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Show Page Two Thursday, March 1,200? All stories and photos from The Associated Press : ]C-DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK ; Toda .; Friday « ^ 29/26 Snow Shower y '• Snow Shower . us.blasted Car bombing kills 10, injures 20 £ £ £ ? in Baghdad shopping district 33/27 Saturday BAGHDAD, Iraq—A car bomb ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least io people and wounding about 20 as the U.S.-Iraqi security operation entered its third week. The midmorning blast in Baiyaa, a Sunni-Shiite neighborhood, sent flames and debris shooting two stories high, witnesses said. The force of- the explosion peeled back corrugated tin roofs. Hours later, charred clothing still clung to the remnants of vendors' stalls. Imad Jassim, who owns a shop in Baiyaa's market, said he ran out into the street when he heard the explosion. "People were in a state of panic. There was a lot of blood on the ground, and we helped carry the wounded to the ambulances," Jassim said. "The terrorists behind this massacre want to paralyze life in Baghdad by attacking markets and public crowds." Hours after the Baiyaa attack, police said guards outside the Bab President Bush could ask al-Sheik police station in central Congress for more anti-terror- Baghdad fired on a suicide truck ism authority, prompting pas- bomber as he approached them. sage of the commissions act The bomber changed course and that in part stripped federal crashed into a cement barrier, detonating his explosives. court review. UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at : Sunday recent U.S. legislative and judiPartly Cloudy 49/36 cial actions that she said leave : hundreds of detainees without Monday any way to challenge their in53/36 \ Cloudy definite imprisonment. WWW.WEATI1ER.COM Louise Arbour referred to the Military Commissions Act approved by Congress last year and last month's federal appeals court ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their detention. The case is likely to go to the Today Supreme Court. Arbour was critical of the ruling, calling on • Legislative Wrap Up: Noon to 1 p.m @ Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH, 255) the judicial system to "rise to • Sleep Improvement Workshop; 1 p.m. its long-standing reputation as to 3 p.m @ Union Ballroom • : iV.v^ 4 a guardian of fundamental hu• Biolog>' Seminar Series: Origin of man rights and civil liberties Altruism and Advanced Behavior in the and provide the protection to ' jj' Insects: 4 p.m. to 5 pjn. @ Aline Skaggs all that are under the authority, Biology Building, Room 210 control, and therefore in my • The Clash Within: The Hindu Right view jurisdiction of the United and Democratic Values: 5 p.m. @ Utah States." 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Cooke said testimotrial on terrorism support charges, rejecting ny in the competency arguments that he was hearing showed that understands severely damaged by 3 Padilla % f$afs*bf interroga- ""legal nuances" of pretion and isolation in a trial motions and notmilitary brig. Padilla ed that he had signed was in court when U.S. a document verifying District Judge Mar- the truth of allegations cia Cooke announced made by the defense her decision, but he that he was tortured and mistreated during showed no reaction. "This defendant his years in a Navy brig clearly has the capacity in Charleston, S.C. to assist his attorneys," "At some time, the deCooke said just hours fendant was able to disafter she finished four cuss some things with days of. competency his lawyers" Cooke hearings. said. "The defendant's Defense attorneys situation is unique. He and federal prosecu- understands that." tors declined to immeBush administration diately comment. officials vehemently Padilla's lawyers had deny that Padilla was asked Cooke to order mistreated, and Cooke that their client be said her decision on treated for post-trau- competency should matic stress disorder, not be read as a ruling which they contend on those claims. A man injured in a car bomb attack is wheeled out of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital on Wednesday. A car bomb killed at least ten people in a crowded commercial area of western Baghdad's mixed Sunni-Shiite Baiyaa neighborhood Wednesday, police said. Two civilians were killed and two policemen and another civilian were wounded in the blast and exchange of gunfire, police said. The casualty count in the Baiyaa blast was provided by police and hospital officials. While rescue workers swept still-smoldering debris in Baiyaa, U.S. and Iraqi government spokesmen held news conferences across town to praise what they called a dramatic decrease in violence. © w 2 4 8 2B C 8 4 1 7 3 5 3 8 2 9 6 7 1 5 7 1 3 8 1 2 6 9 8 7 4 2 6 6 and Clarifications '; The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is • to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like ; clarified or find unfair, please contact the • editor at 801-581-8317. do ku Corrections es by Pappocom AH events located on campus. fv me," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., one of a group of liberal Democrats pushing for an immediate end to the war. ;• Democratic protests to the war grew louder in January after they took control of Congress and Bush announced he planned to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq. Earlier this month, House Democrats pushed through a honbinding resolution opposing the buildup. Since then, Democrats have been trying to decide what to do next. 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