cm i v : V- " '! ' ' - I L ' Jt :' JV Y " p ’ ! I" - : Officials: Bomb m Pakistan ‘unusually sophisticated dent Gen Pervez Musharraf’s motorcade passed seconds before the bjast happened Sunday evening “This was done by very cation involving 550 pounds ! expert men! Such a bomb has ' never been used in Pakistan of explosives set up under a ! officials before’ Ahmed told The bridge s$id Tuesday ' Associated Press Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Pakistapiarmy bomb ' the explosives were planted in 'experts estimated about 550 ' five places beneath the two- -' pounds of explosives were used in the bomb which lane bridge over which Presi destroyed a section of die !: concrete bridge spanning a stream in Rawalpindi an Interior Ministry official familiar v with the investigation said Rawalpindi where Mushar- raf’s residence and army headquarters are located is 10 miles from the capital Islarri- - ILAMABAD Pakistan (AP) —The bomb used in an 7 assassination attempt this week against Pakistan's presi- dent showed unusual sophist!- - !!' ! r : ' The official Who declined to be named gave no details about the type of explosive : No one wh hurt in die attack It was at least die sec- - against Musharraf since he took power in a bloodless coup in 1999 No suspects have bear identified although Musharraf a key ally in the war oritororism said the attack was most likely the work of die country's reli- v gious extremists There have been no arrests in the bombing but officials said a number of people were being questioned including three police officers who were meant to be'on duty at the bridge at die time of the bombing : : - Police were put bn alert ? across Pakistan after the attack but Musharraf has kept' the appearance of normality continuing to hold meetings V '' : - d ’ ’ r at his Rawalpindi office' Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali has ditected die Interior Ministry to review security procedures for VIPs ' and instructed the Fmance Ministry to immediately ’ release funds to improve the efficiency of law enforcement and security agencies the v state Associated Press of Pakistan reported withdiit sped- fying the amount of funds ' : -- Haiti strike V shuts down businesses sent for training Haiti — strike A to (AP) press for 7 the ouster of President Aristide closed down schools stores and banks in the Haitian capital Diesday The strike was called by opposition parties and a coalition of-- 84 business associa- tions labor unions and other PORT-AU-PRiN- ' Jemaah jslamiyah leaders KUALA LUMPUR! Anticipating : with the'students returning Malaysia (AP) ' home by 2006 to takfe up their own capture or death' Southeast Asian Islamic jihad or holy war said anothextremists sent their sons to 7 er Malaysian official also ' ' ' ' Pakistan for training injiow to speaking'privately : attack Western Hambali whose real name targets so they is Ridutin Isamuddin arranged could take over as the next in 1 999 and 2000 for the stu- generation of terrorist leaders' 'groups dents to attend Karachi's Abu The Associated Press has 4‘We must continue the! '“ : Bakar Islamic University pay- learned to the end in order to “ struggle - In a crackdown on the prac- ing for at least two students to the bloody criminal uproot ' " ' tice five Malaysian students get there' outlaw government” the : ’ AP photo coalition said in a statement In Karachi they were taken including four teenagers have ' ' An Afghan family on a motorcycle passes by US soktiers after the inauguration of the under the' wing of RuSman been jailed without trial here : Meanwhile others planned 300-mil- e in Durani of Kabul from on The the southwest raids-Ocapihighway brother' Gunawan Hambali's Afghanistan Tuesday Islamic highway a demonstration to celebrate of tal to Kandahar the Taliban's former southern stronghold is the country's main routs About one-thir-d boarding sclnxils in Karachi' ! ' who “acted as supervisor” of the 13th anniversary of Arisi'-- ' the population lives within 30 miles of the road Resurfacing has cut travel time between the two Afghan the Southeast Asian students which had sent them on field tide's first electoral victory on cities from16 to about six hours hejping knit the country and its devastated economy back together ''a official security DeC 16 1990 Malaysia trips to get firsthand expert- - ' ' said ence of Islamic militant operaAristide the Caribbean ' ' ' The five were indoctrinated tions country’s first fincelyelected iiTan extreme version of Islam ! ' Tho students underwent president was ousted in' a ' g in Pakistan and were learning 1991 army coup and restored weapons and explosivcstrain--mhow to attack US targets — in Afghanistan and Kash-m- ir to power in a 1994 USinva-' have its effect and its impact place by a slab of pale marble and some met including organizing suicide sion He stepped down in 1996 the on engraved with the names of : economy” — in Malaysia and missions leader Osama bin Laden ' to a term limit arid was re- due ' four Afglian security guards “We are standing literally 'elsewhere authorities said No before the US-le- d in 2000 elected Afghan ' ' on’the road to Afghanistan’s killed in a gunfight with sus-- : ' war started in fate 2(X)I the same forces that specific plots were described ‘Today future”US Ambassador Zal- - ’'pected Taliban militants on! Under interrogation the stu1991 in Malaysia police told AP staged a coup are ’ ’ Aug 31 may Kbalilzad said “The dents' said their instnictors told 'Three of the five students to overthrow the ' “ attempting Two Indian engineers of the opening them “they miist take up are the sons of members of an' DURANL Afghanistan (AP) abducted Dec6 while shojv ' people’s dioice” governing road1 is not die end of our work arms especially against West- -' ---- Several dozen delegates alleged Malaysian cell of party Sen Clones Lans said k ' — it is the '" ' ping in a village near the road just beginning” erners as it was the purest Jemaah Islamiyah — the al- Leaflets scattered in some 7 broke away from a'cnicial con- remain in the hands of sus- Karzu ' Early Tuesday form Qaida-linke- d the network stituti'onal assembly on Tties-- of defending Islam” ' tern areas Tuesday warned: “If ' called President Bush who v pected Taliban militants Malaysian security official operating throughout South- happens to Aristide anything day to celebrate the mardiem “We can the the call comon him congratulated " Kabul-Kasaid “Tliese students were kill them we’ll burn ' east Asia — who were jailed we’ll the of ' inauguration of the of the road and called tyrs pletion solvehi-not being trained as foot r ' dahar highway a vital artery ythem Houses stores two years ago A fourth is the tion” Karzu said at the it "an law-- ! 'diers but as a second or third wilj be' cles the capital with-thbrother of ajailed miiitant everything linking was Af which for did opening ceremony " ' '’ echelon of leaders” the off- i: south less ami poverty-stricke- n suspects destroyed A hungry people 7 House by hundreds of US guarded ' cial said speaking on condi- doesn’t fool around” Hamhali once operations' and Afghan sojdiers Helicopters brought the del- McClellan said tion of anonymity '! egates — many wearing tradi-- :' chief for Jemaah IslamiyahPoverty has deepened while: Billions in reconstruction ' The road has been built A A: stuhis was Hambali's the some brother of for tional robes and government and opposi- arranged flowing amid increased attacks by Tal- - aid have flowed into Pakistan-base- d tion have been locked in dis- six and flat US-le13 turbans or Malaysians d a after among sporting iban insurgents many in the Afghanistan " dentstbget since 20Q0 Indonesians arrested jn the y woolen hats — to a sparse ' The offensive Taliban drove agreement training a senior Malaysian winds V it rugged provinces ' Karachi raids in September stretch of the highway about : : — Ghazni Wardak from power two years ago for legislative elections that the government official told AP through ' ' were Police released eight of the ' 25 miles southwest of the cap- - Zabiil and Kandahar opposition charges speaking on condition of harboring Osama bin Laden' ' '’ 7 Workers on the $270 mil-lirigged Malaysians after interrogating y ital President Hamid Karzai anonymity! 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