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Concerned that Gaza could be a staging ground for terrorism and rocket attacks, Israel has insisted on monitoring people and goods entering the sensitive coastal strip to ensure against the smuggling of arms and explosives. 753-6736 Apartments Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa said the Palestinian Authority was ready to consider continued Israeli inspection of cargo at a new border terminal to be built at the junction of Gaza, Israel and Egypt. But Israel cannot have control over people, who would continue entering and leaving Gaza through the Rafah crossing, he said. The Rafah crossing "should work for individuals, for people in both directions, and must work for goods in at least one direction, out of Gaza. We would consider goods to enter in the way Israel has proposed, in the trilateral crossing," alKidwa said in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Egyptian and Israeli generals were to sign an accord in Cairo later Thursday to allow 750 lightly armed troops to deploy in the area, overrid- ing a demilitarization clause in the countries' 1979 peace treaty. Israel's parliament approved the deal Wednesday after the details were settled by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman. Egypt has given Israel assurances it will block arms smuggling, but the difficulty of monitoring the frontier was evident even when Israel had total control, and smuggling was rampant via tunnels dug through the Mediterranean sand. Israel reaped the first diplomatic benefit from the Gaza pullout when the Israeli and Pakistani foreign ministers met Thursday in the neutral venue of Istanbul, Turkey, in the first acknowledged high-level meeting between the Jewish State and the overwhelmingly Muslim country. Bush bypasses Senate to install justice BY KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has used a constitutional provision to bypass the Senate and fill a top Justice Department slot with an official whose nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility. Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly Student Center • 2nd Floor Wedding Photography - Mackley Designer Portraiture l/2 Off Portrait Package - Photo Reflections Plus Honeymoon At Luxury Resort Choice of 24 Locations From The Gallery By Lynette Palestinians agree to Israeli monitoring of goods entering Gaza to prevent smuggling abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo. The agent wrote that in weekly meetings with Justice Department officials "we often discussed (Defense Department) techniques and how they were not effective or producing (intelligence) that was reliable." In the next sentence, the agent said Fisher, then the No. 2 official in the criminal division, was among Justice officials who attended the meetings. Fisher has said she does not recall participating in the discussions, and Justice officials have said the agent did not intend to say she had. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declined to let senators question the agent, saying it would violate long-standing policy. A single senator can block a nomination, but the Constitution gives the president authority to fill positions when Congress is in recess without waiting for Senate confirmation. The official then can serve until the end of that session of Congress, which in this case is January 2007. Levin's office did not immediately comment Thursday on the appointment. Fisher previously was a partner with the Washington office of Latham & Watkins LLP. Aide to Yemeni cleric gets stiff prison term for role in terror plot BY TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) -A deputy to a Yemeni cleric who plotted to raise money for al-Qaida was sentenced Thursday to a maximum 45 years in prison, despite his urgent disavowals of terrorism. "I'm opposed to all sorts of terrorism, I swear to God," Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed said in Arabic through an interpreter before being sentenced. "I do not believe in terrorism." Defense attorney Jonathan Marks had argued that Zayed, 31, was a naive bit player in the conspiracy involving his boss, Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad. Assistant U.S. him "my sheik." Attorney Kelly Moore a g r e e d ^ * •*; One of the informants, that the defendant, though W-* Mohamed Alanssi, set himguilty, "played a much smaller self on fire in Washington role" than al-Moayad. last November in what he later described as an attempt But U.S. District Judge to get more money from the Sterling Johnson Jr. ordered Zayed to serve consecutive 15- FBI, which paid him at least $100,000. year terms for convictions on three conspiracy counts. The Alanssi recoveredjn time judge sentenced al-Moayad for the trial and described alto 75 years in prison, also the Moayad as a dedicated funder maximum, in July. of terrorism who boasted of giving bin Laden $20 million Zayed was a loyal aide to in the years before Sept. 11. al-Moayad in 2003 when the pair were lured by two FBI Defense attorneys argued informants to Germany. In that al-Moayad was duped into meetings attended by Zayed, the terror-financing scheme the sheik was secretly recorded by Alanssi, who exploited the promising to funnel money to sheik's desire to fund a chariHamas and al-Qaida; he also table bakery and other projects boasted that bin Laden called in Yemen. Shiites bury stampede victims in Iraq thought they were under attack from the other. They started firing across the river, pinning BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) down people on the bridge. - Gunfire erupted Thursday The shooting continued for while protesters marched about a half hour, police said. toward the bridge where nearly Meanwhile, Iraq's nascent 1,000 Shiites were killed in a air force carried out its first stampede during a religious military mission when it procession, and thousands of flew two battalions of Iraqi people flocked to bury their troops into a troubled zone dead from the tragedy. in the north of the country, a U.S. military spokesman said Government critics, meanThursday. while, blasted their leaders for failing to prevent the disaster. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said Three people were injured that three C-130 Hercules in the latest melee, which cargo planes this week redetriggered an exchange of ployed troops belonging to the fire between rival neighbor2nd Iraqi Division from the hoods over the Tigris River Kurdish city of Irbil to Tal Afar and underscored yet again the near the country's northwestinability of the Iraqi security ern frontier with Syria. forces to provide order. "This was the first use of Police said the trouble the Iraqi air force," Lynch said. started when Shiites in the Wednesday's disaster on Kazimiyah district approached a bridge in north Baghdad the bridge from their side, appeared to have been sparked shouting slogans protesting the by a rumor that a suicide Wednesday deaths. bomber was among the more than 1 million people gatherNo one had told the Iraqi ing at a Shiite shrine in the soldiers guarding the bridge capital. about the demonstration, so they started shooting in the air, Prime Minister Ibrahim alpolice said. The three injured Jafaari, who visited a hospital were hurt in the ensuing panic. where many of the victims At the same time across the were taken, said neighboring river in the Sunni neighborcountries such as Jordan and hood of Azamiyah, unidentiIran had offered to help treat fied gunmen in several cars the victims. opened fire toward the bridge "We are ready to send linking the two districts, police abroad any patient who needs said. Residents in turn opened medical treatment there," he fire at the gunmen. said. With all the shooting, gunMost of the victims on men on each side of the river Imams bridge were trampled BY SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press Writer 590 Canyon Rd. Logan www.cambridgecourt.net 753 464 WE STRESS VALUE! Shared or private room Pool and jetted hot tub Ethernet and high speed wireless Excellent furnishings: TV, microwave, and more! Heat, cable, and telephone included in rent Sun deck Excellent social setting around court yard Management sponsored social events NO smoking, drinking, pets, loud music, etc. (Professional management strictly enforces high standards and responds quickly to maintenance needs.) or crushed in the stampede. Others plunged 30 feet into the muddy Tigris River. The majority killed were women and children, officials said. Iraq's Ministry of Interior announced Thursday that 953 people had died and 815 were injured in the crush. But Health Ministry spokesman Qassim Yahya on Thursday said 843 had been killed and 439 injured. It was not possible to reconcile the two. Critics said the authorities were to blame for a fumbled response to the disaster. "This is a result of the inadequate performance of the interior and defense ministers, which has caused such a loss of life," said Baha al-Aaraji, a Shiite lawmaker affiliated with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "They should stand in front of the national assembly and be questioned. If it is proven that they have failed to fulfill their responsibilities, they should be dismissed and stand trial," he said. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, told state-run Iraqiya TV that "the government should take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties." The tragedy occurred during the annual commemoration of the death in the year 799 of Imam Moussa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim, one of the 12 principle Shiite saints. |