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PTHE DAILY U T A H CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF E C A S T Today Partly Cloudy ; 38/30 Wednesday 2/1 Thursday 2/2 Friday 2/3 :!-i Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Thursday Wednesday Today ITBT^^^KT • T Mostly Cloudy 2/4 40/30 MsSUNfflS? 739a.in. SUNSET^&44p.m1_* Saturday -QUOTE OF THE DAY'. "It's very difficult as a Mormon filmmaker not to make people think . you're trying to convert them." -Richard Dutcher on making LDS films. SEE FULL STORY PAGE 4. Al-Zawahri calls Bush 'failure' and 'loser' CAIRO, Egypt—In a new video aired Monday, al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri mocked President Bush as a "failure" in the war on terror, called him a "butcher" for killing innocent Pakistanis in a miscarried airstrike and chastised the United States for rejecting Osama bin Laden's offer of a truce. Al-Zawahri, wearing white robes and a white turban and speaking in a forceful and angry voice, also threatened a new attack in the United States—"God willing, on your own land." The video, broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV a day before Bush delivers his State of the Union address, provided the first concrete evidence that al-Zawahri was still alive after the Jan. 13 airstrike in eastern Pakistan that targeted him but killed four other al-Qaida leaders and 13 villagers. The message came on the heels of a Jan. 19 audiotape by bin Laden, the alQaida leader's first tape in more than a year. Bin Laden said his followers were preparing an attack in the United States and offered the Americans a conditional truce, though he did not spell out terms. A U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in compliance with office policy, said there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the al-Zawahri video, which U.S. intelligence officials were analyzing. Commander pushes 'hearts-and-minds' over 'search-and-destroy' u HOUSTON—A jury of Houstonarea residents was selected Monday for the trial of former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, accused of orchestrating the massive fraud that came to symbolize an era of corporate scandals. A court clerk swore in the 12 jurors and four alternates, and U.S. District Judge Sim Lake instructed them not to talk about the case during their service. He also ordered them not to read, listen to or watch news reports about the trial. Lay, the Enron founder, said he was pleased with the panel: "My fate is in their hands, and we'll get on to making the case for my innocence." Daniel Petrocelli, the head lawyer for Skilling, said he believed the jurors would listen with openminds and understand that "this is a court of law, not a court of public opinion." Eight women and four men were selected as jurors in the trial, while two women and two men were chosen as alternate jurors. They were All events located on campus. Security Council's permanent members agree on Iran nuclear review 8$ 1 5 8 5 9 4 3 7 1 2 8 6 4 1 9 3 8 2 6 4 8 4 5 9 7 5 2 9 1 4 3 8 9 do ku Managing Editor Danyelle White [e-mail] •Women's basketball vs. New Mexico: 3 p.m. @ Huntsman Cener •Peking Acrobats: 10:30 a.m. and 730 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall LONDON—The United States and other per- Tehran's activities from the watchdog agency. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and othBAGHDAD, Iraq—The U.S. journalist Jill Carroll! manent members of the U.N. Security Council; weeping and veiled, appeared on a new videotape agreed Monday that Iran should be hauled be- er foreign ministers discussed Iran at a private aired Monday by Al-Jazeera, and the Arab television fore that powerful body over its disputed nu-" dinner at ffie home of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. After the four-hour meeting, which station said she appealed for the release of all Iraqi clear program. women prisoners. China and Russia, longtime allies and trading spilled over into the early hours Tuesday, a joint The video was dated Saturday—two days after the partners of Iran, signed on to a statement that statement called on the International Atomic calls on the U.N. nuclear watchdog to transfer Energy Agency to report the Iran case when U.S. military released five Iraqi women. Carroll, 28, was crying and wore a conservative Is- the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which it meets in Vienna on Thursday. Foreign minlamic veil as she spoke to the camera, sitting in front of could impose sanctions or take other harsh ac- isters from Germany and the'European Union also attended the dinner and agreed to what a yellow and black tapestry. The Al-Jazeera newscaster tion. said she appealed for U.S. and Iraqi authorities to free Foreign ministers from those nations, plus amounted to a compromise—take the case to all women prisoners to -help "in winning her release." the United States, Britain and France, also said the Security Council but allow a short breather At one point, Carroll's cracking voice can be heard the Security Council should wait until March to before the council must undertake what could from behind the newsreader's voice. All that can be talje up the Iran case, after a formal report on be a divisive debate. heard is Carroll saying, "...hope for the families..." The U.S. military released the women last ThursAnswers to today's puzzle are on page 9. day and was believed to be holding about six more. It was unclear how many women were held by Iraqi Edited by Will Shortz ' No. 1220 authorities. ACROSS Crossword 61 Natural balm Carroll, afreelancereporter for the Christian Science 62 Three-point Monitor, was seized Jan. 7 by the previously unknown 1 Command to Rover shot, in hoops 5 Feudal estate Revenge Brigades, which threatened to kill her unless' slang 9 Veronica of "Hill all women prisoners were released. Al-Jazeera did not 63 "Danse Street Blues" report any deadline or threat to kill her Monday. . Macabre" composer Al-Jazeera editor Yasser Thabit said the station re- 14 Jai Saintceived the tape Monday and that it was between two 15 Not taken in by 64 Card catalog 16 Stubborn as to three minutes long, but only a fraction of the footabbr. 17 British man-of-war age was telecast. 65 Towel In a statement, the Monitor again appealed for her 19 Bulgaria's capital embroidery release. 20 On a higher plane "Anyone with a heart will feel distressed that an 21 Above everything DOWN innocent woman like Jill Carroll would be treated in else 1 "Stop! You're the manner shown in the latest video aired by Al- 23 Formerly, formerly killing me!" Jazeera," the statement said. "We add our voice to 25 Nuns' garb 2 Trees in an those of Arabs around the world, and especially to 26 Knuckieheads O'Neill title those in Iraq, who have condemned this act of kid- 29 Neighbor of Francia 3" of Eden" napping. We ask that she be returned to the protec32 Landed 4 Opera script tion of her family immediately." SU Editor in Chief Steve Gehrke s.gehrke@ch ronicle.utah.edu •Last day to withdraw from first session classes •Peking Acrobats: 10:30 a.m. and 730 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall •"Hotel Rwanda:" 7 p.m. @ Union Ballroom all picked after just one day of jury selection in Houston federal court. Further details about the jurors' backgrounds were not immediately available because their jury questionnaires, filled out weeks ago, have not been made public, and the judge conducted individual questioning of potential jurors on Monday at the bench. Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday morning in the trial— perhaps the premier criminal case to emerge from corporate scandals that began when Enron went under in 2001. Earlier in the day, the judge had told a pool of almost 100 potential jurors: "I can assure you this will be one of the most interesting and important cases ever tried.!' The first prosecution witness was expected to be Mark Koenig, former Former Enron CEO Jeffery Skilling makes his way to federal court In Houston, head of Enrpn's investor relations Monday, for the first day of his trial with Enron founder Ken Lay on fraud and department, who worked with Lay conspiracy charges. and Skilling on quarterly conference calls with analysts. He plead- agreement, attributing to Skilling lead analysts about why Enron folded guilty in August 2004 to aiding a statement that Koenig originally ed its money-losing retail energy and abetting securities fraud. Ear- said he himself made on a 2001 call. °unit into the company's profitable lier this month he revised his plea The statement was designed to mis- trading unit. Kidnapped journalist appears in new video 33 34 37 40 41 42 43 44 45 48 50 9 8 6 Answers can be found on the website at www.sudoku.com. All stories from The Associated Press THE •Biochemistry Seminar Series: Costa Georgopoulos: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium •Women's basketball vs. Wyoming: 7 p.m. @ Jon M. Huntsman Center Saturday Friday Jury chosen in Enron fraud trial © Puzz es by Pappocom DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—With a new general in charge, the U.S. military's plans to fight Iraq's insurgents are expected to emphasize improving Iraqis' quality of life, rather than killing or capturing guerrillas. Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who became commander of Multi-National Corps Iraq last week, said he would employ across Iraq many of the strategies he used to quell uprisings in Baghdad when he led the Army's 1st Cavalry Division in 2003 and 2004. "It was not uncommon for the 1st Cavalry Division to be engaged in intense urban combat in one part of the city, while just a few blocks away we had units replacing damaged infrastructure, helping to foster small business growth, or facilitating the development of local government," Chiarelli told The Associated Press'in an e-mail. The goal, he said, is to "deprive insurgents and terrorists of their support base" among disaffected Iraqis—part of a strategy that parallels U.S. political overtures to the Sunni Arabs. 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